no more gallbladder

Yep, it's gone and good riddance - I don't think I'll be missing it or the accompanying pain anytime soon. I'm feeling much better today than yesterday and I'm able to start feeding Haydn again. I can't quite pick him up yet, but I bet by tomorrow I'll be feeling good enough to pick him up and pretty much return to life as normal. I ate Chic-fil-a last night and drank a Dr. Pepper - it was fantastic. I've been eating salad and baked potatoes every day for every meal for about a month, so I'm looking forward to returning to the foods I have missed.
Haydn is doing great, he is SUCH a good baby! He did great on Friday while Jeff & I were at the hospital and has been great about letting his Agi take care of him while I'm recovering. Agi is the Cherokee word for Grandma and the name my mom picked for herself - I love it.
He is going to get his first real bath today - so we'll let you know how it goes... I'm pretty confident that he is going to hate it. In other exciting news for the day, Haydn's cousin was born today! His name is Cale Evan Dunbar and he weighed 7 lbs and 9 oz and was 18 inches long. Hopefully, we will get to meet him over Christmas when we head to Houston next. Just a few more weeks before his next cousin will be born!

surgery update

I'm scheduled to get my gallbladder out on Friday! Woo hoo! I never thought I would be this excited about surgery, but I'm looking forward to it. It is an outpatient procedure, so I will have surgery in the afternoon and hopefully be home by dinner time. Pretty amazing huh? The doctor thinks I might have a thyroid problem that caused the stones so I'm getting an ultrasound on Thursday to have that checked out. Hopefully it is something that can just be treated with medication.

Here is a cute Haydn picture for the day!

isn't that the cutest face you've ever seen?

Week One

Well, we made it through the first week of parenting without any major problems and it was a pretty great week. So far we've had:

- approximately 80 dirty diapers
- 1 4 AM 'HELP, what do we do?!' phone call (thanks again Karen)
- 238 kisses from Daddy
- 2 sponge baths
- 0 uncontrollable fits of crying
- what feels like at least 300 feedings
- like 7 loads of laundry already
- lots of visits from family and friends
- 2 doctors visits with good reports
- 1 simultaneous pooping, peeing, and spit up incident
- 2 very sleepy parents

Here are some pictures from Haydn's first week.


Coming home from the hospital. Thanks Aunt Elyse for all the decor!


This was the much hated sponge bath


Haydn was so happy his Abby Teyze came to visit!


This is Haydn's burpy face. I'm kind of in love with it.

Stay tuned. More adventures in parenting to come...

Haydn Walker Priour

Hello! Sorry for delayed pictures. We just got home from the hospital a little bit ago. Our stay lasted longer than we thought it would. Let's just say I should have packed an extra pair of socks. Here is my 2 cents for my friends who have not yet had kids to help out the dad. Pack extra socks, make sure you have a comfy jacket and aleeve for your back. Dads you stand a lot so the aleeve is for your back. Now here are the much awaited pictures...



Friends meet our son Haydn Walker Priour. Isn't he just the cutest? I know I am biased but the nurses said he was cute too. =)



This is our first family picture!



Once Haydn was born we got a little bit of family time before he had to go to the nursery. Once we were there I was with him for about 4 hours while he was being checked out and hooked up to some machines. He was breathing really fast so he had to stay in the nursery for a while. His breathing has returned to normal but now they will be looking at an ekg to let us know about his heart murmur.




This is me and Haydn, I just had to put a pic of us up here. He doesn't look like me but I am holding out that he will get my blue eyes.



Here is another family pic!



This is Aunt Elyse. The first time she held Haydn she said, "Haydn I will get you anything your mom and dad say no to."

Dearest Auntie Elyse,
Thanks for all the help you have been. I like being held by you and I am glad you keep an eye on Uncle Stephen when he holds me. You don't have to anymore though, he is doing a great job and I like sleeping on him. Tomorrow I want him to change my diaper with your help. Now, for the stuff mom and dad are going to say no to. I want a trampoline when I learn to jump. When I turn 16 I would like a new car probably a truck like my daddy. I can wait till I am 18 if the laws change. I am sure there will be more stuff along way so I will let you know what else pops up that I want. O yeah, I love all my clothes you gave me thank you. I will try not to poop, pee, or throw up on you but I make no guarantees.
Love Haydn



Haydn day 2.

Here are some stats on Haydn for those who like that sort of thing.
- Born on 11-5-09 @ 9:06 PM
- 7lbs 5oz
- 21 inches long
- Hair on his head
- 10 toes and fingers (I counted in the nursery when he was under his heat lamp - that was the warmest I ever was in the hospital)



My Momma Loves Me
As some of you know the week before I was born my momma was told she had gallstones. She had several gallstone attacks before I was born and she and daddy were hoping that once I came out there would not be any more attacks because I would not be pushing on all moms organs. Today mom stated having gallbladder attacks again. It looks like she is going to have to have her gallbladder removed. Daddy told me that while mom was in labor she did really well. Once momma started pushing the nurse yelled WAIT and I was like nooooooooo I am ready to come out. But then I heard all these voices and mom was pushing again and I was on my way out. In less than 15 minutes of pushing my mom welcomed me into the world. I took one look at her after about 35 minutes and thought she was the most beautiful mom ever. I know I have kept her up a lot at night but she has been really patient with me. Sometimes I get to snuggle with her on my boppy while she is in bed.

Erin did a great job throughout everything. Please pray for her to not have anymore gallbladder attacks and that things will work out for us to get it removed quickly.

Hope you enjoyed the post!

Testing 123

Hello Folks this is just a test run for me to figure out how to post pictures to the blog. Have a great day!



This is the pic of a really large seagull I took in Turkey. They are bigger than the ones in Corpus!



Sometimes boys just need to get dirty!!

The End is Near

Well, we have an induction scheduled for Thursday. So, unless baby decides to make his appearance before then we should have a baby Thursday night. Everything seems to be going well with baby, he's just running out of room!
I'm very ready to not be pregnant anymore, especially since I found out last week that I have gallstones. I think I've had them for a while but now that the baby is pressing on everything my gallbladder is easily irritated. I've had 4 gallbladder attacks so far that last 4-6 hours and are ridiculously painful. I'm hoping that once baby comes and there isn't so much weight on all my other organs that my gallbladder won't be such an issue and I won't have to be so careful about what I eat. Right now I'm pretty much eating salads and baked potatoes. We will meet with a general surgeon a few weeks after the baby is born to decide if I need to get it out right away or if we can wait a little while so that Haydn can get a little older before I have to go through surgery. I've put Jeff & Elyse on update duty so they should be posting updates and pictures this week of baby Priour! We can't wait to meet him... we're still only mostly sure that he is a boy. We only had it confirmed once in Iraq and ever since then they've never been able to see anything. Soooo...I guess we'll find out soon enough! Thanks for all of your prayers, we really appreciate it.