Feb 21

Poor Eva was up alot during the night - hotter than heck. Poor girls temp was up and down. 100, 101.4, 102.3, 99.7 - all over the place. (2 different thermo). She was burning up and screaming. We went in to see the doctor and of course - Tylenol and Motrin - more teeth coming in on the top as well. Slight head cold and teething.

She is still very cranky with this cold and teeth, but still has time to play and have fun (thank god). She has been to the day care a few times and gets along w/the kids great. We know she will do fine here. Sleep through the nights are getting better, still not straight through but we think alot of what is waking her is her coughing, hopefully this is gone soon enough.

Feb 15th

Today we noticed that little Eva has yet another tooth breaking through. Poor little girl is feeling it!!! That makes 7...

Misc Pix

Feb 14th

Today was a happy day for us. We have our new little valentine. Here are a few pix of her from today.

February 10th

Eva went to her 2nd doctors appt today. She had her TB test and bloodwork done. For the TB test - Daddy had to hold her legs and one arm down and Mommy had to hold the other arm down as the nurse put the needle in. Eva being the strong little girl got loose from mommy so they had to do the needle again. A nurse came in helped the 2nd time. Then across the hall to draw 6 vials of blood. Mommy held Eva in a bearhug and Daddy held her arm as the nurse put the needle in to get all the blood. She screamed alot but once the needle was in she calmed down a tiny bit. All in all she did ok. Sad seeing her cry like that but it's something that has to be done. We go back on Friday to get the TB results - there has been no swelling at the site so I'm sure everything is A OK.

Little Eva is still having troubles sleeping. The comfort level isn't there for her yet. The doctor says it will finally catch up to her and she will not have a choice but to sleep. Every night before she goes to bed we pray she sleeps through the night. So far it only worked once. Daddy just put Eva down for bed - so mommy is going to follow in a few seconds seeing I'm sure she will be up sooner than later!

Update

Writing something quick before going to lay down. Eva went to bed early today -meaning she will be up in a few hours, so I need to get a little rest myself. Everything is going ok. Wish our little girl would sleep. We don't know how she keeps going like she does w/o sleep?? I am dead to the world and she is hopping around.

Still did not find the cord to our camera and have not made it out to walmart yet to get them put on a disk so i can upload to the blog.

Tomorrow afternoon we bring Eva to her second doctors appointment. Tomorrow is bloodwork day. Not looking forward to it at all. (Shots in a week or 2 after that, ughh).

Misc Pix

Here are a few pix from the day we picked her up. One pix she is w/her escort - the other in a stroller. The other pix were taken today.

Feb 3

Home sweet home at last. I think i have the date right. We arrived home about 9:30PM on Sunday night from JFK. We were there early of course and waited for about an hour and a half after the plane landed for them to go through customs. Of course i have no idea where the cord is to transfer pix off of our camera, so there will be no pix posted from the little red camera we brought. we have a few from our other camera which hopefully i can get them loaded and added to this.

The escort ended up being the doctor in the prior pix with Eva, for some reason i though it was someone else. The driver said that the doctor advised she was a very good baby, ate good, slept good. Eva was in a stroller and they came up to us. the driver was there at the same time for the escort. The paperwork was handed over to us along w/the duffle bag for traveling. The driver translated a few things to us from the escort, then next thing you know - we were there in a crowded JFK airport terminal w/little Eva, a few bags and a stroller and the escort and her driver left - all in the matter of like 5 minutes. We bundled her up and we got out of the crowded airport as fast as we could. The first 2 hrs of the drive home was fine - she slept - the next hr or so was not so good - the cried the whole way, the poor little girl was so scared.

The first night was rough - no sleep for Lisa (mike had to work Monday AM). Monday during the day was a rough one.. very rough. We think the 20 hour flight and the time change really hit her. Tuesday she was very very happy but only slept for like 4.5 hrs Monday night, then took 2 - 1/2 hr naps during the day. Wednesday she was about 1/2 and 1/2 good and bad moods - probably from lack of sleep. she slept for about 4 - 4 1/2 hrs and took 1 - 1/2 hr nap... i know i'm exhausted, i dont know how she is still ticking. She finally went to sleep at like 6:30ish PM today. we kept her up as late as we could - hoping she would sleep through the night. My guess is we will be up at midnight again and will be up all day. So, with that said, Lisa will be laying down right now.

Niko likes Eva (I think he is very tired too due to no sleep for him either)..lol. She also likes Niko (thank god). Eva likes Vinnie as well but can't catch him. she has been crawling after him but he runs too fast. Vinnie doesn't know what to make of her - he just stares..

It has been 3 days and it has been a very slow progress. Yes we know it has ONLY been 3 days but she is barely sleeping - hopefully she feels comfortable enough soon.

Here are a few pix - we do have much more - once the cord is found we can upload.