I've been thinking alot lately about the blessing of children and babies in our lives. Our Heavenly Father sends these little children to us for a short time. Sometimes their time with us is so short, we are left to wonder. We have been blessed to have a tiny baby this last month. Heidi received a 4 lb baby boy, who was in the hospital for his 1st week, went home with Heidi for less than 24 hrs, then back to the hospital for about 10 days. He is home now and thriving. He is up to 5.9 lbs. and doing really well.

We have another baby in the Boyer family that is still struggling. Tate is Barb Baker's son from Cardston. Here's their story.....

Dear Family,
As some of you may know Tate and Loralie have been in the hospital for the past 3mths with their little Taelan. She was born in Oct. with hydrophilic(which is water on the brain), a bi lateral cleft palate, and a Cyst on her brain. Taelan spent her first mth in the hospital, had a shunt put in and did ok with it for two mths. But during that time Loralie would make a trip up to Calgary(they live in Leth) once a week to have her fitted and have her appliance built up so they operate on her lip. One of those trips they saw the neurosurgeon and Taelan shunt had failed so they did an operation, taking her internal shunt to have it externalized. She has had 10 operations to this day, tried to have her shunt replaced a few times but has an infection and her fluid can't reabsorb back into the body. So her shunt is still externalized, meaning she has to lie in bed to be levelled off to have the fluid drain and can only be held 4hrs a day, an hour at a time. They have been in the hospital now for the past 3mths. Taelan just had a surgery this past wed for her lip and that went really well. They did a good job. But now the doctors are saying that her infection is still growing, the antibiotics that she has been on for the past few weeks are not working and they are thinking that the cyst has something to do with it. They want to do another operation this week to remove the cyst. We don't know if that will be the best idea. We would like to have a family fast for her this sunday, the 27th. (To keep in mind that the doctors will be able to find what is wrong and she will be able to recover and they can all go back home:))As well, during this fast we would like us to fast for Sara's mom and keep Jeff and Sara's family in your prayers. For those of you in Calgary,I know both families could use our support, we are all busy, that I do know too, but nothing is more important then families.
Love you all,
The Baker Family

Please keep these babies in your prayers. It's so incredible to watch the struggles and challenges of these tiny spirits and their families. They teach me so many things. I have little to complain about. I love my family so much. We are truly blessed with so much.

Love, Colleen