She wore a yellow polka dot bikini. 

The girls made masks at the gym daycare. They thought they looked like batman. 

Elise has started her new IV medicine that is given every four weeks. They gave it over 12 hours yesterday, so we started out in an infusion room and finished in a hospital room. We were discharged home at 11pm last night. The next dose will be given over 8 hours so we won't have to be admitted. 

This is Elise playing with one of the volunteers. 

Nora fell asleep snuggling with me on the sleeper couch in the room. 

I have a lot of pictures this time. Enjoy!

We went to Busch gardens again a couple weeks ago, and the girls had a ball. Elise did really well playing with her oxygen backpack. 

Nora loved the splash park too. I think we have a water baby on our hands. 

Jason and I got to go on a date last week, and went to see the cirque du soleil  Michael Jackson show. It was really good even though we had nosebleed seats. 

Last Saturday was really fun. We spent the whole day out with the girls at some events around town, an early dinner, and then tcby. Claire was exhausted on the way home and passed out. 

Nora was pretty sick for about 5 days this week. High fevers and not much else as far as symptoms. I finally took her to an after hours clinic to be seen. Luckily everything was negative which meant it was just a bad virus. Her fever finally broke on Tuesday, and she is back to her normal self. 

So this morning Claire had so much trouble picking out what to wear. It was soooo funny. I can just see her in the future on her first date going through all her outfits before she picks one. Today she put on two shirts not because she couldn't decide which one, but because she liked both. 

Elise and Claire love joining Nora in her crib after her naps. 

Nora, Claire, and I had a picnic at the park this morning. 

Claire tried the big girl swing today. She did really great. 

The girls are loving their daily ice cream cone. They get to pick the color cone they want. 

Elise is still on oxygen, but has been back in school since Tuesday. Claire is on day 3 of wearing underwear, and Nora has her first tooth!  So a good week for us. Jason found out he will be doing his cardiac anesthesia fellowship here starting this month. So we will FINALLY be done by next summer, and finally move back closer to family. 

Elise had a good birthday. We were all happy that we could celebrate it at home.   We took Elise out for a birthday breakfast, and then took her to toys r us to pick out some toys with her birthday money. She settled on a Spider-Man web shooter, and another Spider-Man action figure toy. Later that day she and Jason went to a movie, and then we took her out to a birthday dinner and ice cream. 

Thank goodness it was warm enough to break out the pool and have a picnic the other day, because we are all getting bored staying at home while Elise gets better. 

Nora and Amos did some snuggling. She thinks he and Mable are hilarious. 

And Claire is really getting into wearing dressed everyday, and the color pink. She is such a doll and so much fun.