March updates

Aidan is finally Cast-Free !!!  It's been a long 8 weeks with him in a cast.  His bones were a little slow to heal at first but they finally got themselves together (pun..haha!) and he graduated to a splint.  Let the soaking and scrubbing and moisturizing of icky flaky skin begin !!

Riley had his last big Swimming Meet of the season.

I love watching him swim,

just wish the meets weren't so long,

with so much time in between each of his events.

 

 Someone finds long swim meets in warm natatoriums exhausting...

We had our first (and probably last) real significant snow of the season.  Only one other time in February was there enough snowfall to actually suit up an go play in it (and that might have been pushing it!)

 

Blitz's 1st time in the snow,

and he wasn't much of a fan...

My little Irish girl ready for school on St. Patrick's day

 

And my not-so-Irish girl playing the part too.



 



But she wasn't going to school,

She had a date with the MRI scanner...

Her nephrologist ordered an MRI of her spine to rule out certain causes of her sudden loss of potty training skills.

So her neurologist added on an MRI of her brain to look for causes of her recent drastic changes in behavior and loss of developmental skills.

 

She was a champ! 

Got her IV in with no trouble and they were able to send off the massive amount of bloodwork that had been ordered by her various specialists.

We saw lots of familiar faces...

so many nurses that used to work with me in the PICU now work in Sedation,

including her Godmother.

When Audra saw Renee she clung on to her for dear life,

I think wishing she would take her away.



 

Sweet girl snuggled up and fell asleep in my arms before they even gave her any anesthesia!

 

Once we were all done she was rewarded with a big old Shamrock Shake!



Both Riley and Maura had pieces of their school artwork in the District Art Show