HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JORDYN P

Wow is she really 3!!!

We love you Big Girl!!!

Today was the Piemonte Birthday Bash. I will post pictures as well as an update as soon as I get them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY HONOR and BREANNA!!!!!


Look out world we are ONE!!!!!!


Meeting Big sister for the first time

On the way home

Getting ready to go home!!!!!

Welcome to the world sweet girls :)

Happy Fontanaversary Jordyn P

It's congenital heart disease awareness week. It has also been a year since Jordyn had her last surgery. It's been a year since I sat, 7 months pregnant with the girls, at her bedside. A year since Mark had to be red crossed home from Afghanistan and it's been a year since we almost lost her. I can still remember every little detail of that night like I was living it in slow motion. The day after her surgery she was having a hard time keeping her numbers stable. They were having to give her lots and lots of plasma. She would be ok for a little after that, then they would drop again. Things started to go down hill when her oxygen on the resperator was turned up as high as it would go and her sats were still dropping. They had to start bagging her by hand. When they did this her sats went up for awhile. As time passed her O2 sats slowly came down and down. By the time she reached 40% I was being pushed out of the room while everyone else came rushing in. Life support was brought to right outside her door. I could see them working on her calling out orders and getting her ready to be rushed back to the OR. Then doctors started to come and talk to me. At that point everything sounded like I was underwater. I could hear them but I was fixated on Jordyn. Until the words "Something is very wrong and she may not make it to the OR down the Hall" were said, then life all at once hit me. Jordyn was crashing and crashing fast. They needed to get her to the cath lab to see what was going on with her heart. I was being asked to sign a piece of paper giving them permission to do the procedure without knowing if she will come back to me. They let me kiss her before they took her down the hall. I remember holding her hand and talking to her then kissing her forehead and then she was wheeled out the door. The cath lab staff were great. They called me when they got her down there, to let me know she was still stable, still being bagged. They called when they started and throughout the whole thing. Then the best call came. They found out that the new piece of gortext they put in had some how collapsed. They were able to fix it and she would be coming back to the PCICU in a little bit. When I spoke to the surgeon later that night he still did not know how that happened, that everything went great during her open heart and that it was just one of those things. He made it clear to me that she was not out of the woods and was still in critically condition. Jordyn was bagged for 5 hours untill they were able to find a setting on the vent that her body liked. I am forever grateful for the RT's, doctors, nurses who kept my baby alive. Jordyn had a very rough recovery from her last open heart. She is now feeling great and acting like a typical 3 year old. She has tons of energy and is on the go all day. She is my little heart hero and I can not wait to see what you become. I love you baby girl.

Hi Friends

Hi Everyone,
The P's are still here. I hope everyone is doing well. I made a list of all my new years resolutions and I am not doing so well with them. LOL My plan was to do better at the whole blogging thing. Fail lol. Maybe now I will try to do better. A lot has been going on already in 2012. I will break it down by family member, I think that will be easier.

Mark is back in Afghanistan :( The last time I talked to him was a few days ago he was doing good. Please keep him in your prayers. Before he left we got daddy dolls (little dolls with a picture of him on it) for all the girls. We also got a Flat daddy ( a life size mark from the waist up) It was given to us free from Ashley ( thank you I cant wait to get it in the mail) He also recorded tons of books for the girls and they love them. At one given time there is usually three books playing with marks voice at the same time. I love it !!!

Jordyn is Great better then Great!!!! We went to Duke for a check up a few weeks ago and everything looks great. no fluid anywhere!!!!!! heart function great!!!!!!!!!!!! and down one more med. I will call back in a few more weeks and then start to get off her last one. wooohoo. She is feeling good and looking good and is enjoying just being a kid. We got the go ahead to start nursery school in September so that's big. She is also eating more. We still have a long ways to go before we lose her g-tube but its a start. She is up to 27 lbs I love it. We have been making plans for lots of play dates with friends and I am so excited she loves to be around other kids. Go Jordyn. You will more mountains some day girl :)

Breanna is walking, I mean running, I mean walking while drinking her bottle. LOl this girl is on the move and fast. She loves it climb. Most days I will find her in the toy box or trying to get over the baby gate or somewhere getting into trouble. She loves to dance on her knees to the music and thinks that every time someone has food its for her. She has the biggest laugh and Loves playing with her sisters. Can you believe that she is 10 months old. ya me either.

Honor is right behind her sister walking. She still likes to crawl instead of walk. LOL Everyone always thinks Honor is the shy one. Don't let her fool you she is a screamer and has a mean side. She thinks everything is hers and will not think twice of taking a toy from Bree and then hitting her with it if she tries to take it back. Honor likes to see how things work. She has better small motor skills then Bree and likes to watch how something is done before she tries it. She is still the talker of the family and is all about screaming these days. if you come for a visit you might find her in the closet. LOL just kidding. But some days LOL.

All the girls are doing so good. In a few short months they will be turning 3 and 1 ahhh.

