Life as we know it :)

We have been home for almost a week now and we are adjusting very well! :) Ansley is a little rough, but loves her brother very much and is always available to help! :) Today, we had our first traumatic incident, Ansley accidently stepped on Karson!!!! Holy crap scared Karson, Ansley, and I all to death! They were both in tears! She didn't notice that he was laying on the floor! She stepped on his legs and I believe he is ok, nothing broken that I can see. This little man is going to have to get tough FAST!!

Karson is eating and sleeping great! He really likes to sleep on me and would sleep all night if I'd let him. Last night he slept in his bassinet all night only waking up twice!! :) He is a growing boy and we went Friday for our 1 week check up! Doing great weighing in at 9lbs 3oz!! We left Wesley on Monday with him weighing 8lbs. 6oz! I'd say he's getting plenty to eat! lol. He is a really good baby and usually only cries when he's hungry.

Here are a few pics from the NICU. I'm so thankful we were only there a few days! There are some really sick babies there and I'm truly thankful and blessed that we have a healthy family!

Big news in our family!! Zach is going back to Hawker Beechcraft!! After almost 2 years of being laid off they called him back last week! :) This is awesome!! We just hope no lay off's are in our future!

Pictures!

Finally, pictures of our little man to share with everyone!! :)

Thursday night! Induction

Waiting on little brother to arrive

daddy cutting the rest of  the umbilical cord. It initially was wrapped around his neck so tight when his head came out the Dr. had to cut it. This is what they believe caused his pulmonary hypertension :(

One BIG BOY!

Our family! I love this picture :)

Update

I'm sure most of you know by now that we are all home and healthy!! We have kept facebook up to date the best we could and for those of you that don't have facebook, here is a little update on our little man. Thank you to everyone that has kept us in your thoughts and prayers, we greatly appreciate it! I know I read complete strangers blogs and love seeing how everyone else is doing even if I don't know them, so I guess this is for you, and a memory that our family will never forget! :)

As my husband last posted I was going to try to nurse Karson on Sunday and see how things went. I was so nervous and scared I could hadly wait to nurse him, but at the same time the fear of the unknown or him turning blue was a huge fear that I did not want to face again. Around 8:00am we were in the NICU waiting on the doctor to make his rounds to give us the ok, that I could indeed nurse. Shortly after 8 we were given the go ahead to nurse whenever Karson wanted to eat. :) Great news! By 10am we were ready for the challenge! I think Zach and I were both so scared that we didn't know what to say or do besides let our little man eat and pray for the best. Zach had his phone out and we were timing how long he nursed. Karson latched right on and in no time we were feeding our little one. He ate great and after the 4 minute mark, he didn't turn blue!! :) We were so relieved! He nursed for over 20 minutes with no complications!! :) This was great news and we would be leaving the NICU after 2 more feedings!! Around 2pm it was official we were out of the NICU and checking into the Special care unit with our son and sleeping in a room with him! First time since his birth that we would be able to stay the night with our son! What a great feeling! Karson continued to nurse great and wanted to eat all night and would only sleep on me!! :) Whenever I put him in his crib, he would cry until I picked him up! He is such a little cuddler and I was eating it up!! At last our little man is healthy and going home was in our future!! We were all finally able to cuddle our little one with no NG tube, ecg monitor and iv!! Awwwww, It was amazing!!!

We were dismissed from Wesley yesterday around 11:15 and home by 12:30!! It is such a great feeling to be home and be a family!

A huge thanks to Zach's parents for keeping Ansley while we were away and bringing her to see us everyday!! :) Thanks to all of our family and friends that came to visit us, we greatly appreciate it! We have amazing family and friends!

Karson Michael McCaslin!

