And everyone wonders...

Seriously and people wonder why I want another one... LOOK AT HIM!!!! He just breaks my heart and I can only imagine what the next one will be like... but THANKFULLY my husband has the better brain because I probably would have ten by now (you know if it was possible.)






















You know some days I want to scream along with him when he is fighting sleeping for the fourth time that day but over all I just wish is was possible to love him more... and I already love him a whole LOT!!! The best time for me is at bed time... we do our bedtime routine... bath, get dressed, eat and then song time... I hold him in my arms and he looks at me and I look at him and if you are a mom than you know this feeling. Every night I sing one song, pray for him and sing another song and I don't think there is one night when I don't cry. I can't even put in words how much he means to me. I am crying just writing this... Chris and him are my world and with out them I don't know what I would be doing... I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH!!!!!

NO WAY!

I couldn't believe how big my baby was until the other day at the doctors office... this little boy (who was one week old) was so tiny compared to Caidan. And it made me realize my son has a BIG head! And it also made me realize how fast they grow up... WAY TOO FAST! I want him to stay little forever and I tell him that. I tell him he is allow to talk and walk and sit... but he just can't grow! :) I think its time to start trying for another one... :-D

Lazy mornings

There is one thing I LOVE about my mommy so so much she always brings me in bed with her in the morning- and when the nights daddy is gone I get to sleep with mommy.

I love when mommy comes and gets me in the mornings from my bed and we go and lay down in her bed and she just cuddles me and kisses me and just loves me! Its so great! Everyone needs to have my mommy.

I AM SO CUTE!!!

So my mommy and daddy (well mainly my mommy) tells me all the time that "You are so CUTE!" I am not sure what that means exactly but everyone is always ewwwing and awwing over me. I really don't mind though because they always hold me and feed me and spoil me but I am sure that I am not supposed to know what that means either. But little do they know I have them wrapped tightly around my finger well atleast my mommy. I think I really like her (my mommy that is) maybe I even love her- am I supposed to love her? I am supposed to love her because she is my mommy and little boys are supposed to love there mommies right?? Why isn't there some kind of book you know like "Dummies for Babbies- The Things You Should Do and Know" Oh well I am just glad that my mommy is who she is and don't even get me started about my daddy. Mommy thinks my daddy is tuff on me sometimes but I just think my daddy loves me a whole bunch. Mommy says daddy works with Fire trucks but I don't know what that is. I guess I will learn.
Well thats all from my world. I don't do much- you know eat, sleep, poop. Maybe not in that order but eventually I do all that. Just saying HI to this big big world out there that I am not sure I know how BIG it really is.

I'm ONE month old!

Caidan is one month and I can't even believe it. He had is one month check up last wednesday and he weighed 9lbs and he has grown 3/4 an inch. He is in his 25% for hieght and weight. He just isn't going to be a big boy. He changes more and more each day and he gets bigger every day... they should stay little forever!

Well we had trouble breastfeeding from the beginning and I was pumping and givng it to him in a bottle but it got very stressful on me and my milk started to dry out. As much as I wanted him to be breastfed he is now on formula and I have to admit that I am a lot happier.
























































Caidan loves to take a bath until you start washing him and then its all down hill from there.

Three weeks

Well my little man is almost three weeks old and I can hardly believe it. It feels so much longer than three weeks.

My mom was here last week with me and my whole family now has seen him. Of course they all love him... (I don't know how anybody couldn't). He is doing great and so I am. I am gradually getting back to doing things that I haven't done in a very long time and it feels great.





































Bitty decided that she liked the pacifier more than Caidan (Caidan doesn't like it so don't worry we didn't give it back to him!)

Only a few days

Only a few days old and he has changed so much!!!

Caidan is a very easy baby (THANK YOU GOD!) He sleeps great at night wakes up once in the middle of the night and is all in all very content. I am so lucky that he got sleeping from his Daddy. The only wrong is that NONE of his clothes fit him yet... I thought that 7lbs was a decent size but he is just very tiny and I wasn't really expecting him to come so early and be so little.

But WE LOVE HIM and we are for sure keeping him.

Here are some pictures of our little Caidan Baidan...

Caidan sleeps likes this all the time when someone is holding him... if is was okay to put him on his belly at night I would because he would sleep forever. But I have figured out that while I was pregnant this is how he laid in me all the time... he very rarely puts his hands down while he is sleeping.

FINALLY!!!

Well after being in the hospital for a week I (along with Chris and Caidan) are finally home. It has been a long journey and we continue to find that its not quit over yet (at least for me).

