The Carbajals

And I am back again!

2012-01-08T14:36:00.000-08:00

It has been a long time since I have posted on here so I thought I would share some amazing pictures of Brody that my sister took.

I am going to *try* and update more on this blog!

It's been awhile..

2010-09-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

Like a long while. I never did post those pictures of my cuties first birthday when I said I would so there they are. He is now 16 months! CRAZY! He is doing so well. He is such a wild thing, always into something. He has been walking around the furniture and stuff for a few weeks now and is trying to stand without anything and even walk without holding onto things! He is fearless for sure! He has also been eating(picking things up and feeding himself) for a few weeks now too. He really does amaze me! We saw his OT yesterday and she said that he doesn't need to come to her anymore because there is nothing for her to work on with him anymore and she said that he is lucky because he has great muscle tone for a baby with DS. So that is exciting! The funny thing is with all his progress we really haven't worked hard to get there, I kind of just do things he wants to because I know it will come when he is ready for it and I don't need to stress both of us out over things he will eventually do. He is getting pretty good with talking, he is so interested in watching our mouths when we talk and trying to copy what we say. Poor thing gets so frustrated that he can't say what he wants to. I really really really love my little man!

One year!

2010-05-09T21:07:00.000-07:00

Brody had his first Birthday on Cinco de Mayo! He is getting so big!! We had dinner and birthday cake at my Mom's. He loved the cake! He was also supposed to have his year checkup but they were closed for training and didn't call to reschedule because they had our number in wrong. So we found out by going in and it being closed! Lucky us!

Also today is mothers day and I am so grateful to be this little mans mom! Seriously! I love him so much! This time last year we were at the NICU with him. It's amazing how much changes in a year! He used to be so quite and now he has an opinion about everything. He lets us know but grunting, glaring, yelling, smiling, talking or shaking his hands with anger! He is hilarious! He is so capable of doing a lot of things on his own. He doesn't need to crawl or walk to get around he can roll and scoot until he gets where he wants and fast. He eats real food! He loved his bottle and then we started him on cereal when he was 6 months and around 10 months that's all he really wanted was cereal. Now all he wants is real food. He likes corn and eggs and soup and anything else we give him. He really won't take his baby food anymore!

I will post some pictures tomorrow of his birthday!

I really love this little man and can't believe how lucky I am to have him in my life!

April showers bring May flowers

2010-04-22T17:24:00.000-07:00

April 8th was Raul's 25th birthday and May 5th Brody will be turning 1! So exciting! Here are some pictures, enjoy!

Pictures

2010-02-27T18:41:00.001-08:00

Oh how I love my little man

2010-01-20T18:58:00.000-08:00

Isn't he cute?

Oh did I mention he is getting pretty good at sitting by himself? He amazes me every day.

He had an appointment with the GI today and they think he might still be refluxing. They want another swallow feed done. And to think we thought the Nissen Fundoplication surgery would fix that...

Way Late Update :)

2010-01-07T18:32:00.000-08:00

Brody did have his Nissen Fundoplication surgery December 18th. I was so nervous for it because of what happened last time he had something like this. But everything went great! They did surgery with a robot so they could do smaller incisions. They only had to make 5 little ones. After surgery in post-op he had a very high fever of 105 and they weren't sure why. But it did slowly go away. When he would wake up you could tell he was in so much pain by the way he cried, it was so sad!! We were in the hospital for 3 days.

I can say that it is so different having him not spit up everywhere and not burp. I kind of miss that he can't burp and I know he does because now he has gas pains from it. Things have changed for him for the better, we can now do tummy time! But things have also gotten harder, he is not a good sleeper at night because of his pains. And he's a bit more fussy. In the long run though everything will be better for him.

We had an amazing Thanksgiving/Christmas with the family! I absolutely loved it! And now we are on to the New Year and those resolutions that go along with it. One of mine is to blog more.. really I will try. But I also want to really work with Brody on hitting those milestones that he needs to. And of course lose weight.

Hospitalization #582

2009-12-17T09:05:00.000-08:00

It wasn't really number 582 but it feels like it. So anyways we ended up not having surgery the day before Thanksgiving. We went to the main admitting area that we were supposed to go to before surgery and we let them know what we were there for and went and sat down. Ten minutes later the lady comes up to us and tells us that it was canceled and they had tried calling us before we got there but not to leave because the surgeon wanted to talk to us. We sat there for a half and hour and Dr.Curnow comes and talks to us and tells us why he had canceled it. He had been doing surgery for 36 straight hours and could hardly see straight, he didn't want to be doing such a complicated surgery in that state. Which was a good thing!

