JOSH* MANDI* M'TALI* DALLIN* DAKODA* LOGAN* & EASTON EST. WITH LOVE JUNE 1998
TODAY WE SAY GOODBYE TO A WIFE, MOTHER, GRANDMA, AND SISTER!! MY BEAUTIFUL MOTHER PAST AWAY SUNDAY JUNE 28TH AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 50.
AT THIS TIME OF HEART ACHE AND SADNESS OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO OUR DAD AND WE WANT HIM TO KNOW HOW MUCH WE LOVE AND APPRECIATE HIM. OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU DAD WE LOVE YOU
3 OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL KIDS EVER!!
DAKODA LOVES WATERMELON AND ATE ABOUT 8 SLICES...LOOK AT THAT FACE!!
We were released from the hospital on Friday and were told that Logan's bilirubin count was a little high, but nothing to worry about, they told us to take him home and have him sit in front of a window in just his diaper, and make sure he got plenty of fluids and bring him back on Saturday and have his levels checked again. After taking him back to have him retested we dropped the kids off to my parents to go enjoy an hour by ourselves so we could celebrate our anniversary which was on Saturday, as we sat down to eat we get the phone call from the doctor saying that his bilirubin levels were extremely high and that he needed to go back to the hospital and be admitted for his jaundice, after receiving the news I was really upset and started crying in the restaurant so we took our food and left to go pick him up. My wonderful dad gave him a special blessing and we headed back down to the hospital. He was admitted into the pediatric unit where he was placed under special lights to help get rid of the jaundice. In the morning the pediatrician came in and said his levels had gone up again and that they thought that he might have an infection in his bladder that was causing his levels to keep going up. The only way to test for a bladder infection in such a little baby is to go through the stomach and into the bladder with a needle and draw out the urine and have it tested, the test came back negative, so they drew blood to see if they could find out where the infection was. Later that night while I was burping him he started throwing up and it had some dark brown stuff in it, they didn't know what it was so they took it down to the lab to be tested, it came back being blood, so the doctor though that he might have some internal bleeding that was causing him to throw up blood. We took him down to x-ray and had his stomach x-rayed to see if there was any bleeding in his stomach. While we were waiting for the test results to come back from that we got the results of the blood work back, there was a sign of an infection, but they weren't sure where it was at so the doctor decided to go ahead and hook him up to IVs with fluids and start administering antibiotics. My poor little guy being only 4 days old was already poked and prodded more times then I could handle and now they were going to poke him again and hook him up to IVs. The 2 nurses that were working that night both tried to find a vein and with no luck they called down a specialist from the nursery to find a vein to hook the Iv up to. After 30 LONG minutes of standing in the hall crying listening to him scream while they looked for a vein he was finally hooked up to his IV. Early the next morning the test results came back from the x-ray and thankfully there was no internal bleeding, they figured he must have swallowed some blood coming down the birth canal. The pediatrician came in the next morning and said his levels were going down, but that he needed to stay in the hospital for a few more days to get his levels down. Finally on Tuesday morning we were released to finally take baby Logan home and enjoy him. We are so thankful for all those that prayed for him, and that he is finally home where we can hold and love him without monitors and IVs.
Sorry I haven't posted in a long time, we have been so busy around here, Last week we enjoyed 4 days in beautiful Moab, I forgot my camera and had to get a disposable so I'll post pictures as soon as I get them developed.
The kids are getting so excited for summer to get here and I am to!!! M'Tali starts softball this next week so watch for that...all Dakoda can talk about is going to kindergarten,, schools not over and he's ready to start next school year....Dallin is so excited not to have a bed time and no hving to get up early.
We moved the boys into the same room, and put the babys room where Dakoda's room was, they love it cuz they stay up all night talking. I think we tell them 200 times a night to quite talking and get to bed.
I went to my doctors appointment on Monday just expecting it to be a regular check up, we got in there and my doctor told me my blood pressure was extremely high and he wanted me to go to the hospital and do some test, we took the kids and headed down to do the test and thought we'd be home in a few hours, I get in there and they hook me up to all the monitors, and preceded to do all the tests that they need to do, after sitting in the hospital room for 2 hours the nurse comes back in and tells me that my doctor wants me to stay the night for observation, I was dilated to a 1 and 60% effaced, and was having regular contractions that were 2-3 minutes apart, the next morning they discharge me to go home and do the next few weeks on bed rest, I have 7 week left but they are going to try and get me to hold off for 3 more....lets hope it works....I'd love to get to at least 37 or 38 weeks but they said I'd be lucky to make it to 36...I'll keep you posted as we find out more each week.
A fun pay it forward activity. Thanks Danielle!Free gift for whoever wants it!!Here's how it works-the first 5 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a handmade or homemade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well-before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift! Remember that only the first 5 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. It'll be done this year (hopefully sooner than later.)
3. You will have no clue what it is going to be.
4. What I make, may be strange. Who Knows!!
So in my last post I said that we were having a boy, but if you look closely at the last picture, the "BOY THINGY" is actually not a boy thing at all, it's the baby's hand in a fist, and my doctor said he could be wrong, so I decided that I needed a second opinion before I started shoppong since I basically have to start over because we thought we were done having kids and gave everything away, so it's like having my first all over again. So I made an appointment with the Gender Ultrasound place in the provo mall in hopes that they could tell me for sure it's a boy, we get there and of course the baby decided that it was going to cross it's legs the WHOLE time, they tried for 45 minutes to get the baby to uncross it's legs but it wasn't going to, we tried everything I even went walking and drank some soda pop but nothing, so they said they would do another one free of charge, so we made the appointment for 4 days later. We go in thinking this is going to be lucky number 3 and that we are going to leave knowing for sure what we are having......well NO the baby again decided that it was going to keep it's legs crossed, the tech lady finally gets it to uncross it's legs but then she realizes the umbilical cord is between it's legs, so she works with the baby pushing on my stomach that by now I'm really sore and it' starting to hurt, but she finally gets the cord to move a little and the baby instantly puts it's hand down there and covers up anything that would hint the sex of the baby....so I guess the baby want to come into the world a mystery....we are just going to plan on it being a boy and hope it's right, if not I'm going to have alot of stuff to return.
So I went to my doctors appointment today and let me tell you it was the longest day of my life, my appointment was at 4:00 pm and so we had to wait ALL day long till we found out, and I was so nervous when we got there I had butterflies in my stomach the whole ride. This is a picture of the babies profile it's so cute my doctor tapes it for me on a video tape, and the baby kept putting his hands up by his face it was so cool to watch!!!......So what are we having??? Most of you already know cuz I sent out a mass text but its a......
BOY....I was really hoping for a girl, but I'll take a healthy boy any day, now me and Josh just need to find a name and agree on it, so if anyone has any good ideas let us know, we would like for it to start with a D.
Oh and the good news is my due date was moved up 2 whole days yay!!!
So I put the poll on my blog to see what people thought we were going to have but for some reason it doesn't tell who voted or for what they voted for, so if you could please let me know if you voted and for what you voted for I would really appreciate it....I just want to know who voted for what...THANK YOU!!!
This is M'Tali's first time skiing, she absolutely loves it and says it's the BEST!!
She did really good, I am so proud of her!!
Oh ya she is the one in the light blue snow suit.