Last Sunday my mother-in-law and sister took me to the hospital because I had high blood pressure. They thought that they would keep me over night and watch my vitals hoping they would go down. Well they didn't and decided to induce me. I WAS SO EXCITED but little did I know what was to follow. They had officially diagnosed me with preeclamsia. Preeclampsia is a very unexplainable disease and can be very dangerous for mother and the only cure for it is delivery. Well after being in labor (actual labor) for 38 hours and only dilating to 4 maybe a 5 and my cervix had become swollen (meaning there really wasn't a way he was coming out vaginally) we decided to do a C-section. Caidan as everyone knows was already was born July 18th, 2007 at 7:05pm and weighed 7lbs 4oz. He was and still is a very healthy baby boy.

A normal stay in the hospital for a C-section is typically three days but mine turned into more like five because I have not fully come over preeclampsia. I still have high blood pressure and a whole lot of swelling going on. Yesterday (Saturday) we found out I at fluid on my chest and was given two rounds of water pills to help get some of the fluid off. After everything that I have been through I actually feel GREAT. I am tired a lot pretty normal for being a mom actually. And I still have to take it easy for a while one because I just had surgery and two because I still have preeclampsia. But I am happy to be at home and hopefully it will all get better from here.

Thank you to everyone whose has kept my family and I in your prayers. It is much appreciated!!

So I thought I would let you view some more pictures.

Caidan has already learned how to hold his own bottle!

Now a Family of Three

First off, just to let you know this is Betsy posting. Kalla will share all details when she is up to it.
CAIDAN ALEXANDER RONNING was delivered by c-section on Wednesday, July 18 at 7:05 pm.
He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 20 inches.
Kalla and Caidan are doing great and should be joining Chris at home on Saturday.

What a LONG week.

This has been the longest week ever....

So Monday morning I went to the hospital after having contractions all night long. It turned out they didn't want me to contract, so they pumped me with fluids. In a day and a half I had 6 liters of fluid. And they thought one liter would stop my fluids... haha! (thats what I wanted to do in there face). Then after one wasn't working they decided to give me this shot (I don't remember the name) But I didn't like the side affects and it wasn't stopping my contractions it was actually making them worse so I said NO!! to the next two they wanted to give me. (it was a 3 step process... they would give me three shots every 15-20min). Then they had to inform me that because I was 35 weeks and 5 days that if i was to deliver my baby boy might have trouble breathing because apparently boys lungs mature slower than girls. And I still said no to the drug. I knew that if my child was going to come out it would be on his own that way and he would be a little healthy boy.

Then after checking me to see if I was dialated I wasn't (that was very sad). But I was 75% effaced (don't ask me what it is just go look it up! My blood work was all great except my Uric Acid (i don't know what that is either but I do know they were conserned!) So they kept me over night and recheck my labs in the morning.

They then sent me home on bedrest... where I reside at this moment. And need I say I AM STILL CONTRACTING!

But on a good note my baby is perfectly fine... I on the other hand am border line. They are considering me boarder line preeclampsia. So i have to check my blood pressure twice a day and stay off my big fat swollen feet.

So that is where I am...

34 weeks and counting LOUD!

Well I am 34 weeks and 1 day pregnant and I am counting down the days so much. It is completely miserable! I really and truly can't do anything. I have been so independent my whole life and I don't have a choice right now.


















I don't sleep good anymore... you know how you all just roll over all night and don't even think about it? IMPOSSIBLE for me. Rolling over and getting out of bed are so difficult. Sitting is becoming a pain because my hips hurt... (I know this is gross) Wipping my butt is sometimes impossible (I still wipe my butt but I have to be creative). I know have nice wonderful stretch marks. I also have a thing called kankles. If i press into my foot I leave an indent... its kind of cool. My heart races all the time so I am now on a heart moniter (this is a long story). I feel like I went from being 21 to 65 over night.

But on the bright side we went and got a 3D/4D ultrasound... and my little man is a chunck!

Baby Shower

So I had m baby shower this weekend and it was great. There was a lot of my famiy there which was nice to see.

At the beginning of the shower Chris' Aunt read this card...



It says: "Thank you for sharing this special day. I'm sorry I had to stay away but I may be a little longer Cause I have to grow a little stronger. Thank you for the gifts and wishes, I'd like to shower you with much kisses. I hope to see you soon, Because in here there ain't much room. Love Baby Boy Ronning."







Now to some people that may sound like the stupidest thing in the world but honestly that was the best thing from that whole afternoon. I enjoyed that more than the gifts.

I got a lot of gifts but there are still a lot of things I have to get. But I am 8 months! It kind of freaks me out but I am ready...

Vacation

So we just go back from vacation on Saturday and it was nice. It was nice to get away. We went up to Wisconsion and went fishing (yes I went fishing don't be too shocked). By the end of the week I was baiting my own fishing pole and taking my fish off myself. It was a great time.














This is a chair that could fit four people in it... it was at a gas station that we stopped at on the way up.















This is my first fish that I caught....















This is the second fish I caught....





















And I don't know what number this fish was... but I ended up catching two!




Here are some pictures of the vacation.