Celebrate!!

Even though we have been pretty much trapped in the house (thank you, winter storm) for EVER, I feel like I have had a busy week. No, I haven't accomplished much of anything (except cleaning out Kate's closet). All I have done is watch Kate to make sure food and toys stay out of her mouth, and we all sneak around the house so that she won't see any of us eating. That has been interesting, and none of us have had very well-balanced meals this week.

Kate has been taking it all like a trooper (well, maybe she's a bit grumpy at dinner time). She has been mostly living on melted chocolate ice cream. She will occasionally drink milk and water, but over the weekend I noticed that her lips were more cracked than usual. I was worried that she might get dehydrated, so I started giving her Pediasure and Pedialyte to supplement her fabulous diet. Naturally, she refused to drink these things, but she was willingly taking her medicines. So I figured out that full 2 syringes would equal 1 oz. of fluids, so I started pumping fluids into her this way, telling her that it was medicine. Yesterday she finally took the Pediasure voluntarily, signing "bear" when she wanted it. (There is a bear on the bottle.) She fought us so hard those first few days, that I was really worried we would be back at the hospital for dehydration. I started asking God to make her less stubborn so she wouldn't starve. Thankfully, he answered that prayer, and she is doing very well.

I am pleased to announce that we saw the doctor today, and he said that Kate's mouth is healing well. He even said we could go ahead and give her some soft foods, even though she originally wasn't supposed to have solids until Saturday - Yea!!! Can you tell I am excited that I can stop hiding food from my child??? He said to do soft foods only for 10 more days, and then we can progress to regular foods. So my friends, we are almost there! (Well, of course she is supposed to have 2 teeth pulled in 2 weeks and we will back to soft foods and pain meds again, but hey, this is progress!) Thank you to everyone who has been praying for my sweet Kate NaNa!

On another note, the kids have been out of school for almost 2 weeks now due to icy roads. They did have school this Tuesday, but we got 3 inches or so of snow that day, so we haven't had it since. I am hoping that tomorrow they can go back. I really need that, if you know what I mean:)