Alas...a new blog!! I haven't taken the time to blog in several months! All is well in the Harris household! It is heartbreaking to think about May 20, 2009. My 'baby' will be one year old on this day. Everyone has told me to 'hang on every moment because they grow so fast' but I had no idea #2's first year would go by twice as fast as #1's!! It saddens me to the point that I ALMOST want #3!! Before you get excited, concerned, or some other outrageous emotion....we are NOT there yet!!! 

Meanwhile, Logan is playing tee-ball and tennis! He says tee-ball practice is boring but he likes the games! He is the best big brother ever! He gets excited to see "Sissie" every morning and every afternoon when we pick him up from school! He has a way of making her laugh when no one else can!!

Will and I have a big trip planned next month! We will be going on a "second honeymoon" to Jamaica with two other couples! We need a vacation and look forward to enjoying each other and celebrating our marriage! Again....NO....we are NOT planning #3!!!

I will try to do a better job of keeping you all in the Harris Crew loop! But for now, take care and have a happy Mother's Day!!

Addelyn's surgery

This week has been very busy for the Harris crew! Sunday, Logan and I went to church and Will stayed home with Addelyn because she was napping. After church, Logan suddenly decided that he didn't feel well and needed to go to bed. When he woke up, I wasn't home but Will said he seemed to be fine. However, Monday he got sick again. He vomited three times (once all over the floor, once on our bed and once again on the bed)! So Will and I decided that he would stay home with Logan and I would take Addie to the hospital. Will did not like this decision so I made sure to call and keep him informed as much and often as possible. I felt sad for him. So...I got up at 4:45 to get ready to take Addelyn to Children's Hospital for her hernia repair. We got there at 6:30 only to wait for a couple of hours before they took us to our holding room. There, we waited for a while longer. The surgery was scheduled to take place at 9am. However, they didn't take her back to the OR  until 10:00. Now, I know this is going to make me look like a bad mom but this is the truth...instead of freaking out and worrying, I took a nap while Addelyn was in surgery! I knew she was in good hands...God's hands! So I was at peace! Dr. Harmon came into the room at 10:45 to inform me that everything went well, the hernia was about the size of your thumb (which was "rather large"), there was no hernia on the right and that I should see my princess very soon! So....I took another quick nap after calling Will to let him know Addelyn was fine!! Soon the nurse brought her to me! She was lethargic but pleasant, as usual! As she lie in my arms, I began to remember the day she was born. And how she would lie so still while I cradled her. Once again, I was sure to call Daddy and let him know his baby girl was safe in my arms. I know he was relieved. 

She immediately sucked down about 6 oz of Pedialyte. Soon thereafter, we were on our way home! She was so tired and lethargic. I looked back at her once and she was holding a hanging toy with one hand while her head hung, eyes closed!! It was so cute.

I had my camera in my purse that morning...just in case I had a chance to capture a moment. I also had a bottle of juice in my purse for Addelyn. Apparently, camera's don't function to full capacity after bathing in apple juice. So my camera is out of service. I doubt Will is going to be getting me a new one anytime soon. So I don't know if or when I will have new pictures for you all. 

I hope you all have a great week! Keep Logan and Addelyn in your prayers. Logan is still fighting off a cold and Addelyn is recovering from surgery. Will is going to be running the Mercedes Half-Marathon on Sunday morning so cheer him on if you think about it!

Birthday Bliss

Today was Logan's fourth birthday! We had a great party with lots of friends and family. My sister, Amy, baked and erected a John Deere tractor cake that was to die for!! Our friends Tim and Melissa brought a HUGE inflatable that kept all the kids from 6 to 66 entertained all day! My parents were here, Logan's friends from school, my best friends, and our neighbors all came together for a day of celebration. Addelyn had a John Deere onsie that was perfectly appropriate for the affair. She enjoyed the attention she solicited! 

Thank you all for your love and support of our family. You are our lifeline and we appreciate you!

Hello to the fine folks who enjoy keeping up with the Harris's! Much different than the infamous "Jones's", the Harris's should not be the standard we aspire to meet! 

Well, Princess Addelyn met with the Pediatric surgeon last Friday. She will be having surgery to repair her inguinal hernia on February 9 at about 7am. He will close off the hernia on the left then check the right side for the same anomaly and repair it if needed. 

Meanwhile, Logan is turning four years old this weekend. As most of you know, his birthday is on Sunday, January 25. He was born at 3:56 pm. I pushed for 2.5 hours on that day. He came out with a cone head and screaming! I can't believe it's been four years since that day. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the look on Will's face and the words he spoke..."look at him, Babe. Look at him"!!! Enough reflecting....on to the fun stuff!!! He is having a birthday party Sunday! Logan's friend Sam (who is ALMOST as cute as Logan) came to visit today and we went to buy party favors. Logan had decided that he wanted a Spiderman party. That is, until he saw the Diego stuff, the fireman stuff, and of course...the John Deere stuff! We finally decided on good ol' John Deere! What Logan doesn't know is that our friends Tim and Melissa are going to bring a giant inflatable to his party!! Logan is going to be so excited! 

