11 Months!! And some BIG News!

Our little girl is growing up sooo quickly!! In just one month she will be having a birthday party! And another BIG event is coming up for her in a few months!...................

Our baby Paisley is going to be a BIG sister!!! I know, can you BELIEVE it?!?!? We were planning on having ONE more and by golly if it didn't happen much soon than later!!
We feel very lucky and blessed to be having this baby. Since it took us close to 2 years to be pregnant with Paisley we had anticipated some wait again this time around and much to our surprise we wouldn't have to wait for our last baby AT ALL!!! I will post another pregnancy post soon, I just HAD to share!...but for now I must get back to my current little love bug!


She is a clapping and waving FOOL these days. She has been doing both for a while but has recently been doing it more that usual. clapping when she hears music and other people clapping..waving at anyone who will wave back at her. Really interacting with people now! We went to the SC homecoming parade Saturday and one of the floats went by and everyone was smiling and waving at us. we looked at Paisley in her stroller and she was waving at everyone going by---tooo cute!!!

This is her "pointing" at the camera. She can point with just her pointer finger though but sometimes it is a whole hand point.

At 11 months Paisley Ryan is.....

• Walking and running eveywhere
• eating anything and everything we offer
• shaking her head if she is full and doesn't want another bite
• throwing her bottle when she is done drinking
• bursting out of 12 month clothes and beginning to wear mostly 18 months
• in size 5 shoes
• starting to accept that it is cold and she has to wear shoes (and is finally learning how to walk in them). She HATES anything confining...shoes, clothes... just like crosby did.
• has 7 teeth
• climbs stairs like a champ (much to our panic!)
• she can get on her tummy and crawl down off of the couch or her trampoline
• sleeping 8pm to 7am plus morning, afternoon, and evening 2 hour naps
• still wearing size 3 diapers
• gives hugs and kisses on command (she has a one arm and two arm version of her hugs!)
• she will lay her head on your chest when she is giving mommy and daddy love.
• is starting to be a TOTAL daddy's girl...just like the rest of them!! Maybe i'll have a boy this time and get one for myself!!

Well, that is about all I can think of for now. I will be back in a day or two with our Pregnancy Story!!!

More Maternity Pics!!

Here are the rest of the pictures my friend Kristy Mullins took of me Labor Day weekend at 8 months. We had such a good time taking these and I can't be happier with how they turned out!! I have never done anything like this before and I am so glad to have these wonderful shots of my girl in my tummy!

Another Day in the Land of the Hawks!

As always, once we got the kiddos and our stuff all packed up we headed down to the festival for dinner. Tonight we had decided to spend the night though!!! I was really interested to see how it would all play out on a school night but really it was just fine (not fine for everyday, but fine for once a year!!!) This morning I got dressed and ready in the half light in our FREEZING cold camper. YEP, I asked for AC and I GOT IT!!!!! Heath had made our bed with a doubled up down comforter and TONS of pillows so it was actually pretty comfy!! He got up with me and got the girls around for school (actually he and Crosby are both playing hookie today so they have the rest of the day to relax at camp!!! LUCKY!!) Seriously, most people take the whole week off for Bluegrass!! Some even take the whole month of September off!!! WHAT?!?! I KNOW!! Crazy/awesome!! I would like to take a day but since I will be on maternity leave for two months I think I need to just stay put. It is fine though, even being preggo I am having a great time down there and relaxing to the fullest!!! Mimi and Poppy have these AWESOME reclining outdoor chairs that are soo super perfect I plant my bod and hardly move all evening!! One lady last night that came to our camp said I don't even look big enough to be 5 weeks out! YES!!
...OMG before I forget, I have to tell you something totally non-bluegrass related. Yesterday I was walking out of my school's office and a student just barreled over me!!! Stepped on my right foot and pretty much knocked the wind out of me!! I am fine, but sheesh!!! And that was just the beginning!! When I got home from school I opened our front glass door and somehow managed to cut 3 toes on my left foot!! My pedi is SHOT!!! Karagirl, it looks like we are going to have to squeeze one in next weekend!!! Then to top it off, we were down at LALA Land watching the girls swing and Adler was pushing Crosby. Apparently she was headed right toward my back so Heath grabbed my arm and pulled me away from the line of fire!! He assured me that the collision would have been worse than the YANK on my arm but I'm not so sure!!! So if I thought pregnancy and all of its LOVELY symptoms (like my RAGING heartburn) weren't bad enough, now I am getting all beat up to top it off!!! Not cool!! I think I am going to spend the next 5 weeks in my nice fluffy bed and out of harm's way! I wish!!! heeheee

A couple of fun pics to leave you with...

