The Gay Family Blog: Stronger, Happier and Thankful!

How do you re-pay someone for taking care of your child or praying for your child. It is something I have thought about a lot over the past few weeks. We have been so very blessed by the doctors, medical staff, home health care providers and loving friends who have stepped up to help Drew fight his infection. All I can do is say thank you to everyone who has cared for and prayed for Drew. Kevin and I are grateful for each of you.

Drew continues to get stronger and healthier everyday. It looks like he will continue on antibiotics for another 14 days and then we will re-evaluate. We are hoping that will be enough to knock out the infection once and for all! He has been such a trooper through this process. When they told me they wanted to put an IV in my two year old's arm I was NOT optimistic it would stay there, but thus far he has left it alone. He is somewhat baffled about why we keep cutting the tops off his socks and putting it on his arm! However, as long as he gets a sucker at some point during the process he is willing to go with it. As I have said before medicine is NOT my forte. Thank goodness my husband handles it quite well. When the home health nurse came to change the dressing last week I cried as much as Drew did!! We hope he will be done with this very soon.

Easter Morning

We were able to get in some Easter Egg hunts this past weekend and the Easter Bunny visited us on Sunday. Drew thought the idea of finding "Easter Balls" (i.e. Easter eggs) was pretty fun! We had a wonderful neighborhood hunt on Friday morning. The Gammill's on our block host it each year and it was the first year Drew was big enough to go. We had fun. We have a great neighborhood!!

Jack, Aaron and Drew at the Easter Egg Hunt

On that note, I will share with you our nomination for Family of the Year. Chad and Celeste Adams and their boys Jack and Aaron live 3 houses down. As our boys get older they have really begun to enjoy playing together in the afternoons. When Drew wasn't able to go to daycare this past week we didn't know what we would do. Celeste came to the rescue and kept Drew for us this week. Drew LOVES the Adams!! I am worried he isn't going to want to go back to daycare. He had a great time!! Their generosity, kindness and love for our little boy has been overwhelming. Oh, and not to mention that they brought us dinner too!! It really makes you believe there are still good people in this world. No matter how big your town is you can still have neighbors who you call friends. The Lord truly puts people in our path when we need help and they were definitely our blessing this week. Thank you Celeste, Chad, Jack and Aaron for taking care of Drew!