21 Weeks Already?!?

I can't believe how quickly time is going with the pregnancy. We are very excited to get our little one here. Lots has happened since my last post. The biggest news is that we are having a boy!! We are very excited to have a new little guy around the house. Ava was very excited to find out that baby was a brother, and she managed to yell on the walk home from the hospital, "I got a boy WOO HOO!!". She is going to be such an awesome big sister. I truly can't wait to get him hear just so that she can love all over him. Little guy is going to be named Leland Jack, Leland is for my grandfather and because we just loved the name. Ava now calls him Leland every night when he gets kisses. It's cute to me that they are already starting a relationship. She did already ask once though later the night we found out, "will it be a sister tomorrow?" We then had to explain that no he will be a boy forever. She has really though been pretty excited about it all.



Baby Leland!



Here is a shot of the belly that we took this weekend. Just before the end of week 20, this is pretty accurate to how I look now. He is sticking out there making sure that everyone knows he is here to stay!

First Day of Preschool

Ava has started Preschool and Dance!! So this has been a very exciting week at our house. She loves both, so that is great. She did really with with preschool, she would have walked herself there if I would have let her, but she was very good about just heading in and meeting her new classmates. It made me realize how grown up she is though. She really is getting to big! She isn't a baby anymore that is for sure. I'm just glad that we have awesome parents and family that will help us get her from point A to point B throughout the week. Without them our children wouldn't be able to do anything! After Papa Leigh picked her up this week from Preschool he asked her if she had a good day, she said "Yes! I didn't hit anyone and I didn't get in any fights"! She is her fathers daughter!



Ava Knocked Out!



I will try and keep up with more regular updates, we have just been so busy with bean and work, and chasing the boys with football! Here is to a great fall!



Gary and I at the Kinder Wedding

14 Weeks!

Weeks: 14 Weeks Today!

 

How big is baby: Baby is about the size of a lemon, about 3 1/2 inches and is weighing a whopping 1 1/2 Oz's.

 
Weight gain: nothing to significant yet. :)

Stretch marks: NO!

Maternity clothes: Certain clothes are starting to get tight, but as of right now I'm still wearing my everyday clothes.

Symptoms: Still having an aversion to meet and I'm still tired. Other than that I'm feeling great, and I'm just so happy that I don't have morning sickness this time.

Movement: Nothing yet, but we are anxiously awaiting some movement from little one! 

What I miss: Nothing at this point, Eating meet I guess.

What I'm looking forward to: I am looking forward to my next appointment when I should be able to get my next ultrasound scheduled.

 

 

No pictures yet, but maybe next week. I am starting to get just a little bump, but I really look more like I ate one to many cheeseburgers. Ava is loving every minute of talking about being a big sister. She is constantly asking what is the baby doing now? Or when the baby gets here is it going to cry? She is also very interested in whether it's a girl baby or a boy baby. She doesn't quite understand how we don't know yet. Her innocence makes me smile.

 

Gary is now home from drill, we are so glad to have him home again. I missed having him there. That was the longest he has been gone since he was deployed and honestly I'm so glad that we are done with the Military. I am glad that he can be mine all the time, and I don't have to share him with the government any more!

 

 

A Family of Four

It is still strange to me that we are going to be a family of four. I am so excited about having this new little life, but it is still going to be an adjustment. I love that Ava is so excited about being a big sister. She has to kiss her baby brother/sister every night before she goes to bed and she has to make sure that she gives the baby lots of hugs throughout the day. She is growing up so fast, and she just amazes me every day.

The other night we were eating corn on the cob at my parents house and my mom had put the holders in the end of her corn so that she wouldn't burn her fingers. She started to try and eat when she stopped and asked my mom what those things were for. Grammie explained that they were there so that she didn't burn her fingers, she looked right at my mom and said as serious as could be, "Grammie I can't eat my corn under these conditions". Really?! You are 3! Her vocabulary just amazes me. She is so smart far beyond where she should be. She is so excited for preschool and I can't wait to send her. She is going to learn so much more and just continue to grow into this amazing child.

