Friends Welcoming Baby Jake!

We were so blessed to be at home to deliver Baby Jake! We were able to have all of our family and friends there with us to celebrate such an amazing blessing! We loved having visitors at the hospital! Below are pictures of the many visitors we had at the hospital. I didn't get pictures of everyone :( You'll notice my friend Kelli took some pictures and then I took some pictures. It's obvious which ones Kelli took! She's so talented! Anyways, thank you so much to everyone who came by the welcome Baby Jake into the world! We love and miss you all dearly!

My Fav Visitor Everyday!

Baby Jake's Arrival

Oh I have so much to tell you about the last several weeks. It has been quite a whirlwind! John Parker and I moved to Montgomery for about 3 weeks to insure that Dr. Phillips would be there to deliver Jake. We had so much fun living with Aunt Bobyn(Robyn), Uncle Brian and Cooper. We spent everyday together doing fun things. I wouldn't take back the 3 weeks we spent together for anything!

On to the delivery...we arrived at Baptist Hospital at 6am on Feb. 15th for my scheduled c-section. To say I was a nervous wreck was an understatement. I was asking for medication to calm my nerves when I hit the door. Only to hear they don't give anything until after the baby has been born. All I could think about was my experience with John Parker and how I just wanted everything to be ok this time. Dr. Phillips came in before the surgery and prayed with us. That helped me calm down so much. To know my doctor has the Lord guiding him was such a blessing.

The epidural went great! I requested no students doing it. With John Parker it was a disaster. This lady knew exactly how to do it the very first time it took. Surgery went well! Then I heard the most beautiful noise, Jake's cry! It's unexplainable the feeling you get when you hear that for the first time. The staff was great in keeping me informed on his condition the whole time. Then I met my sweet boy! Wow, God is so good! Words can't describe the feeling you get meeting your child for the very first time. Absolutely amazing! Jake was born at 8:14am weighing 8lbs and 8oz!

We had a great stay at the hospital! I didn't take one moment for granted. I didn't get to experience having John Parker in our room when visitors came. Having Jake in our room was such a blessing. I had my moments throughout our stay where I just cried thinking about all the NICU families and why I was blessed with a healthy child.

We stayed in the hospital until Thursday. When I was discharged John Parker and Jake rode with me in the wheelchair. Another moment for me when I just cried with thankfulness. I didn't get to take a wheelchair ride with John Parker and this time John Parker was with me as well as baby Jake. The Lord has blessed us greatly! We are so thankful for the birth of baby Jake and we look forward to the days ahead as a family of four! Thank you for your prayers, visits, phone calls, emails, and meals. We have been truly blessed by all of our family and friends! I'll have to do a seperate post with more pics of our visitors :-)

"Every good and perfect gift is from above." James 1:17

Dear Big Brother!!!

Dear John Parker,

On Monday you are going to become a BIG BROTHER! Mommy and Daddy are so excited for you! We can't wait for you to meet "Baby Jake"! He can't wait to meet his big brother John Parker! You have been so sweet to Mommy while baby Jake has been in her tummy. You kiss him, bring him toys, and tell him you "wuv"(love) him. You are going to be the best big brother! We are so anxious for you and baby Jake to meet! Baby Jake is even going to bring you some special gifts when he arrives. You'll always have baby Jake to look up to you. You'll teach him so many things as he gets older. We are looking forward to seeing yall become best buddies!

Mommy and Daddy want you to know how much we love you! Being our first son you have blessed us in ways words could never describe! We thank the Lord for you every single day! And never take one moment for granted with you! Your smile and laugh lights up our lives! You've have taught us more about life and the Lord than anything else in this world. Thank you for being an amazing son!

In less than 36 hours you'll will become a Big Brother to another precious miracle from above! We love you John Parker!

picture by Kelli

Highway to the Danger Zone

JPW is growing into a little man! And with that he has become interested in all kinds of crazy and DANGEROUS things! I wanted to get some pictures of him with these things then I thought I may be turned over to DHR and I didn't want to fight with JPW to get these crazy things from him. For the most part if they are "out of sight they're out of mind" Here are just a few things he is obsessed with...

the first one really isn't too dangerous compared to the others. the dryer vent on the side of the house. JPW gets so excited when the dryer is on and the vent is blowing air. every day when we pull in the driveway he asks "is the dryer on?". he also tells me every day "the dryer is soooo cute Mommy!" my boy can spot these vents from miles away. he points them out on all the other houses in the neighborhood. if I need to get him in the car I say "JP let's go look at the dryer" works like a charm everytime!

up next Scissors! he begs to use my scissors. we had to put a latch on the drawer we keep them in to keep him from getting them. i had the brilliant idea to buy the kiddie rounded scissors for him the other day and it only increased his obsession! he will sit at the kitchen table and cut paper all day long. i'm just waiting for the day when he decides to cut his hair. i'm telling him everyday that the scissors have to "take a break" and "go night night" or he will never stop cutting.

ok here's where it gets dangerous...the boy loves lighters and fire! oh my! no we don't smoke. ha! i just love to burn candles! JPW found the lighters too and decided he wanted to carry one around the kitchen. make me have a heart attack! then he tries to negotiate "mommy I put it on the table" umm....no! on the table or not my boy can't touch a lighter. we've put them in the highest place in our kitchen so he can't get to them.

and continuing along the lines of fire JPW loves candles. all kinds of candles-scented candles and birthday candles. his favorite are birthday candles. lately everytime we go in Target I'm walking out with a box of birthday candles for him. they're only $1 which is so worth my sanity while shopping in there. the last few weeks we've had several birthday parties for Snoop(our dog). G has found little ice cream cakes at Target that he loves so he'll stick a few candles in it and we'll sing happy birthday Snoop. ha! it's really cute! JPW loves blowing out Snoop's candles. I think Snoop enjoys the little parties too!

