Mommy needs a time out!

PICTURES! YAY! I finally uploaded some pictures!

My babies together. Troy wanted to lay with Rylee.

Me and Rylee

Grandma Klauer and Rylee

Rylee and her godparents, Erin and Craig

Rylee's last day with her pretty hair

Rylee chewing on her pulseox at the UW hospital ER

Troy giving Rylee one last kiss before her surgery

Me and Rylee bouncing while we were waiting

Daddy and Rylee, patiently waiting...she was very hungry

She took her pacifier for a while then my thumb did the trick

Staring at Daddy wondering what the fluff is taking so long

Finally crashed out

All done with surgery

The morning after

Rylee is doing relatively well. She is still in pain and discomfort. We decided to give her tylenol in .4mL every 4 hours instead of .6 mL every 6 hours. This seems to be helping her with the pain a little better. 6 hours seemed too long and all the tylenol at once was making her very very sleepy.

Last night was a rough one for Troy, Rylee and I. It seemed that Troy and I butted heads all night. We just didn't get a long. Rylee was just not happy all night.

Since I had to come home early from work so that Daddy could go to school at 2, I skipped my lunch break. I decided that I would have a little left over cheesy salsa stuff from Sunday's Packer game. I no more than sat down and Rylee started screaming. I forgot all about the cheesy salsa and tended to Rylee's needs. I gave Rylee a sponge bath and was just starting to get her bundled back up when Troy fell down and started crying. I placed him in the recliner with cartoons on the tv while I finished up Rylee. I got done with Rylee and look up to find Troy smearing the cheesy salsa dip all over our microfiber recliner, his arms and FACE! I was mortified. I had one child screaming because she was hungry and the other one screaming because he rubbed cheesy salsa dip in his eye. ARGH! I tried to call for some help but no one was home so on my own, I threw Troy in the shower, tried to calm Rylee down by propping a bottle up with a towel, called the Help nurse about the huge red spots all over Troy's face and about Rylee's excessive sweating and screaming and scrubbed down my chair. This is what I call multi-tasking. I got Troy held down, ran saline over his eyes, toweled him off and dressed him in his pjs.

At 7 ish, after Troy's constant crying and whining and falling down and throwing things in Rylee's bed (who was sound asleep finally) and throwing things in general, I reached a breaking point. I simply set him on a rug in the kitchen and set myself in the living room. We each had a time out.

At 8 I was moving Rylee's pack-n-play from the living room back into my room while Troy was quieting down for bed. I was out of Troy's sight for 1 minute. When I walked back into the living room, Troy had got Rylee's can of formula, was taking handfuls of powder and putting on the living room carpet. I about died! That stuff is so super expensive and now it is in a pile on the living room floor. I could've killed him. I made him help me clean it up and then we had a "chat". He kept telling me "sorry" and giving me hugs and kisses. It was one hug that lasted a little longer than others that made me start wondering if he was awake. Sure enough, he started snoring. This kid just fell asleep while giving me a hug. If only it were that easy every night.

I love my kids to death but I need a brake from them. I am sure that after tomorrow, Kris will as well. Someday, Kris and I pray we will get the opportunity of a babysitter so we can go out for dinner or maybe even a movie, if we are lucky (which obviously we're not). We've been at each other lately and could use a date, which we haven't had since Troy was 3 weeks old. Someday! Hopefully we're still married when that someday comes.

Surgery update

I know that everyone has been waiting for this all day but this is the first chance that I have got to do anything. Rylee's surgery was scheduled for 12:50 this afternoon but she didn't get taken back until 3:50. It was a long day with a very long wait time. (We received $15 in cafeteria dollars for extra 3 hour wait that we had) My Aunt Lisa and Uncle Jeff came to visit. They actually got there before Rylee was taken back so they got to see her before hand. It was very nice to have them there because I think they put at ease a little more. I just handed her off the anesteologist and away she went for an hour. Lisa and Jeff stayed and chatted with us for the entire hour which helped enormously with the time. Before we knew it, it was past the time that they wanted to leave to get Banjo, the 4 month old puppy in training, from a friend's house in Janesville. Hopefully they didn't hit too much rush hour traffic. At about 5:20, we got taken back to see Rylee. She has a large horseshoe shaped incision on the top of her head and an incision in her belly. Dr. A said that the surgery went as well as could be expected. The camera went right in, to the 3 quadrant of her brain and down the tube to her 4th quadrant. Since the tube wasn't blocked in any sort of way, she ended up with a shunt. She has 2 large bumps on the top of her head where the resevoir to the shunt is. They will be able to tap in to make sure the spinal fluid is clear. Dr. A said that the shunt was working and that by 7, the pressure in her skulls show be within normal range.

