Prayer Update and Pictures!

Wow! Two updates in one day! But we have had some very positive news tonight that we wanted to share with you all. Our doctor, Dr. Moyer (for those of you who live around this area he's the one who separated the conjoined twins) came in to talk to us about Emma's esophagus problems. He said last night that she had a very short esophagus and so today they were running some more tests. Well when he stuck the suction tube down her he felt like it went a lot farther than last night. So they did another x-ray and it looks to be a lot longer than he first thought. Now he's thinking that they might just be able to connect the esophagus to the stomach in one surgery and then be able to still do the heart surgery in 4-5 days after that! A HUGE answer to prayer! He said he wanted to still run one more x-ray tonight but for some reason they couldn't so they are doing it tomorrow...we think it's because God is still working on her right now and He's not quite done so the test will have to wait 'til tomorrow! So we should know more then but for right now they are thinking they will do her first surgery this weekend...no later than Monday and we will go from there. So all you prayer warriors out there please continue to pray for Emma that this esophagus will be long enough to connect to her stomach and she'll still be able to get her heart repaired in a reasonable time frame! Thanks to all for praying and thinking of us...we hope we are doing a good job of keeping you all informed! And we LOVE hearing from all of you...thank you so much for the kind and uplifting words...they are definitely helping us on this end! And now for some pictures! As you can see she has a lot of tubes coming out of her but they did let me finally hold her tonight...ahhh....such a great time! She's so precious...I can't wait for you all to meet her! God is good (no...awesome) ALL the time! Thanks again to you all...we love you! Jon, Ali & Emmalee