Catch-up!

Okay, okay... so it's been more than a few days. Forgive me. Life just was a little busy!

Easter:

Hoppy Easter! The day before Easter, while we were eating lunch, a little bunny rabbit decided to join us on our porch! The girls enjoyed seeing the bunny so close.

Easter was a lot of fun. We all traveled down to Casa Grande to spend the day at Roger's parents house along with Colette's family. The girls loved this because then they got to do two Easter egg hunts (and a little roller blading and scooter riding - of course).

Rebecca with her favorite bears

Chloe on the hunt for eggs


The girls hunting for eggs with (a headless) Grandpa Moore

Rebecca, Chloe, and Cooper enjoying the beautiful Easter weather

Grandma Johnson with a sleepy Evelyn

The after dinner walk/ride/roller blade


More after dinner fun

Baptism:
Evelyn was baptized on Sunday, April 19th. What a fun and special day. We had an open house following the church service and had quite the full house - over 50 people attended the church service and/or open house. Thanks to all that could make it! Especially one of Evelyn's NICU nurses and her speech therapist (no - she's not talking, but they help with bottle feeding issues).

We have surprisingly few pictures! Here is one from the church - none from the party. How did that happen!

Then we decided to redo all of the floors in our house. And I mean all of them! Thankfully, we were able to plan it for when Roger's parents were on vacation - so we basically moved out of our house for a little over a week and down to Casa Grande! It was a lot of work, but I can't imagine trying to live in the house while all the work was being done. Here are some before and after pics. We just LOVE our new floors. (We never took true "before" pictures, so the best I could find is one with Rebecca pretending to be a pirate - she doesn't know about Somalia! ;-) You can see the small amount of tile we had in our entryway and the carpeting in our playroom - that we also had throughout the rest of the house)

It was good timing to get tile throughout our entire downstairs because Chloe recently went to an allergist and was told that she's allergic to peanuts and....dogs! Thankfully, it's not too bad. The Dr. just recommended keeping the dogs out of the kids room (we already did that) and since we now have tile downstairs where we spend the majority of our time, it's much easier to keep clean.

The biggest Evelyn (8 months old already!) news lately is that she's now sitting up on her own. She started sitting a couple weeks ago and loves to sit there and play with her toys.

Rebecca is currently in swim class and loving it. She also went to vacation Bible school at our church and will be attending another VBS at a different church later in the summer. She really enjoyed it. But most of all, she seems to be looking forward to starting Preschool in the fall.

Chloe is a pretty typical 2-year old. Her bright moments are a lot of fun, and her down moments are quite a challenge. ;-) Thankfully she is in a good mood most of the time and enjoys being the center of attention.

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She's home!

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Evelyn came home yesterday (Tuesday) and is doing great. We are still giving her albuterol breathing treatments, but she is steadily improving. Other than that, it's life as normal in the Moore house. Which is to say, busy!

Now I can get back to posting about Easter and the baptism. I hope to have those up in the next couple days so check back for some fun posts!

Back to the hospital

Well, I was working on an update from Easter and the baptism, but then Evelyn went and got sick on us. She started getting sick just before the baptism and was later diagnosed with bronchiolitis and/or RSV. So we were giving her albuterol breathing treatments at home and she seemed to be getting better. But then earlier this week, she started getting worse. Then, on Thursday morning, she woke up sounding much worse. Thankfully, she was scheduled for her 6 month well check anyway, so off to the Dr. she went.

Evelyn's dr. agreed that she sounded worse and gave her some different breathing treatments at the office. These did not help, so they decided to admit her to the hospital. In fact, the dr. was concerned enough about Evelyn, that they called for an ambulance to transport her from the dr. office to the hospital.

Evelyn is now at Banner Desert in Mesa. She's doing well, but not well enough to come home. She's been receiving different breathing treatments and support, as well as some IV fluids, steroids, and antibiotics. She's officially been diagnosed as having parainfluenza type 3. We've been told this is not the regular "flu" type bug, this is something different (not swine flu either, I know you're wondering!).

The dr.s think she will likely be discharge on Tuesday, but of course we're hoping for sooner. I think as soon as she doesn't need the additional oxygen support, she's on her way.

Please keep us in your prayers. And special thanks to the grandparents for helping with Rebecca and Chloe this weekend!

Here's a couple pics and one video from a few days ago - when Evelyn was feeling better...

Weekend fun

Another fun weekend... We went to the zoo Friday morning. The night before we had quite a wind storm come through, but by the morning, it was beautiful - if not a bit chilly - and the animals were up and moving around. We stopped by the sting-ray exhibit and even got to feed them. Although Rebecca enjoyed watching, she wasn't too sure about actually touching any of them. Maybe next time...

Then on Saturday, we all went to the park (enjoying the "cool" weather while we've got it!) and Rebecca is now riding her bike without training wheels really well! By the time we left, she was riding confidently and was able to start all by herself and ride up some of the hills. Now we just have to work on her stopping without falling over... Here are some pics and a video.

Riding a Bike

After Rebecca's success on her roller blades, she thought it was time to start riding her bike without training wheels. Thankfully I have a husband willing and able to run after her! Although he did say it was my turn next time... She did really good considering this was her first day:

Here are some pics from last weekend with her rollerblades (and Chloe on her scooter). You'll see mom had to get hers off the shelf and dust them off. Although, I think Grandpa Moore is probably the most skilled rollerblader of the family right now. Sad, but true. ;-)

Evelyn's Baptism

We posted this on Evelyn's blog, but want to make sure you see it.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR'S
We know that everyone who has followed this blog are friends and family and have been praying for Evelyn. We couldn't have gotten through this without you, so please join us for Evelyn's baptism on Sunday, April 19th at the 9:15 AM service at Mountain View Lutheran Church (48th St. and Elliot). We will also be having an open house following the service at our house, which you are all invited to come to as well. Just leave a comment or send us an email (so we can get a head count), and we'll be sure to get you directions if you need them.

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Springtime fun

Now that I'm (Colette) working a 4x10 schedule (4 days a week, 10 hour days), I have every Friday off. So we're taking advantage of our nice AZ weather (while we've got it) and have gone to the Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden the past two Fridays.

Zoo:

This was Evelyn's first official outing that wasn't to the doctor's office, so we tried to get a picture of the girls all together, but Chloe was being 2 that day and didn't really want her picture taken.

Garden:

The garden had the Chihuly exhibit and the butterfly garden on display. The girls LOVED the butterflies, although Chloe wasn't too thrilled when they actually landed on her, but Rebecca couldn't have been happier!