Hannah quote of the week

The other day Hannah told me, "Maybe for your birthday we can buy me a motorcycle."

Obviously she hasn't caught on to the custom of only the person with the birthday geting the presents.

She had told Sherry previously that she wants a pink motorcycle. Her nursery teacher lives across the street and took her for a short ride on his motorcycle, so that must be how it got in her head (not that his is pink!).

Sherry and I are still discussing whether to give in to her request or not. A motorcycle is one thing, but pink? Surely in a year or two she will regret choosing pink and want a different color!

Sleep Study Update

Well, we heard from the sleep doctor today (Dr. Pfeffer - it reminds me of Dr. Seuss). Hannah's sleep study came back abnormal. (I'm really not surprised!) Hannah has partial obstructions which mean that everytime she "obstucts" the airflow is decreased 30-50%. During the sleep study Hannah obstucted 35 times which is like 4.5 times an hour. I guess it happens more during a certain stage of sleep, which I can't recall now, so if you look at the obstructions during that stage it was like 15 times an hour. Ironically enough it's the worst during the later half of the night and it makes her really restless in her sleep. I would never have guessed that because the first half of the night is when it is the worst for us. Most of her night awakenings when we have to go in are during the first half of the night and then she usually sleeps without us having to help her during the last half. A bit confusing to me! There was no cause or reason for the first awakening she had during the sleep study. Crazy! Our next course of action is to go see an ENT. It looks like Hannah might have her tonsils and adnoids (sp?) out. I'm still trying to digest all of this but it is nice to know that Hannah really does have issues and we aren't just crazy.

Spencer's 1 year old pictures

What more needs to be said! He speaks for himself! 

Spencer's Birthday

Spencer's birthday was last Friday. We had a little party for him as a family plus g-ma Fromm was there. He had no trouble catching on to opening presents. The challenge was getting him to be interested in opening the next present instead of wanting to just play with the toy he opened. Hannah was more then happy to open gifts for him and we had to work to keep her from taking all of his presents.
Spencer was a bit tired by the time we did cupcakes but he had no problems grabbing the entire cupcake and trying it out.
It's hard to believe he is already one! What a cute kid!!

Hannah Sleep Study

The evening of May 4th Hannah and I got to have a special "sleep-over at the doctors." I took her up to Primary Children's hospital for a sleep study. We had been talking about it for 2 months so Hannah was as prepared as she could be. She was very brave and did really well. It took about an hour to get her all hooked up. As the picture shows she had a couple dozen electrode discs hooked up to her body. Probably half or more on her head. You can see all of the wires here and they weren't done yet. She also had 2 straps around her mid section.
Here she is as a finished product. You would never guess she was hooked up to so many wires. She got to wear a special "hat" that kept all of the wires neatly together and out of the way. They had to cut holes for her ears so that she would be able to put her rag on her ears. That was a first for them to have to cut holes for the ears. Hannah gave them a pretty good sampling of her sleep. The first time she woke up it was one of her bad ones and it took over 30 min. to get her to stop screaming and crying and to a point she could go back to sleep. I would love some answers for that one!
We made it! The next morning Hannah got all un-hooked and they gave her a special hat to wear home. It actually covers all of the grease and yucky stuff that was in her hair so that it didn't get all over her car seat. She also got a turtle beanie baby that she loved getting. The worst part of the experience was having to clean her up after we got home. It took me 45 minutes in the bath to clean all of the grease and yucky stuff off of her. I had to wash her hair with dish soap and then my shampoo and conditioner. I didn't even get it all out the first time through. All of her hair was a disadvantage in this case. We survived though and hopefully we can get some answers in a few weeks!