Kael's Surgery

On Wednesday December 3rd Kael had surgery to separate his two middle fingers. He was born with a complete syndactyl on one hand. He is doing well and has a cast from the tips of his fingers to his shoulder. Learning to adjust with one hand has been a little frusterating for him because he is so independent. I took some pictures of his hand before surgery and I will try to download them. I will also try to take some of him in his cast.

Thats the only news I have on the homefront right now. I am too exhausted for words.

Moving again

Well, I know 3 blogs in one day, but I really don't think pictures only count. Although I do loving looking at other people's pictures.

Anywhooo. We are moving again. As most of you know we sold our house back in 2007 only to move into a rental that was too small, after 2 months in the winter we found another rental, and guess what it was on the market and sold 2 months after we moved in. Well we weren't getting enought time to look into buying another house and I found a house at the beginning of December to rent and we moved again...We rented this house with option to buy. Well, God had other plans. Kevin lost his job in April of 2008 and we thought all hope was lost. We had no income. The kids I was watching I would no longer have as of the End of June, but God gave us one more week in July thankfully. So now, we have no income but thankfully we had a savings.

God is good. Kevin got a job at the beginning of August, it was only enough to put food on the table nothing else. No rent, utitilties, just a few minor bills, so we continued to use our savings. Long behold we continued to pray to God for the answer and in his time he provided Kevin with a wonderful job. Still not making what he was used to, but enough that we could survive. At this time we decided there was no way we could purchase this house and we contacted our landlord to let him know we would not be able to sign the option to purchase agreement because of a change in our financial situation. He was very gracious that we notified him and gave him plenty of advance notice; however, he did not want to continue to rent to us because he wants to sell the property.

Again, God Provides. We contacted our realtor and explained we needed a house to buy or rent with option that would be affordable for us. We also told him we could not get a loan because Kevin had just got a new job. Long behold he found us a house and the owners had the house paid off and were willing to finance us at a 6% rate. Its a 5 bedroom house not nearly as big as what we are living in, but it was our answer. So we are again moving with the intention of staying put for a long time.

God is Good. He does not always give to us when we ask for it, but he does give in his own time.

Family Pic at the Pumpkin Farm

Trip to the Pumkin Farm

Well, I'm a little late in posting this but here are some pictures from our trip to the pumkin farm. Let me tell you I got some great shots and have decided that instead of spending a ton of money on professional photo's if I get a good one I'm using it.

Kael's big boo boo

Well, on Friday we had our first major mishap. Not bad for having a kid almost 10 years old. Our 2 1/2 year old Kael had a tumble with the dog. Parker and Kael had gone out to play while I was cleaning up our lunch mess on Friday. AJ, our dog, was also outside and I am always out there stepping on his leash so he can't knock the kids over when they are going down the stairs. The one time I'm not there he knocks Kael over on the concrete and busts his head open in about 4 different spots, that of which 2 spots were pretty deep. So I called my neighbors and no one answered. So I loaded up Emerson and Kael into the car and couldn't find Parker anywhere. I had sent him to our neighbors to see if she was home, but he stopped at another neighbors to chat. Well I get him in the car, he has no shoes, so I have to go back home and get him shoes. Then off to the hospital emergency room. Well 6 hrs later Kael had 4 staples in the back of the head. But not without an onterage of people. Daddy showed up, Grandma, Auntie Katie, Cousin Emily, and Auntie Rosie were all there to hear him scream while he got his staples. It was awful. Poor little guy was such a trooper. If I get some pictures taken I will post them.

I'm not sure where Parker gets his knowledge :-)

Well, as you all know we had a baby girl just a little over a week ago. My neighboor lady came to visit last week and said to me your never going to guess what Parker told me. I thought OOOOHHH NO! Well our neighboors name is Debbie and she said Parker came over to tell her he had a new sister and you know "He is a girl" and Debbie said "oh" Parker said "you know how I know" and Debbie said no how do you know. Parker said "because He doesn't have balls" Ok now anyone not laughing at that. I nearly fell out of my seat and wet my pants I was laughing so hard.