She was very groggy when she was in recovery and not awake at all. She let out a cry once Kris and I got there so I got to hold her. This evening she got really red with a low grade temp, then she got pretty pale and then a little rosy. I am not sure what caused that. Every once in a while she lets out a bellar. I am hoping that she gets some good sleep tonight. She will have pain medicine available to her throughout the night. I am also hoping to get some sleep. We are actually in the Pediatrics 4 unit on the Bone Marrow transplant wing. It was one of the only open rooms and she was healthy (no infectious diseases...just a shunt).

If everything continues to move smoothly, she will go home tomorrow.

Troy stayed with Aunt Katrina, Isaac and Noah today. He must of had fun but boy was he crabby when I saw him. He and Kris headed back towards home at 8:30 which is bedtime so that they can take of things on the homefront while I stay stranded her with Rylee. They will come back tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully, they get to sleep in tomorrow. I know I will probably sleep on the way home. I actually think that I am going to catch some zzz's while I can.

Good night all. Thank you all so much for praying for Rylee. She needed it and came out just fine!

Nervous

This afternoon the 24 hour count down started. UGH! We've spent the entire weekend together as a family. Rylee has been happy go lucky and very smiley. She threw up once on Saturday and once today. Today she started coughing and that brought on the vomiting. We have noticed that she is constantly sweating. She literally has sweat beading off her forehead. I am not entirely sure why that is. It's 9:30 now and she's been sleeping since about 7. She can not have any formula after 6:45 tomorrow morning and absolutely nothing after 8:45 am. She is going to be one cranky girl tomorrow. We have to be at the UW American Family Children's Hospital at 11:15 am to get checked in, iv in, prepped for [gulp] surgery. Surgery is scheduled for 12:50. Friday night and last night I snuggled with Rylee at bedtime. She has been held quite a bit in the last 2 days. She has drank more for us in the last 2 days than she has ever.

I am afraid of tomorrow. I am a ball of nerves already. I am not exactly sure what we are doing with Troy tomorrow and what we're doing tomorrow night. I just want to spend as much time with Rylee as I can.

The neurology resident Andrew, said that they had done an surgery almost identical to Rylee's case earlier that day and it only took 15 to 20 minutes. Hopefully they can get the surgery done shunt free but as long as I have my smylee Rylee at the end of the day, I really don't care what way it is. I hate to see her curl go. I am going to give her a bath in the morning, tie a pretty bow around a lock and cut it off. Even if they only have to shave a little spot, it will look funny regardless.

The more I think about it the more nervous I get. Therefore, I beg that tomorrow you pray the hell out of this surgery. Please pray that she comes out this healthier than she went in.

Good night all.

Today was Rylee's first puke-less day. She has been constantly vomiting which has been progressively getting worse since August 30th. On August 30th she weighed 11 lb, 4 oz. Today, she weighed 11 lb, 3 oz. A whole 20 days later and she has lost 1 oz. In Rylee's case, 1 oz is a huge amount. Remember back to February, March and April when the IC docs wanted so desperately for her to gain an ounce a day? Now she's not gaining anything at all.

She was hospitalized for Influenza A & B, RSV and pneumonia on August 31st. Her doctor was Dr. O who had never seen her before. As it turned out, she has Adenoid virus which is simply the common cold. She did have a slight case of pneumonia as well but tested false positive for Influenza A & B and RSV. However, the vomiting persisted. Dr. O didn't seem too alarmed by that.

On Friday, September 11, after constant vomiting all day, I called the MA help nurse. Dr. C was on call and after talking with him, we decided that the best plan would be for me to take Rylee into the ER in Platteville for at the very least some fluids to treat dehydration. After 2 hours in the ER, she was sent home with the understanding that we were to go to Mercy ER in the morning at 8:15 for an UGI procedure. UGI stands for upper gastrointestinal. Dr. C had a theory that the place where her stomach meets her small intestine wasn't functioning properly. She had to fast from midnight to 8:15. She was given Barium to drink while there were xrays being taken as she swallowed. She was rolled on each side. The test result came back as normal. Therefore, the problem of vomiting continued unresolved.

