Some pics of the kidos

Hannah Growing (yes she is 4 months now so these are a bit old)

Hannah loves to smile and talk!

Luke got a new chair for eating and therapy.  Thanks to a great friend for the gift!

More happy Hannah.  She LOVES sitting in the Bubo seat

Luke even helps out with Hannah by swinging her (I ran the batteries out one night and haven't gotten around to replacing them)

My side of the family visiting for Hannah's baptism

Kevin's side of the family visiting for Hannah's baptism

Yes Luke got stitches again, same thing just opposite eye.  Who thought glasses could be so dangerous.  To make him feel better when it was over we went to the park to eat his lunch.  However, the car broke and so it wasn't as pleasant a trip as expected.  Thankfully Kevin was there with his car so we didn't have to call someone but getting Luke and his stuff and two carseats from one car to another smaller one is not an easy task.

Luke is now standing at the bookshelf, chairs, couch and anywhere he can find to stand.

Just my cute Luke.

The Hannah bug with daddy

Luke and his books.  Luke could be here all day reading if I didn't get him to play with other things.  I think it would be an understatement to say that Luke LOVES books.

Sick but no ER!

Luke, Hannah and I got sick after Thanksgiving.  Luke had it worst with a temperature, I had mainly a cough and sore throat and Hannah was just stuffy.  Luke rode out his temperature  as we gave him more fluids and tried to slow him down.  We carried him back and forth into his bedroom instead of having him crawl.  We tried to keep him interested in low key toys or books (with his love of books he was happy to oblige with that one).  After the fever broke his lungs were spewing a lot yellow and white thick secretions, a sign that there was an infections or virus in his lungs now.  We have noticed that this tends to happen with Luke.  He gets sick somewhere else in his body and his body fights it off but then the bacteria that is permanently colonized in his lungs is not been kept under control and so he gets a lung infection.  His secretions turned mostly white after only a few days and but he had been needing oxygen during the day, just a bit but oxygen none the less.  He also was not sleeping as well, probably because of all the secretions in his mouth, nose and lungs.   We watched and kept close track of him and he seemed to come out of it.  At one point I though of going in to just make sure there wasn't something more serious but then he seemed to pull out of things.  No more oxygen needed, the volume of air in his lungs while sleeping (his vent measures it) was back to normal, he had a couple of better nights sleeping and his secretions were all white and clear.  The increase in secretions that happened then we attributed to the weird weather, rain, snow, cold then warmer.

I am really excited to see that Luke's body can fight this stuff by itself.  His body seems to be doing what it should and with just a little help from us, extra oxygen and more fluids it can kick some of this stuff that "normal" kids get.  Go Luke go!

I on the other hand do not get enough sleep to have totally kicked my cough yet but I am feeling less run down and one of my weekly therapists said I looked a lot better than I did last week when she saw me.  So a couple of more days of some better sleep (Hannah you could help with this ;) ) and I may be back to normal.