sick little girl

i am due in 3 days and harper has pneumonia. the poor little girl could not walk to our room last night without gasping for breath. after her skin turned blueish-green i decided to use the nebulizer without hearing from the doctor first...turns out that was a good decision. today at the doctor's office, after i had noted her great improvement, the nurses gasped in amazement that her oxygen saturation levels were only 84. apparently that is really not good. i was shocked because i wondered what those levels would have looked like the night before...scary. dr. walker took a very aggressive approach to treating harper because she wanted to get her cleared up before the baby comes. she also wanted to avoid the hospital. so poor little harper had to get two shots in her legs after receiving another breathing treatment in the office. however, as scared as she was about the shots and as much as she did not want the shots, she reminded me again of how grown up she is...sadly, she is no longer my little baby girl....but, she still needs her mother to hold her hands as she gets a shot. she didn't need to be layed down and held; she told the nurse that she preferred to be sitting up. she just wanted me to hold her hands. thankfully, the shots seem to be quite effective. harper is breathing much easier now and i am actually trying to keep her from running all around the house---a vast improvement from just 24 hours earlier where she could hardly stand. so after breathing treatments with a nebulizer, vapor rub, a warm bath, a humidifier, tylenol (for the fever), and waking the poor girl every hour for a drink, we have made huge strides in getting her feeling better... now, if only we could just have this baby.

ultrasound commentary from a 2 and 4 year old....

After our ultrasound appointment today I showed the pictures to Harper and Calvary. Their responses were classic...
Calvary said that every picture looked like a "pond", but my favorite response was Harper's reaction to one of the pictures....She held up one photo and said, "what is this?" to which I responded, "That is his bottom." She laughed and looked at it again and said, "it looks like a sink turner offer."

i laughed because it really did look like a faucet...