French Braids

If you know me, you know I have been waiting a very long time to put French Braids in my daughters hair. Well. . . it is finally long enough and Leah agreed to let me (with a little negotiation involving daddy and a shopping trip!!) I know there are going to be a lot of fights to follow, lots of tears, lots of slanted eyes (remember Megan) but at least I will have my little girl with braids!! Ha ha ha 

So Big. . .

Caidy has started lifting her arms in the air when you say "SO BIG". It is the cutest thing to see. . . she is definatley a ham like her little brother.

Also a little update on her appointments. . .

We had a call from Childrens' Hospital yesterday and God is so in control and working everything out for us. Caidys appts to meet with the whole cleft team were in our minds going to be withink weeks of her palate repair, making it a little difficult with moving to have to come back here numerous times. The appts are now scheduled for the end of October, the 29th and 31st. Which is GREAT to be able to get them out of the way days before we are moving, which means the only thing we will have to come back for is the actual surgery.

Thank you so much for continuing to pray for us, we are really seeing Gods hand right now and are so excited to see how He provides for a home. James is in Grand Forks today, left yesterday and will be home tomorrow, and is meeting with a realitor to look at potential houses! :) YAY

Finally an Update on us. . .

I'm sure you have all enjoyed the new pictures of Elijah, but there has been quite a bit going on in our lives that we are excited to tell about! ( Dad and Em I have been trying to call!!)

As many of you know we have accepted the youth Pastor position in Grand Forks. Our plan has been to move in January after Caidys palate surgery, and the church has been more than happy to agree to this allowing everything to get in motion.

After thinking we had everything figured out, God decided to turn us for a loop! James had a meeting with EI and they didn't agree with 'our' plan and said that they were discontinuing our insurance and James had to get a job! Huhhhh. . . Well since James did technically have one, we figured this was Gods way of kicking us in the butt and finally moving us out to Grand Forks!

We are very excited about the move, and are tentatively planning on being in Grand Forks for the beginning of November, but there are so many areas that we need your prayer:

~ Caidys' appts and surgery coming up in the beginning of Dec. We are not sure of the dates, but know that things will be a little busy with a move and then having to come back to the Lower Main Land often.

~ Housing. There are very little rentals available in Grand Forks so James and I have begun the process of buying!! We are very excited about this and trust that God would not be sending us out there without a place to live. Please pray with us about not only a house, but a down payment as well! ;)

~ Family. Although James and I have been very fortunate to always be near family this will be a big change where the closest family will be 5 hrs away.

~ Faith and Trust. As a family we have been through more in the last couple months than we would have preferred, but we have always realized there is a reason God has taken us on this journey and if the purpose of it all was to increase our faith I pray we have learnt that. Continue to pray with us for understanding and wisdom.

Thank you again for all your support and for continuing to pray!

Elijahs' first catch!

Last night Papa and Elijah were playing catch with a football. Elijah started catching it! I see pro-sports in his future!! :)

Elijah Playing Soccer

Elijah and Dad were playing soccer today! Elijah loves to kick the ball hard! It was tons of fun!

Another day at the Park!

After supper we headed off the the local park! Everyone is doing well! 

Photo Shoot

Today was the day we finally made time to take some pictures of Caidy to celebrate her 6 month birthday! She was great and loved posing and smiling for the camera! Don't worry now that I have this new program to post pictures you will most likely see every picture from today!!

Picture Time Once Again!

A new friend of mine, Adrienne, who is a gift from God, has opened up a whole new way of posting pictures to me! I have seen other bloggers do this but have myself just learnt! If you would like to give it a try, download the new version of Picasa and voila you will have a super user friendly way of posting and sharing pictures!!

What is going on with the Wilsons!?!

Wow it has been way too long since we have updated the blog. . . things around here have been very hectic and busy lately. Caidy has started sitting, she is very proud of herself and loves to be the center of attention with Leah and Elijah. Also since she has just turned 6 months we are more actively starting her on solids. I don't think she minds eating them but every time we put the spoon near her mouth she cringes. Definatley from her hate of massaging, anything near her mouth makes her mad, but she needs to eat!

Also along the lines of change James has been offered the job of Associate Pastor of Youth in Grand Forks BC. We are really excited about the chagnes that are most likely going to be taking place in the next couple months and would love your continued prayer as we seek Gods wisdom in knowing if this is where He wants our family.

Look what we caught!

On Tuesday Aug 22nd my dad, brothers and I went Salmon fishing. It was a succesful day. We caught 11 Salmon, and had lots of fun. Plus, had some great father---son bonding time. We look forward to doing it again next year!~

Change is in the air. . .

A couple days ago I made mention of a job prospect for James.

I am now pleased to announce that we have been invited to candidate at The Gospel Chapel in Grand Forks BC. We are a little uncertain as to when we will be going, there are 2 possible weekends that may work, but we are both very excited for James to potentially be getting a job and going back to the ministry and for myself to go back to being a stay at home mom.

Grand Forks is located along the Crows Nest Pass, Highway #3, which runs parallel to the US BC boarders. The town is approx 5000 people, so just what James and I are looking for, the chance to get back to a smaller community.

We are excited for this change and the fact that we are starting to see Gods hand in how things have been working the past couple months. My job has been a big blessing, and James has done an amazing job being a stay at home dad, but we are sooooo ready to have a normal schedule back.

