Cooking up something good....

Reese got a marvelously styling strawberry shortcake apron for Christmas. We just had to try some cooking time with mom & dad. Aint she a cutie?

Yippee.... we passed the hearing test

We had to go back to the ENT today for another hearing test. The last hearing test we passed in one ear and failed in the other. But we're praising God today because when we took the test again, 3 months later, we passed. Yeah.... God is so good and we know He heard and answered our prayers. It is so wonderful to see Reese growing and getting better and better each day from her surgery and her ear tubes. She's just amazing.

Holiday's At The Denton's

Greeting’s everyone from the Deep South,

Sorry it’s been so long since we’ve posted on our blog, I’m sure you all know how life can somewhat get in the way of this.

We’ll a lot has happened since our last blog, we had our first thanksgiving and Christmas together as a family which was one of the greatest experiences of all time.

Reese had a ball; she played with aunts, uncles, cousins, and everyone in between till she dropped from exhaustion. She loves family, she loves kids and she loves to eat. I believe that is her favorite pastime, (she just like her daddy!). Reese discovered she likes turkey, ham and most of all mamas’s dressing.

Christmas was truly wonderful, Reese loved the Christmas tree as well as the lights, I think the lights were her favorite part of it all. Everywhere we went during Christmas and every time we saw Christmas lights Reese was saying look, look, the best way she knew how. she loved seeing the lights, so much so she was sad when it all had to come down. But Christmas morning was awesome to see a little child (that had never experienced Christmas before) so excited when she walked into the living room and saw a ton of presents under the tree all for little ole her. (It was also exciting for mom & dad to get to play Santa for the very first time as well). She opened her gifts one by one, tearing off wrapping paper piece by piece only to be wowed by what the surprise was. She understood so much more than we had given her credit for. She is truly a remarkable child and we are very, very blessed--blessed beyond measure to have this precious little girl in our lives, God is amazingly good.

Reese is over her palate surgery now; her mouth is completely healed and looks so good. It took a little getting used to on her part since she had never had a roof of her mouth before, suddenly everything felt a little strange when she ate or drank but in a really good way. She has adapted to it with no trouble at all. We were scheduled to go back to Scottish rite hospital to have the little mouth piece removed that was sown in at the time of the surgery but one day at daycare Reese decided she didn’t want in her mouth anymore and spit it out on her own eating lunch. This was great for mom and dad because we really didn’t want to see her put to sleep again so soon, this was very traumatic for her.

So we are in speech therapy now trying to learn to pronounce letters and sounds to learn how to talk. We are finding out this is a “not so easy task”, Renee & I are having to change the way were accustomed to speaking. Anyone that lives in the south knows how that southern slang can just come right on out without thinking about it. It’s a challenge for all of us but you know God is good and he will see us through this and give us the knowledge to teach and Reese the understanding to learn how to speak.

Here are some recent photos of our family.

Till next time;