June 25th

Every day Olivia is getting bigger and stronger, she is over 6lbs now and is off of almost everything but her heart medicine. Wednesday she will be 4 weeks old and ready for her big surgery, Crystal got the "unofficial" word this morning that the surgery should be by the end of next week. She was able to hold her for about two hours this morning and it was a very sweet time for them both, Livie is very responsive to her mommy's voice and vocalizes back. :-) It's so weird , I feel like it was yesterday that we were celebrating Memorial Day with the family at home and yet it feels like I've lived here for a year. I will head home this weekend, Saturday Justus will take the kids to a wild life encounter provided by the "Starlight Foundation" and Grandad and Nana Kessler will visit here on Sunday. Thank You All for the prayers and good wishes and not tiring of standing in the gap for us, so many prayers have already been answered in Olivia's little life, her kidneys are functioning and her lungs are working, both miracles in their own right considering how we started. PTL! I am asking again for you prayer warriors to remember us as Olivia faces this "big" surgery, I will have more details later but "The Norwood" is an extensive procedure and Olivia and the doctors will need our prayers more than ever. This week I have read and re read Luke 18, he has a lot to say about prayer and persistnce and children and healing... The chapter starts with "Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up." and the chapter ends with "When all the people saw it, they also praised God." Check it out. :-)