One More Prayer Request

Whooo-Hoooo! Yea! Just received important information from another sweet cousin of mine. I'm sure you think by now I have lots of cousins - well, I don't have that many but the ones I do have are VERY important and special to me. Cinda, another cousin from Kansas (and Baylee's Aunt), just finished her last radiation treatment for breast cancer. She is doing so well and has such a wonderful attitude! Please keep her in your prayers for the good news to continue.

PRAYER REQUESTS!!!!

Please pray for my precious little cousin, Baylee Anne Banning, who is 10 months old and was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma when she was 6 months old. She lives in Kansas and if her counts are where they need to be she will have a stem cell transplant in Fort Worth, Texas, sometime in March. To read about her battle go to http://www.carepages.com/ and her password is BayleesBattle. Her family needs prayers, specifically, for her counts to improve so they can proceed with her transplant.

Also, please pray for another favorite cousin of mine (Faye) here in Arkansas who is very ill with brain cancer. Her children and grandchildren are just taking it one day at a time right now. She is the kind of person who can always make you laugh and will just make your day. Please pray for her and her family.

Love to All...... (and Thank you)

HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN?????

The last two months have been so full of doing this and doing that and not ever knowing what would be happening the next day. There is never a dull day around here. I’m working some on my house (painting {Russ and Erin have done most of the painting so far- THANK YOU Russ and Erin!!!}, cleaning closets, etc.) but I just get to do a little at a time. Ashley has had the flu for the past week and I was busy helping with the kids. Life is very exciting with an 8 year old, a 3 year old, and an 8 week old.

Luke is doing great in basketball and really hustles up and down the court. He is SOOO fast he runs over himself sometimes. Hmmm – I’m thinking some kind of pro athlete in the future (perhaps most Grammys think that way - but I’m pretty sure about him!!!).

Luke is really getting good at Guitar Hero and Rylee is perfect as Barbie Hero.

Rylee is busy just being a Princess!! You never know what she will come up with next. When I took her to school the other day she discovered she had ear wax in her ear and went down the hall announcing it to everybody that walked by. There was no way I could make her quit talking about it. She was really grossed out about it. What a girl!!

Parker is growing so fast we can’t keep him fed. He wants to eat every two or three hours – much to Ashley and Pete’s dismay. They are going for four hours between feedings and would love for him to sleep at least six hours at night. They seem astonished that babies don’t sleep all night. How soon we forget!

ISN'T HE JUST TOOOOO CUTE?????

I have a new Shihtzu puppy named Zoe. She is really sweet and already puppy pad trained (it’s a good thing since it is FREEZING outside lately). If she wasn’t trained I would just have to toss her in the back yard to fend for herself….. not really – well MAYBE.

And MAYBE I will get better at updating this blog…………..

More Pics of Parker!!!

Just wanted to post a couple more pictures of Parker. They all made it home from the hospital yesterday and were so happy to get home. Parker is doing great and, so far, he is the best baby! He sleeps and eats and barely fusses at all. Did Ashley and Pete really get this lucky? Ashley feels much better and is getting around pretty good. She has a little swelling in her feet but during her surgery and afterwards they pumped her so full of fluids I suppose it will take a while to get rid of all of it. She is not a complainer so I have to keep a close eye on her!! HA! Check out Parker's Razorback hat. (Sorry about that to all my LSU friends.) Pete is already trying to get him on the recruitment list. Luke and Rylee love him to death, however, Rylee still says, "He's a GIRL." She was so insistent that Mom was going to have a "pink baby" I guess she still hasn't accepted she has a new baby BROTHER.....

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!

PARKER PHILLIP GEORGE DUNCAN arrived at 5:10 p.m. on November 26, 2007, weighing in at 7 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long. What a beautiful boy!!!! (Of course, I’m not partial but he really is perfect.) The story of his arrival is quite long so I will try to make it short. Ashley never has been and never will be a “drama queen,” HOWEVER, she sure likes to stir up the pot when it comes to having her kids. She went to her normal doctor’s appointment at 3:30 p.m. on Monday and he said everything looked good and he would see her again on Friday so she and Pete decided they would go to the Macaroni Grill to eat. All of a sudden she had a really terrible pain that would not go away. She told Pete she had to go back to the doctor’s office. When they got there Pete went up to the Doctor’s office and made him come out to the car. They immediately sent her to the hospital where she AGAIN had an emergency C-Section because Parker’s heart rate had fallen drastically. The Dr. said when he opened her up she had over one liter of blood in her abdomen. He also said he had never seen anything like it before. After they got Parker out they went to work on Ashley trying to find where the blood was coming from. They determined that some previous scar tissue had torn away from her uterus and caused the bleeding. The Dr. said if they had not been in Memphis Parker would not have made it. Erin, Russ, and I were all driving in separate cars just trying to get to the hospital. They were not in their regular hospital and I didn’t even know where I was going – I was just GOING. I did find out where to go as soon as I crossed over the bridge in Memphis. Erin and I cried for most of our trip while we were driving and the phone calls were flying fast and furious just trying to find out what was going on. I was so relieved to see Ashley after she woke up! After midnight we finally got to hold Parker and see that all was well. There was a lot of praying going on and we know God was guiding Dr. Stern’s hands. Thank you God and Dr. Stern!!!!

More pictures later..............