Prayers are being ANSWERED!!!!

We got the results on all three tests, the sinus x-ray, blood tests and the CT Scan of his head! Everything came back NORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We literally are breathing a great big huge sigh of relief!!!! If he continues to have bad headaches, we'll see a Neurologist, but for now, we're sitting pretty! So, keep praying for our sweet babies! Every day is a new adventure for us! Never know what's next! :) As you can clearly see! GOING TO BED! Jamie Rose was up every hour last night from 2:30-7:30 this morning! Needless to say I didn't sleep! Good night!

New Arrival!

So, the other part of our emotional day was we got a new arrival! The package was in PINK! Can anybody guess what it was!?!?! Alright, too many obvious clues.

We got a phone call this morning from our good friend who is an investigator for the state (she's the one that called us on Loren), and said she had our "baby" for us. Long story short, while we weren't even on the call list for another placement. We definitely feel the Lord orchestrating every last detail in this situation! At this point, we will have her for sure until June 4, but the situation is that there is a sibling that's already been severed from the parents and is in the middle of an adoption with another foster family. This foster family has been contacted to see if they want the "sibling," but when they were first contacted, they said, "no thank you." The state understands this and will find another placement if need be, but they like to give the siblings foster family the first "chance" in order to keep siblings together. They've decided to give the foster family until June 4 to be SURE about their "no" answer, then will accept us as a more permanant placement. So, please be praying that if she's meant to be ours that each piece continues to fall in place accordingly.

Her given name from her birth mother is Jamie Rose, before we picked her up we didn't know her name, but we had considered Tilli Rose. We're still deciding for sure, but we'll let you know once we know! She was born early morning on May 27, 2008, she's 6 lbs. She was positive for Meth, as was her birth mother.

Again, keep checking back on the blog to see more updates! Things are never slow here at the Baltzly house! :)

Laine's Cat Scan

It's been quite the day! An extreme in emotions, but I'll go into that further in a minute.

First, THANK YOU for praying for Laine today! Laine did REALLY well, but mommy fell apart. I didn't realize I'd be in the actual scan room while they were taking his scan, and honestly, I felt like I was in a Hallmark movie and I was the mother at the side of the sick child, and I seriously broke down in weeping. Laine was "in the donut" while I cried, and I was stopped before he got out cause I HAD to be the strong one!

Results will be read tonight and forwarded to our doctor tomorrow, so we'll be speaking with him tomorrow afternoon.

Update on Laine....

Laine had another bad headache today. Screaming, "Ooowie, MY HEAD HURTS."

With that said, we are scheduled for a Cat Scan of the head this coming Thursday at 3:00 PM MST. If you could, just say a little prayer for Laine (and mommy) at that time while they are scanning. I THINK Laine will be alright in terms of "fear" but lately he's been surprising me with more and more things he becomes fearful of, so we'll see. I told him it was like a ride at an amusement park (cause you lay on a bed and it moves you into the "donut" and back out again). He's never been to an amusement park, so I'm not sure how he'll interpret that! :) I tried! I've never been really good at describing words he's curious about or events he's wondering about.

Last week he had some labs done to test the liver, kidneys, etc, and they also tested for diabetes (his biological father, we know for sure, is diabetic), so we'll hopefully have the results on those before the end of the week as well. He also had an x-ray of his sinuses.

On a lighter note, Benjamin and I attended our first "official" school parent orientation tonight for Laine's new school! It's going to be SO GOOD for him! I'm so excited. The school is SO structured, they even require that all "families" volunteer for 12 hours throughout the entire year so as to participate and involve themselves in their childrens' school classrooms. They also require an actual homework time allotment to which we have to sign that we did spend that much time with our student! Pretty cool! It just makes for more respectful students (well, maybe not the older ones necessarily), and it is an overall well rounded committment of the parents agenda and I LOVE that! I think we're in for a great year! :)

I'll for sure have another update Thursday night at some point for you all! So check back.

Memorial Day....Remembering our babies!

Photos courtesy of my dear mom and sister who visited the babies' graves on our behalf. Thank you, mom and Aunt ShiSha!

Teya LeNae - June 20, 2003

Jobe Alan - April 14, 2004

Grace Priscilla - April 26, 2006 - May 8, 2006

Loren Walter - March 20, 2007 - May 7, 2007

Fun with family!

Ezra found David's glasses this morning! :)

Both boys woke up so grumpy today. We decided to put them in the "dunce" chair! :)

Opa with all the boys. Do you think the two younger ones are teething!?

MOVIE NIGHT! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! I made homemade popcorn! Yummy!

My brother Ben and my dad were both bachelors this weekend, so I invited them over for a meal and to hang out! We had a good midwestern meal of hamburgers, hot dogs, Granny's potato salad and baked beans! Yummy! Oh, and Cherry pie. It was perfect. Had so much fun!

It's SATURDAY!!!!!!!

I LOVE Saturdays, especially when Benjamin doesn't have to work.

Here are a few pictures from the last few days. I got the privilege of watching my nephew Jack! He's adorable! I love him so much! We also had some friends over for pizza last night and two of our boys are the same age and it's fun to see them play! They each have minds of their own. One wanted to pull, the other wanted to push from another direction!