It's getting closer...

We signed the paperwork at our attorney's office on Friday and the petition for adoption was filed with the court that same day. It looks like the week before Christmas will be when the adoption is finalized. Emily says that we are getting married (the three of us). She is excited about the adoption but just as excited, I think, to wear her pretty new dress that day.

Amongst all that we have to finish packing up the house and get moved and this house cleaned by the end of the year. Sounds simple enough but throw in the fact that one of us lives in Texas during the week and the other works 12 hour shifts and time gets a little tighter. And we also have Emily's social schedule. She has 2 Christmas party's to attend and a special presentation planned for here at home.

Today she received a special friend sent from the North Pole via Grandma and YaYa and Aunt Lynn and Uncle Jeff. Dave the Elf (on a shelf) has moved in for the holiday season to keep an eye on Emily for Santa.

So for now we wait (impatiently) for the adoption to be finalized so we can move to Texas and start the next chapter of our life together. Will update again after the completion of the adoption.

Theresa

2 hospital visits in a week...

not the record we we going for. This time the dreaded line infection that everyone told us would come finally made it's way around to Em. Almost a full 22 months with us and no line infection. On Saturday October 29th we took Em into the ER running a temp of 103. She was shivering and lethargic. She was admitted to PICU around 2:30am on Sunday morning and by that afternoon we knew that it was a line infection. We have been told since day one that it would happen but felt blessed that it just hadn't...until now. We started second guessing ourselves and our protocol. Emily's Dr doesn't want us to change a thing. He said we should celebrate the 22 month success that we enjoyed and continue in our vigilant care of Emily and the care of her line. Still the question weighs on our minds of what went wrong, could something have been missed or done differently?

While inpatient she was finally able to meet and spend some time with Kylie, another short gut kid. They trick or treated in the PICU hallways and once moved to the Peds floor, were able to get together in the playroom. Emily was discharged on Thursday November 3rd from the hospital. We continued her IV antibiotic treatment at home thru Sunday. She is doing great now (other than the diaper rash from the antibiotics).

We found out today, that all our paperwork was mailed to our adoption attorney yesterday. Next step....filing the petition for adoption with the courts and getting a date set for the adoption. So hopefully this can be done sometime in December and we can spend Christmas in the house in Texas. Until next time...

Theresa