crazy week

Samuel and I had a super crazy week last week!  We were helping out our church by working in the nursery during VBS!  It was a lot of fun but man was I warn out by the end of every day.  We had to be there every morning at 8am and we weren't usually home till close to 1pm. We had about 14 kids in there every day.  I think i'm still trying to recover.  haha  It was a lot of fun and I got to know two woman of our church better. :) It was also a big week for our family as we got the results from my dad's CT scan that happened last Friday as well as the big news of the gender of Samuel's future cousin. :)

I'll give you the news one at a time.  Dad's results from the CT scan were great!  There is no new growth and he started back on maintenance chemo with a PET scan happening in a few months.  Continue to pray that God would work continued miracles in his body and restore him to complete health.  Thank you to everyone who has been and continues to pray for my dad.  The Lord continues to humble me on a constant basis by showing me He has authority over all things.  

My sister Jes and her husband Drew told family on Mother's Day that they were expecting and on Thursday of last week we were waiting to hear what baby Epting would be.  I'm excited to say we will be adding a little girl to the family! I get so excited about babies, people really have no idea how excited I get.  haha   So this little girl belonging to our family makes it beyond exciting.

Today is our busy day this week, Samuel had a visit with his Hearing teacher at 9:30 this morning his first dental appointment at noon and then i have my last water fitness class for the month at 7 this evening.  Glad we only have one busy day this week. Especially sense I feel like I am coming down with something, please pray I don't get sick.

I will be trying to spend a majority of my week cleaning and getting everything ready for our trip to Georgia at the beginning of the month, which I am soooo excited about.

Glad to be spending some time with me parents and siblings.

here are some pictures from the last week or so as well as a video (it's not super long but i'll explain).

Samuel and i waiting for daddy to get home...haha

This video is from Friday night 7/20/12.  Scott's parents came over for dinner and brought their dog Lily with them.  Samuel thought it was funny and fun to feed the dog.  He would stick his hand out and she would come lick it and he would die laughing.  I tried to get a video of that but it never worked out.

This picture is from family day 7/15/12.  Scott is pieing one of the officers...haha he was a little excited

I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Much Love to all from Kentucky,

The Paige Family

ah... the weekend!

Here is a video I happen to take yesterday...For some reason Samuel found himself very amusing.  He was doing this for awhile but I only caught the end of it.  My phone was on the bookcase in his room so I had to figure out how to get my phone without him seeing me.  Successful but then he saw me and it was all over.  He was hysterically laughing at one point, it was really funny! I only wish I had caught it all.
Samuel has started getting brave this week and trying new things as far as moving more independently.  He will go from kneeling at the bench in his room to sitting, the go to hands and knees and back to sitting.  Can't wait for him to put it all together and start hopefully crawling.  I've started helping him crawl down the hall on occasion.  He can move his hands but I really feel like there is a small disconnect between his brain and his legs.  So, I just keep reminding him they are there. haha
Samuel's also been getting most of his molars at once which has left us tired and super snotty, which hasn't been fun for him and has been a little yucky for me.  haha
Work has kept Scott super busy this week as they figured out they are way off their timeline and deadline for getting things done.  So it looks like things won't be slowing down for him at all for awhile.
I taught my first solo water fitness class yesterday morning!  It went well! I want to thank everyone who prayed for me because I wasn't nervous at all and was able to give the 8 ladies that showed up a pretty decent class for my first one.  I've discovered that I can't work off a cheat sheet like most instructors do, it makes me to nervous and distracted and less fluid.  So, I did it my way and it worked.  :)  I have another class next Saturday morning and then an evening class Monday the 23rd and then I am done for awhile as Samuel and I will be visiting family in August.  Which I'm really excited about!
I'll be helping out this week in the Nursery at Church for VBS, I have to be there at 8a.m. and VBS is from 9-12.  This will be an interesting week as I've never had to have both Samuel and myself ready and somewhere by 8am every single day of the week.  Pray I manage my time well.
We have Family Day for Scott's unit tomorrow, which should be a fun change of pace. I'll be sure to take some pictures and post them early next week.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Love to all,

The Paige Family

playing catch up...kind of

Here are pictures from the last week or so. 

I absolutely LOVE the picture above! His cute little nose makes me happy, plus it looks exactly the same as his ultrasound picture. Yes, I loved it even back then.  So stinken cute!

These two are pictures from the 4th of July.  Samuel at his first chip, now that he's getting all of his molars at once. Seriously He's gotten 3 in the last two weeks and I'm pretty sure i saw 3 more on their way in last night when I was brushing his teeth.  Crazy!  He doesn't get to fussy although his nose does get rather runny and he sounds more congested.  Poor baby.  We had a great 4th, went over to a friend of Scott's family's house as they do a bbq and fireworks every year. We always have a great time. Samuel Loved the fireworks and didn't go to bed till close to 11:30 that night, partly because we didn't get home till 10:45 and partly because i think it took him awhile to wind down.  Needless to say we all had a great time.

Here are the pictures of Samuel's new room.  We moved him from the smaller front bedroom to the much larger back bedroom and he is now directly across from our room.   So far it's proved to be a great set up and idea.  He plays well in there and I am slowly bringing all his toys in the room for him to have to play with.  It will also be better next month when I start watching my extra little man again.  I can put them both in the room and let them play, or destroy whatever and i'll only need one baby gate to do so.  Much better than having to figure out how i'm going to keep them contained in the dining room. haha

Continue to pray for my dad as he has his CT scan this week.  I know we have been praying for total and complete healing,  I have all faith that the Lord can do this!  Asking you all to be praying along with us for this.
I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th!  I'll try to do a better job with pictures this week.
I'm trying to get the house in better shape and lacking energy to want to do it.  Feels like a never ending vicious cycle that I have begun to loath. haha
Pray for me this week as I have my first solo water fitness class on Friday.  I'm nervous on and off about it.  I couldn't get to bed last night till close to one o'clock and in that time my mind keep going a million miles an hour and at one point I thought i was going to have a panic attack.  I'm such a fearful person by nature and as Friday gets closer and closer I get even more fearful.  Pray that I would rest in the Lord and have confidence in the abilities He has given me.  I have some confidence after teaching the cardio portion of last Friday's class but it comes and goes.  haha  I'll shadow again on Thursday before my solo class on Friday, Pray everything goes smoothly and that I don't let my nerves get the better of me as I sometimes do.
Well, thanks for reading!
Hope all reading this are well.

Love from your Kentucky Family,

The Paiges