The Kids

It has been some time since I posted about C or her kids, so here goes.

C is still waiting to hear anything from the hemotologist. She saw her the beginning of January and nothing showed up wrong at that time. The dr. was going to get all of the pathology reports and all the reports from the high-risk pregnancy specialist and go over them to determine what C's problems could possibly be. So far, no word. Meanwhile, C has to have biopsies on the "lumps" she has been getting. They can't figure out what they are, but the feeling is they might be some kind of fatty tumors. We'll find out more after the biopsies. Other than that, C is feeling good and is doing very well.

The baby is now somewhere around ten pounds--about the size a non-premie would be. She is still on a high calorie formula and C said she is sure the dr. will stop that after the next appointment. Grace has learned to eat and she does it very well!

The rest of the kids are doing fine. The two oldest are enjoying school and have a lot of friends. Christina is taking ski lessons and is enjoying that. Catie has calmed down in school and is being much less of a chatterbox. Noelle and Marcus are getting bigger and sassier every day. Sometimes it is scary just how smart Noelle is--I think she is going to be the smartest of all of them. Or she is going to be the biggest smart ass there ever was--it's a toss-up as to which will happen. Marcus is well on his way to becoming a stuntman--he will make MANY trips to the emergency room before he is grown up.

All in all, C has her hands full. I don't know how she does it--they would have had to put me in the purple padded room a long time ago if I were in her situation.