Korbin's 2nd Birthday

For those Savvy Aunties out there, you know that having a niece or nephew doesn't exactly have to mean that you are blood related to them. I always consider myself to be an ABR (Auntie by Relation) and also an ABC (Auntie By Choice).
So I actually have 4 nieces (Ashlyn, Madysen, Kadyn and Sophie) and 2 nephews (Korbin and Judah)
*of course note that I love ALL of my friend's kids, but since Abby is the next closest thing I have to a sister- I've OFFICIALLY adopted her kids :)*

With that cleared up, it was my nephew Korbin's birthday party on Saturday. The poor kid had a hard time watching all his toys (new and old) be handled and played with by so many different kids that he had a hard time on his birthday :) I (from an Aunt's perspective) thought it was hilarious :)

Here are some pics from the party:

My dad and my nephew Judah

Courtney, Max and Morgan. Max is only a few weeks older than Judah, but definitely beats him in size! :)
Jon and Nate
Mom and Jodie
Marian, Kristina, Sophie and Christina
The kids played outside in these kiddie pools. They had a blast! Especially Lyric who kept going completely under the water and loving it! :)


Brad the photographer, who took WAY better pics which you can see by clicking HERE
More pool shots
Korbin opening his presents
Lyric trying to steal his presents. Look at her face, she's like "What mom? I'm not doing anything"

The Watkins and Benjamins bought his that cool basketball goal
The awesome Diego birthday cupcakes
Korbin was having a sort of melt down during the birthday song
But while we were singing, Saeler was already digging into those cupcakes :)
Yummy!
Lyric's "smile"
Truth and Maddy

So that was Korbin's birthday! Abby did SUCH a great job pulling it all off and special props to Jodie as Abby said she was a lifesaver and helped clean up after the party :)

Good times :)

My Baby Is Sick!

Lyric got sick last night. I have no idea what's up with her, but after dinner/bath she seemed kind of listless. I kept thinking she felt hot and I took her temp and sure enough, it was almost 102. Then it got higher and she was like delerious. She tossed and turned and cried and fussed... all in a haze of sleep. I don't think she knew what she was doing half the night. Finally around 6 I asked Jon if I could go to the couch to catch a few hours of sleep before I had to be at work. So he held her while she screamed and called Mama till she got tired and passed out.
Unfortunately, I overslept and got in late anyways, which SUCKS and I'm SO dragging today!
She still had almost 103 this morning, but Jon said it finally broke around 11. So she has a doctor's appointment today at 2 and if her fever comes back he is going to take her.
My poor little girl. I HATE it when she's sick and I hate it even more when I have to leave my crying, feverish baby because of work. Talk about mom guilt. I feel like a terrible mother, but i know it can't be helped. I really have to save all my vacation time for my trip to Belgium in October or I'll have to take time off without pay which wouldn't be fun at all. But that doesn't make me feel any better about leaving my princess when she is sick (or when she is well for that matter).

So this pregnancy has been a little different so far. We've now breached the 7 week mark and I still haven't thrown up. I feel nauseaus ALL the time, but no throwing up. I don't know what's worse though... well I do. The throwing up is worse because when I throw up it always comes out of my nose so I have to smell throw up for like 30 minutes after I puke, which makes me puke more!
So ya, yeah for no puking, but BLAH to constant nausea that doesn't let up, like EVER!

Let's end this blog with a picture of the cutest little nephew on the planet!

Please pray

My nephew Judah has not been feeling well and now he has a fever. The doctor said to take him in immediately since he is only 3 weeks old.

The entire Watkins family has had the flu, so please pray for healing for this tiny little boy.

Court is freaking out, so it would be good to pray for her as well.

Newborn pics of Judah

Click HERE for some ADORABLE pics of Judah

Snip-Snip

OUCH!!!

As we speak, my precious little nephew is getting his little manhood snipped. Yes, you read that correctly. Poor little Judah is getting circumsized. Poor baby. :( Courtney waited until the 8th day with him, but I must say... OUCH!

Hopefully it all comes off okay :)

I have so much freakin' stuff to do tonight when I get off work to be ready for the trip tomorrow.

Hopefully I'll get it all done and still find time to sleep.

