April 8, 2007

Happy Easter! We are enjoying the day, despite the cold, winter-like weather. Last year at this time we were still in the hospital after Leah's surgery- in fact, a year ago today was Leah's benefit.

Both Leah and I did not have school on Friday and we all enjoyed some extra time at home. I cannot claim getting anything remarkable done, but time off is always nice. Yesterday we colored eggs while Reeve napped. Both Leah and Chloe worked hard on their eggs and after we were done I hid them outside for them to find. We also managed to make it to the Good Friday service at our church. Leah waited so patiently for the lights inside to be turned off that she ended up falling asleep before church got done. Today we attended the Easter service at Nazareth in Cedar Falls, which is much easier for us to get to at 10 AM than a service at 6:30 AM. We all pay for the girls being tired later in the day! Leah was excited eary this morning to see that the Easter Bunny had visited our house and had me get Chloe up right away. Among their treats were sticker books - maybe they will finally stop putting stickers on their clothes, the first season on DVD of Full House and a DVD of Charlotte's Web and their first Barbies. Reeve was happily oblivious to all of this. She is working on crawling now, so that seems to require much of her time and effort.

Last week Leah spent two days at home sick with something....on Monday night she complained about being cold, went right to bed, and ended up having a fever that night and all of Tuesday. She perked up on Tuesday night, but I had her stay home another day with Grandma Karen to rest. Tuesday was the night that moms and dads were invited to go to dance class with their kids which she missed out on. Chloe enjoyed that both Chris and I attended her class and then took her out to eat at McDonalds. Leah has a ton of energy right now and has learned a new skill- how to do laundry. She is an excellent clothes washer, however, she likes it so much that she searches out anything that might need washing all the time. It is hard to keep up. Unfortunately she does not like folding or putting away clothes nearly as much.

Thursday is Leah's appointment in Iowa City. This is something we have been thinking about now for a while and ask for your prayers for a clear CT scan and very low AFP. Looking at Leah it appears that she feels great, yet there is always the fear that something is going on inside her body that we cannot see or know about. We know that God is holding Leah in the palm of His hand and we continue to ask Him for her complete healing here on earth. Even though we are never excited to go back to Iowa City, we are thankful for the doctors and nurses there and their skill and wisdom in her care.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. I will post again after our appointment on Thursday.