This page is to introduce you to my son, Cullen Lee. Cullen was born on January 6th. I found out I was pregnant with him while at sea onboard the USS INCHON. A blood test confirmed I was nearly two months pregnant and I was Ecstatic!! We had lost two other children in the first year of being together in the first tri-mester, and had tried to have another child since. Cullen was to be a blessing for us.
It was not easy carrying him, as I was injured in bootcamp by a corpsman who hit my sciatic nerve during a basic injection. He was a very active child in the womb, even when I nearly hemorraged three times with him. After each ultrasound, we found that he was strong and hanging on for dear life. He was not about to let a little problem get in his way of coming into this world! He was a fiesty one, and often would leave visible bruises on me from his kicking and playing.
The labor with him was hard. Twenty-three hours of intense pain, but it was worth it to hear him cry for the first time and tell me how happy he was to be out of such cramped quarters. As a baby and tot, he was wonderful. He was such a happy baby, and loved to get around and into anything he could. When he was about 19 months old, he got sick. I mean really sick. I knew it wasn't bronchitis, as my daughter had been born with bronchitis and I was very good at recognizing it. I took him to the Childrens Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, but all they could tell me was that he had a cold. After a while, I knew it was getting worse, and finally a doctor took a good look at him and saw that he was in resporatory distress. He started him on breathing treatments right away and sent us home with a nebulizer and Albuteral to treat him with. We treated him for what seemed forever. It was then that we found out that he is also allergic to pet dander. We got rid of the pets and were still treating him for his colds and breathing problems that still arose until he was around 30 months old.
Cullen is now seven and very healthy. The more he is outside, the happier he is. He is very smart, and can convince you of anything. He is very active, so much so that often other children do not make friends with him because he moves around more than they do. I have had problems at time with the children at his school, for they will tend to bully him and then he is the one getting into trouble...which is something I will not tolerate, so I am a very vocal parent. Protective to some, careful for my children to others, the way more parents need to be for their children.
He loves his cartoons...so much so, that if you happen to get in his viewing way, he will yell at you. He is quite adept at the Play Station 2 games, as well as GameCube and Nintendo. He plays his games seriously and will yell at the tv when he makes a mistake. He is a perfectionist. He loves to travel and spend time with his Grandmother. She means the world to him. He always says he is "Her boy."
He loves to antagonize his sisters, Bethany and Jasmine. If he can find a way to get them angry, he will. He is very stubborn, a triat he gets from his mommy.
To my little man, Cullen, Mommy loves you with all her heart. |
