The Dunn Family

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Hollis is HERE!! Oh BOY!!!

Well, Mitchell and Parker's best friend, Hollis, has finally arrived!! They have been waiting and waiting and waiting for him to get here!! They haven't officially met him yet because we don't want him to get any germs, but they are totally pumped!! Last Wednesday night we went to Pueblo Real for trivia night and we all made Kim eat a bunch of spicy mexican to get things moving and low and behold...her water broke the next day and she had little Hollis on Friday April 4th!! Kristen and I went today to meet him and he is absolutely precious!! It was so nice to finally pick up a baby that was smaller than Mitchell and Parker!! He weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz. when he was born and lost down to 7.13 (i think) and weighed 8.4 as of yesterday. His coloring is great and he is just beautiful!! I am so excited that we will be able to raise our kids together!! Congrats to them on the new arrival to their family!!

Our First Trip to the Zoo

Well, Jennifer and I decided last week that we would keep each others kids 1 day per week. This would allow her a day to do her student teaching observations and give me a day to run errands and have some freedom from the boys. This would be a win win situation for both of us!! Anyways...Tuesday was my day to have Cole...he was PERFECT as always!! He is such a sweet child and Kyle and I hope we can just do half as good with our kids as they have done with him!! He is just precious!! Anyways...Victoria called yesterday morning and we were trying to figure out something fun to do, when she came up with us taking the kids to the zoo. We ended up with a pretty big group...the adults~Me, Victoria, Kristen, Laura, Lindsey, and Ann. and the kids~Mitchell (mine), Parker (mine), Cole (my nephew), Liam (Victoria's), Johno (kristen's loaner kids~her nephew), Anna (kristen's loaner kids~her niece), Caroline (laura's), Isabella (lindsey's), and Cooper (Ann's). That's right we had 6 adults and 9 children ages 4 months-4 years old. We got some pretty funny looks from people!! It was like stroller central. We had 4 regular strollers, 1 umbrella stroller, and of coarse my double stroller/school bus, plus I had one of the boys in the baby bjorn. They stayed until 4 but we had to bail at 2:45 because I was absolutely pooped!! Let me tell you, I definitely got a work-out...pushing a double stroller with 2 kids and carrying one more in the baby bjorn I felt like wonder woman!! I was definitely huffing and puffing my way around!! It's crazy when you are pushing that much weight
how many inclines there are~ha ha!! Anyways, we had a great time!! It was funny today I went to see Kim and meet little Hollis for the first time (and he is sooooo cute!!...and we're hoping that they will join the blogging world soon!!) Anyways, I was telling her about everything and she said, so did all the kids enjoy it and then I started thinking that really none of them were old enough to really know what we were looking at except maybe Johno. But, regardless, it was good for us mommas and aunts to get together!! I forgot my camera, but you can click on Lindsey's blog from mine and see pictures...they are cute!!

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Parker's Surgery...

Well, this week has been a big week for little Parker as he had surgery on Thursday for a hernia. We had to get to Vanderbilt's new Children's hospital at 6 a.m. on the 27th. It was crazy to see how many children were there having various surgeries!! Anyways, everyone was so nice and informative and seemed liked they all really enjoyed their jobs!! He went in at 7:15 and the surgery was supposed to take an hour if they only ended up doing the left side and an hour and half if they ended up doing both sides. Dr. Brock said that 40% of the time if a preemie has a hernia on one side they will have it on the other as well. Well at 8 a.m. they were finished and he did end up doing both sides...I guess he's just quick!! Anyways, we had a great experience!! He really did great!! We ended up having to stay the night just for to make sure he didn't have any apnea spells which he didn't!! So, we came home yesterday and he's just been doing great...he actually seems much more content which is nice!! Thanks to everyone for your prayers as we were so nervous and God was faithful as He always is!!