Welcome to the World Alice Claire!

Last Wed. April 27th, of of my very dear friends gave birth to a beautiful baby girl!  I am not only happy for her on the birth of her 3rd child, but thrilled she included me in on the labor and birth of Alice.  I feel very honored she wanted to share that special moment with me and picked me out of everyone she could have had in there.  It really was a miracle. 

I think I was more nervous then Meggie was.  Up until the day of I kept asking her if there was anything she did or didn’t want while she was in labor.  Although I had a C-Section I remember I didn’t want anyone in the room talking before they took me back.  I think because I experienced a C-Section when I had Connor that is why the birth of Alice made it that more special.  I got the see the process from beginning to end.   The nights before I was waking up making sure I didn’t miss a phone call.  I was so worried that she would try to call in the middle of the night and I would sleep right through the call. 

On Wed. I talked to her that morning and nothing had changed.  At 10 am she called me and told me she was going to go to the hospital to be checked because she was having some bleeding and she was really hoping they would just keep her.  At this point she was miserable.  The drive to the hospital was also a hour and half and she was worried she may not get there in time if the contractions started on there own.  I left work and meet her down there.  They checked her and the Dr. wanted to go ahead and start the medicine to induce her labor, they started that at 1 pm.  She made labor and contractions seem so easy.  She didn’t get an epidural until about 8ish pm when she was about 7cm. By that time the contractions has got worse and she has all she could take.  The epidural worked right away and she felt immediately relief.  Closer to 11 pm it wore off and she was back to being able to feel everything.  I felt so bad, because she was in so much pain and I couldn’t do a thing to help.  I rang for the RN and asked if she could get the Dr., and see if they couldn’t give her some more of the medicine.  The whole time Meggie was saying she felt the baby, She was checked and was at 8cm. The RN left the room to call both of the Doctors.  Before she was able to make both phone calls I rang for her again and told her she needed to come Meggie kept saying she felt the baby.  She comes back in and stated the OB is on her way but didn’t have time to call the anesthesiologist.  She checks her again and said she was already at a 10.  Then it turned crazy in there, I have never seen so many people move so fast.  They set everything up very fast, and now we were just waiting for the doctor.  At this point when the nurse had checked her she told her it was to late for her to get anything more and she was just going to have to push.  The Dr. came in suited up real fast. Meggie pushed 2 times and Baby Alice was born at 11:03 pm weighing 9lbs. 8oz, and 21 inches long.  She was adorable. 

Again I feel very honored that I was able to be there, Meggie holds a special place in my heart and now Alice does to. 

Before After

Blogging just became easier

I must admit that I am not on top of this blog as I would like to be, but I think it just got easier.  I’ve always had a hard time uploading pictured because lets just face it, its a pain in the but.  But wait all thanks to Danielle she told me about Windows Live Writer.  I’ve had it on my computer this whole time, just took me a little while to find it.  This is my first post using it, and already seems much easier and I haven't even tried to upload pictures.   So my new goal is to post more often now that I can use this.  I have many pictures to share so I will be posting more soon. 

Birthday's Galore

Everyone seems to have a birthday in the month of Apil. First Michelle's at the end of March then a week latter its my moms then 2 days after that its Connor's. This weekend we celbrated my mom and Connor's Friday night my cousins came into town. We all went and ate seafood. Connor said we had to have a birthday cake for grandma, so once we go home we had cake. His idea Friday morning was that because it was her birthday we stay at home and eat cake.. if only life were that easy.

Sat. we all hung out during the day. I love it when Connor has someone to play with. Our cousin Adi is only 6 weeks younger then him so they make good playmates. Our other cousins are 9 and 10, so we can send them all outside and they can keep an eye on the younger ones. We headed to David's Bridal and Adi tried on her dress flower girl dress (for Michelle's wedding) She looked so cute.

We then headed to the Greenville Drive baseball game. We did this last year and the kids loved it! Of couse we had to buy all the food goodies! It wouldnt be a baseball game with out those!

On Sunday Connor turned 4!!!!!!!!! I cant believe he is 4 already. He has brought so much joy and love into my life, I seriouly dont know where I would be without him. Yes things may not be perfect but they are perfect for us. My mom always said that you didnt know love until you loved a child, and she was so right (yes its in print that I said my mom was right!) I cant even explain the love I have for that kid. With that being said, this year was a pirate theme. As everyone know I love to plan a party! These were some awesome cupcakes a friend made!The banner I made it says party, with skulls on the paper. The two end peices have a pirate ship on one, and a tresure chest on the other. The treat bags were brown paper lunch bags, with the ships on them. The tags had all the kids names with a pirate related cut out peice.

All the little Pirates!

My little Pirate.

We had a great weekend with all of our friends and family. Thanks for everyone who shared it with us.

Happy Birthday Michelle

This post is in honor of my sister for her birthday. We may not get along all the time but she really is the best sister one could ask for. She has been through so much and it has all in turn, turned her into a strong women. She is always there when I need her, and of course loves Connor with all her heart. I just wanted to wish her a 27th Happy Birthday! I love you!

