Little Man Dillon

In my last post I mentioned that yesterday was stressful - let me explain that a little bit, and use this opportunity to brag on my Dillon! Wednesday my doctor said that my appointment at the hospital would be in the afternoon, and they would call in the morning to give me the exact time. OK, perfect - so Dillon goes to school, and then Dion and I go to the hospital in the afternoon. JUST IN CASE, we'll pack a bag for Dillon and leave his car seat at the school.
Appointment made for 2:45 ... ok, that works. Let's just say it takes an hour, so we're done about 4pm. Dion can leave then and pick up Dillon while I stay at the hospital for monitoring and while I wait for the results. Dillon will be in the bed by the time the results come back. If the results come back negative, we'll just need someone to sit with Dillon while D runs to pick me up. If the results are positive, then we'll need someone to stay at the house until my Mom can get there from the beach. Plan in place. No sweat.
So, we get to the hospital at 2:30 and then at 3 the nurse comes out and says it will be 4pm before we can be seen (the doctor I saw was also the doctor on-call). Then the stressing starts - - - I mean, we were totally prepared for Dillon to go stay with our friends Annie and Andy who also have children at the Goddard School, BUT Dillon had never been ANYWHERE without me, Dion or my Mom. Nowhere. How was he going to react going home with another family? Oh goodness - this is not what I needed right then! I really wanted Dion to stay with me, but maybe it was better if he just left and picked up Dillon ... but then again, it was only going to be about 2 hours, so Dillon should be fine even if he was upset ... all these thoughts are running through my head!
So Dion convinced me that Dillon would be fine, not to worry, etc. Well, turns out Dillon WAS perfectly fine - probably happier than if we had picked him up! We walked into Annie and Andy's house and the kids were eating. Dillon was sitting on the counter because they ran out of high chairs, and he was just as happy as could be! He had pizza, cheese, strawberries, blueberries, raisins ... he was living it up! When he saw us, he said "Mommy! Daddy!", then stuffed his little cheeks some more! No big deal made at all; no sign of relief that we were there! :)
I underestimate Dillon a lot. I cannot believe how chill he is, and how he is so able to adapt to whatever comes up. He is just a little angel! After he finished eating last night, he played with the boys - Charlie is 3 and Caleb is 4 months younger than Dillon. They had the best time and it made me really excited about Dillon getting a sister of his own!

No Baby Tonight!

Thank you all for the kind words on here and facebook! It means a lot to us! Everything went good today - there were a lot of stressful moments, but in the end everything worked out.
The procedure went well - it was a little painful and a lot stressful. The doctor whom I had never met was really nice and encouraging. The technician did a thorough ultrasound and confirmed that everything looked good. The baby is still small, but heartbeat was strong, the blood flowing through the cord was good, movement, etc. He measured the baby at 4 lbs 15 oz, yesterday at the doctor's office, the technician measured at 4 lbs 11 oz. Maybe she gained some weight, or maybe the calculations are just a little off. From what I have learned, ultrasounds later in the pregnancy are not as accurate.
The results of the test came back and they were negative, meaning the lungs have not fully developed. This was good news and bad news to me. I am glad to have some more time to process and get ready for the baby - and glad to not be up all night in labor! But a little disappointed that the lungs haven't developed and we can't just have her now and know that everything is okay. Although - having said that, I am hopeful that she will actually continue to grow over the next few days. Never know!
Right now the plan is for me to call my doctor in the morning and schedule an appointment to hook up to the fetal monitor so she can check the heart rate again. I am hoping to go tomorrow to do this. That will just make me feel a little better about things. And then if nothing goes wrong between now and then, we'll have an induction on Wednesday! Which actually is cool because my doctor is the one on-call starting then, and I love her.
So all is well right now. We still have a healthy, active baby - she just hasn't been introduced to the world yet! (Which considering we still don't have a name is probably a good thing!) Will keep you posted - thanks for all the prayers today! That is really helping!
Now I'm off to eat ... haven't eaten since breakfast. And trust me, I would have been disappointed if my breakfast of cereal and half a bagel was my last meal as a pregnant lady - - I mean, I need to live it up! I can't wait to do the Old Timers at Cracker Barrel one last time on Saturday! Followed by some fried chicken from Bojangles ... Gotta run! Stomach's growling!

Totally Unprepared!!

