A Collection of Happy Days: February 2021

While we were in Dallas visiting cousins, we stopped at IKEA for a new dresser. Maybe we went to Dallas for IKEA and cousins was the plus 😉🤷‍♀️ Wilson is always Jacob’s little helper

That diaper stack though 🙌 and Jacob did a great job on the dresser 😉😂

Wilson had fun with the packaging 😂

I have a history of preeclampsia. Kinda. Kayla came too fast for them to test me. But they were concerned about it/my high blood pressure. I’m pretty sure they tested me with Wilson but I didn’t have it, but I definitely had the concerning high blood pressure the whole pregnancy. And I definitely had it with Edith 😬

I don’t know what my hold up with the dentist has been. I think it’s more of finding the dentist and scheduling the appointment… but this was their first appointment 😬 great teeth though. I was shocked when the dentist told me how impressed he was with their brushing 😂

Preeclampsia officially confirmed. 34 weeks. And doctor said he wants to induce me around 37 if I can make it until then 😬 So many appointments between my OB and the specialist nearing the end 😭

That baby though 😍😍😍

They wanted me to monitor and come in if it got over 140 😬 I was going to get a blood pressure monitor… just not fast enough because my sister sent me money and said go buy the blood pressure monitor now 😂 although I think having one stressed me out even more 🤷‍♀️

I love him 😍

100th day of school. Kayla’s request was 100 hearts in a rainbow, on a pink shirt. Nailed it 😉

She’s the cutest 😍

And here’s “snowmageddon”

The absolute bizarre snow storm that hit the south and then froze it for a week. No one here could ever prepare for this. We were some of the lucky few that kept power/heat, school was canceled, Jacob don’t have to go to work, so we just hung out at home. It was great at first.

35 weeks

Half way through the week and everything was ice 😬

We had a good day celebrating Jacob’s 30th birthday

Here’s the hard part. I’ve already typed this out so many times and deleted it just to start over again. I haven’t healed from the trauma. I just bury it as deep as I can. The day after Jacob’s birthday, Wilson fell off of the top bunk. We don’t know what exactly happened. No one saw it. I was sleeping in bed. Jacob was on his phone next to me. Kayla was in the kitchen. I guess the kids had been fighting about something and Wilson went to his bed to take a break. Some thing happened when he tried to come out of bed and he fell off. I’ll never forget the smacking sound of him hitting the floor. It woke me up. There was a very brief silence and then he screamed. I still freak out inside when I hear him scream in pain now almost 2 years later.

We are so grateful that our Expedition has 4 wheel drive. It absolutely saved us. Driving to the ER. Then after we found out he had fractures in his skull and that they needed to transfer us from Bossier City to a hospital in Shreveport, which Wilson and I rode to in an ambulance. But Jacob had to drive Kayla to our friends house further north in Bossier and then all the way to the hospital in Shreveport, and then back to Kayla and then home again, for 2 days.

He fell around 9ish on Friday morning.

We got to the Bossier City ER around 9:30.

We got to the Shreveport hospital around 12.

Out of the ER and in our room around 3ish.

Stayed the night. And by some miracle we were released by 5pm on Saturday.

Headed to the ambulance to transfer hospitals. I felt safer driving on the icy roads in the Expedition. Or maybe just because Jacob was driving 😂 but really 10/10 do not recommend an ambulance ride, on icy roads, 35 weeks pregnant, and worried about your son who you just found out has a fractured skull from falling off the bunk bed 😭

At one point they came in and said he needed to wear this neck brace until some of the tests were done. He was not happy about that.

Guess which hospital we were at… no water and no heat 😭 The nurses here were so amazing though!! The first time I had to pee, I had to use one of the bathrooms on the floor. It was terrible. I had to leave him, walk half way across the floor, through a few different sections of the hospital, to a bathroom full of other people’s business 🤢 Not to mention I’m 35 weeks pregnant and I’m gonna need to pee a lot. So the nurse brought me one of those seats with a bucket to keep in the room with me and it meant so much. But really, it did.

Friday we had the room to ourselves but by Saturday morning another little boy had to share with us. What we were going through was definitely traumatic, but at the same time, I just wanted to squeeze my baby tight knowing what this other little boy was dealing with.

Feeling better and finally eating.

When we were checking out, one the of doctors or nurses (I honestly don’t remember) says “oh and no straws” 😳

Waiting for Dad to get the car so we could leave

Finally leaving 😭 It felt like we were there an eternity.

I held in all of my emotions from the time I woke up to the smack that morning until we were home and the kids were in bed the next evening. I just cried and cried and cried. It was so horrible and yet we were so so so lucky that even with what happened, he cleared all the tests and we were able to go home relatively quick. Dealing with that, watching my baby go through it, being 35 weeks pregnant and high risk. It was just too much and so traumatic.

I woke up in the middle of the night that night from a nightmare that Kayla had had an accident. I still remember it pretty vividly and I hate it so much. My anxiety has definitely gotten worse.

I am forever grateful for my friend Eleena who helped with Kayla. I can’t even put it to words. Her friendship already meant so much to me, but I needed that safe place for Kayla in that moment and she was there ❤️

Jacob’s birthday present came late. We finally defrosted and life went back to normal-ish 😂

Poor guy 🥲

We had so many sweet drop offs and get wells for Wilson.

And Carter drew the cutest pup 🥹

I do not accept help easily. I don’t want to accept it at all. I knew I needed to this time though. And I can’t even tell you how amazing that first meal was. We had a few more and I am so grateful for those women doing that. I never knew how much I needed it.