Missing Mommy

After my surgery Jeron's Mom spent Sat night with Asher. She was an Angel for doing so and I don't know what I would have done without the help her, my Mom and many others. Of course after the surgery I needed lots of rest and my little munchkin would kick my belly scars making it ever so difficult to cuddle with him. So it was great to have others to love on him. But, not having been with his Mommy the two previous days made Asher missed his Mommy. Today when I woke up from a nap I heard Asher cry as he was getting his diaper changed. I went over to hug my little boy and as I was putting him on my shoulder I said "Oh Asher, do you miss Mommy? There's a time for Grandma and a time for Mommy huh?" Asher with perfect timing cooed his response with a sigh "Ahh" and then nuzzled himself to my shoulder.

Look at my tired boys! They got worn out helping Mommy.

Grumpy Gallbladder

Six weeks after Asher's birth my gallbladder wanted to come out too. According to the ultrasound tech who did my ulrasound I had a very unhappy gallbladder. It had at least 6 stones and was inflamed. What gallbladder wouldn't be unhappy? I had a gallbladder attack Tue Aug 28th, went into the Dr that next day, didn't have an ultrasound until Thurs and Friday when I had another attack we went to the ER cuz the pain was excruciating! Sat morning I got my gallbladder out and Sunday I finally got to go home. During this time Asher was watched by loving friends and family. I have no idea what I would have done without them. 

Heavenly Father seriously does watch over us. Friday night when we went to the ER our friends Spike and Shelly graciously watched Asher while we were trying to figure what to do. Having already keep them to nearly midnight I couldn't ask them to watch him any longer, even though I'm sure they would have. I called my friend Michelle who had 6 kids (I figured one more would hardly be noticeable) if she'd be willing to take Asher over night and Sat while Jeron worked. She was a life savor and thank goodness her kids loved him. Her oldest, Vanessa would hardly let anyone else hold him and her youngest decided that Asher is now his little brother. :) One of the biggest miracles was that until the week before Michelle thought that her 8 year old would be getting baptized that day. The change "messed up" Michelle's well thought out plans but thankfully Heavenly Father had a better plan that worked out better for all of us.

Little Asher's working on his signing.. Here's him saying "I love you". We're working on keeping his thumb out. 

Meeting Asher

Asher was admitted to the NICU shortly after birth. The Dr.'s new something was wrong when he didn't cry.  Because of this not many people were able to visit him but once my brain started working I realized that we could show Asher through the window of the NICU. 

 Our first family photo with Asher

 Papa's first time holding Asher. Such a proud Papa.

Grammy's first time holding Asher. She'd been with me through the labor and everything that I'd forgotten she hadn't had a chance to hold him because the night before I had to almost beg them to let Jeron hold him.

Asher is such a loved little boy. Grandma and Grandpa Mortensen were able to come see Asher in the hospital too but we didn't get pictures of them. We were still thinking of a name until right before we left the hospital but we're so glad we named him Asher.