Saturday, October 31, 2009
Mr Smiley
He smiles! At one month old, our Grady rewarded us with his first smile! Such a reward after dealing with his fussy's all day everday :)
Monday, October 12, 2009
Grady pics
Lets just say I had a lot of fun taking pictures of Grady.... I took over 300 pictures!
Here are a few:
Here are a few:
Thursday, October 8, 2009
8th cast
Well, we are back from Chicago and are adjusting to our 8th and FINAL cast! Thats right, I said FINAL! Hadley's back curve is down to a 8 degrees! The dr. fitted her for a brace while she was asleep and are making it in the mean time. We will be going back in 12 wks for her apt to have her fitted and to take her home CAST FREE! :) What a miracle God has done in Hadley's life! He took her from a dangerous 74 degree "C" shaped spine and corrected her to a nearly straight 8 degrees! We are in awe of his work with Hadley and pray he uses her in this situation for His glory!
We had a bit of a scare last Tuesday!
As a bit of background information: Hadley would not be able to have been casted if she had any sort of cold, fever, or any sickness. It is dangerous to be put to sleep while being sick. (For whatever reason I did not know). So, for the couple wks before she was casted, we were very protective of her of getting sick and germs she came in contact with. Everything so good, until a wk before she got casted, Mianna came home with a cold(Prob. from school). We did our best to control it from not spreading to Hadley and I think we did pretty well. Grady got it(poor baby was only 2 wks old), I got it, Mianna had it, but Hadley never got it(we thought).
So, we went to Chicago thinking we were in the clear of sickness! Casting morning came and everything was going very smooth. Her lungs sounded great, she didn't show any signs of being sick....
Then it was time to go in the pre-op room and unfortunately Grady couldn't go in so I just went in with Hadley and Andy stayed out with Grady. They did their normal routine with her, but again the hardest part was the departing. This time, they did not carry her back, they strolled her out on her bed as she screamed, "mommy!" It was a definite heart breaker for me as I fought back my tears.
While she was back there, we went down for some breakfast and coffee, then came back up and waited in the waiting rm as normal. The dr came out and talked to us like he usually does. Said Hadley was down to a 8 degrees, but they had a lot of problems with her with the anesthesia and she had a lot of Gunk in her lungs! He said the anesthesiologist would be out in a min. to let us know more about it. At the sound of hearing the word, "problems," my heart skipped a beat, I felt like throwing up, and balling my eyes out at the same time! One minute, two minutes, THIRTY minutes passed and still no anesthesiologist came out.... We took turns pacing the halls passing the recovery room to see if we could hear her cry, but no cry was heard! We were left in fear, suspense, and worry! The time had now doubled what she usually would have been in there for! Finally somebody came to talk to us! We were told that one of Hadley's lungs collapsed once she was put under. The Dr. said that everything was fine putting her to sleep, but once asleep, she stopped breathing. The anesthesiologist had to give her breathing treatments and scrape her lungs in order to keep her breathing. She said she almost had to cancel the whole casting procedure, however, she got her breathing steadily so they were able to still do it. She said it could have been a number of reasons this could have happened. #1. It could have just been a bad reaction(though rare bc this was her 8th time being put under and her 1st time having this reaction), #2. fluid from crying could have gotten in her lungs causing one to collapse, or #3. she could have been at the start or end of a cold though having no symptoms. That's when we both knew it had to be the start of a cold since she was the only one who had not gotten it yet! Who would have thought that having a cold let a lone a cold with no symptoms could have caused our baby to stop breathing while being put to sleep! No wonder why they are so strict about it!
The good news was that she was ok! They got her breathing, got the gunk out of her lungs, and she was now in recovery! Praise God! The Dr said she didn't think she'd have any more problems since she was now awake, however, they took a chest xray of her and sent it to their pediatrician, who we had to see before we could leave there in order to make sure she was ok.
In the mean time, Hadley finally came out of recovery! What a relief to see her! She did great when she got out. No tears! Though she could barely talk since they had to jam the tube up and down her throat several times! But she tried. She said, "new cast." And she was very proud because she picked blue being hers and Mianna's favorite color! She was such a good sport! We got her Popsicles, padded and taped her up, and went down for some lunch while waiting to hear from the pediatrician. Once we finally talked to her, she explained pretty much the same things that the anesthesiologist explained, then we could leave.
It was a very scary day for all of us, however, we are thankful God protected her and kept her safe and also brought her curve down to a 8 degrees!
Hadley is one special little girl! God couldn't have chosen a more perfect little girl for this trial! She is so understanding of needing to have a cast and accepts the limitations she has to have. Though she LOVED her cast freedom for the wk and all the baths and swimming, once she got her new cast on, she was proud of her new look as well! She simply tells us, No bath, cast on! And when cast is off, I swim! She's such a good girl about it.
A couple cute notes:
-When Hadley first stood up in her new blue cast, as she almost fell over, she says, "woah, cast heavy!"
