May 2, 2008 One Month Old

Happy Birthday to Kaydence!! She is officially one month old now! Wow, I have been a mother to two children for a month! Larry and I still don't feel like it's real, I think it won't hit us until we are all home together.

I was home today and tried to clean up the house and get it ready for when the baby comes home. I started to gut her room out and take everything out to the dining room. Larry and I are going to do one room at a time, and pitch whatever we have not used for over a year. So Goodwill should be stocked up once we are done gutting the house. I moved about half the stuff out of her room, and then got ready to leave the house to see Kaylee.

I went to Kaylee's school to sit and talk to her while she ate her lunch. That is something I was able to do a lot when she was in Kindergarten, but had to stop once I started teaching. She really misses me coming in because it made her feel special, so I thought it would be a nice gesture to do it now. I am so glad I did, because one of the little boys in her class was making fun of her and made her cry earlier in the day. Ironically, that boy was sitting across from us at the lunch table...and the other kids told me what he said. He went up to Kaylee and told her that Kaydence was going to die, and that he didn't care. Of course that made Kaylee cry, and the teacher was really upset about it. Then he tried to blame it on another student who was also with him when he said it to her. After lunch, he lost his entire recess, and had to have a meeting with the Vice Principal about it. When the kids told me about it, Kaylee squeezed my hand real hard. I had a very long talk with both of the boys, and explained to them that there was no reason to even try to hurt someone with words like that. Once I was finished my little talk with them, both said they were sorry to her. I almost signed her out of school when I left, but I thought it would be better to keep her there for her to stick it out. Kids are going to say hurtful things, and they will always pick on each other. I just felt horrible that she had to go through that. I whispered in her ear that he had no idea what he was talking about, and that God was going to take care of her sister. God is the one that makes decisions, not that little boy. She agreed with me, and told me that she wasn't going to listen to him and let him hurt her feelings anymore.

After I left the school, I visited Mariah to see how little miss Ava Grace was doing. She is so cute, and just as happy as she can be. Mariah feels like she is so far behind on getting things done to be ready for the baby.....I just laughed! She's not telling me anything I don't already know!!! I can't wait to get the babies together and have girl talk with Mariah again. We have over a month of gossip to catch up on!

Larry, Kaylee, and I headed back to DC and got to the hospital around 9:15 p.m. We called the nurse, and she saved the feeding time until we got there. Larry and Kaylee have a cough, so I fed her. I told Kaylee she will be able to feed her once she gets rid of her cough. The last thing we need is for the baby to get sick! The doctors are saying that she could be coming home really soon if she keeps her feeds up!

We called it a night in the apartment, and wanted to get up early to get back to the hospital in the morning to be there for rounds with the physician.