{"id":705,"date":"2008-06-11T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T17:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2008-06-11T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T17:16:35","slug":"amanda-collection-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Collection I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today starts an 8 day blog of about 35 pictures in Amanda’s pregnancy portfolio.?? The first time I remember meeting Amanda, Aimee was pregnant with Zandi and it was at Zandi’s baby shower.?? Aimee and Amanda were friends in high school.?? Due to Amanda’s connection to Aimee, when Ty was born, Amanda diligently watched our site and prayed for Ty.?? It was during that time that we established??a friendship.?? When Kambrie was born in 2005, I got a call from Amanda in the hospital.?? All those months of “not knowing how I did it” with Ty’s health issues and now her daughter was born with Miller Dieker.?? Now the tables had turned and I was grieving and praying with Amanda.?? In 2006, the Lord allowed me to be with Amanda when He took Kambrie home.?? I remember being captivated by the thought that we were in the presence of angels just behind the veil.?? We have endured much grief together – through Ty and Kambrie and the loss of tiny babies in first trimester miscarriage.???? But now we receive the gift of celebrating together and we choose to take full advantage of it.?? So begins the “Amanda Collection”.<\/p>\n

(Heidi – to answer your question about the “inspiration” for the above picture… I saw a wedding picture that had the bride and groom on the right of the picture and then a nice texture added over the top and faded text with the dominant opacity on the left.?? When I was looking at this side profile of her belly, I remembered that picture and thought that a grungy texture overlay and faded font would be perfect.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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I added a trendy muted effect to this one.??<\/p>\n

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THIS is the pregnancy picture I have been waiting for!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of trendy….:)<\/p>\n

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LIFE inside!<\/p>\n

You’ll actually get to “see” Amanda tomorrow.?? Today I kept the main thing the main thing – beautiful views of the hidden miracle.<\/p>\n

Be sure to leave “love” for Amanda.?? Pregnant women need all the “you look beautiful” affirmations they can get!?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tori<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last night we fed her rice cereal for the first time.?? Tanner was??as cute??on the video??as Tori because he kept laughing hysterically at her.?? She had NO idea what to do with food in her mouth so she did nothing.?? She just looked at us with these big eyes and just held the food.?? We continued working with her for about 15 minutes and eventually saw a little bit of smacking action but she is pretty far from “getting” it.?? I tried again this morning and she still can’t figure out what in the world mama is doing to her.<\/p>\n

Tanner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something strange is going on with Tanner and I don’t know what to make of it.?? I need to keep a log of this so when we go to the Dr. I remember the details.<\/p>\n

Over two weeks ago we went to lunch with Tom and Kristi and TGI Friday’s.?? Tanner ate a ton of food including some of JIm’s spicy pasta meal and a red pepper soup as well as his own meal (pizza maybe I forget) and a sunday for dessert.?? At the end of the meal he throws his hand over his mouth and starts whimpering.?? We had just gotten past the flu and the rash thing so I was about to be in utter despair if he was getting the flu AGAIN!?? I took him outside because he was CERTAIN he was going to throw up and he paced, held his stomach, and cried for about 20 minutes.?? He never did throw up (much to his surprise) and then all of a sudden it was gone – out of the blue.?? We assumed he just ate too much.<\/p>\n

Last week he at two pieces of pizza one night and the same thing happened again.?? He insisted he was going to throw up.?? Said he was nauseous and his stomach hurt (and was holding his stomach).?? Cried and cried.?? Twenty minutes later it was gone.??<\/p>\n

Last Saturday morning he woke up at 4:30 AM crying – same thing.?? Jim gave him some water.?? Again it went away in about the same time frame.<\/p>\n

It happened again over the weekend but I forget the details.<\/p>\n

Last night at about 10:00 PM it occurred again.?? At dinner he had a frozen burrito and a popcycle afterwards.?? I finally gave him 1 tsp of Mylanta and told him to lay flat on his back.?? Within 5 minutes he was perfectly fine however, I probably waited close to 20 minutes before I tried this so was he just at the end of the pain or did it help?<\/p>\n

What is the common factor here??? I don’t think it is spicy food because the burritto last night was quite bland and I don’t think he had anything weird last Friday night.?? I am not sure that it is food at all because while of the times it happened directly after a meal, the other half was several hours later.?? Time of day is inconsistent.??<\/p>\n

The only thing that is consistent is the level of pain and the length of time it lasts.?? He is getting paranoid about eating too much now so he worries about everything he is eating.?? I read on the internet that sometimes kids get food allergies and react this way – does this go back to the rash discussion??? I am going to keep writing down everything he eats but so far I don’t see a consistent pattern.?? I also read it could be an ulcer but I have no idea how a stress free 6 year old could develop an ulcer.?? He is a happy kid and even though he puts a lot of pressure on himself to do well, he never seems to be truly “stressed”.?? Ulcer’s don’t always originate from stress though so who knows.?? Poor buddy – I am getting worried about him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today starts an 8 day blog of about 35 pictures in Amanda’s pregnancy portfolio.?? The first time I remember meeting Amanda, Aimee was pregnant with Zandi and it was at Zandi’s baby shower.?? Aimee and Amanda were friends in high school.?? Due to Amanda’s connection to Aimee, when Ty was born, Amanda diligently watched our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}