The Week in Review

Wow, I don't know if I can't get it all in now or not but I will try. I will do it in reverse, starting with the events of last night. We traveled to Stacey's parents and her mom had supper ready and waiting for us when we got there. Everyone was busy helping to get the food on the table and drinks ready, etc. and all of a sudden we heard crying coming from the basement. Coy had opened the door to their basement and had fallen down the steps. We don't know how far he fell but to say that we were scared to death would be putting it mildly. We ran to the bottom of the steps expecting the worst. He had a LARGE knot on his forehead and a scrape between his eyes but amazingly, no other injuries. The door to the steps open in and we think that he just was exploring and opened the door and didn't realize there were steps there. After just a few minutes of crying, he was OK. His eye is not black but he does have a doozy of a bruise.

Katie graduated from pre-school on Wednesday night. They had the cap and gown thing going on and it was pretty cool. Katie did a wonderful job at this pre-school. We were so amazed at how much work they accomplished in just a couple of hours, three days a week. We are hoping that this pre-school is still running in a couple of years when Coy is ready. Grandma Yankey learned something at the reception that followed. She was going to get Coy just one more cookie. Well, she got one that he kind of acted like he didn't like so she went back to get him a different one. Her intentions were to switch them out so that he could have one that he liked. She learned that once food is in Coy's hands, the only way that you are going to get it away from him is to make him mad.

Last Sunday we got to go on a walk with our friends the Dorschs. Our kids have such a great time with their kids that we probably couldn't keep them apart if we wanted to. We hiked for about an hour around a lake that is nearby our house and then we came back to our house for homemade pizza and a water fight in the back yard.

In between all of that stuff, Stacey took the kids to the zoo to try out the new splash park. Coy also was diagnosed with more ear infections and given another round of antibiotics. The pediatricians thinks that we will probably just put tubes in his ears during his other surgeries to help reduce his ear infections. We understand that it is not uncommon for children with cleft pallete to be especially susceptible to ear infections.

The political unrest in Ukraine is still in the news as it has apparently begun to grow less peaceful.

We continue to be amazed at God's timing for everything. It has truly been unreal. Unfortunately, I don't have time in this blog tonight to go into the details of everything but He obviously had our path worked out ahead of us.