Heart Update and School Visit

After being away, it is so good to be back at our home in Tennessee!  Thank you for your prayers for Samantha's doctor appointments earlier this week.  She checked out just fine at the family doctor.  The heart doctor performed an echocardiogram.  Results showed that she will most likely need a minor procedure later this year to correct what is called a "PDA."  She also has a condition called Mitro Valve Regergetation.  But no valve work is expected until she reaches her 30's or 40's.  The heart physician will monitor her again in six months and then once each year beginning in 2013.  We are so thankful there will not be a need for major surgery right away!

Kyle had a chance at school today to show off his little sister and talk about our trip to China to his classmates.  I think he is proud big brother.  While waiting in the car rider line, I have seen him straining his neck to look for our car and then smiles real big when he sees his sister.  Likewise she talks and asks about him all day long while he is at school.  Kyle has been so nice in letting Samantha sleep in a sleeping bag in his room until she gets used to being by herself at night.  Of course there have been some times of jealousy and disagreements as well.  She is learning more and more English everyday. She has already had 3 parties, met a lot of family and friends, been to Bible Study Fellowship, church for Awana, Mom's Day Out, and the beauty salon!  She is learning quickly how to pray.  We prayed before our meal the other day, but I hadn't given her a drink yet.  So after I got her cup and poured her drink, she looked at me with hands folded and said "Mama, pray?"  It was the sweetest thing.

Missy