Youth Group

Just wanted to post a few pics of our youth group. We had a bible study / fellowship at our house Sunday night, and they had a great time. We've been here for almost 6mos now, and things really are pretty good. They are a good group of kids, we're still building relationships with them, but for the most part I think they like us : ) We usually have an average of about 20 youth regularly. We did our first 5th quarter at church last night, there were 99 youth who showed up....so now we just need to figure out how to get them all to come back. Teenagers are just fun, so much life and energy....I think hanging out with them will keep you young for a LONG time!

ER Visit....for the mom!

Ok, so the pictures kinda tell the story. Sunday night I was putting Caleb to bed. He has a lamp on his little table, I reached to turn it off, and when I did sparks flew, maybe even a flame...the lights in the house flickered, they dimmed and there was this loud noise. So I'm screaming, Caleb is screaming, Jeremy comes running down the hallway into the room and I just pass Caleb off to him and run into the bathroom and put water on my right hand (yes I'm right handed). Hannah is just kinda like what's going on?? Jeremy brought me some ice in a ziplock bag. The inside palm of my hand was black from suit I guess, and it smelled bad. I'm not crying, I'm just like what happened, what do I do...I'm thinking I'm a nurse and I don't know what to do. I gotta go to the ER. So Jeremy stays and gets the kids to bed.

So I go to our Kenedy hospital. I get there at about 8:45pm, they actually called me back pretty quickly (there was a room of about 10 people or so)..I'm thinking they need to call me back RIGHT NOW. My hand HURTS! I also just started working at the hospital in surgery, so I'm thinking, maybe I'll get some special treatment here. The doctor was so nice....he said "Oh..thats bad, somebody bring me some yellow mustard". The nurse says "Like from the refrigerator", doc says "Yeah from the fridge". So they go to the OR and get the mustard out of our very own fridge. I'm thinking is this sterile, is it clean enough...but whatever. He then squirts mustard into a sterile glove atleast , then I squish my hand into the glove. I put my hand in a bucket of ice water for 1hr. He said that mustard is the best thing to put on burns because it is a good pain reliever, and it can reduce a burn by a degree if treated soon enough.

So after an hour he reassessed, and said that I had some 2nd degree spots with some 1st degree burns as well. He put silvadene cream, and gauze over my fingers. The pain wasn't so bad when it was in the glove and ice, but oh..when the mustard and ice wore off....it was just a CONSTANT burning/stinging. I only took 1 pain pill that night, to help me sleep, and the next day it was MUCH better. I went to work with my hand all bandaged....I thought...I'm sure a lot of help but I still got to assist and do some things.

So all this to say, I think I'm gonna be fine. It was just really scary, I'm glad it wasn't my kids. I took the lamp back to Wal-Mart where I got it...I said...it's obviously missing a piece that covers all the metal parts and the base of the light bulb (thats what caused this whole mess). I said they need to check all their lamps to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. I got a new lamp just the same for free, all the pieces are intact...but I'm gonna let Jeremy set it up to make sure : )

So today is Wednesday...I've taken the dressing off the middle finger and it's just has a bunch of blisters...no broken skin right now. My ring finger was the more serious one...still have a dressing to make sure it stays really clean. I'm also taking my prenatal vitamins and extra vitamin C...to promote healing. So hopefully things will be fine.

Having Fun

Ok, now take a good look at this sweet little boy...he has had a very busy week learning so many new things. He is officially walking!! This really kinda happened suddenly over the past few days. He's been taking a few steps here and there for the past 2-3 weeks, but today and yesterday he has really been walking a lot. AND, I can say, "Caleb stand up and walk to me". He'll go from a sitting position on the floor, stand up and he walks to me! Such a smart kid! So today he seriously took probably 20 steps in a row. YEAH. I'm so excited about all this. Our pediatrician said that he wanted him walking by 15mos...so we have hit the mark by 3 days I might add. We go the end of this month for a check up. So he is right on track with all the normal developmental milestones at this point. This picture was taken at our football game last night. He looked like such a big boy sitting next to me on the bleachers with his cup. He loves football games, he yells "Go Go Go" and claps a lot. It's pretty fun.


