Amazing

I love the blogging world so much that I cannot resist passing along this resource. I rarely post twice in one day, but a friend of mine passed this along to me and I could not resist posting about it. This is an adoption agency that ONLY facilitates adoptions for children with Down Syndrome. Do you know how pumped I am about his??!!

Not that Mike and I at this stage of our life (me 6 months pregnant with the unexpected blessing of baby girl) are able to research this for our family, but this is an awesome answer to the terrible news that 80-90% of people that find out they are having a baby with Down Syndrome choose to terminate the pregnancy. What an amazing ministry that says to these children that they are important and valued enough to find loving and Christian homes for them to thrive in. Only God could have birthed this awesome ministry. The website is full of awesome success stories, resources, etc.. and I honestly have not even read it all yet. I was just so EXCITED about it that I could not contain myself:)



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Not Me Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Last week was such a fog as we tenderly nursed our sweet Kyle back to health. The week was a blur of breathing treatments, trips to the doctor, and cat naps. But, I do remember specifically NOT doing the following things!

I really did NOT eat a medium blizzard for dinner Friday night. I must think of quality nutrition at all times for little Princess and a cookie dough blizzard did not cut it.

I did NOT wear my pajama bottoms to the doctor two days in a row. Just because I had a very sick child and the King is enthralled with my beauty does not mean that my pajama bottoms resemble my yoga pants!

I did NOT think for one minute last week that it would have been easier for Kyle to have been hospitalized with all their glorious monitors versus watching his chest all week to check for breathing.

I did NOT reprimand my husband in front of Kyle's doctor and two nurses for just trying to keep Kyle safe during that awful steroid shot! (Yes, I did apologize but it was just so awful to watch that mike was an easy target!!!)

I did NOT just threaten my children just five minutes ago that I would take them to the gym daycare if they did not chill out! I am a nurturing parent that would never throw out empty promises that I could never make good on. Just because we have had 10 million snow days this winter does not mean that my patience is a little thin:)

That is all I am willing to admit that I really did NOT do last week-how about you?!

Weekend Highlight

Kyle is definately feeling much better, but he still has very little stamina and wears out quickly. Today during the praise and worship time at church, he asked if he could sit down?! It is awesome to see him pink and healthy looking again, but his exhaustion is a reminder of how sick he was this time last week. We go back to the doctor tomorrow to check in with him since we have tapered off all the steroids and started the maintenance medicine (Advair).

Kyle woke up Saturday morning with a mission in his mind to name his baby sister. We are all getting excited and Kyle is determined to name her!! I want a name just so I can start calling her by name and quite honestly, I would love to start the monogramming!!!

Kyle sat at the table Saturday morning with his NEW smelly markers and proceeded to make a list of his favorite names for this baby. I helped him some, but quite honestly I was doing a million loads of laundry and did not fully grasp his complete and serious devotion to this project. I have no idea if we will use any of these names (probably because I love them all) but I will forever cherish his little body hunched over his new smelly markers lovingly writing names out for his sister. I just had to share his precious list! I wrote the names that he was not comfortable spelling. I cannot wait in a few years to share this list with little Princess so she can understand how she was loved and anticipated! I also love the precious picture of her drawn at the bottom and do not miss the skirt that he drew on her!:)