Also, our receptionist is out today, so I have to be up here all day and I can't work from up here... so this looks like it's going to be a looooonnnnnnggggg day. (sigh). I'm already bored to tears. They are suposed to get the IT guy to come up here and temporarily fix it so I can access my drives, but I haven't seen him yet.

Okay, that's that.

New Pics of Judah

Click HERE to see pics taken by Brad Shull at the hospital!

We Have Ourselves a Baby!!

Dear Lord did that happen quick!

Courtney woke up around 1:00-1:30 and was feeling a lot of contractions and pressure. They got closer and harder and she called my mom and then me and by 3:15am, we were headed to the hospital. By the time we got here, her contractions were on top of eachother. We found out later that she was in transition in the car.

We get to triage and the nurse starts griping at Court for waiting too long. (oh because at this time she is writhing in pain and being quite vocal.) Court asks if she can go to the bathroom and the nurse said no because she is afraid that Court would pop the baby out in the toilet. She checks Court and starts freaking out saying that Courtney is complete. Call the doctor, get the room ready, mass panic!
Nathan wasn't there yet because he was waiting on Kacy to get to the house to stay with the girls. I call him (thankfully right when Kacy had gotten there) and told him to book it or he was going to miss the birth of his son. By this time Courtney was wanting an epidural and the nurses are like, ya right. Too late. She is literally screaming, it was quite intense. She wanted to push, but the doctor wasn't there, the on call doctor wasn't there, and Nathan wasn't there. So the nurses were trying to make her wait and she was wanting to push. Super intense people!
Nathan finally shows up and they make me leave. I was so sad because I wanted to be in the room, but it was mass panic. There wasn't a doctor there yet and Courtney was really bearing down hard.
Anyways, the nurse actually delivered the baby and Dr. Moseley came in in time to deliver the after fun.
He was born at 3:50am. From the time we got to the hospital and she pushed him out, we had been there 15 minutes.
It was fast people!

So now.... INTRODUCING!!!

Judah Reign Watkins

He was 6lbs 13 oz, (3.1 kilos) and 20 inches long (51 cm)

The craziest thing is Courtney's water didn't break the entire time, and when the baby came out, so did the water sac, intact! He had meconium, so they had to suction him out for about 20 minutes before Courtney got to hold him.

Okay, funny story. My dad took an Ambien before he went to bed last night because he didn't get much sleep the night before. He was totally stoned and could barely wake up and kept falling asleep. It was hilarious!

Please pray for Courtney though. She is bleeding abnormally and they are getting worried about it. Her uterus needs to start contracting more. It was just so fast that her body needs to catch up. They gave her some medicine to help her hemorrage naturally, but she needs some spiritually intervention!

Jon is still at home since Judah got here so quick. He is going to come up here when Lyric wakes up.

ANYWAYS!!!!

I have an amazingly beautiful baby nephew!! He is doing great and is in the nursery right now. I'm just so excited!

I want a baby now! :)

Click HERE for pictures and comments!

Quick Update on Judah/Courtney

Hey, I just wanted to write a short update about Judah and Courtney.

First off, Courtney is doing great now and the doctor/nurses are no longer concerned. They gave her some sort of medicine that stopped her up good :) We were pretty concerned for a bit, but we trusted that God would heal her and of course He is always faithful!

Judah is doing great. He is nursing like a champ... it's so strange that babies just know what to do!

He seems so calm and peaceful and he has one dimple! He has great skin and he's so soft and has that yummy baby smell! :)

I am back at work :(

But will be back up there soon! I left my camera so I'll upload new pictures today!

I am going to be doing meals for them starting on Friday night for a week.

Let me know if you want to help out and bring them a meal!

A very excited aunt,

Dee

Today?

Well Courtney is still pregnant to even her doctor's amazement!

She and Nathan were prophesied over this morning at ANHOP and a women came up to her and said she felt Courtney was released now to have the baby. I am standing on that word! :) I want that little boy to come out now! Yes, I know we still have 2 weeks left, but come on!

On another note, I must give my condolences to the Cowboys for sucking it up yesterday afternoon and losing. Everyone at my parents watching the game was very depressed, but I know they will get over it. So better luck next year.

I'll let you know if Courtney pops!

Today?

Will Court have her baby today? Who knows. I keep thinking that Thursday would be a great day to have a baby, well actually no. She needs to go into labor in the middle of the night tonight and then I dont' have to go to work tomorrow! :)

She went to the doc today and is 3cm. Woohoo!

