The Tale of Two Preemies: Update

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Update

Whoo! It's been a while since I blogged. This summer has been crazy busy. Here's what we've been up to the last couple of weeks

Tate finished up his swimming lessons. He did great. He started jumping in without holding hands, which Cole still won't do. The last day we got to go down the water slide. He loved it. Cole has always been nervous of the water gushing at you from the top, but Tate just started laughing the second we sat down and continued laughing the whole way down. He's a lot of fun in the water. I wish we could make it to the pool once in a while.
Other things we learned in swimming lessons:

We are related to our instructor. Her father-in-law and my father-in-law are first cousins.
When parent child lessons involve water slides, that's when fathers fill in. Granted we did that with Cole, but I was 7 months pregnant and didn't feel like holding a 2 year old while traveling down a water slide. I like water slides and going with Tate was actually a lot of fun. I guess I should have seen it coming though. I was the only parent that helped out for Cole's class when they went down the water slide.

A couple of college friends came for a visit last week. We had 5 boys under the age of 5 between the 3 of us. It was a lot of fun. The kids got to run around the farm and we got to visit a little bit. I forgot what it was like to have babies around. Not sure if I really want to go there again. Babies are so much work!
Saturday, my Father-in-law hosted a family reunion for his mother's side of the family. They had a good turn out and they all had a good time. I didn't do much other than make a pan of bars and try to help. It was hot and windy and I forgot to take my allergy meds. I'm still paying for it.
I also started going to the chiropractor. He did some amazing stuff for my sinuses yesterday and I ran to the barn this morning without any pain in my back. There goes one excuse for not running!
I got to go shopping by myself on Sunday. It would have been more enjoyable if I hadn't felt like I had been hit by a truck, but it was nice anyway. I bought myself and iPod Touch and am still feeling a little guilty about it. I had looked at getting one earlier for our trip to New Orleans, but thought I could wait. I went to look at getting a better MP3 player for the car since the one I have has horrible sound quality and it is going to get me in an accident. I decided that there wasn't much point in wasting $60 on and MP3 player I would replace with a Touch anyway. I should have ordered the bigger one earlier. The 8 GB isn't quite big enough. I'm still trying to get all my music uploaded which is part of the reason for the lack of blogging.
We leave bright and early Friday morning for New Orleans. I've been so busy I haven't really thought much about leaving the kids. I have a ton to do to get everything ready and I have very little motivation to do any of it now. There's always tomorrow!
If you need a good laugh, here is what Cole told me today... "I will poop, then you will wipe my butt, and then we'll make Tate's birthday cake." followed by "Mo-om, I'm done! It's a funny one."

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Cole's Story

Cole was born at 30 weeks 3 days, much to our surprise, in 2006. I went in to the hospital because I wasn't feeling well and was afraid I'd get dehydrated. I ended up being air lifted to a larger hospital where Cole was born 24 hours later. He weighed in at 4 lbs. 2 oz. and was 17" long. He had some developmental delays, mostly due to acid reflux. He also had positional plagiocephaly and was in a remolding helmet for 6 weeks. At 14 months he underwent a cardiac catheter procedure to close his PDA. At 25 months he tripped getting out of his kiddie pool and broke his femur. He was in a cast from his hips to his toes for 4 long weeks. He also broke his shoulder at age 5 1/2. His latest medical drama has been a cyst in his left ear. He's had his adenoids removed and another surgery to remove the cyst. He'll have a second surgery in August. He's been through the ringer, but you'd never know it. He just rolls with the punches. He's 100% farm boy. He wants to know how everything works and why. He loves the farm. Farming is definitely in his blood.

Tate's Story

Tate was born at 34 weeks 2 days in 2008. Since I had a previous premature delivery, I was on high alert for another one. It didn't help. We had ultrasound after ultrasound and everything looked great. Tate, however, was not patient. I was admitted to the hospital with preterm labor. He held off for a couple of days, but was still born early. He weighed 5 and a half pounds and was 19" long. Fortunately he had no problems and was released from the hospital 3 days after he was born. He was born the middle child. He desperately wants to do what his big brother does, but has his own interests and wants Cole do to those with him. He's my trouble-maker, fit-thrower, and snuggle bug.