Baby Turner

What's been going on?

2010-08-02T08:46:00.000-05:00

On Thursday, Cade and I traveled to Sulphur Springs for PaPaw Coy's memorial service. The service went very well and it was really neat to hear one of his old friends talk about what an amazing man PaPaw was! While we were there we went by to visit my other grandad that had recently been in the hospital with cancer. I was absolutely AMAZED at how much better he looked and felt! And it had only been about a week since I'd seen him! I was very glad Cade and I got to go by and visit him. Of course while we were there we saw my WONDERFUL cousins, who are always such a joy to be around and a great help with my lil monster!

We made it home Thursday evening just in time for some Mommy Time!! It was GNO at the Pottery Cafe. You take a bottle of wine and paint pottery with your girlfriends! We had an ABSOLUTE BLAST!!! Those girls are so much fun to hang out with! We all agreed we would be there next month too!

Friday was one of my "bestest" friends birthday! Amy and I met Lindsay for lunch at McAlister's and celebrated with some red velvet cupcakes! Yummy!! That evening our family met all of Lindsay's family downtown for dinner at Don Juan's! After that we went to Honey & Poppy's for the world's best banana pudding. Our sweet hubbies took the boys home so that Lindsay, Honey & I could have a little girl time!

As long as Biggin' has his cars he is good to go!

He thinks he can do everything by himself!

Aww he loves his BFF, Cooper!

Playing with Uncle JC

Saturday my brother and sister-in-law came down and hung out to visit us and see Cade. We took them to Rib Master's for dinner and they feel in love!!! If it wasn't so far away they would eat there as often as we do! Yesterday was family day! Church, family lunch, and hanging out! My niece Brooke is leaving today to go to France for 3 months, all by herself!!! We had a family lunch to tell her bye! I know she will have a blast and she will get to see Julien while she is there! Please keep her in your prayers as she embarks this new journey! We love you Brooke!

The SAD news... school starts in 2 weeks!!! Where has the summer gone?? I literally get nauseous thinking about getting my room ready, Cade starting a new daycare and leaving my baby every day! Uggh! I know after about the first month we will be back in our routine and it will be fine but until then it's stress city!! Here are some Meet the Teacher treats I've been making for my class!

pull the ribbon...

popcorn slides out!

Death and Birthdays All in One Weekend

2010-07-25T22:04:00.000-05:00

Sad news first... My Papaw Coy passed away earlier this evening. It had really been a long 35 days in the hospital for him and the family. My mom, dad and sister have spent everyday there and I know they must be exhausted!! We do know he is a much better place without an of his illnesses. PTL!! Please continue to keep the McCoy family in your prayers, as they still have a rough road ahead.

Brighter news . . . Thursday, Cade and I went with the Sewell's out to The Villages to swim. It is awesome out there! We went to the pools at the Beach Resort. Cade had a blast but of course was done after about 25 minutes of being there! 30 minute drive there for 30 minutes and then 30 minutes back home! I would have loved to have stayed longer but I don't think it would have been very enjoyable with Mr. Grumpy! Thanks to the Sewell's for inviting us! Here are some pictures of Cade & Addison. They are just 5 days apart!

On Saturday we had 2 birthday parties . . . outside! Uggh it was so hot but we had a blast at both of them! The first party was for Morgan! She turned 2!! The kids had a blast playing on her new swing set and in the sprinkler and pool!

Morgan cracks me up because she always wants to love on Cade!

Our sweet friend Katherine!

Mr. Trouble

Just a swingin'

Morgan wanted to push Cade!

Time for more loving...Cade was trying his hardest to get away! LOL


Cade helped Morgan out by giving her a push on her new tricycle!

The 2nd party we went to was for Ellie! (my cousin's little cutie) She turned the big ONE!!! Another fun time at this party! They had rented a giant double slip-n-slide. It looked like so much fun, too bad I didn't bring my swimsuit! It is hard to say whether the kids or the adults loved it more. Daniel and Cade had a BLAST! Cade was a kinda small to really do it but daddy helped him out!

Pizza Face

My Cousin Angie & Ellie (She may kill me for posting a picture of her but I thought this picture was gorgeous!)

Cade thought he really needed to check out Ellie's gifts!

Yummy! It looks like she has on pink lipstick!

So sweet. . . looking at Big Brother!

Here are some actions shots of Daniel & Mike racing on the slip-n-slide!

There goes Cade!


Daddy was there to help him out!

Ethan wanted to go really far!


Cade was getting sleepy so Aunt Andie pushed him in the swing!

Thought these pics were too cute not to share! Cade decided to play in a box that we had brought in tonight!

Peek-a-boo!

Visiting Papaw

2010-07-21T21:32:00.001-05:00

This morning Cade and I headed to Sulphur Springs to visit my papaw (his great papaw)in the hospital. A few months ago he was diagnosed with cancer. The last month has really been a struggle for him and the rest of the family! He has been going through chemotherapy and radiation. The treatments really suppressed his appetite and he had no desire to eat and wasn't drinking enough fluids. He lost a lot of weight and got to the point he couldn't even get up to walk because of dehydration. The doctor put him in the hospital and then they decided that putting in a feeding tube would be the best way to keep him hydrated and eating. He was then sent home with the feeding tube and had a home healthcare nurse coming to check on him. The end of last week he started having severe stomach cramping and was again admitted to the hospital. After different scans and all that stuff the doctors and nurses said it was just pain from everything healing from putting in the feeding tube,so he was sent home. Well yesterday he was hurting again and the home healthcare nurse had him taken back to the hospital. The determined that there was an infection and abcess from the feeding tube. Once again he was in severe pain! At this point he had really gotten down in spirits! He was basically telling everyone he was tired and was ready to give up! But God had different plans! Today they went in to remove the feeding tube and put in a new one but once the doctor was able to see the abcess he was able just to clean it up without having to have him go through the whole process again. This was another answered prayer! If he continues to do well he will get to go home tomorrow! PTL!
I was so thankful that Cade and I made it to the hospital to see him before the surgery! Oh and my wonderful, precious, thoughtful husband decided to surprise us and show up at the hospital to visit too! Papaw's face just lit up watching Cade run around his hospital room. Each time Cade would giggle a huge smile would cover papaw's face! I truly believe God used Cade to give him a little more hope and to brighten his spirits! Before I left he told me how much he appreciated us coming to see him and that Cade had brightened his day! He smiled and told Cade that hopefully the next time he saw him that they could go for a ride on the four-wheeler! Please continue to pray for him and my family through this trying time!

Mullen Family

2010-07-20T22:42:00.000-05:00

Cade and I went swimming over at The Mullen's today! We had a blast! All 3 of those girls are just crazy which means never a dull moment. When Delaney opens her mouth you just never know what is going to come out!!! I LOVE it! The line that stuck with me today was - - Delaney did you put deodorant on? Her response: Girl no and it be smelling sour up in here! (as she sniffs her pits) The girl has no shame in her game and that's why I love her! I'm praying now, not only for her dear mother but all the middle school teachers!!!
On a serious note I love this dear family SO MUCH!! They have just always been there for me! My first year to teach in Whitehouse I was truly blessed to have Delaney in my class. I'll NEVER forget, about the end of the 1st six weeks, Melody had requested a parent - teacher conference...I was a little nervous at first cause I thought hmm Delaney is an all A student and never gets in serious trouble... I sure hope there's nothing I've done. Melody walked in with me a big sweet tea (my favorite) and we just sat and chatted. I thought it was awesome that she really had no major concerns but just wanted to get to know her child's teacher and to let me know that she supported me! WOW if only we had more parents like that!!! Ever since Melody & I have been the best of buds! I was blessed again with a Mullen girl, Marley, 2 years ago. Poor Marley didn't have me at a real great time . . . I was pregnant with Cade and put on bedrest halfway through the year! I don't know how I would have made it through both of those years because they were tough... new school district and then going through a rough pregnancy... if it hadn't been for Melody! Melody, I hope you know how much I appreciate you!
I can't close on a serious note!!! Thinking back on all this made me remember something that Delaney asked me once... they had came to visit me at home when I was on bedrest and Delaney looked at me very seriously and said, "Mrs. Turner, can you still fit on the toilet?" ONLY Delaney would ask such a thing! Marley on the other hand was very upset with Delaney for asking me that because she was afraid Delaney had hurt my feelings! ROFL!!!

Here is a video of my big boy swimming today with floaties on!

Too Smart!

2010-07-19T21:18:00.000-05:00

Today was a pretty calm Monday! I finally got some things done around the house that needed to be done (dusting, vacuuming, mopping, laundry). I was going to try to start transitioning Cade from 2 naps to 1 because I know when he starts back to daycare he will only get 1. BUT I think I'm going to take the advice of everyone else and just let him make that transition when he starts back! He was almost unbearable to be around without his morning nap!!! Brandi and Hudson came over to play and eat lunch. Hudson is such a sweetie. He seems so calm, especially compared to Cade. Well Cade didn't play much because he was so grumpy so after eating a little lunch I put him down for a nap! Then I was able to visit with Brandi & Hudson. LOL! It was nice getting to see them and hang out a while.
This afternoon after Daniel got home, Cade had went into the kitchen and I could hear him messing with the cabinets. As I peeked over the bar this is what I saw...

So much for the "safety" latches we had installed! What will be next?

Last night we went to Toy's R Us because we saw something in the Weekly Ad that Cade just had to have...

His own 4-wheeler! He gets a little confused on how to get on correctly but figures it out pretty quick! It is taking some time for him to get "ok" with it. I think we will be prying him off before long!

Coop is ONE!!!

2010-07-17T20:49:00.000-05:00

It seems just like yesterday I was in Lindsay's hospital room getting her cold rags for her forehead . . . and her it is a year later! We had a blast at Coop's camo party today! He is such a cutie and oh so precious. Most of the time he has a very serious look on his face, like he is really thinking it all over and then he will look up at you and give you a big grin that is too die for! It was extremely hot today but the kiddos didn't mind because they were in the kid pools or enjoying the slip and slide. John & Lindsay did a great job putting together Cooper's 1st birthday party! Cooper Lee Hill, we look forward to watching you grown into a young man! Always remember that Aunt Wendie, Uncle Daniel & Cade, BFF love you very much!