-Since Hadley was on some new and more pain medication bc of all the issues we had this time, she was very out of it! As we were taking the elevator down to the cafeteria, the door opened to let us out, Hadley ran right into the side of the elevator wall! I grabbed her saying, are you ok? Thinking she was going to cry being such a hard hit, but she just says, "i'm ok!" So unlike our drama queen waiting for us at home! ;)
Then after we got our food, I was carrying the tray to our table as she was following me. As I kept glancing behind me to make sure she was still following, another lady passes us going the opposite direction. Hadley got this confused look in her eyes and started following that lady! Poor thing thought that was me! I yell out to her, "Hadley!" and she stops in confusion and turns her direction once again to me! Poor girl!
Thank you for all your prayers and support! We appreciate it! God has answered our prayers!
We will be enjoying next summer swimming, taking baths, doing some sand, etc! She has to wear her brace 20 hours a day giving her 4 hours of freedom every day that she has not had since 10 months of age! :)
Here are a few pics:
Last bath for another 12 wks!
The new gowns!
Ready for the pre-op room
Back with a new pretty blue cast
Pics of her Updated cast look soon to be posted!
We had a bit of a scare last Tuesday!
As a bit of background information: Hadley would not be able to have been casted if she had any sort of cold, fever, or any sickness. It is dangerous to be put to sleep while being sick. (For whatever reason I did not know). So, for the couple wks before she was casted, we were very protective of her of getting sick and germs she came in contact with. Everything so good, until a wk before she got casted, Mianna came home with a cold(Prob. from school). We did our best to control it from not spreading to Hadley and I think we did pretty well. Grady got it(poor baby was only 2 wks old), I got it, Mianna had it, but Hadley never got it(we thought).
So, we went to Chicago thinking we were in the clear of sickness! Casting morning came and everything was going very smooth. Her lungs sounded great, she didn't show any signs of being sick....
Then it was time to go in the pre-op room and unfortunately Grady couldn't go in so I just went in with Hadley and Andy stayed out with Grady. They did their normal routine with her, but again the hardest part was the departing. This time, they did not carry her back, they strolled her out on her bed as she screamed, "mommy!" It was a definite heart breaker for me as I fought back my tears.
While she was back there, we went down for some breakfast and coffee, then came back up and waited in the waiting rm as normal. The dr came out and talked to us like he usually does. Said Hadley was down to a 8 degrees, but they had a lot of problems with her with the anesthesia and she had a lot of Gunk in her lungs! He said the anesthesiologist would be out in a min. to let us know more about it. At the sound of hearing the word, "problems," my heart skipped a beat, I felt like throwing up, and balling my eyes out at the same time! One minute, two minutes, THIRTY minutes passed and still no anesthesiologist came out.... We took turns pacing the halls passing the recovery room to see if we could hear her cry, but no cry was heard! We were left in fear, suspense, and worry! The time had now doubled what she usually would have been in there for! Finally somebody came to talk to us! We were told that one of Hadley's lungs collapsed once she was put under. The Dr. said that everything was fine putting her to sleep, but once asleep, she stopped breathing. The anesthesiologist had to give her breathing treatments and scrape her lungs in order to keep her breathing. She said she almost had to cancel the whole casting procedure, however, she got her breathing steadily so they were able to still do it. She said it could have been a number of reasons this could have happened. #1. It could have just been a bad reaction(though rare bc this was her 8th time being put under and her 1st time having this reaction), #2. fluid from crying could have gotten in her lungs causing one to collapse, or #3. she could have been at the start or end of a cold though having no symptoms. That's when we both knew it had to be the start of a cold since she was the only one who had not gotten it yet! Who would have thought that having a cold let a lone a cold with no symptoms could have caused our baby to stop breathing while being put to sleep! No wonder why they are so strict about it!
The good news was that she was ok! They got her breathing, got the gunk out of her lungs, and she was now in recovery! Praise God! The Dr said she didn't think she'd have any more problems since she was now awake, however, they took a chest xray of her and sent it to their pediatrician, who we had to see before we could leave there in order to make sure she was ok.
In the mean time, Hadley finally came out of recovery! What a relief to see her! She did great when she got out. No tears! Though she could barely talk since they had to jam the tube up and down her throat several times! But she tried. She said, "new cast." And she was very proud because she picked blue being hers and Mianna's favorite color! She was such a good sport! We got her Popsicles, padded and taped her up, and went down for some lunch while waiting to hear from the pediatrician. Once we finally talked to her, she explained pretty much the same things that the anesthesiologist explained, then we could leave.
It was a very scary day for all of us, however, we are thankful God protected her and kept her safe and also brought her curve down to a 8 degrees!
Hadley is one special little girl! God couldn't have chosen a more perfect little girl for this trial! She is so understanding of needing to have a cast and accepts the limitations she has to have. Though she LOVED her cast freedom for the wk and all the baths and swimming, once she got her new cast on, she was proud of her new look as well! She simply tells us, No bath, cast on! And when cast is off, I swim! She's such a good girl about it.
