The next one

I was telling about all of my grand kids and I stoped for a while so now I will get back to it I think I left off with number 4. That would be Jacob. I first met Jacob only days after he was born in Augusta, Georgia. He looked a lot like his brother as a baby but as he grew he developed into his own man so to speak. Jacob does not talk much at least not to me. He likes to play on the computer and I think once he got settled he really liked school. He is now in the first grade having survived Kindergarten. When I went to Hawaii for the Birth of his sister, I found that Jacob still was not a big talker. I was surprised that he would not come and tell me good by when I left after having been there a month. Oh well. My favorite pictures of Jacob are when he is smiling as he does it so seldom. He is a great kid and a good big brother to Adam and Kamryn. He likes to do all his big brother Chandler does. I love my sweet Jacob. I couldn't get the blog to let me add a picture but I do have my favorite of Jacob in my big book of grand kids.

Lest we forget

This is for you Jared and Suzanne. The sunflowers were from the farmers market and the hydrangeas are from our garden.

Mom's Story.

So I call Julie to find out if she is all ready to go and she tells me she has been having contractions all day and was not sure that she was going to go. OK I said I can do this by myself (but I was not looking forward to it) anyway at 10:00 o'clock Julie calls and says she is going to go but not bring Damon. I understand but am disappointed. So I get on my plane and go to Louisville and Julie meets me at the airport and we take off for Elizabethtown which is where our Hotel is. We drive around a little and check out how to get to the Fort and then go to have dinner. We had Mexican food and neither of us ate much. So according to the Army's warning we planned on getting up at 6:00am to be ready to go and get Joel at 9:00. then we went to sleep. I rolled over once and Julie moaned a little but I went back to sleep until I felt a hand on my shoulder and was afraid I overslept. It was Julie she said I think we better go to the hospital. We decided to go to Fort Knox to the Army base to the Hospital. We got there and the people were not happy. They checked Julie and decided to send her to the local hospital. I decided to go ask the doctor not to send us to Louisville but to Elizabethtown. He said OK and I went back in to Julie and decided to call some of the numbers in the letter Julie had. first one no answer then I got someone and explained who I was and that we were on base at the Hospital and Julie was in labor. They said they would bring him over. Julie's contractions were subsiding so I thought as soon as Joel got there we would go then the doctor checked her again and her water broke. The doctor said we were not going anywhere. I went down stairs to get Joel and he was just coming in to the ER. They told him he had to be back by 7:00 that night if she had had the baby or not. We headed upstairs and they had moved Julie to the labor room and they were so happy to see each other. Only about an hour later Emma made her appearance. She screamed loud and did so well. She wanted to see her daddy bad. The Army was wonderful and Let Joel stay with Julie and Emma. Graduation was short and sweet and then Joel said. I guess I am the only one who gets to get in a car and go away. Everyone else had to go on to training. God bless the Army. They really are family friendly. They even brought Emma a Blanket with the Fort Knox logo cool huh. What a trip.