Catching Up / 18 months old!

Okay I fell off the blogosphere!
And doing so led me to realize how much I am NOT documenting! And I want to be able to recall all the fun things Hannah Kate is doing and learning.

She turns 18 months old tomorrow! Her check up is Thursday and then I'll have some stats but she is so darn beautiful and adorable. (Which serves her well because she certainly isn't still, or easy.)
She is fun and funny.
She loves to have people's attention and make everyone laugh. She has an extensive vocabulary but the phrases I hear the most from her lately are "I wudge you!" and "I howed you?" (Translation: I love you, and, I hold you, or basically, will you hold me?)
She has become VERY affectionate although not so much in the quiet snuggling sense as much as the loud and active. She wants to be help so she can force a rocking motion and sing our family song that ends each phrase with tickling, or throw herself back to hang upside dawn out of our arms. She wants to be chased and she wants to climb... on EVERYTHING!
She is a pinball bouncing energetically from one thing to the next leaving little hurricane messes in her wake. She is very girls and seems to exclaim "Pietty!" every time I do her hair or put her clothes on, but she is not dainty, nor is she gentle. She is a rough and tumble adventurer and keeps her mommy on her toes!

She is growing and developing so much and so quickly I think her development, especially in the emotional categories, gets a bit overwhelming.
We are working on age appropriate discipline and praying that God meets us where we are and compensates for our weaknesses and covers our family and parenting with grace.

This last week was rough on us all. After 2 weeks of on again off again illness, I got a really bad spell of it on Wednesday which led to dehydration and premature contractions, and inevitably a trip to the ER. I was quickly sent to labor and delivery to make sure Levi was fine and not trying to come 18 weeks early. He wasn't, and I was given ant nausea meds and IV fluids and sent home, where I ended up sick all night and made arrangements to see a specialist the very next day.
I went through extensive interview questions with the doctor and underwent several blood tests before finally getting home Thursday evening.
Friday morning began with vomiting and I quickly took my Zofran and was rescued by my brother who lives down the street and took Hannah Kate so I could rest.
The weekend was recovery and I spent a lot of a time on the couch but definitely felt like I was on the mend. Today I felt back to normal and was feeling like I might finally be over all this miserable illness when I got my results back from the doctor. It turns out the some enzyme in my pancreas is low and some protein is high and my blood test shows an infection somewhere and inflammation. However because the blood test is so broad they can't pin point what kind of infection and inflammation or where it is in my body or how to treat it without further testing. Testing that they can't do until I get sick again, and given my blood tests, I most likely WILL get sick again... not the news I was hoping for.

Ryan has also been working a lot of over time this summer, so with Mommy being sick and Daddy being gone Hannah Kate sure has been feeling the upset in her normal routine.

But she is so strong and tough and she is bouncing back and hopefully with the foresight of knowing more sickness is ahead for me, I can prepare with hydration, get the tests done and get on the meds again quickly with as little discomfort and family upset as possible... Pray for us...