He's got 1 meet left, plus districts, and a long ways to go to qualify for states. Oh well, next year! He's progressed so much this season, I can't wait to see him progress further as the years go on!
Here he is at try-outs at the beginning of the season (no his arm doesn't normally look that weird LOL, got it mid-motion) with my niece, Emily, who also tried out. I'll have to take a picture of him next week at the last meet. I can't believe I have no pictures of him at meets! Only videos of his races.
He's getting so grown up! I just can't believe it! It seems like yesterday I found out I was pregnant! Jeremiah and I had just moved in together about a month before. On a whim after work, at Sterling Optical, I stopped at the store and picked up a pregnancy test. I wasn't even late, just thought I should test. I stopped at my mom's house, because it was closer than our house. My sister was living there at the time and after I took the test I called her in to check to be sure. According to her it was positive. I thought I would be happy, but I was freaking out inside! All of a sudden it was a scary concept. I drove home and when I got there I tossed the test on the table in front of Jeremiah. Not the best way to tell someone they are going to have a baby, but I was scared. He took it a lot better than I did!
The pregnancy was hard. I felt sick all the time. I could hardly move. We moved out of our apartment, because I didn't like the way it smelled LOL! We stayed with my mom for the rest of the pregnancy (which was good, because it was Christmas time and I felt awful and he was working crazy hours, so I had someone to take care of me). I hated every minute of being pregnant. For 2 months I literally could eat nothing more than cheerios and milk. 8 bowls a day. I was already on the low end of my healthy weight and I lost 10 lbs. It wasn't until I was pregnant with Lily that I found out what I had was Hyperemesis, not just typical morning sickness. Even after I could eat again I felt terrible. I was a cute pregnant lady. I had a woman stop me and tell me that I was adorable. All belly, just like a basketball under the shirt. I wish I had felt that way.
I have very, very few pictures of me pregnant, but here's me at about 6 months pregnant.
I didn't get a whole lot bigger. At 34 weeks 5 days I woke up at 7 am and saw a little blood when I went to the bathroom. I, of course, freaked out and called the hospital, my OB, my sister (who had a 1 year old at the time), my mom, and my mother-in-law (a nurse) LOL! Everyone agreed it was probably just my mucus plug and everything was fine. I just rested that day until Jeremiah got home from work and we were on our way to Lamaze (only the 2nd class). Halfway there I decided we should stop at the hospital just to check it out. It was still bleeding a little, but not really enough to be concerned. They hooked me up to the monitors and had me chill there for about an hour. No contractions showed up, I was feeling fine, the nurses assumed everything was good. Before they discharged me they decided to check me internally. Imagine the nurse's surprise when she realized I was 4 cm dilated and Riley KICKED her! She literally jumped she was so surprised and then apologized over and over for it LOL! She went to get a midwife to check me out and make sure she was right. About a half hour later the midwife came in and check me and I was 7 cm dilated. I was having no contractions at all, not on the monitors that I felt or didn't feel. Just nothing. It was at that point they told me they needed to get me up to the ER for a c-section, because he was footling breech and they won't deliver those naturally (and this is one of the most natural OB practices you will find), plus I was having no sensations of anything, contractions, pushing, etc. I was just dilating!
So they took me to the ER and tried to give me a spinal so I could be awake for it. If I was awake they would allow Jeremiah to be in the room with me. Thankfully I had great doctors who fully tested my feeling before doing any cutting. It wasn't taking. I could feel everything, lift my legs, etc. The anesthesiologist said he hadn't ever had that happen before. They had to put me under. This also meant that Jeremiah couldn't be in there with me. It was ok though, I felt totally safe.
Riley Jeremiah was born at 9:14 pm. 4 lbs 13 oz. They had to put him on oxygen for about 6 hours and he was on an IV for 2 days. He stayed in the hospital about 12 hours longer than I did, so he was a healthy, albeit small, boy for being born over 5 weeks early. I didn't get to hold him for about 12 hours, because he was on oxygen and I was exhausted and slept all night. I got to see him through the windows of the nursery from my gurney as they rolled me to my room. A lot of people mourn missing out on a natural labor and delivery and feel badly for not holding their baby right away. I have never felt that way. We did what was safest for my son. All that mattered was that I had a healthy baby. I still had that moment, the first time I held him, looking into his face and cried, because he was so beautiful. We were bonded from the instant I laid eyes on him. Still, at 7, he is my baby and loves to cuddle and be with me.
Here he is right after birth.
About a month old.
And now he's 7.5 and one of the lights of my life, but growing much too fast. 2nd grade class picture.
Have a great Sunday!
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