Thursday, March 11, 2010

Still Waiting...

My wonderful hubby has hidden the device used to load pictures on the camera. Not really it's in his other car, but for now all I can do is tell you what we have been up to.
Daddy hurt his back, thus he's home for the week, Hooray for us! :) We like having him around, but feel bad because he's in pain!
Mommy is enjoying being at home, and shoveling all the snow, seriously a foot at minimum in one day! The kids love it!
Elizabeth got all new snow gear and has been outside numerous times enjoying the freedom of being outside by herself and playing in the white stuff. Her attitude is slowly adjusting to being here, but still is as stubborn and fun as ever. She got sick and because she wasn't feeling well I let her watch TV, however, I have realized that it's coming back to bite me in the bum! Now she pretends to cough and says, "I don't feel good, I need to watch some TV." Yes she has everything in life figured out!
Henry is extremely jealous that Elizabeth can play outside and he can't... something about letting him scoot around on his bum in the snow seems harsh... so he walks around with Mommy and jumps in the piles of snow. Loving every minute! He inevitably caught Elizabeth's cold, but hasn't had any fevers, thank Heaven! He is getting his two year molars though, one has broken through part way and the other one is causing great pain.
Both children are very very slowly learning to sleep with out mommy. Probably because they are on meds! But for a few hours each night they sleep by themselves.
Henry is eating really well, his new favorite food of the moment is pancakes with lots of syrup. Oh and he's drinking his lactaid milk finally! Two sippy cups of chocolate milk today so far... we'll see how the night goes. His counts continue to climb and we are seriously talking about getting his Hickman line out soon. His Platelets are at 47 and his Hematocrit is 29, with an ANC of almost 3000!!!! All of his counts are slowly creeping up every week instead of down which is huge! We bought him a plastic shopping cart to push around the house. He doesn't need mommy's fingers anymore! Soon enough he'll be walking on his own! He desperately misses his Annie and Grandpa! Every day wants to look at their picture and talk to them.
His weight continues to stay low, but we're working hard at feeding him all the fatty foods he can handle like Donuts!!!! Which he also loves.
We're all adjusting to being home and hoping to get healthy soon so we can see some friends! Elizabeth played outside with the neighbor girls for the first time today and LOVED it!
Life is Wonderful! We are so blessed! The Lord truly compensates for the tears and heartaches we face in life, what joy fills our lives these days!!!!

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a lot of fun. I'm sorry Joel hurt his back--but again it is so nice to have them home!!! :) Tell the kids we say hello!

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