Countdown to D day

Now as you have read, you know that I am patiently and uncomfortably waiting for Dec 2 to arrive. By this time I have been off work for a couple of weeks and I have been enjoying some time with Keagan before his life changes forever. The week of Thanksgiving rolls around and that Monday was my 29th birthday. Only 2 weeks to go... Tuesday late afternoon I got a migraine headache, felt like someone was trying to nail a nail into my eyebrow of my left eye. Nothing I did helped. The next day I called the dr office and the dr was out delivering a baby so the nurse practioner told me to start taking some Mucinex to hopefully start breaking up my congestion and make my headache go away. So I started that Wednesday night. By this time I am so miserable... I can't hardly stand to be in the light, sounds are making me want to cry and I am now taking meds that aren't doing a dang thing for my headache. Thursday rolls around and we go over to my parents house for Thanksgiving dinner. I am still waiting to the medicine to start working, its not!!! I look and feel like crap, and I just keep thinking that I only have one more week to go. Craig and I go home that night and again I am still waiting for my headache to ease up a little. Craig has to work on Friday, so I wait in bed until Keagan gets up. We head out to the living room and every little noise and the light is making my head want to explode. Now I realize as I lay on the couch that my vision is blurring in and out in my left eye. I decide that I want to go over to my parents house, my grandmother is there and I figure that Keagan can see her again before my parents take her home. I finally decide to call my dr, he isn't very happy to hear that I have such a horrible headache and about the blurry vision. He tells me that I need to go have my blood pressure checked. So my dad drives me up to my mother in law's work and her boss takes it. He is EMT and we were a little shocked by the numbers...185/120. We get back to my parents house and I call Dr. Penman back. He tells me that it is time to have a couple of babies. I call Craig and tell him that he needs to come home and we get the Keagan issue taken care of. My mom and dad kept him until he could go over to Grammy and Popper's to spend the night.

Starting over

It has been over a year since I posted anything on here. I am going to try to start posting again just so that those of you who care about the happenings in our family come check us out. So much has happened since... Keagan turned 3, found out we were expecting, found out we were expecting twins, we went fishing again, got ready for the double bundles of joy to arrive, had a lot of fun, and then our lives forever changed when Carter and Morgan arrived in November.
We found out in April that we were expecting a baby. We hadn't really been trying to get pregnant the way that some people do, but we were also not doing anything to prevent a pregnancy from happening. During the early weeks of pregnancy Keagan told his Grammy that he was going to have a baby brother and a baby sister. She laughed it off and told him that he was silly. So as most of you know, I had a tubal pregnancy before we had Keagan, so when I get pregnant I have to have a early ultrasound to check to make sure the pregnancy is in the right place. So off Craig and I go on April 30, 2009 to have an ultrasound done. I am about 8 weeks at this point. From here our day just got weird... the ultrasound tech is looking around and she moves that wand so fast I am not sure what I am seeing, then she says "There is two babies." HUH, are you kidding me? I am not having two babies, we are just having one, I think to myself. Craig is floored. This wasn't even a possibility, we didn't have any twins in the family. So on goes the ultrasound, she finds one heartbeat but not the second one. It is very early and the heart is just starting to develop and beat for the first time so this isn't a concern right now. She tells us that if we came back tomorrow she might be able to see it or it might not show up for a week or so. Needless to say our family and friends are dumbfounded. We go back in for another ultrasound with Dr. Penman about 2 weeks later and there are two little babies with arms and legs and beating hearts. Our lives have officially changed forever. You never really think about having more than one baby at a time unless you are one of those couples doing fertility treatments. We just got LUCKY!!!!
June rolls around and off we go to Minnesota. We had so much fun this year, Keagan loved going out and fishing, playing with Kaleb and Korey, getting in the lake. Then we had a scare mid way through. I woke up bleeding, freaked out, Craig and I go to the hospital in Detroit Lakes. (FYI: I wouldn't ever go back there unless it was a dire emergency, I will have Craig drive to Fargo/Morehead. Hopefully that doesn't happen.) So they couldn't find anything wrong, both babies were fine on the ultrasound. So I took it easy the rest of vacation. The last day I did finally go out a fish with Keagan and Craig and landed my a whooper. I caught a 10 lb northern pike. Yes, Craig is jealous. He has become somewhat of a guide, helping us other fold catch the big ones.
The end of July rolls around and Craig and I are back at the doctors office for another ultrasound to find out the sex of the babies. Now Keagan had already told us that he was having a brother and a sister so that is what I was having. I believed him and would have had trouble believing anyone whom told me differently. Well, she confirmed it, we were indeed having a little boy and a little girl. Now I just had to carry them for as long as possible.
Seemed like the months just flew by. Soon it was Halloween and then we were deciding when the twins would come. About mid November we scheduled a c-section for December 2. I liked knowing when they would be arriving, I just had to make a couple more weeks. Little did I know what was in store for us.

Goodbye Hobbie

So when we found out that Hobbie(our cat) had a tumor in his neck in May we decided to do whatever it took to help him. Surgery, chemo, occasionally taking him down to Parkside Animal Hospital for an IV to get him some fluids. We did it all and we gave him some extra time. But all of our efforts didn't keep him from passing on. Hobbie died on Halloween. He was the best cat ever and he is missed. Keagan is trying to comprehend it all. He doesn't understand why Hobbie isn't here. And he doesn't really get the whole "Hobbie is in kitty heaven with God." We will always miss you Hobbie.

Spoiled

Life can be so interesting with a little 2 1/2 year old boys running around the house. Parents always love to brag and so I will... Keagan loves to talk. It started about 18 months and there wasn't a word that he wouldn't at least attempt to say. Now the only word that he has trouble with is Kaleb (which is my nephew). As I right this, he is in bed singing the ABC's . Its funny to hear but come on he's 2 1/1 and he can get it almost perfect. He also can count to 13, most of the time skipping 7. And as for the potty training thing... we have moved from pull ups to big boy undies. He doesn't have accidents of any kind. The child has completely spoiled me. Now if we could just move on through this phase of not wanting to give kisses and hugs because I miss my kisses!

Still the potty training going on...

So as I have stated before, we are working on the whole potty training thing, its really quite amazing how well Keagan is doing with potty training. He is spoiling me for other children. He never really complained when he was teething and now he is doing really well with potty training. He did go #2 tonight for the first time. As Craig says, "That was a big ole turd!". Thats a guy for you. Keagan was very proud of himself! We will see if it continues or if it's just a one time deal. ON the other hand he still hasn't had but a couple of accidents in almost two weeks. So YAH!!! for Keagan.

Its Potty training time...

For those of you that don't talk to me on a regular basis, we have kinda been working on the whole potty training thing for a while. We haven't really been pushing it just letting Keagan do it if he wants and if he doesn't then that is ok too. But Monday night he decided that he didn't want to wear a diaper to bed so I put him in a pull up and he has been wearing them for the last three days with only minimal accidents. We still haven't mastered the whole #2 thing in the potty. I am very proud of him. I think he is a big relief to his babysister who is having difficulty potty training twins that she watches. I hope that Keagan doesn't stress her out like the twins are doing.

Babies, babies and more babies...

For me its that time when everyone around me is having a baby, first my boss had their third child, then my brother and his girlfriend had their baby the next day, then my best friend had her baby three weeks early, three days later. Now being around all of these babies makes me appreciate how self sufficient Keagan has gotten but also makes me a little sad because he is always saying..."Me do it, mommy!". You would also think that with all the babies around that I would be getting baby fever... and a small part has but some days I am still not sure that I want another child. I guess we will leave it up to God.