JULY 27, 2007 UPDATE FROM THE TILLMAN CHESNEY FAMILY...

UPDATE TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE PRAYING FOR MY LITTLE FELLA HERE.. MR. TILLMAN CHESNEY.. A MIRACLE BABY!

IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILAR WITH WHOM I AM REFERRING TO.. TILLMAN CHESNEY IS A LITTLE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS BORN ONE YEAR AND 2 MONTHS AGO WITH A DEFECTIVE HEART.. HE HAD A HEART TRANSPLANT ON MY BIRTHDAY FEB. 4, 2007.. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING HIS PROGRESS AND REGRESS FOR A LONG TIME NOW.. I HAVE CALLED ON MY FRIENDS NUMEROUS TIMES TO PRAY FOR HIM.. AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU.. PRAYER DOES WORK ... GOD IS LISTENING.. I HAVE A TIME LINE PROOF OF THAT VERY FACT!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO GO INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT.. PUT A COMMENT TO THAT EFFECT AND I WILL BE SO VERY HAPPY TO DO THAT VERY THING!

YOU REMEMBER HOW HE LOOKED WHEN I FIRST MET HIM.. BACK IN FEBRUARY..

AND HE JUST DID NOT FEEL GOOD.. HE WAS A YEAR OLD THE FIRST TIME HE EVER FELT THE SUNSHINE ON HIS FACE, HE HAD NEVER KNOWN ANYTHING BUT NURSES, NEEDLES, TUBES, AND OPERATIONS.. AND PAIN..

BUT THROUGH THE PAIN OF ANOTHER FAMILIES LOSS TILLMAN LIVES.. IT IS ALWAYS THIS WAY.. IT SEEMS TO ME..

I BECAME CLOSER TO GOD THROUGH THIS CHILDS PAIN AND SUFFERING.. THROUGH THAT DONOR FAMILIES PAIN ..

I BECAME CLOSER TO MY MAKER.. IT IS NOT ALWAYS CLEAR WHY THINGS HAPPEN .. IT IS NOT ALWAYS EASY TO CARE ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE FEELING AND GETTING FROM AN EXPERIENCE.. BUT REST ASSURED, IF THERE IS PAIN... SOONER OR LATER GOD WILL GRANT GAIN FROM IT.

HE IS LIKE THAT .. YES HE IS.. GOD IS GOOD!

I HAVE COPIED THE LAST TWO CAREPAGE UPDATES AND POSTED THEM SO YOU CAN READ THEM AND SEE HOW WELL HE IS DOING.. HE IS VERY BACKWARD AND NO WHERE NEAR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NORMAL 14 MONTH OLD BABY.. BUT HE IS COMING ON FAST AND AS SOON AS HE GOT HIS NEW HEART.. HE STARTED SPROUTING TEETH .. HAS A WHOLE MOUTHFUL OF THEM NOW.. BUT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH FOOD IN HIS MOUTH.. BUT AS JODY AND JASON TELL US HE IS GROWING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS.. AND FIGURING OUT WHAT THIS WORLD HAS TO OFFER.. PRETTY DARN QUICK!

YOU ROCK TILLMAN!

225 July 16, 2007 at 02:37 PM EDT

Good Monday to everyone. I hope your weekend was wonderful. We had a wonderful weekend filled with firsts. Tillmans' first trip to the pediatrician. This trip showed that our little Tiger is continually working on becoming a BIG Tiger. He weighed in at 16 lbs. 2 oz. He continues to get stronger and stronger with his sitting up. Still working on the rolling over part as well as doing lots of sitting up. His other first was a visit to Mom and Dad's Sunday School class. He did well. It was great to see everyone there. Antoher key element to getting plugged back into life at home. We are just more excited and thankful with each passing day. This is GREAT! Have a Good day! We will update later in the week. Jason, Jody and Tillman

