Random Stuff

I am getting bigger which in turn makes me more tired and out of breath more. This confuses me. Why would it have to be that way. We should gain more energy toward the end to get us ready for the big day and days to follow. We still have to finish getting the room together, washing up all the cute clothes, packing for the big day, just to name a few. Why would one be tired?

Anyways, Trey is still calling Katie "Cookie" and talks to her daily. He runs up to me and tells me he needs to hug and kiss her and tell her hey. I really really hope this excitement holds on after she gets here.

I am so heart burned and leg cramped along with many other very "special" pregnancy side effects. I hope that all this is my hard time and that she will hang out until her scheduled date. I had a little "pitty party" per say last night in a panic over having to use the NICU again. That was the worst thing ever! Don't get me wrong, I am so thankful for the very nice and skilled nurses who got very excited about getting "the big baby", but leaving the hospital and my baby there while I went home was horrible! :( Trey's pregnancy was much smoother but the end was the hard part.

2 weeks ago at our 24 week dr appt. we were 24 weeks 2 days and she was measuring 25 weeks 5 days. I am a little concerned about her being LARGE like Trey. I hope to feel better at the next appt and she will be a little more on track. (just a big growth spurt that time right?!?!) In the ultrasound we got an up close look at her SUPER CUTE very round face! I got so tickled! She is still head up and feet down which she uses to dance a jig when my bladder is full! (not good times)

As I type this Trey is sitting beside me asking a million questions and eating an orange. He is such a blessing to me and I could not be more thankful for him! He is a pistol at this age and FULL of interesting sayings, actions and all around "boy" things! He does some crazy stuff that amazes me that he would even think to do. 3 is a very challenging age. He is really testing boundaries and it really challenges my patience!

Jerry and I will be married for 7 years this month. Some days it feels like 7, some times like 1 and others like we have been together since the ark landed on dry land. We are so excited about our family of 4 and are enjoying the crazy days we are so blessed to spend together!

A Little Scary

This morning while Trey and I were playing in the living room he was running across the room to hug me. As he got just in front of me he threw up his hands in front of him and bulldozed my tummy. It hurt pretty bad and made me very nauseous. I called the Dr office just to be on the safe side. They asked me to come in to make sure everything looked OK and it does. Everything is in tact and the baby was wiggling and the heart was going strong. :) phew, little bit scary

Cravings, growing and such...

I am almost 14 weeks pregnant now and since last week I CAN NOT GET ENOUGH MEXICAN FOOD!!!! After tonight, I will have had it 4 nights in a row! I don't know why but it is my absolute favorite food right now.

I have been feeling the baby move and that is super exciting! I knew that was what I was feeling but still second guessed myself since it was so early. At my last ultrasound Dr Hanna was showing me where the baby is at and he/she is right where I have been feeling. So that reassured me.

I LOVE my new doctor and thank my friend Stephanie for sending me to him. With Trey it would take 2 hours EVERY appointment and I would talk to the Dr. maybe 5 minutes max. Dr Hanna is with me talking almost the entire visit and I am out after 30 minutes. I love it and am so happy I changed.

Our next ultrasound it on the 29th and he may be able to tell the sex, but if not it will be in July! I can not wait! I don't like calling the baby it like, "it's moving again" so I say they. That messes up a lot of people and then they think there is more than one. I am so ready to say he or she! Trey truly believes he is gonna have a "baby siser" and he can't wait. I hope he is OK with a brother if that's what God's plan is.

Trey is growing by leaps and bounds!! His 3 year old appt was yesterday and he is 38 lbs which is above 97% and 37 inches tall putting him in the 68th%! He amazes me every day with new phrases and words he knows the meaning to and how to use them! We start VBS next week and he is so ready! He misses his friends and can't wait to get back to church everyday! (I hope I make it being with 4 year olds!)

Jerry is still enjoying his job and working A LOT! He leaves the house before 6 a.m. and doesn't usually get home until 6:30ish at night! He gets to carpool with his friend Jason which is a huge help with gas and helping the hours pass too and from.

Good has been so good to us and we couldn't be more excited!

Surprise!!!!!!

