Tough Week

This past week has been one for the record books! I really thought I might loose it at least two times! HA.HA.HA. It actually started last week, when we took James Henry to the Dr to find out he had a respiratory virus. That was on Monday, and on Tuesday Luke Harris started running fever. By Friday we were all fever free, and then Saturday morning gets here and Lucy started running fever. We went to after hours on Saturday, and Sunday and they thought that she just had the same virus that the boys had. On Monday of this week, we went to see Dr Edwards. They tested her for the RSV virus, and sure enough thats what it was! Thats right RSV and she is not even five weeks old! SCARY! Thank goodness it was not very bad yet, and we were able to come home with breathing treatments four times a day, and we did not have to go to the hospital.

When we got home, James Henry's nose was still running like a water hose, and Luke Harris was complaining with his ear hurting. My mom was coming up to help with the kiddos, and told me to go ahead and make them appointments to get checked out just in case! So glad that I did that, because little did I know, James Henry and Luke Harris both had ear infections, and James Henry has the RSV virus also, and we are doing breathing treatments with him as well! UGH!!!! When it rains it pours at the Robinson house!

Thank the good Lord, the kids are taking their breathing treatments so well! James Henry calls it his smoke mask, and pretends he is a fireman. I will post some pictures later.

Since all of this has happened, Luke and I have had to make a hard decision about the boys and school. We have decided to pull them out of MMO until next year. Dr Edwards has talked with us about how low Baby Lucy's immune system will be after having this RSV, and we feel like we can not risk the boys bringing home anything else for her to catch! I can only pray that we have done the right thing for our little family!

Here are some pictures of the boys from their last party at school.




James Henry and his friend Hannah, he talks about her all the time!

Luke Harris and his "buddy" Judson.
He was telling me not to take his picture! He is getting to be so sassy!

Luke Harris was saying cheese and then said, " I really have cheese in my mouth Mama!"

Sleepy baby!

This week has been a rough one, to say the least! James Henry and Luke Harris have had a respiratory virus. They have had fever, a cough that sounds like they have been smoking for years, AWFUL runny noses, and have just felt bad! This all started on Sunday night, and I hope we are finally getting over it. I have tried so hard to keep baby Lucy in a different room from the boys, and have washed all of our hands until they are raw! All we need to top things off is for Lucy at four weeks old (Yes, I said Four, time flies, and that is all I am going to say because it upsets me that my baby is growing that fast!) to get this virus, and have to be put in the hospital.
The boys have not been their usual playful selves! They have slept so much. I put a movie on for them in LukeHarris' room and they were laying in his bed watching it today, when I noticed that James Henry was very quiet. Quiet usually equals trouble! When I walked in, this is what I found! So of course I grabbed my camera before I moved him to his bed!

Luke Harris and Kermit

Luke Harris and James Henry both have such a good time with Kermit the dog, but oh do they fight too! Kermit really thinks he is one of the kiddos! If we have company over, he has to see them, and when Luke gets home from work the dog meets him at the door just like the boys do! that being said, this was what Luke Harris came up to me and said this morning. "Mama, how do I get Kermit to listen to me and do what I say? Do I have to bark at him or growl?"

It's A Girl!!!!

Last Tuesday was a day in mine and Luke's life that we will never forget! We had been to the Dr. on Monday, and he told me that I could stop taking the medicine he had put me on for the pre-term labor. He then told us that we would have a baby on Friday, IF nothing happened in between. I was going about my daily routine with the boys on Tuesday, and making lunch when I started noticing that I was having some contractions. We finished lunch, and I got the boys down for a nap when I realized that I needed to start timing them. I called the Dr when the contractions were between 4-7 minutes apart, and they told me to head to the hospital and get hooked up to the monitors so they could see what was going on. So I called Luke and said this may be it! Luke rushed home from work, and started getting things together. The boys were still asleep, so Luke called on Adam to see if he would come and sit with them until one of the grandparents could get there. We got the the hospital around 2:30. They were so busy delivering babies that day, that it took us until 3:30 to get a room! After we were hooked up for a while, the nurse came in and said that Dr. Tucker had called and said that we would have a baby around 5:30. When family started arriving, everyone kept on and on about how there had been 11 babies born that day, and only two were little boys! I just knew that we would have baby Rhett and make number three! It was around 6:20 or so when they came and rolled me back to surgery. 6:49 p.m. on January 20, 2009, was a moment in mine and Luke's life that we will remember FOREVER! Dr. Tucker, and the nurse told us "IT'S A GIRL!" Luke and i looked at each other with little Lucy screaming in the background and we both had tears in our eyes! At that moment, I felt like my life was complete! So thank you Lucy Elizabeth for completing our little family, and I can not wait to see what the future hold for you and your big brothers!

I think the waiting room was full of our whole family! Everyone was so excited when Luke came out and told them that it was a girl! (Notice the faces in the bottom left picture!) Luke Harris and James Henry were introduced to their baby sister! I can not wait to see the interaction between the boys and little Lucy! I know that she will always have her two wonderful body guards!

Lucy had so many people come to welcome her to the world! Here are some pictures of Lucy and her visitors!