Eat! Eat! Eat!

Well, our little man is eating a lot better, but he's still stuck at the hospital. The nurses are doing a good job, and we're very grateful to them for everything they do. Everybody say thank you to your local NICU or Special Care nurse!

Aunt Sarah came to visit this week, and she did SO much to help out around here. AND she made some incredible chicken enchiladas for us, which I ate quite quickly indeed.

Grandma Worthen is here with us now, and she's been spending a lot of time cleaning for us and helping with little Grant. We love her!

This week I'm especially grateful for technology. If it hadn't been for things like ultrasounds and feeding tubes my little boy probably wouldn't be alive! I think we take a lot of things for granted in this world. It's incredible to see my little Grant and think how hard it would have been if we didn't have modern medicine. It kinda makes me want to go into nursing instead of music!

Grandma also brought Grandpa's cool camera, so here are a few photos we took this weekend!

Anyway, we'll keep everyone updated as things progress. In the meantime, enjoy the photos.

-Ben

And a few more... sorry!!

Here are a few more... I love when Ben holds Grant! I think that he likes his dad!!

Here are some pictures for you all!!

IT'S A BOY!!

Friday night, we (I) gave birth to a baby boy! We are so excited! His name is Grant Thompson Mathews, and he's just the cutest thing! He looks a lot like Ben, but has the Worthen weight and head size (thank heaven!). He was 5 lbs 15 oz and 18 inches long. The delivery was kind of crazy-- we had been told that his head was coming down, but for some reason, I wasn't very dialated. Turns out- his but was coming down the birth canal, not his head! Within about 10 min, the decision was made to deliver him butt first... ow. It was a little painful!

The following morning, I woke up with awful pains in my side and back again. I was a tad confused, because I had already given birth... why was I having the same pains that I had had while delivering Grant? Well, guess who has a HUGE kidney stone??!! ME!! So- while Grant stayed in Rexburg, Ben and I were loaded into an ambulance and transfered to the Idaho Falls hospital... sweet! They pushed the stone back into my kidney and they are going to blast it to peices this next Thursday! So that's the story... a bit crazy- but hey- we now have a son! Enjoy the pics!

Waiting...

So here we are, at about 37 weeks of pregnancy, and it seems to be going SO SLOWLY! Though this is what I was excepting, I wasn't all that excited about it. I am not too uncomfortable- in fact- I feel bad for all the women in my ward who are not due until January, and waddle like crazy!! I think Ben is more anxious to get this child out that I am!! Oh well, we're just excited to meet this child.

On top of me being 9 months pregnant, Ben threw his back out the other day, and now we are two pathetic people who can't get off the couch! I have a little bit of energy that is more of a blessing than anything, so I can help him with little tasks. But his random shouts of pain kinda remind me of terests (sp?)!! It's kind of scary at times! It's a good thing we have awesome SCHOOL INSURANCE that doesn't cover the things we really need!! j/k

Thanksgiving was great! We spent it with my high school friend, Kelly Bouma, who now lives in Jackson. We only drove 45 min to get to Driggs, ID and only saw about 5 cars on the road... talk about nice! It was just four of us, and though all of our cooking and baking was first time craziness, it was all SOO good!! Here are some pictures from that! Hopefully we'll be better at posting... oops.