A Dark day is here...

Our computer crashed and sadly I fear I have lost the last 3 months of photos and priceless videos of our princess. All I have for sure from the last few months are what I thankfully uploaded to a photo processing site and these pictures on here. BUT, I have no clue how to pull video off of this thing. If you do, please help! I am praying that my shadow copy of my photo organization program did copy those 3 months, but I am having doubts. I will now be sure to have all photos not printed at least sent to the processing site so I have them somewhere... Also, if you have any photos of us or Jacinda since July 21, we would appreciate those as well.

But, in addition to all those photos... I have lost your email addresses too, so if you could please email me at jojo310@comcast.net so I can add you back into my address book, I will be grateful.

Happy 91st Birthday, Grandma!

Jacinda walking with Great-Grandma's walker.

Jacinda is now finally mobile! She crawls AND also walks along furniture. She moves as fast as a snail and it is super adorable. (we'll attempt to get a video today) Both happened almost the same day. Once she's standing though, forget crawling! So, I'm guessing she will be walking on her own very soon.
Slapping Daddy's head, it makes a fun sound!
Talking with Great-Grandma about her pearls.

Pumpkin Patch

Jennifer and I took the kids to the Colorado Pumpkin Patch this weekend. It was OK, but a little false advertising that we would be picking our pumpkin from a patch... more like a box. But, I guess with the drought there weren't many pumpkins to actually pick. Jacinda did not have the greatest time. She was tired and ate lunch late, so was pretty cranky. But, memories nonetheless.

Jacinda and Mommy going down the slide

Not thrilled about being set on the hay. She doesn't like green grass either.
So sad...
Petting a goat... she loves their milk!
The happiest she was all day.

On the hay ride... she looks SLEEPY!

Finally... we picked our pumpkin.

To our Disappointment...

So grown up!

Here you can see her all 4 of her teeth!

Well, after 3 weeks of Jacinda's saturation level being at 92, it took a sudden drop back into the mid 80s two weeks in a row. Her pediatrician and her pulmonologist highly recommend that we go forward with the swallow (modified barium swallow) study to see if she is silently aspirating. The nurse at the pulmonology office has been an incredible help to us, answering tons of questions and trying to help make the study go as smooth as possible. She explained that even someone with pneumonia can have a high saturation level, but because Jacinda's need for oxygen has been so persistent they think there is something that needs to be found. She explained how tiny bits of food and drink in the lungs can lead to infection and that would not be good. Because of my concerns with Jacinda's temper, her breath holding and passing out spells and wanting to get accurate results (yes, she does have one even though she is the happiest baby 99% of the time) the nurse said she would try to get some play therapists for Jacinda during the study to keep her distracted and to form a bond so she doesn't have so much stranger anxiety with the lab techs. So, the swallow study is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 27, 2:00pm at the Denver Children's Hospital.

In other news... Jacinda is 11 months old on Monday. I CANNOT believe how fast the last few months have gone. I never believed parents when they said that it would go fast, but it does. She is changing before our eyes and is the most amazing thing in the world to watch! I love her daily discoveries with her "language," her movements and problem solving. She is still not self feeding, but then again, as a princess why should she have to feed herself? :)

She can say, "ah duh" - All done. When she finishes her food I say and sign "All done" and she just started repeating me a couple days ago. "more" is another story... that comes out like a shriek! And when I take her hands to sign more please and all done, she thinks it is hilarious!