Lack of posts.....

Well it is no longer snowing here and it is just beautiful outside but you wouldn't know it by looking at my blog! I will post more and pics soon but I recently got diagnosed with irits/uveitis and my eye is very sensitive to light and it hurts to look at the screen. A week ago Sunday my eye began to hurt. Finally on Thursday I thought that is wasn't allergies and I better go to the doctor. Well my family doctor worked me in with the NP and she told me I had pink eye and told me to take these drops and it would get better in a few days. WRONG!!! It got so much worse. I was in some of the worst pain ever this weekend. It felt like I had the worst migrane ever just in one eye and it was so bad that it hurt even to lay on a pillow. I usually have a high pain tolerance and don't like to take things for pain but I was even taking 2 hydrocodines at a time. I called the after hours line and the answering service person told me that eye pain wasn't an emergency so I had to call back on Monday during normal business hours. Well I decided to just go to an ophthalmologist and skip my doctor since I was still a little mad about the Saturday call. The ophthalmologist told me that I had irits/uveitis and he was very upset that I was told that eye pain was not an emergency. He had asked me why I didn't come in sooner and when I told him that I did and was told that it was pink eye and even tried calling over the weekend he told me that if I had waited much longer I could have lost some of my sight. Well right now the treatment that I am on is steroid eye drops every hour (yes even at night I have to wake every hour to put drops in.) He told me I have to do it that often b/c of how bad it is. The directions on the bottle say 4 times a day. I have to do this for a week and then go back to see him. Then he will tell me if I still have to keep doing the drops this often or if I can go down to every 2-3 hours. If it hasn't changed much he said he will have to do steroid injections in my eye. Also with this type that I have he told me I will most likely be doing treatments for 8-10 weeks. The pain will get better in time but I will still have the inflammation. So with that being said I am not getting much sleep and taking care of a 2 year old with everything else so little time and energy is left for blogging! With the exception of the eye stuff we have had some great times! Easter, eggs hunts, kimball art museum etc. All the pics are still on my camera but my goal this week is to atleast get them on the computer and then slowly into the blog so just bare with me and know that updates and pics will be coming!!

Only in Texas!!

Well it is March 6th and we have about 3 inches on snow!! Only in Texas can you be at the playground one day in short sleeve shirts and then 24 hours later be bundled up playing in the snow! Yesterday after McKennas nap it was so beautiful that we went to play at the park. Today she woke up to snow! It was snowing huge flakes too. It was beautiful. She had so much fun in the snow. The first thing that she wanted to do was to make a snowman. Well Daddy and I made one for her and she did so good helping with the carrot nose and M&M eyes! (don't laugh I know it is kind of lame but McKenna liked it!) She even had a little conversation with him. It was pretty cute! She is very into her Frosty book right now so maybe she even thought it would come to life like Frosty....who knows! We also attempted snow angels! She laid down at first and wasn't so sure so she then decided to lay on me while I made snow angels so she didn't have to get wet! I think that she would have stayed out there all afternoon. We would go out for a little while and then we would tell her that we needed a warm up break and then we would go back again. Once it started to get dark we came in for good and curled up on the couch and watched one of McKennas new favorites...The Sound of Music...or "Singing" as McKenna calls it! The way things are looking it is going to snow even more during the night and be here still in the morning so I know we will have another fun morning playing in the snow! Here are some pictures from the fun afternoon!

McKenna and Frosty!

I love the snow!



Making a snowball!

This is great!

Talking to Frosty!

McKenna is in the Family Dollar Ad!

If you live by a Family Dollar stop in and get an ad and you will see McKenna! This is the first one she has done in a while since she is inbetween sample sizes with JcPennys. She won't be doing any more for them until she can wear a 3T. She has aslo done a few for Affes (the company that owns all of the stores on the military bases) but unless you know of someone that lives on or can get into a militarty base you can't get the ad. You can't even look at it online with out an ID so it isn't as easy to get copies of those. Anyways....here is the ad from Family Dollar!

Sesame Street Live!

This past Thursday night I took McKenna to see Sesame Street Live! Let me just say that she had the time of her life. I had such a good time too just seeing how much fun she was having. We went with her friend Abby and her mom Sarah and my cousin and her little boy Brayden. My aunt let us take her minivan so we could all pile in one car. The kids had so much fun riding together and were so excited.. The whole day McKenna kept talking about going to Elmo and Cookies house. She couldn't wait. She took only about a 30 minute nap and woke up saying "mommy lets go to Cookie and Elmos house." She was too excited to even sleep! When we got there the kids had a little snack and had a great time running around the place before we went in to our seats. Once the show started McKenna was in awe. She just sat there staring at the show. After it was on a little bit she started dancing and clapping. We were on an aisle seat so she even stood in the aisle for part of it and danced away! She loved it! On the way home she was awake the whole time. Abby and Brayden fell asleep, but not McKenna! She is my little non sleeper. She was just too excited from the night. Once we got back into our car she called Mimi and Granddad and told them all about the show. It is the most that she has ever said on the phone too. She wouldn't stop talking. When we got home she was so excited to tell Daddy all about it too! Finally at about 11pm she went to bed! We can't wait until Sesame Street comes back again! Here are some pics from the night!

Ready to go to Elmos house!

A full car!

