Posted in Down's Syndrome, Family Life on September 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well . . . he gets where he wants to go! Can you call it “crawling?” I’m not sure . . .
See for yourself!
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The original soundtrack I had was better . . . sorry. Due to circimstances I can’t control, I had to change it! If you want the original, I [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Down's Syndrome, Family Life on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Before the weekend arrives, I wanted to share some of the fun we had this past weekend! (I am running a little behind this week in a lot of ways . . . )
We had a wonderful visit from my family. My parents, my sister, and my brother and his family all came to visit [...]
Posted in Prayer Requests, Uncategorized on September 19, 2008 | 11 Comments »
My grandfather, Paul Widhalm, went Home today.
It’s hard to know what to say – how do you summarize a life . . . a man . . . in a few words?
He was an incredible man. An example of faith. He prayed often, and he prayed loudly. Whenever we were at the farm, we went [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We had such a wonderful evening celebrating Matthew’s birthday. The weather was beautiful, and our backyard was full of our close friends and family. If we counted correctly, we had 40 people here helping us celebrate (21 adults, 7 “big kids,” and 12 three-and-under!) All the kids had fun playing on the lawn, and we [...]
Posted in Faith and Healing on September 14, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Skipping ahead a few chapters . . . .
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“If he makes [...]
Posted in Faith and Healing on September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Continuing to tell the “whole story,” here is Chapter 3:
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I barely remember the summer of 2007. I know that we spent June and July in a kind of fog, mourning the loss of our baby. [...]
Posted in Down's Syndrome on September 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Matthew had an evaluation at Children’s Village today to see if he would benefit from any of their services. They offer speech, physical, and occupational therapy, along with all kinds of great services for kids with special needs. The therapists were wonderful, and evaluated Matthew on everything from motor skills, cognitive abilities, and social skills [...]
Posted in Down's Syndrome, Heart, Surgery on September 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What I remember most about our first appointment at Seattle Children’s Hospital is the word, “And.”
Our appointments there were divided into 2 separate days – genetic counselors and perinatologists on Wednesday, and pediatric cardiologists with fetal echocardiogram on Friday. We met with the genetic counselor, who went over our “risk factors.” It turns out, we [...]
Posted in Down's Syndrome, Heart on September 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This blog really starts in the middle of our story. I have had some requests to tell the “whole story,” and although I would have to write a book in order to do that, I will try to fill in some of the gaps. As Matthew’s first birthday approaches, I find myself reminiscing about “the [...]
Posted in Micah on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We had a wonderful time visiting Aaron in Seattle this week. Since Aaron had Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday off, we got to spend a lot of time together as a family, and had so much fun! We went to the zoo and the aquarium, and Micah has not stopped talking about either one since! He [...]
