Wednesday
9:00 pm – called the doctor
11:00pm – admitted to the hospital

Thursday
1:00  am – text my good friend Julie who was also being admitted that day to have her baby
8:00 am – met with doctor, she told me…”You’re having your baby today”
2:07 pm – deliverd Cole David Hargrave

It was a fast, scary miracle, but we are full of peace waiting for our son to come home.

Part of his lung was not quite developed, so they had to put him on oxogen for about 24 hours.  He had to be feed with an IV, and his heart was being monitored.  All of this sounds (and it looked) very scary, but we had great doctors who always gave us hope and comfort.  So, believe it or not, Ryan and I have had a lot of peace.  Not to mention the vast amout of friends and family who were praying fervently for us.

So, as of now we wait.  Wait for our little guy to come home.  He is being treated for Jaundice (almost gone) and has lost some weight, and he hasn’t quite got the knack for eating.  But, all of that seems to be getting better every day.  So, I go to the hospital about every three hours and hold him if I can, talk to him and tell him about all the things we are going to do.

Thanks again for all the love, it has been amazing and we feel it.

Christy

So, as I sit and feel this new little guy and think about doing it all over again, it gets me kinda scared.  Am I a good mom?  Should I be having children?  Am I going to have rebellious children.  And then, one day…out of nowhere, my son says to me,  “I love you mom, thanks for playing with me.”  And then I remembered the verse from Proverbs…”Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn form it.”  It hit me like a ton of bricks.  I have been trying to control him, not train him.  I wasn’t giving him a reason to obey.  I was just expecting him to.

So, my lesson was easy.  Relax, keep doing what your doing.  And, tell myself what my parents always used to tell me:  That, discipline means freedom.

I’ll let you know how he turns out in 20 years.

Christy and I use twitter fairly frequently during our lives and overall we really like it. It keeps us up to date with what friends are doing, what is going on and in some cases give us inspiration. About 3 weeks ago I started doing searches based on location, meaning that it pulls our whoever tweeted within 5 or 10 miles of me. Mostly what was returned was young high school  kids complaining about something or other… which is def not want I want to waste my life following!

But, the flip side is that I’ve picked up several people I follow that are fairly interesting and even had lunch with a guy that runs another design firm down here in Sugar Land. For the first time in a long time I feel like I’m beginning to break a few barriers, here in suburbia, when it comes to meeting people and finding people of similar interests (or even dissimilar interests).

Hoping to maybe keep meeting new folks and even put together a local meetup (or Tweetup for all the Geeks reading). So take some time and do some local searches for people tweeting around you!

P.S. if you are from Sugar Land be sure to follow @SLTownSquare as they seem to be the unofficial voice for our great city.

(Photo by friend and local Sugar Land photographer @mikehaskew)

In short… We went to steamboat for MusicFest, I’m now in the beardless part of the year, Christy is a redhead, Luke is 5, Crossbridge has moved into a building, it’s getting hot in Texas, we’re still traveling alot and have a river trip in our near future!

There… you’re all caught up. LOL

We spent this NYE over at our friends Brian and Angela’s. We watched motorcycle jumps, had pizza, drank Apple Martini’s, saw the ball drop and made fun of musicians that we had no idea who they were. It was sort of a last minute decision to head over and it was one of the best NYE’s we’ve had in a long time. Happy New Years everybody!

This year, as always I asked him if he would go with me to visit Santa?  Yes, he said.  Will you sit on his lap?  And to my surprise the answer was, “Yes”.  I was thrilled.

So, I throw on his best red shirt and jeans (because my child has no vests, thank you very much) and headed to the mall.

We arrived to the Santa Place and I began to see my little man getting a little apprehensive.  I got down on my knees and told him he didn’t have to do it if he didn’t want to.  I told him I just wanted a picture, but I understood if he just simply wanted to look at him.  I held his little chin in my hand and said, it’s just for me honey, but I’m not going to make you do anything you don’t want to.  He looked up at me and said, “OK mom, I won’t say anything to him, I will just take my picture for you.”

I’m so proud of my little guy!

And of course I had to reward my brave boy with the messiest cookie ever!

The Texas Snow Globe

And so begins the game. We’ve given all kinds of truckstop gifts back and forth, including a glass unicorn on a mirror, an eagle, snowglobes and most recently… a frog serving dish. Given as an anniversary “present” to us with the assumption that we would indeed use it during a nice dinner we are left with the following picture which was taken immediately following the question “Is that a frog?”

The bar was just raised friends. And just FYI, they do sell clothes at these truckstops too…