Prayers for Priya

I was really proud of my girls because I thought they had stopped watching Super Monsters. They had switched to Fancy Nancy, which brought it's own problems. The books are cute, but the cartoon is a little different. Every time they watch it I have to pause it and say please don't act like Fancy Nancy or your husbands will kill you. She is the most high maintenance cartoon character in existence, and everything is a freak out. So I do a little PSA every time they watch it. I'm not sure if they're listening or not. Every time I tell them they get a glazed look in their eye as if to say "Dear man, we like to watch this girl have a nervous break down every episode".
As I said before, I thought the Super Monsters obsession was done, but then they did an Easter episode kind of. I think it's strange to do an Easter episode considering half of them are undead. I've realized the blue zombie girl does the Thriller dance each time they dance, and I'm like don't you dare. You go out and eat some brains, and then come back and do the Thriller dance. You're no zombie, just some blue creation that likes to paint and can walk through walls for some reason.
The biggest issue in this episode is Frankie, who is the son of Frankenstein's monster. The whole family has a uni-brow for some reason. The mom does too, but her's is orange. The thing about Frankie is he's got a lobotomy scar, which means Dr Frankenstein dug this kid up and put a new brain in him, and now he's at preschool. In this episode all of the super monsters get to connect with a pet, and when they do it enhances their powers for some reason. Frankie sings a song cause he's sad that he's not connecting with an animal, and then he connects with a jackelope that can shrink and grow for some reason. So now this undead kid with a lobotomy scar who can make the earth shake with his feet can grown really, really big. No one in the town seems alarmed by this. And the Dracula kid named Drac has a snaggle tooth when he's not a vampire. This is my life right now. I figure it's time to show them Ghostbusters.
On Monday I came home from work and Priya said she wanted to go swimming, so we went swimming. It was a proud father night. I love to swim, it's one of my favorite things to do. The next place we move is going to have a pool. Mirinda took a while to be comfortable with swimming, but now she loves it and is learning how to move around on her own. Priya started swimming, but her bum and legs are so tiny she was very top heavy, so when she wore a life jacket her head would just fall in the water. As a result, she always had to be held. Now she's grown enough that she can wear a life jacket and swim around on her own. She was so pleased with herself. It was amazing to watch her swim around, and I was amazed at how instinctive it was for her. I do think she's going to be a swimmer. Every once in a while she would swallow some water and cough, so I'd hold her until she stopped coughing, and she would get so mad at me that I stopped her from swimming. It was a great night for those two weirdos.
Priya's surgery is next Wednesday, and I don't think I've ever had something I wanted to do less. It's going to be OK, and she's going to be better off for it, but I wish more than anything she didn't have to go through this.
A lot of people have asked what they can do to help, and we really do appreciate it. Right now we don't know how she's going to react or what it's going to be like, so it's hard to say. However, if you'd like to come visit that would be really helpful. Priya loves visitors, and so does Mirinda. Just text us or message us if you'd like to do that. If Priya's having a rough time we're going to tell you that, and we'll reschedule another time.
I am asking for help with one thing though. It's been on my mind a lot lately that she doesn't necessarily need to go through the surgeries that are planned for down the road. This hip surgery needs to happen, and she'll be able to move a lot better with it, but when she's 7 or 8 she'll need to do a leg lengthening surgery. They'll actually break her femur, and then stretch it over time. It sounds absolutely horrible. That's the one I really, really don't want her to have to go through.
I'm asking for your faith and prayers that everything will go well with the surgery, that her recovery will be quick, and that it will cause that leg to begin to grow. We're fasting for that this weekend, and I'd invite you to join with us in that.
I realize there are a lot of different beliefs, and I can respect all of that. Whatever your faith or belief is please join that faith to ours. My faith is in Jesus Christ. I believe He has the ability to heal us. When He was on the earth He healed those that could not be healed, because of their faith. I realize that it may not be His will that Priya's leg starts to grow, but I don't see any reason not to ask.
One of my favorite books is the Chronicles of Narnia. In The Magician's Nephew, Polly and Diggory set out to find a tree that will help protect Narnia from the White Witch. They are sent on this quest by the great lion, Aslan. They fly on the back of a winged horse named Fledge. At the end of their first days journey they stop to rest for the night, and the children are extremely hungry. The horse starts to eat grass, and tells them to dig in. The children explain they can't eat grass, and Fledge tells them he's not quite sure what they'll do. Diggory says, "You'd think someone would have arranged our meals." To which Fledge replied, "I'm sure Aslan would have if you had asked. I have a funny feeling he likes to be asked."
That's the way I feel right now. The Savior performed miracles when He was on the earth, and after that. He has performed miracles in my life and in the life of my family, and I do believe He can perform a miracle in Priya's life. So please, join with me in fasting and prayer based on your beliefs to help Priya. I'm so grateful to so many family and friends who are concerned about our sweet little girls and everything they have gone through in their short lives.