Overdue Photos

Talk about a tuckered-out little guy. He fell asleep pushing the drawings on his Leappad.

It's been a while since we added some photos of Sam. I didn't mention that we had several visits from friends during the month of January. The first of those friends was a guy we used to work with in East Asia, Josh. We took Josh hiking at Umstead Park one day.

I also got to visit with my college roommate, Jenny. She made Sam and I lunch one day and Sam LOVED torturing her cats. She lives in nearby Durham.

Then some old friends came for a visit. It happened to be the same week Sam was admitted to the PICU. Unfortunately, we didn't get any pictures of their visit. It's too bad, because they have three adorable children who happily played with Sam. Sam was gracious enough to give them his virus, and they are finally healing from it.

Sam sure does love being outdoors. This was taken at Umstead during an unseasonably warm day.

I hadn't mentioned it before, but we bought a new-used car. It's a Chrysler Pacifica. It's probably the nicest thing we own. I guess it's the only thing we own of value. I'm sure we'll be grateful for is when we're sleeping in it come April. :)

Obviously I'm just kidding. We know God is going to provide for us and we appreciate everyone who is helping us to locate a new job. Keep praying!

On another note, Sam is still carrying a low-grade fever around. He had 100.3 today. We're relatively sure that it's from the molars that are coming through, but he was certainly acting sickly today.

He started to fall asleep tonight and his whole body jolted. I was pretty sure he hadn't been shocked, but he was silent for a moment and then started screaming at the top of his lungs. I was so worried that he had been shocked by his defibrillator that I had to check it. Turns out he just had one of those moments where you feeling like you're falling just before sleep. I guess it scared him too, as it took a while to get him back to sleep. It's funny that I am always wanting "normal" moments with him, but when one finally came, we both were too upset to enjoy it!