Love you babe!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
HAPYY FATHER'S DAY!!
Happy Father's Day to my hubby. 10 yrs. ago, you celebrated your first one with JEB in the NICU. I remember they gave you that little poloroid photo in a foam frame, (it's on our frig now). Little did we know how much of a blessing that our sweet little guy would be.....thanks for being a great dad!!!
Love you babe!
Love you babe!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
how simple things amuse little boys....
It facinates me how little things amuse my little boy. Something as simple as a blow up pool and a beach ball and a water gun.
We went to Toys R Us on Monday and I let my little man pick out the pool he wanted, with a little direction and we also bought a couple of play toys to use while in said pool. Got it home, got the air pump and blew up the pool and beach ball and filled up the squirt gun and showed him how to use it.....and voila!!! Hours of pure bliss for this ten year old!!
He is loving the pool....not to big but big enough for him to slide around in and get totally all wet! Big enough to throw the beach ball around at me sitting in my camp chair, 'sunning', with my feet propped up on the side of the pool - spraying my feet with the hose as I fill up said pool.
He loves squirting me with the water gun too! He thinks that is just too funny!! I would have pictures, but he splashes water at me quite often and it would get wet, so I haven't taken it out there yet.
We also went to the opthamologist yesterday and it went very well.....considering. One, I'm glad to find a dr. that would see him and understood about his uncooperativeness. We went back to the room and dr. came in and talked to JEB a bit, then had the nurse come in to do the dialation drops. It took three of us to hold him, but she was good. Grabbed his head and held him tight, while I held his body....all 80 lbs. of it and got those drops in there! It's amazing how tight he can squeeze those eyes! Then when we got to see the dr. again, JEB actually let him look in his eyes with his light scope and let him hold up the lens to his eyes. It took a little coaxing here and there, but he let him do it. Enough so we could get an accurate prescription for glasses!! I was quite impressed with dr. ........! He was very patient and worked with JEB to gain his confidence! He said his eyes looked good and we can come back in a year!!
What a blessing!!
Well, not much else going on this week. Going to grandpa's in another week. He will love it!! Later.....
We went to Toys R Us on Monday and I let my little man pick out the pool he wanted, with a little direction and we also bought a couple of play toys to use while in said pool. Got it home, got the air pump and blew up the pool and beach ball and filled up the squirt gun and showed him how to use it.....and voila!!! Hours of pure bliss for this ten year old!!
He is loving the pool....not to big but big enough for him to slide around in and get totally all wet! Big enough to throw the beach ball around at me sitting in my camp chair, 'sunning', with my feet propped up on the side of the pool - spraying my feet with the hose as I fill up said pool.
He loves squirting me with the water gun too! He thinks that is just too funny!! I would have pictures, but he splashes water at me quite often and it would get wet, so I haven't taken it out there yet.
We also went to the opthamologist yesterday and it went very well.....considering. One, I'm glad to find a dr. that would see him and understood about his uncooperativeness. We went back to the room and dr. came in and talked to JEB a bit, then had the nurse come in to do the dialation drops. It took three of us to hold him, but she was good. Grabbed his head and held him tight, while I held his body....all 80 lbs. of it and got those drops in there! It's amazing how tight he can squeeze those eyes! Then when we got to see the dr. again, JEB actually let him look in his eyes with his light scope and let him hold up the lens to his eyes. It took a little coaxing here and there, but he let him do it. Enough so we could get an accurate prescription for glasses!! I was quite impressed with dr. ........! He was very patient and worked with JEB to gain his confidence! He said his eyes looked good and we can come back in a year!!
What a blessing!!
Well, not much else going on this week. Going to grandpa's in another week. He will love it!! Later.....
Saturday, June 12, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Today is the munchkin's birthday and we celebrated with a Woody/Buzz cake and some balloons! He was so excited when I took out the cake and he loves balloons!!! We are getting him a blow-up pool with some stuff attached, like a ring toss game and basketball hoop but we've been lazy and haven't gotten it yet. That's Monday's job.....to get the pool. And since we are going to PaPa's next weekend, he'll get plenty of presents!!
JEB had VBS at our church this week and it was so much fun!! He had a blast!! They have an adult/older teen buddy that goes around with him to help keep him on task and make sure he doesn't run away or anything. I'm so thankful for these buddies that work with him and make it possible for him to come to activities like VBS!
Friday, June 11, 2010
10 years ago tomorrow.....
I simply cannot believe that 10 years ago tomorrow, my sweet little boy came into this world. I remember the day of JEB's birth, quite well.