Aahhh... The Last Swim Lesson

2010-07-16T19:09:00.042-05:00

It has been a very long 2 weeks going to swim lessons EVERYDAY!!! But I have to admit that Cade has enjoyed being in the water everyday! He is very comfortable in the water and has really done a great job! I'm sure that the lifeguards won't miss us much though! You see, Cade is going through that "phase" of the dreaded high pitch squeal when he wants something or is tired of something! The past week about 30 minutes into our time he was D-O-N-E...which would lead to the squeal. At that point he just wanted to go to the steps and climb out, run around and climb back in... none of which was allowed. And to add to the shrill the pool is an indoor pool. That's right, that means it echoed and was even louder! None the less Cade had fun! Oh and today right before we were leaving to go to swim, Cade did a nose dive off his changing table. I'm still not sure how it all happened because I was standing right there at it. It scared us both really bad but he was ok. I guess he had been watching the older kids dive off the diving board and wanted to give it a try!

A LOT TO CATCH UP ON!!!!

2010-07-15T09:05:00.000-05:00

Hmmm… where to even start. Cade is now 15 months old and the last time I blogged he was 3 months! I have a lot to catch you up on! LOL I tried to tell all of you how horrible I was at this whole blogging thing, but I’ll give it another shot! Facebook is another of my excuses for not blogging. I put everything on there so why write about it again on here?

July 14, 2009 – Cade rolled over for the 1st time from tummy to back! (3 ½ months)

July 15, 2009 – Daniel left for 4 nights, work and deep sea fishing!

July 17, 2009 – We welcomed Cooper Lee Hill into this world! Whether he or Cade knows it or not they are best friends!!!

Born: July 17 at 3:21 am
Weighed: 7lbs 4oz.
Length: 21 in.

July 18, 2009 – Cade met two of his cousins from Hawaii, Addison and Camryn. He also got to meet a lady that is very special to me, Dr. Love!

July 20, 2009 – Cooper & Cade – Best Buds – only 3 ½ months apart

July 25, 2009 – The Ray’s dropped by for a visit! Cade and Cason will be friends forever just like their momma’s. They are 5 weeks apart! We went out to Brandi's to meet Hudson!

July 28, 2009 – Cade got to meet his new baby cousin Ellie! Tried my hardest to use what little hair he has to make a mohawk.

July 31, 2009 – We gave Cade a taste of a lemon for the 1st time at El Chico! Hee hee

August 4, 2009 – Cade had to go to daycare for the 1st time. He is going to First Baptist Whitehouse. This had to be one of the hardest days ever!!!! But I survived and so did he!

August 7, 2009 – Cade had is 4 month check up. He had to get shots!
His stats:
Weight: 17 lbs. 12 oz. – 93%tile
Length: 26 ½ in. – 93%tile
Head: 17 ½ in. – 94%tile
Today we discussed our concern about the size of Cade’s testicles with his doctor. Ok, stop . . . I know this seems like too much info but this was horrible to go through and just in case anyone reads this, that is a new mom to a baby boy, she will know what to look for! With that being said let’s back up… thankfully Cade is way too young to know that his mother is discussing his “package” to anyone in the world that wants to read this . . . so ever since he was born I thought his testicles looked big but hey I’m a new mom, I’m not sure what they’re supposed to look like. Daniel too thought they looked big for a baby but deep down was kinda proud . . . you know guys! At an earlier check –up she had mentioned that lots of baby boys have fluid in their testes that will dissolve and didn’t act like his was anything out of the ordinary, so we didn’t really think much about it. That was until the rest of our friends had baby boys! I’m cracking up know thinking back to the day Kristen was in town and we took the boys out to Brandi’s to see Hudson. I had mentioned to them my concern, man to have heard that conversation! LOL !!! So we decided to change all 3 of their diapers and just look and compare (you thought it would be dads doing this, huh). Just as we thought Cade’s area looked rather large. I told Daniel and we decided to just wait and mention it at his 4 month check-up since it was coming up. Now that brings us to today. We mentioned it to Dr. McRae and she examined him. She told us that she wanted us to take him to see an urologist to have it all checked out but she thought he had a hydrocele and hernia. Just the mention of having to see a urologist panicked me!!! Tyler doesn’t have a pediatric urologist, which seems absurd to me, so she referred us to an urologist that does see children. (Really at the time it didn’t hit me what a big difference there was, but it soon would!)
On a positive note, Cade got to eat rice cereal for the 1st time today!

August 13, 2009 – Today was the doctor’s appointment with the urologist. We met with Dr. Belarmino and he examined Cade. He told us that he had a hydrocele and would probably need to undergo surgery to correct it. But Cade had to be 6 months old for the surgery because he was going to have to be put under. Can we say panic attack?!? My baby having surgery… being cut on… being put to sleep??? Deep breath! He wanted to see Cade again in October to reexamine him to make sure the hydrocele didn’t take care of itself. We, along with everyone else, were praying for a healing! BTW if you don’t know what a hydrocele is don’t feel bad I had no idea what it was until he explained it and then I googled it more! Instead of me trying to explain because I’d probably just ramble just google it!

August 16, 2009 – Cade has really become interested in Daisy. He has been trying his hardest to pet her! She is not too fond of him!

August 17, 2009 – Officially my 1st day back to work! So sad!!! I never thought I would rather be home than teaching! On an exciting note Cade rolled over from his back to tummy!

August 20, 2009 – Meet the Teacher – Daniel and Cade

August 21, 2009 – Cade went on his 1st ride in the RZR with daddy!

August 29, 2009 – His 1st time to sit in a high chair at a restaurant. (4 ½ months) We were at Daniel Boone’s for sister’s birthday! We’ve been working hard on sitting up on our own!

My new onesie from The Princess and The Punk!

September 5, 2009 – Cade and I headed to Dallas to see Kristen and Cason for the weekend. We got to do some shopping because at this age the boys have no choice and are too young to complain! Pretty sure we wore them out! Cade fell asleep sitting in the shopping cart. We got the boys matching outfits! LOL! I found the perfect Halloween costume for Cade …a guitar! Kristen and I had a blast staying up watching old drill team videos from high school! Clorox & Trudy!!!

September 8, 2009 – Had to go pick-up Cade from daycare. He had his 1st stomach bug! Poor sweet baby!

September 11, 2009 – Cade’s 1st sleep-over! Lindsay and Coop came and stayed the night. It was fun watching our babies! Tomorrow my mom and sister are going to watch the boys so we can go get much needed pedicures!

September 13, 2009 – Cade isn’t even crawling yet but I can’t leave the room for a minute or he gets stuck under the couch! So precious! I can start to feel one of Cade’s bottom teeth coming through! (5 months)

September 18, 2009 – Cade has really started to babble a lot! It’s like he is having a real conversation!

September 19, 2009 – Cade has really started to just crack up laughing! Tonight he was chuckling so hard at Chevy!

September 21, 2009 – I believe in Hyland Teething Tablets!!!!

October 7, 2009 – Today was Cade’s 6 month check up and shots! It’s obvious he is a biggin’ but his measurements prove it!
His stats:
Weight: 21 lbs. 3 oz. - 95%tile
Length: 27 ¼ in. – 79%tile
Head: 17 ¾ in. – 86%tile

We also went back to the urologist today. Didn’t get the response we had prayed for but know that he will be in God’s hands! Cade will have to have surgery next week to have a bilateral hydrocele repair and a hernia. I was not too happy when I left the urology office because I really didn’t feel like the doctor explained much or helped to prepare me.

October 14, 2009 – I got to pick Coop & Cade up from daycare! OMG! I don’t know how moms with twins do it! LOL!!! That is a lot to get in the car!

October 15, 2009 – I think I was ready to be committed to a mental institute!! This had to be one of the hardest, craziest and scariest days ever! We had to take Cade in at 6:00am for his surgery. He looked so cute and sweet laying there in his hospital bed. Of course, Grammie, Pappy, Aunt Andie and Grandma came to support us! Cade loved his balloon Grammie brought him! It was so hard seeing them wheel my baby off in a metal crib. Thankfully they didn’t have to give him any meds because he was so tired he just fell asleep. (7:32am) About 9:18am the urologist called and told us that he had did great and was in recovery. They would be calling us in to see him soon. When we got back to the recovery room he was screaming like crazy as they said he probably would coming out of anestia. They had me give him so juice and change his clothes. They made sure he was going to keep the juice down and then told us he was doing so great we could go on home. By 10:25am we had been discharged and were in the car headed home. It was amazing to see God’s hand helping us through this morning…by the time we left there had been at least 4 doctors and nurses that had played some role in his surgery that I knew!

The next part of the day is even hard to remember because it was so crazy! We got home and things seemed to be ok but we started to notice Cade having trouble breathing. He was making a horrible, scary sound that was really starting to panic us! I just remember laying in the floor next to him scared to death. We called the urologist because we didn’t want to just over react if this was considered normal after a surgery. His nurse had us call he pediatrician, which was out on vacation, I talked to her nurse and told her the concerns. She said she could get us in with another doctor later in the afternoon but if we thought he needed to be seen before then to take him to ER. I can’t remember exactly how it all happened but they ended up having us bring him on in to see Dr. Christian at around 2:30. She was very concerned, which scared us even more! We were at the doctors office till about 6:10. They had given him 3 breathing treatments, a steroid shot and taken chest e-rays. It looked like the breathing tube from surgery irritated his airway and along with that possibly the anesthesia had triggered maybe some asthma. Needless to say, we had to go to Mother Frances ER. Once we got to ER, Jennifer Robb got us checked in immediately and grabbed the on call doctor to come over and give Cade a look. She was a blessing! Basically said the same thing the pediatrician had said and just wanted him to stay overnight to make sure his oxygen level stayed up. He told us that he would not have them put an IV in because he didn’t feel like there was a need at the time. After several hours some paramedics came down and said they were told to put in an IV… I was not happy and questioned that! But ok if it really needed to be done that was fine. What a nightmare!!! They had Daniel and I holding him down while 2 guys tried putting it in and not being successful after several tries. Cade was livid!! They decided to just forget the IV, thank the Lord! Finally, around 10:30pm we were moved to a room. Cade seemed to be feeling better but Daddy on the other hand was not feeling too well. Daniel went on home to try to get some sleep so he would feel better. It was a very long night because a nurse was in every so often checking his oxygen level and doing breathing treatments. What a day!

