Anyway, Morgan, I would dare to say is taking this better than both of us  I have to say we really do have some great kids.  She has gotten to the point now where the finger sticks to test her blood are OK.  She doesn’t fight, she doesn’t even cry when it happens.  She will even tell us it didn’t work if we aren’t holding it tight enough to her finger  The shots still are a battle and I expect them to be for quite awhile, but we just have to deal with them.  Four times a day getting a needle stuck in you just plain sucks.

Other than that the biggest issue for all of us is food.  For a child who literally ate all day long without stopping, it is extremely difficult to tell her no you can’t eat that now.  We have to keep her on a bit of a schedule plus anything she eats outside of meals has to be “free” food which contains no or very little carbs so it does not affect her blood glucose.  The night before we left for Maryland I think we shopped in Acme for about 3-4 hours, mostly staring at labels trying to find low/no carb snacks that she can eat.  As much as she would like, she can’t survive on nothing but cheese sticks all day long  From here on out, the biggest hurdle for us will be cooking.  Michelle I think is scared to death to try and cook because it is so difficult knowing how many carbs are in anything she cooks.  We purchased some diabetic and low carb cookbooks at Borders the other day, so I hope that helps her out.  Ultimately I think it won’t matter as much as she thinks, but until she actually does it and puts it in practice, that’s another story.

The good thing is her blood glucose has been “normal” around 190 for a few days now, minus a peak once or twice, but nothing too serious.  I guess that means we are doing things the right way, but who knows.  Like I said, she is taking it in stride, it’s Mommy and Daddy that could have a nervous breakdown at any moment

Anyway, enough babble.  There you go, another quickie update hopefully giving you a glimpse of how she is doing.  How we are doing.  Now to try and tackle getting rid of or hiding all the food she can’t eat around the house  I also want to say thank you to everyone again that has reached out to us.  It amazes me how many people have sent some encouragement or prayers our way.  I truly feel loved and cared about, and I can’t thank you all enough for that.  I love you all!

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This morning the doctor here at AI Dupont confirmed that it is almost positively diabetes.  There are only a handful of things that it could be other than diabetes, and all of them are highly unlikely.  That being said, the last 24 hours, i think I have had information overload.  With all the information the hospital has given not to mention all the info I have looked up online, I think I have the basics covered.

For me, I think the biggest concern is diet and we are supposed to see a dietitian tomorrow.  From my previously limited knowledge and the fears I have, I think I am wrongly concerned but concerned none the less.  The doctor mentioned that the insulin nowadays is much more refined and diet doesn’t come into play any near as much as it did years ago.  As long as things are in moderation, he seemed to think she should have no problems.

It certainly seems like it will be a lot more work for us as parents that’s for sure.  Counting carbs, calculating carbs to insulin ratios, giving shots.  Trust me it does not sound like fun, especially to someone who doesn’t like needles.  But it’s for my baby.  That’s all that matters.

Anyway, as I sit and stare and my beautiful baby girl fast asleep in her steel crib and I think of everything that is to come, I am thankful that God has blessed me with not only this beautiful girl, but an amazing son and a beautiful wife to share this life with.

I know it has been awhile since I have posted but the only people that ever dropped by here are no on Facebook so that’s where I post most everything now, just in much smaller snip-its.  Anyway, excuse my talking out loud.  Michelle is home with Matthew, hopefully getting a good nights rest as I take hospital shift tonight.  I need to try and get some rest because I have a sneaking suspicion that I may be up most of the night with as much as she has slept today.  Good night all, thank you for listening, all 2 of you out there

Scott

P.S. – Christmas pictures posted

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Morgan – It’s amazing how time flies.  Morgan’s growing like a weed.  Amazingly it’s almost been a year.  She is crawling great and getting around everywhere.  She has started crawling up the stairs which we had to rope off   She has 4 teeth now, two front top and bottom.  She laughs and smiles all the time, except when you try and put a camera in front of her face   Other than that she is great!

Matthew – Is good.  Getting into quite a bit of trouble not listening.  Michelle thinks it has to do with the attention Morgan is getting, but I just don’t buy it.  He has always had issues with listening to us.  He can recite the Subway song or beer commercials non stop but as to what i told him 5 minutes ago, forget about it, literally.  He is a great kid, don’t let me fool you.  I just wish he would listen a little more

Vacation – For valentines day I surprised Michelle and Matthew with a trip to Disney World.  We will be staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge from May 9th through May 16th.  This will be our second trip to Disney and I can’t be more excited.  I ended up getting an all inclusive thing with food and the whole nine yards.  Michelle has since made reservations at various restaurants around Disney for almost every meal!  Most places you have to set up reservations well in advance.  Anyway, I almost wish it was closer because I am really excited.

