15 1/2 hours...

In that amount of time, it will be time for my ultrasound tomorrow. :o)

I can't wait. I'm so incredibly excited. :o) Above all, I'm just hoping and praying to see a healthy little baby in there. And then, I'm hoping that our baby won't be a bit shy or bashful and that we will be able to tell what we're having. :o) I'm such a planner, and I just want to KNOW what this baby is!!! I've been going crazy. There are so many projects and things that I have wanted to start on, but haven't been able to, because I want them to be gender-specific. So, I've waited...and waited...and the time is finally here. :o) I'm so happy. :o)

Mom is coming with us to the ultrasound tomorrow, and she's beyond excited. I'm glad she's able to share in this with us, cuz I love my mommy. :o) And I'm also very excited, because Mike has two Personal Days that he has to take off before the end of the year or he loses them, so he's taking one of them tomorrow. :o) I'm so excited to just spend the whole day with my amazing hubby. After the ultrasound, I think we're going to go to lunch, and then maybe buy something small for our baby. :o) It should be a fun day, and I'm really looking forward to it.

So, I'll be sure to update you all as soon as I can on how the appointment went! It's at 11:45 tomorrow. :o)

Hope you all had a great day in the Lord. :o)

Kids

Well, I have the Denton kids until this Friday night (they've been here since Saturday night). Things have been going pretty good. We will see how the week goes though, as they have a pretty hectic schedule, between the girls' ballet lessons, Alton's TaeKwon-Do, and Hannah's Piano.

Anyways, Sunday Hannah had a "dress parade" thing for ballet, because she is a cherub in the Nutcracker this year, so I had to do her hair and take her to that, so I thought I'd share the pictures I emailed to her mom last night. :o)

I love the expression on her face. :o)

I also curled Ava's all pretty before we went back to church.

Does she not look like she belongs in the Colonial days or something??? ;o)

Aww, sisters. :o)


Running them around has just been ridiculously crazy, and I'm exhausted by the time they go to bed every night. I've also been going to the gym every morning after dropping them off at school, so that's making me tired too. :o) Anyways, that's what's going on with me this week. Hope you all are having a good week so far.

It's Back...

I turned anonymous comments back on. There are a couple of you who want to comment, but can't now because you don't have a google account. So it's back on. Even if anonymous people decide to leave hateful comments, it's OK. I can deal with it. I probably deserve it anyways.

So... there you go. Comment away. :o)

Baby Room

Mom came over and helped me paint on Monday. She took the whole day off, and we had a really good time hanging out. :o) The painting turned out much better than either one of us were expecting, and we love it! I can't wait to get furniture in there. :o) But I have to be patient for that, since Mom and Dad are building it. :o)

Anyways, here's pictures. :o)


The corner of the room where all of our junk was consolidated and organized. ;o) Instead of putting the closet doors back on, I'm thinking of Just hanging a curtain that would tie in the colors of the rest of the room. Not sure yet though. :o) I know it looks all messy and everything still, but trust me, it's WAY better than what that room used to look like!


My new book shelf and drawers. :o)


The wall on the right is bare right now, and will be a "baby wall".

Pretty paint. ;o)

And the tree. :o) We LOVE how it turned out. I couldn't be happier with it. :o)

And back to the door. A full 360* view of the room. ;o)

Closer up of the tree.

The little birdies are probably my favorite. :o)

Anyways, there's our baby room. :o)

I'm slowly working on my wedding scrap book (finally!!!), so I'm hoping when I get it done, to post pictures of it. Hmm... maybe soon I'll post some pictures of the weekend trip we took to Ninilchik, and then some from Nebraska and stuff. ;o)

Alright, I'm off to finish my chore calendar now! I keep getting distracted!!! ;o)

A Three Year Old's Pregnancy

I was approximately 3 years old when my mom became pregnant with that *angel* baby brother of mine. I was SO excited, and insisted that I too was pregnant. Mom dropped me off at daycare one day, and there was a new gal working there who wasn't really on the up-and-up with my pregnancy and all. When I got there that day, I stretched my belly out, rubbing it saying, "ooooh, my baby is growin!" and the silly daycare lady says, "Oh honey, you're not pregnant! Your mommy is!" I proceeded to burst into tears. I mean, how could she possibly say that? Of course I was pregnant! I had a baby in my belly and I was just like Mama. Apparently mom was still there when this happened, and told the lady, "We're playing her game. Let her baby grow!" so from then on, the new daycare lady, whoever she was, agreed with me that I was pregnant. :o)

