Chill Laxin'

We have had kind of a low key weekend. Still keeping Ellison under semi-lock down until she goes back for her re-check Tuesday. Saturday morning I got up and was cleaning house, Wayne had gone to the church for clean up day and I walked back in the room and found this. They were watching TV together and I guess Ellison got a little fussy. She likes to suck on a paci, but has trouble holding it in her mouth. Hads was sitting there holding it in her mouth for her. Warmed my heart.
When Wayne got home I went and previewed their pictures from last weekend. CUTE!!! Cutest sick kid and DIVA I have ever seen. We may have gotten more smiles if Ellison had been feeling better, but we captured what was going on at the time and they are special for that reason.

Then Saturday night I took Hads and Gracie to see The Tooth Fairy and to eat at The Iron Gate (it is a pizza place YUMMMM!!!) The movie was cute, but the entertaining part was them, hearing their BIG conversation from the backseat. They didn't need me to entertain them.

Hads was pouting at one point because Gracie told her she had green eyes (for some reason blue is more desirable), Gracie looks at her puts her hand out and says, "Look Hadley, sometimes life isn't fair." Then Gracie started talking about her boyfriend, I asked her what was something nice that Hayden did for her, she said "he doesn't do anything nice for me, I told him he doesn't have a girlfriend, so he is mine." Adorable!!! I then heard them start whispering about kissing, not sure what they were saying and I didn't ask, didn't want to encourage that one. I learned today that I missed the conversation about trading DS consoles, because apparently Gracie believes the pale pink color of Hadley's would be more favorable to Gracie's boyfriend, Gracie has the hot pink DSi. They are 5 and 4 what will they be like when they are teenage girls????? The evening provided some much needed comic relief.

Today Ellison has continued her lock down, such a chill little thing. She could careless what she is doing, just move her around. We have something new to add to our bag of tricks. She is officially able to sit in her bumbo this week. We have pretty good head control and can sit in it for a good 5 minutes before our head starts to lean forward or to the side. She sat in it and helped me make Hads lunch. When I told her what Hads wanted for lunch, she said seriously, "She is going to turn into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!!!!" Yep, love that finger up by the face like she is really thinking about it.

Slumber Party

Hadley thinks they are ready for a slumber party and asked if Ellison could sleep with her last night. The answer would be uh no, but you two are pretty cute together.

Celebration

I'm home and we are celebrating!!!!!

I hooked the ballons on her leg and whenever she kicked they would move. She wasn't scared of them at all, she was quite entertained by them.

Home

Ellison Ann is home with her Daddy. She got discharged this morning. It will be so nice to have our whole family under one roof again.

Exhausted

So many thoughts whirling around up here in my head and just not sure what to say. The body is an amazing thing. You go go go as long as you have to and as soon as your brain sees an opening for some down time it reminds you how completely exhausted you are. Me and my baby girl are exhausted although, she appears to be on the mend. Saturday Wayne took Ellison back to the doctor and they said she had bronchitis and double ear infections.

All day Sunday she ran a fever and Tylenol wasn't having an effect. About 10:00 pm her fever rose to 103. I talked to the nurse at the after hours number and she assured me that there was nothing to worry about, that there have been studies that show it takes a fever 0f 108 before there is brain damage. It was at this point I held the phone away from my ear and tried to look inside it, clearly she had suffered a fever of 108 if she thought that was comforting!!!! We continued our luke warm bath and gave her some more Tylenol. At 3:00 am she woke up whimpering, when I picked her up she just moaned and wouldn't move, I took her temp and it was 104.5. I gave her some more Tylenol and then proceeded to stare at my baby girl for the next 5 hours. I wanted to hold her and comfort her, but if I moved she would whimper. Those were the stillest 5 hours of my life.

At 8:00 am I called the doctor's office and got a 9:50 appointment. At the doctor's office the doctor commented on how much worse her breathing sounded from Saturday and with the antibiotics she was on, something more was going on. She got her little toe stuck and they found her white blood cell count to be elevated. They gave her a breathing treatment in the office and couldn't get her pulse ox elevated to a normal level. The doctor wanted to admit her to the hospital for some intense antibiotics and more breathing treatments, he felt she either had RSV or pneumonia. They did chest x-rays and tested for RSV. When we got to the hospital they did another breathing treatment very shortly after we arrived and her pulse ox still wouldn't come up, so they put her on oxygen. Late last night we learned the RSV was negative and then this morning we learned she did indeed have pneumonia.

She has been such a little trooper through her journey the last couple of days. When they were putting the IV in, I was bawling my eyes out and she never made a peep. I really think she was just too tired to fight. Now today when they came to take her labs it was a different story, she hit the lab tech. They tried to draw the first time but she wouldn't be still, so they had to send in another one. Little Red showed her temper and gave it a big ol' fight. They were finally able to make their draw and as soon as the needle was out and I sat her up, the tears stopped and she gave the tech a look that would make most people think twice about messing with you. Chick was not into the drama, it was all real tears. Precious!!!!

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This is shortly after we arrived, she is resting so peacefully.

This morning, starting to get a little sparkle back in her eyes! She is making a fashion statement with her oxygen mask, I don't know that I've ever seen anyone look cuter in one. Makes her cheeks look even fuller :).

Now, they told me not to chew on this arm band and IV, but I think I can get it off and escape!!!

The view from our room,, seriously I have never seen snowflakes the size of sand dollars until today. Beautiful, even if it is getting kind of OLD!!!!

Oxygen off and stats staying up, hopefully I get to go home tomorrow!!!!

Those blues sure are getting brighter!!!!

They have weaned her off the oxygen today and if her numbers stay up tonight, there is a good chance she will get to go home sometime tomorrow. Wayne is with her tonight and will be staying with her the rest of the week. As much as I miss my baby girl, I needed to spend some time with my big girl and didn't realize how exhausted I was. Ellison is in good hands with her daddy and covered in yours prayers!!! Thank you!!!