Updates and a mothers nightmare

So I realized that it has been awhile since my last post. Life sure is exciting in our home. I'm sure ya'll want to see pictures of the little babe, so here you go. My awesomely talented friend Amy took these pictures for me.





Ashley had jaundice bad enough that she had to be under lights for a few days. I of course cried on the way home from the Doctor. I hated not being able to hold and snuggle her. She could only be out of the lights to eat and get her diaper changed. She had to have her little heals pricked every day for almost a week.




Very concerned siblings.....





A lot has happened in the past 8 weeks. I survived a full week with 3 kids all alone! Jeff had a business trip to Texas and Chicago to go to. I was actually amazed at how fast time went by. Other times when he has been gone it seemed like forever.

Shelbie is lovin kindergarten. When I ask her what she learned that day she replies, "Nothing momnmy, I already know everything." I guess it is possible to go over a little overboard with positive reienforcement! Shelbie loves being a big sister. It's nice to have a diaper fetcher!

Caleb seems so big to me now. He has had a harder time adjusting than Shelbie. I guess it's hard not to be the baby anymore. He does love his new sister and is very protective of her.

So now for the not so happy part of my post. Last week Ashley started to get really cranky. If she fell asleep in my arms and I moved her, she'd scream. She would moan in her sleep too. On Wednesday night she had a fever of 102.6. So it was off to the emergency room. I went alone so Jeff could be at home with the sleeping kiddos. We were admitted right away, which was nice. If there are any other mothers out there that have had to watch a nurse try to find a vein in their newborn, you know the torment I am about to talk about. My sweet baby was pricked for over an hour 6 times in her arms trying to find a vein. After 2 nurses and endless screams from Ashley and tears from me, they decieded to shave a spot on her head abover her ear to put the iv in. We spent 5 hours in the ER, and when we left they diagonised her with the flu, however she had a cyst in a not so comfortable place for a little girl to have, but the ER Doctor did nothing about it.

Thursday we took her to our Doctor. He couldn't believe that she had a cyst in the place that she had it. She had to be strapped onto a papoose board and have a little surgery done in office to get the cyst to drain. I had Jeff take her back, but I could still hear her screaming. That evening she did start to perk up a bit. Friday morning I had to take her back to the Doctor to have the packing removed and replaced. That was no fun. She is doing a lot better now. We think that she had a fever from the infection, not because she tested positive for the flu. It has almost been a week now, and I still feel like I have not caught up on my missing night of sleep. But seeing Ashley smile makes it all worth it.