I loved being pregnant. I would walk around, poking my little 3 year old belly out, rubbing it, talking about my baby that was growing in there. Mom was constantly amused by my antics. In fact, I was so convinced that I was pregnant that I got morning sickness one day. I'm dead serious. Naturally, I don't remember all of this, but mom does. :o)

I was at home eating oatmeal with mom one morning, and I said to her, "Mama I just can't eat!" And she says, "Of course you can! Now finish your oatmeal." And I replied with, "No, I can't! My baby is making me soooo sick!" And then I proceeded to puke everywhere. Apparently mom died laughing and called her mom to share. And apparently I was fine the rest of the day. ;o)

My pregnancy abruptly ended one day when I was "washing" the baby in Mama's tummy. Mom couldn't go anywhere or do anything without me tagging along, following her everywhere. So when she was nearing the very end of her pregnancy one day, and feeling very tired and sore, she decided to take a really hot bath. Whenever she would take baths, I would always be in there with her, sitting on the side of the tub, washing her belly. I loved taking care of "baby". And this day was no different. Since the bath water was so hot, Lucas was squinched up in a tight ball in the middle of mom's belly, trying to get away from the heat. Well, I picked up a small cup out of the tub, and poured the water right over her belly. Lucas did a full somersault on the spot. Mom's whole stomach lurched and rolled. My eyes got huge, and I looked at Mama, and told her, "I'm not pregnant anymore. I gave my baby to you." And walked out of the bathroom. No more baby in my belly! ;o)

Look How The Belly Grows

Alright, a MILLION pictures later, and I have a belly shot that I'm half way satisfied with. It's ridiculous how hard it can be to take a silly picture of yourself. Goodness. Maybe I'm just picky. ;o) At any rate, I'm 18 weeks today, and my baby can now hear and recognize my voice, and sometimes might be stimulated by it. I talked to it for a minute earlier (and felt pretty silly, even though I was alone) and about 30 seconds later felt it moving! Haha, it was too cool. Oh yeah, that's another thing. I've been feeling movement since about the 17th of August. Really neat. :o) Alright, I've got some other things I need to be doing, so here you go. Sorry I haven't posted in so long. Life has been a little hectic. Soon to come: pictures of our trip and posting about our progress on converting our spare room from our "Catch All Junk Room" to "Baby Room". :o)



Hope you all had a great labor day weekend, and a great week so far! :o)

Stuff...

Thank-you to those who prayed for little Stellan. He ended up not being air-flighted to Boston, and they were finally able to get him on a combination of oral medication to slow down his SVT (extremely high heart rate). He was FIANLLY discharged from the hospital today. Hopefully he won't end up there again for quite some time, although his heart journey is far from over

Not a lot has been going on with me. I have my second Dr.'s appointment tomorrow. I'm sure it will be quick and boring. She'll probably ask me some questions, and I have some questions for her. She'll take my weight, and blood pressure, I'm sure. And I'm not really sure what else. Maybe an external exam, just to feel the size of the uterus and what-not. We'll see. The receptionist told me when I made the appointment that she wouldn't use a doppler to try to find a heartbeat until like 21 weeks or so. So, that's a bit of a bummer. And kind of weird, but whatever. I'm not worried.

It's been a hard time for me lately. And so hard to distinguish what's hormones and what isn't. I feel like I'm drifting away from all my friends, for some reason, and that's hard for me, being such a social person. I don't feel like I have anyone super close anymore that I can really talk to. And whenever I talk to someone about this, I feel like I'm whining, which I HATE, so I generally don't talk about stuff. I hate that I can't always blog about how I really feel about things sometimes. That drives me nuts. Sometimes I just want to get on here and let it ALL out, but I don't think it would go over so well with some people. ;o) *sigh* I guess it's times like these that we need our savior the most.

And, on another random note, here's a couple more pictures from Texas. :o)

Oddly enough, these are all the pictures I managed to get of Kaylee. How did that happen? I miss her so much.

On the playground at Taylor's birthday party. :o)


We were walking to what we thought was an abandoned house to find a stray kitten, but there was a light on... so we came back. :o)


When we were in Oklahoma visiting my grandparents, my grandpa took us out on lake Eufala.


We had fun playin in the sand. :o)


At the Texas state line.


She loves her state. :o)

At Bek's house, with Susannah. :o)

Well, there you go. A very random post. :o) hope you enjoyed.