226 July 27, 2007 at 08:17 AM EDT

Hello everyone!!! I know it's been a few days since we updated. Tillman is being great this morning so I've finally got a moment to update you! Tillman is doing great!!! I am amazed every day and reminded exactly how blessed we are. Tillman is falling in to the normal baby life....for the most part. He's on a pretty good schedule with hour naps in the morning and late afternoon. During the middle of the day, if I'm lucky I might get a 2 hour nap from him at lunch time. And for the most part he sleeps through the night. Sometimes he'll have a bout of gas and that keeps us all awake. Physically, he's the hardest working little guy you could ever meet. He's still rolling over (on his own) for us during his therapy sessions but has yet to spontaneously roll over during a non-therapy times. He's right there on the edge of it but true to his nature, he'll do it on his own time. He's bringing his feet to his mouth on his own with no assistance and will even do it if you ask him, "Tillman, where's your toes?" He's raising his head up and even lifting his chest up off the floor when he's having tummy time. Just this past week he started using his arms to hold himself up a little bit. We're starting to see the beginnings of him putting weight on his feet. Hard to explain but mommy and daddy help create his own personal "johnny jumper" and we have lots of fun "jumping". Overall, Tillman medically and physically is doing very well. To me and his dad, he's doing better than I think we ever thought he could. We still have a ways to go but to know where we've been....it's ok. Before I sign off, I'm going to post pictures today. Hopefully right after I post this. But one last thing to tell you..... Ladies....Tillman has become a flirt! Until later, Jason, Jody and Tillman

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JULY 26, 2007 WHY DOGS BITE PEOPLE

WHY DOGS BITE PEOPLE... HEHEHEHEE! I LOVE IT!

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JULY 25, 2007 WHY I LOVE MY HOMER.

WHY I LOVE MY HOMER.

For those friends who are new to my blog.. my family is a little bit different.. to say the least.. I have the most loving... country as a mouse... brilliant as long as he has a plan.. partner anyone could ever ask for..

He is the defender of our home from the dreaded evil gopher scourge...

His inventions are always on the cutting edge of technology..

He is the type of guy that does the silly.. the unexpected.. just to see me laugh..

He takes me fishing... and takes my fish off the hook when I catch one...

More importantly, he will bait my hook for me!!! That is true love!

He lets me use his coveted Heddon Buzz Bait.... and doesn't mind if he has to go swimming to get off a tree at the bottom of the pond.. where I got it hung up ... even though he told me not to fish there..

And I guess the most important thing he does for me ... is just love me .. even on those days when he has to leave the house to get away from my mouth.. it is sometimes not real pretty.. sigh..

So I will close this blog with a little sweetness coming from my mouth.... It needs a lip face lift to get to a better state of pretty..

TO GARY FROM TERRI

I CAN TAKE THIS WORLD FILLED WITH THORNS, AS LONG AS I KNOW YOU ARE THE ROSE THEY ARE ATTACHED TO.

LOCKIE LOVES HOMER.. YES SHE DOES!

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JULY 21, 2007 WHEN KYLE SPENDS THE NIGHT... A HOMER AND ME STORY..

WHEN KYLE SPENDS THE NIGHT...

Have you ever taken a 6 yr old, spoiled till he is just to point of being blinky.. not really as bad as soured milk.. but so close you need to hold your nose a lot of the time..into your home for a 3 day period before?

I have had the good fortune of the last 2 Saturday nights in a row, to have the pleasure of such a young man in my home for the night and most of the preceding Friday and almost all of Sunday.. his mother knows a sucker when she sees one I suppose.. sigh..

He special orders his meals in advance.. in other words he called me on Tuesday, and gave me his grocery list, and menu for me to have ready for him.. on Friday... when I came and picked him up at 8 a.m. ... this was the best time for him.. since his cartoons would be over then and mom would have his breakfast fixed and he would be ready and rarring to go..

( does the term " little monster" come to mind)

On Friday morning .. the first phone call arrived at my bedside at 6:30 a.m... the second at 6:45 a. m.....

I told him to stop calling me or I was not coming to get him..

he said okay he wouldn't call anymore until he was really all ready to go..

This means in 6 year old time frame... that my phone rang again at 7:05 a.m. and he was really all ready to go..

I asked to speak to insane sister of Homer..mother of child monster .. she was asleep....

