Lindsay's Surgery 1/30/08

Here are some pics from our time in the preop area. Wasn't the mini hospital gown just the cutest? The Barney doll was her surgery get well gift from mommy & daddy. Aunt Patti came along for moral support. Thanks so much for being with us!
Check out our little basketball girl. She was very busy playing with all the toys.
Slam dunk! Looking a little drugged up here. It was just a Motrin/Tylenol dose. You know what we were trying to pose here, right??? Ha!Ha! That's for you Cup of Joe!
Planning her escape...
Oh Yeah...I'm feelin' good. Let's go get some tubes!!
Daddy got to go with Lindsay to the OR until she got put under. That was really helpful I think. Much better than some other stories I've heard. Lindsay was still VERY unhappy when she was coming out of it. We heard her coming all the way down the hall. It took about 15 minutes of screaming to finally calm her down but she was fine after that. We all took a nice 3 hour nap later that day at home. So far, Lindsay hasn't had any complications and we're expecting the tubes to be as wonderful as everyone says. YAY! No more ear infections!

Here we are at home after the surgery. A MUCH happier & HUNGRY baby!
Gotta feed Barney too.

Pink? Blue? maybe....YELLOW?

Well, it's still sort of a mystery. Baby looked great yesterday. I can't believe how big we looked already! However, neither the tech or the doc could really get the "money shot".

Tech and doc both had the same opinion though.

The shot between the legs that they got was sort of looking up from the bottom so "things" were sort of blocked from view.

Doc said 80% he now thinks it's a ......GIRL!!! But he's been wrong before so come back in four weeks. SERIOUSLY???

I've had my head in boy mode for so long I was sort of shocked. However, we're THRILLED either way. The thought of Lindsay having a sister is just awesome to me! Then again we're still not totally sure.

I'm going to go in a couple of days before the big consignment sale and get another scan. Since I work there you know I have connections...tee,hee. Anyway, I better not be hearing "oops, it's a boy" after that sale and I didn't buy any boy clothes!! LOL!

Sorry I didn't update last night. We were crazy busy, went to dinner and then little Miss didn't want to go to bed last night. I was exhausted and fell asleep. But here I am for YOU bloggers taking care of business BEFORE work bright and early. :)

Oh and the sucky news....I'm still itchy. Worse now than before. The Perinatologist suggested PUPPS again. I'm not happy. I see my OB on Monday so we'll see what she thinks. This is crazy!!

I have no ultrasound pic b/c they didn't give us one yesterday and we were in such a stupor we forgot to ask. I'm going to run by there today and see if they can still print one up for me.

Have a great Wed everyone!!!

Happy Fat Tuesday!

Fat Tuesday photo 2007 Look how much I've changed!
Lindsay celebrates this past Saturday at a Chef and the Fat Man show!
Barney gets in on the action!

Tuesday is the day we hopefully find out if we're having a boy or girl! We have an ultrasound in the late afternoon so stay tuned for the big blog announcement tomorrow evening!

I promise to finish up the Orlando pics very soon as well.

Oh, I'm still itching too. Went to the dermatologist today and they didn't really have any more answers. I'm trying a stronger cream and if it's not better in a week then they'll do more tests. Oh joy. I'm hoping this goes away very soon!

A Tribute to Freckles- Girl's Best Friend!

Let's get the last of the sadness on the blog so we can move on to happier things this week. Thank you so much to all of you who have sent us condolence cards and emails. It means so much to Mike and I that so many of you understand how hard this past week was for us. For both Mike and I these were our first pets that we've had from babies to seniors.

The first photo I ever took of Freckles. I found her running the parking lot at Sam's club. She was a beautiful shade of Georgia red clay before her bath and this first picture. She was approx. 3 months old. She was a fun puppy but she cried so much the first night I almost didn't keep her.
But how could I resist this face??
Yes, I really loved my dog! LOL! She was my single girl dog. She lived in a lot of places with me for a lot of years til we finally settled down with Mike! Then she became HIS dog. Trust me on this one, she loved him. All animals love Mike aka St. Francis.

The 2003 Christmas Card photo. This was the year Max claimed us. Our pre human kid Christmas card days!

Freckles after her first shave of the summer (May 2006). I love this most recent photo of her. You can see she is really getting gray. But she looks so happy prancing in the yard with her fresh new do and her bandana! I know she is in a happier place now. Lindsay still calls all dogs Freckles and that's hard for us but so cute. She finally calls Max by his name but it comes out "Mack" which is hysterical when she says "Hey Mack!" Again, I know Max will be her growin' up dog but I hope that she'll look back fondly with us and somehow retain some memory of our sweet Freckles.

Some of you have asked if we're thinking of getting anymore pets. We've decided to hold off on that for now. We'd like to bring the next baby home and get through those first months before introducing more chaos into the house. New pets need lots of attention and our hands will be full with a two year old, a new born and a neurotic chow chow. However, we're rescue people. We figure when the time is right some lost soul cat or dog will find it's way on our door step and we'll probably take it in. Maybe we'll wait til the kids are old enough to pick out their own pup or kitten and we'll go that route. Freckles and Midnight are certainly missed. It would feel too disrespectful at this point to get another cat or dog. Hopefully Max will do ok with only Lindsay and soon a new baby for companions. We may have to revisit things later if he's not doing well, we'll see.
Thanks again everyone for all your sweet comments and memories that you've shared. I promise no more tear jerker posts for a while!

