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October 6, 2003
October 6, 2003
Nathan almost 18 months old
Austin EDD Dec 17, 2003
29 weeks pregnant (I can’t believe I am 29 wks already!)
BIG Date Night, Keeper of the Stars, Sick Boy, Diary Readers and Doctor Appt....
BIG Date Night
Kevin and I have a BIG date night coming up. For as long as I can remember I have dreamed about seeing a Broadway show. Since we don’t live in New York City I always knew the chances of seeing one were pretty small. Well, fortunately for us we live near St Louis and the Broadway show, The Lion King has been at the FOX Theatre for awhile now. I had kinda given up on the dream of seeing it because of our lack of babysitting around here. I had no clue how we would be able to go see it. I decided several weeks ago to check to see if there were even anymore tickets available. I honestly figured it was completely sold out by now. To my surprise, there were many tickets still available. I decided to call my mom and ask her if she would want to come down and watch Nathan for us if we got tickets for it. Of course she was more than willing to do so. Basically we just had to make sure to get tickets for a weekend show that she was not working. It couldn’t be more perfect for us. We decided on the Oct 11th show, which is the day before me and Kevin’s 8 year anniversary of meeting one another. It also happens to be my mom’s weekend off from work and it is also the second to last show of The Lion King here in St Louis. We decided to splurge and went ahead and bought dinner tickets also. So we will be eating dinner at the theatre before the show as well. We are so excited!! Thank goodness my mom is willing to drive 2 ½ hours to baby-sit for us. Of course she is just glad to get a chance to see Nathan again. It won’t be too hard since we won’t be leaving for the show until 5 pm and Nathan is usually in bed by 8:30 and sleeps pretty much all night. So even though Kevin and I will be gone for several hours, she will only have to technically baby-sit for around 3 hours. Kevin and I usually only have 2-3 hours together at one time. It will be so great and different for us to be alone for 6-7 hours.
I wish it could happen more often though. I am so jealous of my best friend who has already had many entire weekends alone with her hubby and her baby is only 3 months old. We will never have that. We won’t ever have all night together either, which she has had so many of already. Jealously is a very bad thing – I have to stop it... We are really excited for the show! If anyone out there has already seen it, let me know what you thought of it! It is actually a black tie event, so Kevin will be wearing a white shirt, jacket and tie with khaki’s. I was going to splurge and buy a special outfit for the evening but have decided I will probably just wear my black maternity pants with a nice maternity shirt. We have the cold virus in our house right now so I pray that we are all better before this coming weekend!
Keeper of the Stars
In honor of our 8 year anniversary coming up this weekend – I wanted to thank my husband for being my best friend, lover, and soul mate. I am still in awe of him and always will be…… I still can’t even begin to imagine what I did to deserve him. He truly is the best husband and daddy in the entire world. He tells me several times a day that he loves me and he always puts his family first. He never makes me feel guilty when the house is a mess when he comes home from work. Rather he actually understands why it’s a complete mess. He tells me all the time how much he appreciates that I stay home and take care of Nathan. He knows that it hasn’t been real easy for me at times. It is so incredible to see him play with Nathan or to love on him. It is so sweet to see how much Nathan loves his daddy. It’s so pure and innocent. It is so special how excited he is to have Austin join our family. I simply couldn’t ask for more! Our song has always been and always will be, “The Keeper of the Stars” by Tracy Byrd. Every word of that song says how we feel about one another and we are truly blessed that the keeper of the stars and my dad helped us find one another. We had a long and hard 3 year long distance relationship before we were married in 1998 and so many times Kevin would call me and say nothing at all, he would just play that song to me. It was also our song at our wedding. This is for you Kevin :)
The Keeper of the Stars
It was no accident, me finding you
Someone had a hand in it
Long before we ever knew
Now I just can't believe
That you're in my life
Heaven's smiling down on me
As I look at you tonight
I tip my hat
To the keeper of the stars
He sure knew what he was doing
When he joined these two hearts
I hold everything when I hold you in my arms
And I've got all I'll ever need
Thanks to the keeper of the stars
Soft moonlight on your face
Oh, how you shine
It takes my breath away
Just to look into your eyes
I know I don't deserve
A treasure like you
There really are no words
To show my gratitude
So I tip my hat
To the keeper of the stars
He sure knew what he was doing
When he joined these two hearts
I hold everything when I hold you in my arms
And I've got all I'll ever need
Thanks to the keeper of the stars
It was no accident, me finding you
Someone had a hand in it
Long before we ever knew
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! I love you and I can’t believe it’s already been 8 years since we met. Time goes way too fast!
