October 15, 2006

Reeve's Baptism- Pastor Feldt with our family

Chloe's 3rd birthday-eating and wearing some cake

Tomorrow is the big day- I am back to work and we are back to a normal routine. I am already dreading the morning rush, but am sure we can figure it out after a few weeks of working on it.

This past weekend we celebrated Chloe's 3rd birthday and had Reeve's baptism. Leah and Chloe were both very wound up last night for the events. In case you cannot tell from the picture, Chloe enjoyed her cake. She requested an Elmo cake and Aunt Suzanne got her an Elmo that she and Chris later programmed to talk to her and sing her Happy Birthday. Today we definitely needed some naps, because both girls were up in the night -and managed to wake everyone else up, too. Today at church Pastor Feldt asked the kids during the children's sermon if they ever whined. Chris and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. That seemed to be the only tone of voice we heard yesterday. Leah came back and laughingly said, "he asked us if we whined?" -kind of like, "can you believe that?" She also quite happily agreed that she does.

The one other accomplishment of this past week is that I finished scrapbooking our Florida trip. That is a record for me-to get something done close to the time it actually occured. The girls have both shown their friends and enjoyed reliving memories of our time away.

This week we have Leah's first parent/teacher conferences at Discoveries. Since we see them every day I doubt there are any surprises. We are so happy that she has had a normal first quarter of school and continue to pray that she has many more normal quarters of school.

Our next Iowa City trip is October 26, so please pray for low, low AFP numbers. As reassuring as her last check-up was, it does not do anything to alleviate the stress of the next visit, because you just never know. We pray each day for Leah to be healed here on earth and to live a long and healthy life.

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