The 14 days before Rylee, Day 1

Let me take you back to Thursday, January 15, 2009. It was a relatively sunny, bitterly cold (in the negative degrees) day.

The time is 3:00 pm. I had just talked to my OB doctor's nurse about missing my gestational diabetes testing appointment because of some insurance stuff. She scolded me. She was going to talk to some people in the office and call me back.

It is now 3:15 pm. I felt a "gush" of something "down there". I had a flash back of my coworker Matt rushing another coworker to the hospital because she thought her water had broke. Turns out she just wet her pants. I just thought, Oh My gosh, I wet my pants. I instantly became ticked off, at myself of course. However, a few minutes after I cleaned myself up the best that I could, I felt another small gush.

It is now 3:30 pm. The nurse called me back. She said I needed to make an appointment when I had the insurance stuff worked out but to not let it go for longer than a week or so. Then she asked "how are you feeling?" "Well I think I might be leaking something. I must have just wet my pants [blushing bright red]" "If you are leaking any kind of fluid, I have to advice you come to urgent care and get it checked out. But with the insurance stuff, I will talk to Dr. B and call you right back."

It is now 3:45 pm. The nurse called back. "Dr. B says to go home and relax. If you continue to leak fluid for the next 2 hours, come in to the ER. Otherwise, Dr. M will see you tomorrow at 8:45 am to make sure everything is alright and we'll test for diabetes then."

It is now 5:00 pm. I told my boss that I had a 8:45 appointment and am not sure if my water broke or not. I was going to pick up my newly turned 1 year old little boy for a night of "relaxation", or at least as much relaxing as could be expected.

It is now 8:30 pm. I talked to Kris over his lunch break at work. The leaking is still going. Sometimes more than others. I said I think something is wrong. We discussed going to the ER and decided to wait until he got home at 12:30 am.

When Kris got home, the leaking had pretty much stopped. The baby was still moving. So, I decided to stay home and go to the appointment in the morning. What a bad bad bad decision!

In the days to come...

Rylee's birthday is approaching!! However, there were some overly exciting, nerve-racking moments that led up to her birth. Therefore, in the next couple weeks you will get to relive the experiences that I went through before she graced us with her presence. Stay tuned for photos and memories that I have. Much of this "ordeal" was heartbreaking for me. I will share a story with you as I remember them...Starting tomorrow, January 15th!!

Time to pray

I personally have never experienced an earthquake. The closest thing ever is the when I was in high school and there would be blast in the quarry next to the school. It shook the school a little but nothing major.

However, Haiti experienced a HUGE 7.3 earthquake yesterday. I was reading stories online that were accompanied by photos. I seen this photo of a father holding his maybe 1 year old daughter who died as a result of this horrific tradegy. It makes me want to just be home with my husband and kids. However, I can't. Those 3 million people are in my thoughts and prayers today and the days to come. I can't imagine what they are going through. Pray for them. Help them if you can.

Hmmm...

I am not sure what to title this post. It's really just a bunch of nothing.

First of all, I love having a 2 year old. A month ago, I hated it. He was terrible 6 out of 7 days. In the last few weeks, we've only seen that old little boy a couple times. Since his surgery, he can hear. He seems so much more grown up. He even fetched the remote for me last night while I was preoccupied with feeding a very sleepy, almost asleep Rylee. I was a proud momma. This past weekend we have seen his true colors show. He dances! He dances ALL THE TIME. He loves dancing. Everytime there is music, he dances. I opened the door to car last night to load them up to go home and he started dancing, outside in the snow and cold of the babysitters driveway. This boy can really shake a leg.

Other news, we didn't end up going to Noah's ChuckE Cheese birthday party on Sunday. We weren't feeling 100% and decided it would be best to just stay home. Turns out the Noah's dad and big brother are sick. Good thing we just stayed put. Sounds like what they have is alot worse than what we had. Other than that we kept ourselves busy taking care of my sister's 2 hounds and football. Now, I will admit that 2 seconds into the Packers vs Cardinals game that my husband said a 4 letter word. I will also tell you that he was talking a lot to the television throughout the entire game. We had a sleeping Rylee towards the end of the game so Kris put her in her bed. Turns out to be a good thing because there was some hooting and wahooing coming from both of us and Troy copying us at the very end. Then there was 30 seconds of overtime. Boo! Well we all know how that game ended. All Kris said was, "where is the remote?" The channel was changed and nothing more was said. Needless to say we were bummed by the outcome. Maybe next year!

Have a wonderful day all!

Happy Birthday Noah!

Our nephew Noah turns 2 today. Happy Birthday Noah!

Kris and I meeting Noah for the first time with a 10 days old Troy!

Noah's 2 year old photo

(I stole this picture from his mom's facebook!)

Happy 2nd Birthday Noah!