Sick Boy
Nathan has been a sick little boy the last few days. It started off being just a runny nose and sneezing a lot but now he has a bit of a fever. I think mommy and daddy are in the progress of getting the same thing. I just hope we all get better soon and most definitely better before this coming weekend. I would hate to go to The Lion King not feeling well. Especially since the tickets weren’t cheap and we very rarely get time alone together.
Diary Readers
Hey Diary Readers -- I would love to hear from you – especially if you haven’t posted yet!!! I know it is so hard to keep up with all the diaries, old and new, and even harder to actually have time to post a note – but I would love to hear from you! I know there are a lot of new diarywriters out there who have said they are kinda disappointed in the lack of responses they have gotten on their boards. I think a few may even consider closing their diary. I definitely don’t want that to happen since I enjoy their diaries very much. So at the risk of sounding desperate and pathetic – Talk to Me and others please! :):)
My Very Uncomfortable Doctor Appointment
Well, last Friday I had my doctor appointment to discuss my medical scare that I wrote about in my last entry. First, I have to say I have MAJOR White Coat Syndrome! I am not scared of doctors per say but I always dread them taking my blood pressure. I know exactly where that comes from. Many years ago, I went to my regular doctor and for some odd reason my blood pressure was a little high. That day I had been so busy and hurried. I remember sitting in the room waiting for my doctor to come in after the nurse had taken my blood pressure. When all of a sudden I heard them discussing my higher than normal blood pressure. They were totally freaking out about it and ever since then I have a huge fear of getting my bp taken. I guess my bp was high that day since it had been a crazy and busy day. It’s so odd, my blood pressure is always fine when we take it at home and even usually fine at all my OB appointments. Isn’t that crazy? I literally feel my blood pressure rise when I am heading to a normal doctor appointment. Thank Goodness, for whatever reason I am calm at my OB appts! Now back to my appointment on Friday. As you can imagine, I was a nervous wreck because here I was going to see a non OB doctor and I knew without a doubt because of my major nerves that my blood pressure would be too high. Well, all the worry was for nothing because he didn’t even end up taking my blood pressure. He saw in his notes that the last time I was in was when I was pregnant with Nathan and my blood pressure was elevated at that visit since I was so nervous about getting it read. So he decided to have mercy on me and not take it since he knew I had this phobia and he probably wouldn’t get an accurate reading anyway. Plus he knew that for 7 months now, my blood pressure has been getting checked at my OB appointments.
Basically he asked me what brought me in, I told him some of the symptoms along with my scary colon cancer family history. He said all my symptoms sounded like hemorrhoids to him since they are so common during pregnancy. Then it happened. Drum Roll Please -- He said to me, “Let’s go into the other exam room and check it out.” I was completely floored. For some reason I had no idea my normal doctor would check for them himself. For some reason I thought he would just refer me to someone else. I guess that’s what I had hoped for since now it may be way too weird to see him again after my exam down there. Well, it’s over and done with – I made it through the dreaded exam down there. Can we say UNCOMFORTABLE AND GROSS? I would have to say OB exams are a piece of cake compared to these types of exams. Basically, I came away with knowing that yes indeed I have hemorrhoids and that’s about it. He understood my concern about colon cancer. Normally, they recommend colonoscopy’s starting at age 50 but if there is any family history it drops down to age 40. He said with my extensive family history he recommends getting one done at 30 or 35. I am actually very happy about it. I would have one right now if I could. He said there is no way an insurance company would pay for me to have one right now because I am too young but once I am 30, only 2 years away, that it would probably be covered. I hate insurance companies, what is two years? Especially if it can save someone’s life? I have really mixed emotions about it. Should I wait till I am 30 to get one done? What if I have polyps right now that need to be removed? Obviously, since I am pregnant, I can’t get one done right now. I guess once Austin arrives, I will listen to what my gut tells me to do. I don’t really care about the money part of it. I would probably be able to make payments to them over time. I wish I knew what to do.
Thank you so much for reading! Stop by my board and say hi – introduce yourself :):) I love getting to know people! I had a ton of TTM questions in my last entry and I didn’t get much response. The main thing I am wondering about is Nathan’s lack of utensil eating. He is almost 18 months old and still pretty much uses his fingers to eat. Every once in awhile he does real good with eating meat with a fork but a spoon – forget about it. Any help? All the books out there, act like a toddler should be an expert with spoons and forks by 15 months. HELP!
God Bless~
Kelly, Nathan, and Austin
http://web.infoave.net/~kelkev12/
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