Sorry no new posts for such a long time. The morning after our last post we all three came down with the swine flu. Needless to say the end of that vacation wasn't nearly what we had hoped it would be! Praise God none of us had any complications and after lots of medication, tissues, rest, and TLC we are all feeling much better!
Jacob and I had a wonderful date evening in the Woodlands last weekend. We stayed at the Marriott near the mall and enjoyed fantastic food, shopping, Holy Mass, and lots of rest. It was a wonderful weekend after begin cooped up during our bout with H1N1. Curtis stayed at his Nana & PopPop's house and got some great quality time with them as well as a good chance to practice sleep overs for when Mommy and Daddy are in the hospital with Nicholas!
Jessica threw me a fantastic 'shower'. A few of our very dear friends and family and their beautiful children came together to celebrate our little miracle and it was a nice chance for me to thank them all for their support over the past year. I am still in awe of the graces that God has given us this year and feel overwhelmingly blessed that Nicholas is 'near completion' in the womb and appears to be healthy and thriving. Thanks again Jessica for all the thought you put into each and every moment of the shower. It was such a special celebration for our entire family!
As I said, Nicholas is 'near completion' as we approach the last few weeks of our pregnancy. I am feeling great and can't wait to meet our little man! There will definitely be a lack of posts from now until after he is born as I try to finish up some projects and most importantly get lots of rest! Be sure to check out pictures of the shower on our Picasa site :)
Honestly, this picture doesn't do it justice since you loose the depth aspect. Its a giant gaping hole exposing the insides of his tongue muscles. Oh ya and he got it from the underside as well. Thankfully the holes didn't line up so it didn't officially go all the way through. 
A call to the pediatricians office sent us to the local urgent care center. Mommy was slightly panicking on the way as his tongue was so swollen he couldn't close his mouth anymore. Forty five minutes later Curtis finally stopped screaming bloody murder when he fell asleep in the back seat. As soon as the doctor walked in we had to wake him up and screaming resumed. That HAD to hurt! They believed that even though tongues normally heal pretty well on their own, this one was so jagged and deep that it would probably need stitches. So they sent us to Texas Children's Hospital. The first doctor at TCH said she couldn't decide if we should stitch it or not, the second doctor said the same thing, finally they sent us into the procedure preparation room and brought in an entire team of doctors to decide. In the end it was thought that the procedure was too risky for a borderline call. Obviously they would have had to sedate him in order to do the stitches, the bleeding involved in the procedure is quite a bit given the rich blood flow in the tongue, the airways of toddlers is not something to mess with, and the pain and discomfort of a stitch on a little tongue was in the end not worth it. Thank God! We were both really anxious about him having to be put under. So we are now home with our minced meat tongued child...sigh! The really sad thing is that it wasn't even a spectacular fall. It was a total run of the mill happens a thousand times a day little trip that sent us running around from hospital to hospital! Poor little guy!
