13 Feb 2016

we spent this past week in orlando making the big announcement to family and friends down there.  the turkey wore his “only child big brother” announcement shirt and my niece was the first to figure it out.

shouting it out to the world!

last night, we went to see hillsong united with my sister and bil (the kids were there too but they were too cool to sit with us 🙂 ). it was such an incredible show and even more amazing to see so many people gathered together to praise and worship the Lord. i was truly blown away. it was also our first experience with a real babysitter… we’ve only ever left the turkey with our friends before and that was the plan this time too but he got a nasty sinus cold a few days ago and i didn’t want to get my friend’s kids sick.  so at the last minute we were scrambling through all of my niece’s friends trying to find someone she trusted who wasn’t going to the concert (there’s the problem with all your friends being Christians!).  we ended up with two girls who my niece and sister both vouched for and we warned them that he wasn’t feeling well and was going to be cranky.  about 90 seconds before the concert started, i got a call from the girl’s mother… oh goodness!  “your sweet little pumpkin has not been very happy”.  *shaking head*  basically, he was giving them fits about eating dinner, which i did also warn them about.  i basically told her to just feed him some cheese and yogurt and let him go to bed.  so, that could have gone better but, really, with him being sick i didn’t expect much.  it was still a fabulous night out with my hubby and family.

i found my life when i laid it down... i touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

way more nauseated this time around but so thankful that everything is okay after the bleeding scare.

28 Jan 2016

after waking up to more spotting this morning, I went ahead and called the dr and they had me come in for my initial exam a week early.  it was a very different experience from the first time around when we were so excited to see our little blueberry and were surprised with a humanoid lemon.  this time, I went in with trepidation, held my breath, and just prayed that there would be a heartbeat.  praise the Lord, there was!  our sequel looks okay for now!  i’m afraid i’m going to worry throughout this whole pregnancy but it was so wonderful to see that little heart pumping (130 bpm).  we saw one of the midwives today since they were squeezing us in and she was very reassuring and easy to deal with.  i still think i’d rather go back to my dr since he’s more familiar with my history but it’s nice to know that the not-so-personable midwife we saw once before was not the standard.

I had some spotting today. I don’t remember having any spotting with the turkey. Please, Lord, let my baby be okay.

today has been one of those oh-God-if-only-I-could-puke-surely-i’d-feel-better kind of days.  i’m under-hydrated because water makes me nauseous.  I had plenty of bad spells with the turkey but they were short waves that quickly passed.  I don’t remember ever having a full day of it.  and then I almost passed out in the shower (mental note: must clean shower seat so that I can sit when I need a breather).  today has been downright awful.  which is disconcerting since this is just the beginning of the morning sickness period.

and let the morning sickness begin.

14 Jan 2016

I was watching my beautiful little boy playing tonight.  and then I watched him give his daddy hugs and kisses and my heart painfully swelled with love and I caught myself thinking the unthinkable… will I ever be able to love this new little baby as much I love the turkey?  and then it occurred to me that this is truly going to be the proof that God exists.  over the coming months, God is going to work the incredible miracle of multiplying our love in ways that we can’t even comprehend now.  I can’t wait to be shown the depths of God’s love.

here we go again!!!

8 Jan 2016

Queesiness… Check
Sinus congestion… Check
Chest acne… Check

I don’t know if we’re really ready for this but away we go!!!

I should have gotten my period yesterday.  instead, I had some very light spotting.  last month my period was five days late with spotting on the fourth day.

it seems like the turkey has been amazing us left and right lately.  within the last few weeks, he has mastered colors and shapes and countless objects.  he has started to say more words… most heartwarmingly was an unprompted “home” when we got back from vacation a few weeks ago.  he has started to take more interest in his chunky puzzles and we are working on numbers and letters.  it is just incredible to see how much he soaks up even though he can’t really communicate it yet.

of course, since we spent most of the month off schedule due to vacations and family and holidays, we’re also going through some rough patches behaviorally. I have the hardest time getting him to drink milk any more.  and since he also decided to start boycotting water, we ended up having to finally introduce juice just to keep him from dehydrating.  now the little twerp walks around the house asking for “tzssss”.  he’s also started growling “mom” when he’s upset (like when i’m making him drink his milk) and swatting undesired foods/drinks away. we’re working through it while trying to get him adjusted back to our normal schedule but it sure is frustrating.  it’s a good thing God made him so daggum cute!