My Family, I love them!

Ok, so these are my precious children. I was thinking of all the special things about birth order, and well Hannah is definitely the leader of the bunch. But she is a leader in such a loving way, she is really motherly. She gives Caleb pretty much whatever he wants, which in the long run I'm not real sure how and what he's learning from that. Does he figure he can just whine and he'll get whatever he wants, well at this point in life yes...she'd rather him be happy then hear him scream. Well and on the other hand, she gets to dress him as she pleases. So for today, I put them in the car, ran back inside to get something, came back out and well there you go, Caleb had his princess crown on and was loving his baby. I then ran back inside again to get my camera. So I tried to gently remove these items, and that was NOT HAPPENING. So we rode around town with my princess Hannah and well Caleb too.


Napping, well atleast they pretended really well.




Ok so we used to be big into gardening, at our house in Waco we had tons of flowers, tomatoes, okra, squash, greenbeans, pumpkins, and well we loved it. Jeremy actually gets all the credit, he does all the work, preparation, and I just water every now and then. Since we've sorta been on the move, we haven't had one in 2yrs, well this year we're starting up again. For now we have flowers and tomatoes. Jeremy is letting the kids plant seeds for starters....they thought this was SO fun. Caleb just really wanted to get in all the dirt, even though his sandbox was a few feet away, he wanted "this" dirt.


My boys!


Hannah trying to teach, Ok, so I've loosened up a little and have let the kids play at the "activity table" together a little more. They can color, paint, and do play-doh together. For a long time, I feel like Hannah doesn't get to do much because Caleb gets into all her stuff and tears it up, so I always say, "we'll play that later when he's asleep", well and then she naps then too, so not much time EVER. Anyway, Hannah mainly does the painting (watercolor), and maybe this week I'll really let Caleb do play-doh. I just don't like messes, on the floor or on them. I know they're kids and I want them to enjoy life to the fullest which means, they're gonna make a mess. So I figure, let them have fun, it will wash off, and I can clean it up. Hear Hannah is reinforcing important points, she says "Caleb, NO Sir, you color ON the paper". I remind her that he doesn't just already know that and he is learning and so she has to teach him. So we're working on being nice and not yelling at him.




Ahhhh...one of my favorite times of the day. Caleb is a great napper....always has been. Just put him in bed and he pretty much goes to sleep, for like 2-3hrs in the afternoon. Hannah, probably 3wks ago got into this deal of not wanting to nap anymore. I mean I really tried. So I make her this palate on the floor now, she has "quiet time" in her room, she can read, color, play with her dollhouse or go to sleep. She has to stay IN her room. For the first week seriously she didn't nap at all, just played for almost 2hrs. She would come out periodically, I'd send her back. Now, the playing usually only lasts about 10min, and then she crashes. She'll still comes out, but I say you have to rest, cover her up and she goes to sleep....YEAH!!! I will inforce naps and quiet time as LONG as I can. So now for naps she refuses to get in her bed, she has to be on her yellow palate with her pink blanket and covered up with her princess blanket. Very specific, so you'd better do it right. Atleast she's napping, we also got her a clock in the hopes of teaching her she can come out at "such and such time". Well, no such luck, she likes to change the numbers etc. We'll keep trying.

Benefits of working at the hospital!

Ok, so I work one day a week at the hospital here in town. So today, I thought, I'd love to listen to my little baby. So I went into the ER, said, I wanna listen to my little one, I got the fetal doppler, some gel, a towel, and went into a room. I sat in the chair, and was hoping the heartbeat would be easy to find, sometimes early on sitting up isn't the best position, and you need to lay down. However I picked it up right away, and it was really loud. I sat by myself in the room and listened to my little ones beating heart for like 2 minutes. Steady, strong, heartbeat at 156bpm. It was such a neat little blessing. I did the same thing with Hannah and Caleb when I worked in Waco, I'd hide out in the bathroom just to listen.

It made this all seem so real. I mean, I've known I have been pregnant for 2mos now, but still, this baby inside is growing and has a heart fully formed, just has to get bigger. Sounds like a human heart just faster....amazing to me. I'm so thankful for the blessings I have.

