Five Mix Ups

I am thoroughly convinced now that Abigail is a visual learner. She has been producing some mighty fine art these days and she gives us some other clues too- mainly in her lack of attention or lack of importance she gives words. HOWEVER, Daddy is reading Abigail The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and she has grown into doing a great job listening and enjoying being read to from a book without pictures (for the most part). Anyway, here are a few examples of words she continually mixes up, despite us correcting her every time!  I don't mind, I'm sure she'll get it when she needs too :).

1. dinner and lunch
2. him and her/ he and she
3. hunting and hiking
4. anything and nothing
5. week/day/month/year/morning/evening ("Last day" could mean yesterday, this morning or last year)

Names also aren't high on her priority list. So don't worry if she forgets yours- she remembers your face! (it's not her fault, she gets it from her mama).

Well, this isn't C.S. Lewis, but this is what they look like if Abigail is sitting still. Jake dressed her that day. Nah, just kidding, she dressed herself. By the way- after three weeks, Jake's pain has almost totally left! Praise the Lord!

Unusual family time

As some of you know- this week was not a regular week for us here at the Hanson house! Monday morning saw us in the ER for Jake, who was experiencing classic heart attack symptoms out of the blue- I know, it was a big surprise that a fit 30 year old would be having these symptoms. We thought of all kinds of other things it could be- gallbladder, heart burn, etc- and finally decided that we needed to take him in right away to get checked out.  His pain was in his upper left chest and into his left arm, sometimes during work, sometimes during rest. When stressed (specifically one time his wife stressed him out), he turned white as a sheet (well, really more of that horribly sickly white) and nauseous.

After spending half of the day at the ER, we heard from the doctor that it most definitely was not a heart attack, but he wanted Jake to see another doctor to find out what it was. He said it could be his heart, his lungs, the muscles in his chest, esophagus, ribs, etc. No telling without more tests, which of course the ER is not going to do, since it wasn't pressing. He referred Jake to a cardiologist at the hospital we were at- the one closest one to us. We don't have insurance, we told him, where else can we go?

The next day, Jake was off to the county hospital to enroll in their 'program.' Once enrolled, he was informed that they could not take the referral from the other hospital, that he would have to see the PCP there and then be referred to one of their specialists. Ok, fine. But it takes 2-3 months (or weeks? not clear on this...) to get an appointment with their PCP! We are going to make the appointment there and wait it out, but we would appreciate your prayers that this constant pain would be healed! 

We have done a lot of internet diagnosis research and found several conditions that mimic heart attack pain, and some them heal themselves within 12 weeks.  We are praising the Lord that this does not seem to be a life-threatening problem and for the prayers of those around us for our peace about it. We will let you know if anything changes!

Here is a link to Jake's sermon this past week where he talks about some of it!

Five Phrases

Aaannnnd we're back!

Five phrases I wish I was paid to say:
1. Wash your hands, please.
2. Why don't you go to the bathroom?
3. Because I'm the mommy and I said so.
4. Did you try looking for it?
5. I love you!

 Before

 During

After

Oops, forgot to get a good picture after the cut! Will post next week!