Needless to say a few days later I asked him if he told his teacher he had a baby sister. And he said yes I told her, the same above story is what he told her, and he said she laughed at me. :-) I can't imagine why she laughed. :-)

Emerson is here

So, I'm reading my friend Lisa's blog and realize that she actually reads these blogs like I do and now I am feeling guilty, because I am so bad about blogging Ir eally need to get with it. Not only am I bad but sometimes I actually forget how to do this.

So today's blog is just to say that Emerson Meghan Payne-Brennan has arrived in all her glory with a great story to tell. Granted if you read myspace or facebook you will find my story there as well. I'm not going to try to make it all glamourous or funny even though it really was a truly amazing and funny story. I just don't have the energy to tell it in even more detail. Also, Lisa said to post this award and I'm like her a rule breaker so lets see if I can post the award. Ok I can't post it but when I figure it out I will.

Emerson's story.

Emerson is here Current mood: ecstatic
Well, Emerson's birth story is quite funny. My husband told me on Friday that since we had been at the hospital 3 weeks in a row on a Friday that I wasn't allowed to go this past Friday. Well I didn't go, I refused I actually said I won't go to the hospital on Friday and if she is born then she will be born in our bed :-) I was having some wicked Braxton Hicks Contractions on Friday night, but managed to toss and turn and sleep through them. Saturday morning Austin and Carson both had a soccer game. So we were at the field from 8:30 til Noon. We were trying to decide on something yummy for dinner, but couldn't come up with anything good. My inlaws were going out to dinner with my husbands cousins for there anniversary, so Kevin kind of invited us to go and we got a sitter for the boys. I went grocery shopping to pic up some essentials for the weekend and dinner for the boys then came home and watched the boys swim at the neighbors house for a few hours. I had been having some very irregular contractions a little painful, but nothing major.
The sitter arrived at 6:00 and we were out the door on the way to my inlaws. By then my contractions were becoming a little more painful, but still very irregular. We had some appetizers and Kevin had a drink with the family and then we left for dinner. I told Kevin on the way there that I was having contractions but they were very irregular and I was pretty sure they were only Braxton Hicks. We got to the resteraunt and I went to the restroom hoping I wouldn't have to go again through dinner. We sat down and I kept having these contractions then I decided they were just uncomfortable pains and she was probably pushing on me trying to get comfortable. We ordered our drinks and dinner around 7:30. They were having a really yummy creamy bacon cheesburger soup and I then turned around and ordered a virgin pina colada :-) Very good. My mother in law doesn't hear very well and sat in between me and Kevin's Cousin Patti. Well Patti and I were talking back and forth and laughing because my mother in law kept saying what? what? what? so Patti and I were getting the giggles. Well I had to go to the restroom again so off I went. Well the contractions were getting bad enough that I stood at the sink for a few minutes before being able to walk out of the bathroom. Went back and sat down. Everyone was talking and laughing and my mother in law still couldn't hear so Patti kept leaning over telling me what she was saying...well by this time I didn't want to talk anymore, but was trying to hide my pain. I wanted dinner :-) Well they kept talking and laughing and Patti kept leaning in to tell me what she was saying. I think the seating arrangements should have been differently LOL. Needless to say my father in law decided it was time to order shots and about that time I looked at Kevin and said I don't think thats a good idea. And he was basically like "Whatever" he ordered the shot and I was biting my lip. Patti said are you ok? and I said I don't think so. I said we need to go NOW! So Kevin cancelled his drink. What stinks is they were about ready to bring out our food. LOL ya thats all I could think about. We got in the car and before we got out the parking lot the contractions were coming 2 minutes apart. Thank God we were at dinner and not home because the drive from home is about 45 minutes and where we were for dinner was about 15 minutes. We got to the hospital at 8:30 and I couldn't even get out of the car. I was breathing through the contraction, got out of the car and Dr.'s and nurses were everywhere they thought I was going to deliver in the car. We got to my room which seemed like forever, but wasn't. The nurses took off my clothes. I stood up and breathed through a contraction, while an on call Dr. kept saying just lay down. I said to him I can't give me one second. I laid down and was dilated to a 6. My Dr. walked in the room about 2 minutes later and checked me and I was at an 8. She said I'm gonna break your water and this baby is going to come. Sure enough she broke my water and after 3 pushes Emerson was here. She was born on 09/06/08 at 8:46 pm (not sure if you caught it but she was born in 16 minutes from arriving at the hospital)weighing 7 lbs 1 oz 20 inches long, bruised face from coming so fast, and what our peditrician calls mickey mouse ear bumps on the top of her head from coming so fast. My Dr. thanked me and said she was at a Breast Cancer Gala and they were doing facials and getting ready to have dinner. She said she really didn't want to be there doing that. She supports the cause just didn't like the facials. LOL She looked very good when she got to the hospital. She said she ran as fast as she could because they called her back and said I was going to deliver in the Parking lot. She said you have some good self control LOL. She gave me hug and thanked me for getting her out of dinner. Great story huh? Only gets better. Because I didn't make it there in time for the epideral I had to start fasting at Midnight so I could have my tubal done the next morning. Well we thought my inlaws would bring mine and Kevin's dinner but they cancelled our dinner and the cafeteria at the hospital was closed. A nurse managed to find me a turkey sandwhich which I ate. And then didn't get to eat again for another 18 hours and it was liquids.
Needless to say we came home yesterday afternoon and Emerson is doing great. I still can't believe she's here.