Meet the Kenedy Lion. Hannah has been admiring this Kenedy lion mascot all season. Usually we just kinda look and wave from a distance. Well tonight we waved for awhile, she's so curious about who and what it really is. We tell her really it's just a boy at school all dressed up...she kept insisting that he "take his head off"....so FINALLY we got to get our picture with the infamous lion. She absolutely wasn't gonna do this by herself, so as the supportive mom that I am, I got to get my picture taken with the lion too. So now, she wants to get her picture taken with the lion at every game.

Life

Hannah is SO much better. She's only been on medicine for 5 days now, but she can already hear much better (maybe back to normal). No allergy symptoms really at all. I'm so grateful. I'm assuming the ear infection is gone....she never really had many symptoms from that. I'm so glad she's well.

On other news...for those of you that don't know...I started working at the hospital here in Kenedy just 1 day a week. I work back in surgery area, so I am being oriented to what they do back there. I've never worked in surgery, but it is kind of cool. Our hospital here really only does very minor surgeries...removing gallbladders, fixing hernias, and a LOT of GI scopes. I only work on wednesdays from 7am-usually 4pm. The kids stay with this lady that goes to our church "grammie". She keeps children in her house....and so far the kids love it. I'm so glad, Hannah gets to play with other kids and run around outside a lot. They don't watch TV there, so she has to play. Caleb just does well wherever he goes. He is such a happy baby.

Last night I started feeling bad, had a low grade temp, chills, sore throat and just felt yuck! So I called in to work for today and told them I couldn't make it (looks real good for only my second day). Anyway I still took the kids to grammies house, and I laid on the couch ALL day long. It was wonderful, I napped, took medicine, and I feel better already. I'm so thankful I had this day to kind of recover.

Ok, just wanted to update yall on whats going on around here. And...if you read this blog, leave me a comment so I know who you are...even if it's just to say HI. I promise I won't think you're a "blog stalker" or anything like that : )

To Hannah..

My sweet Hannah...
You are such a big girl now. Daddy and I love you so much and we are so glad God gave you to us. We have prayed every day for you for over 3yrs now, since we found out we were pregnant with you. We are so proud of how you're growing and all the things you're learning. You bring so much joy to our lives, even though there are some trying times, we wouldn't have it any other way. I pray every day that you would choose and accept Jesus into your life, God is so good and I pray that we teach you the things of God so that you one day will choose to follow Him and have a life of blessing, peace and joy. Here are a few pictures of how you've grown and changed the past 3 years. Love you so much and can't wait to share all of our days with you.
Love you,
Mommy, Daddy


I was 37 weeks pregnant, 2 weeks before Hannah was born, I had gained 55lbs...very pregnant here.


Born October 3, 2005. 8lbs 5oz, 20.5in. I remember all my labor and delivery like it was yesterday. I was so glad when you were finally born. I was in labor for 41hrs!


Your first birthday. You were actually sick and had ear infections, and fever...but we had all the family over to the house and celebrated anyway! You were so cute, you totally did not want anything to do with your cake, you touched the icing very delicately, and then started shaking your finger to get it off. You have been really "neat" ever since then.


Your 2nd birthday, I made your birthday cake, and once again had family to celebrate!


Your 3rd birthday! Well once again you were sick with a double ear infection. We went to the doctor to have your ears checked. You have SEVERE allergeries, and your left eye was swollen shut for a couple of days. The doctor gave us several different medicines to get this all under control. All this didn't seem to bother you too much, you smiled and were happy and played with your toys most of the day. You are such a joy!!

Waco Weekend Cont...

Hannah and Paw-Paw eating lunch on their TV trays.


Caleb and Paw-Paw, sporting Uncle Kyle's gator hat.


Me-Maw and Caleb.


This was a cousin Katies first birthday party!! They liked to ride her her new red wagon. Caleb is only 8 weeks older than Katie, they have lots of fun playing.


Katie helping push Caleb in his stroller. Sleepy boy.

Waco Weekend

I have several posts from our weekend in Waco. I don't know how to get more than 5 pictures to a post....so if anyone knows how to...let me know.

Hannah with her cousins Brock (3), and Nathan (5)..this is funny because Nathan was playing a video game and well Brock and Hannah wanted to play too. So we gave them controllers, not plugged in of course...and they all played video games. They thought it was the coolest thing ever!


At Grandma and Grandpas house...we were waiting for Hannah's party to start so we went swimming in grandpas pool for awhile!! I'm so glad they all got to play...I wish we lived closer so we could see them regularly.


More swimming.


