More Pics of Tyler

More pics just taken of Tyler. He is more alert every hour. I just talked to him for about ten minutes and he just stared at me the whole time. I'm getting used to this blogging thing!

Jesse

Welcome Tyler Steven Conn - Our Christmas Present

Tyler Steven Conn (No Arrowsmith jokes!)

I awoke at 2:00 or so to Cassandra telling me that we needed to go, I couldn't believe it, of all the days it is Christmas. To top it off, I couldn't drive 90 miles an hour and get away with it. We got several inches of snow last night that made me drive 35 miles an hour all the way to the hospital. Luckily most of the stop lights were green so I could just keep going, and even if they were red, they were green yesterday morning.

Due to the birth of Avery, Cassandra needed to have a 'C-section'. The doctor luckily made it just in time to allow that to happen. They did however have to put her to sleep, because the baby was already crowning, and the spinal wasn't working fast enough. Cassandra did lose a lot of blood during the birth because of a blood clot (hematoma), that caused her blood pressure to drop dramatically (50 over 30) post delivery. She had great nurses that acted rapidly that got some fluids going in her with some medicine and she did have a blood transfusion as well. She received two blood transfusions and some medicine in her I.V. that allowed her blood pressure to come back up. It is not where they want it, but she is out of the danger zone. She is feeling better, although sleep is a commodity right now as neither of us have had much sleep the last day and a half.

After I walked Cassandra into the ER yesterday morning, I went to park the car and I got Ethan and Avery out and took them inside with me. Ethan asked, "Did Christmas come?" He obviously didn't see his presents by the Christmas tree when we were leaving. He also was playing great with Avery on Christmas Eve, and Cassandra mentioned to him how great he was playing with his sister. He replied, "Is that the best gift I can give Jesus?" It is great how hard Cassandra has tried to instill in the kids that this time of the year is about the birth of Jesus, and not just Santa bringing them presents.

Now we get to celebrate two births on this very joyous occasion.

Jesse

The Not So Blog Giveaway!

I haven't entered any of these giveaways before. This one sounded worth it though. You get a $100 AMEX giftcard if you win! Go to www.thenotsoblog.com to enter.

Good Luck!

Happy Thanksgiving!! A little late!

I wanted to post my pie success the day after Thanksgiving, but I got sick and am just now getting to it! I have never before made a single pie, and I was commissioned to make 3 for our turkey day dinner. I must say it was fun, and they turned out great. I made a chocolate pie, a lemon meringue, and a pecan cheesecake pie (my mother-in-law's recipe). Our favorite is the pecan cheesecake, we were very happy that the recipe make 2.

Chocolate pie!

Pecan Cheesecake

Lemon Meringue

Hopefully we will be healthy again soon!!!

The day after Thanksgiving I had the stomache flu, and Avery had a random fever that ran all day. Saturday we were both fine, but Ethan was running a fever and had these strange sores/rash around his nose and mouth. We kept him home on Sunday and I took him in Monday. He has a sinus infection, and the sores are Impetigo. Since I got him in right away it hadn't gotten too bad, and is nearly all cleared up today, enough to go back to preschool. Tuesday I woke with a sore throat and fever. I am not feeling too much better (or worse) today. Jesse is the only one to have escaped getting sick over the weekend, and is now out of town so hopefully will stay well!