October 16, 2009 – Cade had a great night! His oxygen was back to perfect! Praise God!! There was still some swelling in the upper airway but steroid meds were being given for that. We had many sweet visitors come to check on us! Daniel was really feeling poorly so I had him stay at the house! Around 1:43pm, Dr. Melton was the on-call doctor, she said he looked and sounded great! She was sending us home soon with some steroid meds to use over the weekend! What a rough time for Daniel to be sick! Packing-up a little one and trying to get everything loaded up and get home, whew! We were abundantly blessed with the most amazing friends and family! Not to mention a wonderful Lord! Cade and I got home around 3:10pm but Daniel was at the doctors getting swabbed for the flu! When it rains it pours!

October 19, 2009 – Everyone seemed to have recovered and things were back to the norm!

October 23, 2009 – Check-up with the urologist…good report!

October 24, 2009 – Daniel and I took Cade to Pappy’s Pumpkin Patch! So fun!

October 30, 2009 – Cade almost has crawling down! He does the army crawl! (6 ½ months)

October 31, 2009 – Cade’s 1st Halloween! We had a blast sitting in the drive-way with family and friends, handing out candy to trick-or-treaters! Cade looked so cute in his costume!

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November 1, 2009 – 1st ear infection

November 7, 2009 – Cade got to go to Jumpin’ Jacks for Katherine’s birthday party! So fun!

November 13, 2009 – Cade had 2 doctor’s appointments today! The urologist said everything looked fine, he would see us in 6 months. But pediatrician said he still had an inner ear infection! YUCK!

November 14, 2009 – Took Cade to Cumby for Papa & MaMa Minette’s Fall Festival!

November 16, 2009 – Sold all of Cade’s stuff! (bassinet, swing, carseat)

November 18, 2009 – On this day, 3years ago I married my prince charming, the man of my dreams, my best friend!! I have the most wonderful husband in the universe! I thank God daily for creating the perfect man for me!!! I love you baby!!!

November 22, 2009 – Cade’s baby dedication! This was a very special and important time to Daniel and I. We were so glad to share it with so many friends and family! (51 people) We love you all and each of you are special to us!

November 26, 2009 – Lindsay and I headed to Toy’s R Us at midnight for shopping!

November 28, 2009 – Cade still has an ear infection!

December 1, 2009 – Cade is obsessed with the doggie door!

December 5, 2009 – We took Cade to the mall to see Santa. It was so cute! Daddy bought him some baby Uggs!

December 7, 2009 – My sweet baby boy moved up a class at daycare!

December 12, 2009 – Addison for the weekend! We went to Texas De Brazil to eat for Christmas with all our friends!

December 19, 2009 – Christmas trip #1 – Sulphur Springs

December 20, 2009 – Coop’s baby dedication

December 23, 2009 – The Hill’s came over for Christmas!

December 24, 2009 – Went to candlelight services and then hung out with the family! Cade put cookies and milk out for Santa but tried to eat the cookies himself!

December 25, 2009 – What a wonderful 1st Christmas! Cade’s face just light up when he saw the presents Santa had left for him. He really got the hang of opening presents! He even stopped and clapped for himself! We opened presents at home and then went over to the Turner’s. This evening we went to my parent’s house to open presents and hang out! We even got some snow flurries!

December 27, 2009 – Daddy trapped Cade in the living room while I went shopping! LOL!! His way of watching him!

December 31, 2009 – Daniel and I rang in the New Year with our wonderful friends.

January 2, 2010 – While Cade and I were out shopping today, we ran into a little problem…what to do with Cade when momma’s got to potty! This was a very funny experience! We were at Target so I just left him in the buggy and rolled him in the handicap stall with me. Everything was fine until the toilet flushed! LOL!!!

January 5, 2010 – Congrats Sam & Amanda!! Carter Brandt is here! When Cade chuckles I can see his top teeth coming in!

January 7, 2010 – Cade woke up in the middle of the night and had a 2 hour party in his crib! Mom was not invited, just listened to him play away on the monitor!

January 10, 2010 – Cade went to the church nursery for the 1st time! (9 months)

January 12, 2010 – Time for Cade’s 9 month check up! The great thing… NO shots!
His stats:
Weight: 25lbs. 6oz.- 96%tile
Length: 28 ¾ in. – 66%tile

January 13, 2010 – Started thinking of places to have Cade’s 1st birthday party! Today was extremely frustrating!! We decided to take Cade in to see the urologist because his “area” just seemed to be swollen still. I was about ready to scream when I left his office. He said that it looked like Cade would need to have surgery again!!! What??? He wasn’t even very clear on what was wrong and scared me to death talking about the risk of infertility! Daniel was out of town at a meeting, so of course I called him very upset. I was not thrilled with this doctor by any means! After talking with Daniel and Judy, we decided maybe it was time to see a pediatric specialist in Dallas! Thankfully a good friend recommended one that she thought very highly of!

January 14, 2010 – Today I felt very relieved and thankful that we were able to get Cade in with the specialist next week!

January 17, 2010 – Sick baby boy again and another ear infection! This time it was a double ear infection!

January 20, 2010 – The tornado sirens went off so we had to hang out in the bathroom for a while. It didn’t bother Cade, he just wanted to play with the toilet paper!

January 21, 2010 – We went to Dallas to take Cade to the urologist. We REALLY liked this dr.! Yes he stills needs surgery but we feel more comfortable and have more information. They called it a secretory hydrocele. He will have surgery in Dallas at Children’s Hospital and will be admitted over night just to be on the safe side because of the previous experience. It will probably be in March. They will go in and repair the hydrocele and put drains in on each side, temporarily to drain out all the fluid. They were not concerned about the risk of infertility, which was a relief! We thank God we were able to get in with this doctor!

January 22, 2010 – My frustration level was at it’s max!!! Cade started running fever AGAIN, called dr. and they are switching his antibiotics and prescribing a cough suppressant. Also going to refer us to an ENT because they said he has been way too sick lately!

February 3, 2010 – We got a Roomba yesterday and Cade is terrified of it! LOL!

February 4, 2010 – Took Cade to see Dr. Garb today and tubes it is. When the audiologist did the hearing test there was no movement from his ear drums. He had some temporary hearing loss.

February 7, 2010 – Cade learned how to take his shirt off! Too funny, for now!

February 8, 2010 – Tubes are today! Everything went perfect and it was very fast! I only had to take off work half the day! (darn)

February 9, 2010 – I went to Austin for the TCEA conference. It was the very first time for me to be away from Cade over night… it was going to be 4 nights! Well I ended up having a blast with the girls! We even got to come home a day early because of the SNOW! How amazing is that?

February 12, 2010 – We went down to my mom’s for some snow ice cream. We brought some snow in for Cade to play with but he wasn’t impressed! Since we were out we stopped at our favorite place to eat Ribmaster's! Cade loves to gnaw on the rib bones! LOL

February 16, 2010 - It's never to soon to get an early birthday present! Cade LOVES his big boy chair that Grandma & Grandpa gave him!

February 21, 2010 – Took Cade to the Whitehouse Park for the 1st time. He loved the swings!

February 27, 2010 – Daniel is fishing so Cade and I are going to the zoo for the 1st time!

March 5, 2010 – Today is the big day for surgery #3! We got all checked in to Children’s Hospital at Legacy. It is so nice! Everyone there is friendly and you can tell they have a passion for kids. We got Cade in his hospital gown and the nurse came in to get all his stats. Dr. Ewalt and the anesthesiologist came by and check on Cade and us. Then they gave Cade some versed to drink! Ok, I have to admit at first it was funny cause he got all giggly but soon after that he was just out of it and lifeless! That was kinda of scary! We felt very confident that this surgery was going to take care of everything. Heck, I think we had nearly the whole state of Texas and some of Hawaii praying for Cade, us, and all the doctors! He went back around 9 or 9:30 and at 11:30 they called to let us know that everything had went very well and so far he was having no reaction from being put under. The anesthesiologist had stayed with him through it all and then did a coddle block to help with the pain management. They told us if he continued to do this well we could possible go on home. Finally, they allowed just me to go back to see him and help start waking him up. I loved the fact that they didn’t try to rush anything they just wanted him to ease out of it. I tried to get him to drink some juice but he really wasn’t interested, he just wanted to sleep! The nurse showed me his incision and the drains and buttons … I thought I might get sick! Wow! Cade was one tough little guy! Seriously, there was an incision across his testicles and then the drains, which looked like an inch piece of a straw on both sides, hanging out and then these little buttons that were sewed on his skin under the drains to hold them in place! It was indescribable! Finally, they moved us into a recovery room but he was still having a hard time waking up. They said that was fine and not to rush him. Of course they were monitoring his breathing and oxygen level and it was doing perfect! Once he finally woke up and drank some juice, they showed me how to take care of his incisions and let us go on home! Praise God everything had went successfully!

March 7, 2010 – Cade slept all night without waking up for pain meds. He cracked me up because you would have never known he had just had surgery… he was crawling around and chewing on his toes! Sweet Amanda Brandt brought us dinner!

