Livvy Update

For those of you that care here is an update on how Miss Olivia is doing.  She was officially diagnosed with laryngomalacia by the ENT back in February (I think anyway, time is kinda running together).  Her labored breathing was making it pretty hard for her to eat and and breath and sleep, so she was working so hard to breath that she is burning more calories than she is able to take in.  So we talked to Occupational Therapists at Primary's and got some ideas on how to feed her to make her eat better, different holds and such.  We've talked to Dietary at Primary's and got some goals about what she should be taking in calorie wise.  She is only getting about 330 calories a day and should be getting almost 600 to gain what she needs to keep gaining weight like she should.  So we are looking at adjusting her formula concentration and added a fat supplement to her bottles.  And if she will continue to take in the same amount of fluid with the higher concentrated calories she should gain the weight, but there is the challenge-getting her to drink that same fluid,higher concentrated-babies tend not to like it concentrated like that.  We have also added another medication for her reflux in the hopes that if she is super comfortable in that regard she will continue to eat more.

If all of this doesn't work in the next couple of weeks then its a nasogastric tube and feedings at night for Olivia.  It's a good thing her mommy is a freakin kick a** nurse ;)  But we really don't want to have to do that cuz it can bring on all its own problems.  So we are hopeful that we can see some L-B's come on this skinny little girl of ours!

Spencer Family pictures

We had pictures taken a couple weeks ago and they turned out pretty good.  I have a dang good lookin family

Brad Hyde Family

Jay Spencer Family

A girl from my parents old ward took them and she did a fabulous job!

Spencer Grandkids

We had Spencer Family pictures a few weeks ago but the kiddos were done with taking pictures so we never got a picture of the grandkids.  So we got together this week and took one for my mom--they are just the cutest kids ever!

Birthday parties

The girls have wanted a birthday party this year and I told them they could have one.  Their birthdays are so close together and they have many of the same friends that I asked them if it would be ok if they had their party together.  They really do get treated a lot like twins but when they are so close in age and have a lot of the same friends it happens I guess.  So they each got to invite 5 friends and they made jewlery boxes and watch dolphin tales with the projector screen on the wall.  I bought movie candy and made popcorn and then they each got a "swag bag" with a necklace and lip gloss and sunglasses.  Everyone seemed to have a good time and they have fun friends.

New living room

Brad is awesome and remodeled our front room.  I love it and it really needed updating-it's beautiful!  Good job Brad!

We tore out the old green carpet and replaced it with hardwood flooring and new carpet up the stairs and hall and tore out the wall that came up the stairs and replaced the banister and painted all the walls.  Added new light fixtures and it looks so much better!

Blessed and a birthday

Today was Olivia's blessing in Sacrament meeting and then we all came back to the construction zone, better known as our house for brunch to celebrate Maycee's birthday-which is on Wednesday, she'll be 7 years old.  My baby will be two months old tomorrow and she has finally turned into the fun, beautiful baby girl that I knew was in there, just had to make her more comfortable so we could experience her fun personality and not the screaming baby in pain!  She is doing so much better and has started to basically sleep through the night!!!  This mama is so excited for that, especially since I start work next week.

Maycee drew me a picture and that is what she wanted on her cake-a mermaid