Varsity LaLeath Jones

the STORY.... sorry if it kind of long

Thursday Josh took the day off work because he was having a breathing machine dropped off so he took the day off because of the window that they were suppose to be coming. I had a horrible sore throat so it was great having him home to help with the boys. He basically let me just lay around and sleep. About 3pm I started having some mild contractions and didn't expect any kind of pattern. About 7pm I realized I was still having these contraction, I got a little excited because the next day I had a Dr. Appointment first thing in the morning this appointment was to see if I was dilated at all. If I was then my Dr. was going to let me try for a VBAC instead of having to have a C-section and he was going to schedule an induction for the following Wednesday. Well.... about 9pm the contractions started getting further down and more intense. I decided I should maybe put a bag together just in case anything happened during the night. Then decided to take a shower also to prepare in case. Before I hopped in Jase found me hunched over my bed (in the middle of a contraction) he asked "mom are you doing exercises?" I told him no and to go get daddy. "why" he asked. I told him to go get daddy because sister is ready to come and play. He got very excited and ran downstairs to Josh. I heard him talking to Josh and josh was in no hurry to come upstairs. Then he told him about the sister coming to play. When he got upstairs I gave him a quick run down of what I was doing. I hadn't told him I was contracting earlier. I asked him to time them while I was in the shower. He got concerned and asked why I hadn't told him earlier, because they were coming every 2 min. He told me I didn't have a choice we were going to the hospital. He quickly called our friends Brian and Tanya to see if the boys could spend the night over there while we went to the hospital, he got a few bags for the boys together and about 30min later we were off. (10pm) When we entered the ER they asked if I was in labor I replied with my contractions are coming every 2min. "oh yeah we need to get you upstairs" was they comment back. I had called the labor and delivery floor before leaving the house so they already had my paper work at the Er's front desk . Next thing I knew I was in a wheel chair being quickly taken upstairs. Once we got there they checked me and started that whole process. I was at 2-3 centimeters so I was staying. They asked if I was doing a c-section or a VBAC. I told them what my doctor and I had already discussed. But once they informed the doctor that was on call our plans, the decision was quickly turned around. The doctor on call did not do VBAC. (Because there is a chance that during delivery you could have your scar rupture and if you had a epidural you might not feel it cause you to possibly die as well as you baby.) If i was still set on a VBAC then I would have to sign a paper going against medical advice and and understood that I and the baby could loose our lives. Josh and I discussed it and it wasn't worth the risk so a c-section it was. About 10min later the doctor came in and checked me again and then asked me about the plans that my doctor and I had already previously discussed. Well in the short time that I had been there I was already now 5-6. The doctor said that since I progressing at a good pace she would let me go ahead and try vaginally as long as I continued to progress every hr. YEAH!!! I was super excited and the worry about the the scar rupturing was put to ease a little seeing as how there is a less than 1% chance of that happening ( it is still a risk that some doctors aren't comfortable with). (11pm) Then next move was to a permanent room down the hall. And oh how nice it was to see the anesthesiologist about 5min later. The only thing I could have done without was all of his explaining of what he was going to do, while I am going through some oh so lovely painful contractions. After the 20 min it took for that to take full effect. They came back in to break my water, and 15min later (12am) they came in to see if I progressed any more. Much to every ones surprise I was ready!!! little girl would be here soon. After about 5 series of pushing with the nurses they had me hold up and quickly found the doctor. two pushes later Varsity was here (12:28 am).

It was such a great experience. Quick moving but not to the point where everything was rushed and chaotic. There was no after birth pain which made it so fun to just watch josh taking pictures of his little girl and watching her as she just contently let the nurses and doctors do all of her assessing.

Don't mind the black and white pictures. Josh didn't realize the camerawas set on Black and white. He was just and excited daddy.

Varsity's onsie I made for her

The boys' shirts (front) I made

the boys' shirts (back).

On Joshs' shirt it had "supervisor " under the Security.

Little Update

Just a quick update on our upcoming arrival...
At my checkup last week the doctor had a few concerns, one with the amount of weight I had lost inbetween my last visit (5+ pounds) and that I wasn't measuring as big as he would normaly like to see being this far along. (Yea I thought less for me to try and lose after delivery). He reassured me that 99% of the time the measuring is small because the baby has already started to drop. Just to be on the safe side he is having me go for an ultra sound on Tuesday to check her size and to make sure everything is ok. Next Monday I go for another check up and if by some chance (crossing my fingers) any dialating has happened then he is going to induce most likely the next day. Otherwise if there is no activity going on we will go forward with the schedualed c-section on the 17th. Not exactly what I want to do, not looking forward to recovering from a surgery with a newborn and 3 very active boys. But whatever happends I'm excited to meet our little girl and can't believe it is finally almost here.

