Gees Mom! I'm playing here!

I just love this picture, because I think I will be seeing this face a lot in my life. I have so much fun taking her picture and I have a feeling she might get tired of it some day. But in the mean time, I will be snapping away!

Well, in case you have not heard, Anna is home. We got to go home on Monday. She was in there for 7 days. She tested positive for RSV. Which is basically a really bad cold, but for kids under 2 it can be really bad. Basically she had a really hard time breathing, and they had her on oxygen for 6 days. We still have to do breathing treatments for a few weeks, but she is much better!! Here are a couple of more pictures from our trip to the hospital. Daddy always makes so many things better. She was sleeping so hard while he was holding her! So cute. And check out those cute bunny slippers. You've got to have your slippers when your sick! The second pictures is during one of her treatments.
She actually is a much happier baby since we got home. She used to be a very calm and passive baby, but now she laughs a lot and smiles all the time. And she can cry at the drop of a hat! She is much moodier, which I just think is so strange! I wonder if this is a permanent change.

She had her first bite of potatoes on Wednesday. She LOVED them. It was fun to watch her face. She is also sitting pretty good now. Still a little wobbly, but she is getting closer.

Update on Anna's Hospital Stay

Well, this week has not gone at all how I thought it would when it started on Monday. On Friday last week Anna had a crazy cough, but that was nothing new (she has had some sot of cough since Thanksgiving) On Saturday night she got a small fever and coughed so bad she started throwing up. So Sunday morning I called her doctor. He said that I should feel free to take her to the ER and if they thought she needed anything they would call him. Well, I decided to let her rest all day on Sunday. We didn’t go anywhere or do anything except eat and sleep. She seemed to be doing so much better that night. So Monday we went back to life a little bit. We are so close to finishing the house! Monday night went ok, but she woke up a lot.
Tuesday morning she was so lethargic. Totally unresponsive and didn’t care about anything. It was so sad. So I called the doctor as soon as they opened. I said, “My baby doesn’t feel good and I would like to see the doctor.” “Okay, I have a 10:45.” “I’ll be there”. Click
Well, needless to say he admitted us in to the hospital. I realize I am such a nerd. But this was a little stupid. When the doctor said that she needed to be on oxygen, I thought okay great! That’s easy. I’ll go to the hospital, they’ll put a mask on her, she’ll breath and we’ll leave. 3 hours tops. Well, 4 days later we are still here!
I swear I am going to gain 20 pounds being here. All I do is sit and eat and watch Anna sleep. I am loving all the goodies I am getting, but I swear if I leave here and weigh more I am going to be mad! The hospital food is surprisingly good.
As of Friday night they still don’t know when we can go home. It all depends on when Anna can breath on her own again. They keep trying to wean her down, but every time we get to a 1/2 a liter she just can’t hold it. So we wait. I told Anna if she stays sick long enough maybe we will have a house to take her home to. Poor Neil is working so hard on the house. And since I am here he is making all the decisions on lighting fixtures and carpet and tile. So when I get to go see it again it is going to be such a surprise! Neil brought Anna flowers tonight. They are so pink and pretty. She seemed to really like to look at them. It was so cute and the little card actually made me get a little teary eyed!
She has been really great today. She has been interested on what is going on around her and talking (complaining) to her nurses. And her color is pink again. She is so cute! The nurses have been really great and our stay has been mostly comfortable. She looks so sad with all these cords coming off of her. I am glad that she is not mobile yet. She just lets me hold her or sleeps.
I am REALLY BUMBED that Anna and I are going to miss Emily’s first birthday party. It is going to be so cute and I can not believe I am going to miss that cute hat on her head!
They said that Anna will be contagious for at least four days even after we get to go home. Well, if you made it to the end of these post congratulations. This is even the short version of what has happened.
Thank you to everyone that has called or come by to check on us. I have really appreciated the contact with the outside world. I just wanted to give everyone an update and to say THANK YOU so much for praying for us. I know that it has given me peace to just let Anna heal. I also thought you might like to see some pictures of my sad little girl.

A Little Word I Like to Use Called "Tada"!

I am loving my macbook. One of the things I really think is neat is that it has a built in camera (and we all know I like my camera!) I have posted several movies before, much to my audiences' viewing pleasure! Well, I was going through all the movies I took during Christmas and I came across this little gem! (Does anyone see where this is going? Jennifer?) I thought that it was lost forever, but I found it, just sitting waiting for me. Now this is a pretty short clip, mostly because it was rudely cute short at the time of filming. But there is a lot to see, so you will probably have to watch it more than once. Make sure you watch what EVERYONE is doing at least once! Let me just end by saying I love being a part of this family!