Jeremiah Blake

*Report brought to you by Amy, Heather's sister. Just to keep all of her friends informed about what is happening.

Jeremiah Blake Wilson
Born January 10, 2011 at 2:54pm
Weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz.
Length 21 inches

The story- shortened version-
Heather was hospitalized on January 6 at 36 weeks pregnant from complications with TTP. She had TTP when Abram was born. So this was a possibility, but still unexpected as things had been going smoothly up to this point. She was given plasmapheresis in hopes that it would elevate her platelet count. After several days of pheresis her counts were not improving as they should have. The doctors decided to deliver the baby by C-section 3 weeks premature to hopefully get Heather better. (After Abram was born Heather was able to recover fully from the TTP on her own.) Five days after the delivery of Jeremiah Heather's platelet counts were still not improving, even with treatment. Her red blood cell count was also low. Doctors decided that they needed to remove Heather's spleen. Last night they did that. It was a scary situation, but Heather pulled through the surgery. Today her counts are being monitored every six hours and have been slowly rising all day. She is still facing the possibility of a few other treatments and is still in the hospital.

Baby Jeremiah is home with big brother Abram and his Grandma. He is healthy, doing well, and very cute as expected.

Heather would appreciate any emails to cheer her up. It is not always possible for her to answer her phone, but you could leave her a voice mail or send her a text to let her know that you are thinking of her. As you can imagine, it is really hard on her to be separated from her children and especially her new baby.

I will try and update her blog on her condition as things progress. We are hoping to have her home and her sweet baby Jeremiah in her arms as soon as possible.

Pumpkin Patch 2010

Happy Halloween! We headed to the pumpkin patch by our house, it's the perfect week because Jordan has the whole week off school. It was a really cute patch, perfect for toddlers. There was a little petting zoo, a toddler size hay maze, corn pit, a hayride, and they gave us shears to go cut our pumpkins of choice right off the vine. Abram had a blast picking out his pumpkin at first, saying things like, "no too big" and "no green", it was cute. He then became easily distracted by all the mud and rocks and Jordan ended up picking the pumpkins out for all of us while we threw rocks at the leaves of the pumpkins. We had a good time with some new friends, the Tanners, that we met in the MBA program, they have a little boy Abram's age and a little baby girl. The biggest event for Abram was the tractor ride, as you can see below. He was SOO excited. I have exposed my growing belly and body below also, something I am not fond of doing, but must do for my posterity. Plus Abram is so cute in some of the pictures with me, that I had to post them. He will finally smile and say cheese for pictures, but you have to be quick, he won't hold the pose for long! He's too busy to be posing all day for the camera. When we got home, Abram wanted to "cut" the pumpkin, he was super sad when I told him we weren't carving them until it was closer to Halloween. I'll have to post some of that, should be interesting, and messy!


Playing in the cornpit.


Super excited for the hayride to start!


Playing on the trailor.



Trying not to trip, holding mommy's hand.



Checking stuff out with Daddy.


Off to find the perfect pumpkin!

Since April...

Before work one day, close to my last day at St. Peter's.



Abram's friend brought him a crown over today for a playdate, he was telling me he was a king like Max (from the book Where the Wild Things Are)



Abram's first BYU game, he lasted until halftime. He liked watching the players "fall down," and cosmo cheer at the crowd. I forgot pics in the stadium, this is in the Tanner building parking lot, where Daddy spends his life these days at school, on the way to the car and home at halftime. Abram is peeved in this pic, he wanted to get down.



Abram's favorite cars.....sitting at the kitchen table.

It's been a while! I am doing a quick post to update :o) It's pretty sad that I haven't written anything since April. Here's what's been going on.
1. Jordan was accepted into BYU's MBA program!
2. We found out we are having another baby, it's a BOY, and I am due January 30. I am 25 wks. along. I haven't had any major issues, I feel so blessed!
3. We moved to Springville, UT for Jordan to start school. We are loving it here, but of course missing our old friends and co-workers.
4. Abram is growing like a weed. It's too hard to catch up on all that he's learned, done, and said in the past 6 months but I will try and be better at sharing how cute and smart our son is from now on. He's a character and I am REALLY enjoying staying home with him here in UT, I am not working. I miss my old job, but being a mother is what life's about :o)

Here are some pics that we've taken recently. I also have been terrible about taking photos. My poor family, we aren't going to have any records of our life if I don't get on it!

Abram Turns 2!

Abram with his wrapped baby Elmo from Grandma Hutzley. He loves babies, dolls and real babies alike and loves to hold them all wrapped up in his blanky. He super loves putting them in his high chair and buckling them in or pushing them in the stroller or his grocery cart. He'll be a good daddy some day.


