Getting Back to Life

Thanks for all your prayers and concern for Joshua. I took him in Monday morning and his bilirubin count was way down. My doctor had me put him under the lights that day and then we happily bid them farewell yesterday. I'm so grateful there's a relatively easy fix for Jaundice, like the lights, but I felt like Superman's parents putting their child in that weird crystal pod thing to send him to earth. The little mask he had to wear was just so sad to me especially when he cried enough to see a little wet spot on it from his tears. We're all loving being able to hold him whenever we want now and he seems to be loving it as much as we are. He's been very patient with being passed around from sibling to sibling.


Monday night was such a great night. Joshy slept peacefully in his Superman pod while Brennan and the kids and I had our little Family Home Evening. For the last week or so everyone has been going in what felt like a thousand different directions which worked out perfectly to enterain them and give me a much needed reprieve; however, it was sooooo nice to be a family again. Abby taught such a sweet lesson which she prepared all by herself. She wrote a couple of things on a paper towel (to make it extra special as opposed to regular paper) and then held up two at a time and asked us which one would help us return to Heavenly Father and Jesus.

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Benny was in charge of the game so Brennan helped him come up with something he could actually play with his broken leg. We all sat in a circle on the floor and spread our legs out so they connected with our neighbors' legs and rolled the ball to each other. Pretty basic, but you should have seen the joy radiating from Ben as he directed us all in what to do and then played. I had been so focused on the baby it was such a sweet reminder of how blessed we are with every one of these sweet kids. They love us and each other so much, it just filled me up.

In other news I managed to roll out of here at the crack of 12:30 pm and took all 5 kids to Target!!!! It was an adventure, but actually went pretty well. It helps A LOT to have Ben confined to the cart and a sleepy baby who didn't make a peep the whole time.

Jan, you were right it does feel like we're in the fast lane lately; however, we don't seem to be getting anywhere any faster!!!