Other than that not too much going on.  Our car has been in the shop for 4 days with a broken timing belt and some other minor ailments, as much as almost two grand can be minor.  Right now I am working from home looking out at about a foot of snow so i have to prepare after lunch to go out and get pelted by snowballs by my son who wont stop asking me   I have put some pics up, and I do apologize.  I can’t believe my last upload was before Halloween.  Anyway I think that will do it for now.  Enjoy the quick update and we’ll talk to you soon.

Scott

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Morgan is growing well.  We had the first tooth pop out a couple of weeks ago.  It really hurts, no not her, but my finger when she constantly chews on them   She is standing up well on us, hasn’t stood on her own yet.  She is sitting up great on her own.  She defintely tries to crawl but gets frustrated when she doesn’t get there fast enough.  Part of her problem is she only rolls one sided, to the right.

Right now Michelle is feeding her, and she’s eating a ton.  Not sure if she is really hungry or heating up the food has helped, but she went through one bowl and Michele asked if she should give her more.  I said if she wants it give it to her   She likes carrots, doesn’t like green beans, and doesn’t like the cereal much.  Bananas didn’t do much for her, too sweet maybe, because with every bite she would ive that tart face look, it was hilarious

She loves her bouncer.  She will stand in it and bounce for quite some time.  She enjoys it so much when she stands on Michelle or I she will still bounce all over.  Sleeping is still an issue.  Once every three or four weeks she just refuses to sleep and last night was that night.  Michelle tried for a few hours and was unsuccessful, so I finally took her.  I tried walking around with her, tried laying down with her, finally I came downstairs to try and let Michelle get some sleep.  After about a half hour, I think she gave up   I put her in her swing when she got quiet and kept talking to her until she fell asleep.  Then I proceeded to endure a horrendous nights sleep on the couch   But she slept until 7:30, a full 6 or 7 hours, so that was great.  I passed her off to Michelle upstairs and came back down to sleep a little longer.

Well wasted enough time, let me try and get some things done today.  Hope all of you are doing well.

Scott

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All is well on the home front.  Morgan and Matthew are doing very good.  No issues to speak of other than Matthew’s not listening and getting in trouble.  Morgan’s getting pretty big   I think Michelle mentioned 16 pounds recently.  We have an official doctors appointment the 20th so can update you then.  Matthew is learning more numbers and letters everyday.  He just came downstairs and had a Pizza Hut magnet in his hand and rattled off the phone number and said “Daddy let’s call Pizza Hut, I like Pizza Hut for dinner.”  He’s smart, sometimes too smart   Also some new pics added.  Not much outside of our trip to the zoo, but a few decent shots.

Work is work.  Keeping me very busy.  The week vacation I had in October seemed to just disintegrate into nothing.  I have 4 weeks to squeeze into the last bit of the year and that’s not gonna happen.  I am taking a week after Thanksgiving and two more after Christmas, but the third is not going to happen.  I honestly can’t wait for the one after Thanksgiving.  I just want some time off.  Try and relax around the house and not think about computers for awhile.  But I doubt that will be the case.  Christmas we have plans to go see my family down at Bethany beach again.  Becoming almost tradition and I don’t mind it at all.  I love the beach.  Hate the sand, love the beach so the cold weather makes it great since I don’t have to get hounded for take me to the beach

I’ve got a couple of other blogs floating in my head, but just don’t feel like articulating them right now with the laundry and dishes to do so they will have to wait for vacation.  Hope that catches up for now and keeps you subdued for at least a few weeks.  Not much else to report.  Hope everyone out there is doing well.

Love and Miss you All!  Scott

P.S. before I forget.  Anyone wanting to know gift ideas for Christmas, Michelle’s dad is getting us a Wii, which I am grateful for since that was what I was going to get, so anything Wii related for any of us, since it will definitely be used by all of us   For Matthew he is in love with Star Wars, Spiderman, Iron Man, and Transformers.  Cars is still good, but he has pulled away from them quite a bit.  For Morgan, clothes would be great, 9-12 months.  And if you actually were thinking about Michelle or I, feel free to put anything towards the kids.  This year is gonna be tight for us with the two houses so I have no problem everyone neglecting us.

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Matthew - He is doing fine.  Think he is starving for attention, or at least he thinks so, now that Morgan is here so he seems to be getting in a lot more trouble for not listening.  All in all though he is great with Morgan and loves her, accept when she pukes then he goes running   He loves playing with her and talking to er and there really is a connection between the two.  Morgan loves to look at him and he makes her laugh all the time.  We have been watching a lot of the Food Network, I am dying for my DirecTV, and Matthew has been watching as well.  So anytime Michelle is cooking Matthew has been wanting to help.  Right now Michelle is cooking dinner and Matthew is trying to do anything to help her out, it’s great to see him taking an interest in some things as he gets older.

