Out with the Old, On with the New

Crazy doesn't even being to touch the surface of how our world has been lately. I know it's been a while since I've posted so hang on I'm going to do my best to let you in on our lives these days. Since we've last talked we've had one ambulance ride (which resulted in a hospital night stay in Dallas), a GREAT report at the cardiologist appointment, 2 road trips, a couple of milestones in Holt's life and this just in, a new job for Josh! It's enough to make your head spin. Don't worry I will explain everything in this list. First things first, on the 9th Holt was three months old. I can't help but be overwhelmed with gratitude when I think of where we have come from to where we are now. I am amazed when I hold my little miracle that we have actually made it to 3 months, especially when I think back on the day when my world stood still and Josh and I were told that our sweet baby was very sick. God is so good and he has answered our prayers in such a mighty way. I'm going to jump a head and give you the latest update from our cardiology appointment. We had an echo on September 28th and our normal visit with our doctor, or so I thought. Dr. Laird entered the room and started asking how we were doing and asking about all my concerns from the last visit. He put Holt on the table and started watching him breath and answered more of my questions. Of course, my heart sank because he hadn't mentioned the echo yet and I just assumed that he was going to drop a bomb on us about the condition of Holt's heart. He did drop a bomb but it was a WONDERFUL report. He told us that there has been significant improvement in the functioning of his heart. He said that muscle in the ventricle is recovering well and his heart has shrunk in size. He told us he is very very pleased with his progress and feels comfortable with letting us come back in 2 months.  After we left his office I felt like I could exhale a little more knowing that our prayers have been answered in such a mighty way. God is so good!

This cardiology appointment was a follow up to our surprise hospital stay. Around 4:00 am on Sunday morning I was awoken by the sound of Holt crying in the monitor. I watched the monitor before getting out of bed to see if he would calm down and go back to sleep. Of course he did after a couple minutes but I was awake and my attempts to fall back asleep were unsuccessful. So I brilliantly decided to feed Holt since I was already awake in hopes of sleeping a little later. Boy was that a mistake! I started to feed Holt and he was very figidity. His was moving constantly, extending his neck and moving his arms and legs. I gave up on feeding him because he would not stop moving. It was more then normal and his breathing was rapid and different the normal. So I put him back in his crib hoping he would calm down. My plan just did not work. I woke Josh up and told him to watch Holt in the monitor. He became concerned and went to his room to pick him up and try to calm him down. After 30 minutes of trying I finally became very concerned and called the on call cardiologist. She became concerned because we were concerned and sent us to the ER. So off we went. The rest of the morning was kind of a blur. We got to the ER and they did a chest x-ray and that was the same as the previous one. The ER doctor called the cardiologist and she told him to send us her way. They explained to us that they are airing on the side of caution with him because with heart disease it could be something or it could be nothing. So with in a matter of 2 minutes there was a swarm of nurses getting Holt prepped for our transportation to Medical City. We were packed up and started out on our first ambulance ride. Once we got to Medical City we were taken to an isolation room where a respiratory therapist was standing in the room. She started listening to Holt and confirmed my fears with his breathing. She diagnosed him with nose buggers. Yes, that's right all this fuss for buggers. Don't get me wrong I would take that any day over heart problems, but it was the last thing I wanted to do that day. They kept us over night for observation and sent us home the next day.  So you can understand why I am sleeping better after our great report at the cardiologist, besides the obvious.

As for the other items on my list, well we took much needed family get-a-way to Beavers Bend for a long weekend and then last week Holt and myself went with my mother to meet my new nephew. We had such a wonderful visit to Midland with our family. While we were in Midland, Josh accepted a position with a new company. He is now a design engineer with Nucor and TODAY was his first day. Which means that we are moving! Yup, that's right- we are putting our house on the market and as soon as it sells we are moving to the metroplex. Josh's job is in Terrell. We really love the Rockwall area. So this week is a week of transition. We worked all weekend to get our house ready and staged to put on the market. We have also decided to live with my parents until our house sells since I stay home and it would be hard to leave at a moments notice with our sweet kiddo.

So that's where we are today. This week we are meeting with a realtor here in Tyler to put our house on the market and then Friday after Josh gets off of work we are going to meet with our other realtor in Dallas to look for houses over there. I know that this is an answer to our prayers and we are very excited about the possibilities with Josh' career. It's is going to be very bitter sweet to leave Tyler, but we are excited to start our new adventure. Will you join me in praying that our house sells fast? Josh has an an hour and a half commuting right now until we move there and I know that that drive is going to get really old if he has to do it for an extend period of time. I know that God is able to do exceedingly more the we can ask or imagine (Eph. 3:20) because I get to care and love on that proof everyday. So we are praying again that he would move the "mountain" in front of us and sell our house.

That my friend is what is going on in our lives today. There is never a dull moment and I am loving every minute!