Big update....

Well, Where do I start. Emmilyne has turned 3, Beckam has turned 5 months and had his baptism and I have gone back to work. Yeah to it all.
Lets start with Emmilyne. She is 3! I hear it is the "old 2" as in the "terrible 2's " and I think that I would have to agree..... she can not seem to calm down on anything. She is running, talking, hiding, singing and I know.... being a kid... but she is always waking Beckam up. The boy never gets any sleep with her around.
She is in a pre-school called Whistle Stop. It is a private school and she is excelling at it.... she talks about her new friends: Hunter, Gracie, and Lizzie (all girls) but also talks about Jake... the two of them run on the playground. Don't get boy crazy yet... I think he just likes to run and hop and so does Emmilyne. But Carson had a birhtday this past week.... she has sung happy birthday to him all weekend. She is so sweet. She is hugging Chris and I. She also has this new thing that everytime she kisses us... well... she kisses both cheeks, our forehead and then our lips. Not sure if I did that a few times but now it is our thing... there could be worse habbits.
Beckam. Well he is 5 months old and was baptized earlier this month (the 12th). My sister and brother in law were here from Chicago, my parents from Kansas and Chris's family too. Julie, Jason, Cathy and Rick are all Godparents.
It was great to have everyone here and Chris and I are glad that it has been done. He, of course, was a beautiful baby. He is getting so big....he too just melts my heart.


He has started a day school program. He is attending the First Baptist Church day school. I really like it for him. The ratio is very low... 7:2 which makes me feel really good too. I like the ladies that have him in the morning but I LOVE the ladies that have him in the afternoon. They spoil him rotten....he is always in a great mood when I go and get him in the afternoon after work. He did wonderful at his 5 month check up. Growing like a weed. 14 pounds 12 ounces and 26 3/4 inches long... that is the 40% for weight and 75% for height.
He will be tall and slender. That is what a mama always wants for her boy.
Chris and I... well.. I wen back to work in late September. A job sorta fell into my lap and Chris and I could not pass up the opportunities that it would give us. I work at the corporate level of Marketing for three nursing homes in Dallas. I get to be at in my car all day long... (sometimes not a good thing) traveling to and from hospitals.. marketing and doing clinical assessments. Anyway it is never the same day twice and it keeps me busy. I think that working makes me a better wife and mom. It seems to "balance" me. I have more time... actually to be with the kids. The house is not as clean on the weekdays but it all gets caught up by Monday. Chris and I will celebrate 5 years of marriage on the 15th. Seems like yesterday we got married. he never ceases to amazing me in the things that he thinks of for me or the kids. I love him more today than I did the day we got married and I never thought that was possible. He has always stood beside me and held my hand and given me the two best presents a wife could ever ask for.

Emmilyne Turns 3!

Wow. Who would have thunk it. Our little girl turns 3! Her actual birthday was Tuesday, the 9th but her party is this Saturday, 13th. We are hoping to still have it.. we have Hurricane Ike bearing down on us and it could get a little "icky" but that is the plan.
Tuesday Emmilyne took "pancakes" to school for her class. What she means to say is cupcakes but she says pan instead. And Lord knows, you can not correct her. I think that it is cute. Daddy took her to school and picked her up... she was soooooo happy to see me and Beck when she got home. She told me all about her day. They sang to her and she got to do everything "first" at school for the day. I guess at 3 this is a big deal.
When Chris was loading her into the car, I could not help myself and a little tear went down my cheek. She is getting so big and is very independant. I guess that is how you want them but... she is getting there too quick for me.

I will post additional pictures after her party on Saturday.

Life

Have you ever had the feeling that you are on the outside looking in on your own life? I have had that feeling a few times this week. I am reading my friends blogs and noticing that I am not where they are. Why is that? A good friend of mine said just last week that she was in a "funk" and even her husband noticed. And she could not get out of it. My words to her were that it was going to be okay and that she would snap out of it. Well....hello. It is now my turn in "funkiville". I have rationalize it is Emmilyne is turning 3 next week or I am spending to much time at home(no money will do that to ya)or Texas heat or just miss working? Not sure.... can somebody snap me out of it?
I seem a little gloomie.... well... I am not. Just know that I am not my "cheerful" self.
Chris is trying to be support of but I think that he is in "funkiville" to. But he is just in the menotny of life...work, home, church, work, church, home. That is not good either.
Lot of stuff is coming up on our plates.... Emmilyne turns 3 next wee, Beckam has his baptism early October and our wedding anniversary (5th) is November. I am sure that funkiville will leave the Morrison's soon.... but has anyone seen Tinker Bell? I need a good dusting with Pixie dust!