She just needs to go on and have the kid! It's time! :) She keeps progressing right along. I can't wait to hold my little Copernicus Bob!

He's going to be a beaut.

Court's in the Hospital!

ok seriously...


Well my sister is in the hospital right now. Before you freak out and look out the window for the stork, let me explain.

So like I said in my earlier post, my sister had this dream about the baby being born on the 3rd. What I didn't mention was that in the dream, she goes in to the doctor and finds out the heartbeat is low. The doctor then sends her over to the hospital to get monitored and they end up having an emergency c-section because the cord is wrapped around the baby's neck. So that was the dream. Obviously you can see why we ignored the end and just focused on the date of the 3rd.

Well today, I just felt like I should go to the doctor with her. No one else was going with her and I knew she was having some contractions, so I said I would take a long lunch and go with her. I've never gone to a doctor's appointment with her this entire pregnancy. So I go and the doctor gets out the heart monitor thing and keeps it on her for awhile. She then tells Court that the baby's heart rate is dipping and that she wants Court to go over to triage to get monitored.

UH YA! Crazy! We didn't want that part of the dream to come true!

So she goes in and gets monitored. After about 20 minutes the nurse said the heart rate isn't the best, but it isn't horrible and still is considered normal. But that the baby isn't being very reactive (whatever that means), so she is going to keep monitoring her till she (the nurse) feels comfortable. By this time, (it's about 3:30 now), my mom and Nathan are up there. So I have to leave to go back to work.

So that's where we are. Courtney is still being monitored, but I'm sure everything will be fine and they will release her.

She is having pretty consistent contractions and is now dilated to a 2, but overall, she is fine.

If they are still in the hospital when I get off work, I'll go back up there.

I'll keep everyone updated. But please pray for Copernicus Bob (that's what I call him) and Courtney. She still has 3 ½ weeks left till her due date, so it's still pretty early to have him.

Please pray that the entire dream doesn't come true, and that we have a healthy, wonderful little boy at the right time and not a minute earlier than God has for him.

Thanks!



Update

Court is getting a sonogram right now... I'll tell you what is up in a minute.


update 2

Well they don't see that the cord is wrapped around his neck so at least we know that!

Still watching my cutie little nephew!


Update 3

Ok, the sonogram is ok.

The doctor said that the baby looks great. She is going to release her right now. However, she just checked her again and in the past 2 hours, she has progressed more. So the doctor thinks she may be back tonight or tomorrow. Courtney wants to go home though. So she is. Courtney is still contracting right along at a very consistent pace.

Maybe we still will have a baby tonight.

I'll keep you updated!



Update 4


I haven't talked to Court since last night. I went over and ate there, but she was just having a lot of contractions and a killer headache and was finally able to fall asleep.

The big thing last night was that the baby's head hasn't engaged yet, you know started going down in the birth canal, so that obviously is a big indication.

Like a nurse said last night, baby's make liars out of us all. It's hard to predict what your body is doing and will do, it's different with every pregnancy. Courtney has had 3 different births, so she knows what real contractions are and what are normal braxton hicks. The nurse also said that Courtney had the most consistent labor pattern than any of the women in labor and delivery and she wasn't the one in active labor :)

I guess every contraction gets you just a little bit closer. We are fine with it not happening right now as we all would be more comfortable with CB being a little closer to his due date.

Thanks for all your prayers! I'll post another update when I hear from Court a little later this morning!


Update 5


Well she's still having contractions. She went to the mall to walk around and just get out of the house. She continued to have them all day...

who knows.

I mean, she's had 3 babies already so she knows what contractions are... but each pregnancy is different. CB will probably stay in there for the next 3 weeks just to prove us wrong! :)

Anyways, all these contractions are making me antsy...

On another note!

I'M OFF WORK FOR THE WEEKEND (well in about 20 minutes).

Jon and Tim came up here and were able to fly the 737 simulator at my office. They had a lot of fun. They brought Lyric, so I got to play with my daughter in the middle of the day! Fun times! It actually made the day pass a lot quicker, so I was grateful for that.

Man I'm starting to get some nasty cramps. I need some tylenol.

So I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm hoping to post some pictures to liven up my blog. I didn't have my camera yesterday or we would have had some candid shots at the hospital. Oh well! :)

Love to all!