This is the GIANT hanging peace sign right near our camp! Soo cool!

Alex, aka Crosby's new friend, brought the girls halloween

candy, glow sticks, and these crazy hats!! Tooo FUN!

FUN Maternity Pictures!!

My friend Kristy and I went out in Andover Saturday and she took some maternity pictures of me for my shower invitation and to hang in the baby's room. We had sooo much fun and she did such a great job! We took about 275 pictures that day!!! Here are just a couple sneaky peekies for ya!!! I will post more later. I hope you like them!!

The Aftermath!!!

Can you see this??? Four days after that WONDERFUL 4 hour blood testing extravaganza at the hospital and my right arm is still bruised!! It is starting to heal but I am looking like a serious JUNKIE these days!!! and a bad one at that!!! The big bruise was from the first draw of the day so apparently we got off to a great start! I thought I would post this real quick as a reminder to myself to chill out on the cookies if I ever decided to get pregnant again!!!!

Human Pin Cushion

What a way to end a SUPER week!! I just got out of the hospital....I ended up having to take the 5 hour blood sugar test after all. When I went in to my OB yesterday they retested my glucose and I failed again by just a few points...and this time there was no talking my way out of it!! So I had to be at the hospital at 7am this morning. When I got there I wasn't in the best of spirits and after my first blood draw I asked her where I would be spending my next 4 hours (even though I new the answer) and she pointed to a teeny waiting room with chairs bolted to the floor--so there was no way for me to even prop up my feet. Good times!! While I was chillin for my first hour one of the lab techs came by that takes aerobics from me and we started chatting. She told me there was a bed in her office that I could lay on during the test and SERIOUSLY I contemplated hugging her. Instead I opted for telling her she made my day!! So in between stabbings (4 total-2 in each arm) I was able to stretch out and even nap a little!! That bed alone made my situation more tolerable and I am really thinking about becoming an advocate for beds for pregnant women during the 5 hour blood test!!! :) As for the rest of my week.... filled with ups and downs. Getting back into the swing of school has been pretty tough and to top it off I got my hand slapped at work for being 2 minutes late!! Not 2 minutes after the bell but 2 minutes after the fifteen minute til bell. Welcome back to school!!! Damn trains!!! Oh well, WHATEVER, I did find out that we are tentatively scheduled for our c-section on October 26th so that is Awesome to know an exact date to count down to! Well in a few hours I am off to Park City to CropaGanza to scrapbook the weekend away...woohoo!!!!

7 Month Appointment

Yesterday I had my 7ish month OB appointment, the one where I drink the yucky sugar water and they test my blood sugar. Well, I have never had high blood sugar before so I didn't think anything of the test so I went about my day business as usual and one hour before the test I drank the yucky stuff and didn't have anything else til my appointment.... ...well I guess the cutoff between high and low blood sugar in pregnancy is 140, well my score was 145. I thought rats a little high but maybe b/c I ate french toast w/ tons of syrup and drank 2 pops that morning. I will admit that I haven't been watching what I eat like I do normally but I allowed myself to cheat b/c that is one thing you can do in pregnancy that feels so good I think. Well, today was my wake up call. Dr. Miller informed me that i needed to go up to the hospital in the next few days to take a 3 hour glucose screening. WHAT?!!?!? I got pretty concerned then and felt even worse about it as the day wore on. More about that in a minute cause there was a SUPER highlight!! We got to see Baby Girl today!!! We had a sonogram to check the position of my placenta and good news it has moved and is now where it is supposed to me. you KNOW Heath was doing cartwheels when he got that news... not that "it" is going to happen for him any time soon!! That doesn't sound fun to me at all!! So our girl was just sleeping away not really moving too much. She did open and close her mouth so that was cute but the only other thing she had going on were her legs... it was like she was on her back doing the bicycle! Her knees were in her face and her feet were above her head. Our little gymnast has just proven that she is SUPA flexible!!! It was adorable and so fun to see her today even if she wasn't showing off for us (the lady was really shaking my belly to wake her up but she wasn't having it!!)

