BAM - Baby Isaiah Update

After a rough couple days over the weekend, baby Isaiah seems to be doing much better. The Gardener met RoRo up at the NICU tonight. TG had not been there for two weeks due to cold/flu like symptons that are finally gone.

Isaiah looked very grown up tonight, all 4 pounds of him! He's off the oscilator and the cpap and now has oxygen in the nose. Many of the IV machines are gone although there are still a few around and baby I still has a feeding tube through the nose and and IV in his head (had a blood transfusion last week). Overall, sweet-sweet and much progress. As TG has said to RoRo all along, he's a miracle baby! Still in the NICU, still a long way to go, but he's made such good progress. He even let out a little coo tonight.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

BAM - Christmas,last indulgence...I promise!

The top of the coat closet in the entry where we displayed part of the Christmas village. The rest went on top of the china cabinet in the dining room.

BAM - Other trees....

Yes, there were two other trees and I thought I had pictures of them but cannot find them on the computer. One is a silver tinsel tree that had all red ball ornaments on it. The other was a tree in the kitchen and that tree was a REAL one! It was about 4 feet tall and smelled great for about a week. It had kitcheny ornaments on it; an artichoke, ice cream cone, lemon, pickle, pepper, peach, etc. It also had candy canes and purple ball ornaments and was topped with a glittery red star. I know I had a picture of it but technical difficulties (cough, cough) have caused me to not be able to locate it. Besides, I think everyone has had enough of the trees, although some of you asked for it!

Not to be outdone by The Gardener, The Golfer offered up his idea of Christmas spirit as seen here.

BAM - Dining Room Tree

This is the dining room tree, the one that has all "the pretty stuff" on it. Several years back I started collecting Waterford ornaments and this tree has the Noah's Arc series, the 12 days of Christmas series and the Songs of Christmas series. We were also gifted a Waterford ornament on our first anniversary (thanks Desert Dwellers) and a precious angel from The Gardener's dear friend J. This tree also has other treasured pieces we've collected and many that were gifts from family and friends.

Typically this tree is topped with a Waterford crystal tree topper that TG&TG purchased in St. Thomas with money given as a wedding gift from our grandparents (all of whom are now gone). This year The Gardener was too chicken and was worried it would topple so the red spire went on instead and the crystal topper was displayed in the china cabinet with the Nativity.

This tree has all white lights, red and sage green balls, crystal ornaments, some fancy favorites and even an ornament from Aunt Sandy and Uncle Ron that is engraved with 1972.

BAM - Family Room Tree

This is the family room tree which I shall call the polka dot tree. This is the tree where we hang all the ornaments collected from our travels as well ones we've treasured throughout the years including ornaments from our alma maters, white balls with lime green polka dots, spiderman, candy canes, snowflakes, soldiers, icicles, etc. It also has a lot of red and white polka dots. Some of the ornaments are from our travels to: Maine, Colorado, Texas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Curacao, San Juan, St. Thomas, Aruba, Paris and London. It has white and red lights. Once again, pictures just do not do it justice!

BAM - Snowman Tree

The tree in the blue room is a Snowman tree. It has snowmen and lots of snowflakes, icicles, some santas, even an igloo! It's topped with a snowflake topper. The tree has white and blue lights and pictures just do not do it justice (if I do say so myself).

BAM - Sunflower Tree

This sunflower - gardening tree is down in the Man Cave. The Gardener made all the ornaments on it, incuding the sunflower topper. It has bird houses, bees, ladybugs, watering cans, stars, etc. Fun!

BAM - Christmas at our home....

This is the third attempt at posting some pictures of Christmas spirit in our home. Computer glitches thwarted previous attempts so fingers are crossed it works this time. Ut oh. I already know it's not working, so I'll post what I can.

The Gardener finally had good success with amarylis bulbs!

BAM - Merry Christmas!

From our home to yours, Merry Christmas!

BAM - Bah Humbug!

BAM - The Nieces (new pics)!

BAM - Visit from the Desert Dwellers

This is a long overdue post with pics from Thanksgiving weekend. The Desert Dwellers (a.k.a. The Executive Chef and The Candyman) came back to the midwest for a Thanksgiving visit, what fun! November starts the busy time of year for TG&TG and we didn't get as much time with The DDs as we'd hoped, but very much enjoyed the time we had. They split their time between our home and Millie's house.

Another ORDINARY ADVENTURE...The Candyman decided it was time to take his Model T back to the desert. A rented U-haul, a brillant mind, a hill by a skating rink and the The Golfer and The Preacher for assistance..no doubt it was going to happen!

The roadster leaving The Golfer's house.

The hill, and the strategy.

Testing the two by fours.

The Candyman showing confidence.

He drove the roadster right in!

BAM - Baby Isaiah, Day 26

Day 26 was a magical day in the life of Baby Isaiah. Mom got to hold him for the first time!

This was no small feat and required much assistance and machine moving by Nurses Amy and Larry. Isaiah is very sensitive to all movement, except the movement into Mom's arms! He was so content and Dr. Holcomb wants Ro Ro to hold him all the time, said he could hook up a catheter for her. :-)

What a wonderful blessing!

BAM - Foxy came for a visit...

The Gardener was working at home this morning at the kitchen table and caught a glimpse of someome's dog out in the pool area. TG could not figure out how a dog that big got into the locked area but then, woah, what a tail! It was no dog, it was Foxy!

BAM - The difference of 12 hours.....

11:00 am - 60 degrees with a nice spring breeze.
11:00pm - 11 degrees with a windchill of 18 below.

Kansas baby, Kansas!

BAM - Busy Season!

I'm overdue for a blog post and I have lots to share, but no time to do it!


New photo of baby Isaiah...still very sick but still fighting! RoRo was able to change his diaper yesterday, her first real interaction with the little man. :-)

BAM - Christmas Cuties!

Great nephews Corbin and Keagan. Cute!