Lilly's First Crush?

At the t-ball game the other night, we got our first glimpse of what could be Lilly's very first crush. How can this be happening? She's only in the second grade!!! Adam and I have decided we are now locking her in her room until she turns 20. :) Do you think that would be frowned upon?

An Exciting T-Ball Game!

Dancing In The Garden

As Sam and Vivian were supposed to be helping me with weeding the garden, they decided it would be more fun to dance to the music we were playing instead.

What's Up With This?

Sam pretending to be a spider!

Lilly's Return To Softball

Last night, Lilly was able to play in her first softball game since she had her accident. Her teammates were so excited to see her and she did really well for being gone for the last couple of weeks. She also had a great time. We are so glad to have our Lilly back. :)

What A Smile

Have you ever seen such a fabulous smile?

Happy Days

A rare moment when all is right in the Jager household

Autumn at Track

Autumn had her last track meet today. She has done awesome this year and has really enjoyed herself. She has participated in the long jump, hurdles, dashes and relay races. She's already looking forward to next season. :)

Update On Lilly

Lilly went back to school this past Wednesday and did really good. She was quite pale and very tired when I picked her up the first couple of days. Her classmates were so happy to see her. It was really nice to see how excited she was to be back at school. She has a ton of make up work to do. We are still trying to get caught up. She hasn't gone back to play softball yet and I'm not sure if she will or not. She has received cards and gifts from her classmates and from her softball team wishing her well. She didn't want to go out on the playground the first couple of days but I think she did after that. Hopefully she'll continue to improve.

Another Update On Lilly

I took Lilly to her ER follow-up appointment today. She had her catheter removed and the doctor ( the gynecologist that did her surgery ) rechecked the area she did surgery on. Everything is healing fine. When we went into the office Lilly could hardly move her legs. I have been trying to get her to bend her legs and not hold her legs so tight together since she came home from the hospital but just could not convince her to do it. After her catheter was taken out she was a new girl. She could suddenly walk better and she could spread her legs apart and bend her knees. I have a feeling she thought the catheter would fall out if she seperated her legs even an inch. The swelling is gone and she hasn't had any pain medication since yesterday afternoon. We went to visit my sister Robin and her kids today and Lilly, Vivian and Sam played with Reese for awhile. Then at Mom and Dad's, Lilly was jumping on the trampoline. She did complain of her knees and legs hurting some. She took motrin before bed but that's it. She was sleeping with me since her surgery and Vivian was sleeping with Sam. Adam has been sleeping in Lilly and Vivian's bed. Tonight everyone is finally in their own beds. We took Lilly to her class earlier today to visit and all the kids were so excited to see her. They were all saying how it was an answer to prayer that she was there. It was really sweet. Lilly was really quiet and acting all shy. Lilly, can you believe it? She's going back to school tomorrow. I can't help but worry she's going to overdo it. She still gets tired really easy. I told her teacher that she can come home during the day if she is tired for the next few days. We had to go buy her a pillow for her seat at school because her bottom is still bruised and sore. She picked out a princess pillow, one of those bead filled ones. I talked to a couple of teachers and we've been trying to keep the area where Lilly got hurt a secret from the other kids, so one of them suggested that she tell them she hurt her upper leg. We told Lilly to do this, so she wouldn't be embarrassed and that we thought God would be o.k. with it. I am so glad that things are going better for her. She has healed so well and so far it seems as if emotionally she's going to be o.k. too. Thank you so much for your prayers.

Update On Lilly

Lilly is getting a little bit better everyday. She's been a brave girl and is willing to do whatever Adam and I tell her she needs to be doing. After she puts her opinion in. We see alittle bit of the old Lilly every day :) She was getting her vicoden every four hours on the dot and gradually we've been able to stretch that out now to about six hours and at night to more than that. She's sleeping really good, about 10-12 hours a night. She's walking from the bedroom to the family room in about half the time and sits up most of the day now. She is still afraid to bend her knees or move her legs apart at all. She keeps those legs so tight together she's leaving marks on her thighs where her catheter tubing is. When I ask her why, she says she's scared. She gets her catheter out tomorrow, so hopefully that will change then. She still has trouble sitting in any one position for any length of time. I'm not quite sure how she's going to get around school or sit in her desk all day. We've thought about getting her a wheelchair so she can get from one end of the school to the other and have a soft place to sit in school. We're checking into it. She'll get her second shower tonight, the first one went well after she found out it didn't hurt and actually felt good having it done. One more thing, she hasn't wanted to pray since this happened. I'm not sure what this means, if anything. Please continue to pray for Lilly's continued recovery and that we will do what is best for her.