Love, Uncle Kris, Aunt Mary, Troy and Rylee

On the agenda

Troy had his doctor appointment with Dr. K this morning. Kris and I got up early and warmed the vehicles. Kris ventured out with both kids to Dubuque this morning while I went to work. We both left at 7:15 and made it on time to our destinations. It started snowing last night about 7 pm at our house and hasn't stopped since. At least it is nice and fluffy snow. I have no clue how much snow we have accumulated so far in the last 15 hours but it's a good chunk added to our already accumulated good chunk! We are certainly have a white, cold winter!

Dr. K did a hearing test with Troy that came back fine. He took a peak in Troy's ears and said they look fine. He has to go back in 6 months.

Miss Rylee has been getting up at 5 am for the past month or more. Everyone is exhausted but mainly Kris because he gets up with her. He has no problem falling back to sleep in the recliner. I however wouldn't be able to go back to sleep with her chattering as loud as she does. Boy that girl can talk and she can talk LOUD! And Mr. Troy is still being difficult at bedtime. He never wants to go to bed. Last night I think I fell asleep before he did. Kris and I are looking forward to the day that we get to sleep in. Maybe in 10 or 15 years. Then we'll probably be so used to waking at 5 that we won't be able to sleep in. Gone are those days that we sleep in until 10 or noon. Yes I actually did that in my teenage years. What a shame to sleep in so long. I never got anything accomplished in the morning hours of the weekend. However, 1 morning of sleeping in til..oh..8 would be lovely.

We have a busy weekend. My sister and her family will be out of town so we are taking care of their dogs. Our nephew, Noah, turns 2 tomorrow and his birthday party is at ChuckECheese on Sunday. I have to work on Saturday at the bank from 8 to noon. All I wanted to do this weekend was clean my house. We'll give one good shot on saturday afternoon.

Kris and I have been hard at meal planning. Since I work until 6 on Fridays and don't get home until 6:30 - 6:45 I try to make a meal in the crock pot so that Kris doesn't have to make anything. Tomorrow we are having Beef stew. My agenda for my lunch break today is to grab some of the veggies needed to make that tonight for the crockpot tomorrow. Yummy, my belly is hungry now! Have a great weekend all!

New things!!

Rylee popped her first tooth through on Monday. It was exciting time at our house. We took her to see Dr. C today and he washed his hands right away so he can feel her tooth. We went to see Dr. C today because we finally received Rylee's Synagis. AWESOME! Synagis is a vaccine to prevent RSV. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a very common virus that leads to mild, cold-like symptoms in adults and older healthy children. It can be more serious in young babies, especially to those in certain high-risk groups. As you probably remember, Rylee also has CLD (chronic lung disease). NP Diane said that if Rylee were to contract RSV with her current lung capacity and compromised immune system, she would have a less than 10% chance of survival. That's scary. NP Diane prior authorized the Synagis prescription on October 27, 09 and we just received the first dose yesterday. UGH! There were dozens upon dozens of phone calls and hours spent arguing over this drug for Rylee. But we have it now. And 28 days from now we will get another dose and then 28 days after that she'll get another dose. This drug is costing us $2,025.68 per dose. OH MAN!! Small price to pay for life though.

Troy has new things too. He is going to see Dr. K tomorrow for his post op appointment for his ears and throat. I have a whole new kid. Ever since the surgery he has been talking much more and pronouncing things much better. He talks constantly. He laughs constantly. He's a happy kid. AND he has always been a daddy's boy until recently. This tickles me pink (sorry, Kris). I love that he gets so so so excited to see me. Kris said that he looks for me during the day and is pretty mellow, until he sees me. Kris comments on his spunkiness everytime he gets like that. For example, there is this little playhouse at the doctor's office that he would throw a fit over before if he had to leave that thing to go in an office. Today, Kris was going to stay out in the lobby and wait with him while Rylee and I did the shot thing. However, Troy had other ideas, he volunteerily followed me and Rylee (and Kris trailing him) into the office. Turned out that Rylee had to stay at the doctor's office for a half an hour under observation after the shot. Since that shot took place over my lunch hour, I decided that during that half hour, I would take Troy to Culver's for lunch so that we both had ate. We each enjoyed the mommy and son lunch date. He even VOLUNTEERILY gave me a kiss. I LOVE THIS little 2 year today (I love him all days but sometimes it just takes more effort!)

Troy is saying new things. He copied words that I had said when I was talking on the telephone the other night. I hollared for "Kris" over the weekend and Troy repeated "Kris". If you asked what a car says, he'll tell you, "Beep! Beep! Outtamyway! Beep! Beep! [fist pumping in the air]" Now I don't believe he learned this from me. He absolutely has to wear his new Cars underwear that Santa left in his stocking to bed. Overtop his diaper of course. He loves underwear! Last night he put on his underwear and when I went to put him his jammies those undies had to stay on. So he wore his Cars jammies over his Cars undies over his fresh diaper. Funny kids. 2 hasn't been such a bad age so far. It was right before turning 2. Hopefully this lasts!