Sisters

Elliana loves her sister, and when I say loves her, that is like a serious understatement.  I am constantly having to say, Elliana, "leave your sister alone, she's trying to sleep".  It's pretty adorable to see Elliana trying to stand on the bars of Phoebe's crib to give her her binki and have Elliana come find me and say, "it's okay Mom, I made Phoebs happy".  I got this cute little pictures of my girls the other day, wanted you to all see it...and document for future reference, they do love each other!

Sleeping...

Who likes to sleep...well, I do.  But my children have been horrible sleepers the last few days.  I think they are anxious about what's going on, their house being packed up and for Elliana not having Tom around...so Phoebe has slept in 30 minute stretches all day!  At 10:30 tonight Tom text to say he was going to bed and asked if I was going to sleep too...this is how I replied...at least she's cute right?!?!

Wedding and 3months

Phoebe had her 3 month birthday on my brother's wedding day!  It was a wonderful day!  Elliana got to be the "flower girl" and LOVED it!  She gets to be a real flower girl a month from today at my best friend Telaine's wedding!  She is SO excited to have a basket and get to throw flowers!  

Phoebe weighs 10 lbs 2 oz and is 23 1/2 inches.  That is the 5th percentile for weight and the 25th for height.  

We are still DESPERATELY missing Tom, but are getting very excited to move in with my parents this weekend and have Tom home for a quick visit the weekend after!

Hospital

2 weeks ago this past Sunday Phoebe started up with a fever.  It got pretty high; 103.2 Tom was concerned and I decided to take Phoebe to the doctor.  I just took her to Urgent Care, but she no longer had a fever because I had given her Tylenol.  When my kids are sick, they are generally still happy...so the Dr. sent us on our way, saying if Phoebe spiked a fever again I should take her into the ER because she was a little dehydrated and probably would need fluids.  She did alright on Sunday night, but had a really rough night.  Monday she was pretty good, had a little fever, but nothing like Sunday, only up to 100.5.  We just hung out and lounged around on Monday.  However Tuesday morning when she woke up she had a fever again, 102.5, so I decided to call her pediatrician.  We went in and we were sent fairly quickly over to the hospital. The picture above is right before we went to the Dr.

We were checked into the hospital and they tried to start an IV, it took them over 3 hours and 6 tries to get the IV in.  It was miserable.  Luckily after the 3rd poke my Mom got there.  It's terrible to have your kids poked and prodded and Phoebe is SO tiny that her veins are really hard to get.  They called in their best people who still failed on Phoebs.  Finally the sedation RN got her poked and had success!  She ZONKED after that (as shown above).  Poor baby.  Right after they had started her IV, they told me she was being admitted and it would be a minimum of a 48 hour stay.  *on a side note, my new Sister-In-Law was going through the temple this night (Tuesday) and my brother was getting married on Friday.  I clearly did not have time to be in the hospital...oh and did I mention that I'd be moving the next week...and I have no husband around to help.  Thank goodness for my awesome cousins who take great care of Elliana.

 After Phoebe had a little nap she decided to play with Mimi who got to stay and play for a little while before heading to the temple.  Mimi for those of you who don't know, is my Mom...Elliana started called her that a long time ago and it just stuck, so I think she'll forever be Mimi.  : D  She had to have 2 BOLACE treatments to give her a little better color.  And was on IV's the whole 48 hours she was in the hospital.  After many many tests, we still don't know what she had, other than a TERRIBLE virus that wore her right out and dehydrated her.

The morning we went home, Phoebe was looking SO much better...her coloring still wasn't great, but so much better!  She hated that little "cast" they put on for her IV, it made her so mad to not be able to play with her hands and suck on her fist.  And let me tell you how hard it is to accessorize that nasty ugly hospital gown, that was a size 2T, the smallest they carry!  We got to come home 48 hours after we entered the hospital and got home Thursday afternoon!

2 Months

Phoebe had her 2 month check up and weighs 9 lbs. 2 oz and is 22 1/2 inches tall!  That puts her in the 4th percentile for weight and the 14th for height!  She's getting SO big!  She had 2 month shots and did great!

1 Month

I'm very behind, this much I know...I've been SO busy trying to finish working, I have lots to catch up on!

At 1 month, Phoebe weighed 8lbs even and was 19 1/2 inches long!  Still TINY! At this point she was starting to grin a little...but just barely, was sleeping about 6 hours without needing to eat!