March 8, 2010 – I’ve found a new addiction - - etsy! I found a lady, Makmaydesigns, to make Cade the perfect birthday shirt! It’s going to be precious, just like him! Today another sweet baby was born and a GIRL!!! Logan Wilson… Congrats Sara & Clint!! She is beautiful!

March 9, 2010 – Cade and I headed to Dallas to visit The Ray’s and for Cade’s dr. appointment. Cason and Cade played and then we took them shopping of course! We stopped in the Rain Forest Café but Cade wasn’t having that! Cason loved the talking tree!

March 10, 2010 – We went to visit Dr. Ewalt. They removed the drains and buttons… YEAH! But oh my it looked so painful and Cade was not a happy camper! They said he had a small infection where the drains were but that we would just do antibiotics for that. Everything else looked great!

March 16, 2010 – It’s official and has been for a while but I was sad to admit that Cade’s first word is . . . Daisy, our dog’s name!! That’s right not just a simple momma or daddy!

March 19, 2010 – Cade has started crying when I leave him at daycare. I really hate it!!! I know it’s only for maybe 1 minute but I still don’t like it!

March 23, 2010 – Cade got to go on his first boat ride! He seemed to enjoy it as long as the boat was moving! He hated wearing the life jacket!

March 24, 2010 – Cade has had a viral rash for 4 days now and I am sure hoping it is gone before his photo session on Saturday!

March 27, 2010 – So excited for Cade’s 1st birthday photo session! I ordered his birthday cake and his “smash cake” for the photos today from Amazing Grace Cakes. She did an amazing job! His “smash cake” is adorable!!! Oh, and his birthday shirt I had made had got here in time for today’s pictures! It rocks! We went downtown and took some pics by the different graffiti walls and then went to Shiloh Road Park for him to do his “smash cake”. Now that was a huge mess! Red icing everywhere and it evens leaves a red tinge on your skin! We had to try to clean him up in the park bathroom sink! It was pretty funny! Then Brooke came to the house and finished up the photo session by taking pics of him taking a bath! Thank you so much Brooke! You are out of this world! Tonight Cade is spending the night at Grammie’s for the 1st time!

March 30, 2010 – Cade got bitten at daycare today!

April 3, 2010 – Cade should really be taking a nap but instead he is sitting in the floor of my scrapbook room just watching me. Then he will try to imitate what I was doing!

April 4, 2010 – Easter – Up and at em’ early for Sunrise Service! Cade and Daddy were twinkies and looked so cute! After service we went to breakfast with the Turner’s and then headed to Sulphur Springs to see our family there. Cade had a blast hunting Easter eggs and putting them in his basket! I think it’s just precious when Cade gives momma and daddy kisses but what is even cuter is that he now pushes momma and daddy’s heads together to kiss! Awww sweet boy!

April 6, 2010 – Can’t believe my sweet lil baby boy is 1 today! A year ago today Daniel and I were blessed beyond imaginable!! Happy birthday Cade! We love you! And guess what… he woke up with a fever! He was feeling better by the evening so we had family dinner at Daniel Boones to celebrate!

April 10, 2010 – Cade’s birthday party at Brookshire’s Wildlife Park & Museum! We all partied like Rock Stars! Tons of family and friends were there! It was perfect!

April 11, 2010 – Wylan Blake Rich is here!!!! Congrats to Blake & Jessica! He weighed 8lbs. 8oz and was 20 in. long!

April 14, 2010 – We had a very busy day! First we had Cade’s 12 month checkup which included more shots!!! Oh and let’s not forget the blood work! That was absolutely horrible! I had to sit in the chair and hold him down! We were at the dr. office for 2 hours!
His Stats:
Weight: 28 lbs. 1 oz – 96%tile
Length: 30 ¾ in. - 78%tile
Head: 19 in. – 92%tile
After that we were off to Dallas for a check up with the urologist! I was so glad Christy went with us! Dr. Ewalt said everything looked absolutely perfect! That was AWESOME news to hear!

April 17, 2010 – Cade got his 1st haircut at Sport’s Clips! It was $15. Of course we saved his hair! He did great and sat up there like a big boy!

April 19, 2010 – I’m not sure what “phase” Cade was going through (not wanting to go to bed, waking up constantly) but momma and daddy can’t take much more so I sure hope it passes VERY quickly! There were many a night I was driving around Whitehouse at 2:30 or 3:00 trying to get him to calm down and go back to sleep!

April 23, 2010 – Coop & Cade had a blast playing in the bathtub together! They are best buds! We all had a slumber party!

April 25, 2010 – Cade had crawled off and gotten very quiet. . . he had went into his room, got his Little People and animals basket out and was playing!

April 27, 2010 – Cade took 2 or 3 steps! Granted he only did it once but hey it’s a start!

April 29, 2010 – Cade and I went to the park and had a Chick-fil-a picnic! We watched Sister in her sword class! All Cade wanted to do was eat the mulch on the playground!

May 7, 2010 – Cade made me the cutest Mother’s Day card at daycare! Cade is totally off the bottle now and gets 3 cups of milk a day! Such a big boy!

May 9, 2010 – ugghh… I’m tired from being up with a teething lil’ boy! His molars are trying to come in and his gums are all swollen!
May 12, 2010 – I think it is safe to say that Cade is finally walking! He was so precious walking back and forth to me and Daniel! Then all of a sudden he just took off and went across the living room! Let the fun began!

May 16, 2010 – We went to Dallas to celebrate Cason’s 1st birthday! Whoo hoo! It was a perfect party! Way to go momma Kristen! Cade is trucking right on along with his walking. He can squat down and stand back up or bend over and pick something up! So cute!

May 29, 2010 – Cade and I got to spend some time with Jessica and baby Wylan! He is absolutely adorable!

May 30, 2010 – Memorial Day cookout at Honey & Poppy’s! Cade & Cooper went swimming with Parker!

June 1, 2010 – Wow it was a very long, emotionally stressful day! There was a bunch of drama at the daycare today that finally pushed me to my limit, we pulled Cade out!

June 4, 2010 – Taking Cade for his 1st camping trip to Lake Cypress. We are going with the Emerine crew! It was a lot of fun getting to be around them for the first time in a long while! Cade had a blast playing in the pool (cause I wouldn’t let him in the lake water), riding in the boat and going for a ride on the jet ski! The only part that was miserable was that Cade wouldn’t sleep, go figure! So it was a long night!

June 11, 2010 – 1st Summer PlayGroup PlayDate! - We all met and let the kids play at the new family life center at Rose Heights. They have an awesome playroom!

June 13, 2010 – Cade’s great great grandmother came to visit him!

June 14, 2010 – Cade is now enrolled to start daycare at GABC in the Fall!

June 15, 2010 – Cade and I went out to Brandi’s to swim with Hayden & Hudson! We had a blast!

June 16, 2010 – Ok so maybe going to the zoo today wasn’t the greatest idea! Amanda and Carter met us at the zoo! Cade was actually somewhat interested in some of the animals but it was extremely hot! Carter was just all about the snow cone!

June 18, 2010 – Playdate with our Playgroup… Brookshire’s Wildlife and then Ken’s Pizza. We had fun but it was so freakin hot! Tonight Cade did the cutest thing… he went and got Goodnight Moon, crawled up in his chair and sat there acting like he was reading aloud! Just precious!

June 20, 2010 – Happy Father’s Day to the best daddy ever, Daniel! Cade and I made him a photobook just of pictures of them from birth to now. We had the Father’s Day cookout at our house and I loved it! Crowded but who cares!

Click here to view this photo book larger

June 21, 2010 – We spent the week at The Addison apartment. I was so excited about getting to spend time with Kristen and Cason. We had a very adventurous week! Check out our photobook to see!

Click here to view this photo book larger

Daniel was in Dallas with us a couple of days and worked from the Dallas office! Cade and him had a blast at the Addison Circle Spray Park!

June 27, 2010 – Julien left to go back to Belgium! I don’t think I mentioned him earlier, can’t believe that! Julien is a foreign exchanged student that had been since around August, I think! He has been living with Beth & Vance (my bro & sis in law). He is an amazing young man that has become part of the family! He will be greatly missed but we know he will come back to visit!

June 28, 2010 – Happy birthday Grammie! We love you! Cade made her a precious tile for her birthday!

July 1, 2010 – Cade’s 1st trip to the movies! Janet and Morgan met Cade and I at the movies to watch The Pirates That Don’t Do Anything! Let’s just say we will have to try this again when he is older! LOL!!! He sat there for about the first 25 minutes but was done after that!

July 2, 2010 – Playdate at Rose Heights – We had fun with our friends as always! Daddy and Cade went and got haircuts! This one was not as easy as the first one! Tonight we went to dinner at our favorite place, RibMaster’s, with a big group of friends. The Bullard fireworks show was rained out so we hung out at the Seller’s for a while!

July 3, 2010 – I love when UPS comes! Cade’s new picnic table and sand/water table were here! He loves them both! Kristen, Scott & Cason came to town for Hudson’s 1st birthday party! It was great to see them and everyone else! Happy birthday Hudson!

July 4, 2010 – Grandma and Grandpa came over and had lunch with us! We all watched Cade play outside. I thought it was precious that we wanted to wear my pink Croc rain boots! Pleasant Hill had an awesome fireworks show tonight! Cade loved the fireworks! He would clap and say YEAH! Priceless! It was a great time with family and friends! Who knew our adventure would continue when we got home. So we pull into our neighborhood and see this big Doberman pincher running around...pull into the garage and as Daniel opens his door he is greeted by the dog!! Needless to say I was freaking out! We backed out of the garage but he wouldn't come out so we shut him in! Two police...men came and got him...he ended up not being aggressive but hey we couldn't chance that!

July 5, 2010 – Cade and I started mommy & me swim lessons today! I was not impressed! I felt like we were ignored because we had the babies! Don’t know if I can go back tomorrow!

