We made it safely to Houston this afternoon. Jackson did wonderfully on the flight. This was an answer to prayer! We are overwhelmed by your prayers and encouragement.

We have an appointment tomorrow at MD Anderson’s Pediatric Cancer Center. We know we will be seeing the best of the best when it comes to doctors. We are praying that the doctors will have wisdom and that they will have more information for us.

Thank you for your support.

We’ll be updating our blog as we can. We are hoping the hospital has wireless that we can access with our laptop to keep you all posted. We don’t have cell phones here so check the blog for updates if you are curious.

Well, we received a call this morning that we needed to see the orthopedic surgeon immediately because the MRI did in fact show a solid mass. We rushed to the hostipal, got the labs and rushed over to see him. He thinks that from looking at the tumor that Jackson has malignant cancer. We are being med-evaced tomorrow morning to Houston to go straight to MD Anderson Cancer Center. We have to pack up and move out basically by tomorrow morning. We will leave our belongings obviously because we won’t know if we will be moving permanently. Pray for us as we push through our sadness to get packed.   We are drained to say the very least.

Thank you for your prayers.

We would greatly appreciate all of your prayers these days. On top of preparing for our trip to the states in a few weeks we are quite over-loaded. On Friday or Saturday we noticed that Jackson had a space above his knee that was very swollen. We were in Cartagena on the coast and didn’t feel comfortable going to the hospital. It wasn’t red, bruised or anything like that. Today I took Jackson to the doctor here and he was concerned as are we. He sent me for x-rays and then on to an orthopedic doctor. I snuck a peak at the x-ray on my way to take them and could see there was no damage to his bones, but there’s a mass above his knee. The orthopedic doctor had now recommended an MRI to rule out a tumor. As you can imagine we are very concerned. The MRI will be today at noon. I am supposed to not let him sleep so that he will be so tired that he will lay perfectly still. Not really possible with a 9 month old. You can pray that it is just inflammation and that it will go down significantly so that no further measures have to be taken. We only have 2 1/2 weeks left before going home on medical leave so we aren’t quite prepared to handle more big medical expenses and emotions. Jackson is as happy as ever with the occasional discomfort. We are really hoping this isn’t anything that will interfere with his desire to move!! We don’t want it to hinder his crawling or walking. We’ll keep you updated as we know more.

Here is the final product of our video clips of Jackson trying to crawl. We apologize in advance to our future children because Seth will probably never have time to sit down and work on projects like this. Make sure you have the volume on when you watch this. Seth cut the scenes short but didn’t speed anything up at all. We are a little worried that he will skip over walking and just run everywhere. He was active inside me and he has proven to be an active boy. You’ll notice in one scene he is moving his arms so quickly he has a hard time slowing down enough to get his hand in his mouth.  He is so proud of his new skills, as are we.

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