we are home!

okay, actually we got home wednesday. they let us go early sine Ronan was otherwise healthy. ever since i have pretty much just been recouperating. Ronan had to finish his last four doses of antibiotic via intramuscular shots in order for us to leave the hospital. also, please pardon my grammar, i'm typing with only one hand.
The shots are finally over. Poor Ronan had some sore legs and an upset tummy. He was diagnosed with grade 3 reflux in his left kidney. the doctor told us that a lot of times cases like his "right themselves" by age 2. so until then he will recieve daily antibiotics, a very small dose, that will hopfully prevent any future infetions from happening by keeping his urine steril until it hopefully rights it's self. If it doesn't, or he continually gets infections, he will need surgery. I am hopeful it will not come to that.

Other than that, we are doing well at home. He is sleeping well at night, yay. He has just been a little more fussy because of the meds, which will hopefully be out of his system soon.
We are just busy busy busy, but will hopfully find our way back to some sort of routine... the hospital stay pretty much destroyed any routine we DID have.
I will try to get more pics up soon.

Thanks to everyone who prayed for us during our hospital stay! We are SO glad to be home!!!!!

day 3 in the hospital

We are doing alot better lately since we started getting good news and have more answers!! Ronan's ultrasound showed healthy kidneys and bladder, no inflamation or anything showing reason for concern. His blood culture also came back negative, so that keeps us at 10 days, thankgoodness!!!!!!
I have also had the sweetest nurses who have and are doing their best to make our room a home away from home. They frequently pop in to see Ronan and love on him since he is so stinking cute :) everyone says that we are their favorite patients hehe. I am deffiatly feeling less lonely than i'd thought. Brian also brought my wii and the wii fit so the nurses are bringing me a yoga mat to work out on haha.
Not much else to report. Today another nurse who teaches infant massage therapy came in to teach me some exercises for Ronan, so that was fun. Grandma also came to visit and read him some stories (i read to him every night, he loves it!)
I will include some pictures of his hospital stay so far.

Thank you all for prayers. The Lord heard us and have provided excellent care here at the hospital and healing for my sweet little boy!!
Love to all of you!

hospitalized....

i sit here in the hospital completely heartbroken typing with one hand, the other holding my sick baby :(
last night he was pretty fussy, he wouldnt sleep unless in my arms. this morning he looked flushed and felt a bit warm but otherwise seemed just fine. i took his temp to be safe, it was 100, two hrs later it was 100.2. my pediatrition advised us to go ahead and go straight to the ER since he is still so young.
after blood tests, a cathedar/ urine sample, a chest xray, a spinal tap etc...
eventually to find out he has a uti, or kidney/bladder infection which will require him to be on antibiotics for 10 days, which also means hospitalized for 10 days... ugghhh it just all feels like a horrible nightmare. please pray he heals quickly. my poor baby... i just want it all to be over and to go home. i cried like a baby when they said we had to stay over night, and more when they said two nights. when they broke the news about staying 10 days i sobbed.
well i gotta go, please keep usin your prayers!!

one month old!

i cannot believe my little boy is already one month old. it's all happening so fast!! He is such a good baby and i am loving life as his mama. we've started somewhat of a schedule, which he doesnt always cooperate with, but its okay :) we have bath time, and story time, then lights out for feeding time. Then he falls asleep whenever he is good and ready. I think he is having a growth spurt because he has been cluster feeding the last couple days, and thats not normal for him. he is also sleeping more.
life has changed so much since having a baby, sometimes its so hard and frustrating (the sleeping... or lack there of) but everytime i look into his cute little face i am reminded why i do it.
I just feel so blessed that i am able to stay at home with him. i fall in love with him more everyday!!! I still need to schedule my 6 week post pardum appt with my OB and schedule Ronan for a hip ultrasound because i had hip displaysia as an infant.
Brian got me a little notebook laptop so i can more easily go online, skype with relatives, and add pictures. using the desktop with an infant is a lot harder than i imagined it would be! so i am really enjoying this!
today i took some pictures, i tried to make it look somewhat professional bur i didnt have much time, but they did turn out cute so i posted a few for your enjoyment.
well, i gotta go, Ronan is fussy and doesnt want to share me with the computer right now :)

Where is the time going???

I swear... the days go by so quickley I hardly have time to shower! ew I know... I mean, I am just trying to keep up with my little guy!
Things are going great! The biggest struggle right now is SLEEPING!!!! I, for some reason have a really difficult time turning off my switch during the day and napping when he naps... therefore I am extremely tired in the evenings when he decides to pull all nighters with me ;)
I really wish I could fix this and just SLEEP when he does?? Even as I type my little guy is sweetly sleeping in his little crib, and here I sit... WIDE AWAKE! What is wrong with me???
and now that it's the hew year i have a new goal... to loose all this baby weight! I still have 15 lbs to loose to get back to pre baby weight. So it's time to jump on my wii fit... in all my spare time! HA!

Man, i really need to add some new pics! he is changing so much! He looks like such a little man! Like a cute version of Benjamin Button hahaha.

Thank you Lord for all that you've done!!!