The Mann family

Thursday, June 16, 2011

More Japanese Gardens

I tried to get the nice view of Portland behind them but they were sitting so it didn't quite work, but I thought this was cute, Mamie pretending to feed "Papa"

Mamie and mommy with some Japanese stone thingy :-)

I can only figure out how to post 5 pictures at a time so....

Japanese Gardens

Grandma, grandpa and Mamie. We took a trip to the Japanese Gardens in Portland when they were here visiting

Mamie took advantage of the extra people to hold and hug her. She always wanted to hold grandma or grandpa and I don't think it was so good for grandma's back, but she was a good sport.

Mamie and mommy enjoying the gardens and waiting while Grandpa listened to the boring tour guide

Grandma and Mamie enjoying each others company

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Recently, Mamie and I flew to Utah. We had fun with family for 2 1/2 days. Then, early Sunday morning, I woke with severe abdominal pain. I eventually decided it was bad enough that I thought I needed to go to the ER. I started puking once I got there. They did various tests and eventually decided the best thing to do would be to remove my gall bladder. So they removed it on Tuesday the 12th and I was sent home on the 13th. However, I continued to throw up and feel sick and wound up going back in the hospital. They did more tests and came to the conclusion that I had an ileus, which meant that my digestive system was completely not working, it basically didnt' start up again after the surgery, at least that is my understanding. So they put a tube up my nose and made me swallow again and again till they got the tube all the way down. It was horrible. I had to have that tube up my nose and clear down my throat for days and couldn't eat. I felt nauseous most of the time and couldn't sleep. I was on all kinds of meds, and imagined hearing all kinds of things. I had panic attacks. After awhile they had trouble getting blood when they tried to draw it so they had to do a "pick line", which to my understanding, went further in, like, close to the heart or something . Part of the time I was in the ICU, I'm not sure for how long. I had an infection and they were very concerned because I had a fever and my blood pressure was low. I think the white blood cell count was high? The nasty tube down my throat eventually drained all the gross goop it was supposed to drain. And I finally got to go home (to my parents) from the hospital on the 19th. Once there, I still felt nauseous a lot and found it really hard to get myself to eat. Then the next day I had a seizure. I guess I was low on my epilepsy meds from in the hospital. I know I threw up my pills at least once. Sometimes they gave me my meds by IV but other times they tried to have me swallow them. I came back to Oregon on Saturday. I was going to try to wait until I saw the surgeon on Tuesday, but I just really wanted to get back to Wade and Mamie. He had flown out to Utah after I went in the hospital the second time and took Mamie back to Oregon with him the day I got out. I remember one time in the hospital they had wheeled me to another room to have some test. They tried to get me to stand, and I tried but collapsed. Fortunately they were already holding me under my arms. I was so thirsty all the time, especially since one of my anti nausea meds gave me a dry mouth. But I wasn't allowed to even drink while the tube was in. All they would let me do is dip this little sponge thingy in my ice water and suck out a little water. I am not exaggerating when I say the whole experience was very traumatizing.

Monday, February 28, 2011

March

My mom visited recently and Mamie began calling her, "mom". I guess she hears me do it, so she figures that's what she should call her too.

Her other words are:
1 and 2- variations on mommy and daddy
3-hi
4-bye
5-wassat (what's that)
6-wadoing (what are you doing)
7-cookie
8-cracker
9-Jeni (once)
10-Jesus
11-Mamie

We taught Mamie how to jiggle her tummy. Wade had put his hand on his tummy and "jiggled" it, making a funny noise of course which she thought was very comical so we've now taught Mamie how to do it. I love the noise she makes when she does it, it can't quite be described in words, but it's pretty cute.

Mamie has always loved music. Recently Wade put on something with a heavy beat and she got really into it with a new move, of kinda...head banging. There is nothing funnier than seeing a baby put all the energy of her whole body into just the upper half, and watching her dance. I LOVE it. It is SO cute. She always likes to help lead the music at church, and she often claps after a hymn is done. Or even anytime a song is done. Even when I just sing to her. It's nice to be appreciated. :-)

She enjoys going to the pool at the local rec center. She has started putting her face in the water. It's really funny. Sometimes it is just to drink it, but other times she just thinks its funny. She likes to do that in the bath too.