Riley and other stuff

First of all I will give a little update on Riley. She continues to be hospitalized and they are waiting for the abscess to encapsulate before going in to do surgery. She is on strong doses of antibiotics so they are monitoring her platelet and white cell counts to watch the infection and also to make sure the antibiotics are not harming her liver. It would be wonderful if the antibiotics fought off the infection so she would not have to have more surgery. Also, they were planning on putting a picc line in this morning because her IV started leaking and her veins are collapsing. So....the picc line will go directly to her heart and they can continue to administer her antibiotics through her picc line after returning home. Yesterday a doctor told Steve the soonest they would be coming home was Friday. Who knew an appendix would land you in the hospital for almost two weeks? I talked to Riley yesterday and she sounded pretty chipper. Also, her digestive system starting moving a bit yesterday so that is really good news.

For a bit of the action around here..... Our next door neighbor is going to be 84 years old at the end of this month and she offered the use of her pool to us last summer. It really has been an amazing blessing! I put the kiddos to bed and take Judah and Shane swimming and just take the monitor out with us. Sometimes we only get an hour before someone is awake. Last night though Mark took them swimming after dinner. The water is 84 degrees which in my opinion is the best temperature for swimming. Tristan decided he wanted to get in on the action so ...... in he went. Clothes and all.
Here is Eden doing one of her favorite things - playing piano. She absolutely loves to pound on the piano. Of course I am hoping this is a sign of things to come. I know she really enjoys dancing. Music is just in her!!
Tristan and Eden sharing cheerios in the living room. Isn't she chunking up? She has gained a total of 4 pounds in the 2 1/2 months we have been home. And developing quite an attitude too. She has always been pretty vocal but she is becoming quite comfortable with adding kicking and screaming to her resume. Yikes!!!! But notice how tiny her feet are. They are so, so tiny. Not much bigger than all three boys feet were at birth. I am not quite sure how she is supposed to walk on those little things.
All her attitude has tuckered her out. I think there are few things sweeter than pictures of sleeping children. They look so cherubic. Is that a word? It must be since my spell check didn't highlight it. Now I am off to make lunch and get ready to take all the kids to Grandma Eveleth's. I am dropping off the youngest two and taking Judah and Shane to paint pottery and do some shopping. I need some time with the older two since "the babies" seem to have overtaken so much of my time. I think they would rather stay home and swim. Oh well.....