On another note, maybe yall have some wisdom. For the past 3 days I've had a headache. Not terrible, but kinda constant when I'm awake. I took 1 extra strength tylenol once, because my doc is pretty serious about what you can and can't take. And they really want you to wait until 12weeks to take stuff. So I'm in my 12th week, so I'm just trying to deal with it. I eat, I rest, and it's just still kinda there. My BP is great, I've never had migranes before, don't think this is one, just wondering what the deal is. Does being pregnant cause you to have headaches more often? I think I read that somewhere? Anyway, just throwing this thought out there.

Ok, time to eat and go to bed. Praise God for the blessings in your life!

12 week update!

So, I went to the doctor on Friday, Jeremy and I had someone watch the kids so we both went. He usually goes to all my OB appointments with me. We had the most thorough interview with the OB nurse for about 45min before we saw the doctor. I mean she wanted to know everything about our health history as parents, then wanted to know everything about our parents and siblings, and grandparents. She wanted to know every detail of my deliveries with Hannah and Caleb...I mean to, how long was I in labor with Hannah etc. I'd just never had anyone ask all those details before. Oh well, I guess it's good and they're thorough.

Anyway, then I had labs done, my yearly routine exam with the doc, and then we FINALLY got to hear the heartbeat! It took him awhile to find it. Maybe a min, or probably less, but still seemed like FOREVER! I said, we need to do an ultrasound! He said don't worry you won't leave here today without hearing something. Then there was this big swoosh kick sound, he said, see thats the baby moving all around, we just need to get the heartbeat. So we found it, and all was well. He said things looked and sounded perfect!

After we left the doctor, we went to the hospital where I'll most likely deliver, had a simple tour and got to look all around. It's strictly a women and children hospital, so I kinda like that about it. They have a NICU just in case (which I'm positive we won't need that this go round). And for those wondering, we still don't know the placement of my placenta. We'll have to wait until my 20wk ultrasound. Hopefully all is well, I'm not having any spotting or anything, so we'll see. I didn't start bleeding with Caleb until 28weeks, but I just feel things are gonna be great this time.

So this is all for now, I'm still feeling great and glad to be almost done with this first trimester. I'll see him again in 4 weeks. So I'll update again then!

Regular happenings these days...

First of all, ta'da, I got a hair cut. Obviously you could tell. I got it cut about 2 weeks ago, pretty short for me, I think the shortest I've ever had it. I think I really like it. I decided I was tired of my hair being in a pony-tail every day, this way atleast it kinda looks like I have a little style...right? Even though I'm in scrubs, it was a decent hair day...so we took the pics!




Now my sweet baby boy. This is busted lip #2 in 1 week. Poor kid. The first one he was running on the sidewalk after church and he face-planted on to the concrete. He was all right, but scraped up several fingers, and he banged up his bottom and top lip pretty good. It took a week for those to heal. Then I think it was monday night, we were at home, and Jeremy was changing the sheets on his bed...sand everywhere (this will lead into the next picture). Anyway, I hear screaming, and somehow I think him and Hannah were both in the rocking chair, and who knows what happened but he like punctured his bottom lip this time (same spot). Wasn't really like a scrape, it was BLEEDING. I know facial wounds bleed a lot anyway, but this wouldn't stop, just a continuous drip. So of course, they had been bathed, it was a good night, totally on track for getting everyone in bed on time...and well this happened. So finally after dabbing with paper towels and no luck, Jeremy said lets try to put a gauze dressing on his lip. Good idea, but try holding down an 18mos old to tape strategically to his face. Well...we did it. After awhile he decided it was pretty cool and he liked it. After about 15min he'd had enough and pulled the dressing off, but the bleeding had stopped! I think he's gonna be my child with many bumps and bruises and broken bones. We'll have to watch him close!


The sandbox! They love their sandbox. Memaw and Paw-Paw got them this for Christmas. We play almost everyday, but beware sand is everywhere. We take off our shoes outside, and shake and shake, but somehow sand still ends up inside. The day Caleb busted his lip, that was the day, I saw Hannah dumping sand on top of Caleb's head. Goodness...sand everywhere. We're really trying to enforce the "keep the sand in the sandbox" rule, and "don't poor sand on your brother". Sometimes we're successful. Anwyay, I decided I'd let them have a great time, and just continue to sweep my floor on an even more regular basis!

