March -we hardly knew ye.

So the last we had written things were settling down. Well, that was a bit premature. No sooner had the words left the computer then the turbulence began. Because happy pictures make for better picture frames I didn't bother sharing any pictures (none were taken) of the chaos that insued.

March was a flurring of doctors visits, intakes, evaluations and "yeah I see your problem" comments. No one came out and said, 'yes we can fix it'.

We feel a little overwhelmed with all the upcoming visits with Doctors and other professionals. We are meeting this week on Wednesday with our current and new case workers. Our current caseworker has a full load and doesn't usually work with young children cases so we are switching to someone that works with our age boys. Then Thursday we meet with the boys caseworker and a therapist to talk about family therapy and where the boys case is and, possibly, where it is headed.


Of course we would like things to move along more smoothly but under the circumstances I guess we've got about as smooth a case as we can hope for. We've certainly heard horror stories. We continue to ask for your prayers.

Easter weekend with my folks was eye opening for all I think. I'm glad that mom and dad got to see the boys in their rougher moments. I know they got to see me in my rougher moments. (sorry again for the meltdown)
Spring break went pretty well, the boys went to day care (kids club) all day and Isaiah had a blast carrying his cold lunch all week. You've never seen a kid so happy to have cold ham sandwiches everyday for 5 days.

Sam went through 2 weeks of a terrible cold complete with HIGH fever. In fact one night his fever got to 102.9 and Brad woke me up. We started pulling out all of our resources. Had it not been for the internet and a very nice nurse on the phone I think we would
have started calling anyone of you for input. The nurse talked Brad through some other symptoms and we determined a trip to the emergancy room wasn't neccesary.
** We did have our first really huge new parent moment. The nurse reminded us that light loose clothes and a cool room with a sheet would help things along. So we uncovered him from the huge blanket he was under, took his socks off, changed him out of the fleece full body one piece, turned down the smoldering heat in his room and took off his tin foil hat. (ok he wasn't wearing a hat) Looking back on it at the time we were practically broasting the kid in his bed! What first time parents we are. So I'm being a little funny, I mean we've had some really cold nights, and when Brad is sick he gets the chills but still, it was a rookie mistake.

So the highlights of this month were Madison hit an all time high of 102" of snow. For those of you keeping track at home that is since December 1st (our first full weekend with the boys) to now we have survived inside a 860 square foot apartment with 4 people and a cat that has grown weary of all the commotion. We did manage to find a babysitter the week of Brad's birthday for 2 hours so we could go out to eat. She even said she'd do it again. Brad and I had our 1st overnight without the boys, had a nice time but would have liked a little longer together time. Isaiah is having more and more better days at school and even started this week off with 4 (out of 4) smiley faces both Monday and Tuesday. Sam is adding more words to his vocabulary and even said his 1st sentence yesterday -"I got apple". Wow, so March maybe did come in like a lion for us, perhaps that proverbial lamb is a little louder than we'd expect but you've got to look for progress in the small things.

We are so grateful for the thoughts, emails and prayers that are said on our behalf. It is wonderful to know that even from miles away we are still surrounded by prayer.