Four Generations

We were able to take a four generation picture with my family! It was so neat! My grandpa and my dad both graduated from the University of Utah, and Erick is going to graduate from there in 3 years! Even Colby is wearing and U of U onsie and sucking on a "Ute Fan" binki!

While we were at it, we got a family picture in our U of U shirts! We look so cute!

Blessing

We blessed Colby in June. Colby was able to wear overall shorts that his Grandma Karen made for Erick 27 years ago! He looked so dang cute! I am so glad he was able to wear the same outfit as his daddy! I bet Karen was so happy.



Before Erick's mom, Karen, passed away, she had started a few baby quilts. For some reason or another, when we cleaned out her house we didn't end up with any of them. When I figured this out I was very upset about it.

Debbie Hone (long time family friend to Erick's family) finished this quilt that Karen had started and gave it to Colby the day he was blessed! I almost started bawling when I opened it. It's been kind of hard not having Karen around. She loved babies. We know she was able to play with Colby before he got here. It was so thoughtful of Debbie to keep those unfinished quilts and finished them for us so Colby could have something that Grandma Karen made.

SMILES

I love Colby's smiles. They make me happy!

Being a parent is the best thing ever! We are so blessed to have this cute little boy in our home. He has brought so much joy into our lives and the lives of our family.

Perianal Fistual

Yes, it sounds gross. My poor little baby had one! Click here if you want to read more about it.

Colby's surgery went well yesterday. The surgery took about 5 minutes! Colby came out of the anesthesia well, and we were able to go home after an hour in recovery.

The surgeon actually opened up the fistula (like a tunnel) and it's going to heal from the inside out. We have to put Colby's bum in the sink when we change him instead of using any sort of wet wipe. Good thing Colby actually LIKES that. We also cannot give him a bath. So today, Erick and I tried giving him a shower. He LIKED that too!

I have such a brave little boy. Hopefully he'll sleep in his crib tonight, though! I think the mattress may hurt his bum.

P.S. Don't google image this. Colby's bum DID NOT look like the pictures that come up. His bum was never that bad.

Baby Announcement

This is the baby announcement I made for Colby! I've been figuring out how to digital scrapbook, and I am very pleased with the end result!

Scariest Day EVER!

I am so grateful for:
- Erick's medical knowledge
- An awesome pediatricians office (Southpoint Peds)
- The knowledge of the staff at Primary Children's
- And the power of the priesthood

Colby had a diaper rash that started bleeding. The next day there was a purple bump on his bum about the size of my finger tip. Nothing I did (or my mom, or Erick, or anyone) did made it look any better.

Erick asked me to call our pediatrician. My mom had seen Colby's bum, and so had Erick's aunt and neither one of them mentioned the pediatrician. I called him the next morning, and the medical assistant at their office said to come in just to make sure it wasn't an infection.

Colby didn't have a fever, so I really didn't think anything of it. My pediatrician's schedule was full, so I saw another doc in their practice. He took one look at Colby's bottom and said I would need to go to Primary Children's to get the abscess lanced. He said a pediatric surgeon would get him all numbed up before they lanced it.

So my mom and I went to Primary Children's Emergency Department. Colby didn't wake up on the way to the hospital to be fed like I thought he would. My mom tried to feed him in the waiting room, and he wouldn't eat hardly anything. We were asked not to feed him until the doctors could figure out a treatment plan and know which meds he would be on. That was alright with Colby - and that scared me.

The longer we sat in the ER waiting for a room to be ready for us to be admitted, the worse Colby got. That morning he was fine, and that afternoon he slept through two feedings, was letting the doctors poke and prod him. The only times he really woke up were when the doctor squoze the abscess to get a culture and when he got an IV placed. He even slept through the nurse taking his temperature rectally.

Needless to say, I was freaked out. My poor baby was not his happy self.

We were taken to the Rapid Treatment Unit at PCMC where they treated him with IV antibiotics overnight.

Colby is home now, doing much better. I knew he was feeling better when he fought the nurse taking his temperature in his armpit. He's still not 100 %, but he is on the mends.

It is the worst feeling in the world to hold your baby and not know what was going to happen. To hold him as he continued to get worse and worse. I am so grateful Erick and my dad hold the priesthood and were able to give Colby a blessing.

Colby

Saturday night was TERRIBLE. I didn't sleep more than 3 hours and I just plain didn't feel good. We got up for church (I didn't want everyone to think I had the baby) and we went to sacrament meeting. I didn't feel good enough to stay, and we went home.

I still had a bunch of stuff I wanted to do in Colby's room before he was born. I started trying to do some of it. That's when I peed my pants! I was so upset with everything that I bawled. Erick
convinced me that I would feel better if I took a nap. After about 1/2 hour of sleeping, I rolled over to lay on Erick and I was convinced my water broke!

I got out of bed as fast as I could. Sat on the toilet. Then I talked myself out of thinking my water broke. I told Erick that I would just feel better going to the hospital for them to check me out, but I really wasn't convinced myself.

Yes. My water broke. 11 days before my due date.

I didn't have any contractions, so they put me on potoson to get my labor going. We got to the hospital at 2:30, started potoson around 3. Colby's heart rate dropped for about 15 minutes, so they stopped the potoson until we could get Colby stabilized. After that, they gave me a third of the dose of potoson and I was ready to push at 10:15 pm. I pushed for 20 minutes and had to stop to wait for my OB to get in my room. Once he got there, I pushed once and Colby was born!

April 11, 2010 at 11:02 pm. 6 lb 12 oz and 20 inches long.

We're doing great. Everyone is pretty healthy (I have to get his Bili Rubin checked tomorrow just to make sure it isn't getting any worse).

Erick has been amazing. He is an amazing dad. He was so worried about it, but Colby will eat more when Erick feeds him than when I do. Erick will get up in the night with me and help as much as he can. :)