Last year we went through months of fertility treatments only to be told that my "stuff" was not responding and more than likely, never will again. It was VERY hard for us to hear that when we both so desperately wanted more children!

Without going into all the details, April 12th at 6:45 am, we found that God has different plans for us!

WE ARE EXPECTING!!!!!!!!

We are in our 9th week and could NOT be more excited about our new little one! We are so blessed to have a beautiful son already and are so excited to make him a Big Brother!

Still Going!

Day 21 of potty training and things are going great! He is in underwear all day and pull ups at night! He even naps (when he'll nap) in his underwear! I am so proud of my "big boy"! If I so much as slip up and say, "I love my baby boy" Trey freaks out and says "I not a baby, I a big boy!"

He is learning so much and growing so fast it amazes me!

It Happened!

My dreaded potty training adventure happened!

My fear:
To be standing in a long line waiting to check out and then "Mommy, inna peepee" Translate: MUST GO POTTY!

AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a little background on the story 1st.

Killian Rd. Walmart, Tuesday, 3:50 pm
We get to Walmart to have the oil changed and pick up some groceries. I have never been to this Walmart before so I have to ask people where to go to do the oil stuff. Get inside and the lady is SUPER nice and very helpful. She tells me it will be about an hour before the car is ready. No big deal. But then, a technician tells me there are 3 cars ahead of me and he is by himself!!! WHAT? So they add 30 minutes to my time, so 1 1/2 hours. Still, no big deal.
We get our shopping done between the 4 potty visits and then it is 5:33 and I am 2nd in line to get my car. Meanwhile 4 MORE people come in behind me and are also in line. 35 minutes pass, wait a minute did I type that right? oh yessss........35 minutes and still I have not even been acknowledged! The lady that was in front of me is still there to get her key made and we still wait! Patiently I might add! Then I heard the words "Mommy inna peepee" I can not tell my son no, so out the line and to the potty we go!
Can I tell you that when we got back the line STILL HAD NOT MOVED!!!!! And now we are in the back!!!! 20 minutes later I am standing there and there is a girl with a buggy in front of me. The another lady comes up and tells her thank you for holding her place for her and the girl leaves! I'm sorry, what? So she was allowed to run get some salad leaves and get back in line while some other customer holds her place? I don't think so! So she and I began to chat (nicely) and she let me go in front of her.

AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just typing this makes my blood boil all over again! Jerry left work and was at home waiting for us during this whole ordeal! He works an hour away!

Jerry treated us to Cici's and we had a nice dinner.

To make the day better, Trey pooped on the potty for the 1st time @ Cici's! (yes I'm a mom and I talk about poop freely)

There it is, my worst potty fear!

Is this really it?

Trey want to Potty

No turning back for me this time. Trey wakes up January 1 and DOES NOT want to wear a diaper! No complaints from this side! So we are off onto the potting adventure once again!

How funny he chose Jan 1. Did he have his own resolution this year? hahaha, looks like it!

January 2010

Is it really 2010??

When I was younger, I thought by this time we would all be driving/flying space crafts around. There would be no more cars and we would have fly-thrus not drive-thrus.

At any rate here we are, 2010. I am going to try to do better with posts since my little man is growing up and saying so many new and funny things.

From our family to yours, Happy New Year!

I'm listening to Trey keep singing "mickey how coud how, go uh lide, go uh lide" translate: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Come Inside It's Fun Inside

it amazes me every day the things he is saying and telling me. he told me this morning that he wanted to hold the nail polish. how does he remember these things? he is still so little how does his little head (well he does have a big head) remember these things? AMAZING!

October?

NO WAY!!! is it seriously october tomorrow???

i always heard time flies by so fast when you get older and it is oh so true!! then you have a child and it moves that much faster! it is so hard for me to believe that it will be november/thanksgiving in one month! much less christmas in 2!

short update....
i was able to post some of our summer pictures on facebook (finally), trey has TOTALLY stopped with the potty and we are in full gear with school!

Pictures:
something is wrong with my camera/uploader. i would be sooooo close to completing an upload and then it would tell me there was an error. so every day i would take more and more pictures and couldn't get them off the camera. in swoops jerry to save the day and says "i will take the card to work and put them on a disk for you" WOOOO HOOOO! problem solved, well, for the time being a guess. sad part is, i have really enjoyed my camera but i can tell it is on it's last leg. it is very unreliable and half the time just won't work :( hopefully it will make it a little bit longer!