Brody had a cold for awhile and it got worse and he stopped eating so we took him into the doctors on the following Monday. They found out he had pnuemonia again(6th time) and was having a hard time breathing and wouldn't eat. He was admitted to the hospital at St. Alphonsus. AMAZING hospital!! We were there for a couple of days and then released. He is now on oxygen at night. He has surgery TOMORROW! Hopefully no cancellation because he really needs this surgery, we really don't want pnuemonia anymore.

2009-10-26T21:38:00.000-07:00

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Blessing

2009-10-26T19:19:00.000-07:00

Brody was blessed this last Saturday. It was a very sweet blessing! Here are some pictures of then and some other pictures. The one with the wrap like thing on his head are from his 72hour EEG. The lady who did it some how made it cut him all over and she also told us it was her first time. We were not so happy when we saw what his forehead and head looked like after she took it off. Now we know why he cried so bad the first day because she probably put it way to tight.

Also we went to the Pediatric surgeon to schedule surgery Monday, it was supposed to be this month. But he changed his mind again and said we will check up on him in 2 months. It's frustrating but his GI doctor will be talking to him(the surgeon) and hopefully we'll have the surgery sooner. He will eventually need it so we would like it ASAP so he can be out of pain and get his other hernia fixed. We also just found out about that one, I think he thought he told us about it. It is called a Hiatal Hernia. Anyway here are the pictures, enjoy!

Pictures

2009-09-03T15:47:00.000-07:00

Size one diapers

2009-09-03T15:22:00.000-07:00

A little over a week ago we switched from newborns to size one! It seemed like that day would never come. He still fits newborn, it just doesn't contain his poop or pee. I can't wait until he fits into the cheaper sizes.

He has had a pretty nasty cold since last Thursday. Saturday and Sunday were horrible, non-stop wheezing and coughing but no runny nose still. So I have my mom suction him out because it scares me that I will do it wrong. We went to the G.I. on Monday and she said that he sounded like he might have stuff in his lungs so he got an X-ray. That showed that he had left lower lobe pneumonia and bronchitis. Poor little guy. They also switched his formula because he has allergies to milk. They gave me two types to try and he hated them both but would semi eat and then Tuesday he wouldn't eat at all. Finally that night I just gave him regular formula because he was so hungry. I left a message yesterday for the nurse and they called me back before they closed and said that they had 3 other formula's to try one was flavored with vanilla. Okay and let me just tell you how nasty his new formulas are especially because they aren't flavored! SO GROSS I cannot even explain it to you.

We went and picked up the formula's for him and he actually seems to think the vanilla one is okay. I think he will get used to it. I actually think it tastes better then his regular formula, no Iron taste to it. He looks really good for being so sick and he is just a happy guy. He will get an X-ray next week to see if the pneumonia is gone or not. We are just glad we didn't have to end up in the PICU again! I was going to post some pictures but it won't let me so I will do it some other time!

Forgot to add...

2009-08-30T19:01:00.000-07:00

When we saw his surgeon he did another biopsy in the office for hurshbrungs and it came back negative. No need for surgery to fix that!:)

It's been awhile...

2009-08-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

So I have been meaning to update this but have been busy or to tired too.

July 8th we went to a down syndrome picnic. My Mom, Dad, brothers, sisters, Raul and I went. It was really fun and interesting to meet those awesome families that have the same little blessings in there lives. All the down syndrome kids LOVE to dance. They had an Elvis impersonator there and he did a great job. They had ponies, face painting, inflatable bouncers(not really sure what they are called), food and little games with prizes. It is so interesting to see the different range with down syndrome.

July 14th we went to St. Lukes Downtown for the 24hr probe to see how bad his acid reflux. That went pretty well, although he really doesn't like having anything shoved down his nose. But other then that he did great. Not so great for me, they don't really accommodate the rooms for sleep in parents.

July 16 he had a cardiologist appointment. It went FABULOUS! No more oxygen, we were super excited to not have to lug around anymore oxygen tanks. By the way I love his cardiologist Dr. Walker, she is amazing and never keeps you in the dark!