Emmilyne's Ears

Emmilyne had her second set of tubes placed on the 19th. She had a horrible infection at the time and was "demon child" after the surgery. I am happy to say that she is doing better now and is no longer that demon. She is just 2 and a half. lol

Thank God for Dr. Wyatt and his team. I am not sure what we would have done without him. Emmilyne has had such bad infections and has been delayed in her speech. She is cathing up and we are hoping with enrolling her in a preschool program that the learning and catching up will continue.

Another Trip to Kansas?

I know, I know. We go to Kansas alot. This trip added new excitement. Emmilyne is potty training. She has been on it for about 3 weeks and is doing very well. Her potty was added to teh trunk so we could stop in the middle of no-where if need be.... well we did. It is called Oklahoma.
Well....Granny and Paw Paw love seeing the kids. But this trip was something even more special. We got to visit Uncle Micah and meet Aunt Patti.

Meet Aunt Patti....wow... they have been married a year but we had not met her yet. In May of 2007 we could not afford to go to Detroit to the reception and it is too far to drive from Dallas to Detroit so we had to wait. They were heading to Kansas to see the folks and we got to go too! Emmilyne starting talking about Patti as soon as we got in the car. She hit if off with Aunt Patti.

Even helped her blow out her birthday candles... Emmilyne was so excited...she kept saying her cake... we had to explain that her birthday is next month... September.

I was very happy to see my brother. I don't get to see him near enough. Tears came to my eyes when he held my kids and Emmilyne gave him a kiss. She has always said the two of them in her prayers at night... now she know who they are.

Emmilyne loves to swim and got to swim in mom's pool too.... It was a little cold...they were having a cool front so it was only about 75 degrees each day. Emmilyne does not care about the water tempature, just as long as she gets to "go swimming" and "jump". She and Micah also blew bubbles in the backyard. Emmilyne now "LOVES" her Uncle Micah... they did bubbles for about a hour!

We had a great time as you can see by the many photos... we did not leave until later on Sunday and had a chance to go feed the ducks at the local park. One thing that Mom always does with Emmilyne and Emmilyne loves it. We all went this time. It was very nice.

One rule I think we learned.... never leave Kansas to come home at 7:30 in the evening. lol

Thank heaven for Children's

Beckam... wow.. only 9 weeks old and already has us hoppin'.

Wednesday the 23rd (also my mom's B-Day) Beckam was running a low grade fever and I was not too worried about it... he had his shots just a few days before. Well... Chris came home and leaned down and kissed Emmilyne and me and then Beckam... and noted that he was "hot". I was feeding him so when I finished I changed his diaper and took his temperature. It was 101.1

I gave him some tylenol and waited for that to take effect. The more I thougth about it I thought I needed to call the pediatrician. So, I did. The nurse called me back and said that even with shots he should not be that hot. Dr. Neely (who we found due to the Jecko's) has priviledges at Children's so that is where we were to take them. Well...Chris had State of Texas in his building with annual survey and would need to go to work the next day and Emmilyne was in the tub so Beckam and I headed off to Children's hospital in downtown Dallas (about a 45 minuted drive from our house) to get Beckam looked at. I was just sure that he had an ear infection and his temp was getting high....that is what we are acustom to with Emmilyne, But no-the-less, mom was worried. It was 10:30 at night and we are headed to Harry Hines in Dallas? What are we? Crazy? Got there and had to wait about one and a half hours to be seen. The ER had 3 trauma's come in and I heard a "CodeBlue" once. Not a good sign. So they took some history and starting poking at Beckam. They did a nasal swab and a urine culture...(sorry to say that an intern inserted the catheter...it was her first on a baby boy..but she did really well) and then came the search for a good vein on Beckam to take blood. Well, we learned that he has small veins and they are close to the surface of his skin which makes the needles blow the line easy. So after 6 tries, they got his blood. We waited and waited. We then went off to have a chest X-ray and when we came back the Emergency room doctor was in Beckam's room. They had received the results of his blood work and it was not good. He has a white blood cell count of 19.4. I was told that it was very high, 22 is considered critical for a baby his age and size. Therefore, they wanted to do a spinal tap. I had to sign for it to be completed and then I called Chris, crying. I was not sure what was going on but I did not think that I could be in the room for that. A few minutes later, they started the procedure. I picked up my phone and headed out of the room to call mom and let her know what was going on and the doctor called me back into the room. Beckam was hyperventilating because he was crying so hard and they did not want me to leave. So I had to stay and watch. I will never forget that. The first few nights at home after the hospital I dreamed about it. NOT GOOD!

