A date for surgery

Cameron’s intraocular lenses arrived from the USA last week, and Dr Pauw wants to operate on his right eye on Wednesday 10 September, so finally we have a date for the surgery. He wants to operate on the left eye two weeks later but currently we can’t get a gap in the theatre. We’re praying that God would choose just the right date for the second op, and that the doc would be able to squeeze Cam in somewhere within two weeks after the first one.

Cam is being dedicated at Waterkloof Baptist Church on Sunday 7 September at 8h30. If you’re reading this blog then you have probably been praying for him, and we’d feel privileged if you could be there (if you are in South Africa!) to pray with us for him.

Other arbitrary news of Cam’s last couple of days… (You’ll probably want to skip this. Only his grannies would be really interested in this stuff):

Earlier this evening he was lying on our bed, playing with some toys hanging from his play gym. Three times he kicked the whole contraption right off the bed and then laughed out loud – boys will be boys…?!

He is loving his toes, which my mom helped him to discover by sewing bells onto the end of a pair of his socks. He’d never seen his toes before, I guess, but now he knows they are there and grabs hold of them with great glee.

He’s been on solids – just a smidgen a day – for a week now. I’ve also been giving him some water from a bottle each day, to get him used to it, and tonight he even drank a bit of expressed milk for his bottle. Progress!

The picture is of Cam’s first swim – our cell group was away near Dullstroom this past weekend. (The pool was heated!)