Saturday Morning

Hello Friends! Sorry we didn't post anything yesterday. I know many of you check our blog fairly often, and it's probably disappointing not to find anything new. Thanks for going to Father on our behalf anyway though. The reason we didn't post anything yesterday is because we were too busy holding Payton!

Right now she is doing very good. She is still off the breathing tube and her lungs are fairly clear. She keeps getting stronger and stronger. She has all but stopped having the arrhythmias for now as well. She still has a couple IV lines and lots of wires and tubes attatched, so holding her is a bit of an ordeal. She will keep these lines, tubes, and wires in and on her for a number of day still. After this weekend, the doctors plan to look at her vocal cords again and see how the paralized one is doing. After that they will determine if she can start to try to feed or not. On Tuesday the plastic surgen will take the wound vac off and check her neck. Our hope for that time is that he will either say that it's looking good and just needs the wound vac on for a little longer, or that he will go ahead and try to close the wound. A skin graft is still last resort, and we are still trusting the Lord that this won't be necessary. Thank you for joining us in prayer for these things.

Here are some new pics! Enjoy!

Here's Payton before she got her breathing tube out.


Okay, we know that these are silly, but we just wanted to thank those of you who have sent us care packages and cards and lots of other great stuff. We love it, and we love you! Thanks so much!

Here's our little family.