July 23 was his G.I. appointment. They didn't want to tell us over the phone the results they wanted us to come in and talk. So we therefore knew something was up. Barbie, his N.P.(also amazing), told us he refluxed a lot. His longest episode was something like 93 minutes no stop acid reflux. Poor little man. The report that they got, she let us read, said that he needed surgery or drastic medical intervention. They decided to try medication first. He was put on reglan to help him digest food faster. He was also put on Pepcid to neutralize the acids in his stomach so he wouldn't hurt so much. Reglan did have a side-affect of twitching, very rare though. But we needed to watch him for it. He had also lost weight down to 7lbs 11oz, he was 8lbs 6oz.

July 25 I thought I saw him twitch so I called the on-call G.I. doctor and he told me that he was fine and not to worry about it because I only saw it happen once. Anyways I had notice that he kept looking skinnier and skinnier. You could see all of his ribcage and collar bones. He also was not eating good at all and preferred to sleep. I was getting really worried.

July 27 I called the G.I. and told them what was going on and they told us to come in right away. We got there and Dr. Smith saw him and was really concerned. He had lost more weight and was just not happy. Dr. Smith said that he was really really skinny and that he had to think over what he wanted to do. He told us he was thinking about admitting him and having a feeding tube(NG) put in and doing a probe. He said he was definitely going to be admitted but he had to think about everything else. So we sat there for a little bit until he decided. I really liked that he took time to talk to the other Doctors and Barbie. So they decided that all of the above needed to be done. We went to the pediatrics unit and they put a feeding tube in and all the lovely monitors were placed on him. So that day we pretty much feed him from the feeding tube because he would not take a bottle and breast feeding obviously wasn't doing much for him but I still did it for 10minutes. They would come in and check his stats every three hours.

28th & 29th pretty much the same thing. They increased his feeds each day though. And he would actually take a bottle so not always fed through the NG tube.

30th we went down to pre-surgery for the probe at 5:15am. I was soo nervous and scared. It's so difficult knowing that you little 2month old baby was going under anesthesia for something like this. I had a very hard time keeping my emotions under control. We met all of the nurses and anesthesiologist that would be in there. It was nice because I had him asleep(he was not happy because he was not allowed to eat past 10pm that night) and this nice older nurse took him and said we will take really good care of him. Dr.Smith told us of all the possible things that could happen like an accidental perferation of the intestine when they took tissue samples for the biopsy(the biopsy was to test for hurshbrungs disease). He was also having a lung washing to see if he had fluids going into his lungs from his reflux, which was done by Dr.Beck(E.N.T.). We also met her she is super nice. She would also be checking his esophagus to see if any damage was done by reflux. This all would take 40mins to an hour.

So we went to the waiting room and it seemed like it took forever! We kept looking at the surgery monitor tv. And no change was made by his name. An hour had come and gone then 30 more minutes finally Dr. Smith comes out. He looks at us and looks around and asks one of the ladies that keeps tabs on everyone in there if there is a room he could talk to us in. This was my biggest fear because you know things aren't right, and the look on his face wasn't right. I was so nervous and so was Raul, we just looked at each other. While we were walking to the room he started telling us about how things went I think to assure us that Brody didn't die or anything. Once we got in the room he said that while doing the biopsy(taking the tissue samples from the intestines) he perforated the intestine. I started to silently cry and Raul just looked away and listened because he was so upset. He told us he caught it right away which usually doesn't happen, they usually go home without knowing and have to come back in symptoms of infection. He stopped right away when he knew what happened and called the surgeon. He told us this was the first time it has ever happened to him and he kept going over it in his head and there was nothing he could have done differently. I could tell he felt so bad. He said that when the surgeon got there in 15 minutes they would come back in and talk to us about what he was going to do.

Dr. Beck came in and told us how things went for her and showed us some cool pictures that I will post later of his esophagus and such. He esophagus was really red and irritated but other then that in good shape. His trachea was in a C shape instead of the normal oval, which means he has tracheomalacia. He will grow out of that but it makes the reflux worse. They did find fluid in his lungs and were going to have them tested to see what the fluids were. She finished talking to us and left.

Dr.Curnow, the surgeon, and Dr. Smith came in. Dr.Curnow told us that he was going to try and do laparoscopic surgery to stitch up the intestine but if he couldn't find the hole he would have to make a big incision and do exploratory surgery. All in all they said that the surgery would take and hour and a half. So we got to spend most of our day waiting. An hour and a half had come and gone and then 2 hours and finally Dr. Curnow came out. He told us everything went great he stitched it up no problem and they didn't need to do exploratory surgery. He said it took so long because he fixed his hernia under his bellybutton and made his bellybutton normal(he had had an elephant trunk looking bellybutton before). He told us that we would probably have to wait 30mins to see him.

