April 15

Madelyn has been pretty lethargic and despondent all day.  She took a morning and afternoon nap and went to bed at 5:30pm.  She was sprawled out on the couch when she was up and it was hard to get her to talk about much.  It was disturbing and a big turn around from the previous days of moodiness.  I called Hem/Onc (Hematology/Oncology) and they decided to stop the Benadryl (continuing with the other two anti-histamines).  Now I am sitting here frightened that she will have respiratory issues.  I have been checking on her every 20 minutes since 5:30pm (when she went to bed).  It is going to be a long night.  


And then poor Peter accidently had a bunch of peanut butter today.  He was miserable and was in a Benadryl stouper.  A highlight of the day though was a visit from our friends the Hernandez'.  I immediately took over their new baby girl (5 weeks old) and had warm, snuggly time with a passed out baby.  While Peter and Madelyn were napping I spent a long time with Sophia at the little parks here at the apartment complex.  I swear she must have swung for 45 minutes!  Although she told me I'm not as good at the under-dog as Daddy.


I took sometime with Sophia on Wednesday - just the two of us.  We had girl chat over chocolate milk and espresso at Starbucks, watched water fountains, picked out a craft to do with sister and had some playground time.  She also had her first full hair cut:

Since Monday, Madelyn hasn't wanted to do much but lie on the couch.  Here she is working on the project Sophia picked out.

Got her to the table to work on her letters on Wednesday... AND she was joking around!  So nice to see a smile rather than the eyebrows scrunched together.

Still drawing a ton except for today.  We couldn't get her interested in anything today.  Here are the little books she has been working on.  She put together a bag of materials that she keeps next to her bed: little pieces of paper she cut out, the scissors, tape and a pen.

Physical Therapy on Thursday at the hospital's Therapy pool.

Love this... the physical therapists at Children's are so inventive.  Here she is pretending to be a squirrel, squatting and then standing up and looking over the top of floor.  She is looking for bunnies.

Daddy wearing Phia's goggles :)