Prayers!

The government where Sara is does not have her diagnosis on a list to get her adopted.The country is shutdwon to adoptions but are letting children with special needs out.The problem cp is not one of them.Please pray for Sara as she has severe cp and needs to come home.We need to move as quickly as possible to get her here.Our Jaxson was in bad shape when arriving home.His doctors call him a miracle child for survining sever aspiration and seizures with no medication.Please pray we can get her out.Our wonder medically complex doctor is writing a medical about cp and the effects without medical care.
            Please say a prayer for finances to come together and for Sara to hang in there until we get her home!Her birthday is this month and will be sending a sweet prayer to her !

excited!

My first email of the day..emailed social worker to see if she can do a homestudy for us!Hoping she gets back to us soon!We want to get our girl home as quickly as possible!We have chosen a name four our girl and she will be called...Sara Rose!

Our exciting news!

After much discussion my husband and i have decided to bring a Princess home!This is some story...when we first seen her we wanted to adopt her.Due to timing and financing we had to pull out of the adoption completely!This same little girl came back to us!Basically the agency contacted me about adopting her.Michael and I talked it over and have decided ya know God is telling us something..this child has been put before us twice.Now mind you finances are tight.We are by far not rich!But a little girl waits for us..she waits for a mommy and daddy and brothers and sisters!
           We have decided not to let paying for an adoption or travel or anything else stand in our way.You see this little lady has severe cp!She is in a foreign country that cannot provide the medical care she needs!We can provide that and love and much more.So here we go on  a journey to bring home a princess...We have already chosen the most beautiful name for her.I am excited about having this angel in our family!I dont like asking for money at all its not my thing.I have to swallow my pride on this and have added a chip in.If you can even 5.00 will help!Every bit adds up.It is important we get her home soon...she is starting to regress and this is a big concern for her and for us.

Big Decisions!

We have had every road block imaginable trying to adopt a child!My husband and I have a heart for africa.We tried twice and it fail through due to affording to finance the cost of adoption.So we have take classes to become foster parents and it is now on hold as well.The classes are complete yes but the list we need to get liscensed is a mile long.
    The lord is not done with us yest and has decided to open another door to Africa again.We are going to take a leap of faith and work on bringing our princess home!Its a big decision for us as the finances are not there.There is more to this and I will share later when i know  this is truly going to happen!But remeber the saying if you let it go and it comes back to you its yours!Thats how this is or our feeling towards this situation.Please pray as we still have a couple Big decisions to make.Adoption is expensive and that is the main reason people do not adopt.Why does money have to be such a hurdle to love an orphaned child?Its not My Husband and i are by far not rich..we dont live in a fancy house..we dont buy designer clothes !What we do have have is LOVE!

Rough Day!

Jaxson had a rough day today!His nurse was awesome and managed his pain well...He got a sponge bath and massage and his dressings changed.He also thought it cool he got to lay in his diaper for and hour getting air to his incisions.He cried when moved and cried when the nurse held him !She set him at a 30 degree angle and he did not like it.It is so hard as we know he dont understand and thinks we are being mean.But it is Imperative to his health to move him.I dont want him getting pnuemonia which would be worse on him.Our nurse is training a float nurse tomorrow!Jaxson will get more nursing for now taking some exhaustion off Michael and I.He is full time care even more so with post surgery.I do night care with him..I love this little guy and would give him the world if i could!

post surgery!

Jaxson has been keeping us busy!Last night he would not sleep in his crib at all...everytime we put him in it he cried.Michael stayed up and rocked him until 4 am.I gave him pain medication and that did not seem to be his problem.Tonight i cleaned his incisions and put clean dressing on them.Tomorrow we will take the dressing off and let them air for awhile.Our nurse came in this morning to 2 of us dragging tired and just plain exhausted.She called the agency and told them we needed more hrs.Now we have full hrs he was suppose to have from the beginning which will help us alot.I do all his night care...suctioning trach,turning him every 2 hrs,changing diapers and so on.His last feed is at 2 a.m. so i also make sure he eats.I will talk with the nutritionist about settings for the pump for a continual feed at night.This way i can get some rest!Today Jaxson was all smiles for the nurse!He loves her and hams up to her all the time.Through all of this Jaxson is my hero...He has been through so much in the past 2 yrs and amazes me how strong he is.

Baclofen pump surgery!

This is what Jaxson had done Thursday!It gives him the medicine he has been taking orally but will take through the box now with way better results this way.We got home today he is sore but happy!We have seen smiles.We also have seen a big difference already in Jaxson's spasticity and high tone.Now to keep Jax comfy as this is a rough surgery and lots of staples.So far he is dong awesome!