As for me. I am keeping busy. Mom and Dad help out too with the girls. They are a full time job that is for sure. haha. Marks Unit is doing what we are calling Miles to Afghanistan. I am running it with the help of another wife. We are trying to walk to Afghanistan and back its about 14,440 miles there and back you can learn more about it here http://www.milestoafghanistan18.blogspot.com/ (someone please tell me how I add a word that you can click on instead of putting the whole address) Any way if you want to join keep track of your miles and either add them in the comment section or send them to me. Just add H and S co (that's marks co) to your miles so that we get credit for them. Thanks guys.
I will add pictures soon. I promise I will do better at keeping you up to date with the P's. Thank you for all your prayers.

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The things my girls get into

Greetings I am giving up some sleep time to update all of you faithful followers. The girls team has been chillen with the fam these last few days as Mark is out training. Boo to that. All it means is the big D word is coming up. This will be number 5 for our little family and number 7 for the hubster. Yep one to many but that's the military. I knew what I was getting myself into when I married the goof. I love my Marine with all my heart. Everything will be ok. I am not prego this time. Can I get a hell ya. LOL No open heart surgeries or anything crazy on this end this time. So lets just pray its a no drama deployment.

Well this family has been busy.

Jordyn~ The big sister, The I am two and feeling good kid! She is a hot mess these days. The power of the wills. HAHAHA she does not want the babies to look at her or touch her or play with any toy most days. Then out of nowhere she will hug on them and kiss on them and let them crawl all over her or bring them toys. Maybe there is hope yet for a nice sister relationship. We will see what tomorrow brings. Jordyn and I have been doing little lessons everyday. Colors, numbers, shapes and life lessons. We are working on the color translucent, parallelograms and making connections between life and text. You know all the things shes going to need to know to get into a good pre-school. LOL But all joking aside shes such a sponge these days and has a memory of an elephant and if I forget something she will let me know. She stated pee peeing on the potty!!!! We make it a few times a day but with all the diuretics she is on that's fine with this mama. Her eating is hit or miss. Some days she eats everything other days not a thing. I just keep hoping that once we are off all this silly meds that she will eat and eat and eat. We go back to Duke in January so I guess we will see then what our battle plan will be. Until then we will just keep doing what we are doing. :)

Honor~ She has two teeth now :) both on the bottom and is acting like more are on their way!! She is on the move crawling and pulling herself up on everything. She still enjoys laying on the ground and talking and kicking like crazy. She loves to play peek a boo with Bree and then two of them will just laugh at each other. I will try to catch it on video it is so cute. She does not need as much sleep as the other two these days. She would rather watch everything around her then sleep. She is also a little bit of a picky eater there are only a few things she does not like so far.

Breanna~ If you step out of the room for two seconds and hear a loud bang its most likely Bree getting into something she is not suppose to. If you were a fly on the wall at my house you would hear "AHH Bree" more then anything. She is everywhere and climbs onto everything. She will push anything that moves across the floor and walk behind it. She is standing for longer periods of time by herself. She is full of giggles. She laughs at everyone but Jordyn is her favorite. Jordyn just has to look at her and she will start belly laughing. Bree has one tooth on the bottom but I think more are on the way. She will eat everything you put in front of her and some of ours if she could. She gives the best wet kisses and is just now learning to give the wettest raspberry's. Honor and her love to touch each other and play with each other it is so cool to watch them interact. It is so true what they say about twins having their own language.

I love my family they are full of energy and it is nonstop until they all crash at the end of the day but i could not imagine my life with out them.

WOW

What your house does not look like this :)

Hi everyone!!!!

Life at the P's sure is a busy one. Its hard to believe that the girls are 7 months old now. We had a doctors apt a few days ago. They both are almost 16 lbs and Bree is taller by and inch. Bree is on the move crawling, climbing. walking with the help of a walker or the couch or anyone that she can catch. :) Honor can move but she still likes to stay in one place and play with whatever she can get her hands on. She likes to sit and wait for someone to walk by and then she attacks. LOL Honor cut her first tooth today. Tear. They are getting so big.Mark has had the last few days off. :) We had a week of doctors apt. so he was able to go with me and help with crowed control. Jordyn is doing good. She was really sick the last few days. :( We went up to duke on Wednesday and her heart looks great!!!! We are going to stay on all her meds for another 3 months and then slowly start to come off them. Slow and steady wins the race.

It is now day three of trying to get this blog updated. ugh oh well as I like to say "Life Happens!!" Mark is now sick so I am a little out numbered. Jordyn is having a sleep over with the grandparents so that helps out a lot. The little ones are finally sleeping poor things the shots are so rough on them. I am sure there is more news but just cant think right now. Thanks for checking in on us. If anyone wants the job of updated the blog for me please let me know. :) I hope everyone is doing well. Take care.

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LOVE THIS

Her Little Shadows
I once saw a mother with eyes filled with laughter.
And many little shadows came following after.
Where ever she moved they were always right there,
Holding onto her skirt, hanging onto her chair.
Before Her, behind her, they were everywhere!
"Don't you ever get weary as day after day,
So many tagalongs getting in your way?"
She smiled a big smile as she shook her head-
And I'll always remember the words that she said...
"It's good to have shadows to run when you run,
That laugh when your happy, and hum when you hum...
For you only have shadows when your life's filled with Sun!!!
-anonymous