Family Pictures

courtesy of JoEllen Sevcenko

THANK-YOU

A few pictures

Swimming @ the 7 Oakes in Regina

Uncle Richard

William Tell Overture Mom

Thanks Auntie Darlene for sharing this. I guess it's the things I get to look forward too very soon!

Life is Good

Life is good. Dawson's procedure went well. The major clump is gone. Praise the Lord. The doctor throught he might have seen a small stone, but isn't entirely sure.
Jovie is now 2 months old. She is growing and changing all the time. She sure is precious. Sorry I don't have my camera with me, so I cannot show you pictures.
I just turned 25 and it is great. I am very happy with where my life is at.
Well until next time . . .

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy

LITHOTRIPSY
"Lithos" -- Greek for "stone" "Tripsis" -- Greek for "breaking"

Any guesses?? Yes Dawson went in for Lithrotripsy yesterday. He was hit 3500 times in 40 minutes in the kidney. Ouch! He's a little tender. He is now in the process of passing the kidney stones. Some of them are pretty big. He doesn't look very comfortable. Please continue to remember him in your prayers. Thanks.

One month

Jovie is now a month old. Wow time already has passed. She is doing excellent. She pretty much has her days and nights figured out which is really nice for me! I'm feeling pretty good and Dawson hasn't had any kidney stone attacks in 2 weeks (Praise the Lord!). His appointment is in 2 weeks to have the cluster blasted out, so we're praying no more break off. Other than that there really isn't much to say. All is well. Well i'm sure you're wanting to see some more pictures of Jovie, so I'll let you look at her now.

Relaxing with Daddy

Watching baseball . . .okay Daddy's watching baseball . . . Jovie's just sleeping

Yup she's daddy's girl! cowboy hat and all!

And a bombers fan. Dawson bought her this outfit at the game.

Cousin Cody. Yup he's a bit bigger than she is.

Look at my fuzzy feet. Great Aunt Sandy made these for her.

And she wouldn't be our daughter if she wasn't into racing. This is Auntie Tal's favorite driver, Kasey Kahne, and well I think Jovie likes him as well.

Jovie Layla Plett

She is here :) our beautiful baby girl. Jovie Layla.

Born: August 21, 2007 (Tuesday)

Time: 8:43 PM

Weight: 7 pounds 3 ounces

Length: 21.5 inches

We have quite the story about her arrival . . . It all started early monday morning. My water broke at 2:30 AM. Contractions started right away, I woke up Dawson in pure excitement! It was finally happening. I told Dawson to go back to sleep and I was going to go to the living room for a bit, but i'd wake him if I needed him. At 6 contractions had become a bit stronger, longer, and closer together so I decided to start walking. After a few rounds of the yard I decided to go have a hot shower and try and lie down for a bit. So I did, labour stopped. Okay, let's start walking again, right away contractions started up again. This time they were even longer and coming quicker, excellent, after about an hour and a half I decided to lie down again. Once again labour stopped. As I woke up Dawson came crawiling into the room. We need to go to the hospital NOW, I think I have a kidney stone. So quickly we packed up the car, and my contractions started again, more intense. I drove Dawson to the emergency room and waited there with him. After a while I wasn't able to tell when one contraction was ending and the next one beginning . . . the nurse started asking me questions. She told me I had better go check myself in! So I left Dawson in the emergency room and went and checked myself in. As the nurses were filling me in about Dawson (and visa versa) my contractions started to slow down. A very drowsy Dawson joined me in the maternity room and there we waited for something to happen. Contractions were still there, just not very long, and not very intense, we went to sleep for the night (if that's what you can call it).

Early in the morning the doctor came and checked on me, four days previous I was 2 cm dialated and on tuesday morning I was at 0. I really was going backwards. They decided to induce me. At 10 I got the drugs and we started to walk. Dawson passed his kidney stone. By 11 I wasn't able to walk the halls anymore because contractions were very regular. After a few hours I hadn't progressed very far, but the doctor found a part of my water that hadn't broken, as soon as he broke that, labour flew by. It shocked everyone. And Jovie arrived safely.

Our story doesn't end there though . . . Wednesday morning Dawson looked at me and said, i'm having pains again. I think I may have another kidney stone, sure enough he had started to look rather pale, off to the emergency room he went. This time he was admitted into the hospital and they started to run some tests. The nurses bent a few rules and were able to have Dawson, Jovie and I share a room. That night we had some visitors, not only for Jovie, but also for Dawson. What an ordeal. Thursday was more of the same, Dawson drugged up beside Jovie and me in the hospital. They let me go home on Friday morning and told Dawson that he was welcome to try and go home, however he would most likely be back for pain medication. We decided that Dawson should stay in the hospital. My mom came and stayed with me that first night. Saturday morning Dawson passed a large kidney stone and came home later that afternoon.

Since then we've slowly been adapting to life as parents. Jovie has her days and nights mixed up, but that will soon change :)

Dawson has seen a specialist and has an appointment to have his kidney stones build-up blasted on October 5th. However . . . I just dropped Dawson off at the emergency room for another piece must have broken off . . .

And the story continues . . .

please keep us in your prayers.