The Strasser's

I can't believe Cory is done with school in basically two days. It's so exciting!!!! I am trying to think of what to do for Father's Day for him. I have a long list of things that I really need/want to get done today. One of the main things I have been working on lately is weaning Evan into his helmet, I feel like a horrible mom when I put his helmet on him, it's like a torture device. The first few days have been hard because he isn't suppose to start sleeping in it until the 4th day, for naps. Than after a couple of days of working it into his nap time than I work in bedtime for him. I have been working on reorganizing my coupon binder. I have pretty unorganized with this, but getting better. Now onto my to do list!

~WOOD N' STITCHES~: GIVEAWAY #2 :

Cory and I have been married for 7 years today. I am so glad to be married to Cory.  Yesterday we went out on a date since this year our anniversary falls on a Sunday. We went out to lunch and to see Pirates of the Caribbean. Cory got me a 30 minute massage from Groupon , but guess what I went back and got one for him also. Today we watched one of our favorite movies, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. We watched this on our first anniversary.  Here is some flashback pictures of 7years ago I was so young and skinny back than 

Well things that have been going. Lots of stuff have been going on. Cory's brother's and sister came with their families from Wyoming. There were trips to the Coast, Zoo, swimming at the Kroc center, and a family carnival. Lots of fun stuff going on. Not sure how many pictures or any at all that were taken, I believe there was some that were taken. But I guess I will have to wait on that because not sure what happened to the camera. There is a search party looking for it, namely me. Next week school is out, so exciting!!!!! We get Cory back and hopefully get to do something fun this summer. Still looking for a job, he does have some applications in Oregon. I have looking for jobs every couple of days. We have been dealing with being sick in our house, I am all better, Evan isn't sick as far I know, and Owen just has a runny nose. Cory really hasn't been around it because of being gone during the day. I actually took Alyssa into the doctor yesterday, she was complain...

Baby Evan is 1! I can't believe that he is 1, time has sure went fast. He didn't eat his cupcake like normal 1 year old's, he didn't like the ice cream because of it being cold. He didn't go for it so I stuck a little bit of frosting on my finger and he liked it, but not to sure about it. Than I torn a very small piece to see if he would take a little bit. So hopefully another birthday this summer maybe he will like it.  Here is the birthday boy!

Evan Brent Strasser We have a new addition to our family. Evan Brent Strasser Born: June 7th 12:06 Weight: 2 lbs 6 oz After the C-section On Monday we were having our usual daily ultrasound and Evan wasn't cooperating to how the doctor wanted him to. My blood pressure was raising some. After sometime the doctor decided well it was going to be the day. I was a little nervous because I have never had surgery before. I was really nervous when the doctor said ok it's time. Getting in the operating room, I was really overwhelmed and scared, I wished Cory could be in there while they were prepping me, but he had to wait. He was pretty scared. While the prepping was going they were monitoring my blood pressure and monitoring Evan also. The epidural took them three pokes, I think it was because of the water retention that I had through out body.  During the cesarean I almost fell asleep because of the lack of ...

As I am getting ready for tomorrow, getting the house clean, baking cupcakes. I have been thinking about all that has been going on. Being in the hospital for 3 weeks having to travel two hours both ways to see my baby several phone calls from the NICU doctor's each morning with an update on Evan being away from alyssa and owen for three weeks several doctor's appointments (6 doctor's) It definitely has been an interesting year!

This post was suppose to be posted actually Sunday, June 6th. Which was my bad but at least of somewhat of what had been going on you guys will know. I haven't checked for grammar or misspelled words. Sorry everyone that I haven't really updated. To start off I have been here 2 weeks. I have had another around of steroid shots in my hips and ended up with bruises from those shots already. I have some good bruises from all the poking of needles and the iv things that they have put in. They have put in a pic line, it was an interesting experience getting that in. It's nice though now that I am not getting poked with needles now.  There are some days were I am swollen than others. Which I am not to fond of. Which I am glad will go away after the baby is born. They have had me on the baby monitor constantly. I am allowed to get up to use the bathroom and shower, and do a little bit of moving around in the room. Before I was able to go for wheelchair rides which a...

Well to start off. The past couple of days I had been dealing with migraine's. I can't remember which day it was but I was given a drug and I had a reaction to it. I felt like I was going to jump out of my skin, it was just not a good feeling.  I am not even going to try and spell it. So yesterday I was having yet another migraine, and tylenol was tried and some oxycodon (sp?) and those two did not work really for me. So from what I was told the drug that was given to me the other day I thought they put it on the did not give list, but the doctor that was on, and she was on the same night I was actually given the drug, was trying to give it to me a again but with benadryl at the sametime. I didn't feel good about even trying it again so I told them no.  The nurse said if I had the same reaction I wouldnt take it again either. So they tried something else but I got it in my hip. But they still  gave me benadryl just in case. Which I was glad in case something didn't work...