After the appointment I read the paper the Dr. gave me on the 3 hour test. I guess you can't leave the hospital for 5 hours, you have to sit outside the lab, and nothing to eat or drink for almost 17 hours total!! WHAT???? How on EARTH can they expect a pregnant lady to go into that willingly??? NOT I!! Oh and did I mention they draw blood 3-4 times alternating arms, of course while you drink more yucky stuff and if you barf TOO BAD the results are voided and you have to take the test all over again!!! That was just it for me...I was so upset I got a little teary just at the thought of going through all of that! This doesn't even take into consideration sitting in a chair for 5 hours ---my back is like WHOA after 10 minutes and doing this over the weekend on my day off after going back to school!! Too much to even think about!! After doing some research online (I bet drs. LOVE that patients have so much access to medical information ;) I found out that 145 is barely over the limit and that would be a reason to ask for a retest b/c every site I went to said to avoid the 3hour if possible cause it is HORRID!!! So I called and they were like sure we can retest you at your next appt in 2 weeks! (I'm in my 3rd trimester and going every 2 weeks now!! YAY!!) That easy?!?!? Let this be a lesson to us all that is doesn't hurt to ask!!! So I am going to be really careful about what I take in for the rest of my pregnancy and get lots of exercise (KG good thing we start back to spin Monday!!). And since he released me to pretty much all exercise b/c my placenta is in good shape the girls and I got dressed and headed up to the track at Sonner Stadium.

My goal was 2 miles and i did it pretty easily. I walked the straights and jogged the curves. I'm glad there weren't any other runners up there at the time we were cause I probably looked kinda funny bobbling along!!! It felt good to do a little jogging again and I know it may sound crazy to jog this late in pregnancy but I am a runner so for me it is pretty natural!

I was so proud of my little Adler. She decided she wanted to do 2 miles too so she did and was very happy with herself after! Chel was bored to tears after sprinting a lap and then pooping out!! Crosby ran around a couple of times and then took off her shoes and socks and ran through the sprinklers!!! She also put on a little horse race show for us after the run. we sat in the stadium while her horses (Paper, Plastic, Coco, and Marked!!) ran the race. Coco won the race of course!!

Then one last pic on the rock on the way out. How can I turn them down when they are asking to get their pictures taken??? Love those girls!!!

Baby Blankly

So technically my THIRD post today but not really. I accidentally erased one of these pics so I just decided to do a whole separate post. So something REALLY ADORABLE came across my desk!!! My first baby present!!!

One of my dear sweet students, Taylor aka Pez Pezer, brought me this softsoftsoft blankie for the baby. She is as excited about this baby as we are---not joking--- and I am loving it!!! I can't wait to wrap my baby up in this blanket and I can just see him/her now dragging their little ducky blankly (as we call it in our house) around! Thanks Pez!! Love ya girl!!!

Happy Earth Day!!!

( I just realized I am a couple of days behind on blogging so I have 2 posts today!!! This is Wednesday's stuff.)

Happy Earth Day!!!!!!!!!!!! When Heath and I were dating he told me that his favorite holiday was Earth Day!! WHATEVER... like that was going to win me over!!! He claims it still is but I don't think playing golf counts as doing something good for the environment!!! The picture above was taken when my two SWEET girls came up to Heath and I with these bouquets of wild flowers and said "Happy Earth Day!!!" How PRECIOUS!!!

This next picture was taken Wednesday also. We had 8th Grade orientation and I put a PowerPoint together to show about my class and this was one of the pictures that we took. I thought it was a REALLY good picture of the baby bump!!! I am at 12 weeks now into my 2nd trimester and growing at an ALARMING rate!!!

