Prayer Request Update.....

Thank you all for your prayers for my boss and his son who is battling cancer. The experimental chemo is really working and has lowered his white blood cell count to 2.2 from 60,000. This is great news! My boss told me today that he is coherent and getting stronger every day now. This afternoon he was asking to go home which is a great sign!

Never underestimate the power of prayer! God is good and works miracles.

Please keep them in your prayers and I will keep yall updated.

Grandma and Uncle Zach are in town!

My brother flew into Houston this past weekend to stay with my parents for a week. Zach lives in Washington D.C. and works for the State Department. He is leaving for Moldova for a two year tour in less than a month, so this is probably our last time to see him for two years. Nathan leaves for Tahoe in the morning for work meetings (it's a hard life!), so mom was going to come up and stay with me while he was gone and Zach just happened to come down at the same time, so now we get to spend all week with him.




Zach hasn't seen Taylor since Christmas when she was 6 months old. He can't believe how much she has changed and that she is walking. He likes this age so much better now that she can actually 'do stuff' (those are his words).



Grandma takes Taylor for a ride down the stairs! Taylor is in for a week of pure pampering with Grandma and Uncle Zach.

Taylor's lullaby

Taylor just woke up crying which is unusual for her. She may wake up once or twice a month at night to let out one single cry, but that is it. She just woke up and wouldn't stop crying, so I went in to get her. I picked her up and her hair was completely soaked from sweat I guess. She wouldn't stop crying so I sang her her lullaby. Her lullaby always seems to calm her down no matter what. I held her in my arms against me, sang her lullaby and rocked her. I don't think I have rocked her since she was 3 or 4 months old. She just laid there and let me love her. I laid her back down in her crib after about 10 minutes and she rolled over and is probably already asleep again.

Here is the story of Taylor's lullaby. When I was pregnant with her, I wanted a to be able to sing her a lullaby like moms do with their babies in the movies. I don't know if my mom sang me a lullaby, but I really wanted something special to sing to Taylor. I had no idea where to begin to find a lullaby. Well, Taylor arrived and I still hadn't found a lullaby. When I bought Taylor's bedding, the mobile came with it and we turn it on every night to help her go to sleep. Some nights I would sit in her room and wait for her to fall asleep while her mobile played. One day I just started singing this lullaby to her before she went to bed. I have sung the same lullaby to her every time she gets upset or gets hurt and sometimes before bed to calm her down. The lullaby hasn't failed me yet and I hope it never will. I love it because it is special between Taylor and me since no one else sings it to her. A few days ago I realized where I got my lullaby - from her mobile. I had never put the two together. It's funny how things work out without you even knowing it!

Piggies!! Piggies!! Piggies!!

Taylor's hair is just barely long enough to make little baby pigtails. Since the moment I found out we were having a girl, I've been waiting for the day I could put pigtails in her hair. Taylor is in dire need of a hair cut, but we are waiting till next month. We are going to Oregon in August for a week to see some of my family. My cousin is a hair dresser and I think it would be really special for her to give Taylor her first hair cut.




You can only see one side of her pigtails in this picture. They are so little, I couldn't get a picture with both piggies in it.

Prayer Request

I wasn't sure if I should write about this, but the more prayers, the better. My boss, has 3 sons and his oldest son who is 27 years old (my age) was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago. I don't remember where it originated, but it went into remission for 6 months. It came back worse then before and is now in his spinal column and his blood. My boss told us this week that he was given about a 10% chance of living. Wednesday he had an allergic reaction to something and went into the hospital with trouble breathing and was put into ICU. He has started a new round of experimental chemo that seems to be working. His white blood cell count was at 60,000 last week and within 48 hours of receiving the new chemo, his white blood cell count dropped to 12,000. According to my boss, this is great news! They are praying that this experimental chemo will kill off all the cancers and he will go into remission again. It has been touch and go for the last week, but this new chemo is giving them hope. My boss made the comment last week that it would take a Miracle to save him and it looks like God was listening and has provided this "experimental" chemo.

I just want to ask each of you to pray for my boss Dallas and his son Dallas. Thank you and God Bless.

Growth Spurt

I'm pretty sure we are in the midst of a growth spurt. Taylor had only gained 1 pound from her 9 month check up and her 12 month check up, so I think she is making up for it now. Taylor is eating like a horse and sleeps about 4 hours during the day and her usual 12 hours at night. I cleaned out her closet yesterday because most of her 12 month sized clothes are getting too tight. I'm glad I stopped buying 12 month stuff a few months ago and started buying 18 month stuff or she wouldn't have anything to wear. The problem is, I have a really big problem of buying her clothes far in advance ( I have some 4T clothes already), so all the 18 month winter clothes are probably not going to fit her this winter. Maybe she will slow down soon................

My new purse

Nana, Taylor and I went to Sam Moon on friday to do a little shopping. We walked in the door and Taylor spotted a little blue jean purse that was just precious. Nana handed it to her and she carried it the whole time we were in the store. Nana and I decided that she had to have it!