Finally, I can tell you about the last few months...

OK, so it's been quite a while since I updated any of this. It's been a long year already, and not necessarily in a good way, more bad than good I think. Where to start....

Well, I had mentioned before that Angie and Dave had a beautiful new baby boy Rylan. This is where the year starts getting bad...On January 26th, Rylan earned his Angels Wings. He passed away from a heart problem. I am sorry but I can't go into much detail, a) because I am not sure of all of the medical things that go along with it and b) it is still very sad and I still have a very hard time discussing it with anyone other than Angie.

(Rylan Koeller 9/29/08 - 1/26/09)

Rylan was laid to rest on January 30, 2009. Angie is doing as well as can be expected after something like this happens, actually, I have to give her props because she has pulled together for the sake of her family and is an amazingly strong woman! No parent should ever have to bury their child, it's just not natural.

I had a very rough last month of my pregnancy. I was in the hospital the night that Angie had to take Rylan to the hospital. I was having contractions with bleeding. They gave me a drug (I can't spell it so I'm not going to attempt to tell you the names of any of them) to stop the contractions and it caused a major spike in my heartrate ~ up to the 200s. It stayed this way for longer than it was supposed to. Because of this, they had to give me another medication that was supposed to counteract the first. It didn't work. It dropped my blood pressure. They tried yet another med and that did nothing as well. I had to wait it out until the first med was out of my system. Needless to say, it was about 6 1/2 hours and the whole time, my heartrate was running over 200. The good thing, the bleeding and the contractions had stopped. Around 6 pm, my heartrate just all of a sudden dropped from 200+ to 80 something, in one single beat. By the end of the night, my chest hurt so bad! When I was released, they put me on temporary bed rest. I got the call from Angie Monday morning.

Fastforward about 2 weeks. Blood pressure is still up high, still have 3 weeks to go before my due date. Back in the hospital for contractions and blood pressure again. They kept me for several hours to monitor me but decided against induction that day. The following weekly appt, they decided to induce me due to my blood pressure and I was close enough to my due date that the baby would be fine. They scheduled me for the next day to be induced. They said that the hospital would call me anywhere between 4-9 am. I was hoping for 9 but nope...

...At 4:30 on February 24, 2009, the hospital called me to say they had a bed available and that I had to be there within an hour. We got to the hospital at 5:30 and I was admitted and taken to my room for induction.

(Right before being induced)

They started my petocin drip right at 6 a.m. At 7 a.m., the doctor came in to break my water. After this, I started to really feel the contractions. The nurse came in to ask me about my epidural, and I said yes, so I got that at about 8:10. By 8:30, it should have worked completely but I was still feeling the entire left side of my body, and it felt like that baby was pushing his way out! The contactions were getting really strong so Josh called for the nurse. She checked me and very quickly walked out of the room calling behind her to us that she was going to get the doctor for delivery!! Baby was on his way! I started pushing around 8:40ish and pushed for no more than 20 minutes. At 9:00 a.m., we welcomed our second son into the world! He took no time getting here at all, 3 hours start to finish!!

(Right after birth)

He was 6 lbs 13 oz and they said that he was 19 inches long (we later found out that he was really 18 1/2 inches). We named him Chance Rylan Harrison, his middle name after Angie's little angel.

Connor has taken very well to his little brother, he is very protective of him and loves to be around him. He loves to show him off to everyone!

I took both boys to MN for 2 weeks, they were very well behaved on the plane rides! I took him to the circus with Angie and Hannah, and Missie and Kody. He LOVED it!! If you ask him what his favorite part was, it was the light saber that Angie bought him! He still plays with it!

(Connor & his light saber at the circus)

We also went to Hannah's birthday party at the Edge Indoor Water Park in Duluth where Connor had a blast!! He played with Dave the whole time, I think Dave slept really good that night! It takes a lot to keep up with Connor!

I also had my sister's bridal shower, which turned out really nice!

We had so much fun in MN, but it's always nice to be home again! I know that Connor was really starting to miss his daddy, he was asking about him all the time! Now that we are home, he is asking for Tate, Kyler, Kody, and Hannah! You just can't please this child!! :)

I go back to work on Monday...it went way to fast! Hopefully I will be able to keep this more updated but for now, I think I have reached my limit! There's so much more that has happened but I can't type & breastfeed at the same time very effectively!