The following Monday morning, Sept. 14, I took her in to see Dr. C again to check her for dehydration as she threw up constantly on Sunday, including all over me at her party! On Thursday, Sept 17 I took her to meet Becky, MA dietitian. We met Dr. O in the hallway and he was hanging around to take a peek at Rylee. As it turns out, this will hopefully be the best peek ever. He was in a hurry and pretty much only got that she has been vomiting quite a bit.

Last night at around 9:30 I got a call from Dr. O's home phone number. He said he had been looking throw Rylee's chart and came across her head circumference. He was shocked by how much her head has grown in proportion to the rest of her body. He wanted to see at 8 am. His thought was that she had excess fluid on her brain which was causing headaches resulting in her vomiting.

Kris and I both took Rylee and Troy to this appointment. Turns out that that was one of the best decisions also. Rylee was taken over to Mercy to have a CT scan done of her head. She also had labs drawn. We watched the CT scan video with Dr. O, which was also his first time watching it. It was quite obvious that she had an excessive amount of fluid. Dr. O called the UW hospital and sent us on our way up there.

Today, Rylee was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus. On Monday, our sweet little girl will be put under anesthesia and have a camera insert in her skull. There will either be a hole put in the 3rd quadrant in her brain or a shunt from her brain to her belly.

The neurology resident didn't think that the vomiting had anything to do with the Hydrocephalus. In 8 days, her head has grown 3/4 cm. Her skull isn't fused together resulting in a large soft spot. Since, it isn't fused, it is growing instead of building up with pressure.

After the 8 am appointment, we got in the car to head home and pack a few things (we were told that she would have shunt put in today initially but that planned changed when we got there). After everyone was called and all our affairs were in order, I looked at Kris and said, "I'm just going to cry now." "Ok", he said and rubbed my leg as I sobbed. I cried for her. I cried for me. I cried for Troy. And I cried for Kris. But mostly, I cried for her. I cried for her future. I was strong through all of the calls and had my 60 seconds to break down.

I sit here right now with my food uncooked for tomorrow, the bars I planned on making not made, because I am too busy with the enlarged head with hair only on the top in the crook of my elbow and my arm wrapped securely around that tiny body feeling her breathe, watching her eyes flutter under those tiny purply pink eyelids and listening to her little squeaks. I wonder what she is dreaming about as she talks out loud and smiles...I can only hope that it's me.

I am not looking forward to Monday. I will be a mess for sure. I can't imagine having to leave her as she is wheeled into surgery and having to just sit there. I will long to hold her hand and rub her tiny foot.

So tonight, she will sleep with me. She will stay snuggled up right where she is until the sun comes up.

Another Rylee update

Rylee had her 6 month well child appointment today. I went relatively well. I had forgot completely that Dr. C wanted to do an xray on her hips. He ordered that and took a look at the outcome. He is not a radiologist but her thought that they looked just fine. I am not exactly sure what the outcome of her froggy legs will be. He also spoke with me about the flu shot, which she got half of today and will get the other half next month. He is also pretty sure that she will qualify for the H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available. He laughed when he said that this flu and cold season is going to be a long one for her. He also added that he is done taking vacations so he will always be there.

We touched the subject of the extra calcium in her urine culture. Dr. O called yesterday and said that the Iowa City Kidney doctor thought that the calcium level was in a normal range. Dr. C also agreed with Iowa City. However, she is coming up on 9 months and he is pretty sure that she will be off the Neosure 30 k/cal by then due to the fact that she will most likely develop kidney stones. We have an appointment with Becky, her dietatian, next week. Dr. C wants her to call him before we decide on a plan for Rylee. He is no rush to start cereal and doesn't want her to be either. Iowa City told us that it would be December at the earliest before cereal and he agreed whole heartedly.

Rylee also received her shots. OUCH! She didn't like that. We are still having trouble with her throwing up at odd times. Today, she threw up for the second day in a row at Tara's. UGH!! DadD forgot to send an outfit to Tara's to replace the one she had to use yesterday so Rylee got to come home today in a boy baby outfit. We had a few errands to run today after I picked them up.

We went to have dinner with DadD tonight. Then we had to run to WalMart to order food for the party. Unfortunately, it seems as though many of the people that we invited won't be attending. My brothers and sisters, parents and Kris's parents are attending for sure. Other than that, I have no idea. Oh well, we'll send cake and food home with everyone I guess. I had figured on about 75 people coming but now the count is maybe 30-40. I already asked my mom to get potato salad for 75 people. I hope everyone attending like potato salad enough to take a bucket of it home with them.

