Annabella Elaine is 1

Wow how this first year flew by with Bella. It is so hard to believe that it has already been a whole year that I gave birth to her. I feel like it was just yesterday. She is such a joy to have, she loves to climb, wiggle out of her high chair no matter how tight you get the strap on the chair, and she loves her binky.
Saturday we had her party and it was so much fun. I picked out the cutest birthday pattern, it was 1st birthday princess. It was all so cute. My favorite thing was the shirt we found that said her royal highness is 1. It came together just perfect. The only thing I was disappointed about was the cake pan. I wanted the princess tiara pan, but they did not have it at Michael's so I had to go with the princess carriage pan instead. David kept bugging me saying that it looked like a baby carriage. Well you know how hubbies like to bug us and give us a hard time, well that is his favorite thing to do. :) Anyways we had all of our family here, yes even Aunt Amy and Uncle John came in from out of town for the fun time. Bella loved the cake we didnt even have to show her what to do she just dug right in. She was so amazed at all of us singing to her. She thought that was pretty neat. Opening presents she went right to it, she did not forget Christmas.
Later that night when the sugar kicked in boy was she hyper. The girl was walking and crawling in circles and laughing and just being so silly, it was so funny.
I am so happy the joy that Bella brings to our family it is just amazing what she is doing at 1 compared to what the other 2 did at this age. She is so independent and wants to do things her own way, Im gonna have fun right. :) Anyways hope you enjoy the pictures of my sweet Baby girl or should I say my sweet 1 year old.

Playdate....

This week has been hard trying to adjust back in to all the things we do in a weeks time. MOnday was back to the music at 9:30 and Dance at 6:00, school on tuesday and wednesday I was just going to veg and clean on the house but then Bryson's friend emily wanted us to go to story time and the indoor playground at Cornerstone in madison so I said ok the kids will enjoy that. Now at this time I had no idea that the wind felt about like 2 degrees it looked so nice outside and sunny but boy it tricked me, but anyways off we went and had a good time.

Now this playground is great there wasa little area that bella could play at and most of the kids that were there were not any older than Bailee so it was nice because there wasnt a massive amout of older kids running them down. Now for my son he is so funny about these things to crawl thru. For him to be a boy he is sure not one to try new things. He did not want to go to the top to slide down. Even with the help of Bailee and his friend Emily he was just not going to go to the top. Oh well his loss. So we were sitting there thinking how on earth are we going to get these kids out of here when of course it occurred to us a great way to get them to leave without having this massive screaming I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE!! was hey lets take them to McDonald's an all time favorite with my kids. Now let me tell you this my kids have been bugging me since Sunday to go to McDonald's because our nursery worker told them McDonald's was giving away 2 happy meal toys (like one is not enough) and I have been trying to tell Bailee now it was probably just the one that they had gone to doing that so I was very happy to be able to PROVE A POINT!! Well that all ended very quickly...while I was gone to get our lunch while Emily's mom sat with all the kids there was this sweet little old man that worked there and he just felt that he should give BAILEE a shrek baby doll. So I come with lunch and tell them when they are done eating they may have their toy. SO I give them there toys and of course Bailee's is another Shrek baby and then of course my loving daughter says see mom I TOLD YOU THEY WERE GIVING 2 AWAY!! UGH that sweet old man I really proved a point here!! All me and Valerie could do was laugh because I had to try and get it thru that McDonald's was not giving away 2 so that my kids did not want to eat there everyday for the rest of this month. I was just sure my plan was going to work. Well as you see it failed miserably. :) Now the number of Happy Meal toys continue to grow in my house, and NO I am not going to McDonald's today :) Hope you all have a great weekend.

Im back.....

Hey everyone sorry it has been so long that I have posted but our computer crashed and I was not able to log on to update everyone. THis will be a long post sorry.

