We went to the zoo. Katie tried to talk to the animals and got mad at them when they didn’t say hi back. Otherwise she had the best time ever. I gave Hailey the camera and let her take all the pictures.
Tuesday March 30th, 2010
Friday August 21st, 2009
Family Portraits
Hailey has drawn each member of the family. I like mine because I have more hair.
Friday May 1st, 2009
Happy Birthday Katie.
Katie is three today. Happy May Day.
Monday October 20th, 2008
Thursday April 17th, 2008
Katie’s Phrases
Katie’s phrase of the moment is, “Help me daddy.” She uses this to request help with: getting out of the car, opening her snacks, going up the stairs, getting dressed, and others.
Monday March 31st, 2008
Katie’s Pigtails
Mom gave Katie pigtails this weekend. She enjoyed shaking her head side to side to make her hair twirl and flip around.
Monday February 4th, 2008
Words Katie Knows
No!, Ouch, Oh No!, All Done, Aqua, ball, Whoa!, more, snack, dog, Owen, mine, Daddy, Mommy, Papa, Nanny, hot, waffle, please, meow, moo
Friday February 1st, 2008
A Scrape
Katie fell and scraped her knee while walking to the car after school. She barely noticed that she was bleeding.
In the bath she notice the scab on her knee and tried to wash it off with her washcloth. She tried three or four times scrubbing harder with each iteration. Finally, she turned to me with washcloth in hand and said, “Please?”
Thursday June 7th, 2007
Tuesday May 1st, 2007
Monday December 18th, 2006
Christmas Pictures with Santa
Santa came to our subdivision to see the kids.
Sunday August 13th, 2006
Katie Starts Eating Solid Food
Katie started eating solid food (or solid mush).
Thursday June 15th, 2006
First Day of School, First Day of School
Katie’s first day of school. They have lesson plans, circle time, learning events, and anything else a six week old child could want. Katie responded by sleeping.
Wednesday May 24th, 2006
Hailey Meets Katie
Video of Hailey meeting Katie for the first time.
Friday May 12th, 2006
No Tubes, No Wires, No Hospitals
Katie is finally at home. She sleeps a lot. We have her downstairs with us, but you would never know it. Every three hours she wakes up and we feed her. Then she goes back to sleep.
Hailey got to see Katie for the first time today. She was very excited. Brianna went to get Hailey at school. It was nap time and her teacher was having a hard time getting Hailey to wake up. Hailey does not like to wake up. Brianna whispered, “guess who’s home?” Hailey jumped up ready to go. She wouldn’t take off her shoes for nap time. She wanted to be ready to go. Hailey has been doing soft touches on her baby every since. She alternates between calling her baby and sister.
Hailey is our hand-washing police. We put her in charge of making sure every visitor that comes to see Katie washes their hands. She is doing a terrific job.
Katie’s doctor told us that she was happy for us and very few parents act as excited about taking their child home as Brianna did. Yesterday, when the doctor told Brianna, on the phone, that we could possible take Katie home today. Brianna was quiet. The doctor said, hello, are you there? Brianna stopped crying and said, I love you; this is the best Mother’s Day present ever.
Thursday May 11th, 2006
Day 10 in NICU
Katie is making good progress. Since removing her feeding tube, she has nippled enough at each feeding to be ready to come home. She is scheduled for a car seat study and a hearing test tomorrow. Then we should be on our way home.
The grandma’s dropped off the car seat this evening so the study can get started at any time. For this test, they will buckle Katie into her car seat and leave her for 30 minutes. To pass this test she should have no incidents of forgetting to breath or having her heart slow or stop. If you remember from Hailey this is called apnea and bradycardia (As and Bs). In her short existence, Katie has had only two incidents and both were minor and self-correcting. I do not expect her to have any issues that will keep her from coming home.
Wooohoo
Brianna just got a phone call from Katie’s doctor. If Katie takes all of her bottles tonight we can take her home tomorrow.
Wednesday May 10th, 2006
Day 9 in NICU
Sometime during the night Katie decided that she no longer wanted the feeding tube in her nose. Since then she has been making good progress nippling her food. As of this evening there were no orders to put the tube back.
Tuesday May 9th, 2006
Day 8 in NICU
Katie is staying warm and is up to 4 lbs. 11 oz. Her milk is being fortified to increase calorie content. Her doctor would like to see her gain 1 oz a day. Last night she was up 2/3 oz.
She didn’t eat any of her 11:00 a.m. feeding for me. She ate her 8:00 p.m. feeding really fast, probably because her grandma feed her. It seems like we are still a little ways off from removing the feeding tube. To remove the tube, Katie will have to eat all of her feedings from the bottle. Right now she is skipping too many.
Katie made plenty of dirty diapers for mom to change. As soon as Brianna would get a clean diaper on Katie would make it dirty again and Brianna would have to start over.
