Ella

I GOT TO SEE ELLA TODAY!! She is beautiful!

On my way I stopped and got April a gift certificate for a nursing bra. I got Chad a “Daddy’s Girl” picture frame. And then they both got a magnetic frame for their lockers at school. Chad was excited because it was the first gift he got.

Mom is doing very well. She’s nusing and things are goig pretty good so far. She’ll be going home today. For the remainder of this school year she will be on home based through her high school. Her dad is off of work to help her.

Dad is just shining. I can’t believe how “gitty” and happy he is. He has stayed at the hospital with April every night. He’ll come home for a short time and show off the new pictures he took, tell me what all has happened and then rush off. He’ll say, “I better get back by April, I don’t wnt her to be alone.” Yet, I think he doesn’t want to be away from his daughter for too long.

April and Chad are not “together” anymore. Actually, Chad has a girlfriend, but I wooooonnderrrrr. You can almost see some “new” feelings going on between the two. If anything I think they will be working hard to maintain a close friendship. They definately are showing the love to their daughter.

Grandpa (April’s dad) can’t get the smile off his face. This lil girl will have him wrapped around her lil fingers in no time.

I actually didn’t intend on going to the hospital because of PooWee being so sick. (Which he ended up sick again on Sat. night and Sun. morning. I took him in to the walk in on Sun as soon as they opened. They are running some poo-poo test. So far so good, some take about a week though. Then I had to pick up some new meds.) Anyways…Chad kept “hinting” that he wanted me to come up. I think he just wanted some of his “family” to share his joy. And well, he has no family here except his brother and his brother wouldn’t come. So, I found a sitter (G-ma’s throwing up now too. :(   ) and headed up there this morning to support him. It looks like we are really the only “family” he has right now. POOR GUY!

Alright enough babble…here’s a link to check out their beautiful daughter. (Obviously you’; see there real names Allison and Jordan, but I’ll continue to call them April and Chad on here.)

Ella Marie

SHE’S HERE!!!

Ella was born at 3:41pm today. Weighing 8lb 10oz. 21 inches long. She’s got dark hair and the famous blue eyes. 10 fingers and 10 toes.

Chad DID stay for delivery. Last he mentioned, he didn’t plan on staying in the room. When he was explaining it he couldn’t find the words. I said, “Was it the most amazing thing you’ve ever experienced?” “YEAH!” he replied. “Is she the most beautiful lil thing you’ve ever seen?” “OOOHH YEAH!” I think Chad know knows what love really is.

He got to cut the cord. As he did the doctor pretended Chad cut his finger. I guess it was quite funny.

Chad passed on the first diaper change. He’s regretting that now, as he learnt about the “tar-poop”.  He’s got the next diaper. We know what he’s praying for!

April managed to do natural childbirth. I don’t have the details on when she went in, but I know it was last night some time. I can’t believe she had an 8lb 10 oz lil girl!! She just a tall skinny lil thing. (But, then again ya never would have guessed I had an 8lber either.)

Well, I must get my buttocks off to bed!

OH-POOWEE HAS DONE A 180!!! He was awesome today. Last night Dr.R had me FORCE feed him every 5 min. some Pedialyte for an hour. I used a medicine syringe. I felt so STUPID-why didn’t I think of that! But, the nurse and Dr. J never thought of it either, so maybe I’m not THAT dumb! G-ma had him for the full 12hrs today. I think the two of them had a BLAST. Uncle Larry stopped over and they played and played. It was a beautiful day here, so PooWee even went outside with him for a bit. HE LOVED IT.

I gave PooWee a little lecture last night! I warned him, if he didn’t get better he was going to the hospital. I guess he listened!

PooWee’s Not Doing Well

The Poo man is sick, sick, sick! As in my last post, he began throwing up Tues. night. Well, he hsn’t stopped.

I took him in to the doctors today. Of course Dr. B wasn’t in, so we say Dr. J. He looked him over, saw yet another ear infection, or perhaps it’s the same one we have been treating for the last month with two different antibiotics. He told me to pick up some Lactobac (something like that) from the pharmacy when I picked up his NEW prescription for his ear. I am to try that and if he isn’t any better, he’ll probably have to get admitted to the hospital for IV meds.

Well, the pharmacist refused to sell this Lactosomething to me, because it was adult doses. She had me call the doctor and get clarified if PooWee should take 1/4 of the tablet or what. Dr. J’s nurse got back to me and said this lactosomething does not show dosing for lil guys, so I am to just keep a close eye on PooWee for now. (HHMMM-why did he look this up before? He’s such a dork.)

I’m thinking of calling Dr. R who is on call. PooWee had only had one wet diaper today. He’s doing nohing but nursing every 20 minute! I almost just want him to get the IV meds and get him better. BUT, I don’t want my PooWee in the hospital and getting poked with needles and being all freaked out with the strange place.

