Our Frustration

Hey all! I'm just blogging this morning to get some advise if you're able to give it. Here's our frustration. For the last month, Ezekiel has been getting up during the night and coming in our room. And when I say, "get up", I mean getting up 5-10 (or more sometimes) times a night. Meaning, Nathan and I are really not getting any sleep. For instance, he came in at 11:30, 1:00, 3:00 (six times between 3:00 and 4:30) and then "woke up" at 7:30. Amelia, however, is sleeping through the night. It all started when Zeke was tormented in his sleep, by what he described as man is a blue coat and a hat that came in through is window and spoke to him saying, "get up and go to mommy and daddy". And for several reasons, we feel like that was an attack from Satan on our family. One afternoon Nathan was praying with Zeke during naptime and Zeke pointed and told Daddy the man was in the doorway. Of course, Nathan saw nothing but began praying. Nathan said he felt a strong evil presense. Without going into too much more detail, Nathan gets very little sleep due to his hours with UPS and the church, and the less sleep he gets the harder it is to operate Watershed. We felt like Satan was "sending" this man to wake Ezekiel so that Nathan doesn't get much sleep. All this to say, the nightmares have stopped (praise God!!! and thanks to all who knew and prayed for our family). Ezekiel hasn't mentioned the man in a couple weeks, however I feel like the man coming to him at night began a habit of him waking a lot throughout the night. And although he doesn't have nightmares, he still wakes often. So basically, we are at our witts end and were wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how to get Zeke to sleep through the night again. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Post Surgery

Just want to let you all know that Amelia's surgery went very well. Dr went in and fixed her shunt. She is such a trooper. We only had an overnight stay, so we left the hospital this morning. And since then, she's been her same old cheerful self. Thank you for all your prayers.

Ice Skating

Watershed had a mixer tonight and went iceskating. We had a lot of fun and had several visitors come to the mixer. Wooohooo!!

Baby Kaitlyn

Our good friends, Nick and Nicole, had their baby on December 29th. We went to see her the next weekend and she is soooo adorable. Lots and lots of hair. She was only 5 lbs when she was born and seeing her made me realize how big Amelia is getting. Praise God!!!!

My Musicians

Nathan has taken up playing the guitar, and Ezekiel loves playing it too. So Aunt Gwenda and Uncle Ryan got him one of his own for Christmas. So my musicians often "practise" together. Zeke has quite the collection of musical instruments, piano, drums and now a guitar. Maybe he'll be the next Mozart (or maybe Justin Timberlake...hehe).

Surgery...again

On Tuesday, we had a routine follow-up CT Scan to check and see if the shunt in Amelia's brain is drainging the excess fluid properly. Well, we found out that it isn't. So her doctor suggested that he go in a do a revision surgery to check/fix the shunt. She is scheduled to go in Tuesday morning, January 16th. So please keep us in your prayers. Thankfully, Amelia is feeling fine. The fluid has not built up to the point of discomfort for her and the doctor said it also isn't to the point of brain damage. So praise God for that!!!!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year's. I hope 2007 finds all of you doing well. We had a really nice little celebration of the new year, toasting it in with sparkling grape juice. Really it was a struggle just to stay up until midnight. But playing Apples to Apples helped a little!!!

QT with Family

Here are some cute pictures of the kids with my family. Other than my mom, the rest of my family in NY had never met Amelia, so they were excited to see her. And my mom even said that she was more excited to see Zeke and Amelia than she was to see Nathan and I. That hurt a little!!!! Kidding. But it was a nice trip (and long too-the trip took us about 8 hours, but the kids did great, Nathan, that's another story). Pictures are as follows: My brother, Bradley with Amelia and Zeke. My mom and Ed with Amelia. My brother-in-law, Ryan with Amelia. And my sister, Gwenda with Amelia.

Christmas with Mom

We were able to travel to my mom's house in NY for New Year's weekend. Gwenda and Ryan were able to travel in too. Delia and Bradley were there too, so it was a whole family event, which doesn't happen too often. My mom was really excited about that!