More bits and bobs

Well we are trying to make the most of our summer days. It can be challenging to find age-appropriate things to do in the summer to stay cool and stay on a newborn and toddler's sleep schedule. I am trying to remain cool about it and it has been neat to see how God fills our days with different things to do. Some days we are home all day, and I am good with that as long as we have days where we have other outings. There are times I look at the calendar for the upcoming week and see no activities, and I have felt led to pray, "Lord, fill our days" and it has been neat to see the various things that come up.

Speaking of God, I meant to mention that I am still doing a verse of the month with John, I just haven't been posting about it. This month it is Psalm 73:26- "God is the strength of my heart." I am trying to do actions with it as well, like arms flexed for strength and then hands over our heart for the word heart.

This week brought me back to a familiar place... the x-ray table. Last year at this time I injured by hip (I don't know how) and an x-ray was just the beginning of the battery of tests I went through to determine the nature of the injury. At the onset, I wasn't pregnant but I became pregnant about one month later... just around the time of the x-ray. They did a blood test to see if I was pregnant but the blood test was negative. I was very sad because we had been trying to get pregnant and I had had some other health issues that seemed to be crippling my fertility. But not being pregnant meant I could get an x-ray and begin a strong cocktail of anti-inflamatories. I remember laying on the x-ray table in San Antonio trying to hold back tears because the nurse had quickly told me the results of the pregnancy test (she didn't know I wanted it to be positive) and then led me into the x-ray room. So laying there on that table was sad, but at least I was going to find out what was wrong with my hip, right? Turns out that the results of the blood test were wrong because I was pregnant at that time... so if Adam grows a third arm we will know it was from my x-ray and my anti-inflamatories (sp??).

Well fast forward to one year later. I never would have thought that my hip would still be giving me problems. But here I was again this week, on the x-ray table. I have been undergoing physical therapy here which has been a blessing, but still frustrating because they don't know what is wrong with me. I have had additional back pain... so bad sometimes that I get sick to my stomach. Some times I wonder if I will be able to be a runner again? My goal is to do a 10k but I really am not getting my hopes up that I will have the well-being to do it. The therapist sent me in for x-rays of my back to make sure it is not a back issue. Next stop, the CT scan or MRI.

But as I was lying on the x-ray table the sign by the machine read, "Please notify the technican if you are pregnant or think you could be pregnant." It brought a smile to my face and made me thank God that he gave me Adam when last year it seemed like it wouldn't happen.



Dave took John to his first baseball game last weekend. John loved it and could hardly get the words out of his mouth to tell me about it when he got home. He was so excited.




Here is spider-man who lives at our house now. John has never seen spiderman on TV so he doesn't know what spider-man is really like. John pretends to be spiderman by saying "roar!" and running all around the house, not knowing that spiderman is actually quite docile.








We hope you are well this week. Next week we will have a new nephew! We look forward to welcoming Kyle David Willis to the world!

Cheers.