Life

Life is plugging away at the Shannon house. Things feel a bit crazy, but I know they will settle down. G-ma and G-pa have been taking care of Brady for the last couple of days while Jeff and I focus on Mallory. Her jaundice has landed her under the lights and in the ER. She is doing much better now, but had a bit of trouble maintaining her body temperature. It makes things a bit tough when she has to be fed every 2 hours and on the light belt 24 hours a day. Hopefully she will get off South Beach soon. Her bilirubin level is currently a 16 and needs to get down to a 14 in order to get out of the tanning bed. Until then we are tied down, a concept that any 2 year old is not cool with.

Brady has been a trooper. We finally got to celebrate (the proper way) his 2nd birthday. He slammed a cupcake complete with sugar loaded frosting (thank God he was staying the night at my parents house). Sugar is not a common visitor in his life, so when the sweet train came a knocking he took full advantage. He frosted himself for a good 10 minutes and then we slammed dunked him in the tub. He had purple frosting in every nook and cranny possible!! That'a boy!!!!