McCarver family picture. This pic is grandma, grandpa, Jeremy has 3 siblings, 2 are married, so it's rare that we are actually ALL together at one time. So we took a pic while we could. Hannah was actually throwing a fit, so she was refusing to look at the camera... oh well, we can't ask for too much now can we.

Birthday Weekend!!

Here are a few pictures from Hannah's birthday party at the gymnastics place. More to come on Jeremy's camera, which we're looking for that one. Atleast I found mine! We need to get a better system of putting our camera in a safe place : )

What???

Well, thats exactly what my little girl has been saying to me for about 2 weeks, with almost everything I say to her. Hannah just can't hear me. I noticed about 2 weeks ago, that she would say "what, huh" to almost everything I would say to her. Usually she responds quickly, and answers promptly, but not lately. She has had allergeries really bad lately, cough, congestion, her eyes have been having green mater (which isn't pink eye because we even went to the doctor). Anyway the past day or so when I talk to her she gets really close to me, and even turns her ear toward my mouth to try and listen more closely. She's been watching my mouth when I talk, and she's given me many "blank expressions" lately. It made me a little nervous actually.

So enough was enough....I talked to Jeremy and I told him that I don't think she can hear me. Yesterday she was sitting on the couch reading her book and I was in the living room on the couch too and asked her something and it was even kind of loudly...nothing, she just kept reading and playing. So I called our pediatrician, told them what was going on....they referred me to an ENT doctor (ear, nose, throat). So I called yesterday and got an appointment TODAY!!!

So today we went to Victoria (all our docs are there, about an hour away) the whole family, we saw a super nice doctor, and well Hannah ABSOLULTLEY didn't want to be there. I was praying Lord please let her cooperate, we have to get her ears checked out, and this is the really easy part....he was just looking with his otoscope. We still had the hearing test to do. So anyway, Jeremy has to hold her really tightly in the chair so the doc could look. The doctor says "Oh, she has a really bad double ear infection". I thought what?? No fever, no complaining, nothing...how was I supposed to know.

So, we proceded to the hearing test across the street....she was a perfect angel!! They made it such a fun game, I was so so glad. She got to wear these tiny little microphones in her ears while sitting in my lap. The worker sat across from us, and handed her a bunch of blocks. When she heard a "ringing" she put the block in the box! Very creative and she thought it was fun.

RESULTS: She has a bunch of fluid in both ears. They said she has definite hearing loss, and to relate... pretend she is sitting on the bottom of a swimming pool under water and we are trying to talk to her, thats how she is hearing right now. Poor sweet girl, she just can't really hear me. SO..we went back across the street to the doc...he has her on an antibiotic and prednisone (to help with the swelling and puffiness of her eyes).Today when we got home, she took a 2hr nap, and when she woke up her left eye was almost swollen shut, just from laying on that side. Ok, that is NOT normal. She is also taking singulair and zyrtec both to help with allergeries. He said this should all be better in 2 weeks, if not we need to come back! So I'm so thankful we got some answers, some good medicine, and my sweet little girl will be all better soon.

So pray for sweet Hannah to get well soon. I don't think she really feels bad, I just want her to be well. And today is her 3rd birthday! So after the doctor, to have a little fun, we went to chick-fil-a, she played on the playground, and then we went to Target to get her a b-day present. She got a little baby doll that comes with all the bath accessories. So now she gives her babies baths too....I think we are fully loaded when it comes to baby accessories. Little girls are so much fun!

Pictures to come...

So this past weekend we went to Waco and had a weekend full of birthday celebrations! We celebrated Hannah's 3rd birthday (i can't believe my baby is turning 3), her actual birthday is tomorrow. We saw grandparents, lots of cousins, and had a great time. I would post pictures today, but well, I can't find my camera! I know it's somewhere, I just need to look better I guess.

We got Hannah some new bedding for her room. She is officially a big girl now. She is sleeping in her twin day bed, and is just as cute as can be. I'll take a pic of her new bedding too, and post that sometime soon. She has slept in her big bed for 2 nights now, and no falling out of the bed. My best friend from college suggested, that you get one of the large swimming noodles for the pool, and you can place it under the fitted sheet on the bed, and it acts as a barrier to keep your child in the bed so they don't fall out. It's easy to take out and store under the bed if you need to. Great idea and it's worked! This way there is no hassle with larger bed railing.

Ok, just wanted to leave a post to say pics will come soon!