2010: A Year In Photos - It's Me, Megan

As another year comes to an end here comes another A Year In Photos post. It has been a big year for us with a lot of changes all around. So here it goes…

2010

January

We spent New Years in TN with some old Hawaii friends.

On January 14th I hit my 30 weeks preggo mark

My water broke that night and I was sent by ambulance the next day up to UAB in Birmingham

I was there the rest of the month trying to keep the baby in as long as I could. I tried to do homework while I was there.

And on weekends Thomas would come see me and even brought Layla a couple times

February.

After a couple ‘baby is coming’ scares I made it to the Dr’s goal of 34 weeks

That night Timothy Frederick was born at 34 weeks weighing 5lb 8oz

After I was discharged I stayed at the Ronald McDonald House. I got to enjoy some snow on my walk to see the boy in the hospital

Timmy spent the next 18 days off and on the phototherapy lights for jaundice

Layla came to meet him too

And on February 28th he came home!

March.

In March we were home. For a week.

After having trouble breathing and a lot of coughing we were back in Birmingham with RSV

Then home 10 days later

Then BACK to UAB 2 days later after a night in the Enterprise ER!

On March 17th my boy was home for good

Layla was a great big sister but took some time to get used to having a brother and a mom again after almost 2 months without one

And she finally had a birthday party!

April.

April brought Easter and warmer weather

Sprinklers with friends

We went to Thomo’s family day and saw him fly for the first time

Layla started to like being a big sister

And parking lot carnivals

A trip to McClelland’s Critters

May.

In May we picked strawberries with the preschool

Layla started her second year of tee ball

And had a special Mother’s day lunch at the preschool

Timmy got fat and found his toys

And his tongue

Our big girl had her preschool graduation!

June.

The kids kept growing in June

Layla crushed some tee balls!

We spent our days on the porch while Layla played in the sprinklers

And then a water pipe under our porch broke

The 2010 tee ball season ended with pizza and trophies

July.

We went to the freedom fest on post this 4th of July

Timmy fought against tummy time

Layla got a pair of 3D glasses at a birthday party

We had picnics in the living room

August.

We took a vacation to Tucson. I sat in the back seat half the trip to keep TF happy

I got to finally meet Callie’s baby!

Spent a lot of time with family

and good friends!

We even got together with some of our best friends from Hawaii that were stationed in AZ

Layla chopped her hair off and started Kindergarten

And I thought Timmy’s head was super crooked

September.

The flowers that started this blog grew up our front gate

Timmy loved his exersaucer

Started eating puffs

We went to the farm petting zoo with Layla’s school

October.

In October Revo had face surgery

We spent time with friends

We had a play date with our NICU neighbors from UAB

Went to the pumpkin patch

and the Enterprise Downtown Fall Festival

Layla’s school had their drug free red ribbon parade. L’s class had to dress as what the wanted to be when they grow up. She was a dentist.

We took new family pictures

and had Timmy’s first Halloween

November.

November was Prematurity Awareness Month

Timmy started crawling and getting into EVERYTHING

We played outside. The weather was perfect.

We started getting Christmas set up before Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with the Wilkins family for the 3rd year

I fell in love all over again with sparkly Christmas lights

December.

We played in leaves.

Set up more Christmas

Learned to wave

Pinned wings on Thomas 🙂

Went to the huge Christmas light place with our friends

Finished my 2nd 12 Days of Christmas project

Enjoyed our first Christmas with 2 kids

And drove down to see our friends that live in Florida now!

2010 has been busy. New baby that had his own drama, Layla starting kindergarten, Thomas finishing flight school…I cant wait to see what 2011 will bring!

Happy New Year!