Monday, September 17, 2007

Whirlwind

I'm back! After a week without a computer you would not believe how many new posts I had waiting for me .... 128 to be exact. And who knew PB was such a hot topic? Thanks Marilyn for defending my honor. The 1/2 was great and I'll post about it later, but today I have more important things occupying my time. Such as


A BIRTHDAY GIRL!


Two years ago, I can't believe it! Brynnlee was born on a Saturday night. Let me rewind to the Sunday morning prior.


I was getting Kaden ready for church. We were sitting at the top of the stairs in our brand spankin new house. We were chatting about what all mommas and 23 month olds chat about... I can't remember. But I asked Kaden "When is your sister coming?"


"On Friday." was his very quick and confident reply.


"Oh really? That would be nice. Acutally that wouldn't be good at all." Then I proceeded to list off all the reason's: number one being I would miss her baby shower scheduled for Saturday, and two being that she would be 3 weeks early. I totally had my priorities straight.


Thursday I have an appt with Dr. T. He balks at my 5 lb weight gain in one week and tells me I need to come to the hospital to be monitored tomorrow since he's on call. Since I am naive, and assume this is the same monitoring that I did with Kaden 3 times a week for the last 4 weeks of his pregnancy I call my SIL Andrea to watch Kaden head to the hospital. I'll just be a few hours I tell her.


8 HOURS later and still strapped to the monitors in the triage room I call Andrea and tell her I dont' know what is going on. Meanwhile, Jeremy has called like 5 times asking me what I am doing and what he needs to do. I tell him all I know, which would be, nothing.


Finally, Dr. T comes in and tells me the news. I have severe pre-eclampsia, and they would normally send me home and put me on bedrest BUT blah blah blah .... they keep talking about my diagnosis and I don't pay attention until they say:


"you have such a high risk of seizures that we are just going to admit you and enduce you tomorrow."


"WHAT??"


So, I call Jeremy and ask him to take off work tomorrow, call Andrea to keep Kaden, and pack my bag and bring it to the hospital. Meanwhile, I call Paula and ask her to cancel tomorrow's shower.


Jeremy was supposed to do the Columbia River Swim the next day, which I told him he could still do but he waited in that hospital room all night and day with me, except for the few hours where he snuck across the street to Sausage Fest to grab some lunch. JEALOUS!


Finally, this adorable little girl graced our presence at 6:15 pm on Sept. 17th and even though she looked exactly like Kaden we would soon find out they aren't much alike in temperment. This fiesty little girl keeps us on our toes but brings so much laughter and excitement into our home that we wouldn't trade her for anything! We love your Brynners!!



17 comments:

JustRandi said...

HEY! Good to see you back! Thought maybe you'd dropped off the planet. And that would be really really sad!
Can't wait for you to weigh in on the PB controversy!

tharker said...

I can't believe Brynlee is 2 already!!! She is so adorable, and I love hearing about all of her crazy antics! Happy birthday Brynners!

Yeah, the PB thing was awesome. Loved, loved, loved Marilyn's comment!!!!!!!!

So glad you're back to blogland!

Jessica said...

Happy Birthday Brynnlee! Bring on the teriffic two's huh? She is such a cutie! You have a lot of fun years a head of you!

Sarah said...

She is such a cutie. Two years goes by really fast. It seems like the babies that are the hardest to get here are always the ones with the most fight in them. At least she keeps things interesting right?

goddessdivine said...

Good to see you up and running again. Happy birthday to the little one.

Melissa said...

Happy Birthday to your cute little gal! Hope it's a fantastic day for all of you!

lindsay>boo said...

Happy Birthday Brynlee! She is so adorable. I love little girls with spunk!

meohmyers said...

Happy Birthday Brynnlee! It came way too fast! That means Maddie's 2nd is just around the corner! Crazy!

Brooklet said...

Wow! What a crazy delivery story- sudden and completely unexpected (the whole sausage festival was really unexpected!). Happy B-day Brynn.

Lacey said...

Happy Birthday! Maybe someday I'll have a little girl..sniff.

Kristy said...

Glad to have you back in blog world. I missed your posts. Thanks for sharing your delivery story. Happy Birthday Brynners!

Kris said...

What a cute picture of Brynnlee! I enjoyed the birth story too! Hope she had a great day!

Marilyn said...

So glad you are back. We missed you, and I will defend your honor anytime. but I have to be honest. I so despise confrontation that I sat there like for 10 minutes trying to decide whether I should post that comment or not. Then after I finally hit publish, I considered deleting it for 10 more minutes. I'm a wimp.

Happy Birthday Brynlee!

Chele said...

I can't believe that it has been two years already. that is great. a late happy birthday to Brynlee. Hope things went well for everyone on her birthday.

Britt- Sparkled Vintage Charm said...

sooo cute! I love the name Brynlee!!

PRP said...

Hoppy Birday, Been-yee!

(That's from Sienna!)

michelle said...

Heather, your little girl is so adorable!! Look at that smile.