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Saturday, 25 August 2007

prayer request

I just wanted to quickly ask for prayer...my....previous sister-in-law(that I like) her father has had a respiratory disease for years and makes him susceptible to pneumonia. He has had a bout with it for the last month or so and is not recovering from it. The doctors are now saying that his liver has failed but cannot get a liver transplant because of his disease. How lame is that? Anyways, none of them are Christians! They need a miracle. Also, Allie's best friend who is 32, and has and 8 week old baby(Will's age)had a stroke and has had a tumor removed from her brain and is not recovering. She has stage 3 cancer and was rushed to the ICU due to a pulmonary embolism just a couple of nights ago. They are both strangers to me but Allie is not and I have been praying for her salvation for the last 7 years. I hope a death does not have to awaken her to eternity. Please pray for God's healing and His healing to be revealed to their hearts.
Thanks.

Oh took a cute, Saturday morning picture in jammies.

i tried to get this picture to rotate in a differnet program but it didn't stay when I uploaded it on here. Sorry!

Thursday, 23 August 2007

school days, school days...

Isaac's first day of school was yesterday! I couldn't believe that I was sending him off to first grade. Time does fly. Daria will be in pre-K this year which starts on Monday and will be five days a week. It may as well be kindergarten. I don't know how she will like it. Going everyday. But she will at least have her afternoons to herself and her dolls and whatever she does in her room. She was pretty bored this morning without her bicker-mate :) hee hee. That is what they have been doing more and more often these days. The heat, being stuck at home with a mom and baby, their aunt ashley gone now, and auntie em. But the schedule being back is very welcomed to me.

I, had a great morning. Besides being unusually tired(which makes my grouchy)Will, once down slept long, so I cleaned out the fridge and freezer. Organized the pantry cabinet. Moved some other kitchen things around that I have been wanting to do for a while but couldn't seem to find the time or Two free hands. I look forward to a neater house and two munchkins out of the way to let me do it. Will is on a good schedule that gets me up early enough to shower and get going just as they are waking up. no caps anymore as i am doing this one handed now. braden and kadence are here now. traci was going to walmart and was going to drop the first born red head and i made her leave kadence too. the girls are quietly playing in daria's room and the boys are watching animal planet. the only channel my kids watch. or are aloud to watch. i can't even tell there are two more here.

but will needs my attention now.

cute eh? miss gregg helping get organized girls playing dress up. kadence is saying cheese, hmmm.

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Not sure what had happened to my earlier post but it has appeared again. Weird. Well I got a few minutes while Will is asleep...He sleeps better is his little crib in my room then in his big bed in his room. It is more comforting in here. If you haven't been to Traci's site it has three pretty cute kids to check out there. I am going to try and put a picture on here when I am done. Life is going...I haven't bounced back completely going on the sleep I am getting. I never have done well with little sleep. But it is worth it. Can I just say, "I am ready for school!!!!" Never thought I would say that but I am looking forward to Will having a better schedule with it being quiet in the mornings! And me not freaking out everytime the kids go running through house, being just kids, and being loud. I am sure they are too. He really is getting big. Well, bigger. I am loving the cheeks, and the smiles where his whole body wriggles. Makes me smile alot. (ok, now to one handed typing... ) and the grunting at night..and then a little bit o' gas and then stillness. poor guy.
he does not take after his brother isaac who was everyones friend, and still is, from the time he was born. no he takes after his sister and is mommas friend. and when he feels like it, or fast asleep, someone elses friend. isaac did sing him to sleep yesterday on my bed when will was fussy. i couldn't believe it. he also loves his binky like his sister did. can't live without it for too long. isaac never took one much.
i had to change my layout, i loved it but the font was so small and it wouldn't let me change it. funyt i saw it and i have pajama pants very similiar to it. lol. anyways...
ok, prayer request, i am praying and possibly embarking on a new adventure. i am so very excited about the possibility but it is all up to the Lord and His will.
well, somebody great is not too happy right now. so i am off to my little bubble world.
but it's been grand. have a good week.

this one was taken whenever it rained last during the day. you're only a kid once, eh? if you can't tell, it is pouring and they are drenched!!!