A little snack before the show!

Dancing with friends!

Waiting for the show to start

I am loving this!

Elmo's World!

McKenna and Abby

Watching the show!

The Sesame Street gang!

Happy Valentines Day!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day! We had a great day and McKenna had so much fun! That morning our friends had a little playgroup at their house so McKenna had a great time loving on all of her friends! Afterwards, Katie, Josh and Caleb met us over at Mimi and Grandads and we had lunch and opened our Valentines from Mimi and Granddad. Ever since I can remember my mom has always made us a Valentines basket of goodies so of course she wants to do the same for her grandkids!! McKenna got several books and a really special one with a microphone so she can sing her songs and a dachshund doggie and a fun Elmo mailbox! They also even still remember Todd and I but instead of the baskets it was a gift card to yummy Maggianos!! We can't wait to use that! McKenna loved being able to love on Caleb! She wants to hold him every chance she gets! Here are a few pictures from the day!

Staying Busy!

Sorry for the lack of posts but things have been very busy around our household! I don't think we have just stayed home one day the past two weeks! We have been spending time with our sweet new little family member,Caleb, going to birthday parties, playdates and having fun! Here are some pictures for now and I will post more later!!

Caleb Hinson Herweck is here!

On Sunday, January 27th @ 8:34 pm little Caleb arrived! He was 8 lbs 14 oz and was 20 inches long! He is such a precious and handsome little guy! Katie actually started going into labor at 3 am on Saturday. She went to the hospital Sat night but her contractions were only about 4 a hour so they sent her home to "ride them out" a little more. On Sunday morning she was having them much closer together with a few others things so the doctor said come back in and this time we aren't sending you home! So at about 8:30 on Sunday morning we all headed up the the hospital! Once Katie got hooked up to all of the monitoring devices her contractions started slowing down so they decided to go ahead with the pitocin and broke her water (she had an induction planned for the 28th anyway because she was almost 2 weeks overdue) That morning she was slowly making progress and she was doing great! McKenna kept wanting to go back and see Katie, Josh and Caleb. She kept telling everyone that Katie was going night night! She just didn't understand why Katie kept laying in the bed! After several hours of not having an epidural Katie asked for one. It was great at first but then it only took to one side so she was numb on one side of her body but felt everything on the other side. They gave her some more stuff for the pain but it made her kind of sick. To top things off she had stopped progressing even with the pitocin upped several times. Little Caleb was also not dropping like he should. At about 7:30 the doctor decided that a c-section needed to be done. Katie knew that was a possibility and had come to being okay with it. She just wanted Caleb here the safest way possible. They started the c-section at about 8:00 and at about 8:45 here comes Josh, a nurse and the sweetest little baby boy! Everyone up there was able to go and see him! We had a whole waiting room full of people. Our whole family was there and my grandparents. Joshs mom got the first flight she could that morning to come up from Houston so she was able to be there for the whole day well as his granddad and his grandparents from Oklahoma. Some of the family's closest friends were also there to welcome in this precious little baby! Little Caleb just looked at us all. He was just so sweet all wrapped up in his little blanket! McKenna was in awe of him. I wish I knew what was going on in her little head. She had been kissing Katies tummy for so long and now this little baby is here that we are all calling Caleb! After we got a few minutes to look at him they took him to the nursery to weigh him and to give him his first little check-up and his first bath. We got to watch it all from the window and I got a few pictures before the lady came out and told me that I was violating HIPPA by taking pictures and I couldn't take any...oops! During this time we found out about the c-section. Once again we were reminded of how powerful and all knowing God is and how His plan is perfect even though things might not always go as we plan. When they went to take Caleb one of the nurses said" Oh my goodness this is a miracle that we did this c-section when we did. This baby's cord is wrapped three times around his neck." So if Katie had even tried to push or go on with the labor no telling what could have happened. If he had even started to drop more it could have affected him. God knew not to let this labor go on anymore and knew not to have little Caleb drop any further. What an awesome God we have! Thank you Lord for protecting our precious Caleb!!
At about 10pm we were able to go back and see Katie. She was doing great especially with the past 36+ hours she had! She had such a long day and did so good! At about 11 they moved her back to her room. They were still checking out little Caleb but said that they would bring him to her at 12:00. We all left after they got her settled so she could rest. We all came back up today though so we could hold that sweet little baby! I told McKenna that we were going to see baby Caleb. She kept saying "and want to go in there!" She didn't understand why we had to look at baby Caleb through the window last night and couldn't go in there with him and the nurses. She kept wanting to go see him! Mommy, baby and Daddy were all doing great today! He is such a handsome baby. He has a full head of dark red hair! I think that people are going to think that he and McKenna are brother and sister and not cousins! It is always hard to tell this young but I think that he looks alot like McKenna which is probably true since McKenna looks alot like Katie!! His eyes are big and open and he has that precious little turned up nose! He is just too cute and I am so proud of my new little nephew! When we got there this morning McKenna was eager to hold him and to have a tea party with him! She even brought her plate and spoon so they could have a tea party! She was so good with him and loved holding her new cousin! She is going to be such a good big cousin! My mom had also brought McKenna a new baby doll so she could have her a new baby too! She was also very excited about that! Here are some pictures of the past couple of days and our precious new blessing! I hope you enjoy them!