4th surgery, 12 weeks, one child.....

We went back to Salt Lake last Thursday because Hannah Lu had yet another surgery. Her doctor decided that it was time to put tubes in her ears. She has had lots of fluid in her ears since she was born, and one ear infection. So in order to start the hearing aid process, they need to drain the fluid so she can have another hearing test. The doctor said that she should be able to hear even better once the fluid is drained. I have already noticed a difference. The only bad thing is that she is not sleeping through the boys rough housing around the house anymore. Now I am constantly reminding them to be quiet because their sister is sleeping. Anyways, we stayed at the Red Lion in downtown Salt Lake Thursday night. They had a pool so I took the boys swimming. We had fun. Then we went and ate at Cafe Rio, Yummy, my favorite. I am so excited because they are building one here in Vernal. Well this was Hannah's last surgery until she is 12 months. Then they will fix her cleft pallete.

Garrett, not so fond of the water, I was able to convince him to sit on the top stair.

Hannah Lu relaxing in her seat by the pool side

Mothers Day

We went to Shawns mom's house for mothers day. She and Nanalyn(Shawn's grandmother) made a really good dinner. We were missing Shawn because he had to work, but we had fun. Later on that night, I had not seen Garrett for awhile. So my sister in-law went outside to look and I was looking around the house. I noticed that the door to that leads to the bedrooms was closed so I went in and discovered that another door was closed. I went in and found Garrett emptying a buckett of wipes which belonged to Shawn's mom. I don't know what it is about Garrett and cleaning. I had to get a picture of him. Normally he would have been in trouble. So of course everyone there had to peek in on him and see what he had done. It was pretty funny.

caught red handed

maybe I should not have taken a picture, because obviously he thinks its funny now

RSV/PNUEMONIA

I took Hannah Lu to the doctor this moring because she has started snoring every night the past 4-5 days. So he did a chest x-ray and some blood work and tested for RSV. It all came back positive. The chest x-ray showed a cloud in her lung, the blood work showed that her white blood cell count was low and the RSV test was positive. Her saturation was at 88, and they like it to be at least 90 or higher. So lucky me, the medical supply company that we have been dealing with for all of her other stuff delivered a moniter. I will take her back to the doctor tomorrow morning and he will decide if he wants to admit her to the hospital. If she is admitted she will be going back to Primary Children's. So Teresa we might be back! Apparently this is going to get worse before it gets better. Shawn is in Arizona for some law enforcement training, so I am home alone with two boys and one sick little girl. We almost went to Arizona with him. Thank goodness we didn't. Nothing worse than being in a hospital where there is no family and no friends.

sleeping through the annoying beeping of the moniter

this is the moniter that was delivered to my house to watch her oxygen level and heart rate. It is really annoying

nothing like having a hopital set up in my house

lovely oxygen tanks

Too cute!

Ok, I got her dressed for church today and thought, she looks so cute so I had to get some pictures of her. Yah, yah,yah, she has a bow on her head. I promised my mother I would never put one on her. Never liked them myself actually, until my visiting teacher made a couple of them for me, and I think it looks cute. So there she is already for church.

Living room camping trip....................

So I was down playing on the computer, and I went upstairs to check on the kids and I said "What are you doing"? Jackson said " we are camping with sister".

Jackson and Garrett trying to get into the tent with their sister

Hannah Lu seems to enjoy her tent that big brother Jackson so lovingly built for her

Sunny Day

The weather has actually been nice the past couple of days so I gathered the troops and we went for a walk. Here are a few pictures of the kids on our walk.

Jackson having fun riding his big bike. He can get on it by himself now.

Garrett pointing at the vicious dog, good thing he was behind a fence. I am sure he would have eaten Penny!

Hannah Lu enjoying her ride, she decided to take a nap

our Penny poopers enjoying her walk, she doesn't last very long and sometimes I have to put her in the stroller

here are a few pictures of her without the bars in her cheeks

I couldn't take any pictures without her eyes going huge because the light on the camera mezmorized her

Hooray for Hannah Lu!

This past Wednesday, Hannah Lu had surgery to have the bars taken off of her cheeks. The screws were coming loose as a matter of fact, Shawn and I had screw her hardware back together the other morning. Thank goodness they sent us home with the special tools. Anyways, she wasn't supposed to get them off until May 5th, but the doctor felt that her bone was strong enough. So now I don't have to put her clothes on from her feet up. Now I can put things over her head. The little holes on the side of her cheeks scabbed right over and they look great. She was laying in the hospital bed and was turning onto her side, now that she can actually do that. All my kids rolled on their side early. While in the O.R. they also did an ABR hearing test. This test came back significantly better than the last one. We were very excited about that. She is hearing normal conversation and louder. She still will need hearing aids, but we are releaved that she isn't almost deaf. That is what they thought from the results of the last test. Well no more surgeries until she is a year old for her cleft pallete.

she is feeling much better with the hardware off of her face

big brothers waiting so patiently for their sister