I decided to do a little recap of last summer and fall since they were epic! On August 4th, 2012 (the day after Dave graduated from PA school) our sweet little Emmitt (just 20 months old) was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.  Since Dave and my sister, Suzi, also have Diabetes, I could see the signs.  He was drinking tons and going through tons of diapers.  The real concern was when he wet through his diaper every night for a week and some nap times too.  I was changing sheets constantly!  He also had become pretty grumpy and just wasn't acting like his normal, happy self.  So on August 3rd we decided that the next morning we would check his blood sugar, before he ate, with Dave's meter.  It ended up being 473 and we both started crying.  When we calmed down we called the pediatrician's office and were told to take him to the emergency room.  We spent most of the day there and then were moved to a room in the ICU.  They wanted him to be somewhere that would have people closer to watch him.  It was a pretty horrendous weekend...yep we were there from Saturday morning to Monday about noon. By Sunday Emmitt was going stir crazy and we were able to unplug him from all the monitors for short periods of time and let him run around the halls.  We found out later that if we would have just contacted the Diabetes doctors in Idaho Falls they probably wouldn't have admitted him to the hospital and we could have saved him and ourselves from such a horrible experience, but oh well.  He started out with insulin pens, humalog and Lantus, but is now on an insulin pump called the Omni Pod.  We started trying them in November or December and then got him on his own at the beginning of 2013!
Bailey Jo was born on her due date...September 24 at 10:59pm.  She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 19 1/4 in long.  I was dialated to a 5 that morning at my doctor appointment and Dr. Meredith was on call that night, so when he asked if I wanted him to break my water I said Yes!  I got an epidural at 5 and he came in to break my water around 6pm.  I started pushing at 9:30 and Miss Bailey didn't want to come.  She was transverse, which means her head was turned the wrong way, and each time Dr. Meredith would turn it the right way, she'd just turn it wrong again.  He ended up using the suction. Then while coming out she aspirated on meconium and spent her whole first week in the NICU.  Needless to say the staff at Madison Memorial Hospital knows us well.

Bailey in the NICU

Dave's graduation!

Emmitt right after his hospital stay.

Emmitt's IV battle wound.