He hasn’t thrown up since about 5 this morning, but that’s the way it has been all week. He’s throwing up at night and in the morning. (Maybe he likes fresh sheets every few hours?) BUT, he’s “urpy”, ya know the juicey burps. It’s almost as if it brewing, getting ready to come out.

Right now he’s rocking with Eli and watching Sesame Street Silly Songs. A lil break for me! I have 1hr 30 min before the Walk In closes, figure I’ll give Dr. R a call shortly and see if we should head in there.

Mom’s planning on taking PooWee tomorrow. (If he’s not admitted tonight.) She’s only 5 min. from the hospital, so I can run there if she needs me to.

I’m kinda freaked if he does get admitted. I’m sure there will be comments about what a horrible mother I am, for my babes being so sick. I know I will put him at Privacy status, so if too much is known by my co-workers I wil be protected. Technically, they should know NOTHING of him. If even one person asks how he is, I will know someone said something. Just let someone try looking up his chart in the computer!!!

OK- I think it’s time to call Dr. R. Please send some HEALTHY VIBES for PooWee man. I want my happy wild lil man back!

Oh–April has been having contractions today, I guess! Chad told all his teachers his phone was on because he may have to leave. It’s 7 pm - No baby girl yet!!! She is still at home. Wonder if it’ll be this weekend!

What we’ve been up to

WOW, things have just been crazy around here. Which is why I haven’t posted for a days.

Andrew had a good time in Spain, though he complained about how expensive everything was. I guess a soda was $3 and about half the size of our soda cans.

He braved all and went into the ocean. Though his father argued that he wasn’t sure Andrew actually went IN because he was OUT quite fast. Andrew argued that he did it twice and stated it was FREEZING.

While shopping the other day I got to learn ALL about alligators. Andrew was going on and on about them. Here one night at the hotel, the only program he could find that was in English was a National Geographic program about….yep alligators!

His father and now step-mom got married on a boat.  Andrew’s grandpa videotaped the wedding, I can’t wait to see it and all the pictures.

Elijah got his long white cane and…lost it! He received it on Wed and it was lost by Sun. We THINK he set it on the car seat and then it slipped into the garbage we keep in the car. I emptied that garbage on pickup day. We were both freaking…what was school going to say? I figured I would just replace it.

He was very upset because he promised his mobility specialist he wouldn’t lose it. He was even sleep walking and mumbling about not knowing where it was. Two nights he was walking around saying, “I can’t find my cane! Where’s my cane!” SLEEPING, it was hard to wake him up and get him back to bed. I barely slept worrying about him walking around. And PooWee still gets up for his “snacks” at night, so I have been very sleep deprived. His mobility specialist told us, “Canes get broken, canes get lost, canes can be replaced…and so it will be!” She told me not to worry about replacing it and she will take care of it. Yet, even last night Eli was dreaming about it. Guess he’s just really wondering what happened to it. I really am too, he was VERY cautious of where he put it.

PooWee has discovered what a step stool is for. He is pushing it all over the place and getting into even more stuff. He climbs on it and then whines for help to get down. I have to go hold his hand, then he jumps down.

He was kinda cranky the other day and just would not let me do anything. I REALLY needed to get the dishes done, so I pulled his stool over to the sink, stood him up on it and turned the water on slowly. He helped me with dishes. HE HAD A BLAST! Filling a cup up and then dumping it over and over. Of course he was soaked, the floor was wet and even I got quite wet, BUT…I got my dishes DONE!

I BOUGHT A SNOWBLOWER!  I BOUGHT A SNOWBLOWER!!!   YAY!!!!!

I even used it, and it was kinda fun! It’s not a very big one, but it blows the snow right up that darn hill on the side. I was blowing snow way into the middle of the back yard. I was loving it! Now I’m living the “high life!”

When I went to look most stores were completely out. Lawnmowers were out already. I found two stores with just a few on hand yet. I had my choice of the one I got or a really big one. I think I may have fantasized about the bigger ones. I would be the coolest chic on the block with one of them, but seeing they were $1000.00 - I choose the $250.00 one instead. Andrew tried talking me out of it, saying “We don’t need one anymore, winter is almost over!” OH NO, I WASN’T GOING TO HEAR THAT AGAIN! We say that every year when I get my taxes back and then when the following winter comes, we’re whining we don’t have one.  

Today we got 8-12 inches of snow. Andrew went out and blew. I think he’s happy I got it too. Eli really wants to check it out, so tomorrow I may go out and blow some more with him. The plow has yet to go down our road, so I’m sure there will be a nice pile at the end of the driveway. We’ll see how much power this baby really has! Just need to think of  name for her yet.

