This past week has brought in August with a bang. We were super concerned about Kelly, and she ended up getting a liver in the last moments last Wednesday. She had surgery that night and then we went down to see the family on Friday. A wasn't allowed up into the PICU room, so someone always had to stay downstairs to watch her. We never seemed to run out of volunteers. We also got to talk to a med student who got to watch the transplant surgery. They ended up taking her off of the vent and waking her up on Saturday. She moved out of PICU on Monday and they are talking about putting her in the Ronald McDonald House this week or next. Everyone (docs, nurses, family, etc) is very amazed at how well she is doing this soon after surgery.
Neither of us have heard back about from our interviews so we're assuming that we will not be getting the jobs. This is unfortunate as both would have been good opportunities for us, but we'll get something eventually.
A and I went to the zoo this week (as you can see in the pictures) and saw a lot of my old co-workers. It was nice to visit the zoo, but not have to work. They had no elephants which was interesting, but they had a ton of new babies around the zoo. There were baby addax, kangaroos and gibbons. They are doing a study with the gorillas, so I got to hear all the gorilla names and look at that one.
On Sunday I went on a bike ride with my friend who does triathlons. She and I only went about 15 miles. We wanted to go further, but we saw an impending storm coming in, so we turned back early. We were glad that we did because it was pouring by the time we got home. It was raining so much that she kept my bike until Tuesday. We are planning on going for another ride this Sunday. We're planning on going about 25 miles, we'll see how it goes.
A is working really hard on rolling over and pushing up with her arms. She has the legs down for crawling and that's actually how she's managed to roll over a couple of times. She will be on her stomach and moving her legs trying to get her feet underneath her, then she'll push with her leg and the same arm while trying to get her arms underneath her and end up rolling over. She's also started sucking her thumb a bit. She doesn't do it often, and she prefers to have her hand splayed out across her face when she does it. She also continues to love her door jumper/swing. She hangs out in that while I do laundry and other household stuff, and always seems content. A also continues to work on sitting up. I will put her in the boppy and let her do smaller crunches. She scrunches up her face and gets part of the way up, but not all of the way up. She is better at keeping herself aligned in her jumper and her bumbo, so we're getting somewhere.
The other thing that A and I have been working on is getting stuff together to make a quilt. I'd like to make something for my baby girl and a quilt of sorts seems like a good thing. I've always wanted to try my hand at quilting, so we'll see how it turns out. I've got some great fabrics that I got as remnants and a fun looking pattern, so we'll see how it goes. Hopefully I can have something done by Christmas, it may be my Christmas present to her. I put her in her sling while we go and look at fabric and everyone is always amazed at her. She is alert and up close to me, so everyone likes to comment on that fact as well. We both like our little excursions out of the condo, especially since the weather has become nice again.
Overall things are going well. I'm looking at picking up a couple of courses at Westwood during the October term, so we'll see how that goes. That's provided I don't have other means of employment. But if I do that it would allow me to stay home with A during the day and then Chris would stay with her during the evenings that I teach. It isn't my first choice, but it would be a way to keep from going completely crazy adjusting to this mommy role.
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