July 7, 2010 – Cade had his 15 month check up today! I just can’t believe how fast he is growing!!! He got his last set of shots until he is 2 yrs old! YEAH!!!
His Stats:
Weight: 28lbs. 12 oz. – 92%tile
Height: 31 ½ in. – 63%tile

July 13, 2010 – So we have tough out swim lessons for the 2 weeks. Daddy really wanted us to finish it out. Cade has enjoyed being in the water every day, not sure that he has learned anything. I have to admit they got better with time or I lowered my expectations! The instructor was very nice but a little different. I just didn’t like that there really wasn’t a structured learning time or lesson to know what to work with Cade on! Oh, well he had fun!

Changes...

2009-07-08T11:49:00.002-05:00

Hello all! I thought I'd try to do a quick update while Cade takes a nap! My sweet precious boy is just growing so fast. I can't believe he is already 3 months old! Some days he just looks huge! (He weighs about 16lbs.) I love watching him smile with his big chubby cheeks and oh that double chin. I could just go on and on! He started sleeping through the night consistently so this past Sunday night it was time to give the crib a try. He did awesome! I did pretty good myself only checking on him like twice. Last night was night 3...he went to bed at 9:30 and slept to 6:50! So awesome!!!! I woke up kinda freakin that he hadn't woke up yet. He didn't even wake up through the night for his paci! Can you tell I'm excited? Another big change is no more breast feeding. I have weaned him off and it was kinda sad! :( It seemed pretty weird walking around the house with cabbage leaves stuffed in my bra but hey whatever works! Hopefully I'll dry up soon! We never realize the small things we take for granted like not having to sleep in a bra!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. It was SO hot we didn't do much. We went to the pool with Sis, mom and dad for a little while. Then that night we hung out with the Hill's, watched a movie and ordered pizza. Today I have started cleaning out Cade's dresser. He already has way too many clothes and lots that he has already out grown! I'm looking forward to seeing Mandy my sweet friend that will be in from Georgia tomorrow. We are going to hang out at Brandi's with her new little one. Well its about time to fix Cade a bottle....

Leaving the State

2009-06-29T18:08:00.006-05:00

On Thursday evening, Cade took his first trip out of Texas! We went to Shreveport for Jim's Vietnam Reunion (father-in-law).We had a blast hanging out with the Turner's, the Price's and Chapman's. It was great to meet Jim & Judy's friends that I had heard so much about. Of course Cade was the center of attention, imagine that! On Friday he refused to take a nap no matter how tired he was because he was loving the attention. We also went over to the Boardwalk and did a little shopping. The guys of course enjoyed Bass Pro while Grandma and I checked out the baby stores.

Cade and Grandpa

Spit-Up down Daniel's back

a bath in the hotel sink

he discovered himself in the mirror

the hat grandma bought him

Grandma loves to give him a bottle

Never too many friends...

2009-06-25T16:56:00.002-05:00

Today another cutie pie was born!!

Hudson John Harry

7lbs. 9oz. 19 1/2 in.

I even got to hold him today. Wow was he light compared to my lil chunk. Congrats Brandi, Chris and Hayden. We love you!

Father's Day

2009-06-21T16:42:00.002-05:00

Happy Father's Day to the best new daddy ever! Cade and I are so lucky to have such an amazing man in our lives!! Today we just hung out at home and then had dinner with all the family at Daniel Boone's. Here is the picture of the frame we made at The Pottery Cafe for Daniel.

We made this for Cade's room.

Dallas Trip

2009-06-15T19:16:00.006-05:00

This weekend was great! On Friday evening we went over and hung out with the Ray's. We even went to dinner with our 2 boys! I am so excited about Cason and Cade only being 5 weeks apart! Kristen and I "snuck" off to Target and left the daddies to feed the boys bottles!

Cason had this outfit and I thought it was too cute so I HAD to go get it!

On Saturday we hung out with the Gilbert's all day. It was very nice and relaxing! Victoria is so precious and so so little. Nicole and I made a run for Sam Moon when they took their nap. We enjoyed seeing our friends and their precious new babies! Cade is going to have some awesome friends. We came back home on Sunday and decided we would put a pool up in our back yard. It is 15ft and 46in so its perfect for Cade and me. There is just one slight problem our yard isn't so level and so it is already starting to collapse! LOL So we are going to have to drain it and level the ground. Oh fun! Here are some pictures of Daniel and Cade while the pool was filling up.

Chatting with Daddy

2009-06-10T14:32:00.003-05:00

Of course get out the video camera and he stops the cute stuff! I tried to get video of Cade laughing and talking to Daniel but as soon as I got out the camera he went silent. Here is a little clip of some chatting!

Precious Pics

2009-06-07T20:26:00.006-05:00

Brooke brought me some pictures that she took of Cade the last time she was over. And of course she took more today.

Hanging with Lil' Morgan

2009-06-05T20:13:00.002-05:00

Friday night Janet and Morgan came to hang out while the guys were 4-wheelin'. Morgan was so cute, she would pat Cade on the head. Then before long she decided she wanted his pacifier!

Pottery Cafe

2009-06-02T20:03:00.003-05:00

Today we went to Pottery Cafe to make some pottery! They painted Cade's feet to make something special for Daddy for Father's Day! We also put his feet prints on a cross that will have his birth information on it. Once we have the pottery back I'll post the pics!

A Day at the Lake

2009-06-01T22:55:00.003-05:00

Today we hung out with the Turner Family at the lake. It was Haly's 17th birthday! I was a mean momma and wouldn't let Cade get in the lake water, too nasty!

Swimming

2009-05-28T22:46:00.003-05:00

We took Cade over to Grandma Turner's to go for a swim! He enjoyed everything but the sun in his eyes!

Another Friend

2009-05-26T23:10:00.001-05:00

Today another friend for Cade was born! Matt and Nicole had their baby. Victoria Kendall Gilbert was born weighing 7.9lbs. She is a cutie and I can't wait to hold her. Who knows this could possibly be a future girlfriend of Cades! LOL

The Awaited Day...

2009-05-22T20:44:00.004-05:00

Well the day I've been waiting for but probably not Cade so much...shot day! Today we meet his pediatrician for the first time, she has been on maternity leave, Dr. McRae and we really liked her! She called Cade a "bruiser". He weighed in at 12lbs. 3.5oz. Needless to say breast milk is doing him good! Anyways he got 3 shots, ouch! He screamed but not for too long! Grammie has graciously agreed to watch him for a couple of hours tonight so we can go out for my birthday dinner with friends! Below are just some random pictures.

Ready for a Stroll

Grammie bounced me so hard my diaper exploded!

Playtime

He now smiles when you talk to him!

A House Divided

2009-05-21T22:40:00.001-05:00

Surviving the Milk Monster

2009-05-18T20:55:00.001-05:00

You see I had just about given up on the whole breastfeeding thing because I was sitting in the same chair in my living room about 8 hours out of the day! Cade was nursing for 30min on each side!! Yes a piglet! So a hours worth of him eating then it would be time to feed again a hour and half later. I felt like the milk monster! So today I had my 6 weeks check and everything was great, YEAH! No more doctor visits! ( I had been to the doctor at least once if not twice every week since December!) But I talked to Dr. Harris about the while breastfeeding issue I was having and she started laughing. "Oh my, no wonder you are ready to quit" she stated! She told me that he was over eating and should eat for no longer than 15min on each side every 3 hours! I was so relieved! I might can handle that if I can get through getting him adjusted!

A Friend is Born

2009-05-11T20:32:00.000-05:00

My best friend Kristen was induced today! Cason Scott Ray was born at 5:08pm. He weighed 8lbs 1 oz and was 20 1/2in long. He is adorable! I can't wait for him and Cade to be buddies!

1st Mother's Day

2009-05-10T19:50:00.003-05:00

My very 1st Mother's Day as a mom was awesome! For Mother's Day I had Cade's thumbprint imprinted in a silver charm. I came across a lady name Vanessa Martin that has Thumb Print Treasures. (I saw her card at Sparkles.) She came over to the house and made a charm with Cade's thumbprint. I had one made for each grandmother as well. This was a really cool process and I look forward to doing more! You can even have charm parties and make whatever kind of charm you want. It is really neat. Check out her blog at www.thumbprinttreasures.blogspot.com. Today we went over to mom's and hung out. We had homemade ice cream and cookies...really good for getting this baby weight off!

In his bed at Grammie's.

What's Happening

2009-05-05T12:48:00.009-05:00

Well things have finally calmed down a bit and I have a little time to update everyone! Cade is now 4 weeks old! The past few weeks have been rough but things are settling down. Where to begin... the Friday after we went home I went and had my staples removed and everything looked good. I just had the steri-strips to support my incision. I was really amazed at how well I was feeling and was able to get around without any problems. That weekend was Easter weekend and of course the family wanted to see Cade. So that morning we went over to my sister in laws, Beth, for breakfast. We had homemade waffles, yummy! While we were there Brooke, my neice, took some pictures of Cade.

Isn't he precious! Later that day we had lunch at my mom's and my family from Sulphur Springs came in. We had 5 generations together! Here is some pictures from that.

Then to sum up the next couple of weeks...Daniel and I both got the crud and did what we could to keep Cade from getting it! If that wasn't rough enough my incision came open in the middle and for the next week and a half it had to be packed and cleaned twice a day. Well my stomach couldn't handle that so my close friend Lindsay who is a nurse came over twice a day to do it. Now that is a great friend! At my next doctor's visit it had healed well enough for her to stitch it up and then just this week she removed the stitches and we are down to just steri-strips! I'm ready for this incision to be totally healed!

Brooke is such an awesome photographer! Here are some more pictures that she came over and took.

With all that being said...we are doing great! Daniel and I are enjoying our new bundle of joy. He has so much personality already. We love just to sit and watch his expression. It really makes you wonder what he could possibly be thinking!

A Real Bath

2009-04-29T20:13:00.001-05:00

He can now get in the bathtub and he loves it!