In the last month

We have been busy. This time of the year is always busy for us. Con is gone every other weekend so trying to plan things, and do special activities on the weekend can be a tricky. We always seem to make it work though. This past weekend Connor and I had some Spring pictures done. I found a lady on Craigslist that is just starting out and did it for a very very affordable price (which on my tight budget was what I was looking for) I looked at some of her pictures on facebook and figured it was worth a shot. We ended up going to Legacy park in Greenville, and it was beautiful! I can't wait till we can go back when it is warmer and have a picnic. The pictures turned out really good and I am excited to get some printed out.

This past weekend I also have a shower for Meggie. I went to High school with Meggie, we knew each other then and only spoke in school, but this past year we have became really close. I am so glad to have a true friend like her. This will be her 3rd child, and It's a GIRL, her name will be Emmeline. I get the great honor of being there when she is born. I couldn't be more excited and cant wait for that day to come.

The diaper cake I made, I must say I did a pretty good job!

Back to the grind

Well this week was the first week back to the grind. Needless to say I have recovered from my surgery. The HIDA scan showed that I had no leak, and he then thought maybe there was a torn muscle. I started to feel better over the weekend then on the Monday before I was return to work I felt the best I had. On Tue. I was back to feeling horrible and was due to turn back to work on Wed. I decided to go ahead and have my FMLA extended. Good thing I did I ended up getting the FLU! It was horrible but I had a few more days to rest up. I went back this past Mon. and I think this was the longest week ever. I am glad it is the weekend and Connor and I can have some fine.

Connor did very well in school this week, he ended up with no notes, and was pretty good at home as well.

This weekend we plan to pick out some fabric for some chairs we have been wanting covered for a long time. These chairs were my grandmas and I remember them from my first memories of her house. I don't even know how old they could be. I am excited because they are still in decent condition.

We also have allot of cleaning and laundry to catch up on. Between recovery and sickness going around our house we can say its gotten behind on us. Not to mention we have a unwanted house visitor again.. another Mouse! I don't know why we never had any before last fall now this is the 2nd time. I know we live next to a field but I need to figure out how to keep them from coming into my house, they are unwanted and gross me out!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

A little set back

Today is post op day 8. I am still not feeling well. Thu after the surgery I called the Dr. to ask about my pain meds because they didn't not seem to be helping. The RN told me that he would not call in anything stronger and if I needed to I could come in. On Friday I felt a little better but still had awkward pain. On Sat. I got out of the house, and that night was in horrible pain and also very very sick. I couldn't keep anything down. I am so thankful my sister was here in town to help me out. Sunday and Monday I still had pain and was very Blah feeling. On Tue. I called the Dr. and they made an appointment for me to come in that afternoon. I expressed concern to the Dr. that its been 6 days I thought I would be feeling a whole lot better, like I never even had the surgery. He said that yes I should be feeling better, and I shouldn't have the pain I was having. I was feeling like my gallbladder had never even been removed. I hear a lot of people say they felt immediately better afterwards, not this girl. The Dr. told me that he believes what happened is that 1 when the gallbladder was removed some of the bile spilled out and is in my system, and just needs to work out. He believes this is the situation because I was not sick anymore or had the nausea feeling. OR 2 that there is a leak and the bile is leaking. To fix that would be another surgery and a stint being placed. He told me to go home stay on pain meds, lay down, and drink plenty of fluid to wash it out. If I was not feeling better the fallowing day then give him a call and they would schedule me for a nuclear test called a HIDA scan. I waited a day to see if it all would pass over. Well this morning I am still hurting, so I called and spoke to the RN, they scheduled me to the test tomorrow morning. They couldn't get me in today because I had already ate. So tomorrow I will have the test. I don't know if I want it to show that I have a leak or not. If it does that means that's the source of my pain, and if it doesn't means.... I have no clue that it will mean. I know I don't have a high tolerance for pain but I should be feeling 100% by now.

As far as everything else going in our life, I registered Connor for 4K! I don't know if he will get in, they will do screening at the end of May. They test the kids to get in, they take the kids that need more help. I don't know if he will get in or not because he is very smart when he wants to be. I hope he does, it would save me a small bundle that I am paying for daycare. I can not believe he is going to be 4 in exactly 2 months! Time truly does fly. Of course I am already on the ball gathering up ideas for his party. I truly thing I missed my calling in the party planning business.

We have being struggling with his behavior at school, past 3 weeks he has come home with a "Oh - No Report" from school. One of the days I think it was because he was tired. The night before he was up for 4 hours in the middle of the night, playing and watching a movie, just like he use to wake up. Ive been trying a couple different things so he wont wake up and stay up. This week is so far so good. I told him if he was good this whole week then we would do something fun this weekend. This morning he requested chuckie cheese... I don't think I am feeling that but I was thinking something outside maybe Sunday cause I heard its going to be in the 60's. Hopefully he will be good today and tomorrow. He says he doesn't like school and sometimes its hard to get him to go and then when we get there hes acts all sad. I don't want it to be a fight like it was for me from 3rd grade on. I want him to like school, and do well in it so he can go to college and get a good job. Ideas and suggestions are welcomed for me to get him liking about school.