Love The Bresnan's!

Memories of Midnight

Midnight spent my entire pregnancy resting on my belly. Once Lindsay was born she still kept watch over the baby. The very first time I felt Lindsay kick, Midnight was laying in my lap.
Mike and his girls. Midnight's favorite place was on her daddy's lap, even if she had to share it.

Once Lindsay would go to bed this would be a common nightly routine.

The Elmo chair was a kitty fave. She used it more than Lindsay has since she's gotten it.

Midnight was almost 20 years old when she went to Heaven. She lived ALL of her 9 lives for sure. For a cat who was very indifferent to me when I first moved in we grew to love each other. I think she even forgave me for bringing the dog. I certainly forgave her for peeing on my Christmas tree skirt our first married Christmas. It's not her fault that Mike put it in the dryer and it shredded into a million pieces. Ha! Ha!

My most lasting memory of her will be when Lindsay came home from our most recent trip and went straight over to her and squatted down and put her cheek next to the cat's. This was Lindsay's way of giving kitty a kiss. She missed her cat and was so happy to see her. I wish that Lindsay would remember her but we'll have lots of pictures like these to show her when she's older.

Rest in Peace, Midnight. We'll miss you.

More Orlando Pics

I feel so behind now. After the week we had this trip feels like a year ago. So without further ado some fun stuff.... My Sister Kim with her youngest Caroline and my Lindsay!
Lindsay immediately took over the run of grammy Larsen's house (Kim's mom). It was kid haven there as she has tons of GRANDDAUGHTERS and there were toys galore for Lindsay to play with!
Ya think she's ready for her own stroller and baby doll??? She has the doll but no stroller. Guess we'll be getting her the whole stroller carseat combo when her "new baby" comes to town. I love this photo. Check out that smile and how the wind is blowing through her hair...good times people, good times!
Lindsay decides she needs to walk Daddy & Liney around the block one more time.

Kaley & Kimmy have some beauty parlor time while we're waiting to get the birthday party started. Kim's sister Shel's daughter was turning 3 that day. Sorry, no pics of her beauties allowed on the blog though. Bummer, but I'm respecting... :)

For those of you who don't know I lived with Kim and her family for several years of high school and part of college. They are truly family to me. I know it might be confusing so I wanted to clarify. Kim and I aren't blood related sisters but we ARE sisters. TRUST US! Her folks are grammy & pop pop to Lindsay. Whenever we go back to my old stomping ground that's where we head. It's also so great to have somewhere to stay that is mega child safe. I never worried about where in the house Lindsay was or what she was doing. Thanks to the Larsen/Norman clan for putting us up for a few days! We miss you guys already! Hoping to make another trip in the late summer, early Fall with baby number 2!

EWW EWW ITCHY WOMAN

I owe you guys some MAJOR updates. I'm working in backwards order here so bear with me.

I woke up this morning and was ITCHING like a mad woman. I was clawing at my arms and then my back was itching then my neck and chest. I started asking Mike to scratch my back and then I didn't want him to stop. All of a sudden I was like "TURN ON THE LIGHT!! OMG!!" Well, I was covered in lovely red welts and bumps. My first reaction was that I might have that pregnancy PUPPS thing that mbkimmy talked about before Tatum was born. Turns out it's too early in the pregnancy to develop that (THANK GOODNESS) and not likely to be my issues. We're still not sure what's going on but the doctor might think that it's a neurodermatitis. In layman's terms it's stress related. I like to call it "Neurotic". Ha! Anyway, what would cause me so much stress that I'd break into hives you ask????

It's been a rough week bloggers. Last Saturday I woke up to find my 15 year old border collie Freckles having seizures. She had two within six hours of each other. Long story short, Mike and I took her to the vet and ultimately had to put her down. I've had Freckles since she was three months old so she was my first baby. Mike and I were there with her to the end and fortunately my sister had Lindsay for the weekend so we were able to grieve and not have to worry about the baby. Then on Tuesday Mike had to take our 19 year old cat to the vet b/c she was not well. We were worried before the Orlando trip that her time was coming but she sort of had bounced back. By Tuesday though she was not eating or drinking or walking very well. So, within three days of each other we lost two very beloved pets. We still have Max, our black chow, who probably won't go for a ride in the car ANYTIME soon. He's pretty much moping around the house when Lindsay isn't home. However, putting two animals to sleep just days apart has made for a pretty sad week.

To add to the stress factor Lindsay had the surgery to put tubes in her ears on Wednesday. We knew this would be fine and it went more smoothly than we could have dreamed. Lindsay is doing great and we're happy to be over that hump.

So, once I told the doc all of this information he decided that I do not have PUPPS but that my body is having a reaction to all of the stress I've been under. Ok, I'll take that. Although I thought I was handling it all pretty darn well. I guess my body is freaking out. Hopefully Baby #2 in here is doing ok. We have an ultrasound this Tuesday and we're hoping to find out the sex which will be exciting! We need some good news to come our way this week.

Anyway, I still have vacation pics to post, Lindsay pics from surgery day and a lovely little tribute to our dear Freckles & Midnight. Hopefully I'll get around to some of that this weekend.

Special thanks to MBKIMMY for calling me back this morning and talking me down! I was so worried I was going to be itching for the next 24 weeks!!!!

More soon!