After all the test were done... we waited. Waited. Waited. At 4 am they told me that Beckam did have pneumonia. In his right middle lobe for sure and possibly in his left lower lobe. We were going to be admitted to the hospital under Dr. Neely's care.

We got up to his room C6-252 (tower C, 6th floor, room 252) at about 6:30 am and I was exhausted. With the help of the nurses, which were on all shifts were WONDERFUL, we got Beckam into his crib and my sofa/bed ready for me to rest in. Chris showed up on his way to work after giving Emmilyne to Julie so she could take Emmilyne to Bert's (thanks to you both) and Chris's face was a light for me. That is the one of two times I cried at the hospital.

Beckam was there for 3 days and had 4 rounds of IV antibotics and sent home with 10 days of oral antibotics. His poor tummy is so upset with all the medicine.

Our family and friends from Church came to visit. We are so glad they did.... Auntie Cathy and Father Jed (sorry I put Father in but it is your title...we know..."Just Jed") also came to visit but I did not get pictures of them while they were there.

Emmilyne was upset about Beckam and I being gone when we woke up. Chris explained that Baby Beck was sick and that he was with the doctor. With that, she seemed okay. Julie tells me that she was saying "Baby Beck sick" often and was eager to see us. When she did see Beckam at the hospital she wanted to get in the crib with him. She did and she just loved on him and kissed him. That was the other time I cried. She is a good big sister.

We are all home now and Beckam seems to be healing good. We will return to the doctor on Tuesday for a check up.

Everyone kept telling us that if something had gone wrong, that Beckam was in the best hopital for it to happen. I would agree. Children's Hospital is the best. The nurses and staff were amazing with Beckam. I will not hesitate to take him or Emmilyne there for any reason.

Thanks to all of you who helped with Emmilyne or prayers or calls. We love you all.

So long Jecko's

We will miss you so much.... Emmilyne loves being with Ann Elizabeth. They play so well together. We enjoyed them while they were in small group and I grew to have a one of a kind friendship with Christine. She and I were in the same place in life... almost the same age with two children each... and them almost the same age, AND we think alike... that was amazing. She made for a great confidant. We will now need to continue that friendship long distance... I am sure that we can do it. Chris and I are already planning a trip in the spring to North Carolina. Here are pics of our last time together... we had dinner out!

Beckam is Two Months Old

Beckam went to the doctor for his two month check. He did great. He is 11 pounds, 2 ounces and 23 and a half inches. That puts him in the 45th percentile for weight and the 75th percentile for height. He is getting to be our big boy! It is so strange to have that high of percentiles... Emmilyne is so petite...in the 15th percentile for weight and 25th percentile for height (at her 2 year check). He also had 4 vaccinations and an oral vaccine. He came home and slept all afternoon.

Back from Kansas!

Wow.... it has been a long week. We had a great time as the pictures show. Emmilyne loves being at Granny and Pawpa's.

It is like I had 3 kids in Kansas.... Beckam, Emmilyne and Chris....Chris loves going to Kansas for the 4th as he can shoot off fireworks at Moms. (Texas says no fireworks... Kansas says yes)We had a good time.... I had a minor incident with a sparkler....but I will be fine....

Granny and Pawpa just spoil her. She has toys, a new pool (baby one, of course), new clothes and all the attention a two year old could ask for.

When we were in Oklahoma meeting Chris when he came to get us... she did not want her carseat moved over to our car because "she was going with Granny". Makes me want to cry.... she just loves it there.... but who wouldn't.

I got to see my good friend, Melisa while I was home. It is always good to see her. Her oldest had a BB game as Emmilyne calls it. Wow does Emmilyne love "BB games." That is all we have heard for a few days.

Happy Fourth of July

Well... we are still in Kansas visiting the grandparents and life could be better. Took Emmilyne to the doctor today...she ran temp last night of 102.6. Scared the crap out of me. Chris is in Texas working this week and it is just me here with mom and dad. She so often will have seizures with spikes in her temp and I can handle them with Chris... don't want to try it without. She is doing better now. She has a sinus infection and it was heading to her ears.... got it before it got to bad.

On a different note... the Jecko's will be leaving almost as soon as we get home... not happy about that either... Emmilyne will miss AE very much. They are like two peas in a pod. Emmilyne has asked about AE a few times while we have been on the trip. Not sure how to explain it to her yet.

Have some great pics of this trip... will add them to the page when I get home. Can't connect our camera to dads computer.

The Start

Tonight we were at the Wrights having a great evening... the kids all playing and the adults all talking. We all were in need of a family webpage and Kathy said that she use's blogger... so here we are. This is a new thing for me so just be patient.... I will be learning lots.

Here we go!!