Addie is 7 and 1/2 month! She is weighing in now at 13 pounds and 12 ounces! She has started cereal and is really enjoying it and it seems to be helping her gain weight which is awesome! We need her to get closer to 20 pounds so that she can have her hip surgery done this winter. She is having occupational therapy and physical therapy each weekly now. We will also be starting some speech therapy soon because since we have started spoon feeding her we realized she is not able to open her jaw all the way. She has already made some improvement with her jaw as she stretches it to eat daily so hopefully therapy will be able to help fix it quickly. Addie is working on use of her arm and sitting up in her other therapies. She has seen some slight improvement on her left arm and is gaining strength in her core. I think she will be sitting up soon! We go on Monday to Chicago for her EMG to determine where the damage is so neurosurgeon will know where to concentrate during surgery. Please be praying about that also this week Addie and Michael got ear infections. They started antibiotics yesterday but if she has a fever or a cough still on Sunday we will have to cancel the EMG and reschedule. We are anticipating God's evident work and answer in her life. Her left arm is in His hands. Psalms 5:3 says "In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation." This verse promises that He hears and also that I should be waiting anticipating His answer! This past couple weeks between realizing about her jaw, lack of serious improvement, and knowing these test was coming up I have been tested. Do I really believe what the Bible says? Do I really believe God is who He says He is? I do. If it isn't all true then it would not be worth living my life from. It is all true and that is why I can pray and wait in expectation. I can keep praying and keep asking because He wants to hear from me and He wants to answer just as He promised. Hebrews 10:36 "You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised." We are in the midst of the persevering but He is faithful and we will receive that which He has promised! James 5:15a" And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well." We went to a prayer conference Sunday night and Monday and had Addie prayed over twice again. Now we are in the part where we must believe that He has heard and His answer is coming! We must wait in expectation that in God's great faithfulness He will do as He said because Luke 1:37 "For nothing is impossible with God." Or as it is in the New Living Translation "For the Word of God will never fail" He has already answered so much with healing her heart and arms, to the peace and grace He has given us to deal with everything so far we can expect nothing less in the days ahead! Even today Mike had a God ordained moment to remind him of the faithfulness of God. He was in a meeting and they began talking about Addie and the lady shared how God had miraculously healed her heart to the amazement of the cardiologist. She was in the operating room being prepped for surgery, after being prayed for a couple nights before, and as they were looking at her the doctor thought they had the wrong patient because her heart had no scar tissue or burn marks from her previous heart surgeries! She assured him it was her and he said he could not understand it because it looked like a brand new heart! Our God is good! So this is 7 months into Addie's life and He has been working! Can't wait to tell you what He has done by 8 months!
