What we've been up to...

We've been pretty busy around here lately. Here are a few of the things Miss YouYou has been up to...

"Doing school" with her brothers...


Gymnastics one morning each week...


A visit to Ch*ck e Ch**se...



And several visits to the science museum...


A little bit of soccer...


We've discovered a few new things...like that she is allergic to penicillin


And that she loves ballet...


And she's pretty good at rollerskating...


And finally, that sipping Sprite through a "sour noodle"/AKA Sour Straw is lots of fun!



We will be going for a checkup with YouYou's cardiologist next Friday. Even though she is doing great (gaining weight, has lots of energy, etc.) I still get a little nervous about these visits. Aaron and I have been talking and praying about some specific things that we want to discuss with her doctor this visit. See, there are things we would like to just "pretend" aren't there because when you look at YouYou you would never know anything is wrong with her. Her condition though, is very complicated. There are two sides really...the side that says a child with L-TGA needs to have a very risky surgery called a double switch so that they will not need a heart transplant when they are older...and the other side, that says that the double switch surgery is too risky and has not been performed enough and is not even proven to increase lifespan so why perform it on a child that is doing well. When we first brought YouYou home, the double switch was not really an option because her lungs were in bad shape, so the immediate thing to do was to close the hole in her heart and try to let her lungs heal, etc. But now...should we be thinking about the double switch? It's hard to know? It's hard for me to even talk about this, much less write about it on the blog. I hope I will feel like sharing more once we have more information from our visit next week. Will you pray with us?