New house and A Mother of the Year Nomination

Well i guess it's time for a very long over due update.....

We signed the papers on our Brand New house the beginning of the month (June). And I love it!!!! with just about 3500 sq ft, it's a four bedroom, 2 1/2bath, Living room, Family room, morning room/dinning room, basement and a big backyard. Josh, myself and my dad have been busy moving from our rental to the new place. Our first thought was hey we have a whole month to slowly move from the townhouse over to the house... after about a week of slowly moving things we got the bug to just get it done and over with. So now with 2 weeks left in our lease we are completely moved out and the other place is ready to be turned back over. And since then the spending and begun with me. You always figure oh we'll get a few nice things for the new place and then it's like the book if you give a mouse a cookie... if you get one thing then you have to get the other to go with it, and then you might as well through this in to, we'll just see how much trouble I can get in to :) minor unpacking is still being done so pictures will be up soon when some of the clutter is gone.


Mother of the Year
some of you might have known when Kage was a baby his feet were really turned in. At every checkup I would mention it as well as with his developmental specialist (for being premature) and everyone said not to worry wait until he starts walking it'll correct it's self. Before we moved out here last year was still convinced that something was wrong so his pediatrician sent me to the orthopedic surgeon where I was told again wait until he really starts walking and his feet will straighten on their own. FINE i get it I'll wait! Well now that he has been walking for quite some time now I asked our friend who is a podiatrist what he thought? and right off he said he should be seen by the orthopedic surgeon. Long story semi short... We went in and Yep he in-toes, meaning it's a problem that needs to be fixed. And they could have done the little shoes that look like sandals on the wrong feet, but that is something they generally start before they are 1yrs old. WHAT!!! so instead we are doing serial cast. Meaning every two weeks we go to Milwaukee and they put a new set of casts, repositioning his feet to turn out a little more each time. Right now we are on the second set and Tuesday we go in for round 3. So pretty much all summer Kage will be in a cast on both legs, so much for swimming. But it's something that needed treatment.

Now for the second part....
On Wednesday I was at work when I received a call with them saying it's your dad and it sounds like something is wrong. (I'm thinking the boys locked him out of the house, or maybe someone is sick.) My dad says I'm really sorry I think Jase broke his wrist, It's really swollen already,we were at the park and he lost his grip on the monkey bars, I'm really sorry. The whole time in the back round I can hear Jase screaming and my dad is pretty paniced himself. So i tell work I've gotta go and off to get Jase I went.
I called the pediatrican and they said to come in. The doctor said it might be nurses elbow generally that happens to kids when they are hanging from something. Well when he asked Jase if we could lift up his arm and all Jase did was stare at him with this "are you stupid" face, the doctor pulled his sleeves back and said " so this is what a normal wrist looks like and this once obviously has something wrong with it. His wrist has huge and made an "S" shape. The doctor would even touch it. He said we were probably looking at anesthesia to have it corrected. He called down to the ER and then had Jase transported down there. Were they did X-rays and found that both bones in his right wrist had broke and then went backwards laying on top at an angle. So we waited a few min while they called up to Pre-op and then transported us up there. Mean while I had called Josh to let him know what was going on, and then he left work to try and make it before they took Jase back into surgery. Poor little guy was in so much pain and was so exhausted but they couldn't give him anything because of the anesthesia that they were going to be giving him. Josh made it time to spend a few min. with Jase before they took him back. The procedure to about 30min. After that we spent a few more hours there in the pediatric part making sure he was ok and coming out of it without any problems. Now Jase is in a soft splinted cast until we go back on Tuesday to make sure the bones haven't re shifted and the swelling will be down then they will decided to keep it splinted like it is or put it in a hard cast. Either way we are looking at 5-6 weeks.

Thus this is how I received my nomination for Mother of the Year, 2 of my 3 boys are in casts. I am surprised I made it this long without one of my very active little boys breaking something. And just last week when Jase went with me to get Kages cast changed he said "mom I want a cast like Kager" well he did it.
Please excuse the blury picture trying to get them to sit still and look at the camera is not an easy one. Especially after church when everyone is hungry. Since this picture was taken Jase now has a hard cast that is actually really pretty it's a dark green. When kage had his casting appoinment later that same day Jase requested that he have green casts like him.