Oh man - what a day! I went in for a routine OBGYN appt and my whole world changed. Okay - so that's a little dramatic! Basically when my doctor measured my belly, it was smaller than last week, which was smaller than 2 weeks prior to that. The baby has dropped, so that explained what she saw last week, but then with the number going down again this week, she wanted to run additional checks. After an ultrasound, my doctor came to the conclusion that my baby had stopped growing about 4 weeks back and the best thing would be for me to have her now.
NOW?? I am not ready! And why would she want me to have her now if she's small? Okay - I'll try to explain what she told me! I am at 36 weeks exactly today. Everything looks perfectly healthy with me and the baby right now, so there is no rush in that sense, but because it looks like she hasn't grown any, there's no benefit to her staying inside me. At 36 weeks, 75% of all baby lungs are fully developed. At 37 weeks, 95% are. So the only question now is are the lungs developed.
Tomorrow morning the hospital is going to call me with an appointment time and tomorrow afternoon I will go there and have a test done to see if her lungs are indeed fully developed. If they are, they will induce me tomorrow. If they are not, I will be monitored off and on until next Wednesday, and then my doctor will induce me then. Bottom line - we're gonna have a baby in a week! CRAZINESS!!
To add to all of this, my mom is at the beach (thinking she had a good 4 weeks to go!) and my Dad is in Memphis (he arranged his schedule so he'd be home starting mid-May so he'd be home when the baby was born!) So much for planning!!! At least Dion is not at some crazy Darlington race (sorry Kenny!) He has a ticket to go to that next weekend ... uh-huh ... good one! :)
For now, I ask that you say a prayer for us! The next 24 hours will be crazy, and then potentially the next week. Once I know my appt time, I'll let you all know. Once the test is complete, it takes 3-4 hours for the results to come back, so we still won't know right away whether they will induce or not.
It sounds like all is okay, just a little rushed! I still need to pack of course, and wrap up 100 things ... goodness! But overall, I am having positive thoughts - AND I am completely excited about meeting this little no-name girl ... (did I say I had 100 things to do ... make that 101 ... still need to name this baby! And now buy a premie outfit ... 102 ... make it stop!!)
Poor little Dillon ... he has NO IDEA how his world is about to change!!! Say a prayer for him too! :)
Here we go ... ... ...

Update

Boy, we have been BUSY the past several weeks! We are actually putting our house on the market! The paperwork may even get submitted tonight! Yikes! This is very exciting, but makes me very nervous! People will be walking through our house! We have to keep the house straight at basically all times! We are going to sell the house we have put a lot of time, effort and love into! But on the other hand, we are quickly outgrowing our house. In December, our plan was to add a room and bathroom to the second floor, and when that didn't work out, we knew we had to do something. Anyway - wish us luck! We'll post the MLS when it's created!!
We also have been preparing for new baby Vaughn who will be making her entrance in less than 2 months now! CRAZY! And no, we still don't have a name! I know most of you reading this probably think we are just holding out, wanting to make it a surprise. I really wish that was the case! We need to focus on that ... soon! Because we are hoping to move relatively soon, once the house sells, we didn't repaint the baby's room, but we did set it up. Dillon cracks me up! He loves to go "night-night" in her bed, which was his original crib. He also loves swinging in the swing - it's also currently set in her room. AND - now he is into sitting in the infant car seat! It's so funny because he gets stuck in there quite frequently! ha ha ... He's getting too big!!
Dillon is also really into Elmo these days! I don't know how he came to know Elmo so well, but he sure does! When Dion is getting him ready in the morning he does NOT want Dion to put the diaper on him with Big Bird on the front. Oh no! Only Elmo!! Here is a picture of Dillon watching Elmo on YouTube! Patrick and Sara - thanks for introducing us to YouTube! Your dad found a few videos for Dillon on there and he is a fan of the YouTube now too (Dillon that is, your dad always has been!)

Easter 2010

We had a great time Easter Sunday! Dion, Dillon and I went to Winston-Salem. We had a great dinner with Mom, Dad, Grandmom, Memaw and Papaw, then a nice visit with Pat, Phil, Ashley and Jimmy. Good times had by all! Dillon was in heaven because he had ham, green beans, rolls and banana pudding to eat! Oh yeah, and he got to find the Easter eggs and slide on his new slide! Here are some pictures!At the playhouse!
Showing Papaw what he found!

Taking a little break!!