Heath assured me last night that I was probably going to plateau any day!! What a great guy! I had an appointment Wednesday also...did I already bog about this????... oh well pregnancy fog!...and I had gained 6 pounds!!! WHAT???? NOOOOO!!!!! I have been working out but not really watching what I eat---that is how I normally do it and it has worked for me in the past. The Doctor seemed pretty CONCERNED that I am gaining too much weight. This is not a good sign already! Well, I plan to do the best I can and I know that this summer I will be working out 3-4 days a week but I still plan to eat ice cream any time I feel like it!!!!!!!!!!! I gained tons of weight with the girls so this is normal for me. I haven't seen her as an OB before (in the past I have had male drs.---who didn't even flinch about my weight) so I figured this is new to her and not me. gosh I could go for a cookie right about now................ heeheeheeheehee!!

This Girl is Silly, I tell YA!!!!

I take a Spin class on Monday nights (group workout on stationary bikes) that is just kicking my butt these days. Normally I instruct a class but my doctor recommended that I cut back the stress of teaching all of my fitness classes and actually taking a few. So, I am only teaching aerobics on thursday nights right now and I am really enjoying attending classes for a change. It takes the pressure of "having" to go off my shoulders (even though I rarely have the desire to go I still do--thank goodness for my Kara-girl who is always there to pick me up before class and remind me that I am going to feel great after!!!) I think one of the reasons I can even be an instructor is because I can teach a class at full effort without feeling winded. Don't get me wrong, I am physically as tired as all of my students but I can talk away without breathing heavy. Well, NOT ANY MORE!! I cannot breathe hardly at all right now. During class last night I was really struggling to catch my breath and my legs felt like lead. I talked to my doctor about this and she said that approx 45% of your body's oxygen is working in your abdomen to build your little baby especially in those first months. That number seems incredible!! No wonder there isn't enough left over for my lungs or legs!!! I know this may seem funny but I have to remind myself that workouts are going to be more difficult because I am pregnant. "Oh yeah, that make sense!" Did I foget to mention that there is only enough oxygen in my brain to sustain life at this point!! Talk about the pregnancy brain fog. I have it BIG TIME!!! Oh well, if anything I have let myself off the hook if I forget something!! My goal is to continue to take classes up to my due date. I don't know how much longer I will teach though.... I will keep doing the once a week probably through the summer anyway and then back off until after the little one is born.

OMG as everyone knows my girls are so silly and crack me up every day!!! When I walked in the door last night... this was Crosby... Heath had worked the 3-11am shift and had come home, made homemade chicken and noodles and was folding laundry (seriously I told him I want him to be a stay at home dad!!!). Our baby girl had gotten Mah's laudry basket as was eating some Cheerios (her fave snack right now---those little boxes of cereal) and watching tv on the big chair... IN THE LAUNDRY BASKET!!! I was DYING laughing and Adler sat there shaking her head mumbling "weird" Funny times at Casa Curtis!!!!

Blog Slacker

So my MIL told me last night that she checks my blog everyday and that I have been SLACKING!! I have been in a blog lull the past few days for 2 reasons:

#1 The thought of doing AnYtHiNg that requires focus and concentration makes me feel like BARFING. I am in full 24/7 barf mode right now. For the most part I can supress it (the actual barfing) but I still feel pukey all day every day. Eating a little something does seem to help for a few minutes. The other thing that helps is if I can lay down. I don't even need to sleep, just relax my body. So the other day at school I was so desperate I layed on the floor behind my desk. OMG imaginge what it is like to lay on a classroom floor!! ROCK HARD! Worse than sitting up and dealing with the nausea!! Now I do have carpet but it is that thinthin industrial kind. So today I was feeling desperate-r so I came up with solution #2. I made a chair bed!! I put three comfy classroom chairs together and WAH-LA...perfecto!! I relaxed for about 15-20 (ON MY PLANNING PERIOD OF COURSE!!) minutes and am feeling a little better. I had my aide take a picture of my new bed to post on the blog cause I thought we could get a kick out of it for years to come!!! ...oh and the other reason for no posts lately is the intense lack of excitement in my life!! I am going scrapping booking this weekend so that should be action packed if I can stomach it!! You all know I am serious about something when I say I may not be able to scrapbook!!!!!

