Zane says whats up!

Lily says HI!

Turkey day is approaching

I apologize for the lack of recent posts. Jason is setting up our new home in Coral Gables FL and has been there since Nov 1. Meanwhile, we had the hospital ordeal, movers and packers in our home, real estate showings etc. I've also moved out to Jason's mom's house to get some much needed help with our babies. Needless to say, life has been quite a whirl wind. Babies are doing well, either their RSV symptoms just keep lingering our they have gotten new colds because they are both quite stuffy (and so is mom). They have been running low grade temps here and there but are in over all good spirits. Zane has decided that he would like to start talking. He went down for a nap in the afternoon saying ah-goooo ah-geeee and he woke up from his nap saying ahbooodeedaahh naadeee awwahhh. Very strange (but cute) developmental leap out of no where. Lily is still kicking up a storm and unfortunately, since she is sleeping right next to me in her pack and play, she has trained me to insert a pacifier into her mouth on an hourly basis at night. Now, I'm aware that I should ignore these requests but when you're as tired as I am, its easier to roll over and pop it in rather than listen to her cry and complain for an hour. We'll deal with night training later when its a 2 on 2 approach.
Below are some pictures we've taken around the house while we enjoy the nice fall weather and clear skies.

Great Aunt Leslie came into town yesterday and the twins are showing their love

"Why is everyone laughing at me?" Zane woke up from his nap like this, he had rolled over his pacifier and it decided to form a suction and adhere to his face

Lucky girl didn't get my eyelashes, she got her daddy's

Huh?!?

Twin love

Mr Zane has put the weight back on (chunkers)

Lily LOVES animals, Gus is her guardian and her best friend, she's also quite fond of grabbing Baileys fur and laughing her head off.

Babies are cute

Infirmary Update

Things are getting much better around the house.  Zane is bouncing back and eating like I've never seen a baby eat before.  He is hungry all the time and probably trying to make up all that weight he lost.  I would guess he lost about 2-3lbs while in the hospital, so he's packing it back on and quickly.  Today however, we noticed that two of his lymph nodes in his neck were swollen so I hope it's not another infection brewing.

He loves the ceiling lights

Ready for bed with his bunny bear

mmm paper towels

Lily seems to be through the worst of the RSV and is now starting in the upswing of things.  She's been quite fussy but I think it's due to teething as well as her congestion.  She can't keep her hand out of her mouth and now has a canker sore to show for it.  Thank God for Baby Oragel.

What is there something on my face?

If you're teething and you know it open wide

Getting dinner from Grandma

Times are hard round here

Halloween night (Friday).  Zane has been sick all week and two trips to the pedi's office showed that he had bronchiolitis and pneumonia.  We were sent home with well wishes and breathing treatments.  Friday after we got home, I gave Zane his breathing treatment and he went to bed.  Over the monitor I could hear him whining and softly crying.  It was breaking my heart but I knew he needed sleep.  Then the whining stopped, so I went down to check on him.  He was lying face up in his crib with his eyes fixed straight ahead.  I picked him up and he didn't take a breath for 20 seconds. So I slapped him on his back as hard as I could and he coughed and took a deep raspy breath.  I ran upstairs and told Jason to hold him as I grabbed my keys and a quick bag of stuff because I was going to the ER. Jason and I both tried to get his attention but he was just staring off into space and not responding he was also pretty limp.  I rushed to the ER where they triaged him immediately.  His pulse-ox had dropped to 86 so they gave him breathing treatments with oxygen.  They deep suctioned his nose (awful) and put in an IV line to start fluids (he hadn't eaten much in the past 3 days and was dehydrated).  The attending decided to admit him and we got to his room at 2:30am.  The new xrays showed a bad case of pneumonia in his left lung and part of his right lung had collapsed.  Additionally, his lungs were just full of mucus.  A nasal test showed that he had RSV that had probably caused the bronchiolitis and pneumonia.  He was in bad shape.  He and I stayed in the hospital for a week.  The whole time the poor thing had breathing treatments every 3-4 hours, deep suctioning (they put a tube up your nose and down your throat to suck out the mucus and phlegm), IV antibiotics and a whole lot of torturous things done to him.  Jason left for Miami Saturday morning.  Sadly, Lily has started to show symptoms of RSV as well.  She's coughing, not wanting to eat and has lots of snot pouring out her nose.  We can just all hope that she doesn't get as bad as Zane b/c she doesn't have the fat reserve to withstand what Zane did.

We're glad to be home and I can't wait until this virus runs it's course.  It's a nasty nasty beast.  I hate daycare.

Feeling better ... but much skinnier than before.