I continue my many woe's of searching for the perfect career! I love having a flexible schedule. I also want to work as a practitioner and bring home a nice paycheck. Luckily, in my field, I can have the best of both worlds. However, finding the job that gives me exactly what I need has been a task that has proven unsuccessful thus far. I found a job posting at St Vincent's for a NP in a clinical setting, 20 hours a week...flexible hours! Of course I applied! I love to think that God has divinely put this job posting in my sight but I don't know! I am not getting the hours I was promised in Alex City, and if you read my previous post about how God was trying to show me that in order to use me he would put me in "toxic environments", you would see why I'm not trying to understand God right now! All I can do is walk with Him and trust. 

On a lighter note, I had my very first tennis match last Saturday. If you have forgotten so quickly that it was like 2 degrees on Saturday, allow me to remind you....IT WAS FREEZING. This is not an ideal setting for my first tennis match. I'm not making excuses or anything but the two girls we were playing had a little bit more insulation than Leah and I!!! I am claiming cold as our out this time! We would never have been stomped like that if it had been 70 degrees...or even 60 for that matter! So tomorrow we will meet back at the courts and practice our serves...which will make or break a tennis match! If you know anything about me, you know how competitive I am and how mortified I was to come home to my husband...who ran a half-marathon in 20 degree weather in 1 hour and 45 minutes that morning...and tell him that we got smoked! He, however, enjoyed the moment! [snarl....]

Hopefully, I will see all of you this weekend. If not, we will certainly have birthday pix to share with you!! 

Momma

Will made a monumental statement tonight. Addelyn has said nothing but "Mama ma ma ma ma" all day long!! I love this! I have begged her to utter my name for 7 months and she finally said it today! What joy! However, Will put things into perspective when he said "Momma....this is the first day of the REST OF YOUR LIFE"!!!!

Not much going on here

Well, there isn't really a lot of excitement in the Harris home. However, there are lots of haps around us!

My friend Carrie is definitely having a girl...her name is Molly Claire. I LOVE her name! She is due right around the same time Addelyn was due. 

My sister-in-law and brother, Michelle and Jeremy, are having a baby girl as well!! This was a great surprise on Friday! Her name is Avery Magnolia! I think it's a really pretty name. Avery is also due to arrive around Addelyn's birthday!

So Addelyn will have a new baby cousin and a new best friend to play with very soon!! Logan is going to be outnumbered everywhere we go! 

On the other hand. My friend Lorie Johnson is very very sick. I have told most of you about her and asked you guys to pray so I will not revisit that issue. 

Something fairly new is Logan's little attitude! He is definitely transitioning from angel to little boy!! He stinks, he's sassy, he gets dirty ALL THE TIME, he plays rough, he loves his boy parts, and he is crazy about his mommy! This morning he got in trouble. He was in the living room eating breakfast and he called to me to bring him some milk (using his finely tuned manners, of course). I told him to wait a second. So Will took the milk to him and Logan must have been disappointed because instead of saying "thank you", he said "Dad, did I ask YOU to bring me some milk?". Will said "no". Logan said "so why are you bringing it to me...?" Yes, Logan got in trouble for that but it was so darn cute! He's also been using adult words like "otherwise". He wants me to scratch the four-wheeler he wanted for Christmas from his list and put it on his birthday list. I think this is because Santa told him that he had to be about 7 to drive a four-wheeler so he thinks he might talk Mom and Dad into getting it for him!

Addelyn is becoming quite mobile. She is cruising well. I expect her to walk within the next two months. She began daycare two days a week. She isn't used to not being the center of attention! She has her surgical consult this Friday. Hopefully they will schedule her surgery quickly. I get nervous about an incarcerated hernia and obsessively check to make sure she's okay. She started saying "Da-da" at about 4 months old. Yesterday, she said "Bubba" This morning...I swear she uttered "Ma-ma". Of course, no one was home except her and I so it doesn't really matter!! 

Logan's big four-year-old birthday is on January 25. I don't think he wants a big party. He wants Lucy, Grant and Reagan to come over for cake and ice cream. So there is no sense in having a big, expensive party for him! He wants a Spider Man cake so I guess I will do my annual birthday cake decorating for him! He has also moved up to the four-year-old class at daycare. He likes being there with his older friends and big-boy toys!

Will went hunting in Troy for the first time in FOREVER! I was glad to see him get back out there and enjoy himself!! I love the idea of hunting, I just don't want to be the one pulling the trigger, killing Bambi's mommy or daddy. And I don't want to see it either. My dad is a big time hunter. He watches hunting shows all the time. He even has been on some hunting shows. He's been all over the world hunting. I grew up around this but I just can't get used to it! So, Will, Honey, you may go hunting whenever you want to. But please don't ask me to go or to look at your trophies!! You do remember what happened the last time I went, don't you?! 

I will update you all on Ms. A's surgery as soon as we make some decisions. 

Until next time my friends.......

More health issues

As I mentioned previously, Addelyn has had a cold this week. She and Logan are doing much better now. Although illnesses are never fun, sometimes they are a blessing. Addelyn's cough brought a potentially serious condition to our attention this week. It looks like she has an inguinal hernia. This occurs when tissue [bowel] pushes through a weakened portion of the muscle. The major risk is that the bowel would become incarcerated (stuck) and the bowel dies. The treatment is surgery. I will call a pediatric surgeon tomorrow and see if he will see her as soon as possible. So, thanks to Addelyn's cough, we have found a potentially dangerous problem. Oh, did I mention that Super Dad is the one who noticed the hernia?! So please be praying for us and that there will be no complications.