My birthday was the 13th. 34 years old! The boys and I went out for supper. It was nice. I got a  gift certificate for Starbucks from my sister Gayle!!!! (THANKS SO MUCH GAYLE!! LOVE YOU ALL!!) SO EXCITED ’bout that, ‘cus I am addicted to Starbucks, but HATE spending so much for coffee. When Starbucks first came to town I swore I wasn’t even going to enter the place. I did good until they put a little kiosk in the hospital lobby! How convenient, just a short walk from where I work. Yeah, they sucked me right in!

I got the boys, Andrew and Chad a bunk bed. Twin on top and futon on the bottom. They’re getting the room straighten out slowly, but it’s coming along. Elijah and I went through his two dressers and gave them to Andrew and Chad. Elijah’s clothes are now in a storage unit I bought. I think it’ll be easier for him to see and keep his clothes neatly put away. We cleaned out Andrew’s closet, which was basically a storage closet for odds and ends.

This past week has basically been cleaning, yet my place is a disaster! There are boxes here and there. Stuff for Good Will and stuff to get down to the basement. Next we have to get to the basement and make room for all this STUFF.

Chad went to his first doctors appointment with April this past week. He planned on just sitting in the waiting room. I told him he HAD to go in and hear the heartbeat. He went in with her. I think he’ll be going to more with her too.

I attended her babyshower on Sat. I posted a super quick post about it on her blog. I have alot of things I want to do for her yet. UGGGGG where is the time going??!!!

I suppose I should catch some shut eye tonight. I actually have to go to a mandatory educational program tomorrow morning for work. I don’t want to! Yes I’m whining! I just put in 38hrs in the past three days. I don’t want to return to that place till next weekend! HEY! Maybe we’ll get more snow and the roads will be super bad and then I’ll have an excuse not to go! I guess winter is good for something….sometimes!

April

Just a quick post today, to let you all know that I posted an update on April on the blog. April’s shower Met with her last night. And now today I’m off to get everyone interested access to her registry.

Another random thought post

I took Coco’s advice and have started a blog for April’s shower.

April’s friend’s mother is hosting a shower for her, but I thought I’d still have one for her too. There are so many of you that want to help and well, obviously, you won’t be traveling up to Wisconsin for a shower.

Currently, she is doing well. Her belly is starting show, cute lil thing too!

Her parent’s are divorced (which I didn’t realize), she will be living with her father. I ran into them at the store the other day. We talked for a few minutes. He appears to be somewhat nervous of the whole situation, which is understandable. I’m sure he isn’t sure how to go about everything. I told them I was there for anything they needed, just to let me know how I can help. I find him to be maybe even scared. Here too, I can completely understand. I’m sure he is just overwhelmed on what all to get, how to help his daughter, and with just all the normal baby stuff. I invited them to stop over at my place sometime so we could talk again.

I want to ask her Mag’s reaction when she told her she was going to parent. I am so curious to know. Has Mag offered her assistance in finding resources for her? Or has she just left April on her own. I would hope that Mag would help too.

I’ve been wondering why Mag hasn’t contacted me in some time. Normally, she just calls to see how we are. It’s been a few months since I last talked with her. I have a hunch she has written me off because of April’s decision to parent, there for blaming me for losing business. I pray that isn’t the case. Maybe I’ll even get the guts up to call Mag to see how she is doing.

I wish my camera wasn’t broke, I’d love to post a picture of the pretty pink cabled sweater I am knitting for April’s daughter. I’m just so excited to be knitting in PINK! It’s darling!

Speaking of pics, some may have noticed I have taken the pics of the boys off. Remember way back when I had someone close to me mess with me on a forum. (I could link to it, but am just too lazy at the moment.) Well, this person is linking to my photos and all too now. I don’t want to go into details, but I so realize why many choose not to post pics and all. I loved showing off my beautiful boys, but I won’t be doing that anymore. I’ll probably make password posts for those times I can’t resist the urge to show them off.

Well, time is going away on me, I must get my dishes done before getting the boys from school. Then tonight Elijah and I will be starting a blog for him. He has started emailing other visually impaired kids and I think a blog will be a nice way for him to stay in touch with them. And he should have fun with it too! Gee, do you think I can handle 3 blogs?

Baby Shower Anyone??

Once again the beauty of extended friends whom, I’ve never met and may never meet have shown through. So many of you have offered to help April.

Libby commented on having her register. Which gave me a thought. (Scary, I know!) If April agrees I thought about holding a  Baby Shower for her here on the blog. Could be kinda fun! Maybe I could even have a contest on guessing the baby’s weight. Prize awarded of course!

I may just have to talk her into a belly photo!