Lilly's Accident At School

This past Tuesday at about 1:oo p.m., I was at McDonald's with Sam, Vivian, my mom and my niece, Ava. I received a call on my cell phone from Pam, the school secretary stating that Lilly had had an accident on the playground and had hurt her "private part" ( this is what Lilly calls it) and that (obviously) nobody there was comfortable checking to see if she was ok. So, my mom kept the younger kids and I went right away to school, thinking the whole way that it's probably no big deal. She'll be ok. Who would ever think that a kid's " private part " could get hurt badly on playground equipment. Boy, was I wrong. When I got to school, Pam said Lilly had been to the bathroom 3-4 times already. She came out of the bathroom right at that moment and I knew right then it was going to be much worse than I could ever have imagined. Her face was red and swollen, she was crying uncontrollably, and you could see she was scared to death. We went into the bathroom and her pants were just full of blood. It was so incredibly hard not to show any emotion and try to make her feel as if everything was ok. I called the doctor's office immediately and we got in right away. By the time we got there, her " private part " was swollen to probably 3 or 4 times the normal size and she had a tremendous amount of bruising. They immediately sent us to the ER. Adam met us at the ER where they started an IV, and eventually put her under " concious sedation " she was awake but would remember nothing and felt some pain but very little ( they had also given her morphine ). They proceded to clean her up, do an exam and put in a foley catheter because she was so swollen they were afraid she wouldn't be able to urinate. They gave us an antibiotic, vicodin for pain and a dressing and we were on our way home. Obviously, not as fast as it sounds. She didn't sleep much that night. Her pain was severe. The next day, the bleeding began to increase, she couldn't walk and by mid-afternoon she was literally screaming from the pain ( not even the vicodin was helping ). We took her back into the ER and she was so scared. She knew ( or thought she knew ) what was going to happen. She was " looked at" ( I mean literally looked at, she was so hysterical they didn't want to do much more than that ) by the ER doctor and they called in the on-call gynecologist. Luckily the gynecologist was a female and she was incredible. She cleared an OR for Lilly, mostly at first to do exploratory " surgery " if you could call it that. More like an exam I guess. But Lilly was under general anesthesia, that way she could really get a good look and find out exactly what was wrong. Without going into details, it was much worse than they originally thought. She had to have stitches, and there was one spot that they couldn't stitch, that just has to heal on its own. There will be no permanent damage and she should heal well. The doctor compared the healing to childbirth. The healing should be fairly quick. But in the meantime, she has the foley catheter for 6 days, she's on vicoden for pain, she has a tremendous amount of difficulty walking, sitting and at times standing. She stayed overnight in the hospital and didn't sleep there hardly at all with everyone ( nurses, doctors ) coming in all the time. Now that she is home, it's better. She slept 12 hours last night and even slept on her side for awhile. That is awesome because she has been unable to bend at the waist or knees very well because of the pain since this happened. She's not eating great but is drinking good. I'm not sure how much school she's going to miss. It takes her 10-15 minutes to walk from the bedroom to the family room right now. That's probably 20 feet. She can't sit for long periods of time and tires easily. She has the catheter out on Monday so that's good news. She is very quiet and doesn't say much. I can't imagine how traumatizing it must have been to have this happen or how it's going to affect her in the future. Not to mention the fact that she's worried about being embarrassed at school. We've talked to the school and we're going to try to keep most of it quiet from the kids. I just hope we see the old carefree Lilly come back. Anyway, we ask for your prayer that Lilly will heal quickly and that we will all have patience and do what is best for Lilly.

Kensi Morgan

These are some new pictures of Kensi that Robin took. The little pink hat was made by Lilly. Isn't Kensi one of the most beautiful little girls you have ever seen?

Opening Day! Sam and Vivian's Day as a Team

Sam, Vivian and there cousin Ava are all on the same t-ball team. On opening day, they participated in the parade and had their pictures taken with their team. After that they got to go to the park and have ice cream. Their first game was a few days later and they are all doing great!

Opening Day! Lilly's First Game

On opening day, the kids all got to walk in the parade and have ice cream at the park before their first game. In the first picture Lilly is eating her ice cream cone. The second picture is the parade and the third picture is Lilly at her game. The fourth picture is Lilly with her team. She is doing quite well. She has had some really good hits and has been doing great in the field also!