Fall Happenings

Our trip to the pumpkin patch the weekend before Evan arrived was not as successful as we hoped. Cam wanted nothing to do with anything until it was time to select a pumpkin. She picked out many pumpkins but did not want to bring any of them home.

She enjoyed "carving" her pumpkin. Cam gave Evan the big pumpkin and the witch pieces while she kept the smaller pumpkin and Dracula for her.

Grandma Donna and Grandpa Bruce came out Halloween weekend and helped take Cam trick-or-treating in Davenport. Dad took her around our neighborhood on Sunday. She fell asleep in the stroller on the way home and went right to bed.

One Month

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

A comparison pic of Camryn at one month old.

From Camryn's 1st year

A little more Evan and Cam update

These are some pictures I took with my Cannon EOS. Evan was slightly more cooperative for my photo session compared to his more professional session.

From Evan Scott

My little pumpkin. Although I use 'little man' or 'peanut' because Camryn is my 'pumpkin.'

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

Cam has been keeping herself busy with dad and Aunt Amy. While we were in the hospital, Grandma Julie and the gang drove around with Cam in her jeep. A neighbor donated the power wheels jeep and an atv to us a year ago for Cam but she never really wanted to drive it. Well that all changed, I guess, when Uncle Trace showed her how to drive it. Now she is fearless and with very limited steering ability. It definitely is exercise to keep up with her.

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

Also, she fancies herself a cosmetologist. Thankfully Aunt Amy is a good sport. Yes she was ingenious in her re purposing of their chalk drawings on the driveway.

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From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

Birth Announcement

Cubes Pea Baby Announcements

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Evan's Personality

His big sister still loves him . . . though sometimes he doesn't appreciate it.

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

From Evan Scott

I don't care.  He smiles too much for this to be gas!

Evan Scott 10 - 10

Evan arrived two days past his due date just like his sister. However, unlike his sister he arrived a little faster. Contractions started at 10 pm Saturday night after walking around Augie homecoming all day. Grandma Julie was called to start on her way around 11 pm. (We thought there would be plenty of time to leave for the hospital even with her 3 hour drive). Well we were wrong. So Kelly Thompson and Traci Reyes ended their homecoming activities a little early and made their way to the house around 12:30 am to watch Cam.

We arrived at the hospital sometime around 1. By the time we were checked in I was told there was not time for an epidural. (I was just a little disappointed). But Evan wasn't waiting and arrived at 4:22 am. He had a little difficulty keeping his O2 sats up, they were around 88%. But after an hour and lots of suctioning (a little mucous here a little there) he was a champ.

I did like the fact that I had hardly any swelling at all because of how little time they had to give me fluids.
Later that morning Camryn met her baby brother for the first time. She was so excited. The doctor tried to tell us she probably wouldn't like him or look at mom. That was not the case. Everything was about baby brother. She was fascinated.

Grandma Julie, Aunt Sam and Uncle Trace were the first visitors. Trace could not be in the room with Evan because he is under 12. I suppose children under 12 are really germy but if they are family I don't see the point.

Grandma Donna and Grandpa Bruce arrived later on Sunday.

And Kelly stopped by to say hi on Monday. Anne and Jim stopped by Monday night and brought a nice present for Mom (we just forgot to take a picture).

He was circumcised around 2pm on Monday. I went with him and he was a champ. He fussed when they strapped down his legs and then slept through the entire thing. With a successful circumcision behind us we were ready to hit the road Tuesday morning.
Grandma Julie, Aunt Sam, Uncle Trace and Cam welcomed us home.

Cam's pride at being a big sister continued to show.

Toro was a good boy. I am sure he thought "oh no here we go again!"

The Little Big Break

This is how our Good Friday started off. A trip to Warren Township Park in Gurnee (5 minutes from my Mom and Dad's). Cam was having fun playing with Samantha, Trace a couple of their friends and Mom and Dad. This picture is from the happy times. We had one successful slide with Dad and a not so hot one with mom.

From Owie

My slide ride with Cam resulted in a spiral fracture of her left tibia. Did we think anything was wrong on Friday. No, Scott and I thought maybe her leg was over extended so we let her sleep on it. Saturday she woke up at 4:30 in the morning with a high fever and did not want to stand on her left leg at all. She went back to bed with Mom and woke up around 8:30. We were to the ER by 9 am. She indeed have a temp of 102. They wanted to run a lot of unnecessary tests such as a chest x-ray, pulse rate, etc. We declined the chest x-ray and after 2 1/2 hours in the ER a X-ray of her leg was taken. I couldn't be in the room due to the pregnancy but her and dad were champs.

From Owie

We left with this lovely temporary cast. Her leg was wrapped in gauze and then a piece of fiberglass board was placed behind it to help support it and finally wrapped in an ace bandage.

From Owie

She soldiered on through Easter and even completed Donna and Bruce's Easter Egg hunt with the help of mom. By the end of the day on Easter she was pretty comfortable in her butt scoot as a mode of transportation.

From Owie

On Monday we went to the local orthopedic and received a nice hot pink cast. If I were a little less concerned about her maybe we would have chosen Cubby colors in honor of opening day but that was definitely an after thought.

From Owie

I am pretty sure that the cast adds 10 pounds. At least my arms will be stronger. The plan is to return to the orthopedist on April 26 and hopefully transfer to a walking cast.