BBBBLLLECCCHHH!

So much for my wonderful symptom free pregnancy... I knew that there was NO WAY that I was going to go on feeling sooo good! So my theory about having a boy and feeling great are out the window! The weather here this weekend was CRAZY (we even got out of school at noon on Friday) so that was a great excuse for me to stay in! However, by last night I was feeling like a big blob of nothing-ness. No energy to do anything, upset stomach off and on, and woo wee was I CRABBY!!! I know this will all pass so I will keep the complaining to a minimum BUT I have definitely reached the non-good times stage!!! Now I understand why it has taken me 4 1/2 years to do this all again... it takes a LONG time to forget that pregnancy is NOT COOL! Well, some of it anyway... In the back of my mind i KNOW how amazing and worth it the outcome is... I just wish we could ALL share in the GLORIOUS 9 months leading up to it. If the rest of the family could just take a month that would be great!! Okay Heath would get at least 3 months!!!

So... Last night we were in bed pretty early for us (9pm). Heath was sleeping b/c he has to get up on Monday mornings at 4:30am for work-- NO STINKIN WAY could I do that!!! So Heath falls right to sleep (even after drinking a Coke in bed---I don't get it but we don't call him Narcolepsy Man for nothing!!). Crosby is watching Noggin and I am reading. Just like last Sunday she says something ABSOLUTELY hilarious and we can't stop laughing!! You know that deep belly laugh that usually carries on longer at the most inappropriate times!! This happened last Sunday night too... Cros and I got to laughing (I swear she is going to be a comedian!!) and then our little Bruiser starts licking Heath's face!! OMG I am laughing just thinking about it!!! Heath makes some random sleep snorting noise and wakes up which makes us laugh even harder. He says "oh yeah, let's see how you guys would like this at 7am!!" Since we get up at 6am we figured it wouldn't bother us too much but we took the hint. I did feel bad but we were having a hard time keeping from cracking up...

(Reminds me of the time my Kara-girl was trying to sleep and Elo and I couldn't stop laughing about EYELETS)!!!

So fast forward to last night. I am determined to keep Cros quiet but--NOT HAPPENING!!! We hear some funny name on tv like Herlicious and she looks at me and says "We should name the baby Herlicious!!" We DIE laughing!! Heath did the snorty wake up thing again and I tried to quiet her down and I apologized cause you KNOW that if it were the other way around... watch out (but then again I wouldn't have been trying to sleep with to laughing hyenas either!)!! He actually opened his eyes and said "It's okay." what a great guy! Either that or he was still asleep!! This whole giggly thing went on for another 30 minutes and the whole time I was thinking
#1 I have got to keep her quiet
and
#2 I LOVE her so INCREDIBLY... literally overnight it seems she has grown to this little person, no longer my baby and just in time for us to start the next chapter. Maybe my body knows what it is doing after all...

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Bren MacMacGuff: Juno, by any chance did you throw up in my urn? Because there was this funky blue s*** in it.

Juno: No, Bren, I would never barf in your urn.

St. Patty's Day---And a Little Green

OUR BEAUTIFUL GREEN DAY!!!! My girls playing ball in the yard today while their momma soaks up some vitamin D

Chel looking for a four leaf clover.

My little one after my own heart... since i was relaxing on the porch with a magazine she wanted to also and she grabbed a scrapbook mag! Good girl!!! Oh yeah and she was sure she saw one of her friends from her afternoon pre-school class!! There is no use in telling her that it was someone else... her mind was MADE UP!!! I lovelovelove that about little kids-anything is possible, i mean why wouldn't the girl at her school be in the magazine?!?!!?!?! :)