The question is????

That is the question of the day and the last 3 weeks. When is Emerson coming? Well in the past 3 weeks I have been in the hospital 3 times. Once for contractions 5 minutes apart, no she didn't arrive, I was dehydrated. How can a person drinking at least 75 oz of water a day become dehydrated. Thats a rhetorical question :-)

2nd Trip to the hospital was because my Dr. sent me for bloodwork, then they admitted me. The Dr. thought I might have preclampsia, which I didn't thankgoodness. Granted it was around lunch time and I was starving, but I couldn't have anything to eat per the nurses incase they had to take the baby via C-Section.

Then last night, our 10th anniversary, all the way to dinner I was having contractions, but I was determined to eat dinner and have desert before I went to the hospital. So we had dinner, which I didn't enjoy much because the contractions were 5 - 7 minutes a part for the whole 2 hours we were there. So we decided since we were close to the hospital to just go and walk around and if they got stronger we would go inside. Well by the time we got there they were pretty strong and I didn't want to have to drive all the way home and come back and barely make it. Well after we were there a couple of hours the contractions stopped. Ya, just stopped. So needless to say I came home. My oldest son Austin said so where's the baby, UGH, I wanted to say duh can't you see I'm still pregnant, but I didn't I just said it was a false alarm.

So when is Emerson coming? I really don't know but I'm almost positive she is going to make a grand entrance into this world. I mean she is going to be our only girl, and she has already played havoc on my body.

Tattle Tailing

Is tattle tailing natural or is it learned. My boys came back from Florida and OH My GOODNESS!!! Austin can't quit tattling. I mean I expect this from a little one but he is almost 10. YIKES! I don't think Carson can do anything right. But I have to say this time I think its a tad of there Paw's fault. He really favors Carson and from what I understand Austin can do no wrong. Well Carson isn't good at sticking up for himself if he feels intimidated and I am pretty sure his Paw is intimidating. Well I am pretty good I mean I have been there mom for 9 and 7 years and I know the little tricks up there sleeves and Austin had forgotten how well I know him. I don't ever believe the first thing that comes out of any of there mouths and I always ask what exactly happened and only one person can talk at a time. OUCH! Austin has been caught. I love them dearly and just want them to be kids.

Needless to say I am so glad they are home from Florida, but I think I need a break already :-)

fLoRidA is great mom

Well Austin and Carson seem to be having a great time in Florida; however, the only thing that concerns me is all they can talk about today is there bodily functions. But then again I guess boys will be boys.