I'm hoping these things are just "little boy" things and this is all a phase(especially the fire!). Hopefully his obsessions will soon change to things a little less dangerous! We use this line alot..."Don't do that JPW or you'll have to go to the hospital." His response "Mommy I don't want to go to the hospital" and then he stops whatever he is doing. Now we've had to try to explain to him that he'll have to go to the hospital to see Mommy and baby Jake when baby Jake is ready to come out of Mommy's belly. Hopefully he won't be too scared of the hospital then! Or maybe that will be another obsession he has-going to the hospital and seeing babies :)

You Know You've Moved to a New Town When....

Oh the stories I have....ha! Here are just a few funnies about some recent adventures we've been on

You know you've moved to a new town when...

you leave your house 30 minutes early to get to a dr appt and you still show up 15 minutes late and the receptionist says "i'm sorry but we cancel appointments after you are 10 minutes late" and my response is to sit down and cry while the lady goes and asks the manager if they can still see JPW. Thank goodness they did see me because she would have had her hands full after we had to wait a month to get in with this doctor. Bad thing was I continued to cry as I filled out my paperwork. I know the other parents were wandering what was wrong with this enormously large pregnant lady!

your son gets invited to a birthday party for a kid in his class at school. we showed up at the party and guess what? we had no idea who the birthday kid was! ha! after an hour we finally figured it out. you just have to put yourself out there when you move. next time i'll ask his teacher who the birthday kid is the week before the party! ha!

you're watching the news and there is a funnel cloud live on the news touching down and you're wandering is it heading to your house and heck I haven't even figured out where to take cover yet. we've now made a place to take cover in the new house. and it didn't come near the house but hit near G's work-thank goodness he left early that day!

There are lots of stories I could share. Things are getting alot easier and we have some friends. Yay! It's really neat how the Lord has placed some really special people in our path! I'll save that for another post. I hope this provided you all a few laughs!

He Has a Name and Bedding!

Finally our little butter bean or rather our watermelon has a name! I debated to post it on here or not but if you really want to figure out our names etc. it isn't that hard. Plus we're having another JPW so I didn't want to blog about JPW #1 and JPW #2 . ha!

Christmas shopping for G is so hard! He always knows what he's getting so I decided this year I would give him the gift of naming our child. Of course their were some stipulations. He told me if I let him pick the first name that I could pick the middle and the bedding. I was sold with the bedding! And I knew he would pick Jacob because he said Jacob since we found out we were pregnant. So his name is Jacob Price Wilson! Here are a few pictures of G opening his special Christmas gift!

And the bedding...G agreed to bedding without asking how much it was! ha! It was a big deal for G to let me do the bedding. He is really particular especially since we have boys. He doesn't like fru fru. But he lost again. I had blue and lime green with white polka dots for JPW and for Jake we're getting this....they're only babies for a little while!

Where is Warehouse Mouse?

Yeah if they were only that cute! This is warehouse mouse from JPW's fav show Imagination Movers.

So we have a visitor or two in our pantry! Ahhh! I hate mice!Last week our loaf of bread had a hole through it. Someone got a nice lunch in our pantry. I went to the store and bought another loaf and guess what he found it again! Bro-in-law and sister were here over the weekend. We were up late and I heard someone moving in the pantry. I jumped up off the couch and stood by the back door so I could make a run for it. He got away. Then about 1am (bro-in-law is a late nighter) bro-in-law ran in our bedroom and said "G I've got it locked in the laundry room." So G hopped up and the search was on in laundry room. They caught him in the vacuum cleaner hose and G ran him down the road to dispose of him.

Whew glad he's was gone! But wait someone got in the grits Monday morning! Ahhhh! Pest control is called! Someone has got to get this thing or things out of here. Appt is scheduled for today during our blizzard. I prayed Dear Lord please let them come. And "Ding Dong" at 9:30 I hear the angels singing-it's the sweet pest control man who drove in the snow to get here. He said the office just called him to go home but he was already here. Thank you Lord!

So the scoop according to pest control man is mice are a problem in our new neighborhood because of construction. But this is the worse mice season they've seen up here everywhere. Oh wonderful! And it's not just winter, it's year round! Thank goodness we've set up a quarterly service with them.

We now have every trap, sticky board, and feed possible in our house to get rid of these pesky critters. Just pray I don't see one. I think it may cause me to have a heart attack or go into labor! I now have a ritual of slamming cabinets in the kitchen when I wake up! Ha! One thing the pest guy said is "you may hear them screaming when they get caught in the middle of the night!" What! Oh great! So between me slamming cabinets and beating on doors and mice screaming our house definitely won't be quiet around here until they're gone!

So thank you Huntsville for introducing me to the world of mice! One more thing that really isn't a big deal just the Lord's humor keeping me on my toes (literally)!