Happy Saint Patricks Day! I am blogging while the rest of the crew is watching idol (I am good with just listening...). All of the crew except for Mah. She left last night for Winterpark, CO. They made it safely this morning and she is sooo excited! Could you even imagine... what little snow she has ever seen has been the one maybe two "snows" we had this winter. Now she is on the snow covered mountains learning to snowboard. I hope she is staying warm!! So back at our ranch, I officially declared it "Project Free Day." I hate to say this but I have been going a little too hard since last Thursday. My mind is RUNNING in a million directions (as always) but this time it is a little different. There are so many little things I want to do around here: painting, repairs, updating, ect and since I have felt PHENOMENAL I have been at it non stop. Painting, ripping up carpet, scraping padding, pulling out ancient tack strips.... whatever. Kinda fun stuff but as of yesterday my quickly expanding bod is pulling on the reigns!! It all began last night and I woke up this morning feeling a little green. How fitting! Not too pukey mostly sluggish and sore. It doesn't help that on top of all of this I have taught spin and aerobics the last two nights! I have felt GREAT after my classes though! Whew I am on quite the rambling role today! hee hee hee On another note I am at times feeling sorry for my family then again not... to explain: sorry for them in that my hormones are RAGING out of
CAN-Trol and I am definitely on edge at all times and constantly apologizing for being soooo crabby! I told Heath this morning that my right mind knows I have a great life... after all the weather is absolutely BEAUTIFUL (in the 70s-80s), I am at home with my girls and off work for a week and a half. I hate that I can't control that FRAZZLED feeling... poop. I actually have the urge to cry (and give in several times a day!) Poor Heath... yesterday he "accidentally" took my keys to the golf course with him and I was so frustrated that I CRIED!! All because I wanted to go to Sonic!! Oh man what we do for these babies! I did not start this blog to gripe about pregnancy but record my feelings and emotions every step of the way, the good and the bad. I find myself constantly trying to recall little things about my past pregnancies. It is tough to do even with Crosby's and Adler's ...forget it. I would LOVE to have something like this to go back and read. I am not regretting not starting it sooner but ECSTATIC that I will have it from now on to help me remember... The cool thing for the family about mommy being pregnant... I just took a devils food cake out of the oven. You all know I DON'T BAKE! nor am I a huge chocolate fanatic, but ooh baby watch out.... if I can't have green beer I am going to have chocolate cake, by god!!! YUMMY!

Don't Scare a Mommy Like THAT!!!!

So I got home from school yesterday and I was in SUCH a good mood because I was out of school for 11 days for SPRING BREAK! At 5:15 my phone rang and it was my Doctor's office. The nurse was calling to tell me that my hormone levels were low when they read my blood work and could I come in tomorrow to get more blood drawn. The first words out of my mouth were "Well, can we do it on Friday cause I already have plans tomorrow?" (I had a date with Lindsay to crop at ScrapFunattic and NOTHIN gets in the way of my cropping time with my girlies!!) Then my mind snapped back to the reality of what this chica was saying to me... there might be something WRONG with my pregnancy and that I needed to have it checked out!! DUH! I quickly told her that YES in fact I could come in tomorrow!! So I made an appointment and proceeded to call my pregnant cousin Jodi for advice or something! We talked for a while and I decided to then call my SIL Kelli the nurse. She asked me questions about what the OB nurse had said like what levels were off and what the numbers were and of course I knew NONE of the answers to her questions!!! I wish I had her with me at all of my appointments to ask the questions i dont even KNOW to ask!!! The more I thought about what she was saying the more I worried even though everyone told me not to. Couldn't help it. So I got up bright and early and headed to the doctor's office. They ended up sending me to the hospital to get my blood drawn so we could get the results in a couple of hours instead of days. She also sent me off with some literature about hormone levels in the blood. The paperwork only made me feel worse... low levels (which apparently I seemed to have) had NO seemingly positive outcomes.
HOLY CRAP!!
Well, it was a good thing that i had plans at the Attic because my mind was kept busy by my girlfriends and my obsession "Scrapping Booking" (shout out to my girl ELO!!) anywhooo to make a long story short "TOO LATE!!" the nurse finally called me at 3 something and told me "I have good news" From there on i only heard tiny snippets of what she was saying. I have the WORST tendancy to do that... when people are giving me IMPORTANT info that is 'MUST Know,' my mind wanders---WTH is that??? Like when someone is giving me directions to somewhere i am going, I drift off!!! It is CRAZY i must have that rare form of 'important-info- ADD.' SWEET! So all I know is that everything "looks great" now and my levels are where they should be. WHEW, i have stopped FrEaKinG out since I got the call and I have a sonogram scheduled for the 25th cause of course both the sono tech and my OB are off for Spring Break all next week!! What was I thinking... students, teachers, oh yeah and EVERYONE in my OBs office gets the week off! After making 100 calls to let all of my loved ones know that we are a-okay I was off to teach spin class. Needless to say, I couldn't breathe in class but that is another post ALL IN IT'S STINKIN SELF! One final note (along with another oh so beloved Juno Quote)... thank you to all of you who were there for me in my time of worry. It means soo much to have such an awesome support network (and if I didn't call you histerically-- consider yourself lucky, not out of the loop!) BESOS! d

