Week 28 in Pictures

Well, the good news is we got to come home from the hospital on Friday.  The bad news is we are back again.  :(  I didn't get to finish my blog posts about our great hospital adventure, but let me just quickly summarize the past few days.

Alex was doing great on Thursday and Friday so we got to go home.  All tubes, IVs, and PICC lines were removed and we were so excited to be leaving Hotel de Children's Hospital.  Everything was swell until Saturday evening when he started vomiting.  He vomited 4 times between 7 pm Saturday and 11 am Sunday, so I called the hospital and they wanted to see him.  So we drove back down, had X-rays, an IV, another NG tube, an a CT scan.  He was admitted Sunday night around 8:00 and here we are.

The word is that he has an abscess in his belly.  Tomorrow we are supposed to go to IR (surgery) to get another PICC line and possibly have the abscess drained.  He will be started back on TPN (nutrition) and he's also getting more IV antibiotics.

Boo.

Not sure how long we will be here this time, but we are definitely hoping it won't be as long as last time.  We do not want to spend the whole month of July in the hospital.  Minus those 45 hours we got to spend at home over the weekend.

Anyway, having said all that, most of last week's photos were taken at the hospital again.  And it looks like this week's photos will be also.  :(

{Sunday}

Daddy and Alex had fun looking at an Eye Spy book.  Alex is really good at Eye Spy.  (The tube in Alex's nose is the NG tube - used to drain fluids from his stomach).

{Monday}

Alex loves to watch the marble machine that is in the hospital clinic's waiting room.  We were there several times during our stay just to see the train and the marble machine.  And I'm sure we'll visit it again now that we're back.  (When we would go walking, I would tie his NG tube inside his gown's tie in the back.  That way no one had to hold it and it wasn't pulling on him.  The nurses thought that was the neatest idea.)

{Tuesday}

Doug brought our last chrysalis to the hospital so I wouldn't miss when this handsome fellow decided to join us.  This was the magical day.  We set him free in the hospital's healing garden.

{Wednesday}

Some Pittsburgh Penguins players came to the hospital to play games with the kids.  Grammy and Alex wanted their picture taken with Iceburgh, the Penguins' mascot.  Fun times!  Except for the whole being-stuck-in-the-hospital part.  :)

{Thursday}

Alex and I did some spin art in the playroom.  It looked prettier while it was spinning.  :)

{Friday}

The day we came home!  Honey was so excited to see us, she nearly knocked me over.  Once I got her calmed down, I decided she needed to be my POTD.

{Saturday}

Nick and I went for a walk down to our neighbor's pond.  There were plenty of dragonflies buzzing around.  This one was nice enough to sit still for me.  :)

     
If you are doing a Project 365 this year, be sure to stop over at Inspire Me Photography and link up.  Tracey will be featuring a photo each week from someone who has linked up.  She has themes for each week, but you are not required to stick to them.  Otherwise I would have been booted out a long time ago!  :)  Oh, and you will LOVE her photography!  She's awesome!

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Last week in pictures

We finally got back to our routine last week.  School is in full swing, Bible study started back up, and Saturday morning soccer started.  We also finally got our first big snow and had our first 2-hour school delay.  Of course, our routine is being interrupted already by a 4-day weekend.  The kids have no school on Monday and Tuesday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and an in-service day.  So much for our routine.  :)  But we'll have fun nonetheless.  
Anyway, here's what last week looked like in pictures ...

Sunday

I just love Keira's new Bible cover.  Makes me kind of wish I had bought it for me and not her.  :)  (My "something new" for Inspire Me's P365).

Monday

Alex had his 6-year check up at the doctor's.  He looked so cute in his Dr. Seuss paper gown.  (cell phone photo)

Tuesday

Such a nice day, so I went to the carwash down the road to spray all the junk off my car.  This hose for the scrub brush caught my eye.

Wednesday

Nick has been really into Legos lately.  He brought some new-to-him figures home from school today.  Apparently one of his friends at school didn't want them anymore.  This is my "made with love" submission for Project 52 with My 3 Boybarians.  Nick made these Lego figures with love.  :)

Thursday

A very rainy day ... before the cold and snow moved in.  This is my "chilly" submission for Project 366 Rewind.  The falling temps really made me aware that the snow was coming.

Friday

After school the kids and I went for a walk though our neighbor's woods to enjoy the beauty of the snow.  It covered everything and was so pretty.  It is amazing the difference a day can make.

Saturday

We had lots of birds hanging out in our maple tree and eating from our feeder.  I was so excited to see not one, not two, but four male cardinals and one female cardinal in our tree at one time.

     

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Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #10

Hello!  And welcome to another Wild & Wonderful Wednesday!


Well, we have been praying for snow.  Not because we need any additional precipitation, because we've had plenty of rain lately.  But because this is winter.  And when you live in Pennsylvania, you expect snow in the winter.  And in the fall.  And in the spring.  :)  But aside from a few brief snow showers here and there, nothing has really stuck around for long.

