Can we play with your kids today?

For 4 years Scott was the youth pastor at a church in Martinsville. During that time whatever we did with the youth, Levi did also. When Levi was about 3 when it was time for sunday school he wanted to go to the youth class and not his age appropriate class. The kids would take him on Sunday for the afternoon, or call and ask to take him to the fair, or just come over and play with him.



Well Scott is now the pastor at our church in Columbus, and while Levi is older now doesn't get quite as much attention Amelia has filled the position. I am usually busy during church services....playing the piano, teaching sunday school, running the computer, singing.... people want Millie Bug to sit with them. And even though we are not the youth pastor the young people still want to come over and play with her. So while there is alot of work and responsibility involved in pastoring one of the perks is free babysitters.


This is Bethany one of the young people in our church. She comes over every other Monday and spends the afternoon / evening with us. While she is here she keeps Millie and Levi occupied and I am free to clean, and cook, or take a bath. Hooray for young people who want to come to my house and play with my kids!

Millie's first ponytail

We finally have enough hair in the back to pull into a ponytail. The bald spot has finally grown some hair and it is long enough to pull back into a ponytail. Now this new doo only lasted about mmmm, 2 min. as do most hair doos.

Ride 'em caterpillar girl.

Does anybody recognize this pose? Yes we have a picture of Levi with this same toy sitting on it. Learn your abc all while taking a ride. :)

All is well

As most of you know Levi has had stomach problems for some time now. So we finally had some tests ran to figure out what is going on. His pediatrician Dr. Montgomery did blood work, hemocoult tests, and samples. When the tests came back positive for blood he scheduled us with Dr. Steiner a Gastroentronologist at Riley Hospital.

After the first consultation Dr. Steiner wanted to do both an upper and lower GI scan...colonoscopy. We agreed.

The preparation consisted of one full day of fasting, two doses of phospho-soda, and two adult enemas. Just let me tell you trying to get a seven year old boy to cooperate with this was not fun. The first dose of phospho soda took one hour to get Levi to take. It finally consisted of Scott and I holding Levi down and pouring it into his mouth, the he puked. Grandma Nancy came to the rescue for the second dose. She drove 125 miles just to help Levi drink the salty liquid. As Levi said, "Mom, what seven year old do you know would want to drink that stuff?!?!" And the enemas....we will just leave that up to your imagination

On Monday October 27th we arrived at Riley at 8:00 am for the procedure.

Here is Levi getting his vitals taken.

The staff at Riley really know how to make a kid welcome and comfy. The first take you into a room and let you pick out a "free" toy, let you watch spongebob, and give you a Nintendo DS to play with while you wait.

Waiting for them to come and get Levi

to take him to the operating room.

I loved the yellow footies!

The nurse finally came to take Levi away.

After about two hours they brought him back. He didn't want to wake up.

We finally got Levi home and after about two
hours of sleep he was ready to eat. His first meal he requested "Alien Pancakes" from Bob Evans. He had these with Grandma Nancy, because we do not eat at Bob Evans. So I called Grandma and she gave me the basic instructions of what they looked like. Here is my attempt.

Yesterday Dr. Steiner finally called with the results from the biopsies. All is well, there are no allergies, no signs of chrones, colonitis, all looked good. Thank you Jesus! God is good and answers prayer. Thank you to all who prayed for my number one.

A little late

So where do you go when your parents keep you out late and you fall asleep in the car on the way home? Thats right floks the counter. You walk in the door and lay down on the counter. It is much easier than climbing the stairs up to your bedroom and getting in your bed.

A couple of weekends ago we went to a youth service in Seymour and didn't get home until midnight. Levi was so tired that he just climbed up and fell back asleep on the counter. He fell asleep in the car, and he is just too big for me to carry in (especially in heels :) ).

To: Uncle Dave, From: Leah

Ok, so it is official I am now a blogger. This is for you Uncle Dave. I don't have time for this, but I have to keep up with my siblings who are all professional bloggers. So I am going to give it a try. Plus I have found myself posting blogs in my mind for the past couple of weeks. Amelia or Levi will do something and in my head I start thinking about how I could write it out on blogspot...so I am going to give it a try.