Time of Worship

We received an unexpected invitation this week from a coworker of Amy's to join his family for a special dinner and Christian concert on Friday night at his church to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their church's organization and of the Christmas season.  This is not an Adventist church, and we had never been before, but we were honored to be invited so accepted the invitation.  It turned out to be a very touching, special evening.  It was wonderful to join in a church's celebration of their years of worship - and the church was incredibly friendly and warm with folks greeting us and initiating conversations.  The grand finale of the evening was the Christian artists of Meredith Andrews and Josh Wilson. They were both amazing, but in very different ways.  Meredith had a great mix of Christmas and general Christian songs, and this fantastic voice.  She could make the song itself an expression of intense worship, and it was very moving.  Josh Wilson was more light-hearted, but incredibly talented musically.  He was alone (aka no band members) but he with his acoustical guitar he became a one man band with a "foot loop".   This machine sat on the floor and he could push buttons with his foot as he was playing music, and anything that he had just been playing would then repeat itself and he could in essence build "layers" to his music.  So as he would play his song he could add "drums," background melodies, harmonica etc etc.  Totally amazing.  It was a wonderful way to really begin the Christmas season. 

Just to wrap up last week's blog - Heather came over and listened to Kaleb's lungs on Saturday (during which he had spiked another fever that afternoon) and felt that "something" was going on his right lung.  This coupled with the fact that he was coughing so hard that he was making himself throw up, Amy then bundled him up and took him to Night Lite Pediatrics.  They were fantastic, and took a chest x-ray of him as well.  They confirmed that in fact something was going on in his lungs, although they weren't sure if it was pneumonia or just inflammation from the virus that he'd had.  The big shocker was that he had TWO ear infections, one of which was quite bad.  Thanks for nothing - that just makes a parent feel fantastic to know that your child has been in pain and you've done nothing.  He doesn't pull at his ears, so you just have no idea that something is going on unfortunately.  Thankfully after some breathing treatments and antibiotics to tackle the lungs and ears, we're all back to somewhat health!

The poor patient

 Listening to himself with Auntie Heather's 'toy'

Phrase of the week:  Karis says to Zachary - "what do you think that we should get for Mommy for Christmas"  Zachary:  "How about let's buy her a (baby) monitor to put in MY room so that I can see when SHE is sleeping."  Karis - well, what else would want to get her?  Zachary:  "How about let's buy her a frog humidifier for her room when she's sick."  Karis: "Do you think that we should buy her a book?"  Zachary:  "No, she has one".  Ha ha ha - just too funny on many levels, these conversations are hilarious!  Kaleb's word this week is "Ta" which is the shortened version of "ta-da" that we mentioned a while back, but apparently he's decided that the "da" portion is just unnecessary!  He loves this word though and will use it throughout the day to bring your attention to anything that he thinks is particular special.