Kitchens' Sink

Here's three more shots for those who wanted to see the "before" pictures. These are from 11/28...

You can see how frail she looks -- but it's just being emaciated from poor nourishment and illness.



From the other side...



Finally, like I said, she's starting to eat very well. Here she's chewing on one of Archer's big boy pig bones.




BTW, that toy dog to the left? Destroyed by Archer already. He just loves to get out the noisemakers from his toys. :)

And one more of Archer from the same day to see how big he's gotten from earlier shots... he's up to 30-35 lbs now. About 18-22" at the shoulder.



Thanks for all the kind words. Will keep everyone posted!

This year I had the opportunity to assist the Operation Christmas Child effort in our city. Atlanta is one of 11 processing centers in the USA and my son volunteered (us) to help with the church youth group.

For those of you that don't know, OCC is an effort started by Franklin Graham (Billy and Ruth's son) about 10 years ago -- each year churches and groups prepare "shoebox" gifts for a boy or girl in three different age groups. These shoeboxes are then processed and shipped worldwide where they are given to children at Christmastime -- for some this will be the only gift they may ever receive in their lifetime.

The Atlanta center has been processing gifts that get shipped to India for the past several years -- this year is no different. Here's a few shots showing the process... [MORE]