Well today is going good so far. Test results looked good. Still on the waiting game. I really want to go home! I have thought about and I haven't changed a diaper in a week. Kind of miss it but kind of not, because of poopie diapers. I kind of hope to have the baby soon because I am getting tired of the hospital but I want to wait a little longer because than it will be better for the baby each day. It's going to be whole lot different when I am out of the hospital and get back on a schedule. And I had actually been talking about wanting to go a on a vacation before this hospital stay and this is not the vacation I was wanting. :)  Well that is it so far for an update!

Well I am so overwhelmed right now, lots to say. Hmmm.....to start with the good news or bad. I will start off with the good news. Evan did really with his echo and also with ekg. All the nurses and his doctor think he is adorable, as usual they commented on his eyelashes. :) But who wouldn't because they are amazing. Well I guess it's not really bad news. She did here that the duct is still open and his left ventricle is mildly enlarged. So he will be having the procedure to close the duct. She also said that closing the duct will help him grow better because with the duct being open can make his heart work a little harder to work than it should. The sooner they get this done the better. It's good that they are on top of making sure that his heart sounds good. Because if it doesn't get taken care of, than he could have heart problems when he is older. One of the procedure's that I remember talking about last time was going through a vein in his leg and going up...

Last night Heather's BP started rising.  She had a head ache and was a little queasy.  They gave her normal dose early then gave her another dose shortly after.  She is only on 100 mg  every 8 hrs and I know they can go as high as 600mg doses.  This morning her pb was high and morning should be the lowest point in the day.  They changed her dose to 200 every 6 hrs.  Heather has to wait until her bp goes down to have breakfast.  They are real cautious about giving her food in case she has to have a cesarean some time.  I was supposed to go home this morning and do some work and see the children.  The doctor said I should wait an hour to make sure her bp goes down first and her headache goes away.  They still have a lot more they can do to control her pb.

Tomorrow Evan and I are making a trip to Doernbecher's for a check-up with his cardiologist. He will have an echo before his appointment so they can have a look at his heart. Last time when we were in, they listened to his heart but they couldn't hear the PDA . The doctor said well we can't say if it's gone or not. So we will see tomorrow. 

Well I have been working on solid food's with Evan and he only likes certain foods. He has had a taste of the kids Popsicle and liked them both for the flavor and because he his teething. His favorite food's right now are: oatmeal  (sometimes with applesauce)       carrots        sweet potatoes         applesauce a new food he tried today, banana with mixed berry. He basically ate the whole thing expect for what is on his onesie. Food's he dislikes: green beans      peas I couldn't find a clean bib so I figured I would just swing it without one thinking he would be just fine. And here is the result of that. getting ready for a bath

Well here is another entry from my hospital blog. I wanted to add them to this blog as mentioned before. But as also a count down to having Evan what we had been going through. Well just playing the waiting game now. I am taking blood pressure meds and just taking it easy. Than so often I put the baby monitor on for like an hour or two. But they always have some trouble getting it where we can keep tabs on him, because he is such a wiggly baby.  Nothing really much is going on. I know not much of an update. So yes for sure it is a boy! A name hasn't been decided yet.

Well I guess I need to start thinking about Evan's birthday to do something or not to do something. Any suggestions? I think we need to celebrate some how but not sure fully how. 

That is all the entries that were blogged on one day. More to come this week.   I wanted to add all of the  hospital entries to this blog now that it is not a public blog.

All of Heather's test have been improving.  Thanks for the prayers, love and support.  While my Mom, Dad, and Aleta were here the doctor told us that the protein test came out normal.  The doctor was so suprised that she had them double check the calculations. (Aparently their is more then one way to calculate this and she wanted to confirm the test was calculated using the method she desired).  A nurse told us it was possible that with that test improving so much heather might be able to go home on bed rest.   Unfortunetely, when the test was recalculated the protein was just above what is considered very high.  Still, this was lower then before and her other test, liver... also improved.  The doctor reaffirmed that heather will not be leaving until the baby is born.  She says you can be doing fine and four hours later have huge problems and need the baby to be delivered.  She says you just can't tell, it's very unpredictable, thus hea...

So for a little update they took me off the magnesium sulfate for now and the liquids in the iv, for now. Test results are looking right now. I feeling less groggy and all the other side effects are wearing off.  They also took me off the baby monitor .