LONG OVER DUE

Josh got the chance to experience Wrigley Field for the first time on CHICAGO CUBS OPENING DAY!!!

















One of the companies that he does business with found out he was a cubbies fan ( because that's who his wife likes) and got him opening day bleacher seats.




All last year ( while I was still in AZ.) different vendors he worked with offered him tickets but he kindly past them along to other guys he worked with. He said his first time at Wrigley he wanted me to be there. ( thanks babe)




The game weather was definitely not ideal. Raining ALL day everyone thought the game was actually going to be canceled. Luckily it did actually get started and then delayed a few innings later because of more rain. So it was cold, WINDY, and raining but it was opening day and my cubbies so it was still fun. To bad they couldn't pull off a win, but since this post is sooooo late it isn't really bothering me seeing as they are in FIRST PLACE! We only have 141 games left 'till the end of the regular season so we'll see if they can hold on for a few more months.




Our View From the Bleacher seats

The power of ZOOM on a camera.... the picture above this one is a true view of where we were sitting. This picture is one of the Ernie Banks Statue presented to him at the game (banks is the one with the blue cap on and the statue is next to him) this was up by home plate, I think 300-400 feet from where we were sitting. It's hazy because of the rain and fog.



First pitch ( a little blurry, I was freezing so the hands were shaky)
So much for a sunny baseball game. This is what the sky looked like.

FUN, FUN, FUN, Even with no sun

We recently were able to go with the Griffeth and Sproul families to try out a new indoor waterpark resort that opened up about a month ago across for six flags in Gurnee (Keylime Cove) They have four huge slides coming out the side of the hotel and after many twist and turns they go back into the hotel. So all the kids were way excited about where we were going. Tanya had a great idea to bring along one of the young woman/Kaitlyn and she watched and played with the younger kids in the different areas of the park making it a very enjoyable time for the kids and Adults. After a few ( 5 hrs) of play we headed to our rooms got the nice and tired kids ready for bed and then the adults went out to dinner while Kaitlyn watched the kiddos for us.

The next morning everyone was up early headed for the breakfast Buffet and then off for another 9 hrs of play in the park.

Jase

Jackson

McKenzie

It was so cute to watch these three play they would wait for each other to come down the slide and clap for one another. then they would all run together and do it all over and over again.

Jase, McKenzie, and Jackson

Kage was attached to Kaitlyn, and she was great with ALL the kids.

McKenzie taking kage down the slide

Kage and Kadin playing

And then took turns crashing, all this fun is hard work.


Brain and Josh with the boys in the hot tub, what manly men!!!

Brian and Jackson----Josh and Jase standing on the Bridge right before 250 gallons of water spills out of a giant Pineapple onto them.

Big Boy Beds

So in order to get preperations going for our new arrival in only a few short months. The boys are now sharing one room with bunk beds. Freeing up Jase's room and that will be the little girls room. Everytime they go to sleep either for a nap or at night it's always a new sleeping arrangement as to who is sleeping where and with who, but at least they are sleeping and are usually pretty excited about going to bed. YEAH!!!

it's A ????

Ok I went into the ultra sound not wanting to find out what the sex of the baby is. Josh on the other hand was convinced that he was going to find out. When I got into the room I told the Lady that I didn't want to know what the baby was so she wouldn't slip up. At the end of the scan the she asked "ok you don't want to know what it is right?" ( the whole time aside from needing to pee extremely bad, I kept looking to see if there were any objects in the pictures that had been in my other baby ultra sounds.) Josh spoke up right away and said yeah I want to know, and I somehow agreed to let him find out. I turned my head a away from the screen and watched him. The lady typed it on the screen, and with the straightest face I've ever seen Josh make he just said OK like it was no big deal. The results were put in an envelope for me just in case I later wanted to find out. Once we were done I let my friend Tanya know we were on our way over she also wanted to know what I was having. It happened to be that our other friend Melanie was at her house as well. When we got there I went towards the back were the kids were because I didn't want to see or hear any ones reaction. Once they knew they call me out, and then wanted to know why I didn't want to know. I Just wanted the extra anticipation of not knowing, and not that I would have been disappointed if it was a boy, but the hope of having a girl would still be there. After talking with them for a while I broke down, I wanted to know. Knowing that Josh, and two of my closest friends knew, it was only a matter of time I would want to know what they knew. So Tanya's daughter McKenzie read me the note from the envelope. "Congratulations you got your girl". I know kind of a long story but I love how I found out! Anyways I'm way excited and so is Josh he was hoping for a girl too. Now I can start shopping!!!