Healthy heart!

We got some terrific news on Wednesday!! Baby Cooper has a 4-chambered heart!!! We saw the ECHO tech at Dr. Thomas' office. It was still a little early to check, but we could see everything except the pulmonary artery clearly. However, Dr. Thomas said that based on the blood flow through the ductal arch that it looks as if there are no problems!! Hooray!! We will set another appointment in a month just to look at the pulmonary artery to be sure. It will also be time for the sonogram at the OB/GYN office so we will get to see baby lots next month!!


Bennett and Gracie are getting more and more excited. B wants to feel the baby moving. Hopefully baby will cooperate at some point before it is born.

We have all been relatively healthy...with the exception of pink eye that Gracie caught....gave to Craig....who in turn gave it to Bennett.....who had a terrible case! Grace and Craig's eye cleared up so quickly, but B's has really hung around.

Our friend, Karen aka Jozzy, came to visit us the last weekend of March. She was running the half marathon. The kids were beside themselves to see her....which turned to pure estatic glee when we pulled into the parking lot of Great Wolf Lodge to spend the night! They ask to go there all of the time. We got a gift card 2 Christmas's ago and we have been saving it. Lots of time at the water park....Gracie must have gone down the blue slide 976 times. She would get cold....we would take her to the hot tub to warm up....and then she would be off to the slide again. B's highlight was defeating the dragon playing MagiQuest. He had a wand and had to solve several puzzles to collect all of the runes. Then, we headed down to become a Master Magi and defeat the dragon. Homeboy was all kinds of proud of himself.

We are all still doing well. Times are tough in education right now, but thankfully I have a job for next year. Kids are doing well in school. Craig is staying busy with work. Everybody feels good.

B has been in soccer overdrive. He plays on a rec team. He got invited to join a club team with his kindergarten teacher. So we have soccer camp on Monday, practice on Weds for rec, practice on Fridays (that last from 1-1 1/2 hours) for club, and games on Saturday. He says he loves it! Every other night, he and Daddy play soccer in the house. (grrr)

Lu is still loving dance! It is her favorite activity. She is going to be a princess in her recital so she is pumped about that.

Only 2 more months before we begin all the heart stuff again. Ugh. Pulmonology appointment in mid-May. Heart appt in early June. Heart cath on June 22. Pre-op on June 27. Big surgery day is June 28. She tells us all the time that she "is going to be able to run fast after she gets her heart fixed." She definitely gets tired and out of breath easily. She has started showing anyone who will look her zipper. And she loved the fact that Nana had 2 zippers on her knees! (she had double knee replacement) She even showed her zipper to the nurse at the hospital!

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