An adventure! ❤

Miriam had a little adventure with her aunts (and extended family) the weekend Ian was in the hospital.

Miriams best friend (my sister) from MB was flying to Grande Prairie (paid by my Uncle and Aunt) to surprise our cousin for her birthday ❤
Nicole (you know...'nanny Nicole ;-)  ) had a 2 hr layover in e-town and we were all planning to have a quick visit with her. Unfortunately, Matthew and I couldn't make it because we were at the hospital, but my sister Bekah and sil Rachel (and another friend) were still planning to go. Bekah agreed to take Miriam and Dylan as well :-) 
While they were visiting at the airport, Auntie Nicole and Miriam thought it would be fun if Miriam went on a road trip with auntie Bekah (who was planning to drive to GP for a day on the weekend...). The next day Miriam asked me if she could PLEASE go! She had packed her bag already, "so really, it was no trouble at all! And she wouldn't get homesick, cuz we could always Snapchat ya know" Haha! Cutie.   Okay. I guess. If you're sure.
Off she went the next day.  
She had such a great time! (And didn't even need to Snapchat ;-)  lol)  Such a brave girl ❤ She is getting so big! Love her and all her grand ideas! ❤

(All the pictures (besides the one of her all ready to go) are screenshots of pics my sister Nicole posted Thanks Nicole  )

Visiting at the airport.

All ready to go!

In Grande Prairie visiting.

Best Friends

This is what Best Friends do! 

Overcomer ❤

I made a little slideshow to show what Ian has been through since he was born 11 months ago. ❤  

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13

Click below to watch the slideshow.

A little flipagram of Ian

July 28. Home ❤

Ian came home tonight! We are so excited! 

 We did have to promise the Dr. That we would call in the morning and let them know how much Ian ate. :-)
Ian is recovering so quickly! ❤

There is a pic of the pizza party we had at the hospital tonight. Tyson and Sue bought us supper (thanks guys!) Matthew took the food to the hospital, for a pizza party. After supper everything was ready for us to leave with Ian :-D

 God is good ❤

Ian giggling at the hospital today 

The kids spying on me at the hospital - Matthew went for a walk hoping that Ryan would fall asleep in the stroller and I stayed in the room with Ian. I put Ian down for a nap, turned around to look out the window and saw the kids laughing and making funny faces at me ❤ 

Pizza Party!

Ryan thought Ian's crib was pretty fun! 

The twins were happy to play together again. 

Ian on his way home! 

Home. 

This morning...

Ian was awake when i came to visit this morning. He isn't too happy with me... Doesn't want to look at me, when he does he cries :-(  Get better buddy! Then we can go home!
Did you notice? No Oxygen...all night! That's exciting. 😃

Update July 25

Today was exciting. :-)
The docs decided today was the day to extubate Ian :-)  The sedatives had to wear off so we waited, and waited. Finally, just after 2 Ian was ready! Yay! Because Ian is such a charmer, even when sedated and intubated, he had lots of adoring nurses, rt's and dr's etc. watching the exciting event. :-)  ❤. He did very well!  We all cheered! :-D
Ian is still on o2, and doing great. :-)  I am so thrilled he has done so well! He was so sick on Monday, and has been recovering so quickly!  Such a tough little guy ❤ 

Below is a pic of Ian a little after the tube came out and it was a little quieter in the room :-D 
Also, a screenshot of a post from a group I follow on fb. 

Update. July 24/2014

Not much of an update today.
Ian is doing well. Still in serious condition but improving. The drs are planning to extubate Ian tomorrow because he is improving so quickly. The night doc said if they have a child with lungs as sick as Ian's they usually keep the child intubated for around 7-10 days, and then try to extubate.  Tomorrow ian will have been intubated for 4 days. So I am cautiously excited they are going to try extubate tomorrow. :-) 
Ian opened his eyes a little bit this evening! We were pretty excited!
That's it for now, hopefully tomorrow will go well :-) 

Below is a pic of Ian today, he looks much less puffy and more himself ❤

Update: July 23

Ian is doing a little bit better.
They are decreasing the pressure on the ventilator a little every 4 hrs. The ventilator is still in a special mode described in yesterdays post. But the pressure is down from 38 to 20. So much better.
Ian wakes up every once in a while (often when he hears me talking) just enough to move his arms and legs...they had to put restraints on his arms :-( ... he doesn't open his eyes though. (Not sure he can with the doses of pain meds he's on) Yesterday, whenever he woke up a little he would destat. Today he isn't destating when he starts stirring, but they do still give him some extra drugs (madaz and morphine ) on top of what he's getting in his iv (morphine and chloral hydrate - The continuous infusion of chloral hydrate is a study we agreed to be a part of). 

As I was talking to the intensivist today he said Ian is responding well to treatment and they are hoping to extubate him Friday... Of course when in intensive care you never really know. The docs try to give a time frame, but in my experience, most often...dare I say every time... the plans change. ;-)  So not really counting on Friday, but still hoping  :-)   

Here are a few pics of Ian today. He is a little less puffy than yesterday ❤
Can't wait to see this guy smile again ❤