just another day!

My girls love being girls. They always dress up and especially love these Dora dresses that they got for their birthdays. Thanks Yvette and Kelsey. With all the competition Eliza has she likes to find creative ways to get my attention! Katiana can't live without her dolls, they eat with her and sleep with her and do just about anything with her. Nathan is getting more active, soon he will be rolling over, but he still loves to sleep, and is so sweet to watch.

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Eliza joined the ranks of Kindergarten. She has been so excited to go and the teacher says she is a good student until nap time were she continues to either gab to her neighbor or play. She loves to ride the bus to school and everything that goes along with it.

Two months and growing.

Nathaniel is now two months old and man does time fly!He has finally learned to smile and coo, it is nice to hear something besides crying!! He has a condition called tracheomalacia, his trachea walls aren't very strong and flop around causing him to wheeze and breath heavy, but the doctor says he should out grow it. Other than that he seems to be doing well. Eliza starts school next week and that should be fun. I can't believe she is going. Katiana thinks that she is going to school as well, but luckily she will still be at home for me to have entertainment! I am working
three hours a day at a child care center in a gym. The kids come with me and we just play. Stuart is still chugging away at Sherwin Williams, and getting ready for football season. Well I am finally learning how to do this, so more updates soon. Got to go, duty calls!

Nathaniel Stuart Terry

Well at 3pm this afternoon we had our first baby boy. They started Crystal on inducing at 5am, but she could never get past a 4 and the baby was showing signs of trauma so the doctor decided to go ahead and do a C-section. Crystal was disappointed but a healthy baby is more important so it has worked out well. He came in weighing 8 lb 11 oz. Not the biggest but close enough. Both mom and baby are doing well. The girls were excited and kept petting his hair. Ironic that the girls came out with no hair and he comes in with hair.

BABY DATE

Well it seems almost certain now that on May 28th they are going to go ahead and induce. We are slowly getting things ready for the new arrival. Today Crystal had her what we thought last appointment before Wedn. but it seems the 27th will be the last. The good news from the doctor is that everything still has kept the same as far as fluid from her previous appt. but she doesn't think the baby is as big as the ultrasound specialists has calculated. The doctor said that she tends to be higher in her calc than what actually comes out. So it looks like the boy will not be a ten pounder. The girls are getting excited. We have decided to call him Nathaniel which is an ancestors name on Stuart's. Crystal just wanted to thank everyone for there gifts at her shower on the 17th and was greatful for Stuart's Mom and sister, Katie, for coming down and the wonderful gifts we received from friends and family. The girls had a blast playing with Maddie and Jack, even though Jack had to play princess with the girls, but they did go swimming and had lots of fun with their cousins.

BABY UPDATE

Well a nice update is in order. Crystal had another ultrasound on Wednesday. Baby is still doing good now up to 6'6oz with fat cheeks notice by the pictures. Things were developing nicely. Unfortunately there are some complications. Crystal has been diagnosed with palindromes, which means that there is too much amniotic fluid which can lead to a number of things, namely early labor or worse stillborn. So now she has to go in twice a week for the remainder of the pregnancy. The doctor put her on taking it easy rest not officially bed rest, and told her to quit work. Well she went back to work the following day and they told her not to come back. She was going to give them a few days to find someone to replace her, but for insurance reasons the daycare told her that they didn't want to be held liable. She went in Friday for the baby and Crystal to be monitored. Everything checked out and they are still unsure what is causing the excess fluid. Well to more upbeat news. Katiana is doing a lot better with potty training. She still has a hard time going number 2. She sleeps most nights without wearing a diaper so she has caught on well. Eliza is upset because she can't go to school anymore. She loved going there to see her friends. It will be tough for her until she starts kindergarten in the spring.

3D ultrasound pictures

On April 2nd Crystal went in for her second ultrasound. All the nurse could say was, "he sure is going to be a big baby. At week 29 the head is already 8cm and projected weight is 3lb12oz. Plus, he isn't very tall so I went ahead and shopped at the local bowling alley for a bowling bag to put the baby in. Also that same week we started to potty train Kat. She struggle the first day and then did good. She would hold it in at school until Crystal would show up and then she would go. But, that was two weeks ago and she is back to getting lazy and will pee in her pants. She still is holding in the poo. It slowly will pull it turtle head out and stain the panties and then she gets mad and will sit on the toilet but will not go. We finally put a pull-up on her and she went. The smell was not so good and there was a lot of it. Here is a statement about the diaper %*##@ WOW!.

First Post

Welcome to our first post. In the future we will include more updates. Right now you are stuck with a quick breakdown. Yes we do live in Louisiana, and yes it is true the south shall rise again. That is all.