Baby Sis is HOME

Layla has been such a great help since Harmonee has gotten home. She has learned how to turn on an off her feeding pump, IV pump and let me know when they need to be changed. She is also very caring for a little sis. Each morning Harmonee will wake her up by cooing or "squaking". Layla will just wake up and yell across to her, "Good Morning Marnee!" then after a minute, usually while I am still giving Harmonee her meds, she will yell, "Ready! Play with Marne now?" She is so sweet. And just as I had hoped, though I really shouldn't have. Layla is playing like a normal little girl now, even starting the terrible twos a little late now that she has the chance to actually have terrible twos.

I took Layla to liver clinic with Harm and I. She kept asking me "Marnee going to stay?" I would tell her I was hoping not, so she was stomp her foot, fold her arms and demand, "Marnee NOT staying. Marnee go home and play. Nurses not keeping Marnee. Not today."

We took Layla to Brandon's unit BBQ on saturday and let her play in the water and on the play ground. All the attention was on Layla. Mainly because she made sure it was. She needed that day, and I was happy we could give it to her. She deserved it.

Play Date with Taylor

Layla is starting to have a little separation anxiety from me being gone so much, Brandon being at work during the day and seeing her only at nights, being shuffled sitter to sitter etc. etc. In order to have her start liking people again instead of thinking she is leaving when she sees someone she knows and screaming, clinging to me or Brandon, I decided to have my cousin Tina bring her little Taylor over to play with Layla. As you can imagine, Layla clung to me the second Tina and Taylor came in the door. After about 15 minutes of bloody murder screams Layla finally started to settle down and realized, they had come to SEE her not TAKE her.

Somehow they both managed to sit down in Layla's baby doll playpen

Yes, they are very loving cousins... most of the time, when they aren't pulling each others hair, hitting, kicking, or stealing a toy from the other.
The cutest cousins around!
CHEESE!!

FUN PICTURE UPDATE

Its time for another update on Layla! Since a picture says a thousand words, instead of explaining details to you all I will show you her past few weeks...

I got Layla a Princess Tent!We had a sleep over in it... until Layla woke up and had no idea where she was, then it was time for our beds

We had a fun day in the sun...

Playing with bubbles...

And Layla being silly... this is what you get when you tell a 2 year old to "strike a pose"

Memorial Day

Played with Summer Grandma and Grandpa's puppy...

with cousin Andee in the pool

Splashing and...

Jumping in the bouncer!

Yes... we had a great weekend! I haven't been doing very well about blogging lately so today's update is all pictures. It will be so nice to have Harmonee home next week. So much has happened in just the past month! Harmonee has gone from liver failure to multiple organ failure, to transplant to recovery, and recovery to coming home in just 5 days! It will be so nice to have a normal family again... if only for 6 weeks and counting...