Blog-worthy Night

***Contains some slightly graphic detail, and is a VERY long post***

Well, lets say we had one of the longest probably worst nights we've had since we've had kids. Whoa, big statement I know. So this is how it all went down. First of all Saturdays lately are busy for me because Jeremy is gone all day from 8am-5:30pm with Upward basketball. So the kids and I went to watch for a little while then back to home. Hannah is easy to manage but Caleb at only days away from being 18mos wants to "play" with the other players.

So it was a pretty normal afternoon, everyone took naps even me which came in more handy then I ever thought. After nap time, I went grocery shopping with both kids, came home, unloaded everything, then Jeremy got home. So he played with the kids and I cooked spaghetti. Like the real deal, with bread and a fancy salad (for us that bag salad, but add tomatoes, avocados, bell pepper etc). So dinner was a little later and everyone ate a lot....Hannah had like 3rd helpings of spaghetti.

Next bathtime. Saturdays they get an extra thorough cleaning (I actually only wash hannahs hair on sat nights--seriously it takes forever. I timed it and it took 7min to blow dry her hair). Cleaning ears, cutting fingernails you know all the extras. So finally by 8pm we were ready for bed. Things were going smoothly, I put Caleb to bed, then to Hannah. Caleb did ok for about the first 3min, then he starts screaming. He's been doing this lately. Nothing out of the routine has changed, but he doesn't want to go to sleep. He wants me to hold and rock him and he wants his milk which is says "mak". Which really refers to his cup. It can be juice, water, milk, whatever....but it is MAK! So I give him a drink while I'm rocking him. He goes to sleep. As soon as I get up, put him in his bed, he starts screaming. He doesn't act this way?? Is he sick, is it teeth, no fever, clean diaper, whats the deal?! So he's screaming while I go check on Hannah. Jeremy's pretty much got her all ready to go, but she wants ME to rock and sing to her. And, let me say, at this point we have accomplished the greatest task which is "pottying" before bed. This is an ordeal for us. She doesn't want to go, BUT as soon as we tuck her in, the list starts. She comes out and wants to go potty, then wants a drink, then needs to potty again, wants to change PJ's because she is hot.....I mean it's endless.

So we have said, you go potty before bed and thats it. Once we tuck you in, no more getting up PERIOD! So well, next I go get Caleb again because he is screaming, and Jeremy is dealing with making Hannah stay in bed. He has a little more patience with her at this point than I do. It's the end of the day and I'm tired and ready to go to bed myself. And the caring husband that he is doesn't let me (being pregnant and all) pick her up off the floor as she is thrashing around to put her 40lb self back into the bed. Finally after 20min or so of rocking SOUNDLY to sleep, Caleb is down and out. YEAH!!

So seriously after giving in to Hannah we finally let her go potty because she said the magic word (gotta go poo-poo). We let her go, and she goes....and we give her a drink of water. Good maybe this is it. Oh no, she wants to lay on the couch, she's not tired, it's 9:15now, she only napped an hour that day, she needs to go to sleep! This cycle continues for probably 1.5hrs, I'm like what is wrong with this child....just go to sleep.

Then she starts saying "I need a drink of water my tummy feels funny". I say no you don't, you've just been crying for hours if you rest you'll feel better. Jeremy had run up to the church to get something, so I said...I'm going to bed, I turned every light in the house off, and said go to bed! She said...my tummy feels funny I need a drink. Now, keep in mind this is my sensitive stomached child who gets car sick on trips etc. So I said, I"ll bring you a bucket, if you get sick use the bucket, now go to sleep. So I put the bucket on the floor by her bed.

I go to bed, and it's quiet, everyone is sleeping. Jeremy comes home and we're talking, next thing I know, Hannah comes walking into my room....and yes, she has spaghetti hanging out of her nose. Oh my poor child. She threw up everywhere! In her bed, down the side of her bed, on the floor, and sort of in the bucket. I think she was trying to make the bucket but didn't quite make it.

