I just got the news that baby Lenox did even better than the surgeon's "best case scenario"!!! They opened up his little belly today to find that all of the intestines had pinked back up to life and looked great and nothing had to be removed! Basically, now he will just have to recover from surgery and will then go home with his mommy, daddy & big brother and shouldn't have any further complications!!! This is such a huge answer to prayer, and something that only God could have accomplished! Yay!!!!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Please Pray for baby Lenox
My good friend and co-worker, Senneca, gave birth to her son, Lenox, on Wednesday. Lenox was born 1 day shy of 34 weeks, but despite only being 4 lbs, he got off to a good start. However, in the middle of the night on Thursday, Lenox had to be rushed to CHKD for emergency surgery. Senneca had a fair-share of her own health issues going on after birth, but she was able to be discharged early to go be with her little boy. It turns out that Lenox had a condition that had nothing to do with his early arrival. He had intestinal malrotation, which meant during his early development in the womb, his intestines had gotten tightly twisted around their blood supply and at some point had stopped getting blood/oxygen. The longer they were cut off from oxygen, the more permanent damage that would occur, so I think it's already a miracle that he was born early and they discovered this.
He is currently in the NICU at the Children's hospital and will have surgery again tomorrow morning. During the first surgery, the surgeon untwisted things, but couldn't yet tell how much of the intestines would pink back up to life, and how much could have irreversible damage and need to be removed. Please pray with us that when they go back in on Sunday, they will find that there is little or no dead intestines needing to be removed. Also, please pray that this little guy will remain stable and healthy both before and after surgery. He's already had to go through so much for such a tiny little boy, and there's a good chance that he'll have more challenges ahead.
Senneca and her family are believers and are trusting God no matter what. They also have a 3 1/2 year old little boy Lyric who has to have lung surgery at the end of this year. They have a lot on their plate to say the least, but God is good and is getting them through. Please pray for them...especially for little Lenox as he goes into surgery again tomorrow morning.
Friday, October 16, 2009
30 Things
On one of the fun blogs I read (Blue-Eyed Bride), Erin had this great idea. Make a list of 30 things you'd like to do before you're 30. Well... since I turn 29 in just 15 days... I only have 1 year and 2 weeks until I'm the big 3-0, so I can't be but so ambitious, but here are My 30 Things...
1. Visit New York City during the Christmas season (this might have to happen right after my 30th birthday, because I don't see it happening this year).
2. Move out of my current condo. This was my first place on my own, my first place with my husband, my first place with a baby, but it's time to move on...
3. Become a full-time stay-at-home-Mom. Although I'd love to have some odd-jobs/fun-work too.
4. Go to Hawaii with Mike. This really should happen considering my sister lives there and Josiah can fly for free until July 20, 2011.
5. Make a PhotoBook of our wedding photos (finally!)
6. Find some creative outlet to enjoy again. (Photoshop, Graphic Arts, Photography...)
7. Establish an annual family tradition. (for just me, Mike and our kid(s) to enjoy together)
8. Go camping in the Spring.
9. Go camping in the Fall.
10. Start journaling again.
11. Scan in all of my old photos to archive them on CDs.
12. Go snow-skiing... it's been WAY too long!
13. Get rid of the clothes I've had and haven't worn since I was 20. Seriously, I take the meaning of pack-rat to a whole new level.
14. Have a professional family photo shoot.
15. Try Once-A-Month-Cooking. Cook an entire month's worth of meals in one day (and freeze them).
16. Organize an effective couponing system.
17. Be pregnant again (did I just say that?!! I must be delirious from being awake since 4:30 this morning)
18. Find my webcam so my sister will quit harassing me! haha!
19. Have more of our family join us at church.
20. Visit at least one of the 16 states I haven't been to yet (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin) And yes, I still sing the song I learned in 5th grade with all the states in alphabetical order whenever I'm trying to think of them all.
21. Take at least one day trip to the Outer Banks. I think that's my favorite place on earth.
22. Follow Through. Take action and actually do some of the service/ministry things I think about.
23. Spend less time online and more time with the Lord.
24. Institute a cleaning schedule for my house. I'm way too embarrassed to admit how IN-frequently my bathrooms, floors and windows get cleaned.
25. Print out Josiah's pictures and put photo albums together. I don't want to end up with 10,000 digital photos that no one ever looks at, or worse that get wiped off a crashed computer.
26. Start drinking 8 glasses of water a day. Maybe #17 would help me with that. I was much better about it when I was pregnant with Josiah.
27. Sell my Princess House inventory. Sadly the economy just doesn't make for much success anymore with Princess House, but I love so much of the stuff I have, it's so hard to get rid of it... but it's doing me no good in boxes in my closet.
28. Plan some great events... a party, a wedding, a shower, whatever - I love doing that!
29. Try at least one new recipe each week. I love to cook, and so does Mike, maybe with a bottle of wine and a babysitter, that could be one of our regular dates (see #30).
