Birthday pictures

The day before and the day of their birthday there was no school so we took adventage of that and went to several places. We love the library's story time on Thursdays and on Friday we visited Conner Praire with our Hungarian friends Andi and her children. They love patting animals in the barn, chatting with the Indian. The inside play area is always a hit. They can pick animals, milk the cow, do farming and shopping in the old times...
Enjoy the slides!

Happy Birthday rhymes

Happy Birthday to our five five year olds!


Children are blessings from the Lord.
The Lord gives them to enjoy them all.

Five hearts beat at the same time,
Five mischievous minds think alike.

Great plans and ideas they have many.
Their goal is to trick Mommy and Daddy.

Annabelle is usually the chief commander
and guess what?
The other four surrender.

Tomi comes up with the plan
Lili and Hanna are eager to help
And Matthew just giggles in the end.

We praise God for their life,
Without Him they wouldn’t have survived.

Happy Birthday our miracle Babies!

We love you so much,
Family, Friends, Mommy and Daddy

October 19th

October 19th here we come again. Wow, they are already 5! We had an amazing time at one of our favorite places, which is Conner Prairie.

Final thoughts

Conclusion of the trip and final thoughts. The following quotes made me think the past couple of months.

 "You never really leave a place you love. Part of it you take with you. Learving a part of yourself behind." This is how both Mate and I felt after we said our goodbyes in Birmingham. God blew our socks off with this trip! God's devine provision was like a weaving thread through the whole journey. It was so much more than just therapy. It was a road for Matthew to grow up, be independent and for me to realize he is indeed a "big boy"now (even though he is our baby) and I have to treat him accordingly. I personally felt like I was in OT school (so enjoyed it). I learned so much and try my best to intergrate the new approach in our everyday crazy busy life. We miss Alabama but the beautiful friendships that were born there still remain and the memories will be cherished. Now we have hearts to love and be loved and cared by down there too. What a blessing! You might now that the meaning of Matthew's name is: "Gift of God". Little did we know about the Lord's mighty plan when we picked it.

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." Your gift made it possible for our little boy to gain life long skills and learn to use wings instead of crutches. Our trip continues here in Indiana, which requires much dedication, conisistency and wisdom to balance everything. Thank you so much for your investment of time following the updates, your support in any ways, prayers and your sweet Friendship, which means so incredible for us!

Love, Dave, Manna and children

Short clips

Just click on each clip and it will take you to our photo site where you can play the mini clips. One is at the airport on our way home. Two clips were recorded as Matthew's siblings woke him up the first morning home. The last one is just a fun race we had on the deck finally together.

Farewell and warm welcome

Our last days in Birmingham