Grampa meets grandson

The kids got to come home finally yesterday afternoon. We went over later and George got to meet his grandson. I took this picture of the 3 generations of Ericson's.
I think this is a sweet picture of Scott and Connor.
Amber is glad to be home and able to sleep in her own bed. Hopefully Connor let her get some sleep last night. Will check in with them later.
George has a doctors appointment this morning and then have to pick up Hollie and Jeremy. I think we might run out to Target to return an outfit and then have to pick up George's medicine from K Mart. It should be an interesting day.This picture is Amber with Connor and her two nieces, Nicole and Madison.

baby Connor

Here is a video that Scott shot this morning. When they took Connor to the nursery this morning to check him out they detected a heart murmur so they won't release him today. Amber is staying the extra day with him. He did finally nurse this morning for 15 minutes. I am taking the kids their dinner in the hospital this evening. I had to shorten it a little because it wasn't downloading. Hope you enjoy the video. I haven't been able to get the video to upload. But the good news is that Connor does not have a murmur. The cardiologist came and checked him out and said that he is fine. They still didn't let them out today, they say he is jaundice. He is nursing better and that should help a lot. Another piece of good news is that I finally got to go in and see him. I took Amber and Scott their lasagna dinner and Scott talked the head nurse into letting me go back and see him. I am posting those pics here. He is adorable.




Judi is going to try and help me to get the video posted. I took the camcorder to her but forgot to take the cords to hook it up to the computer. I'll get more video when they come home tomorrow.

We're Grandparents!!!!!

George and I became grandparents at 4:23pm. Connor Alan Ericson. Here are the particulars for him. He is 7lbs 9oz, 20 inches,born on 9/25/09. . Amber and Connor are doing fine. Scott is on Cloud 9. I think I am too! I have only gotten to see him in pictures so far. The hospital has tightened their visitation on the maternity floor so only Scott and Amber's mom are able to go in. I am going to take Scott my video camera tomorrow morning and have him shoot a little video and then bring me back the camera. If all goes well they should come home tomorrow afternoon or early evening. I am planning on making them dinner and taking it over to them so that I can meet the little guy. I should then have more pictures to post. & 4:23pm. Will now have more to post than just info on me. Enjoy

New Adventures

Since my last entry a lot has happened. Jen and Dan came down the end of August and surprised us. They had told us that they were taking a trip to Vegas before they moved down to Illinois. They had mile tickets that had to be used. They showed up at my nieces on the 21st of Aug. It was a very nice surprise. They were staying until Monday. Everyone knew but us, my sister even planned a BBQ for that Sunday. Everything was going fine until Sunday evening, George has been having problems with weakness in his legs and it got really bad on Sunday. When we left my sisters we took him straight to the hospital. With all the tests that they took they decided that he has dermatomyositis. He had had a rash on his face and the weakness in his legs was all tied together. They took a muscle biopsy while he was there. They started him on steriods and things picked up. He is doing much better and getting around without a walker. Jen and Dan changed their plans and stayed until Wednesday. That was a big help. Now on to some better stuff. There was a baby shower for Amber on the 29th and she got a lot of neat stuff for Connor. It was a fun time. Denise's little one Jeremy started walking. He is so cute. I have taken video of him and will try to post it here. Also we became a three dog family again. I know I'm crazy, but I love dogs. We went to the pound and they had the cutest little black lab mix. She has the same markings on her as one of the other dogs that we use to have. The other dogs are warming up to her and she is getting the handle of going out the doggie door. Hopefully the housebreaking won't be so bad. I went to Curves this past Saturday, I haven't been there for over two weeks. The owner took my measurements and said when I came in this week she would make me a copy of them. In the year that I have been going there the only measurement that I can recall is my waist and I lost about 20 inches there alone. When I get the other figures I'll put them in the next post. According to my scale yesterday I was at 190 lbs. that means I have lost a total of 247 lbs. WOO HOO!!! Now to try to find out about getting all this extra skin taken off. That's all for now.