coming home today

Friday night, Owen started to get sick. He was having trouble breathing through his congestion and had a terrible cough with gagging sound that made him cry so hard. I took him to the pediatrician Saturday and the doc said he didn't have any mucus in his lungs or ears, so he gave me some wicked mean looking nasal aspirators and sent me home with signs of what to look for it it got worse.

It got worse. Tempurature rose, breathing grew more and more difficult and he wasn't able to eat. I started setting my alarm to get up and check him every two hours, then every hour, then every half hour. Not that I actually slept in between, I was just afraid I would. Then, sunday morning, while sucking snot out of him, a chunk broke loose and blocked his airway. As his eyes started to bulge and he began to turn blue, I yelled for Seth - who ran up and started pounding on his back while I reached down his mouth with the bulb aspirator and pulled out ropes of mucus. so gross. He started breathing, but it happened againa few minutes later. At that point we yelled to Jimmy to grab some clothes and drove as fast as we could to the local ER. they stabalized him with oxygen and then called the ambulance to take us to a larger hospital, St. Vincents. He stayed there overnight and slowly got worse - not lots - but not getting better. So THEY called an ambulance and sent us to Doernbecher chilren's hospital. He's been there since today. I'm so glad for modern medicine and good staff. the people here have been wonderful and have delt with him so gently and compassionatley (with us too for that matter...)

Here is being transfered to Doernbechers by the special PANDA until - pediatric EMTs

• This is now, looking relaxed and ready to come home! Me too!

Mardi Gras beads

Here are a few pictures from the family parade and a picture of the kids with ALL the beads collected from the parade. Want some beads??? :-)

Snow?? in Louisiana!

Well, the big news a couple of weeks ago was that we got "snow" here in Louisiana. I know it doesn't look like much (and it's not), but it is more than they usually get here.

Drew's Birthday

We celebrated his birthday yesterday to accommodate Rafe's crazy schedule this week. I can't believe he's already 1. He is so fun and has the best smile. The most shocking thing about Drew is that at barely 1 he already has 13 teeth with at least 1 more coming soon!