Baby Hulk ~ Darling Husband Saves the Day

Darling Husband is my hero. More so, he is Baby Hulk's hero, he just doesn't know it. I have no idea what I would have done in this situation, I probably would have just shouted nonsense and then cried because my mouth doesn't work when I am angry, which frustrates me to the point of tears.  Enough intro though!

Yesterday morning Darling Husband stopped at the Shell Station to get a caffeinated beverage on his way in to open up at work at 7am.  The cashier greeted Darling Husband and Darling Husband replied, "Good morning, how's it going?" 

     "Ugh, just cleaning up after retards all morning"....Ummmm are you freaking kidding me!? Dude's at work talking to customers like this!?

     Darling Husband glares at the guy as he was paying, and was going to let it slide, he told me he was thinking, "I don't know this guy, couldn't give a f$*k about him, it's not worth getting mad over."
     So he tried to move along and then the guy says, "Don't you just love all these f#@king retards?"  

     Well Darling Husband had had enough! He turned around and said, "Actually, my son has Down syndrome and I don't like the fact that you are throwing that word around like it's nothing, and in a place of business at that."

Three cheers for Darling Husband!!!!! 

The cashier was super embarrassed and apologized about five times as Darling Husband was walking out. He says he felt like an a-hole, but it pushed him too far. He says he wasn't rude to him at all, he just had to let him know. 

I am so proud of him. I am glad he is mine.

 

a little bit of Baby Hulk mean muggin'

Baby Hulk ~ If I Could Go Back In Time

I love my life with Baby Hulk in it. Just yesterday on a Target run I passed the same two women with their same two screaming babies multiple times while Baby Hulk just sat in the sling staring up at me like I am the most wonderful thing in existence. I wouldn't dream of having it any other way, but for some reason I still find myself being sad for Pru of the past. Very often, probably more than not, looking at pictures of myself while I was pregnant makes me sad for me. Look how happy and unaware I was.

I had no idea how much my life was about to change and I just wish I could go back and warn me so I could be ready for it. I want to go all the way back and say, "Hey Pru, this baby is going to have down syndrome, but don't worry because he is beautiful and amazing and you will love him to pieces," because I hate when I get teary eyed when I think back on my pregnancy, birth, and up until I was finally able to just be happy. When I reread that first post about Baby Hulk, I wish I could have helped past me. I wish I could think back on it all as a happy time. To have known that everything is going to be fine and just be happy. I am SO happy now! Baby Hulk is the perfect last child. He is super sweet and easy. He hardly ever cries and even when he does it is always super easy to soothe him. He is still so tiny, so I'm getting to hang on to my tiny baby for longer, which is something all moms dream of getting to do! I shamefully even find myself pitying other parents with their always screaming babies. Ha! Mine is fantastic! Way better than your little diva child that won't even let you sit down or go shopping!

But I still wish someone had told me.

Baby Hulk ~ Catching up!

Why hello there! It's been a while... AGAIN! Sorry about that! We all were sick for a while, even Baby Hulk, his first cold, and it was miserable. I took him to the doctors office the day he really started showing symptoms and I couldn't pass it off as his normal snortiness.  I was so afraid he would get a respiratory infection since those are apparently common. I took his temp multiple times a day and held him in my arms all night long afraid he couldn't breathe. I basically didn't sleep for about 10 days. Okay not true on the weekend I made Darling Husband take Baby Hulk in the morning and then I passed out finally until 11am. We all made it through though!

I had a special blog post planned for 3/21, and what luck! It was even on my regular posting Thursday! Oh sorry, I suppose I should explain. 3/21 was World Down Syndrome Day. 3 21? Get it? Trisomy 21, 3 copies of the 21st chromosome? When I called NW Children's Heart Care to make Arden's follow up appointment to make sure his PDA from birth had closed up properly and the woman making the appointment told me the first available appointment was on 3/21 I just knew it had to be! The day before I went to Stitches' house and we had a wonderful sewing day and I made a skirt to wear just for the special day, gold and blue, the DS awareness colours. I had a panic attack in the middle of Joann trying to figure out what kind of fabric to buy for it. I even sent Stitches a text telling her I couldn't find anything, I wasn't coming. I stood there amongst the fabric and right as the tears were welling up in my eyes I got a text from Buttons. I told her what was going on and she rushed over and helped me pick out my fabric. My skirt turned out super cute!

 Oh right! You probaby want to know how his appointment went!


IT WAS WONDERFUL!

 (Darling Husband was beyond relieved)

Baby Hulk's heart is perfect! Still no doom and now that I have been through it all, I wonder if maybe there never will be any doom. Perfect eyes, perfect ears, perfect heart. He has a physical therapist who comes every other Tuesday now and he is doing so well with that as well! His one struggle is holding his head up while he is sitting. He is great at holding it up during tummy time but he slumps forward when he is sitting up right. Just this past Tuesday his PT gave us a new list of things to do and I am already seeing a difference!

As usual! This baby boy is awesome!

  

(4 month photo shoot) 

 

(Easter family portrait)