Happy Birthday Sherry
I LOVE YOU!!!
Yes…it is Sherry’s birthday. Please drop her a comment and wish her the happiest of days today. I would tell you how old she is, but I might get into big trouble. Besides, like her, I am rolling over a number with a zero on the end later this year and do not want to dish out more than I am willing to take. I will give a hint. A peanut farmer from Georgia was President when Sherry was born. Did I give too much of a hint there? 😉
Caden and I had some quality Daddy/Caden time shopping for Mommy’s birthday on Saturday, but the day did come with some rough spots for Caden. Caden’s rough spots had to do with two mishaps that he handled very well, much better than me anyway. The first thing happened just before we left the house on Saturday morning. He was sitting in his crib waiting on me to get a washrag to clean his face. I had left the little flap side of the crib down and he started playing with it. Lifting it and then letting it bang against the side. It obviously came down pretty hard on his hand because it knocked his little pinkie finger knuckle out of joint. That’s the knuckle on the little finger that looks bent at 90 degrees all the time on his left hand. You can see what I mean about his finger if you watch the aquarium video again and pay attention to his left hand on the glass of the angel fish tank. He did cry, but he also did a great job of letting me know where he was hurt so I was able to put his little finger back in joint for him. I know a little about dislocated joints since I have dislocated my right knee four times since 11th grade in high school. And when that happened to my knee, it required someone else to put it back in joint for me. The last time that happened was over 15 years ago. Wow, that was a long time ago. Anyway, Caden stopped crying as soon as his little finger was back in place and I got the biggest hug ever from him. I went ahead and gave him some OTC pain medicine and kept a watch on his finger for the rest of the day. You would have never known anything happened. He was happy as a pig in the mud for the rest of the morning and afternoon. Later in the evening Sherry had just given him some water in his g-tube when a minute or two later he got up to go get a toy. He must have snagged his little g-tube button on something because it was just lying on the flow between him and Sherry. He was not making any big deal out of it even though it did bleed just a little. He didn’t even fuss until I laid him down to replace the g-tube button with a new one. We have to grease up the button with KY and just push it in the hole in his tummy. We then put water in a little port on the side that fills the bubble to keep the thing from coming back out, most of the time anyway. It is not a fun process for me or him, but it has to be done in a timely manner to prevent a surgical procedure to make a new hole in his tummy. This is only the second time his g-tube has come out by accident in over two years. Other than that Caden is doing great. He is still on an antibiotic and a decongestant, but that has been going on for a while.
That is the big news of our week, well except for one thing. Sherry did get an ultrasound at this week’s OB visit. They were having a hard time hearing the baby’s hear beat using the little portable audio machine so they got an ultrasound machine to take a quick look. The doctor said that things looked as good as they could for a 15 week pregnancy visit. It is a little too early for them to see clearly enough to guess the gender with any degree of certainty. The doctor did give us his best guess of the gender, but that is our little secret. Stay tuned because the big ultrasound is coming in a few weeks. Riley is pretty confident that he is getting a baby sister, but he has not even entered pre-med at the young age of 4 and has no scientific basis for his guess. By the way, that is not a hint as to what the doctor’s guess was.
I want to close by saying that I feel blessed beyond imagination to have such a wonderful and Godly wife. She is beautiful, loving, caring, smart, and funny. And did I mention that she is my best friend in the whole wide world? She is the greatest wife and the most awesome mommy to our boys. Please join me in thanking God for Sherry on her special day. Please continue to keep her in your prayers in the days, weeks, and months to come. Pray that she will experience comfort and joy throughout the remainder of this pregnancy. She has had a hard time getting uninterrupted sleep in recent nights, but hopefully the body pillow Riley and Caden got her for her birthday will help out in that area.
Many blessings to you and yours!!!