August 19th, 2011 at 3:39 pm Karson Michael McCaslin came into the world with a bang! The cord was wrapped around his neck during delivery and had to be cut before he could be delivered! He purked right up though and was given an apgar score of 6 and then 8 at 5 minutes! He was doing very well and seemed to a happy healthy boy! Weighing in at 8lbs.12.6oz. and measuring 21 1/4 inches long! He looked like a middle linebacker from the moment they layed him on his mommys stomach! During the first feeding after approximately 4 minutes of feeding he started to breathe very fast, stopped feeding, then stopped breathing all together and began to get very blue! As calm as I may have seemed I think I might have been as scared as I have ever been. After picking him up and stimulating him some he pinked right back up and was back to a perfectly healthy boy! This happened 4 times throughout the evening and the last time Dr. Bryan Dennett was there to witness it. He decided that the best place for Karson to be was in the NICU at Wesley in Wichita. Karson was back to stable and resting comfortably as the Dr. and Nurses got ahold of the NICU and by 10 pm the ambulance was there to take Karson to Wichita. Karson slept most of the way up and mommy rode in the ambulance with him and I followed. We arrived around 12am and were immediately met by numerous nurses, Respiratory Therapists, and the Dr. on call for the evening. Definately a comforting feeling knowing that so many people were there to dedicate their time to take care of our new pride and joy! They all made sure he was stable and warm, took a chest x-ray to look at the lungs and see if anything stood out that could possibly explain what was going on. Chest x-ray and blood cultures both came back good. They told us he looked very healthy and still werent sure about a diagnosis. He was started on a wide spectrum antibiotic just incase there was an infection somewhere. The doctor wanted to have a Cardiologist do an ECG on him this morning. He was asleep and needed to rest so Melissa and I came to the waiting room to try and get a little bit of sleep before it was time to pump again and feed Karson. Melissa was up at 440 and I got up at 530. Karson was still doing good and sleeping alot. Woke up a few times and cried but guess thats what babies do. The nurses told us we really need to go get some rest. We decided to check into a hotel across from the hospital. We got back to the NICU around 11 just in time to meet with the Dr. about Karson's ECG result. Karson's heart is in great shape and looks to be strong, but he seems to have a condition called pulmonary hypertension which is a condition where the unoxygenated blood and oxygenated blood are combining together a small amount causing him to choke and turn shades of blue you would never want to see on anyone! Let alone your hour old baby! All in All this was great news because it is something his body has to resolve itself and usually within a couple of days it is solved and you go home! He is going to be fed through a tube for the rest of today and tonight and in the morning we are going to try the breast feeding again! We are all doing well and just takin it easy this afternoon! Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers and we look forward to getting home! We will keep you posted as we can on FB and thru txt! Thanks again, Zach, Melissa, Ansley, & Karson

First Haircut!

My baby had her first haircut a few weeks ago! :( She was a perfect angel. I of course brought her a sucker and she was entertained for the entire 5 minute haircut! She never moved a muscle and would look over at the camera's (both gma's were there) and say "cheese" with the cutest little smile. She doesn't get candy very often and a sucker is definately a rare occasion, except when she see's Lacy at the bank! She loves going to the bank now that she know's they have suckers! :) Anyway, we were so impressed with how well she did we even went out for a snow cone that evening!

oh, yes that's her attitude! Sassy little thing!

Independence Day!!!

This years 4th of July was a little more exciting than last years! ansley got to participate and seemed to enjoy the fire works a lot more! mainly poppers and sparklers! Zach of course had some fire crackers and ansley has came up with the word "Banga" when anything sounds like a gun! Zach and some of his family shoot guns on sunday and thats all ansley says every time they shoot! We got a whole $12 in fireworks this year so it didn't last too long. Gma and Gpa came over and shot them off with us and we had a pretty good view of the city fireworks from the back deck! Looking forward to Ansley growing each year and being able to enjoy it more and more! Here are a few pics of the evening!

Fishing!!!

Its been over a month now, but we have done a little bit of fishing this year. Zach's uncle has a pond next to the house and we spent a Sunday afternoon fishing! Ansley loves the bobbers and her fishing pole that gma and gpa got her. Of course its hook free, but she still thinks she is big stuff. Caught quite a few small catfish! Nothing big enough to save but still had a good time! Probably would be fishing a lot more but this heat is terrible and makes it not much fun!

Summer Activities

I'm of course behind again! Story of my life these day's! We have been busy little beaver's this summer! Ansley is currenty in swimming lessons (the last week for that), we have been enjoying story time at the library (grandma Teresa has been taking her a lot to that, which ended that week) and we were in Wacky Water where Ansley wasn't quite ready for what art class had in store. Wacky Water was a week long class, which we only attended 3 days. Ansley would paint or do whatever other activity was going on for that day, for about 10 minutes. It was a 30 minute class, so I spent the other 20 minutes chasing her up and down the hallway. Maybe next year she will be ready for summer activities. :)