Thursday, February 6, 2014

Hello from the Joyce house!  We are all still hanging in there.  Eli is finally fever free but yesterday was the first day.  Emmy had a fever yesterday and is very congested.  She slept all the way through the night for 3 nights and then last night she woke up a LOT!   I think it was because she was so congested and couldn't get really comfortable and suck her thumb like she likes to do.  So we spent several hours on the couch sitting up where she could breathe better.  I still have some head congestion myself and a lingering cough.  So we are still staying in trying to get healthy.  So far I am not as stir crazy as I thought I would be.  My devotion yesterday was so helpful as it said "When Christ died he purchased for you the Yes to all God's promises (2 Corinthians 1:20), and that includes the promise to use his sovereign power to govern all the inexplicable, maddening detours and delays of your life for wise and loving purposes.  He is doing a thousand things for you and for his glory in your disappointed plans." Piper Devotions.    There are plenty of great things that have occurred during this time that I may have hurried through if we felt well enough to be out and about.

Emmy has become very comfortable with our house and wanders around without worry, she warms up to people fairly quickly in the comfort of our home,  she is now sitting in a chair (not the high chair) on her own for some meals, she is saying more english words and is quickly figuring out where some things in our house belong.  Whenever she sees pictures of herself she says "Ya Ya" and will even bring a picture to me of her and tell me it's her.  She is beginning to understand "no" much better and doesn't laugh every time we say it.  She is enjoying a few more food items such as pancakes, pizza, and rice cakes.  We still haven't found any vegetables that she is big on and are trying more fruit each day.

We had our visit from our social worker yesterday and everything went well.  Tomorrow we have a doctor's visit so hopefully that will go smoothly as well.  We have yet to try the car seat again but will do that tomorrow for sure.  As a friend told me, it's good to try it in short little spurts instead of long drives.  I can handle crying for a 5 minute drive better than I can for an hour, however, maybe she will be a little more okay with it since she now knows her siblings and they will be sitting near her.

Thanks for your prayers for our transition.  We feel it's going well and we are all looking forward to being healthy so we can venture out.

The pic below is one I took yesterday as she was calming down for the evening and instead of holding onto her sleeve as she sucked her thumb she chose her foot instead.