Raylea Jo
10-10-2011
10-10-2011
Too many words come to my mind when I think of Ray, but the top phrase would have to be, tender hearted. Our first little baby, who first called me Mama. She went through a funny stage when she was around 2, where she would randomly tell me, "Bless you, Hannah." For whatever reason, it was hilarious to all who heard her.
She wants to pray for people who honestly don't come to my mind all that often. It's like that is God's way of reminding me of how much I'm forgetting.
She's always been a big cuddler. She was a week old when I started her sleeping on my pillow. Hey, when a kid is screaming for hours at night and the only way you or they will get any sleep is by them sleeping basically on top of you, so be it. That's all I'm sayin. But, to this day, she ends up in our bed at some point in the night. One day she will be 15 and I will wish I could go back to these days, so honestly, I just savor them.
Ray loves to play outside. She brings me dandelions by the handful. She is an outdoor girl, that is for sure. She loves to garden with her Mimi. We are going to make our own little garden in our back yard this year. We have a few little plants waiting to grow to be transplanted right now.
She loves singing. She will sing songs that she knows or she will make them up.
She has always loved staying the night with her grandparents or aunts/uncles. Whoever will ask to have her over, she is ready to go!
She has a big imagination. She wants to tell stories or be told a story. She loves school, which is in our home. She loves butterflies, Dixie Stampede, and anything that has to do with cooking or baking.
She has always loved reading, and she can actually sound some words out already, without me working on that with her yet. She's a fast learner.
She always wants a story and to watch a "Bible Adventure" before heading to sleep.
She will be five this fall. Doesn't seem right.
Raylea is named after four people... Ray is her Papa's middle name, Lea is her Nana's middle name, Jo is her Mimi's and my middle name. Danny Ray. Rhonda Lea. Laurie Jo. Hannah Jo. That equals... Raylea Jo.
I just had to take a break from writing because Raylea asked for some applesauce. As I was pouring it into a bowl, I asked her to get a spoon. She said, "we are a great team, I love you."
That pretty much sums up me and Raylea.
Always and forever, baby girl we will be a great team and we will love each other.
August Shalom
12-15-2013
I have spoke of August many times. We prayed for another baby after Ray. God blessed us with August. Even though we never got to see that baby, kiss their cheeks and buy them a sweet little outfit to come home from the hospital in, their heart still beat for some time on earth and they are now in Heaven. God gave me the most beautiful dream two nights after I said goodbye to that little baby in my belly.
August was the month I was due.
Shalom means peace.
No more than a day goes by that I don't think of that baby.
We will see you soon, sweetie.
Jack Gannon
10-13-2014
Jack had the odds against him when it came to him surviving in my belly. Well, to me, a 50% chance isn't very promising. He came a month early but still somehow weighed 6 pounds and 14 ounces. The first the Dr said was, "he has broad shoulders!" Then he told me that the hemorrhage that they saw on ultrasound (which was the largest our nurse had seen, and she had worked with high risk pregnancies for over ten years,) when he got it out when Jack was born, he told me it was double the size they thought it was! Made the whole fact that Jack was there and ALIVE that much more a miracle. Dr explained to me he had the cord wrapped tightly around his neck and he had to pinch him to get him to cry, but he was fine. Jack ate wonderful right off and slept great from day one. Around 7 and a half months old he started having what looked like little seizures. EEG showed a slowing on the brain. Neurologist said that is caused by stroke or tumors. Made me just about pass out. Not kidding. That rocked my world to say the least. MRI showed NOTHING except a perfectly healthy brain and the morning after the MRI was the last time he EVER had one of those "seizures." Had neurology check up not long ago and he said he's on target for everything.
Jack is a miracle in more ways then one.
At 4 months old he caught RSV, bronchitis and pneumonia. That junk lasted FOR.EV.ER. He seriously had that cough for maybe 16 weeks. Maybe a little longer, but I don't want to stretch it. He did breathing treatments which is a steroid during that time, and finally I could wean him off of that. Dr said he may get asthma from the sickness and if cough continued after four months he would test and treat him for it. Cough went away and he's just fine. No asthma. Thank the Lord.
Jack is happy.
He likes to give me about 72 mini heart attacks every day. For instance, he enjoys standing on the edge of the bed and leaning forward right before he falls off and then catches his balance and falls back onto the bed. He thinks that is funny!
He loves music. Anytime he hears a song, Grant playing guitar, or Raylea singing one of her songs, he goes to town shaking his head and twirling his feet every direction.
He loves balls. Wheels. Dirt. He is your typical boy I suppose. So different from a girl.
He loves "nanas." (Bananas.) He eats one nearly every single day.
Berries of any kind. Bath time. Story time.
He loves nap time and bed time. It is kind of comical. He will reach up to me and lay his head sideways and grin when I ask if he wants to go to bed. He will lay there and go to sleep within a minute or so. So different from a girl I know... his big sister. She has a bit more lengthy routine to get to sleep. But I totally enjoy both.
Jack thinks our dog, Sophie, is hilarious. He loves to throw her toy and have her fetch it.
He is 18 months now, and I can't hardly believe it.
I feel so blessed I got a little boy who is not only healthy, easy going, not a picky eater and a fantastic sleeper (for us moms, that is a big deal...) but I am just so blessed that I will always be "Mama" to Jack Gannon Ledbetter.
Everyone always says he looks like my dad. Which is true. I think it's his eyes.
Jack is named after his Great Grandpa, Jack Ledbetter. I hope he is known for the many godly characteristics that he is still known for today. People want to be like Jack Ledbetter, and I pray my Jack, is like him too.