We have a busy weekend. It's Dairy Days in Platteville. Clare Bank is walking in the parade and handing out candy so Rylee and I will walk while Kris and Troy watch and collect candy. The theme this year is Herds and Curds so we are going to be the Herd from Clare Bank...haha. Then we are going to Madison to my sister in law's house for her Dove chocolate tasting party. AH, DOVE! I LOVE DOVE CHOCOLATE! We were going to go to The Melting Pot but Troy is coming with us so we'll probably just head home to get ready for the party. Then Sunday, we have Rylee's baptism and the party afterwards. YAY!

I promise that I will post pictures. Especially of Rylee in her beautiful dress.

To Aflac or not? That is the question

First things first...a Rylee update. Before I told you that Rylee was "officially" diagnosed with RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B and pneumonia. However, today I found out that that's not true. Well, pneumonia was true. The initial test read outs for RSV, Influenza A & B were positive. Dr. O sent them to the "State". Well, he received the results yesterday that she tested negative for all 3, meaning nothing grew out from the bacteria samples that got. However, she did grow out the bacteria for Adenoid virus. I am not exactly sure what that is. We had to get a new antibiotic for her because she isn't getting rid of the cold as fast as he would've liked. YAY, another $100 bucks for antibiotics...last week I spend $176 on 3 prescriptions...OUCH! I am unsure how to take this news. On one hand, it's fantastic news that she didn't expose anyone to those 3. However, if she would've had RSV, there would've been a lesser chance that she would get it during the heavy parts of the cold and flu season. I am just not sure how I feel.



Today, she had her "procedure" thingy. I am still not sure what they call it. Urodynamic or systematic...I don't know. They inserted a catheter, filled the balloon and then sent us to xray. This peeved me a bit as we had to sit in the waiting room with all the coughing old people forever. The procedure took about 30 minutes to do. Then back to the lab/xray waiting area for another 45 minutes just to have some blood drawn. Dr. O said that her procedure came back as normal. Therefore, there is no backing up of urine to her kidneys. Her urine culture from last week showed that she had extra calcium causing crystals. Dr. O suspects that calcium, probably from her highly consentrated formula, is causing a calcium build up in her kidneys, enlarge them and will primarily result in kidney stones. I was aware of this because Dr. C had warned us of it. Dr. O has given us the name of dietatian to visit that he has already spoke with about Rylee and her formula. Her weight does concern her. It would benefit us regardless if we change the formula or not to see this Becky and work out the best thing for Rylee, especially since we've already went through all the food allergies with Troy and are aware of them.



Tomorrow is the visit with Dr. C. We haven't seen him in a few weeks and have much to fill him in on. This is also the 6 month check up.



Now, Aflac. I think the commercials, well all commercials actually, are annoying but we had a representative at work today. I sat down and spoke with her. If anyone has any insight on insurance, I would love to talk to you before Friday. I am having a hard time deciding whether or not it is worth the money each money to pay for it. Primarily, I have been offered short term disability, accident and sickness insurance. I think the short term disability would only benefit me if I was planning on having another baby, which I am not. Accident and sickness will help pay for the costs other than health insurance. Like family lodging during hospitalization. However, it only covers one hospitalization per covered person per calendar year. And all of the things that Rylee has been diagnosised or treated for in the last 6 months are considered pre-existing conditions and will not be cover in the 6 months following the execution date. Ugh! What to do? I am really not sure.

