Today is Kae Lee's 16th birthday!!!! Happy Birthday to my first born daughter!!!!
I remember this date all too well back on May 18, 1993. I was ordered by the doctor to go and have a non-stress test done at the hospital because Kae Lee was already at her due date and I was showing no signs of delivering a baby anytime soon. The doctor told me that he would let me go one more week before scheduling a C-section. I wanted to see if I could deliver this baby without a C-section--it wasn't meant to be. I spent quite a bit of time at the hospital doing the non-stress test and my stomach was just grumbling because I was SO hungry. They did the test twice but didn't say much to us afterwards. They told us that the specialist would take a look at it and we could wait in this room until they had the report back. I was so hungry so Michael went and got me a candy bar---a Butterfinger to be exact. I inhaled it because I was just so hungry. As soon as I ate it and threw the wrapper away, the nurse came around the corner and said "Did you just eat something?". I told her that I just ate a candy bar. She told me that they needed to take me to labor and deliver immediately and that I was having a baby today. So, I became "the one who just ate a candy bar" to all the nurses and anesthesiologist. Don't you know you aren't supposed to have food 24 hours before surgery? OOPS!!! My Bad!!!
So----they scheduled an emergency C-section for Kae Lee. She was certainly not an
emergency compared to James' emergency C-section!!! We were never told what the problem was with Kae Lee, we just knew that the doctor wanted to get her out ASAP!!!
The C-section went smoothly and we had a beautiful baby girl born to us that afternoon about 4:00pm and she was just so perfect. She was a big baby weighing in at 9lbs. 8 Oz's. and 21" long. She was just really swollen in her face when she was born. Maybe she was supposed to come sooner. Who knows? It was a very happy day for us to finally get this bouncing baby girl. She was beautiful and such a good baby.
Now that baby has grown up and she is more beautiful than ever. What a delight Kae Lee is to our family. She is cheerful, creative, very good at art,funny, loves children, kind to everyone, plays the piano, loves music, strong in the Gospel, loves her brother and sister. She is just an amazing young lady. We love her so much and we are so proud of her. Michael and I feel very blessed to have her as our daughter. Happy Birthday Kae Lee. Hope today is a special day for you!!!
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