Update on Nathan

Hello All,



Thank you so much for your prayers and thoughts. This has been a long and windy road with Nathan. Some may know and not know that Nathan had to go in for more testing last Friday on an urgent basis per an endocrinologist from Children's Hospital. I finally got a hold of her today and she said that she wasn't able to say an exact diagnosis but looking at the first set of results, Nathan's cortizone hormone was very low and he would probably have to get a shot anytime there is a stressfult situation (which was vaguely defined by the doctor) the rest of his life.



Nevertheless, as his parents you could imagine this still leaves us hanging because we don't know what to look for but we have a doctor's appt on September 8th to talk to the doctor more in depth. She will also have all the results back from his hormone testing and CT scan. We know that we serve an awesome God and He will bring us through this. We know that he has put each and every one of you in our lives for a reason.



More updates later.....otherwise he is doing great! He is talking so much. Last night on the way home from life group, he was telling on one of the kids because he kept talking in long sentences and I heard him try to prounounce some of the kids' names. He is also potty training. We have a Nathan's Potty Prize jar and if he goes he gets 3 M&M's.



Love The Bartletts



Jessica N. Bartlett
"I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you
hope for." Jeremiah 29:11

Addicted to Love......

Remember the song by Robert Palmer, Addicted to Love? Well, I was just listening to it and a funny thought hit about my grandma. In the video of Addicted to Love, there are women with slicked back hair, ruby red lips, and playing electric guitars in dresses. So with the thought of that video and song in mind, I wanted to share a picture and something that happened on our trip up north.

My sister, mother, grandmother, Nathan and I went to visit an elderly lady in the rest home. My 75 yr old grandmother is a caretaker for her. In the visiting room there was an old organ and of course my mom had to play it. So my grandma picks up Nathan's toy guitar and pretends she is playing it. It was so funny because it was random and because we could never imagine grandma picking up a guitar, let alone an electric guitar. I could totally see her starring in that video with her beehive hairdo and ruby red lips.....

LOL

Okay, I really have nothing much to share except laughing out loud. And this week, there has been little funny things that have happened that don't make sense to anyone but me. And trust me, I have needed this laughter. My life has been a whirlwind the past few years and I think I've left my joybox on the counter. But I feel that God is healing some things in my heart with joy and laughter.

Tonite, we were having our weekly family dinner. Everyone had a task (cutting the meat, cutting the watermelon, mashing potatoes) and we were stirring around preparing dinner as well as to listening to my brother's broadcast on the radio. Jennae and Doug hadn't arrived yet. Nathan was excited so he went around the house screaming and laughing. Jonny was walking around the house in circles trying to find reception with the radio. All you heard was Nathan, radio static, and the beaters. We all just stopped and busted laughing. These are the best times. When Jennae and Doug arrived, it was fun times. Fun times.