Solida Pho

There are circumstantial surrounding this little girl that I believe God is going to do something.
What I am not sure yet, but we are seeing connections to something.
It might lead to a healing, it might just be touching our hearts again or it might only be to give confirmation to a future doctor of where she might choose to work in the future we don't know but we are going to find out.

The story.
Wut came to me yesterday asking to go see a baby with a large head.
I asked her why because I didn't want her gawking at someone with a problem.
Her reply was "because I had never seen a child like that before".  As I was about to tell her "no" she finished her sentence with "I want to pray for her and tell them about God".  Honesty and a good reason so we went.

I searched on the internet to know a little more about what I was going to see, questions to ask and be prepared on how we might be able to help or not.  We also stopped by quickly to talk with my father in-law to let him know what we were doing that he is okay and aware.

We went out with one of our guest Ginny who desires to be a doctor and SreyWut to find one of our staff's house.  Khan one of our caretakers lives close to the babies house and is the one that told Wut about the baby.  We would ask Khan to introduce us to the family.
Khan was out planting rice when we arrived and was slightly shy about her appearance but offered to take us anyway.   About 10 minutes later we arrived at an old cement house on a dirt road Khan asked the family if we could see and talk to them about their child.  The family was happy and said it was alright.

Who is she?
Solida Pho a girl was born April 23rd 2009
So she has just turned 3 years old 4 months ago, she is a beautiful happy little girl with a very real need.  She is very healthy, very alert and extremely happy to have visitors.

She was born with Hydrocephalus or with swelling on the brain, you can read about on the attached link below if you wish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus

Basically she needs what is called a "shunt", a shunt will let the fluids out, reducing the pressure on the brain and stop her head from growing.

What are we doing?
Right now we are trying to make contact with some doctors here that might be able to help her.
They said yesterday they try and only work on adults 13 years and up. The hospital they referred us to in the past has turned them down saying they are unable to help.
So will send out some emails and see if I get any leads.

What can you do?
For now just pray.  Pray for God's will and that we would find a doctor to help.

Are you a surgeon or know one who is?
They can contact us.

With answers might come other request.


Warning;
This picture might be difficult to look at, it is not altered.  I did only take one photo and she is oddly positioned so she looks a little funny in the photo.  I was up by her head and she is tilting looking at me take the picture.

She is a beautiful little girl, alert, aware, responsive if I had the time and they would let me I would scoop her up and take her home with me.

  

Guest Blog

Ahh the guest blog always one of my favorites.
These are the blogs that are much better than my own writing and I don't have to do the work.

Mike and Rianne Roberts formally Sneller had dropped by a couple weeks ago and are currently sharing about their time with us and the activities they got to do.

There are some really wonderful photos as well and it's well worth taking a look.

 http://mikeandriannetravels.tumblr.com/

8 pounds by March 15th

I've been given the official "Okay" by the "Boss" to let people know 2 things.

#1. We were do in the USA Jan 2013 but this has been delayed until April or May of 2013.

Reason being;

#2.  Ream will be to large to fit into her seat on the plane because,,,,,,, we have decided to increase our retirement plan by have another child.


For some this will cause sadness and distress; an "Oh Great, just what we need another Carson reeking havoc on this world" if you will.

For others and ourselves this will be a "Wonderful; another Carson to help change the world".
If we can't get workers into the field we make them.  Just kidding.  We have wonderful guest helping us.

It's our hopes and desires that it would be a Girl.  Mother in-law has pleaded with us not to have another boy and my sister in-law has counted on her knuckles and says it will be a girl.
We haven't thrown the bones yet but things sound good.  "being silly"


Our prayers are that God would design this new child with His purpose in mind to do His will.

We'd ask the Lord to make him a mighty man of valor, a man of honor, strong and humble, kind and loving; A Godly man.

OR

We'd ask the Lord to make her a woman of strength and wisdom, full of grace and beauty allow her inner beauty to shine brighter than her physical.  Make her a woman of great personality, full kindness and love.
A Godly woman.

We would ask that the child being created inside Ream to be blessed with talents, able accomplish great things and survive all the world deals out; that he/she would run the race and finish well.  We ask that he or she would be free from illness and full of life and to love their God and creator with all their heart and mind.

We would also ask that we would continue to be better parents, to learn our lessons early and never forget them.

Thank the Lord for His blessings and mercies, neither we deserve but humbly accept.

Kit, Ream, Samuel, Joseph, and ???????

To the Zoo

Just some quick pictures of our trip to the zoo; I guess its last month now.
We had another orphanage come out for the morning to play and hang out.
After lunch we all drove to the zoo for the rest of the day.

We had two cameras donated to us recently that are for the kids to use.  So the next few photos below were taken by the children.  

Sorya with the big tree

Long

Tee and cousin Neardey

Staff, Sowly and Sdung

On and Mangju

Tee

Me and Sreyly

Jon

Tate, Tee and Hua in their little museum at the ZOO.

Vanak

SreyPow

 Neardey and Bunhoeun

Chantrea and Mangju

 Borin

Sreyroth, Me And Sorya

Other pictures I took at the zoo.

Got to love these home made bee bee guns and cross bows.
It's funny Cambodia gun (U.N.) laws outlaw these weapons and pretty much any propelled object designed for hunting or protecting yourself.

One of our kids lost his snacks in the petting part of the zoo.

Pretty cool, there are two white deer at the zoo now

The bear exhibit has a new play area.

Sreyroth

Yong, Tee and Te-a

Mangly

Manea

 Joe

Chantrea and Vanak

It took some convincing to get Joe on the spider

Sam

I called this the sitting tree.  We could probably sit the entire orphanage in its wrangled branches.

Sreynit and Mangly

Nop

Sambat

Rosa

 Just as it started to rain we got to see the baby elephant.  I was surprised to see it had such long tusk, you'd figure they'd get them when they grew up a bit.

I am always fascinated by the bugs I find here.  I have a few more photos of crazy, cool bugs I still need to down load for next posting.

Birthday and Holiday

Last birthday we spent at the lake, was a little different and a lot of fun. 

We had a holiday recently.  The girls playing kitchen, the Legos are a delicacy. 

A couple of the kids weren't able to go home for the last holiday so they came with Ream and I for a day of fun in the city, along with all my nieces and nephews.

Sam's first really big ride.

Sam said he wasn't scared but the video later showed him laying in his cousins lap.

He also didn't feel to good after that.

Joe and SoThy on the roller coaster

Sam and Joe in the hamster balls which really wore them out.