WHAT a day..........

I should be in bed right now, but as crazy as it is, I'm not! This has been a day that I hope is not repeated anytime soon! Let's see if I can recap it play by play...To tell the full story, I'll back up to last Thursday. Adam had been having a cough for a few days, and something told me Thursday morning to give him some Motrin before I sent him off to daycare. Guess it was mothers intuition. That afternoon around 3:30 the daycare called and told me to come get him b/c he was running a fever. So he was automatically out Friday. He was no better Friday and was puny all weekend. We stayed around the house all weekend and nursed on him, trying to get him to eat and feel better in general.

This morning Nathan left for a 2 day fishing trip @ 4am. So I thought I'd see how Adam was doing before making a decision on whether he'd go to daycare today. He slept late (for him) - 'til @ 7:30, and I called Lisa and said that I'd just keep him home w/ me today. Since Hannah had a dr. appt. at 10:40, Lisa told me to just bring him to her house and she'd watch him while I took Hannah for her checkup. We had her appt., and it went great up until the shot! She is weighing 9lb 14oz, and is 22 inches long. Aside from the baby acne she's got, everything is great w/ her. She got her Hep. B shot, and that broke both of our hearts, but she got a bottle right after and all was well in her world again. I talked to the dr. while she was seeing Hannah about Adam and I talked her in to giving me a pres. for some good cough meds for him. She told me that if my gut said something just wasn't "right" to bring him on in b/c he could have an ear infection. So after the appt. we go by the bank and then to Lisa's. When I get there, she said that his fever has started back, and he was still very puny. I decide then to make him an appt. for this afternoon. They didn't have anything but work in's, and told me to be there @ 2:30. I decided to take Adam to get him a bite to eat, and we all went to Burger King. Hannah and I left early to take his presc. and drop it off. We found out that noone has it locally. The pharmacist called all his local stores and even the competitors trying to find it. He told me to go eat and come back, that he'd tell me what he could find out for me. After eating, Adam and Lisa stayed there and enjoyed the "playground" while I went to check on his medicine. The pharm. eventually just placed an order for it and will have it tomorrow. I get back over to BK and tell Adam that we need to head home so he can nap before the dr. appt. and his world flipped upside down. He didn't want to leave, but just in the 15 or so minutes that he played, his hair was soaking wet and his face was beet red. I knew then he needed to go to the dr. We get home and he crashed for about 30 minutes. I got busy making bottles and getting ready for the afternoon craziness. Once he wakes up it's time to head back out the door to take Hannah to Lisa's so I can take Adam to the dr. We get there and find out that he has a sinus infection. We leave there head to the post office, and then to the drug store again. They tell us how long it's going to be, and I decided to take Adam to get his hair cut. The hair cut was accomplished, now we're heading back to the Drug store. After a meltdown over a toy that he wanted (but didn't get) we're off to Lisa's, and then to go eat supper. We get to the restaurant, and Hannah is ready to eat again, Adam is NOT wanting to eat, but show out instead. I finally take him to the bathroom and he's screaming the entire way and drawing the attention of everyone. I just look up and smile at them all. We come back to the table afterward and he is calm for all of 5 minutes. By this time I'm done eating regardless and ready to head home. We get back to Lisa's and he does alright for the remainder of the time. We finally get home around 8pm, and Hannah is wanting to eat and Adam is needing a bath. Of course the phone is ringing in the process and crazy me answers it. Nathan is calling to check on everyone and he talks to Adam. The phone rings again and I get it. During this phone call, Adam proceeds to throw up right at the bathroom on the carpet. So I quickly end that phone call - give Hannah a pacci to hold her until I can come back to her and get Adam finished on his ordeal. Right after that he gets his bath, I bring Hannah to the bathroom so I can watch him while I feed her in her carrier. He gets finished up, so I take her and put her in the crib and get him ready for bed. I still had to make bottles, get her ready for bed and check on him once more. I have learned that single mothers will have multiple jewels in their crowns in Heaven, and I need 6 more arms if there are many more days like today. The Lord knew that I could not handle twins, and I truly believe that all the times I prayed for them that is why he never granted my prayer wish. So here it is 10:55, and I'm finally ready for bed. The next wakeup call will probably come anywhere between 2am and 3am, unless Adam needs me sooner. So on that note I should end this here.

What a day............

Hannah is one month old today! Here is her birth story..

Yes, it's one month late - but I thought, what better day to post it than on her one month birthday?? First, let me say that Hannah is doing great! She is eating great (like a little piggy) and sleep is another story for another day (not going all that wonderfully well, but compared to how Adam did early on, she's doing pretty good!) She goes for her next checkup on Monday.

