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Guest writer: Mommy

We have a lot of catching up to do. But first I will start with Michelle was able to go home last Friday, December 3. She had her surgery November 29 to help open her airway so that we can start working with her on using her speaking valve.  Her hospital stay was a roller coaster ride. Never quite sure what the plan was, or what was going to happen next. Healthy one day, sick again the next. And it didn't help that Daddy was having to do double duty since I am out of commission. Luckily we had some major help from Tino and Grandma during her stay that allowed Daddy to stay sane. Thus, Daddy made all the right choices and now our little girl is benefiting from all his work. Michelle now has a new feeding tube that bypasses her stomach and goes straight into her small intestine. She is doing fabulous with it and gaining weight again much quicker than we have ever seen. There were several other technical tests that they did while she was in the hospital that gave us reassurance that she will continue doing well.  And of course, our spunky little Michelle is now doing Marvelous!

Now for those wondering, I am still in the hospital, but that is a good thing. Why? Because it means I am still pregnant. I was hoping to go home on bedrest November 29, but after my doctor did some tests he decided that these two little boys might be in more of a hurry to get here than we thought and it was better to leave me on IV medication in the hospital. Roller coaster ride here too. Not quite sure what is going to happen and when, but things are looking good and the boys are still cooking so we will sit in this lovely bed and wait very patiently. Right now our goal is to keep going one day at a time, but if you ask me my long term goal, I am optimistically holding out for 36 weeks. Hey, I loved the movie Pollyanna when I was a kid, what can I say.

Now before our little family got blown out of our lovely little nest and then had a pile of manure dropped on us, we were doing what any family was doing. And so I want to share some of the pictures of what we were doing the day before our little world went topsy turvy.

First sled ride of the year!

  Sure looks like fun.

The Abominable Snow Ryker

Uh oh, snow ball fight

Watch out Mommy, I am going to get you

Or maybe Daddy will

The beginnings of their Snow Man

Looking so proud of his work

Michelle staying warm with Grandma inside

But Ryker proudly displaying his work after enduring the cold weather.

Now I must undertake the job of going through all the pictures my wonderful family have been taking while I am away that chronicle all their wild adventures.