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.

Labels: amazing stuff, cousins, memories, piper jane

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So Elder Baker, have fun in Mexico....changing lives and being warm and eating burritoes and getting into heaven!

This is a random picture I found on my phone of Jesse holding our niece, Kate last summer. His taking a picture of himself with a phone skills are also braggable.

One more story about Jesse. When he was like 6, Nathan pinned him down in our front yard in TN, got him naked, threw his panties in a tree and locked him out of the house. He was jumping to grab his unders with one hand (the other trying to keep himself covered) then he gave up and tried with both hands. Then he decided to climb the tree and after about two whole minutes we realized we were being evil gentiles and let him in the house. I blame my mom. She homeschooled us, but left us alone all day with our mean imaginations. I don't feel bad posting this story because I was the youngest for five years before Jesse came along, so I know what it's like.

Labels: birthdays, Family, jesse, memories, mexico city

Happy Birthday Nathan! My older brother is 27 today. Nathan is my bff and I love him so. As you can see by the picture, he has always taken good care of me. Except for the time we played Robin Hood when we were 8 and 6. He dropped me from a 10 foot rope swing to save himself, and swinging together was HIS idea in the first place. Other than that, he has always looked out for me. I wish I were there to celebrate with You and Mel! I hope you have the best day EV!!!


Note from author: January/February is Baker birthday season, so expect several of these posts.

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The good news: only one is going to fall off! The one on my right foot has somehow begged for mercy and gotten that mercy in the form of staying intact! Meaning no stumpage! Hooray!!!

The bad news: the one on my left foot is hanging on by one fiber of a human thread. Any day now. Any day. I can put my whole finger inbetween the nail and the toe. Jake walked in while I was inspecting that very thing yesterday and he literally peed his pants and threw up all over himself at the same time. Well, I guess literally he didn't at all, but he almost did and probably could have if he would have relaxed his muscles a little.

In rat squishing news. I stepped on a squished rat today. I was crossing Broadway and I stepped on something quite crunchy and quite squishy at the same time. I though "that was definitely something". And it was something! Gross, right? I mean, so freakin nast' in a really bad way!!!

Nathan and Melanie are flying in tonight! Yay! I love those guys!! Hooray!!

Last but not least, raise your hand (in comment form) if you found my new blob location/URL/slash subscribed to reader! Seriously, if you don't mind, I would like to know.

Bye!

Labels: Family, jake stories, memories, nathan, running