Ok so the last time I posted we were getting to go home with oxygen. WE were very excited to be at home and Bryson was so happy to be home as well. That first night went well, the next day we had to take him in to see the doctor the next day to check his numbers, he was still at 87-91 in his O2 levels the doctor was not too worried she told us to continue the oxygen and for me to bring him in on that monday. So all went well Bryson still acted ok so Monday rolled around we went to the doctor but not so well this time. His numbers were even lower he was anywhere from 85-78 they put oxygen on him and he was not increasing in his O2 numbers at all. So I could see the worried look on the doctors face. They took some blood and said they thought we should go for a CT scan of his chest and get a better look than what x-rays were not showing. But then the doctor comes back in after they got the lab results and she tells me im going to scare you but I have to tell you what is going on. She continues to tell me that she feels this is no longer a respiratory problem that we have to purse it as if there is a problem with his heart and also there is a possibility that it is leukemia because his white blood cell count jumped form 1300 to 2300 so naturally that upset me greatly. She called David and told him to meet me at the ER. SO off we go once again thankfully this time we didnt have to ride in an Ambulance thankfully for my pocketbook. Once we get to the ER his O2 numbers we unbelievably great he was sitting at 95 and asleep he hadn't been that the whole time all this started. The did an ultrasound on his heart and more lab work to check for the leukemia and then we waited, and waited, and waited what seemed like an eternity to get the results. Finally after about 4 hours they come in and say all the test are normal. PRAISE THE LORD David and I couldnt have been any happier. We know that on this Monday the Lord finished the healing work he was working on for Bryson. We had prayed and prayed and had multiple people, churches, and pastors praying for Bryson and on that Monday the Lord spoke and said I have heard your prayers but no one is praising me, so we began to praise God for all He had done, was going to do and was doing and that is when Bryosn received his healing.

We got to leave the hospital that night and ever since then Bryson has been his old self plus some. :) We had a great Christmas just happy to be home with all of our family back together. The day after Christmas they doctor wanted bryson to still go for that CT scan so when we got there as soon as he was placed on the pulse machine his number was 98 Praise GOd again that confirmed to us that Healing had taken place. Of course the CT Scan was normal and I took him back to the doctor just 2 days ago and he was still 98-99 it is so wonderful. The Lord has done so much for us through this time of trials that all I want to do is live more for Him and share in the great news of what God is capable of doing, if we just follow Him and listen to Him. We will revisit the allergist and test Bryson for some more allergies and look at seeing his pediatrician in about 6 weeks. We feel that the Lord has healed him of his asthma as well, this kid takes deeper breathes than we have ever seen or heard him take. Thank you for all that was in prayer for our family and all your thoughts it is such a wonderful thing to be on the other side of all this now.

Now about our Christmas. ON Christmas Eve david's mom and step dad and grandmother came over and we had Christmas with them and then later that evening my parents came over and had Christmas with them. My children are so spoiled my mom said she was cutting back this year but it didnt seem that way to me. On Christmas morning we had to wake the kids up at 8 to see what santa brought and they were so excited to get there 3 thing from santa. Bailee got a ton of Hannah Montanna stuff and my uncle and his new fiance got her some HM pjs and she wants to wear them every night. For lunch on Christmas day we went to my moms to be with all of her family then that evening we went to the Adkison's house to have Christmas with them. It was a great time of being together with family and I love the way Bailee put it she said Jesus is the important part of Christmas and Santa is the fun part of Christmas.

Now its a new year and a new start I have only 4 weeks to get the rest of my weight off for insurance, Bella is trying to walk, I have to take care of that lovely speeding ticket I got before all this happened, plan Bella's 1st b-day party, and adjust back in to school next week. Wow sounds like a lot. Happy New Year to all my friends.

Good News...

Hey everyone thanks so much for all of your prayers and support. We got news today that the doctors want to send Bryson home with Oxygen. The Lord has provided for us in so many ways through healing bryson, food for us, and just peace. Now we still pray for healing because obviously he is still requiring oxygen so he still needs a little help. They feel as though he started out with a virus way down in his lungs that created too much mucas which in return caused the bad asthma attack. So now we just will go home keep a very close eye on him and give him oxygen when he sleeps. We have prayed for peace while we are at home because it will still keep us on edge and we will not just be focusing on bryson, bailee and bella will be back in the picture. So please continue your prayers and that the Lord will continue to provide for us as he has so well already. Now I can try to start getting excited about Christmas and get my shopping done. I will keep everyone posted when I can. Thanks again to all of my friends and family who are supporting us.

ruff day...

