Our journey to our daughter: September 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

Playing Catch Up!!!

Wow, I've been bad!!! Time for some extreme catch up.

Well, at my last post, we had just left the hospital to surprise the big brothers! Boy were they glad to see us! We packed up their stuff and finally headed home. Our first night was a little scary. Ava spiked another temp of 103 but it finally broke early the next morning. The Friday after we came home, her incision had started opening in one small area, so we had to make another not so quick trip back to Children's. The doc said her incision was a little infected in that small area, but otherwise was healing much quicker than they anticipated, so out came the stitches a week early!

Later that weekend, we took Ava to her first fair, the DuQuoin State Fair. She LOVED it, especially the fair food!

The start of fall also means high school football, so that's where you'll find us nearly every Friday night til the end of October. We have a really good team this year and Ava loves watching cousin Peyton cheer!

This past Saturday, we all went to an AWESOME concert!!! We were lucky enough to get tickets to see "Point of Grace" and Mark Schultz. The boys love hearing his music and he really does put on one fabulous show!

I also included some pics of the kids out at Rend Lake (less than a mile from our house). Chris took them out for a walk yesterday (Sunday) while I stayed home for a much needed nap. Thanks, Hon!

This past week we celebrated 2 months with Ava home. It has flown by and yet seems like she's been here forever, kinda weird to explain. Her vocabulary is unbelievable and she cracks us up everyday with some new word or phrase. Right now, she's in the "Why?" phase. She asks "Why?' to everything!! "Ava, stop unrolling the toilet paper."..... "Why?"....."Ava, time for lunch."...... "Why?" You get the idea!

Oh, almost forgot to add that we had our post-op visit last Thursday with the neurosurgeon and he said, " See ya' next summer!" Hallelujah!!! No more docs for a while!!!

Thanks for listening to me ramble, will update soon!

Just got the news that we've been sprung!