Pictures

My blog stalking has benefits! Through my blog-friend Katie I found Amanda Elpers Photography. She takes amazing photographs, so I had her come do some newborn shots of Deagan. She just posted a sneak peek of the pics on her site so you can check them out. Thanks Katie and Amanda!
**I was going to include Kennedy but she wasn't feeling well, so it was better to just do Deagan. Plus we did some things like the 4D Ultrasound with her that we didn't get to with D, so I think it all evens out in the end.**

Looking Out For Us

I'm not sure if it was our many loved ones who have passed away, or The Big Guy Himself, but someone Upstairs was watching over us on Saturday, and I am so thankful.

(This is a long post, bear with me.)

We were discharged from the hospital on Friday night but they told us we would have to come back the next day to have Deagan's billi rubin (sp?) checked due to jaundis (sp?). We had to do this like three times with Kennedy so we knew the drill. This time they told us that we would have to wait at the hospital for the results so we would know if he was ok, needed a Billi Blanket at home, or needed to be admitted to sleep under the crazy lights for a night. Since we were going to be there awhile, Devin's sister came down to stay with Kennedy Saturday afternoon while we went to the hospital.

Once we had the test done, they told us we could go ahead and leave the the on call doctor (not our pediatrician) would call us and let us know what to do. I need a couple of things and we were trying to stay near the hospital so we did a couple of errands. After awhile we decided to head home. We were on I-69 about 3 miles from our exit and it start POURING down rain- the kind where you can't see in front of you. That is always scary for me anyway. We were in the left lane (driving surprisingly slow) and there was a semi next to us in the right one. The semi started to swerve back and forth like he was sliding and turned on his turn signal like he suddenly wanted over. We tried to slow down to avoid the swerving and we started to hydroplane. We actually started to go in the direction of the semi, but Devin is a pretty smart driver who knows all those things they told you in drivers ed that I don't remember. (Like which direction to turn your wheels when sliding, etc.) We avoided the semi but went off the road, hit the guard rail thingy, spun around several times along the guard rail and stopped with the front of our car partially in the left lane of 69. It was the by far the scariest event in my entire life. The amazing thing is that we were all completely fine physically. Deagan slept through the whole thing!!! (He can't sleep at night with me, but a serious car accident is no problem.) I think I hurt my back a little bit, but it is really just muscle strain from tighten up while it happened. The car was horribly damaged and probably totalled (which is a whole other set of issues and worries.) I was a freakin' mess afterwards. Obviously, I just had a baby 3 days ago, so I wasn't the in the most emotionally stable condition anyway. (Plus I had had a totally of 8 hrs sleep since Tuesday.) It was an incredible frightening accident, our 3 day old infant was in the back seat, our 11 month old wasn't even with us and we were completely uninjured. We were so incredibly blessed. I think the thought of what could have happened is what made me freak out as much as I did.



So Deagan and I went into the ambulence because I wanted D to get checked out just to be safe. I was finally getting myself under control when the on call doc called and said his billi rubin level was high and he was going to need to be readmitted. Naturally, I lost it again. It just seemed to be one thing after another. I had hardly seen Kenna since we put her to bed on Tuesday night so the thought of being away from her for another night made me feel awful as well.

So...we headed back to the hospital. When we were notfiying people of the accident and I think it was confusing that we were all fine, but had to go back to the hospital. It was another sleepless night in Ol' Community North (I need a punch card where you get a free night after so many visits per year.) It was hard because Deagan likes to be swaddled so he pretty much was fussy all night since he just had to lay there underneath the lights. It was really no big deal for him to have to be there, I just wanted to be at home. I found his goggles he had to wear humerous, so I took some pics.

Since it has taken me 2 days to finish this post, I have positive news :-) Last night was a pretty good night. We are nursing better, which is a plus, and he is gaining weight. I am hoping that tonight will be a decent nights rest since I am unbeliveable exhausted. I am still overwhelmed with having two children so young and close togethers, but I think they are so adorable and love them more than anything in the world. Eventually I will look back at these days longingly, right? :-)

Kennedy has actually been really good with D. She is very curious about him. She likes to hold/play with his hands and pet his head like she does the dogs. :-) This morning I has feeding him with a bottle and she kept trying to mess with it. I let her hold it to see what she would do- she tried to feed it to him! It was funny because she wanted to help me hold it. So now, when I am giving him a bottle of formula or pumped milk, I try to let her help. The only thing that is difficult is when she is in a clingy mood, she has to be sitting with me if I am holding him. Most of the time it is ok, but its hard when I'm trying to nurse. Plus, then Maggie and Annie want to join. I know I am much larger these days than I used to be, but I don't really have room for an infant, a toddler, and 2 dogs on my lap! :-)

Enjoy the random pictures of the kiddies.