Busy testing out his new vacuum.



We made the mistake of letting him open presents in whatever order he wanted, well he opened the vacuum first and then did not want to do anything else but get it open and play with it. It was a bummer he didn't want to have anything to do with the other gifts. Luckily, he plays with the others now too.




Going for a stroll with Daddy on his new Cars trike, a close second favorite to his vacuum. He can say "Queen" for Lighning Mcqueen, as well as all of the other characters from the movie.



He did not want to stop playing for the blowing out of candles, so he was sung to and blew them out all by himself on his trike. Our friends made the cake for us, I just went out and bought the pan. It was really cute and Abram loved it!





Okay so Abram loved picking up these balloons for his party, he was having a blast with them. unfortunately he hates pictures and won't ever smile for us!! Stinker! He seriously WAS overjoyed but he barely has a smirk here.



Just waking up the day after his birthday, toting Elmo around and vacuuming, oh the buzzing of that toy.......I wish I wouldn't have put in the batteries!!

That morning after he woke up and I asked him do you remember your Birthday and he automatically said bike, and vacuum and got really excited to get downstairs and start playing again. I can't believe he's 2 already. We love him so much, it's been a wonderful 2 years :o)

Nov/Dec photos

Getting into the fridge and trying to eat an unpeeled orange! YUCK!

Making messes at lunch time.

Lookin' stinkin' cute!

And messes at dinner!!

This is Abram's step. He frequently sits here to look at books and play, and when it's time for shoes he goes and gets them and promptly sits here to have them put on.

Getting into EVERYTHING...especially the pantry!

He makes his own lego towers, and really likes putting the bag on his head once he empties it....yes I keep an eye on him and I won't let him suffocate!

He begs to use big utensils to eat/play with......looks like Jordan caved in one night and took a pic.

Here are a few shots of what Abram has been up to. We took family photos about a month ago but haven't gotten them back yet, crossing my fingers that they will be here SOON to get some sort of Christmas card photo out. I will post them when they arrive! Merry Christmas everyone!

Halloween

Well yes it is Christmas time and I am posting about Halloween!! I know, I know. Just another sign of my crazy life!!! For Halloween this year I wanted to do all the things that I remember doing as a child, you know, the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, trick or treating. Time kept moving and I kept procrastinating. The week of Halloween we FINALLY made it to a local pumpkin patch that I had heard raves about. (Numerous play dates and friends had gone and invited us prior but we were never able to go! Argh!) Well it was a complete bust as they were OUT of PUMPKINS!! The field was filled with the nasty, mushy, moldy ones. And the place was about to close so the store wasn't stocked with the tasty cider I had heard about and because it was FREEZING outside, most animals weren't at the petting zoo. And they only made the yummy doughnuts on the weekend and we went on a Monday. And I got all muddy because it never stops raining in WA. Hehe, it was pathetic. Abram did enjoy the few animals we did see and have fun tromping about in the mud.
So we went home empty handed. A few days later we decided to get some from the grocery store, they're all out too. Except for the tiny ones, which I later did have Jordan go back and get. We carved them after Abram was asleep the night before Halloween because I was determined to have them on out doorstep for the trick or treaters. It was a fun little date night. We went to the ward trunk or treat on Halloween and had our friends over for dinner, Emily made dinner in a pumpkin for us! It was so tasty, I think I'll make it a tradition each year. And maybe even try and cook it myself next year. Here's some photos of our cute little Lion! Thanks Grandma H for the costume!


Passing out candy to the neighbors.

Checking out the pumpkins.

Sadly the only photo I got of Abram and his little friend Leah.

Jordan hard at work.

Jordan making a goofy face, notice the smashed pumpkin field behind them!

All and all we had a fun time....next year we'll go for a visit to the patch before they're all out!

Random Photos!

The "Blank" is in tow all over the house, as well as, the "pappy" which Abram calls his pacifier. He only gets this at naptime but asks for it all day.



He was calling out for mommy and grunting, I found him stuck! Quick pic before helping him up.



Abram's second day of nursery, he officially can stay in all by himself in 2 weeks. This was taken in our new rental house...yippee we are all moved in!


Abram and mommy goofing off, a typical after breakfast tradition.



Uncle Cam is home from his mission! We went to see him at home in KY in August.


Another of Abram and mommy playing with the camera.

Oh the joy of trying to get him to keep his food on his plate!

On a Sunday in July....I had to get a pic of my two handsome guys!

Thought I'd post these randomly because I never have time to organize them and make seperate posts. More soon of our new house :o)