Metten Family Blog

From the desk of Brooke Metten…

Just wanted to let you all know we had a wonderful summer…we managed to vacation with both sides of the family which were a blast!!  Emma turned 3 at the beginning of the summer, Kylah is continuing to love ice skating, and now they both are in gymnastics which they both totally LOVE!!  Alexa has figured out how to crawl, she does the spider crawl, and is getting faster everyday…she now pulls herself up and stands, and takes small steps, all in her harness….we are all expecting her to start walking in it any day now…Emma is in her 2nd year of Preschool and doing great, and we ventured into Homeschooling Kylah this year for Kindergarten…we all LOVE it!  There is a huge Homeschooling Community in our little city of Poway like 240 families, which helps so much since we are such a social family…she gets to do PE once a  week with other kids her age, and enjoys a Co-op K-1 class once a week too…we get to do field trips, and playdates as well…We are staying very busy, but having fun!!  Also, we have been able to visit many wonderful church services and have had many amazing worship times outside all over beautiful San Diego…they have all be very inspiring to our faith…Thanks to facebook we have now reconnected with sooooo many friends from our childhood, High School, and College… our world keeps getting smaller and smaller with all these new ways of connecting to people.  It’s a cool way to stay up with people…Anyway, we hope you all had a wonderful summer and are ready to enjoy a wonderful holiday season.  We love you all very much!  You can see all the pics from the summer here!

This has been an odd week.  Actually a displaced week. 

It all started a few months ago when we had the cable guy come out and install a new line for us.  We have a crawl space under the house so he went down to feed the line and made the not-so-thrilling comment of "You have a bit of a sewage leak under your house."  A few weeks later we started getting some estimates and all that and here we are finally getting around to fixing the problem.  Turns out it’s been going on for a while so the ground under the house is completely saturated with "black water" – not to be confused with raw sewage – which we have to treat first.  Once the standing black water is gone the plumber can do his thing.

We started with an insane week last week of getting estimates from numerous folks which is never fun.  Now we’re just in the moment of getting everything fixed.  Brooke and the girls have been at my folk’s house in LA since Wednesday, I’ve been staying with the Barrys and after a few delays I think we’re finally going to have everything locked up and fixed today!  I’m going to take the train up to LA to join the fam and we’ll come back either later Sunday or first thing Monday.  The ground is still being dried out.  Insane.

Please flush your toilets with gratitude. 

The hip sockets are deepening and the balls on the top of her femur
bones, that connect to the hip, have finally formed. That is all very
good news. She has to remain in the harness for at least another 3
months, we are not sure how much longer before she gets it off, again
it all depends on how quickly it all forms properly, but she is looking
good…her little personality is coming out more and more each day. She
has a really funny sense of humor and LOVES to dance to any music she
hears! It’s an adorable sight to see! Also, her hypothyroidism is
completely under control with her medication and all of her brain and
physical development, other than her hips, are perfect. We took her to
an Audiologist at UCLA, and her hearing was perfect, as well as an
Opthamologist and her eyes were perfect as well, thanks to Nana’s
connections at UCLA. She has hit some major milestones this last month
as she can now completely sit up on her own, go from laying down to
sitting up all by herself, she crawls now in her own cute way, and
rolls from back to front, and front to back perfectly, all in her
harness! It is amazing how determined her little spirit is…she is
also balancing on her feet in the squat position, so we’ll see if she
figures out how to walk in it. She is also now finally sleeping through
the night, so mommy is enjoying her sleep again.

Also, thanks for your prayers, those who knew, about Matt’s Melanoma on
his arm…we got the final biopsy back and he is in the clear, so no
more skin cancer for him, at least for now. He now has to be extremely
careful in the sun, and really avoid it as much as possible, so not to
get another one. He now sees his Dermatologist every 3 months for a
check…needless to say we have all taken a new found interest on the
dangers of the rays of the sun, and so now all of us in our family have
a new perspective on being extremely careful! Thanks to sunscreen and
the must have ingredients, sunhats, and UV clothing!! God has been so
gracious to our family, and its amazing how his grace shines through
every single challenge that comes our way, and as we embrace and accept
each one, we see God and his blessings more and more.

We love you all and ask for your continued prayers for our family.

Thanks,

Brooke