BABY UPDATE

Every week that I go to the Perinatologist he would say to expect to schedule a transfusion for the following week. I don't know why, but this baby has finally decided to cooperate and every week we could put it off until the following week. At my appointment this Wednesday, he said we probably won't have to do another one at all! That is incredible. If the baby shows signs of being anemic we will probably just deliver the baby instead of messing around with transfusions. I'm sure that the latest we will have a this baby is mid October. But nothing has gone as planned with this pregnancy so who knows what will happen! I am looking forward to not having dr. appointments all of the time! I have at least 3 a week. My kids are even sick of it. Hallie is excited because I don't have any appointments today! What an exciting day. Anyway, I thought that was great news because it was not fun doing the first transfusion! Now I just hope this baby cooperates with me after she is born because I don't know that I can handle having two stubborn girls!

LIL' MEG

At the beginning of the year Meg had a seizure. She was fine, but it was a little scary. Well, the other night Meg had what we thought was another seizure. Mark realized she wasn't breathing so we started rubbing her and trying to stimulate her so she would breathe. Finally he had to blow air into her lungs to get her breathing again. We thought she'd be fine in a while, but it took her an hour before she was able to try to move. She couldn't keep her balance and couldn't really move. The next day Mark took her to the vet and found out she had an infection. He said it could be spinal meningitis and so we went ahead and treated her for it without knowing for sure so we wouldn't have to do a spinal tap. He also said that she could be suffering from some kind of trauma because she was having neurological issues. The worst case scenario is that it was a stroke! He gave her steroids in case it was trauma to reduce the risk of blood on the brain and swelling. It was pretty scary. We weren't sure she was going to be okay because of the amount of time she went without oxygen. She seems to be getting better though. I think she did have a seizure and just wasn't going to come out of it, but she did because we got her breathing again. Bo was playing with her so maybe something he did or something we did while trying to revive her hurt her neck. That's why she couldn't move. She is slowly getting better and becoming her old self again. I don't know what I would do if we lost Meg! She is irreplaceable to me. She is the dog that made me into a weird dog person who buys clothes and accessories for their pets! Anyway, I'm glad that it wasn't a stroke or something more serious. Hopefully Meg will be with us for a long time.

SHOPPING

The other day I was getting groceries and I kept running into this lady who was driving me crazy! Her shopping cart was piled full of stuff and it was not organized in the slightest bit. She would grab something and toss it into her cart. Where ever it would land, that's where it stayed. Then I ended up in the checkout stand behind her. I just sat there and stared at her cart. It was such a mess! I looked at mine. All of the dairy was together neatly, all of the boxes were stacked nicely, all of the like items were together and orderly. I couldn't stand looking at that lady's cart anymore, so I looked next to me. There I saw yet another shopping cart piled high carelessly. Then I looked behind me. Same thing!! Then I watched everyone else and I saw only one lady who had things somewhat organized. So I thought to myself, "I must be some kind of weirdo because I'm the only one with an organized shopping cart!" Then the crazy lady in front of me started putting her groceries on the conveyor belt. She just tossed everything up there in a haphazard manner. Her meat was on top of tortillas, her fruit was on top of her meat, and her bread was squished somewhere in there. I couldn't stand to watch! After actually paying attention to how other people fill their carts, I can't help but wonder if someone else out there is just like me when it comes to shopping or if I'm the only weirdo!

FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL

Hallie's first day of preschool was yesterday. She had a great time. As soon as we got to the car she was like "Aren't you going to ask me 'How was school today'?". She was so excited about what she did. I asked her about the new friends she made and she couldn't remember names, but they were all boys. I don't know about Hallie! It's the same things at church. Hallie is nice to girls, but as soon as a boy comes along that she likes, they are best friends! She just doesn't make friends with girls as easy as boys. Hopefully as she gets older she'll just be one of the boys instead of boy crazy! Anyway, school is good because it is giving the kids a break from one another and it also makes it easier to spend some one on one time with each of them.

AIRPLANES

I'm sure that everyone has heard that the I.F. airport's main runway will be closed for about a month for new upgrades being done to it. Now all of the planes are flying right over my house! How irritating. It's usually helicopters and small planes, but now even the smaller jets are right above us. Yesterday I saw an airplane shadow on the ground bigger than my car! It's almost scary having planes so close. All I can think about is all of the stories on the news of airplanes crashing into houses. Well, if that happens at least we could buy a new house! Anyway, I'm so tired of hearing airplanes every 10 minutes. This is going to be a long month.