Eagy Family Blog

Hannah was concentrating hard a few days ago while doodling on her “Magna Doodle.” These are great, if you’ve never played with one. This child amazes me daily with what she says and does. So, here’s a picture I snapped of what she was drawing:

No one taught her to make the eyes, nose and smiley mouth…she just did it by herself! I know, Ryan and I are probably funny for being so proud. But we thought this was great! Can you believe she’s almost 2 1/2? Hannah, you are a precious daughter and we love how you make us laugh! We delight in you, can you tell?

So if you don’t read my sister’s blog or you aren’t part of our family you probably didn’t know that my dad was remarried this last weekend. It was a very nice, small, ceremony for just immediate family. Here are two pictures from that event (from their photographer’s, Heather Kozup, website…):

and then…

Hmmm…one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong (for all you Sesame street fans!). Yep, that’s our Gabe in a circa 1920ish one-piece short combo outfit with a stylin’ yellow tie and shiny blue shoes! The dress shirt looks better you say? Well, yes it did look better than the short outfit, but that was before the, um, how show we say this gently - puke.

That’s right - our Gabe decided that just as the pastor was wrapping up the final prayer and was about to pronounce Greg and Stef Ann man and wife he would projectile vomit. Not once. Twice.

He was a real trooper though. He wasn’t even crying. He just looked at me, then the floor (and his shirt) with this “what was that!?!” expression. We hoped it was an isolated incident and cleaned him up so we could go to the reception at Epi’s (mmmmmm….Epi’s…..that is for another post about gluttony and deep fat fried balls of butter!). But, 10 minutes later on the baptismal we again had to rush over to him with the garbage can and paper towels. Could it have been Burger King and then the “Gym o’ Germs” also known as the kiddie play area? We’ll never know for sure but it did continue for quite a while that evening and whenever he drank apple juice for the next few days (weird huh?).

I’m sure it will always be a memorable wedding for my dad and Steph and one of those great embarrassing moments we can talk about when he is older to embarrass him!

Thanks to Tarah and Tezeta for their burp rag - it has gone on to a better place…

Special thanks to Katie for cleaning Gabe up and for watching him all evening. Thanks to Diane for coming over helping Katie and making sure she wasn’t too sad about missing the reception afterwards. My wife is awesome!

See - that’s how you do weddings when you have little kids! Sounds a lot more exciting than the last wedding you went and sat through I bet - you should get yourself three kids under 2.5 years old!! This is nothing!

God is so good! Blessings all!

I’ve been tagged. I’ve really been mulling this over all day, and I’m having a hard time coming up with anything interesting y’all don’t already know about me. But, maybe if I just start writing, I’ll think of something:

1. I contributed to breaking someone’s back in high school (a cheerleading stunt gone bad).

2. If I’m sick, and I call my mom, I cry. No matter how good my day is going!

3. One summer, I visited Wild Waters over 30 times. I had a good tan that year. Then the next winter, I went skiing 15 times. Boring, I know…but you probably didn’t know about it.

4. Most people should know this, but here goes: I had eye surgery when I was 5 to correct crossed eyes. Falling asleep under anesthesia, I told the nurse the gas smelled like raspberries. When I woke up, there was a Cookie Monster stuffed animal by my face. That’s about all I remember about the whole thing.

5. Willie Nelson gave me one of his guitar picks when I was in high school.

6. I’ve met N Sync, Carrot Top, Tracy Bird, Weird Al, and some other somewhat famous people from working the concessions at Les Bois during the fair when I was a teenager.

7. One more. This is hard. How about this - at one point, I had 10 piercings. Now I just have 2 (one in each ear).

I’m not going to tag anyone, because I only read a few blogs and all of them have been tagged fairly recently. So maybe you learned something new about me! Have a great weekend, everyone! Here’s a new picture of Abigail, because I’m sure everyone wants to see one!

Isn’t she cute!

Greetings from the land of diaper changes, piles of laundry, sippy cups, cold green beans and nighttime feedings! I’ve been wanting to write a post for a while, but I’ve been a bit busy adjusting to life with three “babes” under two and a half.

