YMCA basketball/Austin 2010

Well, Austin's last day playing basketball for the YMCA was today. He won an award for 110% player. Coach said that any time he was on the court, he was giving 110%.
During the season, he had issues with stealing the ball, etc. He says that he was nervous on the court and worried about stealing or playing the way that I know he can. As the season progressed, though, he got alot better. The team only won one game, but they played very hard and everyone improved as the season went on.

colic....UGHHHHHH

Well, Gracie has colic, that is partly why I haven't blogged as much as I had planned to do. She starts the screaming about 5PM every night and it lasts until about 10. I have tried everything that everyone has suggested and nothing works at all. It is making life very hard, and dinnertime almost impossible. If I don't get something started pretty early in the day, then Austin either helps, or I have to hold her while I make something simple. She screams when I put her down during this time, so I try to just hold her, because the screaming drives me insane. She is almost at the 3 month mark, so hopefully it will be gone soon!!!

TRD

Just wanted to note a sweet memory of Jesse. Starting about 15 months old, at night or naptime, I would spell out t-i-r-e-d when I thought that he was tired. He caught only really quickly and started to say, I'm not TRD a few months later. Too sweet....he still say it now.

Fibroma

Well, we went to the orthopedist a couple of weeks ago, and he said that the "non-ossifying fibroma" is benign and not something that needs any attention, but that that i not where his knee pain coming from. The pain is on the front of his leg beside the kneecap. The fibroma is on the back of his leg. They gave us a pain chart for him to write down when he ha pain. Now that I can see how often is actually hurt him, I think it may need to have an MRI or something. He only used to complain about it once a week or so, but now with the chart, it seems to be hurting him almost every day. I will call and speak to the doctor to see what the plan will be now. We originally made a follow up appointment in the middle of April, but with ut hurting him this often, I don't think that we should wait until then.

Austin's knee

Austin has been complaining for a month or more that his right knee bothers him. He said that it doesn't hurt when he is playing sports, or at the gym, etc. I thought it was maybe a growing pain that would go away. Welll, he would say something about it around once a week, so I made him an appointment with the pediatrician. Doc sent him for bloodwork(to check for arthritis) and an xray. the bloodwork came back normal, but the xray showed a tumor. I made him an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon on Friday. I hope that they don't need to remove it, but kinda figure that they will need to since it has been bothering him. Doc says that it shouldn't affect anything that he does, which is awesome. Also, Billy says that he had something that sounds the same when he was 20, and had it removed, and has not had another issue with it. I will blog again soon when we find out what the results are.

Shots/croup

Took both babies in for shots on Fri the 12th. It was Jesse's last set that he needed to get them caught up. They were Gracie's first set. Jesse was a little cranky on Friday night and Saturday, but fine other than that. Gracie did pretty good, except that she had fever for a few days.
Jesse had a pretty rough night last night. As soon as I heard his cough, I knew that it was croup. Took him to see Doc and they put him on a steroid. Last week he had his first painful ear infection since the tubes. This seems like the same pattern as before the tubes. I really hope it doesn't continue. If it does, he will have to have the tube replaced and possibly his adenoids taken out. We will see.

Ear tube gone?

Well, Jesse ended up waking up screaming in pain around 2AM this morning because of his ear, so I got him and Gracie and myself ready and took him to the ER. The doc said that he has a pretty bad infection, and couldn't see where the tube is supposed to be because there was so much fluid in the canal. I'm not an expert, but can only believe that since he was in so much pain, that the tube must've fallen out. He has had 2 infections since the tubes and both times, his ears just drained, and caused him no pain AT ALL. Guess we will see what happens. Made him a docs appt on Friday with the pediatrician. I will wait to see what he says before calling the specialist.