Gannon is Grant's youngest brother, who was stillborn. We will meet Gannon one day, too.
Arrow
(due, fall 2016)
And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with the whirlwinds of the south. Zechariah 9:14
Yep. You read correctly. We are expecting our fourth baby!
As the title of this post says... "I always said I wanted four kids.."
Well, God has blessed Grant and I with just that.
Thank you God for mine and Grant's babies. We love them and cherish them.
All four of them.
Not like my usual posts, but wanted to document and share my favorite blessings.
She has always loved staying the night with her grandparents or aunts/uncles. Whoever will ask to have her over, she is ready to go!
She has a big imagination. She wants to tell stories or be told a story. She loves school, which is in our home. She loves butterflies, Dixie Stampede, and anything that has to do with cooking or baking.
She has always loved reading, and she can actually sound some words out already, without me working on that with her yet. She's a fast learner.
She always wants a story and to watch a "Bible Adventure" before heading to sleep.
She will be five this fall. Doesn't seem right.
Raylea is named after four people... Ray is her Papa's middle name, Lea is her Nana's middle name, Jo is her Mimi's and my middle name. Danny Ray. Rhonda Lea. Laurie Jo. Hannah Jo. That equals... Raylea Jo.
I just had to take a break from writing because Raylea asked for some applesauce. As I was pouring it into a bowl, I asked her to get a spoon. She said, "we are a great team, I love you."
That pretty much sums up me and Raylea.
Always and forever, baby girl we will be a great team and we will love each other.
August Shalom
12-15-2013
I have spoke of August many times. We prayed for another baby after Ray. God blessed us with August. Even though we never got to see that baby, kiss their cheeks and buy them a sweet little outfit to come home from the hospital in, their heart still beat for some time on earth and they are now in Heaven. God gave me the most beautiful dream two nights after I said goodbye to that little baby in my belly.
August was the month I was due.
Shalom means peace.
No more than a day goes by that I don't think of that baby.
We will see you soon, sweetie.
Jack Gannon
10-13-2014
Jack had the odds against him when it came to him surviving in my belly. Well, to me, a 50% chance isn't very promising. He came a month early but still somehow weighed 6 pounds and 14 ounces. The first the Dr said was, "he has broad shoulders!" Then he told me that the hemorrhage that they saw on ultrasound (which was the largest our nurse had seen, and she had worked with high risk pregnancies for over ten years,) when he got it out when Jack was born, he told me it was double the size they thought it was! Made the whole fact that Jack was there and ALIVE that much more a miracle. Dr explained to me he had the cord wrapped tightly around his neck and he had to pinch him to get him to cry, but he was fine. Jack ate wonderful right off and slept great from day one. Around 7 and a half months old he started having what looked like little seizures. EEG showed a slowing on the brain. Neurologist said that is caused by stroke or tumors. Made me just about pass out. Not kidding. That rocked my world to say the least. MRI showed NOTHING except a perfectly healthy brain and the morning after the MRI was the last time he EVER had one of those "seizures." Had neurology check up not long ago and he said he's on target for everything.
Jack is a miracle in more ways then one.
At 4 months old he caught RSV, bronchitis and pneumonia. That junk lasted FOR.EV.ER. He seriously had that cough for maybe 16 weeks. Maybe a little longer, but I don't want to stretch it. He did breathing treatments which is a steroid during that time, and finally I could wean him off of that. Dr said he may get asthma from the sickness and if cough continued after four months he would test and treat him for it. Cough went away and he's just fine. No asthma. Thank the Lord.
Jack is happy.
He likes to give me about 72 mini heart attacks every day. For instance, he enjoys standing on the edge of the bed and leaning forward right before he falls off and then catches his balance and falls back onto the bed. He thinks that is funny!
He loves music. Anytime he hears a song, Grant playing guitar, or Raylea singing one of her songs, he goes to town shaking his head and twirling his feet every direction.
He loves balls. Wheels. Dirt. He is your typical boy I suppose. So different from a girl.
He loves "nanas." (Bananas.) He eats one nearly every single day.
Berries of any kind. Bath time. Story time.
He loves nap time and bed time. It is kind of comical. He will reach up to me and lay his head sideways and grin when I ask if he wants to go to bed. He will lay there and go to sleep within a minute or so. So different from a girl I know... his big sister. She has a bit more lengthy routine to get to sleep. But I totally enjoy both.
Jack thinks our dog, Sophie, is hilarious. He loves to throw her toy and have her fetch it.
He is 18 months now, and I can't hardly believe it.
I feel so blessed I got a little boy who is not only healthy, easy going, not a picky eater and a fantastic sleeper (for us moms, that is a big deal...) but I am just so blessed that I will always be "Mama" to Jack Gannon Ledbetter.
Everyone always says he looks like my dad. Which is true. I think it's his eyes.
Jack is named after his Great Grandpa, Jack Ledbetter. I hope he is known for the many godly characteristics that he is still known for today. People want to be like Jack Ledbetter, and I pray my Jack, is like him too.
Gannon is Grant's youngest brother, who was stillborn. We will meet Gannon one day, too.
Arrow
(due, fall 2016)
And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with the whirlwinds of the south. Zechariah 9:14
Yep. You read correctly. We are expecting our fourth baby!
As the title of this post says... "I always said I wanted four kids.."
Well, God has blessed Grant and I with just that.
Thank you God for mine and Grant's babies. We love them and cherish them.
All four of them.
Not like my usual posts, but wanted to document and share my favorite blessings.
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ReplyDeleteThank you Rach!!! You know I love you sooo much.
DeleteSo sweet!! & Congratulations! ! I love you & your family! !!
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