Sumo Baby Bath Time!

Aydan just recently started tolerating bath time. He still doesn't fully enjoy them but we are getting closer... Up until last month he still screamed at the top of his lungs every time we touched water to his body. This seemed very strange to us since our other two are part fish, but oh well! He is his own person!!This is how Aydan insists on sitting during his bathes. He absolutely refuses to let his tush touch the tub in any way. He sits like a little sumo wrestler, he's even got the tummy to match! :)

Aydan favorite tubby toys are his duckies - he's doing well to keep his ducks all in a row!

The little guy is quickly outgrowing his bath robes. Maybe it's time to go robe shopping....
Aydan is officially our biggest. At his 18 month appointment he weighed 19.6 pounds & was 30 inches tall! Such a big boy!

And the adventure begins!!

Back a couple weeks ago we began a journey to discover why my grandmother -Grannie- was having abdominal pain & tenderness. We scheduled her a CT scan, x-rays, blood work, & urine analysis to try to find the source of the problem. 2 months of searching and well...no such luck, but we did find Kidney & Adrenal Cancer as well as a MASSIVE amount of fluid on her heart.
Going to Dr. appointment after Dr. appointment we are beginning to set a game plan in motion to take care of everything to get her feeling better. Still of course scared for her at the same time.

This coming Friday we go in to the hospital to have a procedure done where they will insert a needle into the sack around her heart to hopefully drain off all the fluid. If the needle fails to do this the will insert a drain tube to do it. Once the heart is taken care of we can begin working on discovering the main source of her cancer to figure out a treatment plan for this.

During this you can tell inside Grannie is coming to terms with her own life/death. She has things the she desires to do "while she still feels like it and is still alive" as she puts it. First of all she wants to go back to Hugo to put flowers on the graves of my dad (her son) as well as her brothers and parents. This is a huge deal to her which she keeps telling me she is worried it wont happen. We are trying so hard to be able to make sure this happens for her. Her sister Ruby is hoping she will be upto going next week, so if everything goes well - Hugo here she comes!
The next thing Grannie keeps bringing up is the fact that she wants to "see our little girl before she dies" this one for many reasons is much harder to make happen quickly. She knows our plan is to someday adopt, but she feels this wont occur before she is gone - which most likely this is true. Our children have been very blessed to have something that many people never get the chance to have Time With GREAT-Grandparents! Ours have gotten to spend time with 2 wonderful Great-Grandmothers! They also have 1 Great-Great-Grandmother (whom they haven't yet gotten to meet). I want more than anything to make Grannie's dream of seeing her from the heart(adopted) granddaughter come true. So I guess it's time to sit down & start a game plan for that too!

Please take the time to look at the beautiful children on this website. Keep them in your prayers that they will all be blessed to find loving forever families!
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