Jesse: Pregnancy & birth

My pregnancy was pretty easy, no morning sickness. It got rough, though when I realized how much weight that I was gaining...40lbs the first 5 months. That's when I found out that I had gestational diabetes. I had to start seeing the specialist 3 times a week for NST's(non-stress tests) Well, the little booger was rolling over on his cord about once a week the last couple of months, so I was constantly being sent to the hospital for observation. Nothing ever came of it, though, thank goodness. They put me on a pretty strict diet, so I only gained 7-8 lbs the last few months, which was great. All that I wanted was a darn glazed donut, though. Oh well, I survived.
I went to the hospital a few times near the end. I wasn't drinking enough water(imagine that) and kept gettin dehydrated and needing fluids.
They scheduled me to deliver 8 days early. Then, early in the morning(1AM) the day before I was supposed to deliver, I started having contractions. They continued for hours, and about 4AM I went to go pee and thought that my water had broken. I woke Billy up and told him that it was time to get to the hospital. When I got there and they checked me, they said that it wasn't my water, but must've been my mucous plug. Lovely. Well, thank goodness, they decided to keep me and induce me anyway. They induced me and I started progressing. Early afternoon, I was ready for an epidural. They asked if I wanted something that would help with the pain while I was waiting on the epidural. They ended up giving me Stadol(sp?) It instantly made me stupid. I tried to say something to Marjorie just as they were putting the medication into my IV, and it came out, like just strange sounds instead of words. This was terribly upsetting to me. Pretty soon after they gave me that medication, Jesse's heartrate decreased, and they wanted to put the little monitor into the top of his head. My brain was so foggy at that point(from the Stadol) that there was no way that I could agree to it. I let Billy decide, and they went ahead and did it. Things went smoothly, in spite of me being REALLY FOGGY for the entire birth, I think that I pushed for around 20 minutes...really foggy, so I'm not positive about that. He came into the world at 7lbs 7oz and 19½ inches long. The specialist had really scared me to bad the last few months about his weight(they kept telling me he would be around 9½lbs(due to the diabetes) so I was pretty shocked that he was so small, but thankful!!!

Ugh, ear ache

Well, Jesse was taking a bath tonight(one of his very favorite things to do) and was laying down in the bathtub. I remember loving to do that as a kid, so I thought it was super cute that he seemed to like it too. Not even thinking about his ear tubes(got those March 2009). Well, as soon as he lifted his head out of the water, he complained that it hurt....yuck.
Well it's now 130 in the morning, and he just woke up complaining that it hurts. Guess we will be heading to see Dr. Romeu again tomorrow. I feel like we have been there once a week lately....eek, just a taste of what's to come, I guess with 2 little ones now. It is SOOO hard to take them anywhere at this point, it's got to get easier......I sure hope so anyway.

Gracie's shower

Cami and Trisha held an "after baby"shower for Gracie and me. It was Saturday, January 30. Sandi(from highschool) was there, Mrs. Jeannie(Cami's mom) Laura, Cecilia, and Christy(from Cami's church) Ivy(of course) Carie Gatlin(Jacob and Bryce's mom) Becky(met her through Trisha).
It was really nice, and we got some great gifts: diaper bag, lots of diapers and wipes, a crocheted blanket(I love those) a sound machine to hopefully help this little girl sleep, lots of really cute clothes, her first teddy bear, and a sunshade for her side of the car.
The first gift bag that I opened was Carie's and had super cute clothes in it. When I held up the first one(strawberry on the butt), everyone said, AWWWW. Well, then Jesse felt like he needed in on the gift opening. So, he startes pulling out all of the tissue paper. As soon as he started pulling out gifts, I think the first thing was a pack of socks, he said, "AWWWW" It was TOOO cute and he continued to say it to everything he pulled out, even diapers and wipes. It was soo sweet.
Cami made meatballs, beer bread, lots of yummy dips, a cheese and veggie platter, and some yummy coffee punch. Trisha made some really cute cupcakes(Jesse's 2nd favorite thing, next to the tiny candy paci's)

New to this

This is my first blog post, I have never done this before. I wanted to start blogging to record things that the kids are doing. There are so many details about Justin and Austin that I don't remember, and it really bothers me. I figured that this would be a great way to record things that happen daily, and I can even include pictures as soon as I figure out that part of it.

First thing that I wanted to record was something really funny that Jesse said the other day. Jesse and I were in the living room watching TV and Gracie was sleeping on my bed. She started to cry and he said, "Um, I hear sumpin"(Jesse language) I asked him what it was, and he said, "It's baby sisser,(again, Jesse Language)she's calling for help. I said, "Really??!!" and he said, "Yes, let's go save her"
TOO CUTE