Morgan - Is doing great.  Growing like a weed and all.  We had our most recent doctors appointment on Tuesday of last week and she was 13lbs and 24.25 inches long.  She has one tooth coming in that has been coming in for some time.  With the tooth coming in she drools non-stop.  Michelle puts two bibs on her all the time because the first one soaks through in a matter of minutes all most.  Not only does she drool but she spits, or makes raspberries with her mouth which makes it wore as well.  Because of all the drool and such I have started calling her bubbles and Michelle calls her Rabid Baby, as you can see why below.  She is laughing a ton and talking as well.  Always smiling until of course she has to sleep then its all screams.  She does not like to sleep at all and at max can only stay down for about 3 or 4 hours at night.

Michelle and Scott – As if anyone is interested in us   Michelle is doing good.  Outside of lack of sleep everything is good.  Concern for family due to hurricane Ike, but that has subsided since we have had reports of no major damage from family.  I have been swamped at work as always.  Thanks to hurricane Ike I was watching over our Port Arthur office traffic from Philly and thanks to Gustav I was watching our New Orleans traffic as well.  All this while my number one guy Jose was on vacation on a cruise ship in the Carib being chased by Gustav and Ike   Outside of work there isn’t much else for me.  Come home and try and relax some before it all starts over again

Family and Friends – Hurricane Ike caused a lot of grief worrying about family and friends, but the good news is almost everyone came out with only minor damage.  I still have not been able to get in touch with my father, which I will be picking up the phone as soon as I am done typing to try and get him again, but that’s nothing new there so I am not that concerned.  If something were wrong I think I would have gotten a call so not too worried.  The one exception was Aliceson Haynes.  We just learned that their family took extensive damage to their home.  Aliceson and her family just sold their home and purchased their current home a little over a month ago.  Luckily their flood insurance kicked in the day the storm hit so they should be ok financially, but just thinking about all the memories and personal items that were lost that can never be replaced is heartbreaking.  Please keep Aliceson in your thoughts and prayers as they recover from the storm.

Vacation - Many of you know we typically take vacation around the time our company has our managers meetings because they are held in Houston and it’s easy for us to stay down there a week before or after.  We were setting everything up and got word last week that the meetings have been moved from Houston to Philly thanks to Ike.  So vacation this year looks to be ruined.  I still am planning on taking some time off just to try and recharge, but other than that we probably wont be doing much for the rest of the year.  After hearing Jose’s wonderful comments about his cruise I am really leaning towards going on a cruise next year as our big family vacation.  We’ll see how it goes.

Think that about does it for us.  That should keep you occupied on us for the past month or so.  Will try and keep you posted a little better but if you’re reading this you know me   Vacation is next week and I hope to get to the Zoo and the par a few days with Matthew at least so I should be posting quite a few pics, so keep your eyes posted.

Scott

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Morgan on the other hand, did not like the game   When Matthew went to the games he loved them, loved the lights, the sounds, the whole nine yards, even slept through a lot of it.  Morgan, just the opposite.  Anytime the crowd started to yell or the PA was loud she started screaming.  I tried to keep her quiet a little but Michelle ended up just taking her inside to shelter her from most of the noise.  You can see her tear stained eyes here.

All in all we had a very good time and the Phils ended up winning, so it was a good night.

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     I weighed Morgan this morning and she is over 10 lbs.!  Hard to believe Matthew was 8 lbs. at 2mos., but theoretically he was about 2wks old when you factor in the preemie time.

Hope to get out this weekend and get some good pics (maybe going to a friend’s mom’s house with a pool and hot tub

Everyone have a great and safe July 4th and stay cool!

Michelle

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Morgan is doing well.  Cholicy but well.  Nights are tough most times with cholic.  Doc told Michelle to stop eating spicy and fried foods to try and help it out, ha, does she know who she is talking to?   Other than that she is doing great.  Our last doctors appointment she was 9 pounds even and 21.5 inches long.

Honestly, there is a ton more I want to say here, but I am just too tired to get into it.  I apologize all.  I actually want to take a personal day from work just to work on my emails and other stuff online but of course there just isn’t the time   Hopefully next weekend I can try and catch up some.  So Angie, Rhonda, Stevie, Robert, Donnis, Matt, Karen; I’ll get back to soon, I promise   Not to mention the lone friend I have in Baltimore probbaly hates me by now since it has been months since I have seen him.  Keep me in your prayers guys, talk to ya soon.  Oh and a few pics for your viewing pleasure…

Scott

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Vacation was tiring, doing things around the house and running around doing errands, that was about it. Matthew is doing fine and enjoying Morgan as well. I’ve uploaded a few more pics, but I haven’t taken too many just because she’s asleep most of the time   (Edit to say after I looked through I had more than I thought, here’s my favorite)

Will keep you updated!

Scott

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