A Very Busy Week

Cutie Little Kayla

We have hade such a busy week so far this week and the busy isn't going to stop anytime soon.

Wednesday morning Aaron, Kallie, and I went to Grand Rapids for the Oral Cleft Clinic for Kallie. The clinic has a bunch of different doctors and specialist that you go and talk to and they look at Kallies cleft and see how it is looking as she grows. There is a nutriotionist, speech, audiology, pschologist, social worker, geneoligist, orthodontist, plastic surgeon and a couple others. They all pretty much said everything is going great ang looking good. Developmental wise she is pretty much were a 2 1/2 year old should be. Except the plastic surgeon was alittle concerned about her profile of her face is very flat, her forehead and nose are very flat in comparison with her face and her head is still measuring small compared to her size. So he said they might want to do some scans and x-rays in the years to see if there is anything wrong. He also wants us to meet with a genetisits (sp?)(genetics dr.) to see if there is something tweeked in her genes somewhere which could be the cause of the cleft and this face thing. Also she is missing her friont tooth were her cleft is. She has alittle indent on her gum and the tooth hasn't come in yet. The orthodontist said that it may not ever come in and it might come in and it might come in twice. You just don't know. Her upper jaw is also back further than her lower jaw and they said that they would have to fix that also. First by trying some hardware in her mouth to try and push it forward or they would have to go and and do surgery. That they won't start until she's anywhere between 6 and 9. They do want her to start seeing a dentist now to get her used to going because she's going to have alot done in that mouth in years to come. My poor baby, :( my heart just aches thinking about all that will have to be done with her. Atleast I have years to wait before anything is done.

Here are acouple pics of my girl. Before surgery, her missing tooth and the dent and lip now. If you look closely you can see the zig-zag of the scar.

The puppies are now three weeks old. They are getting so big! They have their eyes open and they are trying so hard to get up and "walk". We finally named them all. Teaque and Kiri hepled. We have 2 males, Oddball(2nd from left) who is chocolate colored like Chloe, and Simba (4th) who is a cream. The females are Nala(6th) who is a cream and Keyatcho(3rd) who is the biggest puppy and then Coconut(1st) who is the tan colored one. She has the cutest white tip on her tail. Thay are just so cute!!!!

Jimmy James is home!!!! Yeah! He is home on Spring Break until Sunday. He was home on Tuesday. He came over last night for a little bit and he's over right now playing Wii with Kiri. It is nice to have him home even for alittle while. He is looking really good too. He is putting on weight and really starting to beef up. He looks so much better than when he left for SBU (Southwest Baptist College in MO). He read the girls their bedtime stroy last night. :) It was soo cute. The girls just love their Uncle Jimmy!!

Saturday is going to be the busiest day of all this week. Aaron has to work until 1, Emily is getting picked up at around noon, Logan is doing the Walk for Water (www.marshill.org/water/walk) with Mars at 11-2 at a park in Zeeland. He's going to spend the night at Grampa & Grama T's and go with Teaque, Kiri, and Granpa. Aaron and I have a meeting with a realtor @ 2 to hopefully work something out to buy this house in Nunica that we've been looking at and then to Holland by 6 so I can get my tattoo done. What a busy day!!!!! I am going to be soo pooped by the end of the day. Then Sunday is Easter with church and egg hunts and all that fun Easter stuff!!!!

I probably won't update again until after Easter so HAPPY EASTER ALL!!!! HE IS RISEN!!!