Lyman Universe

So the last couple of weeks have been going well for our family. Carrie has been up and down with a cold… Call it the flu, bird flu, or in my opinion the need to get a new set of tonsils The winter cold is never any fun that is for sure. At the bottom of the post I’ve given some great pictures to show you what the weather is like!
Kennedy has picked up a little of what Carrie has had and it seems like she has a constant runny nose that has no end to the amount of gunk… ok sorry about the visual, I’ll stop there. I’m sure you get the point.

However, on the positive side of that Kennedy is so cute because she will walk up to Carrie or I and say “nose” which means that she wants a klennex to wipe her nose. Even in the middle of the night when she wakes up crying I’ll go into her room and she’ll say in the nicest little sleepy voice, “nose”. She does a half-way decent job of wiping her nose (at least for a 21 month old) but not to be fooled because if you leave a Kleenex box within her reach she will very efficiently use every single Kleenex in box.

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I posted some of the best pictures from our photo shoot last week and I promised that I would post the rest of the photo shoot so here there are. The first group of photos is from a photo shoot in November. The second photo shoot was done in mid-October.

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Hi everyone,

These are the last photos from the Lyman family. Enjoy.

October & November 2006

July and August have been fun months. We have enjoyed the summer and so have our kids. Please enjoy the pictures and let us know if you have any more that you want to post to lymanuniverse. Love ya all.

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Aug 24, 2006 – 70 Photos

We took Madie to see her Geneticist at Primary Children’s Medical Center. His name is Alan Rope and he is awesome. He is very knowledgable and he takes so much time to get to know Madalynn and thoroghly answer any questions we have. Madie has a duplication of Chromosome 3q. More testing is needed to specifically see where her chromosomal imbalance lies. A specific disease may be identified or it may turn out that she has a rare form of a genetic disorder that has not been studied much due to its rarity or it not being documented. Mike and I may need to have our chromosomes tested as well to determine how much genetics plays a role in Madie’s unique and cute personality. When we have more results we will hopefully be able to determine what her future might bring.
Dr. Rope also found a heart murmer in Madie. Sixty percent of even “normal” children have heart murmers and don’t need any reparations. However, fifty percent of kids with a genetic disorder have some kind of heart defect. It has not been detected before in Madalynn, but I brought it up to Dr. Rope and he heard it. She is scheduled for an Ecocardiogram on August 10th at PCMC. We plan to be there all day. We would appreciate all prayers and fasting on that day…(Madie will actually have to be fasting too).
Madie also had a check-up with her Opthalmologist, Dr. Scott Larsen, last week and he is impressed with how good her eyes look. Her crossed eye is straightening out well. She does pretty well at keeping her glasses on.
Feel free to call or email us if you have any questions or anything you want to share. Madalynn is doing very well and is learning so much. We are very proud of her and happy for her.
We love you all and thank you for your continual love and support. Take care. -Mike and Carrie

For family night last night we spent a family activity planting our garden. This is our first attempt at such an endeavor so we’ll see how it goes. Mya and Olivia were great help with planting seeds. They helped with the corn and pumpkin seeds as well as pulling out weeds. We’ll have to see how the corn turns out because in each little hole I told them to put 2-3 seeds in each hole. Mya followed instructions well but Olivia didn’t really get the concept of only 3 seeds per hole. They were both very excited about planting pumpkins so I think that will go well.

Other plants we are planting are beans, peas, beets, cucumbers (our girls love fresh cucumbers), and radishes. Our garden plot is pretty big and I spent some time getting a sprinkler system setup to water the whole plot on the timer so I don’t have to worry about the watering. I’ll post a picture with progress through out the summer.

Also I finally decided to get out of the Ford Escort I was driving. It would put out a smoke screen driving down the road at odd intervals and it needs a new motor. So rather than spend a couple thousands to fix my old junker I got a new Nissan Altima to drive around and am really enjoying the upgrade from a 1991 to a 2006 car! Fifteen years makes a big difference.

Lastly an update on Madalynn. She is talking quite a bit. I truly believe she is the politest 2 yr old I’ve ever known. When you get something for her she will say “thank you” or when you come into the room she will say “hi”. However, you have to realize that she doesn’t say them normally but uses more of a voice inflection to say her words. She is also walking around and getting better and better with stairs. She still falls on a regular basis and has bumps and scraps from her little falls. She is also enjoying playing with Olivia. She understands many of the fun games that Olivia like to play like monster, chase, and so forth. It is quite cute!

Kennedy is getting chubbier and looking more and more beautiful. She still has a little trouble spitting up after eating but we hope she will grow out of that phase. She sleeps fairly normally but we could always use a little more sleep. Things can get pretty crazy during the day for Carrie as she juggles the needs of all 4 girls. She does a great job and for sure is a full time job!!