New pictures

Ahhhhh, the belly pictures have arrived. This will be a short post with mostly pictures, but please feel free to point and laugh at the lady with the big belly. Today was a "no nap day" in the land of Juliana, so needless to say, my brain is fried. She went to bed at 7:30 and BARELY made it that long!!! I never knew I could be out-dramatized by a 2 year old with so little effort, but obviously today she has had lots of practice.

A couple pictures are from our pumkin painting adventure. Yet another project to occupy us on another no-nap day! She had a ball and was covered in paint by the time we were done. That was the first day she started to call herself a "Pumpkin Head", except in Juliana-speak it kind of came out "Punk-in-HEAD!"

Love and miss everyone!!! (A very pooped mom is going to bed!)

Prayer Request

Hello everyone! Sorry it's been so long since my last update. We have had some excitement here in Montana! My sister in-law, Traci, delivered a healthy baby boy last Tuesday. He was 8 lbs, 6 oz and they named him Andrew William. He had been doing pretty well, and it was an uneventful delivery, but he started to run a fever yesterday out of the blue. He was still not doing very well today, so the pediatrician wanted to admit him to the hospital for lots of tests and at least 2 days of observation. Needless to say, my sister in-law and Bo's brother C.B. are very concerned about their new little guy, and still don't have any answers as to what could be causing the fever. They do know he has some kind of infection, but none of the tests have come back so far. Could you just take a minute to pray for Andrew and C.B. and Traci? I know after our scare last week it just reminded us again how precious our children are, and how little control we really have over their lives and health! Thanks in advance and I'll keep you updated.

In other news, if you are watching the weather here in Billings you know why I have had the heat AND the air conditioner on in the same day this past week! Today it was 74, but they're calling for snow by Friday. I won't say I miss the humidity of NC just yet, but this weather will make you a little bit crazy.

Belly pictures to come soon! I promise this time!!

Love and miss you all.

Landon update

Hello everyone! We wanted to update you on our very scary day in the hospital this afternoon. Let me preface this by saying that everything is fine, and we are just so thankful for the good report we got, but it was a very scary couple of hours. I called the doctor this morning because I just had some weird feelings and some pain (I'll spare all of you men reading this the lovely details). I wasn't too worried, but the nurse did want me to come in to the hospital and just get checked out. We got settled in to a triage room, just thinking we'd be an hour and then out the door...Juliana was with me and Bo met us at the hospital. Long story short, they did several tests and one of them came back to show that I was leaking amniotic fluid...not a good thing unless the baby is ready to make his appearance. At only 25 weeks, we knew it was way too early to be talking about delivery, but the nurse and doctor were very concerned. They started talking about magnesium and steriods to help the baby's lung development, and even taking me by ambulance to a nearby hospital that is better equipped to handle preterm babies. Bo and I just prayed and cried and tried not to fret for about two hours while we waited for the doctor to repeat the test. I had to lie at an angle with my feet above my head for an hour to see if fluid would accumulate and the doctor came back in to recheck me. After a very tense 10 minutes while we waited for THOSE results, she came back in and said that she could see no sign of any amniotic fluid, and we were in the clear for a preterm delivery. We're still not quite clear on how the whole thing worked out...they blamed a lab error but we are claiming a miracle and know that God was in control the whole time, even if we were terrified! I was contracting a lot more than what I should be at this point in the pregnancy, so the doctor gave me a very stern lecture on resting and not over-doing it...Bo was there as a witness so he had me sitting on the couch as soon as we got home.

Today gave us a new appreciation for how little control we really have over things, and how perfect God's plan is, even when we don't understand. We are so thankful that it turned out to be nothing, but we know it could have just as easily gone the other way.

On a lighter note, I'm attaching a picture of me relaxing with Juliana (for a second!). I had a spur-of-the-moment pregnancy hair thing and decided to go darker for the fall. She said my hair was "black"...hopefully it's not really that dark!

Thanks for your continued thoughts and prayers as we hopefully have a very uneventful final three months of this pregnancy! Love and miss everyone.

Golfing adventure

Hello everyone! I just figured out how to turn pictures so that they would be right side up, and since all of my pictures of our golfing outing last weekend were sideways, I didn't bother to post them. (Didn't want to give everyone a crick in their neck trying to check out Bo's swing from a sideways view!) BUT...since I have mastered the concept (small wonder since my brain cells are slowly diminishing as the pregnancy gets further along) here they are! We are all doing well, enjoying a Montana fall. The leaves are turning and we haven't had our air on all week, although I did go ahead and throw the electric blanket on the bed just in case of a cold-weather midnight emergency. My sister-in-law, Traci, is due in a few weeks with baby #3 for that branch of the Wagner family (a boy) so Juliana will soon have another little one to terrorize. Let's just call it good practice for when little mini-Bo comes along in January! Hope everyone is doing well...we love and miss you!!!

Belly Pictures

Hey everyone! Since we posted some shots of baby Wagner, we wanted to let you see what the rest of us on the outside world are looking like. Juliana is fascinated with my ever-expanding belly, and is constantly lifting up my shirt at inappropriate times (ex: the grocery store) to "talk" to the baby. At least the kids are getting along for now!! Hope everyone is doing great.

Welcome To Our World!

Hello everyone! We just came from our 22 week ultrasound and wanted to share some pictures of our new addition. For all of you who are waiting in anticipation to find out if we will have a Bwoder or a Sissy.....IT'S A BOY!! He was very modest throughout the whole ultrasound, keeping his legs crossed and at one point even covering his...er...boy parts with one hand. Finally at the end of the ultrasound he gave us a nice shot and it was determined that he is, in fact, a boy!! Bo kept asking the technician, "Are you sure? Now exactly how sure can you be on this?". Juliana exclaimed that she still thought it was a sissy, but we still have a few months to convince her now that she will BE the big sissy, not exactly HAVING a sissy. Otherwise the kid will just be really messed up. Hope everyone is doing great! We love and miss ya, and will keep you updated on other news, kid/baby related or otherwise!

Goodbye, pacy

Well, we have finally done it. We went and did what we said we would never ever do. We crossed the boundary from infanthood and all it's baggage to toddlerhood and all of it's woes. After our last visit to the pediatrician, we were enlightened to the fact that if Juliana keeps her pacy much longer past the age of 2, her teeth could be forever damaged...or at least until they fell out and new ones grew in. Stricken with images of our daughter walking around with her bottom teeth jutting out so far she can't bite an ear of corn, we decided the day had come to get rid of pacy!!! (Insert Jaws-like music here). Easier said than done. For all of you who have children, and for those who don't but are wondering what all the fuss is about, I'm sure this is a much smaller deal in the grand scheme of things than what it seems right now. BUT, as I am typing this, Juliana is laying in her crib pining away for her beloved "PAPY", and has just finished begging me to go to the store to buy a new one. Her current pacy has a large hole in the top, courtesey of Mom sneaking away with a pair of scissors. She looked at it pitifully, held it up to me, and with big crocodile tears sadly proclaimed it to be "bwoke". Mom and Dad are hanging strong with this endeavor, and we are bolting the door and hiding the car keys from each other to keep from running out and snatching up every single pacy in the Walmart baby aisle.

If anyone has any support/comments/suggestions/sympathy they would like to impart on us, please email or call or just fly to Montana and show up at our door.

In other (less depressing) news, we find out Thursday at our ultrasound if this new baby is a boy or a girl! I am 21 weeks and halfway through the pregnancy, but I feel like my stomach is quickly running out of growing room! I'll post some new pictures soon.

Hope everyone is doing great!!! Hugs and kisses from the Wagners, minus one pacifier.