UPDATE

Children.....what a Blessing, a miracle, a heartfelt joy. Not a right, a privilege.
A privilege so many take for granted.
I try, on a daily basis, to do something fun with my babies and really appreciate the blessings I have in my life. During the day to day monotony it is so hard to do so unless we make conscience effort to.

I started to potty train Ally Monday, November 3rd. Today, Monday November 10th she has not had a single accident and I consider her completely potty trained! =] (except for at night...that will be a work in progress I am sure)

Blake went to the ENT today and is starting her 6th ear infection in three months. He started a 6th round of antibiotics and will be having surgery to get tubes Wednesday November 19th. Please keep him in your prayers. I Pray the tubes help him and he does not have another ear infection for a very long time and doe snot require another antibiotic for a few months.

Allyson Elana Pricer

Ally was conceived with more trial and error then Katie. With 10+ months of trying, a miscarriage and then one more month of trial we conceived Ally and found out in August of 2005. She was born June 2nd 2006, due June 14th. My pregnancy with Ally was a little more difficult then my previous one. Due to this everyone was sure that she would be a boy. Joe and I thought it would be fun to have her sex a surprise. So when she was born and the doc said 'It's a Girl!" I said: "Are you sure?!" I was sick most of the first trimester. Again, not as sick as some are in their pregnancies so I was grateful for that. but sick enough where taking care of Katie became a challenge at times. The sickness subsided quite a bit with the coming of the 2nd trimester. Yet with the 3rd trimester I was so miserable and in so much pain I was begging my OB at every appointment to induce me. May sound selfish and looking back at it I agree...but while in the moment and the pain....I needed some relief. I had some tests ran to see if she was mature enough to be born without complications, because of course I nor the doc wanted that to happen. The tests were ran a week before she was born, My doc was certain everything would be fine after those tests were ran, he just wanted to give her a little more time to 'cook'. then I was induced On June 2nd with out little bundle of Joy. I went into the hospital at midnight for induction, which started around 2am. They broke my water around 8am and we had her at 11:20am. I only had 30 minutes of severe pain of contractions before they were able to give me my epidural. I should not have waited till the pain started to ask for it, so it was my fault. But after a pain free labor and delivery with Katie, I didn’t know what was in store for me. She was a healthy 8lbs 3 ozs. Her and I both were discharged from the hospital 2 days later. Ally is such a strong willed, beautiful, caring, cuddly, creative, heart-filled, joyful, dramatic, smart, encouraging, precious little girl.