2 week Check Up

2009-04-24T20:20:00.001-05:00

Time for a check up! Grandma Turner went along to help us out today. Dr. Munda said Cade was "perfect". We knew that already! He weighed 9lbs 12oz. He is a growing healthy baby! After the appointment we meet Daniel and Brooke at Potpourri House for lunch, we just kept Cade covered with a blanket! Here are some pics of him and daddy!

1st Bath at Home

2009-04-12T20:03:00.000-05:00

Cade's 1st bath at home...he didn't care for it too much!

Going Home

2009-04-08T09:43:00.002-05:00

This is another entry by Daniel, maybe Wendie will be back at this for y'all again soon! It is Wednesday morning and we are getting ready to head to the house with Baby Cade! We should be taking him on his next adventure and housing change sometimes after lunch. The poor guy will be in his 3rd residential domicile is as many days. This next one he will be at for quite a while so I hope he likes it, but how could he not with all the work and love that his mother has put into it? Wendie is up and moving around even better now. I can tell she is still having some pains and aches, but is becoming more and more mobile. Cade is starting to liven up a little too. This morning he just laid on my chest and played with my face. He was probably trying to make me look better in case he gets my genes! We did let the nurses take care of him last night so that Wendie could get a better nights sleep. They told me how sweet and cuddly he was when I got up this morning and a couple of them came by to say bye to him already. They have some really wonderful nurses up here! All in all we are ready and excited to be going home, but we will still need everyone's prayers and help as we embark on this next chapter in our lives. I want to thank you all again for the prayers and encouragement that Wendie and I have received not only over the past few days as parents, but the past 9 months as expecting parents, the past couple of years as newly weds, and our entire lives as children of Christ!

HE IS HERE!!!

2009-04-07T17:27:00.008-05:00

Cade With His Pappy McCoy

Cade Sucking His Thumb

Cade Sleeping

Cade with Grandma Turner

Here is Cade and I when he was about 20 minutes old

Wendie giving Cade his very first ever (but far from last) kiss!

Here Cade is meeting his Pappy McCoy Grammy McCoy and Aunt Morgan

Here is meeting his Grandpa Turner

Here Cade is maybe a minute old

Well folks this is Daniel instead of your usual informative Wendie. She is a tad busy these days so I figured I would go ahead and give an update. Yesterday morning Cade Langham Turner was born at 8:42 a.m. and arrived at 8lbs 11oz and 21 inches long. He is absolutely perfect! I never imagined how awesome Gods powers are even after all the amazing things He has done in my life! We are still at the hospital now and will be going home some time tomorrow afternoon. Wendie is moving around very well today and has a little pain and she is managing it very well. So far we have had in the range of 40 or so visitors and we have enjoyed and appreciated every one of y'all. We have also enjoyed the flowers, baloons, cards and emails we have recieved! (Yes Liz, they printed your email and brought it to us). The nurses have been spectacular and have exceeded all expectations! I would reccomend ETMC to anyone. Everything else is going smoothly too and now its getting close to time to take Cade home to the beautiful room that Wendie has prepared for him. We are both extremely excited and I am a tad bit anxious and nervous. Yet the excitement and the absolute joy that I have each time I look into his chubby little face wipes away any fears that may be lurking anywhere within my psyche. I am going to cut this off and go watch Cade sleep a bit, but please enjoy these pictures and thank all of you for all the love and encouragement!!!

Still Waiting...

2009-04-02T21:12:00.002-05:00

Today's doctor's appointment was very disappointing! No changes at all! I had to have another "aggressive" cervix exam, very painful! She looked at the position of his head and said he was still pretty high. She is worried that he has possibly gotten so big that he can't "drop". But will not even discuss anything until 39 weeks, which is Monday. So I have an appointment at 9:15 Monday morning. She said then we would discuss inducing or c-section if there were still no changes. Needless to say I'm just miserable and ready to have baby Cade in my arms! Please keep us in your prayers!

When Will He Make His Appearance?

2009-03-26T13:36:00.001-05:00

...hopefully soon! Today's doctor's appointment didn't go as well as I was hoping! I was only dilated to a tight 1. She did an "aggressive" cervical examine which that alone made me want to have a c-section. Talk about pain! Cade was great...weighing in at 7lbs. 14oz! He is a big ol' boy that is all there is to it! Below are the pitiful sonogram pictures we got. The sonographer said that he was too cramped up to get good pictures. My poor baby! Everyone please keep us in your prayers that he comes soon!

What would have happened???

2009-03-25T21:36:00.002-05:00

Okay I had to post this picture of Dr. Love (our former principal) with us. We all 3 admire her very much and miss working with her. Right now though we give her a hard time about what if we all 3 did still work for her and were all expecting. Would she be so ecstatic? Of course she would we know but she would be very stressed out! LOL
I can't wait for Cade to meet the woman who inspired me to be the teacher I am today! I love her very much and appreciate her friendship!

I'm Free...

2009-03-16T08:47:00.002-05:00

Today was my weekly doctor's appointment. I'm now 36 weeks, yeah! She checked me and nothing has changed, no dilation or anything just 50% effaced. So she said not to restrict activity anymore, get to moving around. She said she was ready for this baby to come! I'm glad she finally decided that cause I've felt that way for a while now! I'm not supposed to take my contraction pills anymore or anything, I can even go for walks! She is hoping the activity will start the process so I don't have to be induced. This news made me almost as happy as if I were headed to the hospital. Of course I immediately called Daniel to share the good news but in the back of my mind I knew what he was going to say. And sure enough he did...will you at least wait till next week to start this activity cause I really want to go on my fishing trip! Obviously he isn't the pregnant one or having sympathy pains for that matter! I told him I would most definitely NOT! You see he leaves Thursday evening for his annual fishing trip with his dad, uncle and this year my dad. They go to a fishing tournament at Caddo Lake and he has so been looking forward to this. They even had shirts and aprons monogrammed - Team Turner! LOL! I don't think he has anything to worry about cause I don't think Cade is quite ready to come yet but hopefully next week! Next week we do get a sonogram to check on Cade's size so I'll up date you then if not before!

Showered with Love

2009-03-15T08:31:00.003-05:00

Once again Cade and I were showered with love and gifts too! I want to thank the 7 hostesses that out together a wonderful shower! They are too sweet. I know it takes some work and organization to pull that many ladies together to accomplish one task! LOL

The Wonderful Hostesses

Again the shower was amazing and I think all we are missing is Baby Cade! We got all our big stuff we needed...car seat/stroller, extra base for car seat (daddy's truck), swing, high chair and tons of other goodies! It was great to see friends and family, some of which it has been a while since I've seen (Sissy, the girls, and MaMa)! Hopefully the next gift we get will be Cade!

Adorable Monogrammed Burp Cloths from my Cousin Angie :)

Our House is Already Divided - Which way will Cade go?

Cade's Room

2009-03-14T21:59:00.005-05:00

Ok so several people have told me I needed to post more recent pictures of Cade's room. This is just for you Jessica! Love ya!

Of course there still needs to be some other personal touches added...

view from his door

close up of his custom bedding

It's All Good

2009-03-10T20:53:00.000-05:00

Just letting everyone know that all my test results came back normal! Yeah, another answered prayer.

On another note our video camera we ordered with the money from our money tree came in today! It is fabulous!

Sony SR10

35 Weeks

2009-03-09T20:35:00.000-05:00

Today I'm 35 weeks, yeah! 5 more weeks if he doesn't come early! Today's dr. appointment was annoying! I was there from 10:45 to 12:30. She decided that she wanted to hook me up and monitor Cade's movement and heart rate. She said that all his stats were wonderful! She checked my cervix and everything was still the same which I would assume was good but then she made a comment that I need to ask more about..."I guess I'm going to have to induce you yet after all this." Not sure why she has said this twice now! Anyways she told me that I was very swollen and that my urine was still dehydrated. (Last week I had a bladder infection.) My blood pressure was good but the other concerned her so she wanted to do some lab work to check my kidneys, liver, etc. So then it was over to the lab to have blood drawn. Oh boy!! They said I would know results tomorrow.

My Wonderful Weekend

2009-03-08T19:31:00.000-05:00

I had an absolutely wonderful weekend!!! I was so excited that Kristen came down and stayed the night with me Friday night! (Daniel was gone 4-wheeling with the guys for a "diaper party".) To start the weekend off right Janet, Lindsay and I went and got pedicures and had Jason's Deli for lunch. Anyways, Kristen came in and we went to Cheddar's for dinner. Of course our conversation was consumed with pregnancy talk! It was a blast. Then we came home and laughed and talked some more occasionally stopping to watch each other's bellies move about. It is so awesome that we are pregnant together! I'm sure some of you are thinking ....Aren't you on bed rest?? YES I am, but sometimes you just got to get out and about! I'm sure you understand!

Saturday was my baby shower! I have such awesome friends. My shower was at Brandi's house and there were 9 hostesses. I told you I had awesome friends!The Hostesses

All Four of Us Pregnant with BOYS!

Everything was perfect...the cake, the fruit, the punch everything! It was great to see friends that I hadn't seen in a while. Cade and I got so many wonderful gifts. It is amazing how much he is already loved by everyone. I appreciate all the gifts, thoughts, and prayers from everyone!

My Mom and Me

1st Baby Shower

2009-02-26T20:31:00.003-06:00

Today I had my 1st baby shower at school. It was awesome! They had set-up a money tree for us to use to buy a video camera. I was stunned at the outcome!! $627 on the tree. That is absolutely amazing. I work with such thoughtful generous people. Along with the money I got a few gifts off my registry as well. There was a great turn out and it was so good to see everyone. I really miss my co-workers! I can't express my gratitude enough to my Stanton-Smith family!! They have been wonderful to us. Each Thursday a grade level brings us dinner, gift certificate or a goodie basket not to mention all the emails and phone calls I have gotten just to check on me and baby Cade. We appreciate them and all the other family and friends that have really "taken care" of us over the last few weeks!

