Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Merry Christmas, Baby...

We got the good news that we have waited to hear for 4 months, Elliott can finally come off of the monitor! He hasn't had a true episode of apnea or bradycardia in over a month. I was so happy to take those leads off and not have to put them back on...to put his onesie on without having to thread the wires through the snaps... and to finally be able to put him in something that zips instead of snaps!

In other news, Jack got into a bag of Ghirardelli dark chocolates and had to go to the Emergency Vet last night... fun right? We didn't make the discovery until around midnight last night, when Eric found three candy wrappers on the floor. It all started to make sense - night before, Jack had some diarrhea and yesterday evening he had thrown up several times. Around 2:30am he was WIRED - could not settle down so I called the vet and took him in - they admitted him and treated him with IV fluids and charcoal to remove the toxins - He only at 3 squares but at 6lbs that was 1 1/2 times the toxic level... I picked him up today around 4pm, all I can say is thank God for credit cards - What's in your wallet?

We went to get our Christmas tree tonight - finally - I was beginning to wonder if we would decorate at all. The kids and I went shopping today with Mom and actually managed to get some things accomplished - doesn't seem to matter how early I start shopping, Christmas always sneaks up on me!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Time is flyin'

Wow, another month has come and gone. Elliott is still on the monitor and his reflux medication has been increased to twice a day. It seems the reflux was/is causing our sweet boy to have episodes of bradycardia - or low heart rate... so the decision was made to increase the meds... oy! (just realized that I already reported that... oh well!)

As far as my healing goes... I have been declared "healed" by the wound center. I will go for another sonogram next week to check the size of the seroma but looks like my paid leave may be coming to an end.

We spent Thanksgiving in North Carolina where most of our family lives. Eric's parents, Mike and Pat as well as his brother, Vince and his family live in Concord, while my dad's side of the family live in Matthews, Indian Trail, and just over the South Carolina border. We stayed with Eric's parents but got to spend quality time with both sides of the family. My Aunt Terri hosted Thanksgiving for 21 of us - yowzaa.

While there, we had Christmas with the Connors or 'Connor Christmas' as I call it. Eric's Grandad came over and was thrilled to sit and hold Elliott. Of course, Elliott was a big hit - this was the first time my family had met him so he pretty much got held the whole time... lots of lovin. Eric and I had fun with my cousins, Ashley and Lindsey - they have their own apartment so we got to spend some late nights with them. We also got to meet Lindsey's beau - Chance' - very sweet.

Already this month we have been to see Santa Clause - to my dismay, I lost the pictures that I paid 30 bucks for! Fortunately, I got a good pic with my camera (see above). We also went to Picture People and had Christmas pictures made of the kids - they turned out very sweet. Last weekend, Eric and I went to my work party (even though I am not working ;-D) while Aunt Summer and Uncle Bryan babysat - we had to pay them in pizza and wings but it was nice to have a night out.

Tomorrow is my 32nd birthday, we will be traveling to WV to have an early Christmas with mom's family.

Enjoy the pics...