WEll I wish i had better news for today. Bryson did so well yesterday and last night and then this morning he started dropping in his oxygen stats again and it actually got pretty scary at one point his numbers were getting a little lower than normally when he would drop. So once again we were back on oxygen and having to do the suction again. My little guy was so brave though he did not want to do it at first but then said ok guys you can do it. Bryson has such a sweet spirit about him right now. Now the bad thing is his lungs sound great there is no wheezing, so the doctors do not know why he keeps doing this. The doctor told us this morning that if he had a good day today we could go home this afternoon, well we didnt after all that. SO I know all of you guys are praying but please continue because at this point im not sure how much more of this i can handle it is so hard to see your child having to go through this, we have so many people praying for him and I know that the Lord WILL HEAL bryson but I just need patience, while we wait on the Lord to heal him. I will hopefully be able to post good news tommorrow. Thanks guys for your prayer support.

Updates...

Hey guys thanks for all the prayers. Bryson had a very ruff day yesterday (tues). He had to have a tube ran down his nose to his lungs to suck all the mucas out to try and get him better. It took 4 of us to hold him down it was terrible. Today he has had a good day. We have had him up a lot and he even was wanting to run when bailee and bella were here. I have been missing the girls sooo bad so my mom brought them out last night and today. If bryson continues on this path hopefully we will be home this weekend. I will keep you updated as I can the computer in our room is not working right, we need a new keyboard. Thanks again for the prayers and support.

We need prayers......

Hey guys just wanted to let everyone know what has been going on. Last thursday night bryson needed breathing treatments every 3-4 hours and friday morning he was still not breathing well so i took him to the doc thinking we would go in do a breathing treatment get some steroids, and go home. Well after 4 treatments he did not respond so they advised me that he needed to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance because he was requiring oxygen. So they told me it wasnt that it was life threatning but just he could still be on oxygen if we went in an ambulance. So off we go when we get to the ER they started him on an hour long breathing treatment, after that he was some better but still needed oxygen so they told me they will observe him for a few hours and then go from there. At 3:00 they told me they were going to admit him but the pediatrition told me he looked better and that we would go home saturday. Well after David got to the ER I Left to go home to get some cloths and I needed a break from the ER but while I was gone he got worse, they ended up putting in an IV and did some pretty heavy meds thru his IV. When I got back they were concerned how his breathing was again and decided to send us to ICU so off we went and he was on a continuous breathing treatment of albuterol for 12 hours plus oxygen.

So needless to say we were not going home on saturday. Around 12:00 noon they took Bryson off both the albuterol treatment and the oxygen and he did well for 12 hours and then down he went again. We had gotten moved to a regular room saturday night because of his progress. But since he went down and needed oxygen again we were not going to be leaving on sunday as well. Now the bad side effects of the heavy heavy doses of steroids caused really bad night terrors. at one point we thought bryson had lost his vision because he said he could not see me which for us was so scary but it was just that he was not awake. Saturday night he continued to have night terrors and it was really hard on David and I. I was a little unsure of how much more I could take. I just sat there wheeping and asking the Lord to please step in and heal bryson. Well today is monday and I am typing all of this from the computer in our hospital room. Bryson has done well but then he goes down in his O2 levels and he stil is requiring oxygen, so we are now at a point to where we are not sure as to when we are going home. They have started him on antibiotics as if he has phnemonia as well as this real bad asthma attack. We have to work on geting his lung clear and then get him off oxygen and he has to be off of oxygen at least 12 hours before they will let him go home. Our doctor told us tonight that she plans on us getting out of here before Christmas. I thought wow that seems like we might be here for a while but then I was reminded that Christmas is almost a week away. Wow!! So if you guys would just please keep us in yur prayers because we still are not out of the woods we may be here the rest of the week we just dont know at this point. I will try and keep you posted as to how he progresses. Please keep us in your prayers.