Updating again....Where has the time gone?

Proud new van owners?

Well, last Saturday (2/7) we drove to the Stockton area with my parents and came home with the above purchase. I have said all my life that I would never be a van owner. Why is it the things you say you would never do you manage to do later in life?

You ask why the purchase??? Let's see, at the current count our household consists of 9 people. There is the mommy and daddy, Levi and 6 foster children. We have Destiny (14), Nico (12), ReyAnna (7) and Larissa (2). They are all siblings. Then there is Noah (11) and Larissa (7), who are brother and sister. Yes, we have TWO...count it TWO Larissa's in our home. Makes the adventure even more adventurous.

Baby Jesus!

Levi and I were in the Christmas Musical at North Fresno Church the middle of December. I played Mary with Levi playing Baby Jesus in the first service, as the original Mary who sang in the program could not be there for the second half of first service. In second service she held him the whole time. He slept through both of his performances as Baby Jesus. It was rather nice, as the Mama was kind of worried. He did great!

Computer crashed!

Well, out computer crashed about a month ago. We lost most of our pictures, but my brother was able to retrieve some of them with the equipment he uses are work. Thus, I do not have anymore pictures of Levi on the computer later than Halloween. I will post more hopefully this week.

He is doing well, as of last Monday he weighed 15 pounds and 1 ounce. He was trying hard to double his birth weight by 3 months, but he is just barely going to miss that bench mark.

We are still trying to figure out why is breathing can be so fast, but I may have found the answer to his problem on someone else's blog tonight. I will keep you posted on what I figure out. For now we are trying to deal with the acid reflux. We have one medication, but it does not seem to help too much. We have an appointment next week with the pediatrician and she said if it was not helping she would give us a different medication. To get the expensive medication we have to try the first two medications, so they can know that they did not work for him. We will see. But, if the new information I found tonight plays into his situation maybe we will go a different route for treatment. We will have to wait and see.

Until then goodbye 2008 and hello 2009!

The "other" Andrew!

Here Levi and I are on October 10, 2008 with the "other" Andrew. He came into our home on December 28, 2007. The day this picture was taken was the day he went to live with his Aunt Teresa and Uncle Brian. It is hard to believe it has been a year since we took him it. The 10 months that we had him had their ups and downs. It was a lot of work, as he needed help. It just seemed each time we would get somewhere they would tell us that was not what we needed or we were not where we needed to be.

Through this difficult time I was able to see that God is faithful. Intially said we would not have him over the summer and then it was that we would not have him when the baby was born. Obviously, God had other plans and I could not convince myself to let him go no matter how hard things got, as my heart broke for him over and over (it still does).

He went into respite care when I had the baby and the day he was suppose to return to our care was the day that the aunt and uncle were given the okay to take him into their home. Needless to say, God is always on time and never early. It was a huge answer to prayer.

We feel that Andrew is in the best place for him. We are very thankful for the work his aunt and uncle put in to getting him placed in their home. We are thankful they did not give up and wish them the best. If you think of Andrew could you pray for him and his aunt and uncle as they transition to becoming a family and attempt to get the help that they need. He truely is a sweet boy and we wish nothing but the best for him and his family.

Very behind on the blog!

Yes, we finally did make it home. After staying four long days in the hospital we were able to go home, as long as we agreed to bring Levi to the pediatricians office as often as necessary. She was not really comfortable releasing him, but we could stay no longer. We came home on October 6, 2008.

At times it was nice to stay that many days, but on the other hand it was a long time. I was walking rather well at that point after the c-section. The best advice I recieved regarding the c-section was from my friend Sarah. She said the first two days would be really bad and then after that it would be much better. Her words could not have been much more correct. Thanks!


This picture was taken his first Sunday at church, October 12, 2008. Levi did not know that he was going to be a triplet when he was born (Miguel, Christian & Levi). These boys are my parents foster twins. They are two months older than our baby, but they were 6 weeks early.


It has been fun dressing them alike and getting to share in their first holiday season. They are good boys and hardly every cry. Levi still is the largest of the three, which is rather funny.





Here we are at the Pumpkin King. It is hard to believe that Larissa was just a baby last year when we took the girls. ReyAnna and Larissa have been with us for over a year, although they stay with their mother most of the time these days. Last year when we went it was raining. We enjoy having them over to stay with us and have become good friends with their parents.

"Our little pumkin." Levi was a rather good sport. We got the idea from my brother, Uncle "Nonner" or also known as Andrew. He tolorated our craziness more than you would think. Nonner comes from my brother, Eric not being able to say Andrew when he was small. It has stuck and came in handy when we had a foster child named Andrew for almost 10 months.

Heidi had the baby at Clovis Community and will be there 2 to 4 days