You know I'd fall apart without you. I don't know how you do what you do 'cause everything that don't make sense about me it makes sense when I'm with you - Hunter Hayes Wanted

We've had quite an eventful weekend. Saturday night Gracie started breathing very fast shallow breaths. She was really working hard for each breath she took and all of a sudden she got a high fever. Ricky was working so I got everyone ready and we left for the hospital. We arrived at 10pm. It's so far to The Woodlands when there is an emergency! Luckily the place was empty. Even though it was empty we waited ONE HOUR before going back to be seen by a doctor and I was HOT. The doctor overheard my come to Jesus and immediately came in to check on her. When they got her hooked up she was breathing 66 breaths per minute which is very high. Just think, that is more than 1 breath per second. Her heart rate was very elevated at 183 and her saturation were 88. As I lined out the charge nurse and doctor on how freaking crazy they are that she was a 25 weeker with chronic lung disease and any type of breathing issue is an emergency, the doctor immediately called for an xray. I was so pissed off but I had all three kids with me by myself so I couldn't really give them my piece of mind. Believe it or not, I actually try to stay calm in front of the kids. Anyway, the xray came back and the doctor called Texas Children's to compare old xrays. Since her lungs are so bad, they are never clear so they have to see if it's worse or the same. TCH decided it looked as though it was a viral thing. They did a flu screen but it was negative too. After several hours all her number went back to normal and she woke up from her nap. By this time it's like 1 or 2 am. She wakes up smiles and starts talking. I called the doctor back in to discharge us which he did. 

Here is the thing, these doctors know I know what should and shouldn't be going on with the kids. When somethings off and needs to be addressed. I know when to worry and when not to worry and they know after getting history reports we've been through it. We had the same doctor that we saw when I had to take Gracie in to the ER when her leg was infected after surgery. He remembered us and asked about what ended up happening with her leg. He apologized about how things happened on this visit and assured me they were addressing what happened. 

The next day her and Brody had a fever. We had a birthday party but didn't go because of the fevers. The kids got stir crazy so that night I loaded them up for yet another drive around the neighborhood to look at lights. 

Today everyone woke up feeling fine like nothing happened. We were going to take daddy to the zoo to see the lights but it looked like rain so we ended up going to find the kids house shoes and Ricky pajamas for our BIG event on Saturday. We are super excited for the train ride! The kids scream "CHOO CHOO" anytime we see a train so I'm hoping they will love it. 

Ricky and I are very excited for tomorrow. The kids have a Christmas play at school!! We will have one of us video recording it and one of us taking pictures. The kids seem really excited anytime we ask them about it. We'll see.

This Christmas has been so wonderful this far. Each day we put a cotton ball on Santa's beard. Brody says "Beard". Santa will have a full beard come December 24th. We also went to the library to get some Christmas books. I wrapped them all up and each day someone picks a book to unwrap and then we read it. This is so awesome because they love books but it also helps them practice unwrapping for Christmas. 

I hope everyone received their Christmas cards and yall enjoy them as much as we do. Notice they were three separate pictures... it's the same reason they've not had pictures taken since they were ONE! 

KP