An update from the Hendrickson's

Ok... so I didn't meet my goal of every two weeks, not off to a good start here. We have just been enjoying the summer. Hanging out. Since I last wrote there really hasn't been to much happening on this side of the web. We haven't really gone anywhere. We did however just have a HUGE festival pretty much in our backyard. Every year our township hosts a festival with a really nice fireworks display. With the way our house is in relation to the park sometimes you feel like your the one lighting the fireworks. We kept Emma inside though for fear that it would be to loud for her little ears.

On the doctors note, we saw Dr. Pan for one last time. There was a pesky stitch that just wouldn't dissolve. He gave me a couple different options. 1) I could just let it dissolve on its own (annoying) 2) I could cut it myself to make it flush with her skin (UHHH..... NO) or 3) we could just go in and he'd remove it (ding ding ding, folks we have a winner). He gave her a once over and said she looked great and that he didn't need to see her again until her 1st birthday.

We also had an appointment with her regular pediatrician. Our little chunk weighs 15 pounds and 13 ounces, which is the 83%, but she is 24 and 3/4 inches long, which to her credit is in the 61%. So she's not to disproportioned, lol. She also got 4 shots :( although I guess on the bright side of SB she didn't feel it. The nurses always comment on how they'd love to have her as a patient all day, she's such an amazing baby. The good doc also noticed that she is beginning to get her front teeth. This makes it very apparent that my little newborn baby girl isn't so little, or newborn anymore. She will always be my baby girl though, even when she's 30 I'll still try to cradle her, have you read that book I'll love you forever? Well in there is a picture of the mom sneaking into her son's room as an adult and holding him. That'll be me although less creepy. LOL!!

We have a vacation planned for our family at the end of August. This is very gut wrenching for us. We want to go to FL, we want Emma to have her first beach experience, but at the same time we are kind of struck with the what if's. What if her shunt malfunctions, what if she gets an infection. What if this and what if that. We know that God is in control and he is going to provide and take care of our girl but as her parents its our job to worry and to try and plan for every scenario. Her neurosurgeon said that he doesn't need to see her before we leave either (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH), we'd feel 10 times better if she had an MRI right before we left, but that's why he gets paid the big bucks, because he knows what is good for our girl. So if you all would say an extra prayer for this, just that our hearts are calm and that we make the right decision. I know we can't spend our entire lives around Cincinnati Children's and I know that Emma needs these experiences, but could Dr. Stevenson (neurosurgeon) just come with us?

I probably sound like a broken record with our prayer requests but these are what we weighs on our hearts. Please continue to pray for Emma, for her general health along with her SB health, that her shunt doesn't malfunction or get an infection, that she doesn't suffer with symptoms of her Chiari, and that she doesn't have anymore seizures. Also please pray for mine and Peter's vigilance as it relates to Emma's needs.

Thank you all for your love. support and prayers they mean the world to us.

She loves her bumbo! 

This is just to show that she is such a wiggle worm. She starts over to the left and somehow in the middle of the night works herself this way. 

Loving her fingers. 

Just chilling.

She is loving life in her exersaucer. 

Had to get a few with Charlie. 

She is LOVING her fingers!