More on the storm

The other side of the tree fell which blocked off our driveway. Mommy forgot to mention yesterday how Daddy went out to bungee cord the tree together which slowed it down when it fell and likely saved our new roof!







There was way too much excitement yesterday for Sofia who fell asleep getting her neb early evening!

October Snowstorm

The trees are so heavy with all their leaves still on and now snow is piling up. Unfortunately, this was too much for the tree in front of our house. It cracked and half of it is now leaning on the house!

More halloween pics and video

due to popular demand!

Halloween

This kids had a mini-parade today at school. Here they are in their costumes!

Nebulizer

Sofia has been having some serious coughing fits as she recovers over this still lingering cold which has hit everybody so she's been put on an albuterol nebulizer which she takes while watching Dora or Kai Lan.

It takes her from crazy fussy to smiling in no time!

Rain Gear

Check us out!



In other news everyone is sick so we are taking a break on capping trials for Sofia. She was up to 10 minutes a few days ago.

5 min

This morning Sofia had her first really solid capping trial. She was relaxed and watching the cat in the hat when we put it on. She was able to go 5 minutes with a minimum of fuss and coughing! In fact she was able to laugh and smile while watching her show.

Extra excitement

After arriving back from Philly we found out that our contractor had unleashed a storm of dust from cutting drywall into our house. Of course with Sofia's trach this would've been disastrous for her to breathe in for any length of time. We evacuated the kids to the sun room and we spent the next few hours cleaning every surface and washing anything soft, while some guys dropped off "the beast", an industrial strength HEPA filter.



After running things for a few hours we got things clean enough for the kids to move around. We still have the filter going now just in case and the guys are going to come back and clean a high bit of landing that we couldn't get to ourselves.

Here is Sofia in "prison" ie the hospital.



No school today in honor of Columbus but that means serious capping trials instead for Sofia!

Going home today

Sofia is recovered and ready to go home. She is doing better on her capping as well so we will be pushing her on that starting tomorrow.

Here's a pre surgery pic.

Surgery done

No miracles as she still has some swelling so she isn't fully tolerating the capping. More updates as she recovers.

Two days

We've got the kids home today to try to stave off any illness which could derail Sofia's surgery on Fri. That means it'll probably be a crazy day with the kids bouncing off the walls!