30 minutes came and past finally I went and asked one of the ladies if he was ready to be seen yet and she was like oh yeah they just said that you could come back and see him if you wanted to. And DUH we wanted to. We went to post surgery and he looks so white and not himself. But I was SO happy to see him. He would kind of wake up and whimper and go back to sleep. We waited a little bit before they had the room ready in the PICU for him.

The PICU room is soo much bigger than the peds room. The nurses were one on one that night. Which was really nice. They told us that he probably wouldn't be able to eat for 2-3days and would be in the PICU for that long. When he woke up he definitely wanted to eat and he was in pain. It was so hard not to be able to help him. The one downside about that room is with all the monitors and IV's on him I was on a pretty short leash when I held him. He was also on the most oxygens he had been on sense he was born which was a little disappointing because he had just got off it. But late night/early morning the nurse took him off it and his stats were great! She also told me that Dr. Curnow said he could eat because he was looking so good and doing so well and he obviously wanted to eat. He wasn't allowed formula or breast milk for a few days just pedialyte which he gladly took. He was doing so well that we had the choice to go to peds that night. But we had decided that we felt safer here one more night with him being monitored.

The next afternoon he was transferred to the clean pediatric side(no sick babies or contagious things to worry about). Dr.Curnow visited us a few times a day and checked on him and updated us. He told us that he would be in there for probably a few days and that he could eat normal food now!! Which was way sooner than expected again because he was doing phenomenal. He came back by at like 3am and took off his bandages. Brody's bellybutton looks amazing, and his incisions! He did such a good job. Dr.Curnow told me that he could go home tomorrow night or the next morning if he was continuing to do so well but it all was really up to me and how I felt he was doing. So the next morning the nurse came by and told me again that Dr.Curnow said that he could go home that night or the next morning all depending on how I felt. So we talked about it and decided that we felt comfortable enough to go home that night.

May 1st 8pm Brody was discharged from the hospital. The surgeon wanted us to go by his office weekly and get him weighed. Dr.Curnow went on Vacation until August 20th and wanted to see us that day to discuss his NISSAN surgery and decide when. The Nissan surgery is to stop his refluxing because it is so bad. Also his G.I. doctors wanted to see him weekly. OHHH and while we were in the hospital the 2nd day he started to twitch really bad so they took him off the reglan
but he has sense continued to twitch, which the G.I. says shouldn't be happening.

May 5th & 6th Brody turned 3months on the 5th and we to the surgeons to get weighed and he weighed 8lbs and 8oz!! We went to the G.I.(Dr.Thompson this time) and talked about getting him on some extra calorie formula and about the twitching he said that he thinks that it is cause by immaturity sense he is so small for his age. But to keep an eye on it but he should stop once he starts really growing. Then we went to the cardiologists and she said he was doing great and we don't have to see her for 3 months!!

He has been gaining great he weighs 10lbs 2oz now. We talked to the surgeon on the 20th and he had originally said the end of August he wanted to do surgery but he has changed his mind and wants him to get really big so surgery is scheduled for sometime in November. We will go back in October and he will check how things are. But if he starts losing weight or other symptoms occur surgery will happen really soon. Also they don't want to do surgery so close to such a big surgery he just had and the laparoscopic surgery they have to hold the liver up with a clamp and it makes it bleed so they don't want to do that again so soon. But I hate having to see him in so much pain and things are just getting worse, he coughs a lot and spits up way more and is super wheezy sounding in is chest. They told us things will just get worse until surgery, so it's to be expected but still not fun and flu season will be in tow in November. We have an appointment with the neurologist for a second opinion on his twitches since they are still happening, but that's not until late September.

Other then that things are great, Brody is doing amazing despite his reflux. He is such a happy baby and has quite the personality. He definitely knows what he likes and dislikes. His PT and OT are super happy with how well he is doing with his muscle tone. He is so strong and loves to kick and try and stand, he also loves to talk and play with his toys. He can hold his head up pretty good on his own and look around. He LOVES his swing and music and singing. I will post pictures soon!

2 months old

2009-07-06T14:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Brody's 2 month birthday! I cannot believe how fast it has come. He is such a sweet baby. He definitely has his own personality now. I love him to death!! Everybody that meets him falls in love instantly. My little brothers and sisters love to be around him and try to kiss him all the time.