Labor Day weekend

It was a long weekend but the end came way way too fast. On Friday night, I went on an overnight shopping adventure with my sisters. When you get the 3 of us together, we're all giggly and silly. Friday night after furniture shopping, we went to my favorite restaurant Texas Roadhouse, then headed to Watertown to the hotel. We got there at like 10:30, I was tired as were Carmen and Erin, but we decided to go to sit in the hot tub (the night manager said he though he would "forget" to close the pool area at 11). We got up, ate the continential breakfast and went SHOPPING! We hit Kohl's first. I got Kristopher 2 shirts, a pair of sunglasses and a pair for myself ( I left mine in my car in Madison and it was a bright, sunny day) and a few shirts for Troy. We then went over to the outlet mall. I bought Rylee a dress from the Children's Place with a 15% off coupon. I got a gift, a pair of jeans and the cutest pjs for Rylee and a sweatshirt and outfit for Troy from OshKosh with a 20% off entire purchase coupon. At Carters, I bought another gift and finished off my kids winter wardrobe with a 20% off the entire purchase coupon for about $110.00 and got coupons for my next purchase. We then went to Adidas were I got myself the most comfortable sandles and a pair of Superstars for Troy for the BOGO 1/2 sale. There was a new store at the outlet mall, Columbia Sportswear. I love Columbia coats and could wear one forever. I have one now, that I've had forever and need a new one but just can't bring myself to spend the money. I bought Troy a fleece coat thingy on sale, Rylee a fleece coat thingy on sale but it has a hood and since she'll mostly like be in an infant seat the entire winter it will do for a winter coat, and Wisconsin thin, fleece hoody for myself with an additional 20% coupon for the entire purchase. At the Old Navy outlet, I bought Troy 2 shirts, Kristopher 1 and 1 for myself for $15 total. After Old Navy we headed back to Madison. I had an excrusating migraine and slept the way back. That little nap as well as 2 tylenol and a bottle of water did wonders for my migraine. We decided to head over to the west side. We visited the Lands End Inlet where I purchased 2 swimming suits for Rylee for a total of $7.34 with tax. AWESOME! We went to Target where I purchased 2 cans of formula (because Kris said we were low at home), a dress for Rylee for $2.38, and a coat orange and brown plaid coat for Troy. (3T which is too big but by the time you add a sweatshirt underneath it will work just fine and he may get some use out of it next year). We finished up our trip with ice cream at Michael's. I love Michael's. I took my purchases home, showed them off to the rest of my family (9:30 pm and T was still awake) and T tried to put on all his new clothes by saying what sounded like "MINE".

**A little side note: Lane Bryant is a plus sized clothing store! I've never had to shop that department before therefore I thought that it was a furniture store. Boy, my sisters didn't let me live that one down the entire day! I guess I deserved that one!**

On Sunday, bright and early, Kris and I along with Troy and Rylee decided to tackle the GARAGE! Once week got the stuff pulled out set into piles, I think people thought we were having a garage sale. It was a lot of stuff. Mostly junk that we have no idea what to do with. By Sunday night, we had every storage tub gone through, every piece of garbage bagged up, cardboard layed out flat, the floor swept, everything put back in the garage and organized and we even had a car parked in the garage. Imagine that concept of parking a car in the garage. We now we can. It was a very nice feeling. **A few months ago, Carmen and I started a new cleaning schedule. We take one room a month and do a purge clean. October was garage month. It's done ahead of time! AWESOME!**

On Monday, I made 2 pasty pies. One for at home and one for the Firemen pasty dinner. At 9:30 there was a parade. This was Troy first experience of candy throwing. He caught on rather quickly what he was suppose to do. He would run up to it, do a little jump, pick up the candy and run back to give it to DadD. It was funny. Sometimes, he thought that he needed to throw the candy too. There were times when Kris or I had to hold him back when the candy was thrown to the kids next to us. He got a little scared when a firetruck whooped it sirons, loved the motorcycles and was very unsure of the bands. He started of by waving and grew bored with that. We went back home, changed, Kris and Troy ran the pasty up the church, ate our pasty and then all took a nap. Or at least I did. The rest of the day, we should've cleaned our house, but instead we had lounged. We watched our favorite Monday night television show, which was the season finale and won't be back on until January, and actually got to watch it with DadD. With the close of this program we have The Jay Leno show starting the 14th, Biggest Loser starting the 15th, Grey's Anatomy 2 hour premiere on the 24th, Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters on the 27th.

Today, Rylee had her second physical therapy session. It went well and Marcy was very impressed with some of the things that she did today and not last week. You never what that girl will do. Next time, she may not want to do some of the things that she did today. Who knows? She will have speech therapy on Friday with Krisann.

Tomorrow, we have to take Rylee to see Dr. O for a hospital follow up visit. We will also be doing the Urodynamic thing. Not looking forward to that but hopefully it gives us some insight on why her kidneys are enlarged. Thursday our 7 and half month old baby girl will have her 6 month well child check up with an ultrasound/xrays of her hips and the dreaded shots.

Tomorrow, I also have a meeting at work. It's to see if we want any Aflac benefits on top of 0ur health insurance. Now, we the heck were these benefits 8 months ago? I could've of definitely used them then. Hopefully, I'll get some insight. I have to either sign on or off of these benefits. We'll see.

I have pictures to post of some funny things that my kids were doing over the weekend. Like, Troy at the parage and Rylee sucking her thumb while napping during our garage project. I'll post them later.

