hi! pip is doing much better, so we hear. we are still too sick to go to the hospital. how is that for ironic? what matters is, piper is finally awake! <-and p***ed off about it. although she isn't completely stable with her vitals and such, she is well enough to start the weening process. her vent settings have been so high and her medication cocktail is likely one of the highest ever. so, hooray for lowering them. i spoke with her doctor at blythedale today, hooray for returning! we are doing all we can to avoid the same song and dance of blythedale-wannaque-picu, so hopefully we can scare people into giving us our way. i'm really just thrilled to be going back to blythedale, even though it will likely be at least a few more weeks....and we will be going to the yellow unit. yep, green unit is for two year olds and under. she only sneaked her way in staying in green because she was re-admitted a few weeks before her 2nd birthday. so we will have new nurses that we dont know! kind of sad. really, can't complain though. this pipture is from about 3 days before piper got sick. pretty crazy that it was such a good day. i would have never believed the battle we were in for that week.then these piptures are just some old ones i came across from june 2008. i can't believe how little she is! this was just after her 1st birthday! she couldn't even sit up by herself yet and she is wearing a newborn romper. so nuts. also, those are katie-kate's fat feet in the background. this was their first cousin meeting.

she really was like a little baby in my arms. now she is so big! even though it takes much longer than the average kid, it still seems to fly by. wow....that's what i say to all that piper, jake and i have been through together.

jake and i went to see "adam" at the angelika theater in soho. i loved that movie. then we wandered around for like 3 hours and eventually ended up eating fried pickles and drinking orange crush at soho park restaurant. jake loves to take pictures. i think it's fun, especially if i get to drink some orange crush.

this wall matched my outfit.

yay, the picture uploading worked for once. these pictures were taken on tuesday during my visit. i love every one of these.

this is piper in her new bandana from bodhi kids. her aunt sarah sent it to her. it's a little big still, but i love it so much. it reminds me of this, which is a very good slogan for our little family. bodhi kids is currently empty because the coolest shop in ketchikan has asked to have it sold in their store. but you should check it out when it's plentiful again, because these scarfs are awesome. i can't wait for it to fit a little better, because pretty much nothing keeps piper's hair out of her face, but this will.

my good little stander

this picture makes me feel guilty. she is reaching for my legs so she can climb up me and into my arms. she is not cool with anything but my undivided attention.

without the bodhi kids scarf, piper had punky brewster hair that day. i guess i was wrong about the hair in her face thing....her nurse definitely found a solution with this wild girl style. hah!

crawling