Aryanna

I received permission from my friend Kelly and, more importantly, from Aryanna to post this picture of Abigail and Aryanna from one of the hospital stays.  This was taken during Aryanna's second chemo round, and she was pretty tired of the hospital.  Abigail had just shaved her head and wanted to surprise Aryanna, so we headed to the hospital for a visit.  Adah had to stay down in the lobby with Shiloh because she had a cold, and she was sad to miss out on a visit with Aryanna so she made a video on our camera for Abigail to show her in her room. :) Being incredibly chatty and spunky, Abigail can't help but cheer people up, and I love to see how she can become a tonic to someone having a bad day.  Here are the cute girls:

 

And here is Abigail sporting one of the sparkly headbands and one of the fabulous pairs of earrings that my aunt got for her to wear while she's sporting her short 'do.  Abigail's pretty brave - for the first couple of days, she only went out with a hat on, but she just goes out au naturel now (well, she does wear clothes :) ). Aryanna was inspired to host a headband-making party, and now all three girls have some wonderful head accessories to use.  (There is a rumor that Abigail ate FIVE Little Debbie cakes at the headband-making party.  Wow.)  Aryanna just went through her third chemo treatment out of six, and we are looking forward to the end with her...I haven't mentioned too much about this dear family on the blog because Aryanna is a private kind of a person, but would you lift her and her family up in prayer with us?  She knows the Lord and she needs courage to face this battle!  We are in awe of her strength and calm on this hard road, and we are privileged to call her family our friends.  Aryanna has taught Abigail and Adah much about love, grace, perseverance, and friendship.

p.s. We think Abigail's hair is growing back much darker - more like Daniel's shade of dark brown.  It looks gorgeous with her blue eyes!