Jason and Jen's Journey

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Adoption Quote

My friend, Sarah Vint, passed this quote onto me from an adoption story she read. A mom who placed her baby for adoption said,

"Adoption is never about feeling good. It's about choosing something that nearly kills you for the betterment of someone else's life."

That, my friends, is The Gospel!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

We had another trip to the ER last night, which makes two trips to the ER in less than a year. Abram woke up yesterday not feeling well. He was lethargic and had a fever most of the day but he hadn't been sick very long so I wasn't that concerned. At around 4:30a, I was holding him on my lap on the couch and he had a seizure. A horrifyingly scary experience for any parent. My friend Mandy Stenberg's son had a fever-induced seizure a year and a half ago, so I was guessing that was what was going on, though it was still very scary. Especially when he went limp after the seizure. We jumped in the van and headed for the ER ASAP. Jason called Mandy on the way to the ER and put her on speaker phone. It was an incredible blessing - and evidence of God's grace to us - to be able to hear her tell us that was Abram was doing was "normal" for fever-induced seizures. She also told us what to expect for the next hour after the seizure. What a blessing!

The ER confirmed that Abram's seizure was fever-induced. It was 103.7 after we got there. They monitored him for about three hours and then sent us home. He was also diagnosed with RSV (which I figured he had). We've been giving him alternating doses of Tylenol and Ibuprofen to keep his fever down. The poor little guy is miserable today and of course it has been hard to sleep with all the coughing he is doing.

Here are some pictures of the the grand occasion. He was quite out of it for the first half hour or so.

Once he was fully awake and with it, he cried and cried because he wanted "out." The little guy was tired of people poking and prodding him.

Aunt Kate and Greysen stopped by this morning. I guess the good thing about them both being sick is that we don't have to try to keep them away from each other! We've been watching a lot of Abram's favorite train movie today.

All-in-all, we are so grateful for God's grace that carried us through that stressful time. The whole time I was holding Abram on the way to the hospital, I was telling Jesus that we knew He created Abram and was holding him together. There was nothing we could do to change what He already knew was going to happen. What a blessing to have a living God to trust in!

Road Trip to Kansas City

This past Saturday morning we - all 6 of the Ehresmans and 3 of us - packed up their Expedition and headed south to Kansas City. Kate and the girls held down the back.

The little boys and I sat in the middle row (and thankfully they slept part of the way down...and ALL the way home). Mark, Jason and Brady were in front.

We stopped at Wendys for lunch on the way down and the little boys got a fun ride.

Then we all piled out at William Jewel College in Liberty, MO . . .

To watch Jessie Wheeler play basketball.

Of course Uncle Roger was there.

And of course he shared his pop with Abram! (Abram got his first sucker from Roger last year during one of Jessie's basketball games.)

Abram was so excited to get to play with a ball. All the way down he said, "ball," "oop," and "Nic" (meaning Nic Wheeler, who was going to be there, too).

And someone else came to the game with her mom: Renae Masson. I texted Julie on the way down to let her know we were going to the game and she and Renae came, too. Fun! Jason played with the kids during most of the game. :)