He's Gonna Be a Biggin'

2009-02-19T16:13:00.004-06:00

Today was sonogram day! YEAH! Well everything looked great. Baby Cade now weighs a whopping 5lbs. 6oz!!! (at 32 weeks) According to an average fetal length and weigh chart he should weigh around 3.75 pounds. (http://www.babycenter.com/average-fetal-length-weight-chart) So let's just say he is taking after his momma these days! The doctor said he was in the 87th percentile! His sweet daddy brought me a Murano Glass bead for my Pandora that was green swirled with blue. He said it made him think of Cade's room. Isn't he so thoughtful!?! Here are some pictures from the sonogram. They didn't come out as great as some of the others, he wasn't cooperating very well!

His Sweet Little Face

Rubbing his eye

Showing off his male anatomy

A Sweet Valentine's Day

2009-02-17T08:26:00.005-06:00

DAY #21...
So not enough happens daily for me to put in daily reports, in fact it would be pretty boring to hear about each day from me! First off I've been amazed by everyone's thoughtfulness! So many phone calls, emails, dinners delivered, baskets of goodies and visits!!! It all has meant a lot to me and is helping me to survive! LOL

Saturday of course was Valentine's Day... again I get to brag about my wonderful husband!!! Before I even got out of bed he brought me 3 gifts to open. From him a little boy Pandora bead for my bracelet, from Cade a new Pandora bead "Eternity of Love", and from Daisy (our precious Chihuahua) a Pandora keychain.

Our Sweet Baby Girl - Daisy

After I finished opening those there was a knock on the door - my dad had brought us breakfast and chocolate covered strawberries. The strawberries are our Valentine's tradition. Daniel knew I was getting stir crazy and decided to get me out of the house for a bit. We went to Storkland and met the Hills for lunch at McAlister's. Then back home to do some resting! That night he took me to dinner at IHOP. That might not sound to romantic or great to you but that is my favorite so it was perfect to me! Needless to say I had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

I made candy iPods for my class. Plenty of time!

With all this time on my hands I've picked up a new addiction! HGTV - watching it and visiting it on the web! There is a site called Rate-My-Space. On this site people can upload pictures of rooms in their house for everyone to see. People rate the rooms and leave comments. And how perfect there is a spot for nurseries! So I am constantly looking at the nurseries posted. I have not posted Cade's nursery quite yet because I am waiting on the roman shade and rug. But as soon as I have those it will be posted and I'll be watching my comments and ratings! Here is the link to the site http://www.roomzaar.com/rate-my-space/multigallery.esi.

I guess that is all for now. Thursday we get a sonogram to see just how BIG Cade is. I'll be sure to post the findings!

Day #6 - Doctor's Visit

2009-02-02T15:46:00.002-06:00

Today I got to drive! Wow never realized what a privilege that was! LOL I had a doctor's appointment today. Everything went well...I'm 50% effaced but have not dilated. And best of all no contractions going on 6 days now! Cade's heart rate was 150 bpm and he is moving constantly! The only real concern she had was that I might be getting a bladder infection so she sent my urine sample off for a culture test and I'll know something on Wednesday. Oh and we did get Cade enrolled to start daycare :( in August at FBC Whitehouse. Toodles...

Day #4 and I've already lost it!

2009-01-31T17:59:00.003-06:00

It didn't take long for me to go insane being at home laying down 24-7! Yesterday morning I got up and went to fix me a bowl of cereal but instead of pouring milk over it I poured tea! What the heck??? I mean yes I LOVE Red Diamond tea but not that much! That is about all the excitement that has happened in the past 2 days. Pretty boring huh?

Bed Rest Day #1

2009-01-28T16:00:00.002-06:00

Well I should have plenty of time to keep my blog updated now! At my doctor's appointment yesterday she put me on bed rest. I had not dilated but my cervix was starting to thin. Basically I freaked because I wasn't expecting that and all I could think about was my poor babies at school! Since I haven't had kids of my own those kiddos are like mine! I know that will change quick with one of my own on the way. I begged her to let me at least go to work today because the kids were going on the first field trip of the year and I just wanted to be able to get things lined out for the sub, but NO! So I'm a little panicked about my classroom. But did get some good news from the nurse today, I might be released from bed rest when I reach 34 weeks. That is 5 weeks away. So it is only day 1 and I'm pretty bored! Oh well best just get over it!

He is ready to come out...

2009-01-20T20:56:00.010-06:00

Well things have still been a little crazy! Right now I'm having to go to the doctor on a weekly basis to be checked because I'm still having contractions. Every two weeks she is doing a pre-term labor test. It has to be done every 2 weeks because it is only good for that long. She did start me on some medication to control the contractions on the days that I am having a lot of them. The saddest part is that I don't get to go to the Technology conference in February with the school, she put me on travel restriction! On a more exciting note Cade's room has really came together! It looks awesome!! I will attach some pictures below. The lady I order the custom bedding from did an amazing job. She is making me a lampshade and toy bag. I still have to get a window treatment, a rug and a glider. Oh and of course some other decor for the walls and stuff!

Since we are discussing exciting things... he has really been moving around A LOT!!! I feel him all the time. Daniel was able to feel him the other night which made me exciting. A couple of kids in my class have even been able to feel him and just thought it was the neatest thing! That's about it until next time!!!

A Rough 2 Days

2008-12-30T19:07:00.004-06:00

So I guess it is time to vent!!!! Saturday evening as I'm just laying on the couch I start having some small contractions, no biggie. I just figured they were Braxton Hicks from what I've read. My back pain was horrific though, I could barely walk. Anyways these little contractions continued but grew in number! So finally on Monday I called into my nurse just to see what she thought ... they next thing I know she is telling me to go to L and D. Ok remember here this is my first pregnancy and I know nothing! So I have to tell her sorry ma'am but what is L and D. Labor and Delivery she chuckled. I was shocked because I was thinking I would just go in to the doctor's office and she would check me out. At the hospital???? I questioned! Yes sweetie she told me just go in and go to the admittance office to be admitted then you will go to the 4th floor. Next question so do I go to ER to do that?? She was so patient with me thank goodness and explained where to go. My next phone call was to Daniel who had just made it out to the lake to do some long awaited fishing! I'll be right there baby was his response! :) Well I get all checked in and go up to the nurse's desk on the 4th floor and the cute little nurse says so are you in labor? LOL Well if I am I'm not supposed to be was my response. She showed me to my room and got me situated. But she couldn't help from going on and on about how she couldn't believe I was only 25 weeks!! I just looked like I had to be further along and by my belly measurements. No cutie I'm just 25 weeks! Anyways she got me all hooked up to monitors where we could hear Cade's heartbeat and him moving all around. The monitors would also mark any of the contractions. After about an hour of this she came back and said the doctor was fine with my stats but wanted her to check my cervix. She warned me that as long as I hadn't dilated I could go home. Thank goodness I had not dilated! She told me I was having uterine irritability contractions. Basically she just said that as long as they didn't increase in pain or number that everything would be ok. She said to drink lots of water. So back home I went still having major back pain and contractions! :) Then to top it all off I think I had caught a stomach bug from my dad and was very sick last night!

Today started a new day right .... contractions are way better but still major back pain. But just suck it up right! Well we've been doing some remodeling at the house. We expanded our bedroom closet so that Daniel could put his clothes in there and out of Cade's room to be. We started this process when I got out for Christmas break and at last today I was going to move our clothes back into the closet, so I thought! Daniel had decided to give fishing a try again (poor thing) and repeatedly told me just to take it easy. But that is VERY hard for me to do when there is stuff to be done! So I'm just working away and nearly have all my clothes back into the closet when all of a sudden the freakin' brackets holding the clothes rod pull out of the wall and tumbles down on me. Oh and of course there was a shelf on top of the brackets that hadn't been fastened down that also whacked me right and the head and broke into. That was it!!! I had a major melt down and just screamed and cried. Why couldn't anything just be simple??? So poor Daniel who is out trying to fish gets a phone call from his hysterical wife screaming and crying about the stupid closet! Several hours have passed now and I'm a bit more calm just have a headache! Daniel finished fishing and is now gone to Sam's to buy some sort of closet system that doesn't have to attach to the wall. My poor husband is probably ready to pull his hair out but would never say a word. I am truly blessed! Well I hear the garage door so he is back let me go check out this closet system... I'll be sure to tell ya how it turns out! On a serious note just pray for me and Cade, our health and this whole pregnancy!

Finally A Little Update...

2008-12-21T20:50:00.007-06:00

Well things are going wonderful!!!! We have decided on a name Cade Langham Turner. Langham is after Daniel's granddad. Really not a lot of change other than my belly! I am so sick of people saying " When are you due?" and when I tell them April their eyes get huge and the response is always "Are you having twins?" NO there is only ONE sweet precious BIG boy!!! Our last doctor's appointment was Dec. 11th and the doctor informed us that he was already 1lb. 7oz.!! Oh my! Most babies at 22 weeks are about 12oz. So the doctor said we may end up discussing C-Section, but I sure hope not! At that visit his heart rate was 148 bpm. We also got a couple of 3-D songram pictures and it was amazing how much he had filled out since the 3-D pictures in November. I'll have to post those pictures later.

It is so cool to think that next year at this time we will have a little one!!! Our excitement is growing everyday! Cade has already gotten a ton of clothes! We had our Christmas with my grandparents and my in-laws this weekend. I love hanging out at the Turner's with the whole family, so unstressful! The Turner's are going to Hawaii for Christmas this year so we will be spending Christmas day with my family. We are looking forward to that as well! My lil sis is just so much fun to be with! Oh and at the Turner's Christmas, Brooke (my niece) and the family gave us our wedding album. Finally after 2 years!! I have to pick at Brooke about it since she was the photographer and all! Also most of you probably know I love my Pandora bracelot but it was full of beads (things that represented our 1st yr. of marriage), so I really needed to start a new one. With that said you know how thoughtful my husband is (seriously)... he started me a new Pandora bracelot that has Cade's name on it. YEAH! Sorry I'm kind of just rambling on....

