Primary Childrens Hospital..

So this morning we wake up to some snow, Damon and Livi go out and shovel it (I'll post photos of that later). When Damon came back in, I was trying to get Sophie's oxygen stats, and I couldn't get it to go above 84, so Damon took over the reigns and he couldn't get it any higher either. We raised her oxygen level and waited about 15 minutes and checked it again and it still wouldn't go higher, at that point we are thinking that the machine we have must not be working well so we decide that we better take her into our doctors office just to be safe. We take her in and they can't get a reading higher than 85, not good. So the doctor decides that he wants to do an x-ray on her. Well the x-ray comes back and shows that it could be a few things, pneumonia, respiratory virus, or maybe even something to do with her heart. Well we bump up her oxygen and again and see that her stats aren't getting better. So Damon and I decide that we better take her to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. That is where we are now, Sophie has been admitted, and tomorrow they are going to do a echo gram of her heart to make sure that is working properly and we will go from there. I am assuming that she will be having lots of tests done, but hopefully we will be able to figure out exactly why she just can't get off the oxygen. I will keep you all updated, the hospital has wireless so I have a laptop here. Hopefully in the next couple of days we will have some good news.

Update...

Well I thought that I would give you all a quick update on Sophie. She is still on oxygen, I think we are going on our 8th week now. The pneumonia is all cleared up and has been for awhile, but she just can't seem to get of the oxygen. She had a doctors appt. on Friday for her sixth month checkup which she is seven months today so we were a little behind, and everything looks really good with her, but because she can't get of the oxygen we are getting an appt. with a pediatric lung specialist. Hopefully we can get her into that appt. before Christmas so we can figure out what is going on. All in all she is a happy little girl who likes to be entertained. She loves to smile and stick her tongue out which is so cute, I have yet to capture it though. Olivia can really get her laughing which is adorable, I love that they both just love each other so much. Sophie is always looking for her sister and Olivia is always willing to play with her. Sophie isn't crawling or anything yet, she can roll over and has almost mastered sitting up. She does really good with her oxygen tube, it really has come in handy sometimes as a toy for her, she loves to chew on the tubing. Its kind of sad that her favorite toy is a oxygen tube. Sophie has been eating some solid food for a couple weeks now, and she is doing pretty good at it. Most of the time though she just gets so distracted by her sister that she really doesn't eat that much. We sure do love having her in our family though, and are just praying that we will figure out what is going on and that she will be over it quickly.

Temple Square...

We had the opportunity to go and see the lights at Temple Square the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It was so beautiful and pretty busy. We walked around for a couple of hours and then headed back home. I love going to Temple Square at Christmastime with all the beautiful lights, it is such a special experience to be there.

Disney on Ice..

On Friday we got to go to Disney Princess Classics on Ice, it was so much fun. I loved and so did Livi. My parents bought me and my sisters tickets to take our girls. We were 5 rows from the rink so we had great seats. I think that me and my little sister Megan were more excited than the kids, we had always wanted to go as kids but never got to. Olivia got a little scared from the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, and the witch from Snow White freaked her out. All in all it was such a fun day. Since it was in Salt Lake we drove down and then parked a little further away so we could ride the train, Olivia loves riding the train. We loved the show though, I would get so excited when a new princess would come out. My favorite was the Little Mermaid performance, Olivia's was Ariel and Cinderella and the skate shoes and the snakes(eels in little mermaid), she told me more but you get the idea. Since seeing the ice skating, Olivia spins around on our wood floors all day and tells me she's skating. Thanks mom and dad for the great memories, wish you could have been with us!

Halloween

So here is a picture of Olivia in her costume. She was going to be Minnie Mouse but at the last minute she decided that she wanted to be a kitty cat instead. Our Halloween was pretty low key, we just went to the trunk and treat at the church and then she helped hand out candy at our house. This is our first Halloween in a sub-division and we got quite a few trick or treaters. It was fun to see all the kids in their costumes. Poor Sophie didn't even get to wear her costume, she is still on oxygen, so she keeps a low profile hanging out in the back of the house wear she won't come in contact with anybody, we don't want to get her sick again so keep her pretty secluded. Olivia loved Halloween though and anytime a kid came to the door she would ask them what was their name and what was their costume.