So I crawled out of bed.. and put on shoes.. didn't take off the pajama top ... but did put on a pair of shorts .. I think.. hummm..

and got my keys.. who needs to brush your hair and or comb your teeth .. when all you are needed for is babysitting service.. chauffeur service.. cooking.. cleaning... bath water running... and .. taking him to the Dollar General for that all important "New Toy" that Uncle H had promised..

So I pack his little suitcase.. his bike.. his enormous sack of action figures.. ( he is an only child ... which his Uncle H.. is continuously giving him a hard time about playing with dolls.

Which means that if I have not put up all the lamps.. put plugs into the wallsockets to prevent accidental sword stabbings.. it would probably be a REAL good time to do so..)

into my little truck.. and I suppose this child's mother is still asleep, because he met me at the end of his driveway.. with all of the things he needed, he insisted, to survive being away from home ( 10 miles away) for a period of the promised 24 hours..( HA!) I pounded on the back door and got this sound of," go away.. I am having a special moment alone here.. do you have any D size batteries?" ..........!

NO I DO NOT HAVE ANY SIZE D BATTERIES!!!

Which actually got her to stick her head out of the door, after she realized what she had sounded like, and raced to catch me to explain that they were for here CD player.. she was going to listen to some AC DC and give herself a pedicure..

I tried to act indignant, but the woman has been subjected to 6 years of Barney and the TeleTubbies .. and OMG!... Bert and Ernie... I can understand the need for a transfusion of AC DC and the fumes off the nail polish.. just a small token of life's preparenthood pleasures... yep..

So off we went .. Kyle and I.. to my house.. and we ate and we drank..

He watched his soap operas .. heehee... and I took a shower... ( this was done quickly after Kyle .. finishing up his microwave pancakes.. hey betty crocker I ain't okay... looked at me intently and said.. " Do you always have those really black circles under your eyes like my raccoon Stinky?")

We are going to the Dollar General Store.. whoo hoo.. I actually like shopping for toys.. and he has this way of getting me to offer to buy him stuff.. like this.. " Wow Aunt T.. look at this cool.. whatshamacallit.. and of course I look and then asks me .. "what does this do?"

Of course it is something like a alien sound translator.. you can speak the alien language on 5 different planets with it.. of course it has to go home with us.. I mean you never know when you are going to need to translate a conversation with an alien from planet Tough Bubble where they make those bubbles that are so tough they don't break .. ever.. got some of those too..

and the ultimate.. his have to have it or I will just die. .. toy.

A fishing rod and reel tackle box.. combo with the mighty ninja turtles pics on it.. and the advertising promise that with this little jewel he will outfish everyone.. 12.95.. with tax as he points out..

It is a "gotta have it" and in the cart it goes... I am loved.... I am a goddess.. I am his hero.. He is always going to love me best...

I know to bask in the glow of his affection... cause as soon as his Uncle H walks in he door.. I go back to being Raccoon Woman with a frying pan..

Seeing as how I swim like a large heavy rock.. I told him we could practice casting his new rod and reel tackle box ninja turtle combo.. 12.95 plus tax from the Dollar General Store.. in the back yard until his Uncle H. gets home from work.. ( he picks today to work overtime.. his boss has some sort of sixth sense about these things.. never fails..)

overtime?

So I try my hand at teaching him how to cast it out.. it always amazes me how if you only have 100 ft. of line on a reel and you are 150 ft. away from a tree ... how does it get in the tree? Scientist are working on stuff like rocket ships to the moon and we have these important burning questions to be answered here on earth.. do they care... NO!

After we have lost all of his hooks and the ninja turtle logo has fell off the tackle box and had to be superglued back on.. I looked at my watch..

10:30a.m..

One of the advantages of your partner working in construction for a man who is the father of 4 ... grown now... is that you can take them lunch and eat it right there on the trac hoe.. or bulldozer or what ever huge tonka toy he is running today .... and he will join you if you bring him a sandwich too.. hehehee

Needless to say.. I decided I needed to go to the grocery store and Kyle just had to stay and help his Uncle H.. to which I got the Homer look.. you know the one which lets me know I am going to pay.. and pay big time..

NO PROBLEM... DID YOU GET YOUR PAYCHECK YET?

HEHEHEHEE

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