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With the exception of a screaming child from another room and little sleep for me the night went well. For those of you who know my fear of storms I actually got the good end of the deal. Frisco experienced a night of many loud thunderstorms which bothers Shiner not Jason. Jason ended up spending the night with a dog that would repeatedly get on the bed, jump off the bed, and then go under the bed just to repeat. Needless to say my dog does not handle storms well at all. At times he will attempt to dig a hole in places that holes cant be dug like my couch. Silly dog. For Kaylie and I we just got rain. Good deal for me!

I am not really sure if I did the right thing this morning in the way I left her. I know waking up in a strange bed in a different room was scary for her. I made sure to give us enough time before I had to leave to get us both ready and have some time to play. She was very clingy (can't blame her) so when one of the other little boys came out to play and she became preoccupied with him I signaled to the nurse and she came over. Kaylie saw me go towards the room but did not see me leave. The nurse was picking her up from the door right as I was walking out so she did not see me. For some reason I do not feel like I did the right thing but I am sure this avoided some major tantrums.


Drawers equal trouble!


Her fingers were later sacrificed! Once by her own doing and once by my doing. Oops


OK...so this was staged but, if I would have been a few seconds earlier you would have seen her climbing over all of her clothes to get something out of the suit case. Either way it is still cute.



She has been infatuated with this fish tank. It is in the same hallway as our room and play area so she can go over to it whenever she wants.


Her baby jail. No worries, she was not crying in this picture. She had just woken up and I wanted a picture. Jason is bringing up the pack and play tonight for her to sleep in the rest of the time. It will be so much easier to take her in and out without having to raise and lower a heavy bar.

Day 1

So far so good. Kaylie did her usual walk in, figure out it is a doctor type setting and scream. If they tried to do anything other than listen to her breath she would scream. Eating wise, same old same old. They let us do what we would normally do and then she will officially start the "program" tomorrow. In between feedings we had many visits from everyone that is involved in her care. When we were not doing that we were playing. By the time bed time came around she was exhausted, screamed very little and then passed out. Much different experience than when she went down for her nap. It doesn't help that the crib they have her in looks like a prison cell for a baby.

Today's weight: 16 lbs. 7 oz. She has lost 1 1/2 oz. from our last weight check. They are not going to give her a whole lot of time to determine if she will need a feeding tube or not. Chances are she will. She can not afford to lose any more weight.

I forgot what it felt like to be in a hospital setting. We are back to measuring all of her food and her diapers to check for hydration. Even the smell of the soap brings back weird memories.

Most likely I will not do daily emails so don't get your hopes up =).

Overall, if I was to rate the day I would give it an A. Things have gone smoothly. Hopefully, I will not change my opinion after I am in bed. =)

My baby girl and her man

I just thought these were sweet! Seeing the two of them next to each other makes me realize that they are no longer babies. They can actually communicate with each and often make each other laugh. Time goes way too quickly!

This is the first time she has played with the lawn mower and seemed to enjoy it. The lawn mower would get stuck on something and she would get so mad. It is hard not to just bust out laughing.

Tomorrow is our big day. I will be staying at the hospital tomorrow night so most likely I would not blog about our day until Tuesday. Little Miss has eaten very little the last few days showing us how important the next month to month and a half is. We are definitely ready.

Monday pt.2

We are on for Monday. We will go in between 10 and 11 and stay with her the entire day. I will spend the night on Monday and then from Tuesday on we will see her at night for the first 7 to 10 days. After that we have to be there for 4 out of 5 feeds. Please pray this will go smoothly!

Monday

Our insurance case manager had to get his director's approval before we can start. The director had a question and before he sent back his confirmation he left for the day. Silly man left before 3 (apparently due the election since most of downtown chicago vacated in advance of the Obama rally). Since they want to make sure they have a few days of good monitoring in case something bad happens they do not admit past Wednesday so assuming we are approved in the next few days we will start on Monday. I do not want to wait too much longer with the holidays quickly approaching. As of now she will for sure be in for Thanksgiving but not Christmas. They will discharge no matter what before Christmas. My only concern would be making sure she doesn't get rushed though. If that is the case I would want to hold off to make sure she gets everything she needs. Pray for Monday!

Monkey in action

Here are a few videos of Kaylie's climbing abilities. Once she gets to the top or slips just a little she will throw herself onto her belly, slide down, and start climbing right back up. It has not mattered how steep the slide is she will still get to the top. It blows me away how strong and fast she has become.

Time change and Kaylie don't mix

First, we are still waiting on insurance to approve our hospital stay so as of now we will be going in on Wednesday. Say your prayers it doesn't get bumped to Thursday or beyond. We are ready to get started.

That leads me to time change. It is a lot easier for an adult to adjust their body than a baby. Kaylie was up at 5 wanting to eat. Since it was dark I was able to feed her and put her back down. Tonight when we got home all she wanted to do was sit in my lap. How can you tell your baby that you have to stay up so you will not wake up in the middle of the night?!? Little girl goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:00 as it is. It just doesn't seem to work. As you can see by the Buster pictures she decided to use him as a resting post. Usually, she tries to get as far away from him as possible and I have to use my creativity to get a good picture.

Stonebriar Mall

Today we met up with Way Way and Claire to have some mommy daughter time. With two babies it has been really hard to find a time when both of our babies are not sick. After eating lunch at the Cheesecake Factory we went to the play area at Stonebriar. This one is not as baby friendly as Willowbend but we made it work. For some reason my pictures turned out somewhat funny. I think it was either the lighting in the mall or the photographer. My guess is a little of both.

Once Kaylie relaxed she had a blast. I turned away for a second and when I turned around she was gone and no where to be found. That is when I noticed this little tiny thing in between two bigger boys trying to climb up the same slide. She has definitely become fearless. She was trying to climb up every steep little slide and did so with ease. Once she got to the top she would lay down and slide to the bottom. My biggest fear was that she would try to stand up in the middle of this and fall backwards. Thank goodness we came away injury free.

My Gym

On Saturdays we take Kaylie to My Gym. We had thought about quitting but after seeing how much she has enjoyed the last few weeks we have decided to extend our contract. The cool thing is that they are going to allow us to make up the classes we are missing because of the hospital without any charge. This week they got to wear their costumes. I thought this would cause a problem for her with all the climbing she likes to do but surprisingly she did just fine.

Her new thing...She will crab walk up the slide and then fall to her belly and slide down. She stands up and does it again. I thought this was strange but then I saw someone at daycare do it and it all made sense.

Halloween Night

With Kaylie being a little bit older this year we decided to go trick or treating in our neighborhood with the Stall family. Kaylie and Fletcher had a blast. As Jolie said in her blog, they would each go to the door and once Fletch knocked he would take off running so Kaylie could close the deal. They were adorable! Kaylie's favorite parts of the night were getting the Gerber Puffs from Jolie's parents, shaking the candy boxes, and carrying her pumpkin that we got for her candy. Two days later and she still wants to play with it and carry it around.

Daycare Party

Kaylie's daycare had a Halloween party. Even though she wasn't in the same outfit when I got there to see her she still looked cute.


I know this one is dark but if you click on it you can see it a little better. I loved it.


This is her favorite push toy. The other day I watched her try to take one of the other boys down after he tried to take it from her. In the end he got it but she did not go down without a good fight!


Proud moment in a parents life!


What...you must be seeing things. I was not licking the house!


I think the chairs they sit in are adorable. Kaylie's feet actually touch the floor in these.




Do you think if we feed her pumpkin all day long she might gain some weight?


She enjoyed painting the pumpkin but did not enjoy the paint getting on her. She made the funniest face to let me know she was not having that red stuff get on her.