We're home!

We brought an angel home from the hospital! I'm serious! I will post more details and pictures soon when there is time to download some but I wanted to let all of our friends and family know how great we are all three doing! Thank you all for your prayers!!!! We are in love!

And we think we're busy now...

I know I have been slacking on the blog front so I am going to play catch up.  Pretty much we have been having some of the greatest baby showers ever, building a house, putting together swings and pack and plays, packing hospital bags, and making weekly doctor appointments.  We are doing great!  Wesley will be 24 hours old this time next week!! Wow!  And things will never be the same again!  Can't wait!  I have put together some pictures of the past 10 months of pregnancy to hopefully enjoy seeing again someday.  Enjoy!

Wesley went to Myrtle beach here.

And here is a great shower my co-workers gave for us! Wish we got a group picture:(

And here is Harper's baby bump

Here is the gender reveal cake. This was a fun party! Wasn't it Riley???

Here is another wonderful shower at First Landmark! Wesley is already very spoiled and loved!

Here she is at Disney World on the splash mountain ride! I think she loved it!

And last, a compilation of baby bump pics. This will have to do for all the friends asking to see my baby bump.

Wait, one more. That's right, we ran Warrior Dash when Wesley was just a teensy peanut!

Christmas 2012

We had a wonderful Christmas!   We were so busy with so much going on!  Every party, dinner, and gathering we kept saying how different next year will be..."Wesley might even be walking this time next year!!  or we'll be toting a baby everywhere next year!"  So much to look forward to!  What a Happy New Year we have coming soon!!

Merry Christmas from our family of 2!

Christmas eve with the Gillis family

Christmas breakfast at Aunt Jane's

Christmas eve with the Goins family.  Yes!  That is pink camo for Wesley!

 

 

Shirron/Hines/Herbie Christmas.  Zoe really racked up with the Nana Zoe gifts!  How cute is Miss Madison?!?!

 

Christmas Day at Poppa Wayne's

 

And here are my "Snowmageddon 2012" pictures. We got 6 inches of beautiful snow! Our house place is beautiful, I think! It is going to be so nice to live there eventually;)

Because of the ice in the first picture many trees were snapped and falling on power lines so we lost electricity Christmas afternoon, see picture 2.  We continued our festivities that night at the Shirron's where we got 6 inches of snow!  We spent the first night at home (burrrr) and the next night at Dad's, because he got lucky and had his power restored.  I know there are still many people without.  I feel for you!!!

 

Hopefully my next post will share some great New Year's eve pictures!  See you then!

 

By the way, Riley are Harper must have been good this year because Santa listened and brought them a puppy!  You might find her scattered in some of the pictures.  Her name is Ruby!  And she is cute!

Because of the ice shown in the first picture, we had no electricity shown in the second picture.  We had freezing rain before we got 6 inches of snow on Christmas night.  The snow was beautiful but we spent one night at home without electricity (burrrr) and then spent the next night with Dad.  We were lucky though!  There are many people still without.  I feel for you!!! 

Pregnancy, so far so good...kinda

Hello again!  This post is not a fun one but it is very unique to say the least!  Transient osteoporosis.  These two words have become bad words around here!  Just kidding!  Actually I was finally happy to hear them!  And it will hopefully be good therapy for me talk about my story.  Please note, I am no professor of medicine but I do work in the field of medicine so I will try to explain without too many inaccuracies.

For many weeks I have struggled with severe one sided hip pain.  It progressively got worse and worse.  I tried physical therapy for two weeks.  When that showed no sign of relief, my doctor suggested a referral to an orthopaedic physician.  Getting this appointment was difficult because many people along the way want to suggest....."she knows she's pregnant right?"  Ugh!!!  However, once I saw the Otho dr, he thought it could possibly be a stress fracture, arthritis, or transient osteoporosis.  Thinking the latter was nearly impossible because it is so rare.  He ordered an MRI to help with the diagnosis.  Now, skipping x-rays and going straight to a more elaborate imaging modality is not the proper course for insurance companies.  BUT when you're pregnant, you definitely don't want to expose the baby to unnecessary radiation.  So we got insurance approval and I had my scan.  At this point, I was using crutches to help me walk but I had no idea why I couldn't walk and I am completely exhausted and frustrated to say the least.   