We have been spending a lot of time at the library. She loves going there and playing with the toys, doing crafts, and looking at all of the books. She loves that we get to pick out books to bring home and read together. She isn't really a big fan of having to take the books back to the library, she thinks that she should be able to keep them all since she picked them out to come home.

Gary has been gone with the Military for the last 2 and a half weeks, and we are so ready to get him home! We have missed him so much. This is the first time since his deployment that the has been gone for a long period of time, and Ava really is confused. She keeps asking if we are going to get to talk to daddy soon. She was happy to pull out her daddy doll so that she could be with him even though he wasn't here. It amazes me that she still remembers all of that!

Well that's the Methenys in a nutshell, look for more updates now that we have baby Metheny on the way!!

New Addition

So here we go.. :)

There are going to be lots of changes in the Metheny Household! Gary starts his new job on Monday, he will be working over her at State Farm with me in Kalamazoo. I am very excited to have him over here, and I know that he is excited to be starting. With that means that Ava bean is going to be in Daycare with Ms. Bernie now 5 days a week so that is going to be a lot of change for her. She is so used to her daddy days that I think she is really going to miss the time, but at the same time she is going to love having us both around during the weekends. I finally feel like we are going to be a normal family. We as normal as we can be, we are the Methenys after all.

The big news in the family currently is that Ava is going to be a big sister! We are expecting again and couldn't be more excited. I am over the moon with joy. Ava is so excited, and she wants to be a big sister so bad. She wants to help with everything. She already keeps telling me that she is going to help with baths and with feedings. I don't think she realizes all of the changes that a baby will entail, but she will be a good big sister, that I am sure of! We are currently being told that I'm due on January 31, 2013. I will have a doctor's appointment here soon, and should know more then.

So that's whats happening in the Metheny Family, so we should have more updates soon!

I'm Back!!

I have been on a blogging hiatus. Oops! :)



Uncle Spany, Ava, and Miss Kayla



Life has been busy, but I have lots to update on. Ava has been 100% better so that's a good thing, and it has made life 100% more relaxing. We have been chasing Spencer around watching him play baseball. It made me realize how much I truly miss watching baseball all summer long! Blake has is done with school for the year and is home so we have also been catching up with him.

So here is an update on the Metheny Family :)

Nothing really new is going on with me :) I'm just boring like that.



Beautiful Girl



Gary has been helping out around my dad's shop, and trying to keep himself  busy. He is the newest member of the Marshall Fire Dept on a paid on call Status, and He is also going to be starting a job at State Farm in Kalamzoo as a PIP claims processor. We are so very proud of Gary and all that he has done. It has been a very exciting last few weeks for him as he gets ready to start all of these new endeavors.

Ava is going to be 3 in less than a month and she is getting sassier by the day! She is the light of my life and I can't believe that she is going to be 3 already! It truly just seems like yesterday that I was having her! We are happy to have in our lives though and every day she is an adventure!

God Momma, Jordan, and Ava Bean



Yesterday we got to drive to Michigan City, IN and meet up with Ava God Momma and one of my closest friends, Kristi. It was so nice to catch up with her, and it made me realize how much I miss her! We also had the pleasure of meeting Baby Jordan, who is so stinkin' cute that I could hardly stand it. I guess that since I miss her so much and he is so cute we will just have to make a trip down to see them soon!



Baby Jordan and Ava Bean



Ava and her Cousins



Other than that we are just getting ready for a busy summer with Spencer graduating, Friends weddings, and some other very fun events with friends. We are just trying to enjoy this summer and see where life takes us. I promise not to stay on hiatus!! I am back blogging world!

Is it Possible?!?

I think we might finally be over all of the sickness in our house. Hurry knock on wood! Lets hope that this doesn't jinks us! I am just so glad that baby bean seems to be doing so much better, but I suppose that if I had a penny stuck in my throat and it was then removed I would probably feel better too. She is finally off of all of her medications, and is just doing breathing treatments when neccessary. She is breathing much better and isn't coughing too much at all anymore.



