Updates!

Has another week passed by already? I mean, really??! Sometimes I look around at the end of a day and wonder if I accomplished much...Then I remember there's a toddler in the house again! The new normal is busy!

Gracie has a pretty full schedule, and she loves it. An early interventionist visits once a week for an hour, and brings a huge bag of great toys. (Don't tell Gracie Shu that they're actually teaching her playing and reasoning skills) Ami oversees Gracie's other therapies which include speech therapy twice a week and soon to be added occupational therapy once a week. Yeah, we know how to party around here! That pretty much takes up our mornings, and that sweet girl is more than ready for her afternoon naps before it's time to go sit in car lines for her siblings. I am honestly grateful that these services are available to us, and even more grateful that they are offered here at home!

Gracie and Miss Ami

Today we headed back to Charlotte on what we thought would have been her surgery day. Gracie needed to have another impression made of her palate, and round 2 was not as rosy as round one. Evidently the doctor who makes the Latham device was out of town for a while, and a new mold was needed so that it would be a perfect fit as she is growing quickly! The impression took a little longer to set this time, and Gracie was good and mad by the time we were done. She kept signing for her Daddy to pick her up and rescue her. That was tough to watch. Hopefully we should be back in a few weeks for the actual procedure!

We also had an appointment with the ENT who will be putting the tubes in Gracie's ears. We were SO impressed with this doctor and his manner with Gracie. On the way up this morning my brother sent me a text telling us to have fun watching God at work at our appointments. I loved that. We definitely sensed God's hand in this visit. He totally confirmed our decision to go with the Latham before palate surgery. He said he has seen over and over that in the long run this process is so much better for mouth and speech development for someone like Gracie with a significant cleft. He also spoke so highly of our surgeon, and said the times he has witnessed him placing the Latham in surgery, it fits like perfection! (Hence the re-making of the impression!)
God is great, and is greatly to be praised. He continues to lovingly Father us through every step!