Pictures and More Pictures

Here are some February Stories and Pictures!

These are all 3 from Valentine's Day!

Just some updates first:

~Thomas' MRI was NORMAL!!! Then they sent him to a Physical Therapist to be sure about his muscles being so tight, and to see if it would help with the night pains. So, we went to the Physical Therapist yesterday, and she gave him some stretches to do, but otherwise thinks he's fine! Yes, his muscles are tight, but it's not a big deal she said. So, we'll stretch and move on!

~Sarah had surgery on Tuesday again, and they said everything is looking much better! She goes back for a follow up tomorrow. The last tiny bit of Kidney Stone got blasted away during the surgery! So that all looks good too!

~Grace is under the weather right now. She has a bug that causes a high fever, but the doctor said she should be ok in a day or two. Bad news is, I'm pretty sure I'm fighting it now too. (Plus of course we didn't get any sleep last night, so I'm exhausted!)

~Thomas will be 4 years old on March 9th! He is having a Star Wars party at our house on March 7th at 2pm. (Assuming the Power Stays on and the Creek Doesn't Rise...)

~Our friends Don and Derema Bledsoe are being induced this Tuesday Morning March 3rd! Baby Lucas will be here in no time! (Thomas told Derema he "hopes it doesn't hurt when the doctor helps the baby come out." She smiled and said thank you.)
Here are the pictures!

~Grace went to her 1st Tea Party Last Saturday! (2/21/09) Emily and her Mom invited 3 of the granddaughters, Samantha, and Grace over for a fancy tea party at 2pm. They were sooo cute.
They got all dressed up for the party, then when they got there, Emily had 2 tables full of princess dress up clothes to add to their outfits. After this, they all went down to the end of the hall and then one at a time marched down and into the room for a fashion show!
Later, she had these plastic tea cups there with princess foam stickers for them to decorate. Last, the girls sat down to a fancy lunch of tiny sandwiches (PB&J or Bologna and Cheese) and cookies.

Grace and Emily's niece, Eva who is 4, asked for "Banas Please," so they also shared a banana. She even had a fancy rose for each one with a giant diamond ring. Grace threw her ring and flower in her dress-up box for later!

Ready for the Fashion Show!

Emily Taught them how to hold their pinky out.

Grace found this purple shawl and white feather boa in the dress up stuff!

She's telling me here how fuzzy that boa is!

Decorating Tea Cups.

Grace's 1st Earrings!

These are pictures from the kids' school!

This is Ava, Thomas' favorite friend.

This was from when Tyler spent the night with Thomas during Sarah's hospital stay.

Thomas showed Grace how to do flips a couple of days ago.

Here is a picture from dinner last night of Derema and Don. They are pretty excited, baby will be here Tuesday!

Sarah's Kidney Stone Surgery was a Success

Sarah and Bill are at home tonight!

They took her back to prepare for surgery at 8:30am this morning, and by 11am she was out.

I don't have a lot of details, but I do know that it was a lot worse than they thought before they went in, and felt like the kidney stone had been there for possibly as long as since she first had Ian. (Who will be 10 months on the 25th!)

They were able to place the stint, which they will have to put her back under again in a couple of weeks to remove.

The great news is, now she'll begin healing. And they are home now.

We have Tyler again tonight, and Ian is at Mom's again, since we thought Bill and Sarah needed the quiet.

Thanks for the prayers! Keep them coming!

MJ

Sarah has a Kidney Stone

Sarah is spending the night in the hospital!

She has a kidney stone that they are going to remove tomorrow.

Sarah started having some pain day before yesterday and last night it got worse and worse. Bill was rubbing her lower back and there was a big lump where her kidneys should be. Since she was continuing to complain of the pain, he agreed that she should call the doctor. When she came back in the room, she said that Dad was on the way to pick her up to take her to the ER. Then Mom came to stay with the kids so Bill could join them.

They had already given her an IV and morphine by the time Bill got over there. They had realized right away it was likely a kidney stone from the amount of pain she was in. She said that before they had even finished giving her the injection of morphine she felt much much better and sleepier.

An hour or two after Bill got there they did a CT Scan to be sure it was a kidney stone, which they verified.

They are doing a surgery in the morning at 9am.

She is at Baptist Hospital East.

The procedure will include going in and breaking up the stone some, removing it, and placing a stint that will help the kidneys drain, as there is some infection already enacted.

We have Tyler here and Ian is at Mom's house.

As for Valentine's Day, Bill took her something, then later, Sam and I went by with a card for her, as well as a really cute get well card that Thomas had made for her, plus a cookie for each of them from the Great American Cookie Company. And we stuck around for awhile and talked.

They are sharing a room with a lady who is older, and who we think must have had a pretty good fall, because they said she was very banged up and bruised when they saw her.

So, prayers are in order all around I guess. And praise that it was found so quickly and diagnosed so quickly!

Thanks!

MJ