48 Days

Night Post:

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

We have been in Sioux Falls 48 days now. We are still choosing to believe. We are still clinging to HIS promises and HIS word...we are still praying without ceasing for God to heal our little boy...

Liam had an AWESOME morning. For one, Liam slept through the night finally! Before I came back to the hospital from the RMDhouse (Casey stays with Liam), I prayed for a breakthrough in therapy and for just something good to happen today. I walk into Liam's room and I see Liam sitting on Casey's lap and they were "reading" a touch and feel book together. Liam was feeling on the pages and helping turn the pages. This alone made my heart happy:) Then all his morning therapies went awesome.
Speech Therapy: Liam took a couple of sips from a sippy cup! Of which he could hold on his own. He also ate his first solid food (baby step but huuuuuge deal) he ate a few small pieces of oatmeal bread. Chewed it very well! soooo exciting. He got some kind of food on his face when she was feeding him and it made Liam upset so she gave him the wash cloth and he wiped his own mouth off:)
PT: Liam continued to take good steps
OT: She always helps dress him in the morning to get Liam to help get dressed and undressed. He usually HATES taking his shirt on and off since we've been here..Like screaming hates it. well today she helped take his arms out of the sleeves and he grabbed the shirt with both hands and tried taking it off himself--like it was no big deal! yea Liam:)

Prayer requests:
-Please pray for people to continue to pray for Liam and to come to Jesus.
-Please pray for more huge gains in therapy. We need him sitting on his own without screaming. We need him to eat more of a variety of foods before they will even consider decreasing his feedings. We need that as a next step to get the tube out! Pray for him to drink a lot and eat a lot. Please pray that he will actually enjoy walking too...I think we are getting closer to that one. We are moving his feedings to a highchair tomorrow (verses the chair he used before)...please pray that he will be more independent in eating and of course motivated (they have to 'trick' him into thinking he's doing stuff on his own because if you try to force him to hold a spoon or sippy cup on his own he throws a fit and will refuse)
-Blind/deaf specialists comes in tomorrow

Liam is blind and deaf. This is such a scary time for him and is so hard to watch everyday him struggle so much. No 2year old should ever have to go through this-especially not my baby. It may seem impossible for him to be healed...but good thing we believe and serve a God where anything is possible.

Thank you Jesus for being with us every step of the way...we don't understand all that is happening to us-and to be honest don't like it. But we are trusting you and your word, we are believing for a complete healing, and we know you have a plan for us and we know you can and are using this for good! Use us!

Psalms 73. Sometimes I think trying to do the right thing and be close to God is a waste of time. Other ppl that arent are fine kids are good and there is no problems. Well there is prize for us beyond what this world has to offer.....gotta keep my chin up remember why I'm here.
Today Liam did awesome in therapy! He got his first solid food and chewed it up like a champ! He also used a sippy cup without assistance!
He still needs prayer for his eyes, ears and his crabbiness! But we are believing he will recover and we know Jesus is with him! Keep praying