Well it's official. She has temporarily stopped being our little angel and become one of the devils own stooges! She is now taken up full time eating, we think that she may secretly be training for the next kraft dinner, and soup eating contest. Her little stomach is so full that it hurts her, but every time we take away her food she flips out starts crying and demands more food saying that she is still hungry. We have been trying to limit her food intake over the last couple, and we thought we were doing a pretty good job, however, tonight at dinner, we found out that we were not doing so well. I took her out to my uncles house today right after we finished another huge lunch, and while I was in the shower, she proceeded to eat two full bowls of soup, and somewhere around 10 strawberries. Then when we got home, we realized that her stomach was sore, but all she wanted was to eat. We feel really bad for her, because no matter how much she eats, she never feels full. Her brain is telling her to eat eat eat because of her medicine, and she doesn't understand that she has to stop sometime. She becomes inconsolable when she doesn't have food, and she is so sick right now, all we want to do is cuddle her and make her feel better, but we can't because we are trying to stop her from eating so much, and then she starts yelling at us saying that we are making her really mad (this of course is another side effect of giving your child steroids...just don't).

It was a pretty tough day that started out fantastically well. Brenn, Samantha and I got up at 7 this morning, and had a nice breakfast that lasted until 10 on and off for Brenn, then we all pilled into the car and drove down to Stanley Park. I ran the sea wall, which was beautiful, while the girls took the horse drawn carriage ride through the park. The horse ride was an hour, which turned out to be way to long for poor Brenn. I was waiting for them at the end of the ride, and she was really tired out. Samantha seemed to have had a pretty good time, and Christine probably could have done without two little kids in a really slow carriage ride for an hour, but we thought it would be fun for the girls at the beginning. Live and learn I guess. We left Stanley Park as soon as they got back because the girls were hungry and needed to get some food. We came back to the house, had lunch, and while Christine moved all of our stuff up into a new (larger) room at Ronald McDonald house, I took Samantha and Brenn out to Pitt Meadows to drop off Samantha. Brenn has a hospital day tomorrow that starts at 8:30, so we thought it best that Samantha stay with Grandma for the night.

Samantha was really excited to have a chance to play outside and play with the dogs, so hopefully it will be a nice break for her. She has been such a good girls over the last couple weeks, I can't begin to think what she feels about this situation. She had been talking about going home, and I pray that she will be stimulated enough over the coming weeks, that it will not become a battle.

Please pray that Brenn feels better tomorrow. She is feeling really lethargic again, and compounded on that is her eating problem. She has a big day of tests tomorrow, and we are just praying that she is comfortable. That is all we want right now, is for her to just have a good, and happy day. Her medicine really has made her feel crappy lately. Also pray for Samantha, that she can voice her feelings to us, and that we can take the time to give her what she so rightly deserves. All of the changes in our life is starting to sink in, and it doesn't feel good. It really feels like Christine and I have really not lived together since I started working in Williams Lake, and now we have only a couple weeks left together before I really need to get back to Prince George, and start to work again. I really don't want to have to go back, but it would not be possible for me to stay down here for the next 7 months. I know that God is with us right now more than ever, please continue to pray for us. We appreciate, and really need it now.

Thank you

Scott