Back to babies... can I just please tell you how excited I am that so many of my friends are pregnant too! My best friend since high school Kristen McGee Ray is due in May and it's a BOY!! It is so much fun to have someone to call and talk, laugh, and complain to about all this weird stuff going on to our bodies! I just wished Scott and her lived in Tyler!!! Then I have my 2 REALLY close friends that live here in Tyler, Lindsay and Brandi. Brandi and I taught together at Bell and became very close. She has a 3yr old little boy Hayden who is a cutie! She is due in June. Lindsay and John are our close friends that we do everything with! Cade will call her Aunt KeKe like her nephew does! We can't wait to find out what they are having. My bet is on a girl! Do I see an arranged wedding in the future??? We also have our friends Matt & Nicole who are expecting a girl in May! Man that is a lot of baby showers!!!

I'm SO glad to be out of school for Christmas break!! Now we can start working on the baby room! Our furniture is in but the room isn't quite ready yet so that is our plan for the break. (This is our furniture www.creationsbaby.com/pdfs/6055.pdf.) Picking out baby bedding has been by far the hardest thing!!!! I really like the stuff at www.polkatotdesigns.com but it is a little pricey!! Ok, ok to all those who have been bugging me about an update there you go... I think that's all I've got!! Maybe next time I won't wait so long to update!

"It" is a ...

2008-11-06T07:44:00.006-06:00

I didn't think 5:30 would ever get here! Today we had a sonogram done at Stork Vision to get the verdict! And the verdict is

"It" is a BOY!

We are very excited and the entire process was really cool! I would recommend it to all new moms! It was money well spent! He was really moving around and showing himself in all his glory! Well gotta run we are off to San Marcos to do some shopping now!

Let's Catch Up!

2008-10-14T20:47:00.008-05:00

Whew, I'm horrible at this blogging! So let me see if I can catch everyone up!
September 8 -
WHOA! The boobs I've always wanted , I guess. I had to go by a new bra...went from a B to a D. I'm sure everyone wanted to know my bra size but you don't even understand the shock I was in!

September 15 - 10 weeks
Today the ultrasound was AMAZING! The baby was moving all around. You could see the arms moving all around "it" actually looked like a baby. In the ultrasound picture you can see the head and arms. I was just very shocked at all the movement. Dr. Harris said "it" was a wiggle worm.

September 19
Tonight we had Dawn & Weaver's couple shower. I was feeling great and enjoying hanging out with everyone. When we got home things changed . . . I had some bleeding (no not spotting) that scared us really bad! The ER on call doctor basically just put me on bed rest for the weekend and told me if things change to go into the ER. It is amazing that they tell you to rest and relax when all you can do is worry about the baby. So bummer! I had to lay in bed all weekend which was very hard for me.

September 22
I got in to the doctor this morning so we could check everything out. And the baby was fine! YEAH! It was still moving all around and the heartbeat was still going! Daniel had to be out of town for a meeting so my mom went with me to this appointment. She was so excited to get to see all of this. After the appointment I had to go back to work of course but mom went home and emailed everyone she knows about what she saw! I was so "grandmotherly". LOL Here is a picture from that ultrasound ... the baby had grown more already!

October 14 - 14 weeks
Ok so as of today not a lot happening . . . just a lot of weight gain! Today we had a doctor's appointment no ultrasound :( but we did get to hear the heartbeat! It was 151 bpm. I have started prenatal exercise class and I'm enjoying it! What I am most excited about is November 5th! On this day we have an appointment at Stork Vision to find out the gender! I am so stoked , I can't stand it!!!! So the countdown has began for starting to work on a nursery!

That is about all I can think of for now...

A Mommy Mobile

2008-09-13T10:56:00.004-05:00

So we have had the Jeep up for sale because we knew we would need a "family friendly" car. Thinking about getting rid of the yellow jeep was hard on me so I can't imagine how hard it was for Daniel! I REALLY wanted the 4-door Jeep Wrangler but Judy had done her research and the safety ratings were horrible! So we had to start looking in a safer direction! So then decided I really liked the Jeep Liberty. It now has a new body style that looks so much better and the safety ratings were great! It looks like a little version of the Commander. Anyways so I knew I wanted the Black Limited Edition with the chrome but we did not want to do business with Mike Pile! We contacted a salesman at the Jeep place in Henderson and he was going to look for what we wanted. Well today Daniel said he had to go out of town to check on a job site and he was going to take the Jeep so he could enjoy it a few more times. I talked to him after school and he said he was on the way home and it sounded like he was in the Jeep. When he got home he came in with his big smile and threw me the keys to my new Jeep. He said can I have a key to YOUR Jeep now? Isn't he amazing! I didn't have to do a thing, he just handled it all! He is perfect! So needless to say I was shocked and ran out to look at it. It was awesome! Just what I wanted! The black limited edition with chrome, leather seats, navigation and the list goes on! WOW! I couldn't wait to drive it so we went and met The Hill's for dinner. After dinner I wanted to go show my mom and Judy (my wonderful mother-in-law). My mom wasn't home but Judy was and she loved it! I was sure to remind her of what an awesome job her and Jim had done raising Daniel!

Heartbeat

2008-08-21T22:05:00.001-05:00

Today we get to see the heartbeat!!! We went back to do the ultrasound and the nurse said that Dr. Harris had been called out to a delivery so I wouldn't get to see her today. That was fine as long as we got to see the baby! And we did! The nurse called it a bean! LOL It was so amazing to see this little tiny fluttering spot where the baby's heartbeat was. Wow there's a baby in there!!!! The nurse was able to do some measurements and give an approximate due date of April 14. The baby's heartbeat was 130 beats a minute. This time we actually got a little print out picture! YEAH! After all the excitement I had to go back to work. :( Tonight was Meet the Teacher and I couldn't stand it I had to let me classroom parents and students in on the news! Plus if their kid comes home saying Mrs. Turner was mean today maybe they would be a little more understanding! LOL! Meet the Teacher went well. I am excited about my class. After that we went to China Buffet for Jacob's going off to college meal. Of course I had to show off the sonogram picture! :)

The True Meaning of Big Girl

2008-08-12T21:08:00.001-05:00

Only 3 days off the diet and water pills and I've already gained 10 lbs. Seriously no exaggerating!!!! I retain water so bad, it is miserable! I wish I was far enough along that the weight gain was from the actual pregnancy but nope it is just because Big Girl is off her fat pills! The only thing I can say pregnancy has caused so far is my boobs to be very sore and growing and I'm always looking forward to a nap!

Baby Shower Already, NO Not Really

2008-08-11T22:00:00.002-05:00

Ok so mom and sister were so excited they were dying to tell everyone! So mom called an "emergency group meeting" of her friends. LOL! They have these from time to time to share news whether it be good, bad, or ugly. She had ordered cupcakes with pink and blue baby rings on them and got bottles of sparkling grape juice. Morgan had wrote the most awesome poem ever to share too. So tonight we all met at mom's and she read the scripture Romans 12:15 and 1 Corinthians 12:26. Then Morgan read her peom. Everyone was smiling but had unsure looks on their faces. I acted like I had no idea what was going on. Mom asked them so what do you think this is all about? They all thought mom was pregnant!!! LOL! She told them heavens no that Wendie was! They all screamed and hugged me full of excitement! Then we had cupcakes and sparkling grape juice! They each went around and made a toast! All of this excitement made me ready for bed!
Sister's poem:

The Greatest Mystery in All of Time
Pinks and blues,
Little socks and tiny shoes,
Little blocks for building towers,
Cute clothes and a teddy bear,
All the items needed for its care.
The greatest mystery in all of time,
Bundled up in my little rhyme.
By Morgan

P.S. No one was allowed to eat the cupcakes with the blue rings!

Hmmm. . .How Far Along

2008-08-11T20:11:00.006-05:00

Well the last time I had visited with my doctor she had told me to relax and not worry about taking ovulation tests or any of that. . .so with that said I didn't keep up with anything! Easy enough I thought! Not really because this morning I called the doctor's office to let them know I had a positive pregnancy test (ok 4 positive pregnancy tests) and I had a hard time answering their questions about dates. Anyways by the time I got off the phone with the nurse I had an appointment at 9:30, which was only 1 hour away. Now to go tell my new principal because you see it was our first day back to work, that I needed to go to a doctor's appointment. Wow I was nervous about nothing, he was cool with it! So Daniel and I headed off to the dr. Once we were there and got to go back to the ultrasound room the nurse again asked me some questions dealing with dates and I answered the best I could! LOL Then came the cool part . . . she did an ultrasound! Daniel and I got to see the egg sack and she confirmed that I was for sure pregnant. By the measurement of the sack I was 4 weeks and 5 days along. Still too early to really see anything so they wanted me to come back the next week. Oh well we left smiling ear to ear just as if we had seen the baby! After that we decide not to wait any longer and to go ahead and tell everyone! It was just too hard to keep a secret!

We're Having a Baby!!!!

2008-08-09T00:00:00.001-05:00

I am still in shock that is for sure but 4 pregnancy tests later I think I am starting to believe that I am pregnant! I am so excited and so scared! LOL! I have been off the pill since November and was kinda starting to get frustrated. Right now it looks like we will be the 2nd couple in "our group" to have a baby! We told both of our parents last night. Daniel came up with a pretty cute way...we've been doing some work on our house and have been trying to decide on a tile to use. So we put the pregnancy tests between the tiles and took a picture. Since Jim and Judy were in Canada we had to email it to them and then call and tell them to check their email because we needed help knowing which tile to pick between. My parents and Sister came by so I did the same thing showing them the picture on the computer. Our parents are thrilled and Sister too! She is already writing a poem! Tonight we also told Jon and Lindsay . . . I got her the baby carriage Pandora bead and gave her a card that said "Are you ready to be an Aunt?" They too are excited for us. Now Lindsay just needs to get prego with me. Who knows it just might happen!

This is the picture we showed the family!