**EXCITING NEWS: Troy went pee pee on the potty. This is his first time actually going. I think it scared him actually. He did kind of pee pee on the floor. But hey, my specialty isn't the aim, it's just getting him to do it!**

Home Sweet Home

Rylee has made it home. She was discharged at a staggering 9:15 pm last night. We made it home at a quarter to 10. Troy was STILL AWAKE!! My gosh that child was so so tired he was hyper. He seen Rylee's carseat and about jumped in it with her. He kept giving her kisses and talking baby talk to her and saying her name over and over and over again. Needless to say, he was so excited to see her.

Rylee was officially diagnosed with pneumonia, Influenza A, Influenza B and RSV. It was a long 36 hours and I am glad that she got to come home.

Rylee's procedure for her kidney is called Urodynamic something or other. They will insert fluid via cathater into her bladder and see if goes up into her kidneys. I am not sure what the outcome is that we want whether that be the fluid goes to her kidneys or not. I have a bunch of research to do before this happens.

We are going to be seeing Dr. O on September 9th at 8:45 for a follow up from the hospital visit and having the Urodynamic thingy done. Depending on what the outcome from that appointment is we will start sending her to Tara's. We will also see Dr. C on the 10th at 10:45 am unless he would like to see her sooner. Have I mentioned how much I absolutely love Dr. C! He's such an amazing doctor. He deserves an extra halo! The man works miracles.

As I said before, Rylee's baptism and party are still on as planned. I will probably send out evites to those of you that I have email addresses for. Others, I will send an invitation by mail. Heads up though, if you are planning on coming (and I hope that you do) we ask that if you have experienced flu or cold symptoms in the past 15 days that you refrain from coming. If not, please use special hand hygiene in the coming days. We would love to have everyone there so don't be afraid. If you would like to hold Rylee, you will have to be masked and wear gloves. At the party, we ask that everyone to use the hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial wipes.

Happy Birthday to Poppy!

Rylee is doing much better today. She was quite dry yesterday so a bag of fluid and she got color back and even a tad bit plumpy. Last night, Troy and I hung out at the hotel. We watched our favorite Monday night tv show and he fell asleep 15 minutes into it. He slept very sprawled out in the big big bed. Therefore, even if we were to trade our Queen for a King, Daddy and I would still be hugging the sides. At first, I thought the bed was COMFY! But once I got up this morning...not so much. I got up bright and early and went to the hospital. At 7, the nurse came in to give Rylee a bath. While bathing, the ultrasound tech and machine arrived. The nurse finished her up quick and then the ultrasound tech took over. It took all 3 of us to keep that girl still and happy.

Dr. O came in at 8:30. He thinks that she was looking much better. She still has a nasally sound when she breathes. He wants to watch her a little more and then she will go home one Omnicef again, which is what she was on 2 weeks ago. He hadn't gotten the report on her kidneys yet but it would be soon. He was also going to call Dr. C this morning once he got all his results back. Kris and I traded after breakfast this morning. He called me a little while ago, to say that the ultrasound didn't show that her kidneys have changed any since she was inutero. Therefore, she will have a procedure in a few weeks. I can't remember what he said the procedure was called and have no idea what it all entails. I find out when I go back to hospital after lunch.

Troy and Kris will probably have lunch together this afternoon. While, I will stay with Rylee at the hospital. I am praying long and hard that she is ready to come home. We would love to have her there. We would love to be there. If not, Kris has class this afternoon at 2 so Troy will go to his babysitter, Tara,'s house and then we will switch places again. I need to get home and clean my house. We were gone for a large portion of Sunday and I didn't get much done. I have to wash all of the bedding, blankets, Rylee's dirty clothes. I want to get as many of those germs in our house OUT!

I have a blurb about visiting... You've heard it a million times before BUT, if you would like to visit with Rylee, you will have to be in excellent health. From today on out, we are setting high standards for those coming to our house. You may not come to our house if you have experienced any of the following:

Had cold or flu symptoms in the past 15 days, even if it just 1 sniffle
Been exposed to the cold or flu in the past 15 days
Have been exposed or had RSV in the last 12 months
Have been exposed or has H1N1 in the last 12 months

As I've said before, we're probably not going to be able to make it to family functions at Thanksgiving/Christmas time.

As of right now, Rylee's party and baptism are still on schedule. It's not cold or flu season right now, and the party is outdoors. Therefore, check your mail for the invitation. I will hopefully have them in the mail tomorrow. I held them off because she was sick a couple of weeks ago and wasn't quite 100% yesterday.

Good day all. Continue to pray that Rylee is well enough to head home tonight!