Things I want to remember...

While we were in the ER at Children's, Ben's cord fell off! He has a belly button now!! It's so cute! (Look at that belly! :o))

On our way home from the hospital, we stopped at Wal-Mart in Hot Springs and the greeter wanted to see Ben. We stopped and let him look. He said that he needed his first dollar and proceeded to pull out his wallet and give him one. How sweet was that? It's going in Ben's savings account!

And this is just a freebie! I thought he looked so cute napping in his hooded towel!

Happy Birthday to me!

Yesterday was my birthday, so we had cake and icecream at Granny's on Sunday. Daddy and Sheila took me out to eat yesterday and Michael bought me flowers. I think this is the first year that I haven't had any idea what I wanted. Granny gave me money and Daddy and Sheila bought me some shirts that I picked out. I told Michael I wanted an SD card so I would have plenty of room for pictures for my blog! ;) Here's some pictures from Sunday. Yes I had a Tinkerbell cake for my 21st birthday! :o)

Update on Ben

Well, we didn't get to come home on Saturday like had hoped, but we did go home on Monday. We were so happy to be out of that hospital! It feels so good to hold my baby without having to worry about IV cords!

We still don't really know what was wrong...just that he had an infection. On Wednesday night, his white blood cell count was 30,000 and by Friday or Saturday it was 19,000, so the infection was getting better. They took more blood before we left and we're still waiting on results from that and the urine culture. He seems to be doing fine though. He's eating like a horse! We had a follow up appointment with Dr. Reeves on Tuesday and he had gained 6 ounces in 6 days! He put him on some reflux medicine as well, so maybe that will help.

Here's some pictures of our last days at Children's. We knew he was feeling better when he would let us put him in the swing the nurses brought for him. Here's a picture of Ben and Grandpa on our last night, and one of the shirt they gave him when we left. It's a little big now, but isn't it cute? The stuffed animal is "Bucky" the deer that Grandpa bought for him. :) And a picture of the mean old nurses drawing blood for one final test right before we left.