A couple cute notes:
-When Hadley first stood up in her new blue cast, as she almost fell over, she says, "woah, cast heavy!"
-Since Hadley was on some new and more pain medication bc of all the issues we had this time, she was very out of it! As we were taking the elevator down to the cafeteria, the door opened to let us out, Hadley ran right into the side of the elevator wall! I grabbed her saying, are you ok? Thinking she was going to cry being such a hard hit, but she just says, "i'm ok!" So unlike our drama queen waiting for us at home! ;)
Then after we got our food, I was carrying the tray to our table as she was following me. As I kept glancing behind me to make sure she was still following, another lady passes us going the opposite direction. Hadley got this confused look in her eyes and started following that lady! Poor thing thought that was me! I yell out to her, "Hadley!" and she stops in confusion and turns her direction once again to me! Poor girl!
Thank you for all your prayers and support! We appreciate it! God has answered our prayers!
We will be enjoying next summer swimming, taking baths, doing some sand, etc! She has to wear her brace 20 hours a day giving her 4 hours of freedom every day that she has not had since 10 months of age! :)
Here are a few pics:
Last bath for another 12 wks!
The new gowns!
Ready for the pre-op room
Back with a new pretty blue cast
Pics of her Updated cast look soon to be posted!
A wk of cast freedom
Hadley enjoyed her wk of being free from her cast! We did lots of baths, went swimming a few times, did some painting, ate the messiest foods we could find, and painted a piece at the pottery place in Cedarburg. It's been a great wk! I wasn't able to hold her in the beginning bc of my incision being so new, but I did get to towards the end and enjoyed it. We did lots of snuggling and rocking too! It's so much nicer snuggling with a soft tiny squishy body, then a hard cast that pokes into your shoulders! ;)
Here are some pictures of our wk:
Painting at the glaze place
even Grady joined in this fun
Swimming
Bath time
painting
Here are some pictures of our wk:
Painting at the glaze place
even Grady joined in this fun
Swimming
Bath time
painting
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The little man is here!
And out little man is born! September 18th, 2009 at 10:24 Am. He weighs 8 lbs exactly and is 20 in. long. Everything went very well and now were adjusting to our new family of 5! :)
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Mia rides the school bus
Just wanted to share some pics of Mia's first time riding the school bus. It wasnt planned to be a normal thing for her to do so, but with the baby, I think it might help out a lot not having to tote him out in the winter. She absolutely loved it and wants to do it again, so thats good! I thought I'd have her ride the bus to test it out today before she has to take it when were in the hospital on Monday. It's all she talks about now! :) Hadley on the other hand, was VERY upset about it. She screamed and tried getting out the door and said, I want Mianna! It was so sad. Some day... too soon!
Waiting patiently for the bus
IT'S HERE!
Sitting front row with her new friend
Off to school she goes!
Hadley trying to get out the door to go after her!
Waiting patiently for the bus
IT'S HERE!
Sitting front row with her new friend
Off to school she goes!
Hadley trying to get out the door to go after her!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Baby boy's nursery
Only 8 more days till he arrives!(Sept. 18th) Thankfully, Baby boy Rorabeck's nursery is all ready for him! Andy and I had a lot of fun making it! We had a date night and went to Micheal's and got all sorts of fun projects for his walls, then we spent the last few wks painting it all and putting them up. Everything is in the pictures except the first letter of his name.... You'll have to see that one after he's born :)
The crib
Dressers handed down from Hadley's nursery
The cross I painted
The shelf we made for Mia for her nursery with a picture frame
on top painted by Mia and Hadley, a Car bank painted by Andy,
and little wooden truck, car, and airplane painted by Andy and I
His curtains sewn by me :) I'm so proud of these because they are
my first sewing project done all by myself
... 1st time using my sewing machine :)
Little vehicles all around his room(already painted!)
Canvas art pictures painted by Andy and I
Wooden model helicopter specially made by Andy
The blue shelving was made for Mianna's nursery(color-dark wood),
then was painted white for Hadley's nursery,
and now is blue for baby boy's nursery!
The nursery
The crib
Dressers handed down from Hadley's nursery
The cross I painted
The shelf we made for Mia for her nursery with a picture frame
on top painted by Mia and Hadley, a Car bank painted by Andy,
and little wooden truck, car, and airplane painted by Andy and I
His curtains sewn by me :) I'm so proud of these because they are
my first sewing project done all by myself
... 1st time using my sewing machine :)
Little vehicles all around his room(already painted!)
Canvas art pictures painted by Andy and I
Wooden model helicopter specially made by Andy
The blue shelving was made for Mianna's nursery(color-dark wood),
then was painted white for Hadley's nursery,
and now is blue for baby boy's nursery!
The nursery
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