Just as an update on Abigail, she is a gift! God has given us this perfectly formed little person who loves to sleep, eats well and is happy as can be 99% of her days and nights. She hasn’t kept me awake at night more than about 20 minutes (just eats and goes back to sleep) at a time. Abigail is as sweet and mellow as can be. We have a gracious God, yes!!?

Along with my constant prayers for patience, patience…oh, Lord, help me to be patient with Hannah and Gabe, my heart has been praising God for the blessing of raising these three children. Most people Ryan and I encounter make comments of how crazy our lives must be now with these young children. No doubt, it’s busy here. But I sit here amazed that God saw fit to bring these 3 kids into our family. He says “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.” Ryan and I are happy, to say the least!

Speaking of Ryan, he is so amazing! He makes sure I’m getting everything I need, takes Hannah and Gabe on special Papa-outings to give me a break, loves on Abigail every chance he gets (her name means “Father’s Joy” - she is a joy to him!), helps with everything at home and most importantly - shows his family the love of Christ every day. What is really great about Ryan is how aware he is. He knows what I need, knows what the kids need, and helps! I’m so thankful for my wonderful husband.

So, although at times I feel buried in my motherly duties, my cup runs over and my heart is overjoyed when I consider the high calling I’m being allowed to live. This is what I’ve always wanted to do - be a wife and Mama. Thank you, Lord, for finding me worthy of this high calling! May I live it well, all for Your glory.

I love my family!

What a great God we have! In just two years five months (or so!) He has given us three wonderful children, the newest one arriving just this last Saturday night - miss Abigail Alyssa!

This labor started out a lot like Gabriel’s. Early Saturday morning around 1:00a.m. Katie started to have very consistent and decently strong contractions. At noon the contractions were still coming very consistent in strength and about 3 minutes apart. Since they had been so consistent all day / night long we decided to stop by the hospital and have Katie checked out just to make sure if things were progressing smoothly (for those of you who haven’t had a baby recently it is a fairly normal thing anymore to just stop by the maternity ward and they will check you out so you know what is going on!)

We’re still not sure if that was a smart move or not! When we arrived at 12:00p.m. Katie was dilated to 2.5cm and had contractions every 3 minutes. Usually the hospital won’t admit you until you are at least 4cm or if you are moving very quickly. But since this was Katie’s third labor, and since her contractions were so regular, the nurses and on-call doctor, Dr. Charme, were concerned that Katie was going to go into full labor “any moment”. So from 12:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. we were just “under observation”. We wandered the hallways, bounced on the birthing ball, and Katie was checked every hour or so. Every time the nurses checked on her and looked at the machine that recorded her contractions they all said, “We need to frame this - these are perfect contractions!”.

At 5:00p.m. Katie was finally admitted. She was dilated to 4cm and the contractions were still coming regularly. For two more hours Katie continued to do what she could do to make things progress. And just like the previous births, things were going forward, but not too fast. So at 7:00p.m. Dr. Charme (who ended up being our doctor for the rest of the night) broke Katie’s water. And, like all her other pregnancies, this really started the contractions moving into full active labor!

From 7:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. Katie progressed from 4cm to 8cm. As a husband who has seen two other labors, I was very impressed with my wife! The nurses actually had a very hard time assessing how much pain / how hard the contractions were because Katie had such a good demeanor. I teased Katie that she needed to start showing some “grimaces” so people knew how difficult this was for her!

At about 10:00p.m. Katie was trying so hard to not have an epidural (I don’t know why myself, but she really wanted to do it ‘all natural’) but was beginning to think that she would maybe prefer one. Fortunately for her goals, at that point the nurses had to start her on a saline drip and get an entire liter in her before they could call the anesthesiologist - and she wasn’t going to have enough time for that to happen!

So with no epidural Katie started pushing at 10:43p.m. and two contractions later at 10:45p.m. Abigail Alyssa Eagy was born!

We are so thankful to our Lord for the blessing of having three beautiful and healthy children - and we are so pleased to have Abigail with us. Thank you for all your prayers and love and support! Blessings!

Abigail Alyssa Eagy
April 28, 2007 10:45p.m.
7lbs 9oz, 20in long, 14in head