Taking off for the island of joy!

We are all very excited as we count down to CaCa's big birthday party. We are having the theme of the Tropical Island where Barbie the Island Princess lives. The warm weather is just in time for us to get all ready for the heat and fun.

To make our island party more fun, Cassidy asks that every children who are coming to the party to bring a picture that you drew of an Island Theme, so that we can post them all on the wall and CaCa will pick out her favourite one, and the winner will win a great prize!! So get those color pencils and paint brushes out and get drawing!!

Mama Carmen wants to tell everyone to not worry too much about getting presents for CaCa because she has already mountains of toys. But Mama Carmen reminds everybody to each write or draw or make a Birthday Card for Cassidy because she loves to read and read and read those cards that people write to her. You will not be given entrance to the island if you didn't bring a card for Cassidy, ok? So don't worry about buying presents, but if you really have to, you can find out from Mama Carmen about CaCa's current favourite character, or monetary gifts will be warmly received.

We pray that all of you will be well and healthy in the abundant blessings of God and we will see you at the island!! Cheers!

The Amazing Power of God's Love

Rejoice! And give thanks to God! We are so blessed to hear from a parent of Cassidy's friend, little Johnson, that they have came to know God and accepted Jesus as their Savior. Little Johnson's mom says it was because of having walked through Cassidy's illness with us that she has came to realize the amazing love of God and that she has now started to bring little Johnson to church so that they both get to know more of God's Word and experience more of Jesus' powerful love and blessings with many more brothers and sisters in Christ. And Cassidy and our whole family are so happy to hear this news. We were all in the same room, because the house is under renovation so we're stuck in 1 room most of the time, when Johnson's mommy called to tell us this great news, and we rejoiced together with great gladness. There is nothing more greater and happier than hearing that your friends and families have accepted the most precious gift of eternal life from God. Hallelujah!!!

We are excited in looking forward to Cassidy upcoming birthday party where our loving church family and CaCa's loving uncles and aunties get together to celebrate her first special birthday since she got ill last year. Many of CaCa's friends will also join us to make this an extra special day as we praise and give our grateful thanks to God. We love, because God first loved us. There is no greater love than the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ for all of us. It is CaCa's dream come true when everyone in the world will know Jesus and love each other so there will be no war and fights but only peace in the world.

CaCa and Dr. Jesse pray for everyone of you that God will bless you all in your lives and all your families and may the Lord bless you and protect you, that He makes His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you, may the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace. Amen.

Praise God for a full year of blessings.

Time is going by so quickly, especially when you are surrounded by so much love and supports. It is almost a full year now since Cassidy first felt sick, looking back in this year, we cannot praise God enough for so much blessings in our lives. Even when CaCa had to fight hard with cancer, even when our hearts were so painful to see every bit of pain and suffering, even when the world seems dark and scary, God has never left our side and He has poured so much blessings that we are so overflowed with thanksgivings. We praise and thank God for His wonderful love that was sent to CaCa and us through everyone of you who came into our lives. It was this wonderful and powerful love that kept CaCa and us going strong for this amazing year. Praise the Lord!

CaCa has been back to school for 2 weeks now and she is enjoying it ever more. She is gradually catching up and is doing fine with her homework. Thanks to GorGor Aaron for his patience in helping CaCa with many of her French homework. GorGor, you're a hero!!

Mommy says CaCa seems to be functioning well with her help and with the assistance from her SNA worker, but may be it's because she's getting all the help she needs, CaCa doesn't seem to have improve much on her independence. So Mommy asks us to pray for CaCa that she continues to become more independent on her physical functions so that when there is nobody to help, she can still do all the things she wishes to do on her own. Also, CaCa has been experiencing some short but sharp pains in her leg in the last few days, we are thinking that it may be from the stretching of her flesh and skin caused by the overall body growth but we are going to let the doctor check her out to make sure everything is ok. So please remember to continue to pray for CaCa's overall health and for doctor to have wisdom and good eyes to ensure everything is well with CaCa's body.

It seems like just yesterday when CaCa turned 7, and in a couple more weeks, our little princess is turning 8 already. We are so looking forward to her birthday which marks another great year filled with blessings and amazing love from God and all the angels sent from heaven. CaCa's hairs are growing back rapidly and she now looks like a cupid with cute little short hairs. Give her an arrow and wings and you'll sure to see her fly. Haha!!

Pray for CaCa to catch up...

This week has been full of excitements and challenges. The excitements are that CaCa is so thrilled to be back at Cliffwood and seeing all her friends and teachers again. She's so busy catching up with her friends and her friends with her too. But having missed most of the Gr.2 curriculum, CaCa faces the challenges of catching up with school works especially in French.

CaCa was quite up set after school on Monday, which was her first day back at Cliffwood, because she found it hard to understand what her teacher was teaching speaking all in French. But Mommy encouraged her to try hard and GorGor Aaron came to the rescue because GorGor is also going to French Emersion school and his French is good that he can help CaCa out. Aaron, you are not only an angel to CaCa but also a big hero all the time.

GorGor's assistance surely helps out much because CaCa was not up set when she came home from school on Tuesday. Although she still had things that she could not understand in class, but compared to Monday, it was a big difference already. As CaCa gets use to coming back to Cliffwood, we are confident that she would catch up well with the great help of her hero GorGor Aaron.

Not only CaCa is the one getting used to school again, everyone at Cliffwood is also getting used to having CaCa there again. All little kids would rush out of the classroom at recess to play, CaCa's friends at Cliffwood are no different. So on Monday the first day of CaCa back at school, she was already fitting in well that everyone forgot that it was her first day back and at recess, everyone ran out of the classroom leaving only Cassidy in the classroom. It was so funny that CaCa heard the bell and looked up and everyone was gone so fast. But it was also a little boring for CaCa to be staying in the classroom all by herself. However, her friends were so good to stay with her at the second break on Monday realizing that CaCa was alone in the classroom. We praise God for such good and loving friends who are willing to sacrifice their play time to be with Cassidy at recess and lunch time. We pray that their friendships will grow ever greatly to reveal the love of God in their lives and be a blessing to many others.

Dr. Jesse went check CaCa out after school on Tuesday and played with her for a few hours. CaCa was still so full of energy after a long day at school and was having a very good appetite. She shared a big organic apple with Dr. Jesse and also fed a lot of yummy treats to Dr. J. It was so much fun!! Dr. J. is also glad to see CaCa's hair is growing back and you can see her eyebrow very clearly now. Yay!

Mommy Carmen is now staying at school with CaCa in the mornings and after lunch, the SNA appointed to CaCa will take over to care for her so Mommy can ran off home to prepare meals and other things that CaCa will need in the rest of the day. Papa Andy is also busy catching up at work and also taking time to pick up Aaron after school. Let us pray for God to help the family get used to this new and still changing schedules, remain healthy and well, strong in faith and trust in God to carry them through everyday of life that will testify the power of God and glorify His Name.