Monday, 09 July 2007

Oh, thanks Pam, I forgot I have a new little ticker at the bottom. And Pam, speaking of memory issues...
Arlene Hershberger asked, at church, when Will was born. Of course, in my defense, she had told me when her son and daughter in law had their's, so that threw me off. I could not remember for the life of me his date of birth. Just that it was a friday. I got it eventually but we had a little laugh.
Back home and happy to be so

What a roller coster ride the last week and a half it has been! But things should be getting back to normal. Wait...maybe not really normal. Of course what does that means anyway? Mr. Grunts is getting figity so this may be cut short. That is my new name for William. He is one of the noisiest little things. It cracks me up. He grunts so loudly when he is waking up and stretching or even eating. I love it. It gives him a personality already.

So much for going natural! I had pitocin about the whole time I was in labor. I don't know what Beau posted so I will give some details...
The antibiotics that I had to get went fast through my IV in the morning. And by 10am my midwife came in to break my water. NO go. The cord was down over his head which would have cut off the flow if she broke my water. So she said lets do a whiff of pitocin and that will kick things into gear. Well, the 'whiff' became and draft and then and stench!!!! They did break my water. (which I might add was totally gross. I felt like I was peeing my pants for three hours.) So between the pit and breaking the water it went FAST. I did however LOVE having a midwife. She was great and we talked and chit chated about out families and whatnot. After a while of sitting on this birthing ball thing I needed to sit in bed because it was getting a lot harder and I needed some stability. I felt like I was going to just roll backwards off the ball. What a sight that would have been. The nurse that kept coming in was really, really sweet and helpful. She worked great with my midwife. By this point I am really feeling things but I was only dialated to a 5. But completely thinned out. Breathing is still working OK, doing it the way you're supposed to. But I am fast thinking 'if I am only a 5, I don't know if I can do this for another few hours'. So, I said I was thinking about getting an epidural. While, I am saying this, I can bearly hang on. They said the anesthesiologist was next door and would be in shortly.........a "SHORT" 45 minutes later.....my midwife says she needed to go help with a c-section but she would be right back and if I needed her to just have the nurse page her and she would be right there. Now, I am feeling like I am going to pass out it hurt so bad. Thinking to myself, I don't remember it hurting This bad before. Forgetting the pit is still dripping. Did someone forget about that? Who knows, because I sure didn't need it anymore. So the jerky guy from 'next door' comes and says like a ?+#*%$@** "boy I bet you wish you had gotten this a long time ago" was that necessary???????? Not really. Good thing he wasn't very close. And good thing I couldn't really breath at the moment. good thing I couldn't really Talk at the moment. So the nurse says I need to sit up!!!!!!!!!!!! YA RIGHT. Beau was thinking the same thing. He knew exactly where I was from how I explained things before to him. I said can't I just lay down? but some do it different. I laid down with my other epidural. THEY sat me up and I clung to Beau's shirt and the nurse as she is rubbing my back and then Boom. I knew it was time. He was crowned and I was yelling at the nurse that I needed to push and to get Crystal in there NOW!!!!!!!!! I never said a cuss word. Never yelled at Beau. But I was yelling now(but not cursing). And I was pushing. Crystal was there in seconds it seemed like. She said 'don't push yet', 'I said I can't help it'. She got her gloves on and that was it. However, because there was merconium(SP?)(baby poop) in my water, I was told I had to stop pushing when his head came out(YA right)so they could suction him out really good before he started crying and got it in his lungs. I guess it worked. But once again only 5 pushes and he was out. He didn't cry until after he was on the table and got suctioned out, as if they were trying to suction his sinuses out. It always seems that way. I was feeling so fabulous by the time he was out, I wasn't, at the moment, too disappointed to not hold him immediately. But I got him before his bath. Which they did right there in the room. I've never seen my babies get 'the' bath before. And just to clarify to everyone out there, his birth weight was wrong. They weighed him the next day and he was 7lb. 8ou. being a 22% increase. An impossibility. So, oh well. In all my labor was about five hours. And I dialated from a 5 to a 10 in less then 45 minutes. Makes me shudder.
The time at the hospital was pleasant. My nurses were great, but I didn't sleep much, of course. I was so ready to be home. he had jaundice and so we had to go up to Children's Mercy Monday and Tuesday. Which caused me to have a low grade fever both days. Just a combo of everything. So it wasn't a big deal, but I took it as a sign to rest good those evenings. Especially before wedding stuff. Once the great wedding was over, I really felt like collapsing. But today I am resting. And the rest of the week. My mom is coming on Thursday to clean my house and of course hold Will, and hold Will, and then she might hold him some more. I sure can't get enough of him. Even though he is plastered to me all night and half the day.
So I am signing off now. Hopefully that wasn't too many boring details. My new camera's card doens't fit into the printer and I am too lazy right now to find things. But I promise to get some new pics up soon!