Yeah, I was a little off...

When I said the next three weeks, I was SO wrong! :-)

Deagan Michael James Imel

9/17/08

3:43 pm

7lbs 5oz

20 in

(It's pronounced like Keegan but with a D. It is Celtic/Irish.) Everyone is doing well so far. I am exhausted, so I will write and post more later. We will be going home sometime Friday evening. Beth-I'm sorry I didn't get with you and Connie before he came! Maybe you two could make a trip up to Fishers some time soon??? :-)

Monkey Business

Baby Boy will be here with in the next 3 weeks. NOT PREPARED FOR THIS!!! :-) But I'll make it work somehow :-)

Kennedy has not been feeling well lately and I think its because she has more teeth coming. (I always say thats the reason.) I am actually very lucky because she is always exceptionally good when we are out or around people. Of course, when she starts screaming and throwing fits when its just us I think, "Why do you not like me Kenna!!??" :-)

She likes to play with measuring cups and her electronic drum sticks. She has 8 more months to be the next Shelia E. (even though I'm really pushing for her to work with Bon Jovi) and then I'm putting her in dance class and she can forget about this silly percussion thing :-)

Until recently, I had constructed a nice little containment area for Miss Thang. Since our house is "open concept" there's really not any good place to put a gate. She gets into everything and sometimes, I'm just too tired to chase after her. (Gimme a break- very large, very pregnant). Anyway, I put the ottaman (sp?) at one end and then this little chair thing at the other. It was doing an outstanding job- until Sunday.

(Don't worry, I only let her do this while I took the pictures)

I've not turned the chair around. I figure I just have a short time until she figures out how to move the chair and then I'm just screwed. :-)

Bye Bye Bye

No pics cuz I don't have the camera at the moment, but I will do some more this week.

This past week K has started clapping on her own (prior to this, she would take your hands and clap them together, but not do her own) and kind of waving bye bye. The first time she did it was Saturday afternoon as we were leaving Kroger. The bagger and two cashiers were "talking" as I was checking out and as we left I said "Tell them bye-bye." Her usually response was to grin and look at me like I'm a moron. This time she waved! So, I started squealing and saying, "Yay!! You've waved bye-bye!!" and everyone else in the store looked at me like I was a moron. I got her to do it one more time at home while I pretended to go out the door. Yes, we practice these things so that she will perform on command for others. However, instead of waving, now I can only get her to clap when we are saying bye to people. I don't know if she's confused, or just excited to see the people leave.

On a side note... as I sat here this evening, surfin' the net, listening to the game and eating, it occurred to me the possible cause for me gaining so much weight and looking you could write Goodyear on my butt and float me over the city for the next racing event. I looked down and realized I had finished off an entire container of something (it's too embarrassing to say what). I had "some" last night (i.e. half) and polished it off tonight without even thinking. Then I looked at the nutrition label and saw that in two evenings, I had consumed 1400 calories, 96g of fat, and 196g of sugar. And, it was "not a significant source of dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C or calcium." This is in addition to anything else I had today! This could POSSIBLE be the reason that next week I have to go to the zoo and use the elephant scale before my doctors appointment. I kid, I kid!!! Anyway, just thought I would share a few embarrassing tidbits from my life. OH!!!! That reminds me of one that is worse, but it is still very fresh and was in public, so I will have to write about that one when I have decided it was funny and not just humiliating. :-)

Just Call Her Goober

Not much has been happening lately. Kennedy got another tooth, so the grand total is up to 5! She has been very drool-y and running just a bit of a temp so I think another one is one its way.

I took some pictures during bath time the other day and wanted to share them. She makes these funny faces lately and I was trying to capture them on camera. She is so funny! (Unfortunately, she got my ears and does not have any hair to cover them up.)