The Polson Family Adventure: Lily's tooth

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Lily's tooth

Today a momentous thing occurred (and no I am not talking about the presidential inauguration), Lily pulled her first tooth out! She has been trying to pull it out for the past few days after I told her that contrary to popular belief (8/10 5 year olds believe this I think), her tooth was not just going to "fall" out without some help. Well she finally did it this afternoon (with a LOT of encouragement)! It had not been out 5 minutes before she quickly placed it under her pillow. We celebrated by going out to eat (she got a hot dog) and we all got an ice cream treat. I can't believe our baby lost her first tooth...

I should have a video up about the whole ordeal soon that I think you will find entertaining.

4 comments:

Unknown said...: oh my goodness!!! give lily a HUMONGOGINORMOUS hug from her aunt pam & tell her i am so proud of her!!! whooohooo!!! what an uuuhhhhmazing entertaining video!!! i luuuuuuuved it!!! i was cringing when she was tryin to pull that tooth & smilin so big when it came out...the look on her face was priceless!!!!! luuuuved the credits!!! & oh how wonderful was the blog on the children singing was!!! ain't nuttin better than children praising GOD with their whole hearts!!!!!!!!!! luv u guys so much & pray for u every single day!!!; January 21, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Naomi said...: I cannot believe that your child is old enough to pull teeth. And Yes, I cried, we'll blame that on pregnancy hormones, a cold and stress. Love you all. Great job Lily!; January 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM
macoyfamily said...: Tell Lily that Grace just pulled one too! Her saga was not near as dramatic or documented though she was excited about her reward. Hard to believe thay are big enough to pull teeth! Give em a hug from al of us! Miss you!; January 22, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Betty Hodge said...: Telly Lily she did an awesome job! Olivia was telling her in the video just do it Lily! lol The part of the vid that got me was on the porch where she said I can't believe you are doing this to me! Ha that was classic!
Hope you guys are doing well! We Love yall!; January 25, 2009 at 1:37 PM

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For those of you who are not familiar with our family's life, let me quickly catch you up. Hannah and I have been married for 8 wonderful years. We met as teenagers and quickly became best friends. Love blossomed and the rest is history. We both had plans on entering nursing as a profession and dreamed of medical missions prior to us even knowing each other. I finished my undergraduate work just days before we were married in December 2001 and Hannah finished the following May. We both worked as RN's at the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children. We had plans on making the BIG BUCKS as travel nurses before starting our "family" but God had other plans. For on May 23, 2003, our beautiful Lilyan Rain (we call her Lily) was born. She absolutely changed our life.

During all this we were very active in a growing local church (Restoration Church), where we led a cell group and I led our worship team. Life moved on and things were good. I felt that I needed to further my education, but was unsure how we would balance family, church, work, grad school. Plus, we were very interested in adding a new little one to our family, so we decided that I would entered Graduate school part time. And on July 13, 2005, God blessed us again with our angel Aidan Nathanael.

Despite our wonderful life, in a home that we loved, great family and friends, a good supportive church, good jobs etc., we began to feel God pulling us away, changing our hearts, and still felt the He was telling us that we should pursue the dream of medical missions. So we continued to pray, and we started to plan. I finished graduate school in May of 2007 as a Family Nurse Practitioner and quickly started a job at a local primary care clinic. The strong pull of God to foreign soil persisted, and even strengthened over the next few months of 2007. We battled doubt, fears. We particularly battled leaving a church family and worship team that we had given so much of our life to. We learned some tough lessons about following the move of God on our heart, even if it meant leaving the "familiar"ities of life. This was a very hard time for us. I liken it to the desert with no sign of green or water. After much prayer, talk and tears, we decided to "step out of the boat". In early 2008, we notified the church and my job that we were leaving. "Tearing ourselves away" from the church was one of the hardest things we have ever done. At times it felt like it would easier to rip my own heart out but God is faithful and He gave us a peace that we had not experienced before. Pursuing the dream of God placed in our heart most definitely includes medical missions, but we also know God has even greater plans for us IF we will follow His voice.

Some amazing things have happened since. We sold our house within 7 days of it being on the market (unbelievable in the current housing market). God has opened up so many doors to opportunities for medical missions. I wish I could say that it all has been easy but I can't. But we are trusting God to make our paths straight.

One thing I can say... life in the past months has been anything but normal. Some of it has been exciting, some hard, some even really painful, but all good in the light of God's grace.

We look forward to sharing our life with you here. Please keep us in your prayers.

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