He is now almost 8lbs. He is still on oxygen, though very little of it. He has some of the nicest specialist doctors. And they are very helpful and tell us a lot of information about what to expect. He is very strong and very far along especially for a baby with down syndrome. He also has an excellent team of ladies that come help us with physical therapy or whatever he needs. We are so VERY blessed to be able to have him in our family. I am so happy and can't even imagine my life with out him. He is the most perfect little boy in the world!!

I love waking up to him. He is so happy when he wakes up. He looks up at me and smiles and laughs. It is so fun to watch him sleep, even sometimes sad because he cries in his sleep. I always wonder what he is dreaming about that makes him cry. He has these funky noises he makes that freak us all out. It almost sounds like he is gasping for air but we are pretty sure it is just acid reflux and have to go for more testing to find out the severity of it. Poor little man has gone through so much. He always is getting poked and prodded at all bazillion of his doctor appointments. He is such a trooper through all of it!

Brody James Carbajal

2009-07-05T12:22:00.000-07:00

On May 5th 2009 at 2:30 am I woke up with some pretty strong contractions. I went out into the living room and sat there for awhile and timed them. They were strong and only a couple minutes apart. At about three I decided to call my mom and ask her what she thought. When I called her she told me that I should probably go over there and if I needed to I could go to the hospital from there. I woke Raul up and we headed over there. I was also throwing up along with the strong contractions, which is no fun. We got to my mom's and I walked around the couch for a little bit and had to throw up a couple times. My mom decided that I should probably go to the hospital because I could be getting dehydrated.
We arrived at the hospital around 5 am. I was in a lot of pain by then. They had checked me and I was 5-6cm. I decided that I couldn't stand the pain and told them I wanted an epidural, even though I had really wanted to try natural while I was pregnant. So they told me that they could put in an IV but that I had to wait for my CNM Georgianna to get there so she could check me. It seemed like it took FOREVER for her to get there. But it really didn't. Brody's heart rate was dropping quite a bit and they were getting nervous and even thought that they might have to go a C-section. When Georgianna got there and checked me I was fully dialated and I was ready to push, no epidural for me!
I started to push at 5:58 and had him at 6:02 am. He weighed 7lbs 2oz and 21 and 1/4 inches. It was amazing that it went so fast! And I was really glad that I ended up not having an epidural. When Brody was born he had a hard time breathing. I remember them putting him on my chest and I was rubbing him because he was still blue and then they grabbed him and called the NICU nurses up. He was having a hard time breathing. They had to give me so pitosum and pain medicine afterwards because of a problem with the placenta.
When they told me they thought that he might have down syndrome I was really not there. I couldn't fully understand what they were saying because of the medicine. They then rushed him to the NICU and Raul went with him. I wasn't allowed to go up there until I ate something. And I was soo worried about Brody.
I finally got to go up and visit him. It was so sad because he was under an oxygen tank and had IV's in him. He was so little and cute! I really wanted to hold him. I was able to stay in the hospital for 3 days so I could be there with him while he was in the NICU. And I also was sick.
He was in the NICU for 10 long days. I was they all day and most of the night. The last two days we were able to stay in a transitional room with him. I was so stressed that he wasn't going to be able to go him because the first day in the transition room he lost weight. But he ended up gaining a little bit and got to go home. We were all so excited! We love him VERY much and are so blessed that he is in our family!

8 weeks and counting

2009-03-27T22:52:00.000-07:00

I am now 32 weeks and have only 8 weeks left until my due date. Hopefully less until I have the baby! I cannot wait to be done being pregnant! I am not a fan of pregnancy.
Well I just thought I would update everyone:) See mom I do to update my blog!

It's a boy!!

2009-01-05T14:45:00.001-08:00

By the way we also celebrated our 1 year anniversary on December 28th:)

