Snooky Great: October 2018

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Dinos, Games, and More!

Mia had her birthday party on Saturday. She was initially going to have a fox themed party, but then the brothers swayed her to a dinosaur themed party, so that's what we went with. It ended up being a cute, fun party. Mia invited her classmates, so there were quite a few kids there. We made some carnival dinosaur themed games and I think the kids had fun with it. Here are some pics!

Friday, October 12, 2018

Happy 11th Birthday, Mia!

Dearest SweetPea,

It's hard to believe that today you are 11! It feels like we were just walking you around and around the kitchen island to keep you from fussing as a baby. Now you are 11!

You are such a sweet girl. You love helping and are always willing to share. You have one of the kindest hearts we know. We love you so much!

This year you started 4th grade! You are loving it. You also continue to ride horses at MARE and we work on a few other therapies with you. You love animals and if we could adopt a zoo, I think you would be in animal heaven. Maybe Mom and Dad can be brave enough to think of a furry type of animal for you...

Lately you have been into all things dinosaur, like your brothers. You are having a dino party tomorrow and we can't wait to have all your friends over. It is going to be a lot of fun!

There are many who continue to faithfully pray for you, SweetPea! This year, we've been praying for your seizures to go away and your back to be straighter. We will keep praying for those things, you are such a brave girl even with all of this other stuff going on.

We love you so much, Mia! Thank you God for giving us a sweet girl, who loves you and loves other. We are so blessed to have her in our family!

All our love,
Mom and Dad, Calvin and Asher

Mia's Story

Mia was born October 12th, 2007. Lisa's water broke early at 34 weeks and she was in the hospital for 2 weeks because she didn't go into labor. During that time, they noticed a blocked intestine in Mia and determined that she should be delivered down at UCLA. So, at 36 weeks, Mia was delivered via C-section (because she was breech). We know that was a God thing because after she was born we found out her heart had not completed closing off the four chambers (an AV Canal) and a stressful delivery might not have been best for her. We also found out she didn't have an anal opening and her right nostril was blocked. Months later we would find out her skull had fused early. All of these things required surgeries. On May 1st, 2008, Mia had surgery on her skull and suffered a stroke during it. The doctors told us she would only "eat, breath, smile and laugh". People from all over had already been praying for Mia, but so many more joined in and she is truly a miracle because she continues to progress far beyond what anyone would have imagined. This is our blog to document that journey of our little girl, thank you for praying and we hope it will encourage you as much as it encourages us. God is good, all the time!