It was my last, official day of school for the year 2000. It was sort of bittersweet, as the school I was teaching at had decided they must close. Not enough kids to keep it running. Very sad. It was a nice little school. LOVED my classroom....each one had a sink, toilet, water fountain and a whole wall of windows!!! It really was a sweet little school, just had been mismanaged for a couple of years and it went downhill FAST!!!
Anyhow, went to school to finish getting my things all out of my room and to say goodbye to everyone. I had a dr. appt that afternoon and everyone was making sure I would call them when he came into the world.
Well, I was feeling pretty good, just hot. It was south Florida, after all. Went to the dr. and she said my blood pressure was not where she wanted it and we sort of had talked about going ahead and inducing me anyways, so I was to ck into the hospital around 9pm. Ok, I said.....can I eat dinner??? Yes, a small one. Nothing too heavy, the dr. says. Ok......so I have a bacon sandwich and a bowl of Cheerios. Not heavy.....I mean, it wasn't a STEAK!
We got to the hospital and all ckd in, went to the room. HOLD IT....back up. While at the dr.'s office I said to her, "So, when do you think I'll have this baby? By noon???" She laughed, quite a lot actually, and said, "Honey, you'll be doing good to have this baby by tomorrow night!" I told her, just you wait and see. He'll come FAST!!! Now, as they were hooking me up to the monitors and such, his little heart rate decided to dip quite low, several times and the nurse didn't like that too much and decided to call Dr. Green. The nurse comes back and says, "Guess what??? YOU are going to have this baby.......as soon as she gets here. Like tonight!! Like we need to get you prepped for a C-section!"
Now, in all reality, this is what we wanted. Jn is NOT a blood/guts/yucky sort of person, so I had a dear friend there with me to do the labor/delivery stuff. Marsha helped Jn get a duded up in his hospital gear and boy, did he look funny!!!
Then in comes Dr. Green......my only comment to her was...."See, I told you I would have this baby by noon!!!" HA! She laughed and laughed!
So off to the operating room I went.....got my nice spinal!!! Woo-hoo....those are good drugs!!! Jn came into the room and they started with the c-section.
It was going well, until that nice little, mild dinner I had eaten decided that it really didn't want to stay in my stomach.........especially with all of that pushing and rearranging they were doing. I had MUCHO scar tissue from having my appendix removed in college and she had to get thru all of that to get to the baby. ANYWAY, JEB was born at 11:55 pm on the 12th of June, 2000. He cried a little bit, but he had meconium in his fluid and they really didn't want him to cry much.
I remember asking what does he look like and the neonatologist told Jn that he thought there was a possibility of Down Syndrome. I, of course, was out to lunch as they finished up the surgery.
I don't really remember much until they came for him in the early morning for his pediatrician ck. and the neonatologist came and told me that they were going to keep him in NICU cause he hadn't nursed yet and his blood sugar was low and they wanted to feed him. His breathing was also a little labored and they wanted to ck him out and make sure everything was ok before bringing him back to me. I cried and cried......I wanted to nurse him so bad, but he wasnt too interested at the time. I sort of remember him saying something about Down Syndrome, but Jn had gone home to sleep and I couldn't really remember.
When he finally came back, my ob/gyn came in to talk with us and she told us what she thought the diagnosis would be. She felt so sad for us, as we had elected to have my tubes tied and I remember telling her that it was ok. GOD had a plan for this sweet little boy and that HE had blessed us with being the parents to carry that plan out.
He stayed in NICU for 13 days, and while his bloodwork showed he has an extra chromosome, he is perfectly healthy in every way! We are so blessed to be his parents!!! I can't wait to see what GOD has in store for him!!!
We love you buddy!!!
It was my last, official day of school for the year 2000. It was sort of bittersweet, as the school I was teaching at had decided they must close. Not enough kids to keep it running. Very sad. It was a nice little school. LOVED my classroom....each one had a sink, toilet, water fountain and a whole wall of windows!!! It really was a sweet little school, just had been mismanaged for a couple of years and it went downhill FAST!!!
Anyhow, went to school to finish getting my things all out of my room and to say goodbye to everyone. I had a dr. appt that afternoon and everyone was making sure I would call them when he came into the world.
Well, I was feeling pretty good, just hot. It was south Florida, after all. Went to the dr. and she said my blood pressure was not where she wanted it and we sort of had talked about going ahead and inducing me anyways, so I was to ck into the hospital around 9pm. Ok, I said.....can I eat dinner??? Yes, a small one. Nothing too heavy, the dr. says. Ok......so I have a bacon sandwich and a bowl of Cheerios. Not heavy.....I mean, it wasn't a STEAK!