That ain't no Etch A Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid, Homeskillet.

Sacred Vessel

Juno: Excuse me? I am a sacred vessel, alright? All you've got in your stomach is Taco Bell.



So because this is MY BLOG I plan to post as many Juno quotes as my little heart desires and I forsee it to be many!! :) So as far as how I am feeling right now... STILL BlOaTed!! I feel like I am farther along than I really am but since I have already gone to the Doctor I know that is not the case!! I did read that with each baby your stomach muscles snap into pregnancy mode much more quickly. SWEET! Since I was feeling soo full last night I thought I would grab a quick pic of me at 2 months. A little bump!! My clothes are starting to reach the snug phase. Some of my pants are almost uncomfortable but I plan to hold off as long as possible on the materity wear. I laugh now thinking back to when I found out I was pregnant with Adler... I went out and bought materinty clothes right away. I was even wearing them in what would've had to be my second month!! I was just soo excited. Well, I am just as excited this time but IN NO HURRY to don pleated cotten jumpers!! Actually the maternity clothes have gotten a lot cuter in the past 10 years BUT STILL!!! I am not looking forward to how much I am going to have to spend on them either. My friend Heather gave me a couple of bags full from her pregnancy last year so that will help. I am all about the hand-me-downs. I remember too vividly reaching the point of thinking I HaTe My CLoThES!! I WEaR the SAME 5 OuTfIts Over AND Over!!! I don't even know the best places to shop for maternity any more. Any advice... please Leave COMMENTS!!! JODI??? MELISSA??? SHANNON?? Heck half of my family is pregnant or has just had a baby!! So exciting!!
Also exciting is that starting today at 3:30 I have 11 days out of school for Spring Break that I plan to enjoy... YEA!!!!! Perfect timing! More later.. this blog is rockin!!

We're Expecting!!!

So we, okay I, decided to start this blog in honor of our newest addition. Baby #4 is expected to arrive on October 31st! Yep Halloween! We couldn't be more excited! Right now I am in my 7th week... still really early! I plan to do the best I can to record the little day to day happenings around here for two reasons... One because pregnancy and motherhood has SUCKED my memory from me and two to help our family and friends keep up with everything that goes on in our crazy life!

So far this pregnancy can't be going any better! Seriously!! I can't believe how good I feel. I am no more tired than usual and no morning sickness (knocking). I keep thinking that these things are coming but I am in the clear for now! LUCKY! What is up, is that I am a tad more irratable than usual (not good for high schoolers!!!) and I feel BlOaTeD!! I just feel really round already! Now, I am not wearing maternity clothes or anything that extreme but holy COW am I having twins or what?? Not Happening!! I think this is all BOY!! That is my early prediction!! I feel sooo much better than I did with the girls. I hear those little boys can be sooo good to their mamas! (Right Brother??? :)) Seriously, I have no premonitions about the gender and I really don't mind either way. I think we need to take a family poll and see where everyone around here stands. I am hearing both boy and girl. We will be finding out what we are having but will have to wait until about the first of June. So, to end this post (the first of many baby posts!!!!) I will wrap it up with a short litte story of a few Saturday's ago...

...Flashback sequence...

