Look what I have...

Pictures!!!

why did you wake me up? We left for Callaway Gardens way past Nolan's bed time.


Vacation time!!


Butterflies at the Butterfly Garden




Nolan at the Butterfly Garden


Sleepy Nolan


Nolan and me (check out those chubby thighs - Nolan's, not mine)


day 2 - Nolan could barely contain his excitement





WalkAmerica - April 28 (1 year anniversary of Caleb's memorial service)


Cary walking


Nolan "walking" in his "I'm the little brother" shirt


Nolan and me crossing the finish line.


Thank you to everyone who donated. We raised over $500. Not bad for our first time.
Next year, all of you will walk, too. Right?

any one miss me?

What a crazy couple of months!

Where did I leave off?

We took a trip to Callaway Gardens in April. Neither Cary nor I wanted to be at home for the anniversary of Caleb's death, so we went to Callaway. It was nice. Nolan loved the butterfly garden. We have great pictures of him in his fishing hat at the gardens, but they're on the dead computer. I hope to get them off the dead computer very soon.

Mother's Day was great. I finally got to have a Mother's Day with a living baby. Cary made me breakfast. Nolan gave me smiles. It was great.

I got Nolan's 6-month pictures taken the day before Mother's Day (I know I'm 2 months late).
Here's a link to Nolan's pictures: http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/my/images?tk=ebe25e1e-1b22-481b-a15b-c4fdf06f3e7e
You can see his teeth. He has almost 3 on the bottom and 1 coming in on the top.

He will be crawling very, very soon. He will rock on the his hands and knees and end up going backwards. He hasn't quit figured out how to go forward. He loves to stand up. And he LOVES animals. When Nolan sees a cat or a dog he will get a huge smile and squeal! Oscar will let Nolan pet him. Our other 2 cats are still deciding if they like Nolan.

Time for Nolan to go to bed. I'll try to add the pictures soon!!

I'm still here

and the computer's still dead.

Will update with pictures, soon!

computer crashed

I had a new post with pictures almost ready when the computer crashed. I'll try again tonight.

WalkAmerica is TOMORROW!

I've been trying to post about donating to the walk, but April has been an insane month!

All of you know my stories, but here's a quick recap:

When I was 26 weeks, 2 days pregnant with Caleb I went to the specialist for regular check-up. The checked my cervix length. It was pretty much gone - it was measuring almost .75 cen. They sent me directly to the hospital. With the help of medicine and strict bedrest, I was able to carry Caleb 4 more days. He was born October 10, 2005 at 26 weeks, 6 days gestation. Research from March of Dimes helped develop the medicines that helped me carry Caleb those 4 extra days. I can't even begin to tell you all the things MOD helped develop that Caleb used during his life.

Story #2: MOD's research helped stop my contractions with Nolan at 32 1/2 weeks. With both babies they gave me a shot to help speed the development of their lungs by one week - again from MOD! I strongly feel that shot is what kept Nolan out of the NICU. MOD also help develop the shots I got weekly with Nolan.

Please donate to WalkAmerica.

I am walking in memory Caleb and in honor of Nolan.

Help save babies!

Donate online at http://www.walkamerica.org/preemiehood. (there's link to this site in my links section)

There's still time to join my walking team!


(and if you donate I'll post pictures of our trip to Callaway Gardens!)