30. Re-establish a regular "date night" with Mike. When we were engaged, Friday nights were date nights. We wouldn't make plans with anyone else (except the occasional double-date) and we'd just do something special together. Needless to say, 9 months and 1 baby later, we've gotten out of the habit.
1. Visit New York City during the Christmas season (this might have to happen right after my 30th birthday, because I don't see it happening this year).
2. Move out of my current condo. This was my first place on my own, my first place with my husband, my first place with a baby, but it's time to move on...
3. Become a full-time stay-at-home-Mom. Although I'd love to have some odd-jobs/fun-work too.
4. Go to Hawaii with Mike. This really should happen considering my sister lives there and Josiah can fly for free until July 20, 2011.
5. Make a PhotoBook of our wedding photos (finally!)
6. Find some creative outlet to enjoy again. (Photoshop, Graphic Arts, Photography...)
7. Establish an annual family tradition. (for just me, Mike and our kid(s) to enjoy together)
8. Go camping in the Spring.
9. Go camping in the Fall.
10. Start journaling again.
11. Scan in all of my old photos to archive them on CDs.
12. Go snow-skiing... it's been WAY too long!
13. Get rid of the clothes I've had and haven't worn since I was 20. Seriously, I take the meaning of pack-rat to a whole new level.
14. Have a professional family photo shoot.
15. Try Once-A-Month-Cooking. Cook an entire month's worth of meals in one day (and freeze them).
16. Organize an effective couponing system.
17. Be pregnant again (did I just say that?!! I must be delirious from being awake since 4:30 this morning)
18. Find my webcam so my sister will quit harassing me! haha!
19. Have more of our family join us at church.
20. Visit at least one of the 16 states I haven't been to yet (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin) And yes, I still sing the song I learned in 5th grade with all the states in alphabetical order whenever I'm trying to think of them all.
21. Take at least one day trip to the Outer Banks. I think that's my favorite place on earth.
22. Follow Through. Take action and actually do some of the service/ministry things I think about.
23. Spend less time online and more time with the Lord.
24. Institute a cleaning schedule for my house. I'm way too embarrassed to admit how IN-frequently my bathrooms, floors and windows get cleaned.
25. Print out Josiah's pictures and put photo albums together. I don't want to end up with 10,000 digital photos that no one ever looks at, or worse that get wiped off a crashed computer.
26. Start drinking 8 glasses of water a day. Maybe #17 would help me with that. I was much better about it when I was pregnant with Josiah.
27. Sell my Princess House inventory. Sadly the economy just doesn't make for much success anymore with Princess House, but I love so much of the stuff I have, it's so hard to get rid of it... but it's doing me no good in boxes in my closet.
28. Plan some great events... a party, a wedding, a shower, whatever - I love doing that!
29. Try at least one new recipe each week. I love to cook, and so does Mike, maybe with a bottle of wine and a babysitter, that could be one of our regular dates (see #30).
30. Re-establish a regular "date night" with Mike. When we were engaged, Friday nights were date nights. We wouldn't make plans with anyone else (except the occasional double-date) and we'd just do something special together. Needless to say, 9 months and 1 baby later, we've gotten out of the habit.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Sleepy Days
Josiah sleeps pretty well, but he sure does hate GETTING to sleep during the day. I feel so bad because most of the time he will cry hard in protest, but if I just stick it out, he's done in about a minute or two and then falls sound asleep. He won't take a pacifier anymore (tried several different kinds), I've tried not swaddling him to see if it was the confinement he didn't like, but that was even worse and he just doesn't settle himself down on his own, so for now, we swaddle, shush, bounce in a dim room with music and voila... it's naptime! Thankfully he is very merciful to us in the middle of the night and doesn't cry at all! Only difference then is that he's being fed right before sleeping whereas during the day, he plays after eating and then sleeps later. I'm hoping he'll grow out of it... and we'll try putting him down without all the extra effort when he's closer to 4 months... hopefully my back can handle the bouncing for just a few more weeks.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Fun with Grandma
Josiah spends Tuedays with his Grandma-B (my mom) while I'm at work and apparently they have lots of fun together! Check out these hilarious pictures that Grandma captured of my little cutie pie today:
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Happy Fall!
We found a fun Pumpkin Patch not far from our house today... and it was an absolutely beautiful Fall day to be out there! Josiah may not remember being there, but we had fun and we took tons of pictures. On the way there, Josiah discovered his laugh! For a good 5 minutes or so, he just laughed at everything I did... it was GREAT! I had so much fun listening to him and watching him... tried catching it on video, but he wouldn't do it for the camera! And check out this last picture... you can tell Mike is a true Dad... that's a bottle in his back pocket!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Nursery
I don't think I've ever posted any pictures of our completed nursery. This is my view from the glider in Josiah's room. I'm really happy with how it turned out...
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