Potty:
for who knows what reason, trey decided that he doesn't want to potty on the potty anymore. i put his cloth trainer underwear on and he will full fledged pee! not a little bit like he once did but all of it! what happened? i don't get it! i have been told not to worry. i was told that since he won't even be 2 1/2 until december it was amazing he did so well for the 2 weeks he did it. i don't get it though. 2 weeks!!! he even woke in the night to go pee on the potty! what now?

School:
i am loving me some school! my class rocks, no criers!!!!! they are all very happy and super super cute!!!! and as for trey... he has been so much better all around. i have always heard that children really need to be "under" other adults and around kids their age to help them learn & listen etc. and i have now seen it to be true! he still has his naughty side don't get me wrong, but he is learning better on how to handle himself. and of course he still shows out more for me than anyone. why do they do that?

these are the biggest things since last post (that i can think of right now at 10:17 pm) :)
hope this finds you and your family doing well!

i don't understand

why are 2 year olds so hard?

they don't listen, they say "no" all the time, they don't listen, they are wild, they don't listen, they are never out of energy and they don't listen.

don't get me wrong, my child is precious and i love him dearly. he is "high spirited", i don't want to break his spirit, just mold him to be a little more obedient.

emily gave me 2 books, the strong willed child and bringing up boys.

i will begin the strong willed child as soon as i make myself a drink. hahaha and i mean crystal light, although something else may calm me more. :)

if you have any suggestions, believe me, they are welcome!!!!!!

Amazing #2

6:25 am
Trey: Mommy get me

no sleeping late :(

Amazing

it is 9:30 as i write this and my sweet boy is STILL in his room playing. he has this (quite annoying) singing bug thing in the bed with him and he keeps pressing the buttons over and over and over and... well you get the picture.

he has had a full day today. apparently 2 year olds and the energizer bunny have equal battery life. he was at church from 8:45-1:00, lunch at cici's, nap, running and playing in the rain, tacos, more playing and at 8:15ish he was in his room "ready" for bed.

i hope this means i get to sleep late... yea right!

My new found love

I can not get enough of sewing now! I have ALWAYS wanted to learn the ins and outs of sewing and I am finally doing it.

1st project: a SUPER CUTE John Deere blanket for Trey's bed. I took my wonderful material and everything that I had to Florence to my M-I-L's and she taught me what to do! We had a good time pinning it together and sewing it. Now she is going to help me put the border around the outside of it. (pictures to come when I get my camera/computer to download them)

2nd project: really fun pillows for Trey's room. He has never slept on a pillow (he doesn't seem to care for them). But I made a tie end, fire truck pillow case for him and he has slept on it ever since. I also made another pillow for his bench out of the same material.

I LOVE SEWING~!~!~!~! Now to learn to read patterns! I want to make curtains for our kitchen, bedroom, computer room & Trey's room not to mention maybe even a bed set for our room.....
boy am I getting ahead of myself. oh and btw I am doing all this on my Mema's Kenmore Model 42 sewing machine. (very very old)

the Potty

there are no words to express my excitement about trey going potty! it began last wednesday and really getting into it on thursday and he has been full force ever since!!! he is going on the potty away from home, waking up at night to go and even doing poo poo too! i am so proud of him!!! we are still doing diapers at night time and nap but as you are putting it on, he repeats "no pee pee pants" meaning don't pee pee in your pants! he is soooooooooo stinking smart! can i just say again that I AM SO PROUD OF HIM!!!!!!!!

during the day he is wearing the cloth training underwear where he may pee pee a little but then runs to me saying "pee pee pants" and we rush to the potty. he is getting 2 m&m's and a sticker. he gets so excited and i do too. my favorite part is, right after he finishes he balls up his fist in front of him (kinda like a boxing stance) and dances and grins. then he is reaching for me for hugs! we both get so excited i will kinda be sad when it wears of. we also have a elmo potty char that we are using to notate intervals and how he does. he has only had 2 accidents so far and again, I AM SO PROUD OF HIM!