Ava and Uncle B!



Mom and Dad are off in the Dominican this week with Spencer for spring  break. So we had Sammy at our house all weekend. He was happy to be with us, but I think that Ava bean was driving him crazy and that he was ready to get back to my parents house last night. I think we will get him later this week for a little bit just so that he doesn't get too lonely.

Blake was around this weekend and spoiled Ava rotten, which is what uncles are for! Ava was excited to get to spend some time with him, and as you can see they really are like two peas in a pod!



Ava's hat that Uncle B put her name on





Gary had an interview this morning, so here is to hoping that something good is coming for him in the future!! Keep him in your thoughts and prayers!

I am getting geared up for this weekend, my good friend Jillian is going to be in town and we are throwing her a baby shower! I am so excited to see Jill and to see Baby Brewer :) Other than that, this weekend is just going to be Easter fun with mom and dad, and giving Ava some love from the Easter bunny. Hope that everyone has a good week!



Happy Easter!!





Again...

I feel like I am just always here writing about things that are going on with baby bean. It seems like she has been through the ringer this last few months, and she has honestly handled it all so well. She is my hero :)

Friday March 23rd, we took her back to the doctor because she was still coughing terribly, and she was complaining that her mouth hurt. She had been in to see a doctor the following Saturday for mouth complaints and a fever, they told us then and they didn't see anything and to just keep doing her breathing treatments. So here we are back again. Friday they found an ear infection, checked for strep which thankfully was negative. They decided to put her on steroids to try and get the inflammation in her lungs down. The PA that we saw on Friday wanted to have another x-ray done just to make sure that she didn't have anything else settled in her chest. Since haven't had one done since January, they were concerned about what might really be going on in there.

We took Ava to Oaklawn to have her looked at and she did such a good job. She sat still for her x-rays and she was just ready to be done with being at the doctor. We were going to have a low key afternoon just hanging out as a family. Then the radiology techs asked us to stick around for a little bit. That's when we knew that something was not right.

Waiting in the PICU

When they did the x-ray they found something that was lodged in beans esophagus. They weren't sure what was in there, but they knew that we needed to get it removed. They immediately sent us over to the pediatric unit at Bronson Hospital. They put her in the Pediatric ICU, immediately when we got there. In the beginning everything seemed to rushed, I think we were all a little panicked about what was really going on with bean. Once we got there, we were told that we were going to have to wait to actually start any procedures as Ava had eaten fruit snacks at 3:00. We spent hours trying to entertain her in the hospital room, all while she was begging for a snack. You know Ava!

Around 8:30 they came in and did a follow up x-ray. When she did this x-ray we were allowed to see the photo. It was so surreal to see the object stuck in her esophagus. She didn't really seem to be bothered by it at all, but it looked like a medallion just stuck right about clavicle level. They advised at that point that since it hadn't moved that we would have to give her an IV, put her to sleep, use the scope to remove the object, and then we would have to wake her up and get her to eat and drink before we would be able to head home.

At about 9pm we finally started the hardest part, the IV. Ava wanted nothing to do with the IV at all, she was miserable. They had us holding her down, while it took 2 nurses to get the IV in her poor little arm. I have never had to do something that hard in my life. It's just so hard to know that you are doing the right thing for them, even though they are looking at you like you are the worst person in the world.

Right after Surgery

We were anxiously awaiting some news in the waiting room when the doctor walked in about 20 minutes later with a PENNY in between his fingers! He told us that it would be most expensive penny we have ever seen. He said that they figure based on how tough it was to get out and how irritated her esophagus was that it had most likely been there for about a week at least. He said that there were no damages though and that she would be free to go once we got her to wake up and get something in her system. '

She is now just eating us out of house and home! :) She is doing much better, thankfully! We have just tried to tell her that she isn't a piggy bank, so she can't put her pennies in her mouth!

Thanks to all of our family and friends that had us in their prayers last Friday night, we appreciate you all more than you know.

until next time... :)

Relaxing with Daddy after we got
home from PICU