Family Fridays, on Sunday--Again!! Focus on Aimie

My Aimie!  What can I say?  She's my baby girl, and well, she's special!  It all started when Gary and I decided Michael needed a little brother or sister.  I was hoping girl, but knew not to get my hopes up, as the odds were NOT in our favor.  We had decided that NO MATTER WHAT the baby's gender, we would be done. 

 

18 years ago, a gender reveal party was unheard of!  We wouldn't have done it anyway, because, as with Michael, we wanted to be surprised.  Anyhow, my whole pregnancy was pretty uneventful, and very similar to when I was expecting Michael.  I had the usual amount of heartburn, etc., so I was CONVINCED I was having another boy.  I was a little disappointed, but had decided that God wanted me to have 2 boys, so 2 boys it was!  Keep in mind, I knew nothing of the gender.  Because I had a c-section with Michael, I was given the option, but told 95% of the time, a second c-section would be required in the end.  Not one to go against the odds - plus I was chicken - we scheduled the day our little bundle of joy would arrive.  It really made it easier, because my momma and daddy could come up and keep track of Michael.  

All set, and good to go, June 1st, 1995, our baby arrived!  The epidural seemed to be taking it's sweet time, so the dr. tipped me upside down to hurry it along.  As I lay there listening to all the talk in the delivery room, I started to feel my nose tingling, then didn't feel it so much.  I very loudly politely asked everyone if I was supposed to NOT feel my nose.  Talk about fast moving, those people were cranking me down pretty quick!

The moment arrived, and Dr. Tygett finally delivers the baby, with the announcement, "It's a Girl!"  I was like, "a girl, but I thought it would be a boy?"  - I don't do any kind of anesthesia drug very well, by the way.  Then I remember asking if she had hair, several times, and finally one of the nurses was yelling, very sternly telling me that I needed to worry about the baby's breathing and not her hair.  I was like, "she is fine, I just want to know about her hair"!  Yes, she was fine, No, she didn't have even 1/4 of the hair Michael did when he was born!

Not enough hair for a bow (insert sad face)

This baby girl turned our lives UPSIDE DOWN!  Many times my mother would say, "If Aimie would have been first, there would NOT have been a second!"  She was very right!  Hahaha!  I wouldn't trade her for the world - or as Gary's dad used to say, "Wouldn't take a million dollars for any one of them, but wouldn't give a plug nickel for another just like them!"  What a WISE man! Haha!  

Michael, however, says that the day Aimie was born, was the ruination of his life!

 

 I think he has since changed his mind! Hahaha!!

My baby girl is in PCB for Spring Break this week!  Hard to believe she's old enough to be in college, much less on Spring Break!  My two main warnings to her:  Don't go to jail, and please, please, please DO NOT be in a commercial for a Girls Gone Wild video!  Have fun sweetie!  Momma loves her baby girl!!!

Sorry this is late, but for me, it was well worth the trip down memory lane!  PS, stay tuned for the "how daddy spelled my name" episode!

Enjoy and Happy Reading!

Sharon