The world as she see's it

Lately I've been setting the kitchen timer to remind me to do various things.

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Earlier in the week when the timer went off Mylee came running in yelling excitedly

"the clock has struck, the clock has struck!"

(I can only figure that this is a reference to Cinderella)

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Last night the timer went off and she jumped up, threw her arms in the air and yelled "it's time for the baby to pop out!" (I'm assuming that this is a reference to a chick she got to watch hatch the other day). She was SO excited and started talking about how she wanted to take the baby on a walk RIGHT NOW.

Let's go fly a kite

We finally made it out to fly a kite with Mylee a few weeks ago. She loved it! It was a perfect day, and the kite flew so high (obviously not the moment captured in these pictures). Mylee is still talking about it.

On a lighter note

Mylee doesn't take naps anymore, but I still try to get her to have "quiet time" in her room for an hour after lunch (no, it doesn't always work). One of my favorite times of the day is going it to her room after that hour and seeing what she has been doing.

These were two of my favorites... one time she'd put all the furniture she could lift onto her bed and made a fort, another she was just laying there quietly with all of her dolls.

Usually I just find that all of the clothes have been removed from the closet and dresser - and that she is wearing approximately three dresses/outfits at once.

Another Update

I'm sorry that I haven't posted in so long. I wish there were a ton of information to keep everyone up to date on - but we really don't know much more than what I've already posted. I'm at 33 weeks now, so at least we're getting closer to getting this little boy here. We still haven't picked a name - feel free to give us suggestions because we could use some new ideas!

We still haven't found a doctor to look at the whole situation, and it's not looking like we will. Right now it appears that we just wait until the baby comes and trust that somebody will know what to do (yes, that is the part that keeps me up at night...)

The tumor is still growing. When we found it the circumference was around 6.58cm (24 weeks) and it is now 10.33 cm (32 weeks). The good news is that the baby has also doubled in size - so it is growing relative to him so far.

We've found another diagnosis that the tumor sort of fits into - in layman's terms it could be a third lung (non functioning lung tissue). It would still require the major surgery, but that would be it (no life long follow-up.) They won't be able to let us know until after they get to run tests on the baby, but we are sure hoping they are wrong about the neuroblastoma.

Thanks to all for the thoughts and prayers - we feel the added strength.