March Madness Addict

Remember my post about Chase's basketball addiction? (Click here to read it.) Here's proof!

Eyes on the Prize!

Brian sprung (sprang?) 2 pieces of news on me yesterday:

#1, he has decided to have Lasik eye surgery (April 26th). I'm a little sad about this because I think he looks so cute in his glasses (see photo, taken in the hospital after Chase was born)!

#2, he is going to be honored at an awards banquet at NIU April 13th for being named Doctoral Student of the Year! I'm so proud!

We'll keep you posted on both!

Goodbye Chris Sligh

So last night Chris Sligh was eliminated on American Idol. I agreed with America's decision. I thought he picked a great song for his voice Tuesday night, but he wasn't quite on beat (and I'm anal about that stuff), which has been a pretty consistent struggle for him. I also think he was such a fun person, but it never shined through in his singing. I wish he had shown his personality more in his performances. It might have helped him out.

As for the bottom 3, I agreed with Haley but I'm not so sure about Phil. I go back and forth on my opinion of him but I didn't think he was one of the worst this week.

Anyway, until next week! CW.... OUT!

Website/Blog Updates

A couple website updates....

First, I added "Post Categories" to the right side of this blog if you want to filter posts by content (click "Photos" to see all posts containing photos, "Chase" to see all posts about Chase, etc.).

Second, the entire contents of the following pages on www.theworthams.com have been added to this blog in original date order:

• Baby Page - new blog post titles start with "Pregnancy Update" (click the "Pregnancy" category to see them all)
• Pre-Blog Life Summaries - new blog posts are titled "[Month] Summary" (click here for an example)

Those 2 pages will soon disappear from our main site. If you find links to them anywhere on our website or blog, please let me know so I can delete them.

Landon James Klimek

Around Christmas I got a letter from an old friend from high school, Kelly Klimek, that her little brother, Andy, and his wife were pregnant with their second child. Though their first child was born completely healthy and lives a perfectly normal life, ultrasound photos showed that their second had multiple birth defects and health problems.

Landon was born December 28th and lived only 12 days. I just got an email from Kelly that she and her husband are walking for the March of Dimes in Washington, DC (where they live). Here's more information from her email:

"I invite you to visit our March of Dimes page at www.walkamerica.org/landonjames to read more about Landon's impact on our lives and to make a donation to help assist this noble cause."

Visit the link, read Landon's story, and make a donation if you can. Here is an excerpt from the Klimek family Christmas letter, written before Landon was born:

"[Andy and Sarah] are expecting a little boy, Landon, in just a couple of weeks. However, Landon has many deformities and fetal anomalies; so he may not survive long. We have all been to hell and back listening to the doctors deliver bad news upon bad.... September 28th [was] the day we found out about Landon's one "little" problem: cleft palate.... On Monday, October 2, Andy and Sarah went to the specialists in Grand Rapids and found out that the baby also has a serious heart defect, spina bifida, missing kidney, all of his organs are on the wrong side of his body and the list goes on. A couple of weeks later we were told he also has a club foot and something wrong with the palms of his hands."

I am in tears right now just thinking about how incredibly lucky we are. I cannot even imagine....

Family Visit and a Trip to the Zoo!

We had a fun weekend! We got to spend a few days with Brian's parents (pictured here with Chase), who were kind enough to babysit Saturday while Brian and I went to the city with friends Nicole and Bart to see The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Click here to see how little Chase was the last time his Grandma and Grandpa W saw him!

Today the weather was so gorgeous we decided to spend the day outside and took Chase to the zoo (his favorite part was getting fed)!

Photos of both Elmer & Sheila's visit and the zoo trip are now posted in our Photo Album!

Goodbye Stephanie

I'm an American Idol fanatic. I must have my fix every week! So I've decided to write a little blurb about how I feel about the outcome of each week's results show when another Idol contestant is voted off.

This week Stephanie got the ax. I agreed with America's decision. I was a little weirded out by her because in the beginning I thought she was one of the best, but I feel like over the last few weeks she slipped. This week's performance was VERY pitchy and I wasn't impressed. I originally thought she would go further (especially since the guys are so unimpressive this year - I thought for sure some of them would go first), but I never thought she would win so I'm OK with her going home. I was a little surprised to see Chris R in the bottom 2 because I thought there were more deserving individuals who were safe this week, but he'll eventually go anyway, too.