Update on Sarah

Sarah is enjoying dancing on the stage at church with her sister, Lily.

Sarah is trying to pretend to play the guitar like her Daddy!

Beautiful Sarah

Well, we've had some crazy days with Sarah lately. First, we have had several days of Sarah waking up with welts on her feet, ankles, knees and shoulder area. She also complains that her feet hurt a lot. She hates to wear shoes. So, do the feet really hurt or is that her two-year old way of saying "I don't want to wear those shoes?" We went to the doctor. Sarah was believed to be fine but the doctor wanted to run some blood tests to rule out some things. I won't bore you with the details. I will share that the test came back negative! Yeah! So it seems like Sarah has some odd virus. It is getting better each day. Second, we went to Children's Hospital yesterday to have her heart examined again. We are grateful that it has not gotten worse in the last six months. We were hoping it was completely closed, but that wasn't the case. We were also hoping we would be told to "come back once a year," but instead we were told, "See you in another six months." It is still a good report. The only other issue with Sarah is that she has been a real stinker lately. She is this sweet little girl that melts our hearts and brings laughter to our days. HOWEVER, she is also very stubborn and strong-willed. She can flip out in a moments notice and then camps out in screaming sessions for 20 minutes. These past two weeks have been crazy. She has had a number of these tantrums. They are usually over relatively minor issues.....brother gave her a drink when she wanted mom to give it to her, she wanted to pull her panties up but Mom did it, she doesn't want to sit in the chair at Tim Horton's but Mom tries to make her anyway. She is hoarse from all of the screaming! We have kept a crazy schedule lately with all three of the boys being on three different basketball teams and the boys also having band and choir concerts....not to mention all of the parties. I know that I need to be as consistent as possible with her, but that can be difficult because we have to be somewhere or I have the occasional weak moment. We are going to get through Christmas and try to buckle down with her. She is only 25 pounds, but she is mighty! It has been seven months since we have been home....not that terribly long of a time. She's doing amazingly well...considering. We still welcome the prayers of our friends and family.