Sultry Card

A card featuring LPS' {Inspired by Asia}. I made the bamboo my focal, added the crane in the corner and then finished it off with metal coins (with Asian characters) and delicate organza pink and mint ribbon.

Ave's visit to the cardiologist went really well. Her stenosis (i.e., the stretching of her pulmonary arteries) has been upgraded to mild from medium (which means her arteries are now growing to keep up with the blood flow). She has gained 12 oz in 2 weeks (booyah!) which means she no longer has to have formula added to her milk. (12 lbs., 5 oz. -- I gotta write this somewhere since someone [e.g. dietician, GP, clinic nurses, etc.] are always wanting to know her last weight measurement!) The only new item of note was that she has a herniated muscle just below her sternum where her chest tube was inserted after her surgery. The muscle is just thinned from the tube but, ideally, that too will grow with her.

She got pretty ticked at the technician administering the echocardiogram. She was pretty sleepy at that point and the technician was having some difficulty getting a shot on the right side of her chest cavity (I don't know what she was looking for but Ave's innards were not cooperating!). By the time her cardiologist was done, she was asleep in my arms in no time! Of course, once we were home she was ready to par-tay (which meant lots of practicing as she attempts to sit up on her own. I am afraid it will be sometime before she masters that one though!).