We had just worked all day at a fundraiser for Adler and Chelo's softball team and I was just ExHauSTEd!! When we got home I decided to take a bath (that ALWAYS makes me feel better). Oh by the way for some, this might be TMI!!! Oh well, it is my blog, just know that you continue reading this and every post at your own risk!!! :) Anyway so as I was relaxing in the tub I realized that I needed to pee. Heath had been trying to get me to take a pregnancy test for about a week but I didn't want to test too early. So I dragged my tired body out of the tub and took the test- I might as well, I thought. Meanwhile Crosby had come into the bathroom, stripped, and jumped into my bath!!! Nothing is sacred around our house! But that is fine with me... i let her do it almost every night! I have created the little monst... ANGEL!!!

Fast forward..

I was standing at the counter watching the test percolate while she splashed away. I was expecting to see just that control line but at some point I started squinting at the test because HOLY CRAP i could see a FAINT second line.... no WAY! Now we have been wanting to be preggers for over a year but haven't really pressed the fact. Once it finally happened I was kind of freaking!!! In a good way of course. I yelled for Heath to come upstairs (Cros still splashing away, oblivious!). He came right up--what a good guy!--- I pointed to the counter and said look at that! He of course did not see what I was pointing at!! I had to go over a practically put the test in his hand. He looked at it, then looked at me and said "No Way" I grabbed the directions (even though I know EXACTLY what they say) and read probably 50 times that EVEN IF THE SECOND LINE IS FAINT THE TEST IS POSITIVE in bold and underlined but somehow we were just not buying it! My hands were shaking as I looked at the paper! I was nervous! I looked at Heath and I said "we need another test" he said "okay, I'll go" REALLY??? Cool guy! It took FOREVER for him to get back! (I guess he couldn't find the tests so he called one of his friends--SERIOUSLY???) {Shaking my head!} Eventually he made it back with 2 more tests. We watched tv-kinda-while I drank 2 enormous glasses of water. I decided to go try for another test. I went upstairs and came back down. Heath said"SO?" I told him that could only eek out like 4 drops. He said "Why would you try if you only had to go 4 DROPS???" I told him that CLEARLY I thought I had more than a few drops in me!! Sometimes I wonder about him!! :) I went back to look at the test and there wasn't even enough pee to light up the control line. CRAP. So I decided to marinate for awhile before a 3rd attempt. After all I wouldn't want to just go 4 drops again!! So Heath fixed me a glass of Chocolate milk and I crawled into bed with my book. After about an hour I decided I was ready to go for it again. I sloshed to the bathroom and to my disbelief there on the counter sat TWO pregnancy tests, each with two lines!!! OMG my four drops had produced a POSITIVE test!!!!! I really was PREGNANT!! I called Heath up again and we both stared at the 2nd test (and the directions) in excited shock!! What do we do now??? Heath said "should you take the other test?" I then went over the odds of 2 positive tests in my most scentific voice from Danelle's book of facts. {wink} We went and sat on the bed. It was 9:45 on a Saturday night! Let's call our parents!!! Immediately we got Grammy on the phone and she just was just so happy for us. We called Bob and Vicky next. Vicky was in bed but Bob figured it out pretty quickly so he woke her up. Her response was something like "No Way, really?" Everyone has been saying it is our turn to have another one for quite a while!! Needless to say she was just as giddy about it as grammy was, of course!!! On that note we decided that was all we needed to let in on our new little news for that night. I WAS able to get some sleep, oh yeah my exhaustion started this whole thing!!! WHEW, to make a long story short (hee hee hee)... that is how we found out about our little pumpkin (or nickname for baby).

and to leave you all with a little Juno quote (first and definitely not the last!!)

Juno MacGuff: I'm pregnant.

Leah: What? Honest to blog?

Juno MacGuff: Yeah. Yeah, it's Bleekers.

Leah: It's probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?

Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I've taken like three pregnancy tests, and I'm forshizz up the spout.

Leah: How did you even generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests? That's amazing...

Juno MacGuff: I don't know, I drank like, ten tons of Sunny D... Anyway dude, I'm telling you I'm pregnant and you're acting shockingly cavalier.

Leah: Is this for real? Like, for real for real?

Juno MacGuff: Unfortunately, yes.

Leah: Oh my GOD. Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand!

Juno MacGuff: There we go. That was kind of the emotion that I was searching for on the first take.