Mother and Child

Just wanted to share a few pictures of Daughter Monica and Mr.Bronson...I love them both more then i can ever say and he has brought so much happiness to our life in just 7 wks..

How peaceful is this!!!

Monica and Bronson!!!

This was made for her Sister...it shows her "in Loving memory" tattoo

Bronson

this is what i came home to today.. Bronson was asleep in his sweet peace swing and Monica had cleaned the kitchen and  livingroom for me !!!! Bronson is 2wks and 4 days old today.

Life is Good (Great)

I'm sitting here just absorbing all the marvels around me....Life is great. As i am blogging my 2 dogs (Flash and Dangersome) are on their bed, Bronson is laying beside me in his boppy sleeping so peacfully and Monica is laying at the other end of the sectional sleeping. We didn't go to church this morning (just wanted to keep Bronson home) so we all slept in. I has just been Monica, Bronson and myself at home this weekend because Donnie went to Phenix City to a race with his son Nick, my brother and a bunch of other guys from the track. This has been the first time he has ever went anywhere in 9 years by himself. He deserves it so much. So why they are having a guys weekend, Monica and I are having a girls (and one very small guy) weekend . We rented movies, ordered Pizza and just hung out in our P.J's. Monica could even breastfeed without being covered or worried about someone walking in (i'm sure she enjoyed that). Just to sit here and watch them is so peaceful and so heartwarming!!! Bronson has filled a little space in my heart that was left empty and broken by the loss of Harley. How could you not just eat all of this up and Thank God for his wonderful blessings of mercy and Healing and just how good he is to us even when we think we don't deserve it. Praise you God for all your wonderful Blessings!!!

Bronson has arrived

On my last blog entry i said that Monica maybe going into labor...well she was. AT abouth 10:45pm we left to go to the hospital..around 11:30pm she was finally sent to the room to be monitored. she was still only dilated 1-2 cm. They called linda to see what she wanted Monica to do and Linda said "walk for 1hr and be rechecked. That didn't work too well because her contractions were so close together (3-4mins apart) and they were pretty hard. So they gave her til 1am and examined her again. She was still just dilated 1-2 but her contractions were still close together and hard so they called Linda again and she said to admitted her. so she was admitted at 1am and put in a labor and delivery room. She was checked again at 4am and dilated to 4cm.. Around 5am she decided that she needed an epidural (which she did not want to get but come to find out was probable an intervention from God). After the epidural she wasn't checked again until 6am..she was dilated 6cm. The nurse estimated that it would take her until around 9am to dilate to 10cm.but they came in at 8:30 and checked her and she was dilated to 10 and ready to push so the nurses prepped Monica and Linda went to put on her scrubs. From that time it took 40 minutes for Bronson to arrive..just before his arrival, Linda said he was having a hard time moving under her pubic bone and was trying to help his head to go under it (here is the intervention from God). In the process of her trying to help his head under Monica's pubic bone Linda noticed that Bronson's umbilical cord was wrapped around Bronson's neck. Every time monica would have a contraction Bronson heart rate and oxygen level would drop. They gave Monica oxygen but that didn't help. Linda said "i'm gonna have to cut her" we said "do what you have to do" we could also overhear the nurses trying to get a doctor paged because they thought he would be born lifeless (Monica was oblivious to all of this but me and my sister were listening to everything) so linda gave her a pretty good size Episiotomy.. I truley believe that if she did not get the epidural that she would have had to have and emergency c-section to save Bronson, but because she was numb linda just made him a way out (thanks linda to your good work). Bronson Eli was born at 9:10 am weighing 7 lbs 14 ozs and was 21 in. long. Both Monica and Bronson are doing wonderful. He is so alert and has taken to the breastfeeding very well... I will get some pictures posted but I haven't had time to upload them yet...(still trying to recover from being up almost 40hrs with no sleep)

maybe a baby!!!

I'm blogging and I'm supposed to be timing!!!! We just came home from church and Monica realized she may be leaking water!!!! yippy...maybe we are getting somewhere...after she realized that she started having contractions and they are anywhere from 5min to 3 mins apart....I hope she goes into natural labor instead of them having to induce her on Monday. She has been very concerned about being induced. She said "we don't do our animals this way so why should they do me" I'm just gonna wait...so she has been thinking of calling Linda tomorrow to see if it will hurt her to wait a little while longer instead of being induce...Maybe God has answered my prayer and she is going into labor on her own...I can't wait!!

Today's not over yet!!!

Monica woke me up this morning at 4 am having lots of contractions so i got up and drove her to the hospital. They put her in a room and monitored her contractions which were coming every 3 minutes..She had a doctors appointment yesterday and there was nothing going on, but when they checked her today she had finally dilated 1cm and was 60% effaced (to us, that was a big change from yesterday). She did alot of walking and alot or throwing up ;( ...she couldn't hold anything down. So finally around 9:30am the nurse gave her another pelvic exam (3rd on in just a few hrs) and said she still wasn't dilating enough...by now Monica is starving so they decided to let her go home, eat, and walk. She also has a slight UTI that she has to go back Monday and get checked for (if she makes it that long). I am thinking at this rate she will have him hopefully by his due date on Sunday. We are looking forward to welcoming him into the world and into our family.
So after we left the hospital i had to go to work so Monica went to my mom's (right next door to my job) and finally ate breakfast and rested a while..she came to my work later and we walked the parking lot for a while. I guess we will wait and see what the Lord has in store .... our time is not his time.... he knows I'm not very patient!!!! But today isn't over yet!!!!

ok, no baby yet :( and we are so anxious. At Monica's doctors appointment today, Linda said there was no change. She has not dilated any and he has not dropped yet so i guess we will wait a little longer. Monica started her leave today though, she deserves it. She works so hard and has really hung in there but was ready to start the "nesting" process (plus she has a big fear of her water breaking while she is at work).Other then that, today has been very stressful..My step-daughter Brittany went back to her alcoholic, abusive boyfriend today. This is the 4th time she has moved in and out of our house in the last year and 2 months. With this baby coming, that was the last thing we needed. We had put her on our prayer list at church since she moved out in June so when Donnie got the call from her last week to come and get her, we really thought God answered our prayer and i guess he did, she came home and was devestated at all the things that had taken place in her life since she had left, well that didn't last long, in the middle of the night ,she got up and left to go back to him. I will continue to pray that the Lord keep her safe while she is gone and hold out my faith that God will intervine in her life and bring her back to the way she was raised and to Him before it is too late. So as far as that goes, it is in the Lords hands now. We have raised her in church since Donnie and I got married (almost half her life) so i know she knows right from wrong and we just have to believe that she will come back to what she knows is right.

today or not today???

getting ready for monica's doctor appointment. She is down to 4 day's. Last week there was no change...she had not dilated yet. So we will see today if he has dropped and if she is making any progress. Guess i will let ya know later!!!!

waiting ....still

Today Monica is down to 7 days exactly and we are very impatient!!! i am so looking forward to Baby Bronson making his debut into this world...First she wanting him to come on my sisters b-day...that didn't happen, then there was yesterday (which was the day I chose from the day she found out she was pregnant) then there was today....Labor Day...how appropriate. but now signs yet...so now she says she hopes he comes on Wednesday which is her next doctors appointment...that will be 9-9-09. So I guess we will see!!!!