This was the family on December 20th, 2009. I don't know if you can tell it from just looking at my face in this picture, but OH MY WORD!!!! I had been in and out of the hospital so many times in the month leading up to that. I was on bed rest (can't you tell? the way I'm laying on the bed in that first picture?) and I was on my way to church for a Christmas service. Of course.....this was also the day that Lloyd Dobbler took the little blood pressure thing to church with him and checked my BP during the
singing.....and then promptly made me go home and lay down. And I did go home and lay down. Later that day, I was back at the hospital. I had pushed my luck far enough. They admitted me and we were going to have a baby the next morning.Can you tell I'm pregnant in that hospital bed picture? Does the hospital gown make me look fat? I would like to carry around this picture with me everywhere so that people will see I am indeed smaller than I was a few months ago.
So the next day....December 21,2009....the day that Baby J floated in on a cloud to join the rest of us. What a day that was. All that child had to do was be born, but no. He couldn't just wait his turn on the elevator and step out the door and into the first day of the rest of his life. No. He got bored and started playing around....turned himself upside down and tied a knot in the cord. (I know. I should have been prepared to deal with a bored child---should know this after 3 kids--should have brought along crayons and paper for him.) So we ended up having drama and shouting medical personnel and a speedy trip down the hospital corridors for an emergency C-section.
This was the first of my children that I didn't see in the first few moments of his life. He was several hours old when we had our formal introductions:
And I don't remember it.
(drugs)
Glad I have a picture.
So I say all that to say this:
Five months ago Baby J was born.
What a joy and blessing that child has been already in
this brief time. So much has happened in the first
few months of this child's life. It's been crazy.
But it's getting better.
(There's even an end in sight to The Big Stink.)
Happy five months,
Baby J!
My beautiful, beautiful boy.
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2 comments:
I still love your "introduction" picture. It's precious. Oh, what a time you had my friend.
Praise the Lord for even the promise of the end of stinky times. I'll keep praying until it's really real.
What a wonderful blessing he is and you with the rest of the family are. In a few months you will look back on the big stink and see it as only a memory, too. But you've all had this time to connect in such a special way that would not have been possible before the big stink. May the Lord continue to bless you all!
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