it has been a while..a very long while!

wow! it has been over a year since i have blogged and i am needing to get an update out there! the last time i posted, i was pregnant..man oh man that seems like yesterday!
i had a fairly uneventful pregnancy, other than the few times i was hospitalized due to my onery gallbladder..on the morning of friday, january 7, 2011, i was admitted to the hospital with headaches..low and behold i had accute preeclampsia..i was only 35 weeks 3 days and dr padgett wouldn't deliver here..soo off to evansville i went by ambulance on saturday evening..that was the worst trip ever! we almost rearended a truck that had stopped on a bridge on highway 41 with no lights no flashers no nothing! once admitted to st mary's hospital, they tried to get me going with some medicine, but baby boy wasn't having it! come sunday morning i was so sick i didn't care that i had labored all night and didn't progress..(i labored the entire time i was in the hospital, from olney to evansville and didn't feel a thing! with contractions every 60-90 seconds lasting 45-60 seconds, the nures would ask if i needed anything for pain..she would say "did ya feel that?" and i would say just a bit of tightness..she would say "that was HUUUUUUUGE! and you didn't feel anything?" "nope!"..labor was a piece of cake..)i wanted to meet my baby and now. i was in and out of surgery in a matter of minutes! after giving my baby a good looking over and a kiss, he popped open his right eye with a wrinkled forehead as if to say, why in the hell is it so cold and bright??!! for 4 1/2 weeks early, he weighed 8 lbs 4 ozs and was 21" long! they whisked him off to the NICU (where he was a monster in size!) and there he stayed until the following friday morning..the longest 6 days of my life..mind you i didn't get to see him until monday afternoon at approx 3 pm..
after my c-section, all i had was a few pain pills a day and that was it. no pain pump, no good pain shots, just a couple vicodin a day..i had a baby to see and no time to worry about me.
our trip home was smooth..stopped at babies-r-us to grab my mom a pack-n-play and homeward bound we were.
blah blah blah..we made it home, bentley was (and still is) the best and easiest baby..he started sleeping through the night at 4 weeks and the 3 weeks prior to that, he only got up once a night to nurse..makes me scared to have another, lol. he has me spoiled!
other than a slight delay in the movement in his upper extrimities for which we have physical therapy 2 times a week, he is perfectly fine and growing like a weed..
back up a bit..october 5, 2010, my grandpa was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer..it had moved to his spine and it was just ugly..papaw gary lost his fight with cancer on february 5, 2011, exactly 4 months from diagnoses, on my bentley boy's due date..there was a reason he was born early..my great uncle larry told me my grandpa gary had called him and was beaming about making it to meet and hold his first great-grandson..i will never forget the look on his face the first time he held him..he was so proud..not a day goes by that i don't think of and miss my grandpa..i just want to go out on the boat one more time..i want bentley to be able to go on the boat too..but i guess when we do go out on a boat again, i will have to tell bentley just how much his great-grandpa loved the water..he lived on the lake..
ok, i need a change of subject..i feel like i am rambling..
i cannot wait for bentley's first christmas and first birthday and every single other first that we will get to share with him as his mommy and daddy! we are the luckiest people in the world!