 

This is a picture of an MRI I found on radpod.org.  I wasn't big on putting my own MRI on the Internet.  Anyway, this looks nearly identical to mine.  But the opposite hip is affected here and the female patient has a small joint effusion of which I thankfully do not have.  Many of you don't want to see this and maybe can't find what's wrong but you don't really need a medically trained eye to see one hip does not look like the other. I'm told this screen capture is part of a fluid sequence, so the bright white is fluid.  This is also known as bone marrow edema.   After a quick review, the radiologist came right out to see me.  He told me what it was and wanted to be sure I was using crutches or a walker and understood how serious it is.  Do what?!?!

 

So here is what I have learned.  Transient osteoporosis is a very rare and painful type of osteoporosis that is usually found in third trimester pregnancy and middle age men.  There is no known cause.  Pain gradually increases over a period of weeks or month and can be so intense that it is disabling.  But guess what?!?!  It resolves itself....with time.  How much time?  We don't know.  There is very little known about the condition. In fact, one of the maternal fetal medicine doctors I have consulted with since diagnosis tells me I am likely the only person in the state with this and that there is very little literature on the condition.  Ugh!  All we can really do for now is protect it from fracturing. 

And so, Wesley is off the hook!  She is not laying on any nerve that we know of.   And it's not that I am not strong enough to support this baby belly.  She is growing just fine.  This is a problem with me and not her.  So, I am busy Christmas shopping online or via wheelchair with Zoe and preparing for her arrival!  I know she is worth this pain I have endured!  Other than this hiccup, pregnancy has been good.  Not easy, but good!  We're just gonna keep on keepin' on!  This was your science lesson for the year.  I hope it wasn't too boring.  By the way, it could be worse.  It could be in both hips!    

 

Stay tuned for some very fun Christmas posts!  We are getting so excited!  We might even get some snow this week!!!  

      

It's a Baby Girl Shower

This past weekend our friend Lezleigh Robinette was so gracious to host a baby shower for me and invite some of my girlfriends.  She had lots of great help too!  A big thanks to her, Kelly, Mandy, Helen, and Hailey!!  I think all the girls had a good time and we received some wonderful goodies to help take care of Wesley Kay!  The food, punch and cake tasted just as good as it all looked!  Allow me to share some pictures of the goodness......

Me with Nim (Scott's grandmother) and Zoe...Wesley's name for Zoe is to be decided.

Sweet Baxley!  She already knows Wesley will have great fashion taste.  She brought her a pretty green smocked dress.

 

 

Here I am with Helen who is due with baby girl Shirron 10 weeks after Wesley!

 

 

 

 

 

 

These girls throw a great party!!!  Thank you so much!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree!

This my friends is our Christmas tree!  For our first two Christmases married anyway.  Yes it reminds me of a Charlie Brown tree but it has way more ornaments and character!  The first time Riley saw it this year she said, "Where did all the leaves go?"  Ha! 

And here I am as big as our tree;)

Next year we will have a big and beautiful tree but for now we love this one just as well! 

I sent Kelly this picture because she sent me this shirt as a "happy gift."  The shirt is perfect!  Of course she said, "You're beautiful, love the shirt!  But the tree on the other hand...."  Character people, it's all about the character!

Fun with Wesley

I saw this picture before I was pregnant and I thought it strange and kind of weird then.  Is it real?  I don't know.  But the more I look at it the more I think it is so cool.  I haven't seen Wesley do anything quite like this but it sure feels like my belly should look like this many times throughout the day.  She kicks and punches a little but mostly the movement I feel, I would describe as stretching.  We have gotten so tickled at her.  Especially in the evening and at night.  Scott will say, "Oh yeah, that's definitely a foot!"  If anything like this ever came up, we would never be quick enough to catch a picture.   

 

I love her kicks and even her hiccups!  Keep 'em coming!  They are very reassuring.