Thankful for These Days

Eden and I got up at 7:00 this morning, and worked together (literally arm & arm), cooking french toast! She instructed me to get out the frying pan, eggs, milk and toast (all bread is toast to her right now). She loves to help us while we cook (usually most of the cooking is done by mom, and Eden and dad are on clean up duty). 2 pieces of french toast for Eden, 3 for dad, and we were both satisfied. Next she took her medicines, which she does very well. The hardest part of the medicines is brushing her teeth after major meals followed by the nystatin treatment, which consists of swabbing her mouth with an okay-flavored yellow medicine. The nystatin is used to keep her mouth clean and free of any "nasties" growing. After breakfast and medicines, we move onto our next (and highly important) daily ritual - feeding the squirrels. The squirrels in our neighborhood are like a well-trained labrador retriever. They patiently await a little Red Head knocking on the glass door, standing next to a very tall, mostly balding man (guess who) holding 2 ears of corn (thanks Fulton family). This morning, Peter Cotton Tail paid us a visit and cleaned up scrap corn the squirrels left behind - this was very pleasing to Eden. She very plainly said "squirrels night-night.....up in the trees" (if no squirrels are eating at any particular time that she looks out, Eden assumes they're sleeping up in the trees). By 8:15 am, Eden's very good friend Beth came to watch her and dad went to work. The word is Eden kept Beth entertained up until mom got home to take over. We're very thankful that Eden had a good day.

We continue praying, right along with you all, for Eden and her little friends still up at the hospital, who are also fighting battles of their own. Thanks so much for all of your support and prayers!!! We are humbled by how you think of her throughout your days and are so very touched by how far her story has reached. With that, had to share an email we received from Paul Horak:

"Getting as close to heaven as I can while keeping my feet on the earth. This was taken at over 12,000 feet on the continental divide this past Friday. We were in the middle of nowhere and on top of God's country. Go Eden!"
Paul is wearing a purple bracelet that supporters have created inscribed with "Pray for Eden."

Thanks for lifting our little girl up to the most powerful healer, God!