Beautiful Girl...

This past week was Chinese New Year! Momma took the midget to a big festival in town honoring the New Year. Mia rode rides, ate candy and generally ran in every direction... Combine that with an 80 degree day and you can see why it was necessary for her to take a knee and spend a few minutes relaxing! Mia still sucks on the two middle fingers of her right hand when she is tired. If she's really tired she adds in her left thumb as well... So cute!

Mr. Mobile!

Brandon is all over the place these days! He's definitely moving quickly toward walking, as evidenced by his contstant use of the walker... Aubrey is definitely progressing quickly and working on her crawling, but nothing like her big brother! It's definitely a challenging age to have two of these crazy little people getting into everything, but loads of fun!

GETTING HEALTHY!!

This title deserved to be in all caps!! It seems like it's been a few months since we've all been healthy & carefree... I'm happy to report that all children and adults in the Lovell household are virus free & happy to be feeling good! Brandon has had so many ear infections that the doctor said his very next infection earns him tubes in his ears. Uggghhhhh! Daddy had tubes when he was young, so we can live with it. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for continued good health!

Dentist Visit!

Life is slowly returning to normal in the Lovell household! Everyone appears to be healthy now except Daddy... Today Momma took the midget for her dental check up. As you can tell by her facial expression, Mia wasn't overly excited about having her teeth x-rayed! She was a big girl, and did fantastic.

The Lovell Battlefield!!

Well, our hopes of a false alarm during our ER visit last Sunday were not to be... Aubrey was admitted to Phoenix Childrens Hospital, perhaps the worst hospital on Earth, and spent the next four nights in the pediatric unit. Turns out the entire family, Daddy included, were hit with the RSV bug. In adults this virus manifests itself as a simple sinus / respiratory infection. In kids, however, things can get quite severe. Aubrey was unable to breath well enough to sufficiently oxygenate her blood. They had to do frequent deep suctions, meaning they shoved a tube down her nose and vaccumed her lungs! Wow, was she miserable... She cried for so many days straight that she actually lost her voice. Poor little girl... Finally, on Thursday we checked her out of the hospital and brought our girls home! As you can imagine, Stacy never left her side for a single moment! We're relieved and happy to have the whole family back together again!!

Long Week...

It sure was a long week for Momma & Aubs... After four long nights in the hospital, they were definitely ready to come home! Aubrey was so miserable at times that the only way she'd calm down was to be wrapped around Momma, as evidenced above! Momma, as always, was such a trooper. In fact, I'm pretty sure Momma didn't eat a single meal or sleep for more than 60 minutes at a time during the enitre hospital stay... Poor girls! We're happy to have them home now!

Wounded Boy!

No child was to be spared by this RSV bug! Brandon, being the tough guy that he is, has struggled through his sickness with frequent doctor visits, but no hospitalization necessary... Instead we have been giving him heavy doses of antibiotics, and frequent breathing treatments, as evidenced above. He's quite the trooper! The poor little guy is struggling to breath, but still smiles and giggles constantly!

The Fallen Soldier...

Big sister Mia, who rarely gets sick, was even struck by this bug! Here she is being examined by the doctor... Thankfully she rebounded in about 24 hours, as she's the toughest child on the planet!