So then, I feel bad for her, but I"m kinda irritated because I'm thinking, she's not sick, she brought this on her self by getting so upset. I cleaned her up....then notice shes kinda has chills and looks pale, she gets sick again, but in the trash can this time. Poor baby. We change her clothes and she's sitting in her chair in her room while we are attempting to clean this mess. I hate throw-up, but throwing up in your bed, down the side of your bed and on the floor is worse. I mean it got to the mattress etc. So, Jeremy is outside at 11pm mind you with the water hose spraying off her sheets, clothes, blankets, pillow etc. It was a mess. We rig up some extra sheets and comforter etc and finally get her to sleep at 11:30pm. Whew. Now good news is that Caleb slept through all of that!! What a good boy.

After getting things in the wash, I finally laid down at about 12:30am. I sleep soundly until about 2:30 when Caleb starts screaming. I go change him, rock him for like 1min and put him back in bed, no such luck....he's screaming. I get him water, hold him, sing, and rock some more...he's sleeping....until I put him in his bed. So I leave him alone, and he does this off and on crying thing like every 10min. Jeremy and I take turns and this child wants to be held and rocked. This scenario goes on until 5:15pm. Yes, yall thats like 3hrs of this. I can't believe it! I finally gave him some motrin just because at like 5am because I was like I have got to sleep...and I KNOW he is tired too. Jeremy and I get back to sleep about 5:45am and sleep until Hannah comes bouncing in our room at 7:30am ready to go to church. She feels great and is ready to go. Atleast I thought she would sleep late since she didn't go to bed until midnight! Caleb then wakes up about 8am happy and talking in his bed.

So, after all that, this afternoon I'm taking a nap!

So much to say...

Wow, ok, I think I'm back into the blogging world. We finally backed up our pictures, emptied some from our hard-drive, and have all our pictures loaded onto the computer...YAY!!!! I can now update you on our life. Atleast it's fun for me, so I hope you enjoy it. Ok this goes back to Christmas...a little late, but we had such a good time. We were in Waco for about 4 days, saw my family and Jeremy's, and the kids got to play with their cousins..SO SO fun!!



This was at GG's house (Jeremy's grandma in Garland), we had opened presents but the kids wanted to go outside. They had so much fun playing in the leaves...who would have thought. Give a kid some leaves, much more fun than gifts I guess.
Cousins: Joel (8mos), Nathan (5yrs), Hannah (3yrs), Brock (3yrs), Caleb (1yr)


My sisters-in-law Carrie and Larissa...love them!



These 2 pics are cute, Christmas day, we played flag football with Jeremy's family...the WHOLE family played, ages 1-60, so quite a game. Caleb just wanted his ball and he ran around aimlessly, then the next picture, Grandpa is about to pass the ball to Hannah, cousin Nathan(age 5) is close behind, in one video we have, he actually tackled Hannah to the ground. She never saw it coming. We then explained to him that we have to be really gentle and just "touch softly". Hannah was a great sport, and no tears were shed.



Cousin Katie, with Hannah and Caleb, all in their Christmas jammies, about to go to the Christmas Eve service at church. They were so cute (and very tired).


Sweet boy, opening presents at my parents house. Caleb mainly like the bows and boxes.


Cool picture! The week of Christmas we went to my Aunt Mari's house, they live in the hill country in Austin, so they have deer all over the place. When we drove up, seriously I had to stop the car, because there were probably 20 deer in the yard/driveway. We got to feed them. Hannah was feeding this deer some bread, she did so good and wasn't really scared.

***Note (slightly graphic): About Hannah's wardrobe, lets say she is my carsick child. Yes, on the way there she threw-up twice. This has happened several times now, and she has "sickness etiquette" if it's proper to say that. She nicely tells me I'm gonna be sick, we pull over immediately, she even leans all the way over so she doesn't get her clothes dirty. Then the 2nd time in the car, she tried really hard to get it all in the towel, we didn't quite make it, so...when we got to Mari's she had to wear my cousins t-shirt who is in her 20's. Oh well, she didn't mind, the shirt was enormous. It didn't stop her from having fun though!***


The kids feeding the deer, well atleast Hannah is. Caleb tried once, gave the deer a bite of his hotdog bun, then he decided he'd rather eat it himself. I guess he likes really old, stale bread. People don't really get animal germs do they???



