Last week...

We started out last week with a visitor. Then a birthday, a hospital trip, a decision to move, and work. Brady's brother Blake came to stay last weekend, and Boden loves him! He calls him Bake, and that is literally all we heard ALL weekend. Here are some pictures of the amazingly warm weekend we had....

Uncle Blake (the visitor) walking Boden home from church

 

 

 

  We got some priceless pictures of Clara. She is the sweetest thing.

 

 

 

Love those rolls on her legs!

She tries to suck on her fist, it's starting to get red and she has to have her blanket, dress, or shirt up by her face.
 

Boden after he woke up and his new smile

 

Blake and Bo

The "Catch" game. They throw the ball up and catch it over and over again. Whenever Brady lays on the ground, Boden runs over to lay on his chest to play.
 

He now likes his towel like this when he is done showering. What a big boy!

 

We were invited to Lacey's Birthday BBQ. It was so much fun! She didn't mention it was her birthday, just that it was a BBQ, she is in some big trouble for that! Don't worry we'll make up for it!

Our little family

 

 

Chris and Alan

 

Boden Loved watching

 

 

 

My handsome 

Boden thought he would give it a shot
 

Chris and Lacey
 

The Hospital Trip

Well after many calls to the clinic and some long waiting, we finally got a call back from them that gave us some pretty big news. They decided they would let Primary Childrens Hospital take care of Clara's belly button problem. I was so freaked out. They started to think it may be a urethral cyst of some sort, or something a little more serious then they wanted to handle. So we were directed to call Primary Childrens and get an apt. We did so and found ourselves packing up and driving to salt lake that night. We had an apt the next day with the urology dept. The doctor looked over the ultra sound and really examined her belly button and the "protruding defect" and was positive it was granulation tissue. Which is a mass of blood vessels that tried to help heal the belly button once the cord fell off, and the skin wasn't able to cover it fast enough. He thought it would be best if they removed it and stitched her up. Within the next hour they had her in a room and were doing just that. Phew!!!! I was so relieved that it was nothing more serious! There was a certain peace I had felt that day that everything would be alright and they would take care of her, and they did just that. She left with 2 or 3 itty bitty stitches. I keep saying I am going to take a picture of it when I am sponge bathing, or changing the dressing on it, but I keep forgetting! So far she acts like nothing has happened. She is the sweetest little baby on earth! We are so BLESSED!

The morning of the appointment (Clara catching some zzz's while Bo was trying out the hotel pool)

 

I love this picture- he loves swimming! He even pretends to swim on my mom and Scott's fireplace base that he always has to crawl up on.
 

 

We found the hospital, and right before we had a little bit of time to kill, so we took a stroll through some really rich neighborhoods. Wow.

 

 

 


and we're moving MAY 25th!!!! It is coming so quickly!

Nerves

This week has been a bit stressful and my nerves have been out of control. Today feels like things are finally starting to slow down. Here are the results:

Brady got a new job here:

Watch if you're wanting to know what it's about or visit http://gravityjack.com/ for more info

I am super excited for Brady, but all I can continue to say is "If" we move to Washington lol, when in actuality we most likely are...see I can't even admit to it right there. 

Side note: We got a double jogger stroller/ bike trailer....Here are some fun pictures for a break in our results blog. If anyone has bought one of these and had a good or bad experience with them let me know!

 

ha ha ha he loves it, he calls it his bike 

 

Today Destiny and Tayven came over to play. Destiny and I were talking when we heard Boden start crying. The boys were playing in Bo's room so we ran back there to see what was going on and this is what we found.....His curtains are really long, they go to the floor and he had wrapped himself up in them. lol He looks like a little mummy lol
 

 

Back to the results : /

After we were home from the hospital with Clara she started to develop a Cephalohematoma. Which is a hemorrhage ofblood between the skull and the periosteum of a newborn baby secondary to rupture of blood vessels crossing the periosteum. Because the swelling is subperiosteal its boundaries are limited by the individual bones, in contrast to a chignon. 

Basically it looks like this:

(not Clara's head, but this is what it looked like)

 

You can somewhat see it in this picture

It was the size of a baseball in the palm of our hands. Oh her poor head. The great news is that it is no longer present. They told us it could last years. After they did an ultra sound on her on Feb 22nd to make sure that that is all it was, that week it started to fade and then disappeared shortly after. The Dr was shocked at her 2 month check up that it was gone. We were so thankful that it was just a cephalohaematoma and blessed that it went away as fast as it did. I didn't get great pictures of it because it went away so fast, I thought I would have more time.

Onto the next result: This is what Clara's belly button has pretty much looked like since her cord fell off. 

(again not a picture of her, but it looks identical)

We have been in the process for weeks trying to figure out what the problem is with it exactly. At first the doctors thought it may be just scar tissue that hadn't healed. A couple weeks went by and it still was leaking some type of substance and wasn't getting better, so we took her back in. We saw another doctor because our regular was out for the week, and he wanted to get an ultra sound done to see if there was a bigger problem. After the ultra sound no one would call us with results for a day and a half. I was about to go to the clinic in person. Not knowing was such a horrible feeling. By how the ultra sound tech and the doctor that reads them acted, I felt they knew something but couldn't tell us. Finally this afternoon our doctor called us and tried to explain the ultra sound to us. He said that there is an artery and blood vessel still tied up thru her belly button, and they wold want to try and cauterize it. He told me the name that it is sometimes under, but I can't even remember how to pronounce it. We'll know more on Monday, but we have definitely felt blessed that these problems that she has had haven't been more serious. Until then were going to try and stay as positive as possible, hoping nothing more will become of it.