Until now.


It started snowing yesterday and continued overnight.  We woke up this morning to a good 6 inches of snow on the ground.  However, there was no school delay, which really surprised me since it was only about 16 degrees when Keira had to catch the bus.  I was pretty excited about the snow until I went outside and felt just how cold it was.  :)


But out I went anyway.  To help Doug shovel/sweep the driveway and to snap a few pictures, of course.

Honey, being the snow dog that she is, was in her glory.  She LOVES the snow.  It doesn't matter how cold it is, she wants to go out and play.  So we did.  A little.

     

Alex was having fun helping sweep the porch.  Once he pushed all the snow off, he jumped in the pile he made ... naturally!

The wind would whip the snow up from time to time.  And the sun was in and out all day.

Once he was done sweeping, Alex decided to go make a snow angel.  I don't know what Honey was doing.  Making sure he did it right, maybe?  

Alex asked me to photograph his angel.  He did pretty well!

Later in the day Honey and I went for a brief walk.  Brief ... because the wind was really blowing and my fingers were freezing pretty quickly.  It is really hard to change your camera settings when you can't feel your fingers.  :)  Even with two pairs of gloves on.


Right now the thermometer reads 7 degrees, which is kind of funny because the low for today was supposed to be 14 degrees.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a more tolerable 31 degrees, so hopefully we'll get outside to play some more.

Now it is your turn!  Link up your Wild & Wonderful photos below.  

Just a few things first ...

1.  Grab my button for your post and link up below (or at least use a text link) so others can find out about Wild & Wonderful Wednesday.  (I reserve the right to delete links that don't follow this one simple rule.  K?  Thanks.).

2.  Link up your post URL (or Flickr photo URL), not your blog URL.

3.  Photos must be yours please.

4.  Try to visit and comment on a few other linker uppers (mine too please!  It is just rude to link up and not comment, don'tcha think?).  We know how much everyone loves comments!  

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Photos of the Day: December 12 & 13

{December 12}

Got up early to go shopping all day with Doug.  I didn't mind so much because I got to witness this beautiful sunrise and get my POTD out of the way early.  :)

{December 13}

Since I failed to photograph Honey on her birthday, December 10, I made a point to capture her today.  She is officially three years old.  And she's as bad as the kids when it comes to the camera.  She thinks if she keeps looking away that I'll stop taking her picture.  :)

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Photo of the Day: November 28

ISO 400, f/5.3, 1/60s, 18-105mm lens

Alex lost another tooth on Saturday but we just got around to photographing the "big gap" today.  You can see his front tooth is already starting to grow in (beside the one that he just lost).  I was hoping his other front tooth would fall out so he would have that sweet toothless grin that kids so often get.  It is wiggly so there's still hope.  But if he loses any more teeth, we'll have to puree his food!  :)

   

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Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #3

Welcome to my third edition of Wild & Wonderful Wednesday!  I'm so glad you are here!  If this is your first time here, all W&WW is about is showing off a photo or two (or ten!) of something or someone you think is wild and/or wonderful.  Simple.  Just the way I like things.  :)

I have just a few photos to share this week.  We've been so busy running here and there that I haven't had much time to take many pictures.

Part of my "wild" is this photo of a couple deer visiting my neighbor's yard at dusk last week.

I very quietly went outside with my camera and tripod so I could capture them without them running off.  Thankfully I was able to get a few shots in before my loud and obnoxious wonderful boys came out to see what I was doing outside.  :)  I'm hoping to get another opportunity and get a clearer photo.  Between the wind blowing the trees and the super slow shutter speed and the fact that deer move when you want them to be still, I didn't get as crisp a photo as I would have liked.  I know the deer will be back.  I just hope to get such a beautiful sky again while they are here.


This next series was also taken last week.  While we still had beautiful weather, Alex and I took advantage of the bike trail once again.

This was my view of him most of the time.  I always debate whether I should take my camera along or not, because it isn't the easiest thing to run while holding a DSLR.  But I'd hate to miss a photo opportunity, so I carry it.  I'm actually getting pretty good at running while holding it.  :)



I was actually trying to capture some leaves while they were falling off the trees, but I ended up with these of Alex riding his bike.  The lighting makes me happy!  :)



You can see I was able to capture some leaves falling, but it wasn't what I was going for.  And since most of the leaves are gone now, I'll probably have to wait until next year to try for the photo I want.



This photo makes me happy because of all the delicious bokeh.  I love me some bokeh!  :)  It  was so pretty that morning.  Even the trail was sparkling!

Okay, now it is your turn!  Link up your Wild & Wonderful photos below.  
Just a few things first ...
1.  Grab my button for your post and link up below.
2.  Link up your post URL (or Flickr photo URL), not your blog URL.
3.  Photos must be yours please.
4.  Try to visit and comment on a few other linker uppers (mine too please!).  We know how much everyone loves comments!
5.  Please bear with me while I work out the kinks of my new photo party!  Thanks!
6.  You have until Saturday at midnight to link up!



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