Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Lazy Summer Days

Most of our free time this summer has been spent at the hospital, but every once in a while some family help break us out of the funk. Here's Grandma V sharing her water with DHawk while Grandpa supervises.This weekend we drove up to Vermont for a night with Uncle Joe and Aunt Alice. DHV shucked his first ear of corn.

DHV ordering Janine to run, "Schnell!"
"They say let sleeping dogs lie, but if I'm sneaky I bet I can give him a kiss!"
Success!

"I lead my people to the water!"

What are these things?

DKV coined this "Frog Camp X-ray."

The men combing the weeds for insurgent frogs.
(After consulting our in-house legal council we released the captives.)

Helping Daddy inflate the boat.
Cruising the pond; no insurgents, but we did encounter a Great White Shark.

Waiting for a lift to the top of his jumping rock.

Interrogating a terrorist turtle that Joe caught.
Mr. Turtle, and his associates Mr. Tadpole and Mr. and Mrs. Salamander
were all released without charges.

Back at home Leigh got her trach and has been relaxing with a morphine drip. Here she is during a wakeful moment. She looks better without those hoses in her face and is breathing easier. We're anxiously awaiting a room on the respiratory floor so we can start discharge planning.

5 comments:

Pete said...

Many thanks for the updates; Leigh looks strong; we'll be excited to see her in the home environment, too.

Meanwhile, that is quite a bestiary encountered in Vermont. Whoa. The big question is whether or not Uncle Joe has given up his bathing cap, sported so confidently in previous summers.

Anonymous said...

so, are Leigh's eyes blue then?

Anonymous said...

Leigh is looking better and better. If Danny is anything like Lucas, I'm sure you are no longer allowed to walk anywhere. "Mommy is running!"
-Lezlie

aniela said...

it looks like a fun visit! turtles and frogs, amaya would be in heaven. lucky danny!

Natasha said...

S. Leigh looks wonderful. I'm glad everything is going so well. I hope that you get to bring your little girl home soon. She looks gorgeous.