This is baby Ellie she was born on september 25th. Isn't she beautiful? I got to see her shortly after she was born. I think her skin went so pink cause of all my kisses. 

Pickles already using her motherly instincts 

We brought some dinner over to the hospital but Liam only wanted to sit by LaLa and help her eat. 

Nate Loves babies even newborns 

She makes Liam look like a giant 

Liam wanted nothing to do with Ellie, but wanted to get into everything else. This kept him busy for a minute. 

Already wondering what this camera thing is that keeps waking her up 

 

This weekend was an eventful one at the Poulson's. Thursday Liam woke up with another cold. (his thrid since July) But friday morning I noticed he was having trouble breathing. We went into the pediatricans office and I thought it was just going to be another "you're a paranoid parent" appoinment and we'd be home in an hour. NOT so. His oxygen level was at 92 which isn't horrifying but not good. A normal score is 99-100. So he was asthmatic. She gave him some steroids and sent us off to the childrens hospital E.R. He was bad enough we went straight back and they started him on Oxygen and giving him some Albuterol treatments. It still stayed in the 92 range so they did another treatment. Then took some chest X-Rays (which came out clear) then another Albuterol treatment. We're not sure which helped the most the steriods or the Albuterol but finally the levels jumped to 95-98 and they said we could take him home. But only with the accompanying Nebulizer and RX of steroids. They still aren't sure what caused this little episode but he is doing great now. He's gotten a lot better with the nebulizer treatments. He only tries to rip the mask off 2 or 3 times instead of every second.  

They did give him a cute dinosaur mask.  

He ripped the first set of tubes out immediately. We had to hold down his hands which made him even more upset. 

 

I've been watching one of our friends little boys Hardin. Both his parents are medical students with Nate. Liam and Hardin have a great time together. Especially when watching Elmo. 

I threw a baby shower for my girl friend Lora this weekend. It was so much fun, and Lora got everything she needs for little Ellie. Including these bug drawings that match her nursery exactly. Her friend Janice is an artist and did them by hand. So Fun. 

Isn't she a beautiful pregnant woman? Can you believe she's due in only 2 weeks?  

For those of you who know Nate, know he HATES the Yankees cause he's an avid Red socks fan. Well McKay's a Yankee's fan and Jack has a Yankee's hat. Liam found it and was wearing it around the house. Nate flipped out! But he let me leave the hat on long enough to snap a few pictures. It makes little look so big. 

 

He's getting so BIG. It makes me sad. Doesn't he look like a little boy? 

There is a huge park called Red Caboose by Sara and McKay's house. They have everything there. The kids could play for hours. 

Jack took a face dive into the sand. 

 

Liam played with these bells forever. Even the bigger kids couldn't elbow him away from them. Maybe we have another musician on our hands? 

Mr. Blue eyes! 

 

It was jacks 1st birthday while we were there. Sara gave him a great party and the kids all dove into the cake. Then all got baths.