Please be praying with us that Gods plan will continue to unravel and we will soon be past this time of growth ;)

More pictures from the Maze!

A Day at the Corn Maze

Today we thought it would be fun to take the kids to the Meadow Corn Maze. Leah and Elijah were both super excited to hear that there would be ponies to ride. Although as soon as James told them Leah went on to tell Elijah that she would get the pink pony and he could have the blue one! After James explained to them that most ponies are either brown or white, the only other concern they had was to whether or not they should bring their cowboy hats!

Caidy started the day out pretty grumpy with a trip to a walk in clinic because we thought she may have an ear infection, but it turned out she is just teething and not taking it very well! The poor little girl was so grumpy but slept the majority of the time we were out, so all was well! You'd think by our 3rd we would know the difference! Oh well :)

5 Months Already

It is hard to believe Caidy is already 5 months old today. She has gone through so much in such a short time, but you would never know it. She is developing right on track and already weighs in at 11lbs 10 oz. I think her height is around 24.5", but that could be off by a bit because I didn't write it down after her shots the other week! She has been eating well, like always, and soon we will be introducing solids. I am in no hurry though because she seems comtent after her bottles and with the other 2 I didn't start until after 6 months so I figure I will do the same for Caidy and start her next month.

There are some prospects in sight for James as far as jobs go and we would appreciate your prayers while we seek Gods plan for our family. We are really excited about what is to come and will tell more after this weekend when we have a little more information!! Stay tuned. . .

~~Picture Time~~

From a day playing outside to seeing more of Caidys' beautiful smile. . . here are some pictures for you to enjoy!

Pictures of Caidy

Caidy's lip has been healing so well. We were at the Plastic surgeons' today and he was happy with how things look and would like to see us again in Sept. Once the little bit of scaring is gone, we will start massaging Caidy's lip. Dr. Courtemanche would like us to use alo vera and using a circular motion rub lightly on Caidy's lip where the scar is to help stretch the skin as well as minimize the scaring. While the scar is healing it will shrink causing the lip to be pulled up, the massage will encourage the lip to not shrink up, and also will allow us to get a fully healed lip quicker. He said that before massaging was practiced it would take up to a year to see the final results of a lip repair but now that people have been doing this there can be results much sooner. Hopefully this will work for us and the scaring will be minimal as well.




Also as you can see from the majority of the pictures she loves having her fingers in her mouth! Having the arm rastraints on was so hard for her, during the day we would allow her to go without them and she would instantly want to suck on her fingers! We could never leave her alone with them off but she was also just happy to be able to move freely! I don't think she is teething at all, she just really likes to chew on those finger and slobber everywhere!!

Picture of the Kids

My Beautiful New Smile

Here are some pictures of our beautiful little girl! She looks so good and we know that she will get more beautiful everyday as the swelling goes down and she heals.

I still can't get over how great she looks!! Her eyes look even so much bigger as well as her cheeks look so much chubbier! This is Caidy today when Daddy arrived at the hospital, she was so excited to see him, I think she will be even more of a daddy's girl than Leah! He's one pretty lucky guy to be blessed with such gorgeous girls ;)
This is more of a close up, sorry about the blood, but they were really pleased that there wasn't much. I am so excited now for the last little bit of tape to come of so that we can really truly see her beautiful smile! Here is how I saw Caidy when I first walked into the recovery room. I couldn't stop the tears after I saw just how truly beautiful she is! The nurses were tying to comfort her, but she needed to see her mommy to stop the tears. I held her for over an hour in the recovery room while poor James had to wait since only one of us were allowed in. When we walked out to meet him it was like we both just wanted to stare at her because it was so amazing that she looked so perfect!
I absolutely love this picture James took of Caidy and I while we were waiting in the room for the nurse to come and take all Caidys' vitals (ie. blood pressure, temperature, listen to her heart beat, and weigh and measure her.) I really wanted a great picture to remember how beautiful Caidy looked before the surgery and I definitely got that!!

Quick Update

Last night was a long one!! I have a couple minutes free because the nurse is watching Caidy so I can grab some breakfast. She only slept about 3 hrs on her own and the rest of time was wanting to be held, so I am tired! Also if you could pray for her, she hasn't eaten anything since her almost 2 oz yesterday around 3. The Dr. Came by this morning and said that until she starts eating they are going to keep us around, so I would LOVE to be able to go home today or tomorrow. James is actually coming by this afternoon to stay with Caidy so I can either sleep, or go for a walk, more than likely sleep!
Thank you again for all your prayers

Update

Just wanted to let everyone know Caidy is doing great, she looks FABULOUS! Unfortunately I can't post pictures from here in the hospital, but as soon as we are home you know there will be a ton!
Her surgery actually was closer to 3.5 hrs long, roughly 1.5hrs longer than expected, but they told us she did great and she is now sleeping from all the excitement! She ate only 2 oz once she woke, but I know that is will increase once she starts feeling better! Thank you all for continuing to pray for us and we can't wait to show off how beautiful she looks and how much she really looks like Elijah!! There is one picture where it is uncanny!
Now that I am just babbling I need to go back and check on her (there are computers in the hospital to use) Thank you again!