A long day....

So, this morning when we got up and started stirring around and getting ready to go to church I noticed that Micaiah was wheezing when he exhaled and occasionally coughing a deep, bronchial type cough.  After talking it over we decided to take him to the Emergency Room to get checked out rather than wait until tomorrow morning to see the pediatrician.  In the ER they ran some tests for RSV (not exactly what that is other than some sort of respiratory infection that can lead to Pneumonia).  The tests all came back negative, but they decided to admit him for observation.  Once we got up to his room, we got a call from the doc saying that something looked abnormal on the baby's chest x-ray he'd had earlier and that she was ordering an echocardiogram.  Well long story short,  he does not have pneumonia, and what looked abnormal on the x-ray turned out to be nothing, but during the echo they found that Micaiah has a heart defect known as ASD (atrial septal defect).  Essentially it's a hole in the wall separating two chambers of the heart.  As it turns out I was born with the same defect.  Mine ended up leading to open-heart surgery when I was seven years old, but the defect closes up on its own often times as well.  The hospital is sending the pics of his heart to a children's heart specialist tomorrow and we'll know more by midweek.  Pray for that boy please.  He's a tough little booger, but he's still just a little booger.  So, tonight Becky is staying up at the hospital with Micaiah and I'm at home with the other five.  Not long after being home this evening and Brenna got sick.  She said her stomach was hurting her earlier.  I'm not sure she's going to school tomorrow. UGH!!  I'll keep you posted about all of this.

As I told you the other night we decorated the Christmas tree, and below is a picture I took of the festivities.