Still waiting for our little guy to arrive. Our doctor is back in town as of tonight and Mommy is getting very uncomfortable so its time!! Here is hopefully one of the last pictures of Mommy's big 'ol belly. This was taken on Thanksgiving Day. Will post as soon as he arrives. There should be news within the week!
Our local Chick Fil A threw us a celebration party on Wednesday so all of our families could get together and watch us receive all of our awesome prizes for being the Grand Prize Winner in the Cow Appreciation Photo Contest. It was a great night of free food and awesome fellowship. The kids were super cute all dressed up in their costumes again. 
My amazingly talented friend and neighbor took these fantastic maternity shots of me and our family last week. I intended to do the shoot a little earlier in the pregnancy but I'm glad things didn't work out until now as this is a more true representation of about to pop! She did a wonderful job of capturing our entire family during this exciting time of waiting and preparing to meet our little guy. I posted my favorites here although it was really hard to decide! You can view all of the pictures here:
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!
Tonight we attempted to join in on some on the hot air balloon fun by attending Glodeo where all the balloons take turns firing up and make a kind of light show. We quickly changed our plans when we found out it was going to cost us over $20 and the parking was backed up for miles an hour before it was scheduled to begin. So we followed the locals and found a great spot to view it from afar. We are really excited to go back to the same spot tomorrow to watch the mass ascension. We met a man that gave us two locations based on which way the wind is blowing in order to have the balloons fly directly over our heads and possibly land in the fields next to us. Hopefully we will get lucky in the morning. Check back for pictures tomorrow to see :)
