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

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!!

Rough day for monica

Another day crazy day...I had to work and Monica came with me and stayed with my mom..She didn't feel good most of the day. Had to call the doctor because Bronson wasn't moving all morning so he said to go to the hospital and have them check him. Everything was fine with that but then she came back and ran a fever all day.Had to call the doctor again to see if he thought it was because of the possible UTI(the results were supposed to be in on Monday and she is supposed to go to the doctor to see). So since it's not monday and there is no way to know for sure what is causing the fever he said to drink cranberry juice and take tylenol to see if it will help..This has been going on since 2pm and now its 8pm and she still has a slight fever but we will wait a little longer for everything to kick in.

The nurse at the hospital today said she would be surprised if she makes it through the weekend before having this baby(his actual due date is tomorrow 9/13/09). She has done so good but these last couple of days have been very trying. She is tired but doing great. We did drop her curtain material off to get made and also a blanket to get sewn together. Some day I'll figure that sewing machine out!!! (only had it for 16 yrs, but it's never to late to learn).