Hello Everyone. For those following our journey thank you for your prayers and patience during our blog absence. We intentionally took time off of blogging for a while after Audrey's heart surgery so we could just spend time together as a family, and of course summer camp didn't leave much time to blog. But the last campers went home on Friday and we thought we'd put a short update on.
Audrey is doing great. All of her follow-up doctor appointments have gone great, including her 6 month follow up, where they cleared her for the lip surgery, which is scheduled for Monday, Sept 14th at Vanderbilt.
She has grown so much, not only physically - she has been walking for about three months now; we've lost count of the number of words she says; her hair has grown; her personality is pretty much the same but greatly amplified; and she is just plain wonderful.
Alex is doing great as well. He starts his Junior year of high school on Thursday. He is very much a young man with very little boy left, which is sad but we are very proud of him. We have five 2-week discipleship camps each summer and Alex participated in two of them. We got wonderful reports of how hard he worked, how he opened up about his life and faith, and how he stepped as a leader at times. We are blessed to have two wonderful children, and they each think the other is the greatest thing in the world.
Julie & I are doing well. We're both anxious for a slower work-pace and a more stable routine at home, that has to include exercise (mostly for Aaron). Our next post will be mostly pictures, as we have lots of them, and the one after that will probably be a lot more detail of our last several months.
Thank you all again for praying for us, and for praying for our friends the Cuozzo's. I'll let you read their blog - lydiahope.blospot.com, but I will say they have been home with Lydia for a couple of months now.
Here are a couple of pictures from today, so you can see how Audrey has grown.
