Max, Emily, Indee and Camas Rasmussen: May 2008

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Max's New Landscaping Business

Friday night Max, Blair and Dakota started working on Max's mini bike track next to our house. With the skid-steer they worked until ten o'clock digging and piling up dirt. The jumps turned out a lot bigger than I expected but Max loves it. They need a little more work but he hit it a few times this afternoon. Indee can not stand to have her dad ride without her. When we were watching him she kept yelling "STOP IT." It is great that she loves to do so much with her dad. Bikes are a little scary for me but she loves every minute of it. Who knew she could be so girly yet so tom boyish.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Outside

Indee loves going outside. So today she brought me her shoes and said "outside." I said you are going to need more than that. (It is 44 degrees today and raining and windy) So then she brought her hat. Then her coat. She wanted to go out so bad she even took out her "biki" and said "away." I knew that I could not resist. By the way all of this started because her dad was already outside and she heard him shut the garage door. So we went out to play. She even had to mow the lawn in the rain. She is a funny girl.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Funny Story!!

Last night Indee was getting ready for bed. She had just brushed her teeth and I was finishing mine. So she was just playing in the bathroom when she looked up and me and said, "What's up?" I said, "What did you just say?" She turned and said "What's up?" Just the look on her face and how she said it was so funny! She acted like she was so cool! She is so much fun. I don't know what we would do without her. I am not sure where she has learned this "What's up" thing. I am a little nervous.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Indee loves outside!

Well it is finally beginning to feel like spring. Yesterday we even had a picnic for lunch. Indee recieved a swing for her birthday. So we put it up yesterday. She loved it! We couldn't get her out. She kept saying "swing swing." It is funny because the ropes are short and our tree branches are tall so she is swinging like five feet in the air. Tonight Max was mowing the lawn so Indee joined in on the fun. She loves her mower. It even blows bubbles! The funny thing is she goes forward but if she wants to go fast she pulls it. Intersting, but fun to watch how she goes about things. I think she is just so excited to be outside we can't get her to come in without a fight.

Indee's Story

Indee was born @ 10:31 pm on April 23. She had sucked in muchonium, so that doctor sucked that out but then she stopped making noise. The nurses took her to the side and started working on her, soon she was ran down the hall to the NICU. We found out that she was stable and went to see her. The nurses decided she was doing good and gave her a bath. This made her body crash. At 3:30 am we were told that she was very sick and would be flying to Primary Children’s in Salt Lake. At 6:30 am she was on a venerator and on her way with her Daddy by her side; having one blood transfusion on the plane and other when they arrived at the hospital. I checked out at 8:30 and my mom drove me to Salt Lake. We found out that Indee had ammonia, pulmonary hypertension, low blood pressure and was on a ventilator. She was on a lot of extreme medicine. She was an extreme fighter. After they let her come out of her comatose state, we had to pin her arm to the blankets because she would take her pick line arm that had a board attached to it, and bang it on her venerator. After many days of tests we found out this was all caused because Indee and I had grown a vein between us but I was stealing blood and not replacing. The doctors have no idea how much blood was in her system but they can not explain how her kidneys, lungs and brain developed with what she had. She is truly our little miracle. After two weeks in the NICU with amazing doctors and nurses we came home. With oxygen but still home. After 3 months we sent the oxygen away. She is now an amazing 4 year old! We couldn’t ask for more!! We love you Indee!!

Camas's Story

November 16, 2010 I went to the hospital at 8PM to get started. I was already having contractions 5 minutes apart but they were not intense. Took some drugs and tried to sleep through the night. At 7AM on November 17 the doc broke my water. We found out there was mucunium again! (totally freaked me out) My contractions started to get pretty intense so epidural to the recscue. At 11AM I started pushing but not much was happening. I kept falling asleep inbetween pushes so we waited for the doc to arrive. After about an 1 1/2 hours of pushing on and off we were getting closer. Camas did not want to come so they tried to vaccuum. They realized she was posterier (face up) so a different vaccuum came out. Twice they tried and I tried with no luck. Her heart rate was dropping rapidly and they told me we had to get her out. The doc was ready with the forcepts and we tried on more time; stopped her and sucked out has much mucunium as possible. She was then taken to the side where respitory was waiting incase, the charge nurse, our nurse and another lady. It was a full house. She arrived at 12:31 PM on November 17. After a few minutes of suction we had a screaming baby in our hands. After all of the stress and worrying she is very healthy and happy newborn!