We got to the hospital and all ckd in, went to the room. HOLD IT....back up. While at the dr.'s office I said to her, "So, when do you think I'll have this baby? By noon???" She laughed, quite a lot actually, and said, "Honey, you'll be doing good to have this baby by tomorrow night!" I told her, just you wait and see. He'll come FAST!!! Now, as they were hooking me up to the monitors and such, his little heart rate decided to dip quite low, several times and the nurse didn't like that too much and decided to call Dr. Green. The nurse comes back and says, "Guess what??? YOU are going to have this baby.......as soon as she gets here. Like tonight!! Like we need to get you prepped for a C-section!"
Now, in all reality, this is what we wanted. Jn is NOT a blood/guts/yucky sort of person, so I had a dear friend there with me to do the labor/delivery stuff. Marsha helped Jn get a duded up in his hospital gear and boy, did he look funny!!!
Then in comes Dr. Green......my only comment to her was...."See, I told you I would have this baby by noon!!!" HA! She laughed and laughed!
So off to the operating room I went.....got my nice spinal!!! Woo-hoo....those are good drugs!!! Jn came into the room and they started with the c-section.
It was going well, until that nice little, mild dinner I had eaten decided that it really didn't want to stay in my stomach.........especially with all of that pushing and rearranging they were doing. I had MUCHO scar tissue from having my appendix removed in college and she had to get thru all of that to get to the baby. ANYWAY, JEB was born at 11:55 pm on the 12th of June, 2000. He cried a little bit, but he had meconium in his fluid and they really didn't want him to cry much.
I remember asking what does he look like and the neonatologist told Jn that he thought there was a possibility of Down Syndrome. I, of course, was out to lunch as they finished up the surgery.
I don't really remember much until they came for him in the early morning for his pediatrician ck. and the neonatologist came and told me that they were going to keep him in NICU cause he hadn't nursed yet and his blood sugar was low and they wanted to feed him. His breathing was also a little labored and they wanted to ck him out and make sure everything was ok before bringing him back to me. I cried and cried......I wanted to nurse him so bad, but he wasnt too interested at the time. I sort of remember him saying something about Down Syndrome, but Jn had gone home to sleep and I couldn't really remember.
When he finally came back, my ob/gyn came in to talk with us and she told us what she thought the diagnosis would be. She felt so sad for us, as we had elected to have my tubes tied and I remember telling her that it was ok. GOD had a plan for this sweet little boy and that HE had blessed us with being the parents to carry that plan out.
He stayed in NICU for 13 days, and while his bloodwork showed he has an extra chromosome, he is perfectly healthy in every way! We are so blessed to be his parents!!! I can't wait to see what GOD has in store for him!!!
We love you buddy!!!
Monday, June 7, 2010
summertime!!
Finally, it's summer. Today was my first real day of summer vacation....and I was up and at 'em early to get JEB off to VBS at church. Of course, he had a BLAST! They are having an adult buddy go with him thru the morning to help him stay on task and not run around crazy. I'm so thankful that he gets to go! He likes the beginning assembly and the end because he gets to dance and sing!!
I also just connected to this cool website.... http://www.littlestheroesproject.org/ It's about taking photos of kids/families with a disability of some sort or an illness that is life-threatening. I think it is too cool. I applied for JEB to have a photo session. I think it would be neat since he'll be 10 on Saturday.
Sorry I haven't written for a while......been very busy those last few weeks of school. Too many things to do.....programs to practice for.......scrapbooks to put together for the kids.......and the added stress of not having a job just sort of piled all on top and blogging was the last thing I really wanted to do. Still don't have a contract yet for next year, but the numbers are looking better. Still praying for about 25 more kids with the majority of them in K4/K5. We know GOD is in the miracle business......so help me pray for one!!!
I also just connected to this cool website.... http://www.littlestheroesproject.org/ It's about taking photos of kids/families with a disability of some sort or an illness that is life-threatening. I think it is too cool. I applied for JEB to have a photo session. I think it would be neat since he'll be 10 on Saturday.
Sorry I haven't written for a while......been very busy those last few weeks of school. Too many things to do.....programs to practice for.......scrapbooks to put together for the kids.......and the added stress of not having a job just sort of piled all on top and blogging was the last thing I really wanted to do. Still don't have a contract yet for next year, but the numbers are looking better. Still praying for about 25 more kids with the majority of them in K4/K5. We know GOD is in the miracle business......so help me pray for one!!!
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