The Johns Family Blog: July 2009

Kyla's new cast...

So we went to Nemour's children's hospital on Tuesday July 21 and Kyla got her first (and hopefully last) cast. Everything went really well and we are thankful that she only had to be at the hospital for a fractured arm and nothing more serious. Of coarse she got to pick her own colors and she went with ladybug colors even though I tried to convince her to go with Orange and Blue...the Gator colors. Jack was not so thrilled with my idea as he is a Florida State fan. :)

Here are some of the pictures of Kyla and her cast:

Kyla in the waiting room.

Kyla waiting for her arm to be casted.

First the black.

Now the red.

All done.

Kyla goes back in about 4 weeks to have it removed.

A break in the family...

Over this past weekend Kyla was running around in the living room playing with Keaghan when she fell and started crying. Jack ran in the room to see what was going on and she said her arm was hurting. I was nursing Kamden in the bedroom and Jack was getting ready for work so we we're not in there to see what happened but we still tried to evaluate her arm and make sure it was not broken. Her arm wasn't red and it wasn't swollen so we thought maybe she just bruised it. We continued to keep and eye on it over the weekend and it didn't get worse but it didn't get better either. She was able to move it around but she said it hurt when she moved it so we decided to take her to the Dr. this morning (Monday).

Her Dr. though she had Nursemaid's elbow: An injury to the ligaments in the elbow. So he maneuvered her elbow around and said that should fix the problem but he still wanted to send her for an x-ray just to be sure. So we took her to the radiologist office and discovered that she had a greenstick fracture: A partial bone fracture, usually occurring in children, in which the bone is bent but only broken on one side.

We then took her back to her Pediatrician's office and they put her arm in an ace bandage and then a sling. They referred her to a Children's hospital about an hour and a half away and we have an appointment tomorrow morning. I was able to get a few pictures of her with her sling. Kyla said she is excited about tomorrow because she will get to pick her own color for the cast. Here I am upset over the whole thing and she is excited about picking colors. Go figure!! I guess that's what happens when you're the mom...you worry.

Kyla and her sling.

Keaghan and Kyla.

A son is born....

Here are just a few of the 3D/4D ultrasound picture that we had done when I was pregnant:

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We arrived at the hospital at 5:00am and the nurses started all my pre-op blood work and the routine monitoring. I was scheduled to have our little man at 7:15 am but one of the other women who was scheduled to have a c-section went into labor first so they had to take her back before me. I was glad to hear that because I was not quite ready to go through another c-section...just yet.

(This is me right before I went to the OR)

Then at 8:00am they walked me back to the OR and started my spinal within a few minutes of me getting on the table. I was actually quite calm which shocked me a little or maybe it was just the lack of sleep from the night before. (Since I only got an hour of sleep) Thirty minutes after I arrived in the OR we heard yet again the most beautiful sound in the world...it was the sound of our newborn baby crying.

Welcome to the world:

Kamden Max Johns

Thursday April 23, 2009

@ 8:30 am

7lbs. 4ozs.

19 inches.

Kamden was then welcomed into the world by his big sisters:

(Kyla)
&

(Keaghan)

This was Daddy holding his little man:

and then wheeling him around the hospital.

This is Kamden and mommy:

This is Kamden on April 25 @ 3:10pm right before we the left the hospital:

(He was so tiny)

Kamden loaded up in his car seat ready to go home for the first time:

My third pregnancy....

It all started on August 24, 2008 when I decided to take a pregnancy test. I was almost positive that I was not pregnant but do to the fact that I had not received a certain something that month I decided it was best to test just to be sure.
Well to our surprise this is what we saw:

We were definitely shocked!! I nearly fainted and then I started to cry. I was completely overwhelmed with the news but my wonderful husband assured me that all was well because God would not give us anything we couldn't handle. I knew that too but sometimes we get caught up in the moment and forget that there is one who knows all and he knows best!!

A few months later there was no denying the truth....I was again with child. Here is the journey through my third pregnancy:

(16 weeks)

(22 weeks)

(23 weeks)

(26 weeks @ Disney)

( 28 weeks @ Sea World)

(31 weeks)

(36 weeks)

(37 weeks)

(38 weeks)

A blast from the past....

I thought I would post some pictures of what the past five years have been like for Jack and I. It's hard to believe how far we have come in such a short time. Just think...all this started with two young people falling in love. This is what our love as grown into over the years. I hope you enjoying looking back in time with us. :)