The Grandbabies

Here is a picture of my grandbabies taken last week. Hydi is on the left and little "Elvis" is on the right. Hydi spent the night with us and Myer came over to see his big cousin.

My daughter Jessi had them laying on the floor taking pictures and Hydi kind of bopped Myer in the head. He didn't cry though, he just grabbed her hand and started sucking Hydi's thumb.

For those of you who have been praying for Hydi and following along about her condition, I just wanted to give you a quick update. She went back to the Children's Hospital in St. Louis earlier this month and saw a couple of specialists and got good reports. The heart doctor said that her heart is shrinking which is a good thing because her condition had caused it to become a little enlarged. Also, the ultrasound of her liver showed that the hemangiomas on her liver are also shrinking. This is very good news, because typically they can continue to grow until a baby is a year old. And if you click on this picture for a close up, you can tell from previous pictures that the hemagiomas on the outside are fading away also. So thank you again to everyone for your prayers.

Kim

Meet Myer Evan Walker

Here is my newest grandbaby - Myer Evan - whom I have decided to call Elvis. I have tried to get my daugther to use Presley as a middle name for either of her boys and since she didn't and he was born on Elvis' birthday, I've decided I will just call him Elvis. I have already convinced Ryan (his big brother) that his name is Elvis. He was even arguing with his dad about it when he came to pick him up tonight.

Little Elvis was born at 11:58am (Illinois time) January 8th. He weighed 6lbs 110z and is 19" long. For a little while it looked like mom was going to have to have a C-section (his cord was wrapped around his neck), but she delivered naturally and after spending most of the day in the nursery in the "warmer", he is doing fine and mom is feeling pretty good also.

It's getting late and I have to get up early, Gracie has a hair appointment tomorrow, so I will try and post a few more pictures tomorrow.

Good night

Kim

Halloween Treat Bags

I know I've been missing in action lately. You would think since I quit my job I would have more time, but it seems I've been busier than ever.

I thought I would share with you the treat bags I made for Ryan and Hydi for Halloween. I also have a picture of Ryan in his costume. He was a cowboy. He only got to trick or treat at 3 places. Each place he went, he took off more of his costume, so after the third stop his mom and dad just decided to take him home.

We Got a Second Opinion ....

We went to St. Louis Tuesday to see another specialist and get a second opinion. After doing some blood work that the first specialist didn't do, this doctor wants to take Hydi off of her medication. She also ordered an Echo on her heart and another ultrasound on the liver. The echo came back ok, and we haven't got the results of the second ultrasound yet. It's been a real roller coaster around here lately.





Hydi and Brandy did spend the night with me a couple of nights this week. I forgot how tiring it is getting up with a baby in the middle of the night.

I Thought you might like an updated picture. She looks rather sober in this picture doesn't she?

This is a picture of my grandson Ryan with our poodle Gracie. You can see his mom holding Hydi in the background. His mom is pregnant, so we will have another grandbaby in January. Christmas at our house ought to be pretty lively next year, don't you think?




Thank again for all your prayers and please keep praying.





Kim

Please keep praying....

Hydi, our new grandbaby (see previous posts) has an appointment this Friday at the Children's Hospital in St.Louis, so please keep her in prayer. She is going to see a specialist about her birthmarks.

I will keep you updated as soon as we learn more.

Other than the birthmarks, she is doing very well. I will post some more pictures soon.

Meet Hydi

Here is a picture taken of little Hydi (pronounced like Heidi) taken just a few hours after she was born. Look at all that hair.

We thought she was going to get to come out of the nursery today, but she had a little set back. The nurses were nice enough to sneak me in the nursery - only moms and dads are allowed - and I got to feed her twice today.

Brandy (her mom) and I did a little shopping today. Brandy was released yesterday evening, but they are letting her stay in a room at the hospital. Anyway, we searched for a little frilly dress for Hydi to get her picture taken in, but couldn't find any. Effingham doesn't have a lot of stores to choose from for baby clothes.

Anyway, I thank everyone for their prayers and ask you to please continue to pray for both mom and baby.

Update on Brandy...

Brandy is still in the hospital. She was feeling pretty good when I talked to her a couple of hours ago. She was just getting ready to eat supper from Fazoli's.

They have taken her off the mag drip. They started her on some oral medicine that is supposed to help stop the contractions. It didn't work real well. She started having contractions again, so the doctor ordered some kind of shot for her that caused her to have a lot of chest pain. They won't be giving her anymore of those. Tomorrow she is 34 weeks, so if she keeps having contractions, they may go ahead and let her deliver.

I thank you all for your prayers and will continue to update as I can.

Sorry - no new cards to post

I just wanted to apologize again for not posting. I had planned on posting pictures yesterday of Brandy's (my oldest daughter) baby shower. Of course that didn't happen. So just a quick update.

Brandy went into premature labor, so it's been kind of chaotic the last two days. She is 6 1/2 weeks early. She's doing ok so far, but they are still giving her medicine (magnesium) to slow down her contractions. She can't be on the medicine much longer and they will have to switch to an oral medicine tomorrow evening. If this medicine doesn't work, then they will let her go ahead and deliver early. They have given her two steroid shots (the last one about 6:30 Friday evening) that are supposed to help the baby's lungs incase she does deliver early, but the shots needs 24 hours to really take effect. So that is why she will be on the magnesium until tomorrow evening.

Please keep her in prayer.

Thank you
Kim

Problem Child?

Grandparents - do you ever have problems with your grandchild? Here's what I do to mine when he's bad.

I'm just kidding - don't go calling child services. Ryan just likes to play in our poodle Gracie's kennel. Isn't he cute? He takes after me.

My Birthday Present

Welcome to my blog!

In this first post, I want to share with you the birthday present I got this year. It was a family picture. And the best part about it is that I'm not in it. I hate to have my picture taken.

While my friend Cheryl and I went to Indianapolis for a Scrapbook & Stamping Expo, my family got together and had family pictures taken.

Pictured left to right is my oldest daughter Brandy and her husband Doug, my youngest daughter Robbi, my husband Steve, my middle daughter Jessi and my grandson Ryan and her husband James. The girls get their good looks from me but you will just have to take my word for it. Not pictured is my favorite person - my dog Gracie. My husband forgot to take her with him, she was supposed to be in the picture also.