**Hannah's birth story**
On Friday, March 23rd, I went in to work as usual. Around 9:30 that morning, I started to feel tightening in my tummy. No pains, just the tightening feeling. They were coming every 10 minutes apart, and did so for 2 hours. So right before lunch I called in to my dr's office. After telling the nurse what was happening, noone called me back until after 1:30. Dr. Horvath said that unless the pains got worse, my water broke, or I started bleeding to just go home and rest. I decided that when I left work I'd go by the groc. store to pick up a few things we needed "just incase" something happened. At the last minute before I got near to the store I thought I'd head home to use the bathroom. When I used the restroom I saw a lot of discharge which I thought was my mucous plug. I was still having the contractions, w/ no pain yet. I went on to the groc. store and came back home to check if any more discharge had happened. A little more was coming out. I left there and headed to the daycare to pick up Adam. Saturday was the annual BBQ at our church, so Nathan and Doug were out at the church getting prepared for Saturday. I took Adam out there to see them, and while I was out there, I started having a small amount of pain with my contractions. I told some of the ladies out there that I didn't feel like I'd make it through the weekend. So we stayed out there for a few hours and headed home. Nathan got home later that evening, and everything was still the same. During the night, I would have some contractions that would wake me up, but nothing severe. Nathan left out early Sat. morning to go chop BBQ for the church. When I went to the bathroom that morning, I had more discharge that truly made me feel like things were going to happen soon. I called Nathan and told him to just plan on being back home around lunchtime. The more I walked around the stronger the contractions were, and the quicker they were starting to come. Creslyn, one of my girlfriends just happened to call to check on me and I told her what was going on. So she changed her plans and came to stay w/ me and Adam until Nathan got home. I ended up calling him back later on that morning and told him to be home @ 11am. So, after he got home, we got ready and headed to the hospital. We got up to Women's Hosp. around 12pm. They put me in a room and hooked me up to everything. The contractions were 3 to 5 minutes apart, and I was dilated to a 3 and was approx. 75% thinned. They left me hooked up for quite a while to make sure the contractions weren't going to let up. After a while the nurse came in and said that Dr. Horvath wanted me to walk for an hour. The contractions were so strong at that time, that the walking truly was a chore. When the hour was up, they hooked me back up and I was at a 4 and had thinned up to 85%. The dr. decided to keep me. I was in a room @ 3pm, and was at a 5 or 6 when I got my epidural at 3:30pm. The epidural I has w/ Hannah wasn't nearly as good as the one I had w/ Adam. I could still feel lots of pressure this time, as w/ Adam I felt NOTHING! That was wonderful!! The nurse came in and checked me periodically and I was definitely making progress. Sometime after 6pm, I was almost at a 9, but my water still had not broke. So around 6:15 or 6:20, she was checking me when my water finally broke!! She got on the phone to call Dr. Kaplan to tell him that I would be ready very soon. They had to call another dr. in just in case he couldn't get there in time b/c I was ready to start pushing. Once I started feeling the urge to push, they told me to go ahead. This was also different than w/ Adam because I could feel the pressure and the pain when I pushed, and when Dr. Kaplan finally got there he told me that I was "straining" more than I was "pushing". I felt more and more after every push, and eventually the pain got to be too much, and I told him that I would not push anymore until the pain went away! He realized that I truly was feeling everything below and he either gave me a shot on each side or put numbing cream on me. After that he cut through some scar tissue from when I had Adam, and a push or two later, Hannah was born at 6:45pm!!!Nathan said that I only pushed for about 10 minutes, but it surely felt longer than that to me!!! I had a 2nd degree episitomy, and was VERY sore for several days after, but it was all worth it. I even made the comment to Nathan that I was going to miss having this experience again. I said that while I was still in the hospital!!! Pregnancy agreed w/ me so much, and I truly had two relatively easy & quick labors.

I have had so many people ask about my birth story that I thought today was a good day to share it. I hope I haven't made too many errors in typing, as I'm not going back to proofread it! haha! It's a little after 10 pm, and Miss Hannah will be giving me my first wake up call of the night in just a couple of hours. Thanks to all who have read this far and for those who have prayed for us and wished us well. We love you all!!!

Happy Easter!!!

I hope each and every one of you have a wonderful Easter holiday. We wanted to share some pictures of Adam and Hannah over the last couple of days!

Hannah in her Easter clothes..........



Adam saying "cheeeeeeeese"..........

Hannah won the youngest Easter egg hunter!

Bathtime! Hannah wasn't none too happy during bathtime, but she didn't mind the massage w/ the lotion afterward!

An update on us!

I'm sure you all can imagine that computer time has been very limited these days! Both my babies are sleeping right now, and of course I had to threaten to call the Easter Bunny in order to get Adam to take a nap! So once that was mentioned, his head was on the pillow and shortly after he was sound asleep. (However I think I hear him rustling around on the monitor now....hopefully it's just to get resituated!)

Hannah is doing awesome. She is breastfeeding like a champ, and sleeping approx. 5 hours at night for the first stretch and between 2 and 3 for the next. I definitely can't complain about that! The little stump on her umbilical cord fell off this morning, so she will get her first true bath tonight! She will be looking and smelling beautiful for her first outing to church on Easter Sunday! I will post a picture of Adam & Hannah all dressed up sometime tomorrow (when I have a few spare minutes!)

Nathan has a cold right now, and aside from being a tad grouchy with that, he is doing good. He's talking about going fishing tomorrow, so he is not totally under the weather!

I'm doing good as well. I'm learning how to juggle time and priorites. I'm still not practicing "sleeping when the baby sleeps", but somedays she and I have pj day and we both stay in our pajamas until well after lunch. Those days are GREAT!!

Hannah is 2 weeks old today, and I know before I realize it, I'll be heading back to work and she will be getting accustomed to daycare. That will be here in the blink of an eye. Adam talks about Hannah all the time at daycare, and he's so cute - he tells the other kids in his room to "be quiet - baby Hannah is sleeping!" He's even told his teachers that the movie or tv is "too loud", that it'll wake the baby!! He is quite the character!! I didn't realize just how big my baby boy is until Hannah came along. He looks so much more grown up now. However he still loves to be loved on, and he is still and always will be my baby boy.

I have been doubly blessed w/ two precious children...........thank you Jesus for these miracles..