Fly on the wall

Tonight I stood outside Lindsey and Emilys bedroom door and listened in on their conversation. Emily is going to have 12 kids. 10 girls 2 boys. She then proceeded to tell Lindsey the names she has been thinking about. Paige, Angelina, Izzy, Anna, Maribelle, Mon, Leah, Daniella, Kayla, Shannon. Chad for a boy and she is undecided on the last one. Lindsey loves the name Paige and is trying to trade Emily for another name so she can use it. She has even gone as far as to say "I am older than you, so I am going to have kids before you and I am going to take it!" The concensus tonight is that it is a lot easier to come up with girl names. Lindsey wants 5 kids. Oliver and Evangeline and hopefully Emily will give up Paige. She is working on the other two. Ben asked if I used to talk about the names I would name my kids when I was little. Doesn't every little girl? I can vaguely remember my "Mc" phase. Mckayla, Mckenna, Mckay... I loved being a fly on the wall tonight listening to my girls.
Last night I walked into the room to find this. Ahhhh contentment. You gotta love a binkie falling out of a sleeping babies mouth. And the lips, Bens lips. It is the only feature we recognize on our children during the ultrasound. The Brown lips. They all have them. Gracie has finally started to roll the last two days. Poor thing rolls as far as her oxygen cord allows and then gets hung up.

she's not cordless anymore

We are home. Ben says she isn't cordless anymore. We forgot what it is like to carry a baby around with oxygen. A couple of times I have picked her up and forgot the oxygen tank which made for some pretty squished faces when I walked away. Poor baby. It looks like she has viral pnemonia. She received another steriod shot today and we will see how she is doing tomorrow. She is starting to perk up a little bit and act like her self. While we were in the hospital she was fussing around and I nearly gave her the oreo cookie wrapper to entertain herself but I didn't think the nurses would appreciate that. She found the next best thing. Her oxygen hose. It's handy and doesn't fall on the floor. It's a good thing she doesn't have any teeth because she would bite right through it.
I had an interesting conversation with the house keeper at the hospital yesterday. She was the kindest woman. She looked a lot like grandma Wilkey and had a thick German accent. She radiated the most wonderful spirit. She reminded that there is joy in life no matter what the circumstances. She was born during the war and she said that to this day a simple chocolate bar thrills her. I concurred because I am thrilled by chocolate too! Mostly I sucked in the positiveness that came from her. What a simple blessing for me. It was also Eliza's fourth birthday yesterday. Thanks to a great mom and sister she got her presents and her little birthday party. I was all set to make these awesome pink lemonade cupcakes when everything came down with Gracie. Check out the picture below. A candle makes anything pretty! Thanks mom and Sara for cutting your vacation short and coming at the drop of a hat when I called. You are the BEST! Thanks for all the phone calls and prayers. We have really felt them.

Again

I just realized that the cup they brought me a drink in tonight is the same one they used to collect the gallons of urine that poured off my body after Gracie was born. mmm I love a product that will multi task, but gross, really.

I come to you tonight from Dixie Regional Medical Center. We are back. Gracie has some sort of respiratory virus. It's not RSV. We just don't know what it is yet. Hopefully the test results will come back tomorrow afternoon. I want to go home in the morning! It's amazing what a little oxygen will do for your coloring, poor thing, she is pink again. Suprisingly, I am holding it together. I thought the sounds of the monitors would freak me out...they are not. Hooray ( I think that is a tender mercy.) It helps that I know how to run the dang thing. So I used to love staying in the hospital. I had a new baby. I could have things brought to me in bed by the push of a button. I loved the nifty way you can elevate your legs and head at the same time and turn yourself into a human taco. The juice and graham crackers. Who wouldn't love that? Then I was sick in the hospital. Yuck, what a icky place. Tonight I am hoping to make it through and maybe convince the nurse that Gracie needs some cranberry juice and Graham crackers!

Its that time of year again!

Brownies selling cookies! I just love that the girl scouts start selling cookies in January and deliver them in March. Just in time to realize that the diet I started in January will be over with in March when my will power is destroyed by a box of thin mints.

Greetings from the fifth

Gracie says hi! I've said it before and I will say it again...Spoons and fruit snack wrappers make the best toys! This weekend Michelle tried to throw away the swedish fish wrapper I have kept in my purse for three days. I nearly had a come apart, do not throw away Gracies favorite toy! As for the Bumbo, what a great invention. I only wish it had a different name like, well I don't know. Just not Bumbo, that word makes me cringe.
Is it possible to be allergic to the cold and snow? The last two times I was up north I have itched and scratched myself to death. My poor nose was raw :( Today it is cold and overcast and I am itching again. Maybe it is psychological.
Two more things.
1. I am now enrolled at Dixie state. Oh boy, I feel old.
2. We are the March of Dimes Ambassadors for Southern Utah. Wish us luck!