Welcome! Rhiley Madison Lee

Angela and Mike welcomed baby Rhiley at 4:46 this morning! She weighed in at 7lb 7.3 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long. Dad and both of her new grandmas were also there to greet her.

We look forward to her birthday pictures very soon!

Aislynn Raine Delorissa Bethea

Cousins Jim & Linda came to visit.

Proud Grandma!

Gene brought the kids for the weekend @ the hospital.

They were great the whole time. A little squabbling over

who get's Aislynn next, but even that wasn't to bad.

Aislynn's first view of the world. Gene said she acted very bewildered and scared. I was being stapled up at the time, but it's no wonder I would be scared too if some Dr. pulled me from my nice warm womb. She was very reluctant to come out into the world.







On November 1st at 11am my water broke. I got ready, and Gene was home within minutes of my calling him, and took me to the hospital. When we arrived and got checked in, they did a test that confirmed my water had broken, then they moved me into a labor and delivery room, and told me to walk. So I walked... and walked... and walked... my back hurts just thinking about it. My labor wasn't starting, and the clinic I go too has been pushing me to go C-section all along because of my high blood pressure and gestational diabetes. I was ready to go along, but then they started having a lot of c-sections, both scheduled and emergency, so they decided to let me try to get labor started myself for a while longer. I was able to get some contractions started, but they would go away, and they weren't making any progress happen, so when the OR finally opened up Friday night, they took me in. Dr. Bair was my attending physician, which I was happy for, because he is one of my favorite doctors from the clinic. After I was numbed up Gene came in and stood next to me, waiting for Aislynn. At one point in time Gene said it looked like the little Dr. helping was sitting on top of me trying to push her up to Dr. Bair. After Dr. Bair made a wisecrack about Aislynn being a monkey with her toes wrapped aroung my ribs though they pulled her free and showed her to us. She is so beautiful, I just cried. They cleaned her up, and Gene followed her to her first bath while they stitched me up. After being in recovery for a bit, I was taken up to a tiny room in postpartum care, where Aislynn and I spent the next seven days. I thought I would get to go home on Monday, but Aislynn developed jaundice and had to wear a blue light strapped to her back with a hose for 3 days, and they wanted to monitor my blood pressure, then I developed an infection around my incision, and even though Aislynn was ready to go home, they kept her there with me for another day, and monitored the infection. Yesterday they finally released us, so I'm home, just on a lot of meds for pain, antibiotics and blood pressure.

Hawaii & Life without Joshi boy

Yay! I'm on my way to Hawaii. Quite literally, as I'm writing this while riding on the shuttle bus to the airport. Sometimes you've just got to love technology...buses with power strips and wireless internet connections! Who'd have thought? Ok, that undoubtedly has seriously dated me, but well, no point hiding from the truth!

Oh, and no, this isn't a fabulous tropical vacation I'm off to. Just another conference that is going to be a ton of work, keeping me up late and getting me up early...but set in the beautiful (if not ultra chic) Hilton Waikoloa Village.

One more week of being buried in work stuff, then I'm back and I get to see my boy again! It'll have been a whole month now, and by the middle of the second week I was missing him more than I can say. But, with the schedule I've had to keep, I have to believe he's been a lot happier getting to know dad better and spending some time with Grandma learning to speak Japanese.

Once he's back, it's just two more weeks until his pre-school GRADUATION! How time does fly! I'm inserting a picture of my pizza faced boy (from a birthday party he went to a while back) because that's all I've got on my laptop to look at right now. And now, back to work, work, work!

Moved!

Hi everyone!

Gene and I have moved to Aloha. We are now within walking distance of the kids, and get to see them just about everyday. This also puts us close enough that we can help the kids with transportation for after school activities if they choose to participate. Autumn has joined track and is loving it, and Aspen is talking about soccer, although I haven't had to play taxi for any of them yet. It's nice to know I'm close enough I can if needed.

A couple of days after our move in, we decided we couldn't ignore the signs anymore, and I took a test. The kids are very excited to find out that they will be welcoming a new baby brother or sister. They have a rivalry going on between them on which it will be! Gene and I join in, but as this was unexpected, we will just be hoping for, and happy if it's a healthy pregnancy with a healthy baby at the end, regardless of boy or girl.

I will try and reach everybody and give address and phone number information so you can all reach me.

Talk to ya soon,
Trinda

It's been a while...

since I published this. And I'm beginning to wonder if anyone besides me will ever provide any input here besides me. What say you?

My news is that 1) I survived the last round of layoffs at work and 2) Joshi and I went skiing!

I've been looking forward to skiing with Josh, so this year when we had a bus trip organized through work, we broke away and went. It was kind of touch and go, as I was in Tucson until Saturday morning and had to rise well before dawn to catch the bus. But we made it and I was glad that I wasn't doing the driving. Josh was excited to go, but as could be expected, after his first few falls decided he didn't like this falling down and not knowing how to get up again. He did like riding the 'wonder carpet' though, which was basically a conveyor belt he could stand on to ride up the hill. He liked his first ski down too...until he realized that he had no idea how to stop! He also made abundantly clear that he didn't believe MOM was the person to teach him to ski. While MOM was telling him about making pizza shapes with his ski, he overheard an instructor telling another kid and next thing we knew, he had edged away from mom to join the lesson! He had his own lesson after lunch. He needs some time to work on it, but he's more than ready to go again. It was a really fun day.

Dean & Karen said...

Hey! I think this will work great to let everybody know whats happening with everyone. Karen and I are getting ready for company next week Dale & Cheryl will be down from Alaska next week to clebrate Joyce & Chuck's 60th wedding anniversary. The following week Karen and I will be going to Playa del Carmen, Mexico to celebrate our 25th. We have booked a tour of some of the Mayan ruins and will get to rappel down into a Cenote (an opening to an underground river) where we will snorkle around in a cave with lots of stalagtites & stalagmites in understand that the water is so clear that 60' deep water looks like it is only 3' deep. We have also booked a fishing trip for Stripped Marlin, Tuna, Wahoo & Tarpon and also a Snorkle trip over a coral reef near the island of Cozemel. We also plan to Parasil and spend lots of time one the beach and in the water. I will post some picture when we return (if I can teach myself how) Well thats all for now. I will be checking this site out often so everyone pass it on and put a post on here. Great idea Charlotte.
January 7, 2007 4:44 PM

If you have an address (email) for someone who should be participating in this blogspot, please add them or get in contact with me (Charlotte) who will provide the access.

There are so many people that I haven't heard about in a while, and would love to know where they are and what they're doing. That may be YOU! I myself have moved around just a bit over the years (Corvallis, Florida, California, back to Oregon), that I couldn't say who knows where I am. Do you know that I now have a son, who's 4 years old! I've added a link to another site that has a few photos on it, if you'd like to take a look.

I'll bet lots of you have news to share also. I've given 'authoring' rights to as many of you as I could find email addresses for, so please join in and help us make this a wonderful place to share information about our family!