After surgery update

2008-12-09T14:51:00.000-08:00

I had surgery about 3 weeks ago and everything went well. We got to see the baby before and after surgery, which is very lucky because my cnm only does it once and actually told them she didn't want an ultrasound she only wanted the fetal heartbeats. I was so happy that everything was okay with our baby and that baby was still moving around after surgery. I was in a little bit of pain after surgery and got really sick 3 days after, even while taking my non-sick medicine. Anyways I also had some other problems and had to go to the emergency room 3 times. Every time I went I felt like they thought I was overreacting and didn't take my problems seriously, but I really was having those problems and pains. I have felt very frustrated and I don't feel like ever going in again even if I get really sick. I even feel that my CNM thinks that I am overreacting. Pregnancy is not my thing. People are always telling me that oh you'll want another one after this, but I don't think they understand how sick and complicated my pregnancy has been thus far and I am not even half way. Another one would be nice but I cannot stand being this sick and taking care of another child. I can't do anything when I am sick. And the medicine they give me is crap and makes me feel like I am going to pass out, and I am not joking about that. I only take it when I have to, really have to. But at least I can talk to someone who knows what it is like, my poor unlucky sister too.
We will be able to find out the sex of the baby in 5 weeks:) Maybe they will even cut my due date down a little bit!!

Surgery

2008-11-14T09:54:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!
Thought I would update you all on how we are and what is going on with us.
We are doing fabulous not to much going on. I am having surgery on this Wednesday the 19th to get my gallbladder removed. It will be a super simple surgery and I will be going home the same day. I am just excited to get it finally over with!
I am still sick and this is about the time normal pregnant woman get over morning sickness, but lucky me I might have it until the day I deliver:) I still hate being pregnant, I do not find anything wonderful about it. Only 27weeks left.

Pregnancy

2008-10-24T14:26:00.000-07:00

I finally decided to write my first blog. And so as most of you already know I am pregnant. I am almost 10 weeks and it is no fun. Unfortunately I seem to have every sympton pregnant women can get, along with some bonuses. I know, lucky me!
I found out I was pregnant when I had to go to the emergency room for my galbladder. I had an attack on saturday, Septmeber 27th, and it was a really bad one. The next day I was still hurting really bad so Raul took me to the ER! We went to St. Al's in Eagle (the nicest people ever, seriously!). They asked me what was going on and so I told them about my galbladder and that I thought I might be pregnant. They did some tests and turns out that I was pregnant. They were contimplating on doing emergency surgery on my glabladder because they thought it might be eating my pancreas and that would deffinatly be a bad thing. So they did an ultasound on my glabladder, and lucky for me it wasn't. They also told me that no surgeon would want to touch me because I was so early in my pregnancy and the risk of the baby dying was really high. So I just had to becareful about what I was eating and call my OB immedialty. That was the best hospital E.R. I have ever been in, they were so nice and really seemed to care about me. And it didn't seem to take long at all!
I thought that this was going to be an easy pregnancy because I wasn't really that sick at first, but man I was wrong. I called my OB and talked to her and she told me a name of a surgeon to call and that they wouldn't do it until after 12 weeks. Well I started throwing up and couldn't seem to stop so after a few days I returned to the E.R. to get rehydrated and get some naseous medicine, and I still wasn't feeling to well. So they upped the dose as much as they could. After they gave me the medicine they gave me some crackers and juice to make sure I could keep it down. It seemed to be working out well, but when I was getting ready to leave all of the food decided to leave me. It was horrible. So I went home and went to sleep because I wasn't really feeling like I could eat anything with out being sick. I called my doctor the next day and she prescribed some promethazine for me. Although that mostly helps me stop throwing up, I still feel sick and some days even throw up. But I am glad to not being throwing up all day long. Only 30 more weeks of this.
Even though I am sick and very irratable right now, I am very excited for what's to come. Raul is too and a little bit scared. At this point I am concidering never having a child again, I hate being pregnant and so sick. I also hate that I am breaking out so bad and that the smell of my face wash makes me have to run to the toilet and I hate the color of my hair, it looks yellow and nasty! I think I will just go back to my natural color. I hate having to take medicine every four hours but it beats being at the toilet every 5 minutes throwing up. But it was really amazing hearing the heartbeat of our little one on wednesday, it makes it all seem real. And seeing the look on Raul's face when he heard it! I just hope May comes fast!
OH! I also read the sweetest blogs, they make me want to be a better person. If you want to read them they are on here under friends & family: Claire & Jane, Christian & Stephanie their story, Sweetest Family. I don't understand how easy I have it until I see what other people are facing, and how amazing they are even with their trials!

Which Disney Princess are you?

2008-08-03T18:19:00.000-07:00

You Are Jasmine!

Independent and adventurous. You don't want much; just to break out of the guilded cage society has put you in and experience life to the fullest. Following orders isn't really one of your strong points, and you would rather live a life of poverty than being forced into something that you hate.

Which Disney Princess Are You?