Making memories

Last Tuesday, we had our appointment with the perinatologist who was nervous that Simon wouldn't survive the pregnancy.  On Friday, we had a meeting with the perinatal palliative care program which consisted of a nurse practitioner, chaplain and child life specialist.  It was a good meeting, I think, for both Ryan and I.  They brought to light the way we are going to cope with everything and that it may be different for each of us.  We talked about stress relief and how we're going to take care of ourselves in this whole process.  We talked about ways to help Tanner with any of this.  We talked about the possibility of Simon not surviving and what we do if he does survive the pregnancy.  It was a long two hours but I feel like both Ryan and I came out having thought about things that neither of us had considered.

One of the most important things we talked about (I think) was making memories.  Since we don't know if Simon is going to ever be here with us, making memories now is what is important.  Sure, we may have him, but if we make the memories now, we won't have to live with the regret that we didn't make the most of the time we had with him.  So, that's what we're going to do.  We're going to live our lives and we're going to do things with our Simon that we would want him to do.  We're going to read him our favorite books, play our favorite music, dance, play and love him.  So we started on Friday and are going to continue.  There's talk of a possible trip sometime soon in the future but we're not sure if I'll be able to go and where/when we'll do it.  So until then, we'll just keep on doing things with Simon and making memories with him and our family.

Here are some of Simon's first adventures, in pictures of course (I might actually have to start looking decent all the time if Simon and I are going to have spur of the moment memories in pictures!)

Simon celebrates Mommy's birthday at Hickory Park

 Simon with a new Corvette

 Simon with a Lamborghini

 Simon with a Viper

 Simon makes chocolate chip cookies

 Simon does a corn maze

And...Simon visits an apple orchard!

 

 So, there it is...the beginnings of the adventures of Simon!  He must be quite excited about all these memories (and the lovely apple cider we got from the orchard) because he's been flipping around like crazy the last day or two.