Apparantly they have been staying up late and enjoying themselves with the 21 and above crowd. The older ones have been feeding them chocolate and candy so I'm sure they are in Heaven. And playing games that my boys won't be allowed to play for many years. I'm going to have alot of explaining to do :-)

And then there were two

My two older boys are in Florida with there grandparents and can I just tell you it is sooo weird to have only 2 boys at home. They don't require much, food, drink, and fishing. Its so easy. I wouldn't trade having four kids in for anything but it is nice to have some quiet time.

I had a Dr. appt yesterday and baby Emerson is doing well. I can't believe there are only 6 weeks and 6 days until she will be here. Or sooner depending on when she decides to come. Hopefully not later.

Anyway thats my short blog for the day.

I'm so bad

I'm so bad with keeping up with my blog. I am literally home all day and recently had to give up my babysitting career :-) not that, that is a bad thing, but I should have more free time. My boys are keeping me very busy.

This past weekend my mother-in-law had a baby shower for our new little one to arrive. I know you should only ever have one baby shower, but she said, this is a girl and you have all boy stuff. I told her my little girl could wear all there close except the major boy stuff and she laughed. Thankfully, my friend Lisa brought me a ton of close to get her started , so at least for the first 3 to 6 months she will definitely be a little princess.

Well the time is getting close. I only have 8 weeks left of ever being pregnant again. Kind of sad but a relief all in the same. I am sure I will go early so we are probably looking at maybe 6 weeks left.

We are all soooo excited to have Austin back home with us. I missed him more than I could ever have imagined. And I am pretty sure even though his brothers said that they didn't miss him that they did. They haven't been out of his site since he got home. Needless to say him and Carson leave for Florida with there grandparents in 6 days. I don't know what I am going to do with only 2 at home.

As soon as I figure out how to post pictures on my blog I will.

It's a...............................

I am so bad at blogging I'm going to have to set some time aside to make sure I fill everyone in. Last Thursday was my big sonogram day and yes, believe it or not IT'S A GIRL!!!! Ya, go figure we are finally going to be having a baby girl. I am totally and completely excited. I am having such a hard time adapting to looking at baby girl clothes. Just today I went online to look at some outfits at the GAP and long behold I still find myself going over to the boy section because I just can't decide on any girl clothes. Now some might say its easier to shop for a girl, but I have to say after 4 boys I am having a very difficult time shopping for a girl. I may need some help. Well that is all the news for today I need to figure out how to post pictures and design my blog a little better.

WOW! Life is just soooooo...

Sometimes we learn new things and sometimes we refuse to learn. Well I am constantly learning with my brut of boys. NO SPRAY PAINT. You would think after painting 3 houses either we would learn or Carson would learn NO SPRAY PAINT. Of course not.

Well on another note I am not allowed to travel this summer do to having Placenta Praevia. I am also stressing because if one more person says I hope you have that little girl, or surely its going to be a little girl. I think I May scream. Yes, don't get me wrong if this is our little girl I will be extactic. But if its our little boy I don't want him to be surfing the internet in 10 years only to see that his mommy only wanted a little girl. OK I think the hormones are talking now. I have been so hormonal this pregnancy I think more than normal. Granted little Emerson will be loved either way boy or girl, now if we could just come up with that fitting middle name that would be awesome. I really want to name him/her after my dad that passed away last year.

Well I better get back to doing some stuff around that house. And for anyone reading we do find out the sex of the baby on May the 1st assuming that this little one cooperates.

Another Little Brennan on the way

Well as most of you all know we have 4 boys and to have that little girl would be just an extra special blessing. But as you all also know I have had 3 MC this year and now I am just hoping for one last bundle of joy. But as I said if God should bless us with a girl I will be so excited.

Sometimes life throws us little punches, but after all the stress we have been through with the last 3 pregnancies Kevin and I have decided that this should be our last little one. Kind of sad, but kind of nice all at the same time. I just can't wait to meet him or her.