Ok Jeremy and I at our youth Christmas party...silly hats, but they insisted on a picture.


Last but not least, my sweet little kiddos in their matching Christmas jammies (thanks me-maw). So cute. I just love them to pieces. (especially this little hair flip Caleb is sporting, he's since had a much needed haircut..such a big boy)

Hi Mom

Just a cute pic of Caleb proudly showing me his new hat and mittens. We've had these for awhile but have only worn them a couple times, not too helpful when it's 80 degrees outside in January! Isn't he cute though.

Baby #3 Update

Well today was a much anticipated day for us today. We had our first ultrasound of Baby #3. I am 7wks today according to cycle dates (actual embryo measurement had me at 7wk 5d), but we are continuing to use the original due date of August 21st. It was great. There is 1 baby growing inside, and everything looked perfect so far. It took FOREVER to get this video to where we could upload it so it's a little small, and no audio, but you can see the picture. You can see the heart beating, we could hear it with the ultrasound, it was perfect, fast and regular beating away at 156 bmp. It will slow down the next several weeks. We can get a DVD of any ultrasounds that we get done for $10 so why not. It was just me and Jeremy at the appointment today which was kinda fun, so future appointments, we'll have to figure if it will be a family affair.

We like my doctor, it's just a HUGE clinic. There are 11 doctors, we were really impressed with the organization of everything, we sat in a total of 3 waiting rooms and were in and out in 1hr. Pretty good for today I thought for a late afternoon appointment. My next appt. I will be 12weeks, and we should hear the heartbeat with doppler. So exciting. Our friend kept the kids this afternoon for us, and when we got home Hannah wondered where the baby was?? I told her several times we were just going to take a picture of the baby, but she thought we were having the baby today. I love the minds of 3yr olds. She is so cute, and curious, and fun. She asks all the time how big the baby is. Now she hold her fingers apart about an inch and shows you this is how big the baby is. Love it!!

Hope the video comes through ok.

****Ok video material, since it's kinda small and no audio, look closely and you can see the flickering heart beat. Then the ultrasound tech is using her mouse to measure from crown to rump (right to left). She then is pointing to the heart to measure the heartbeat. We could hear it, sorry no sound for yall. Then she proceeds to look at my ovaries right and left which look fine, so well you get to see them too. I guess not too many people have seen my ovaries?! Maybe this will explain a little of the footage.****

Blogging Break

Hello blog readers. Well yes I'm still around even though I haven't posted in I think 10-11 days...which really isn't that long, considering some blogging buddies only post once a month. However it is much more exciting to read from those who post regularly. Now don't you once a month bloggers take anything personally, atleast you blog : ) And I'm glad to read about your life.

For one, I haven't loaded any more pics onto the computer because our hard-drive is really full. We need to back up all our pics already on here to our other hard-drive to make sure they are safe. Once we do that we can make a little more room for current pics. So I don't have any pictures to post either (boring I know)

Onto other business. I received an award! A blogging award, I received one back from my friend in highschool Kylie, and one recently from another highschool friend Meg. Ok, I think now what I'm supposed to do is post a picture of it and answer some questions. I'm TERRIBLE at that. This also goes for being "tagged". I think my cousin Jenny tagged me once and well I still haven't done that yet either. I love yall really I do and am even honored that you read my blog, but well I just haven't responded to those things yet. Maybe one day I will, but maybe not.

Other than not blogging, we are doing well. Trying to keep everyone healthy around here. A couple weeks ago, Jeremy and I had bad colds, now Hannah and Caleb have colds, and Caleb's turned into an ear infection. Poor kid, he was kinda miserable for a few days, coughing (so not sleeping for him or me), and just really fussy. He's on antibiotics. Doing great now. I'm just hoping Hannah doesn't get an ear infection. She's hard to read, her last one (in october..when she could hear me, see post) she had not pain, no fever, just I noticed she couldn't hear me when I was talking to her. Hopefully she'll be fine and we won't get to that point. Now, I think I'm getting another cold which I HATE colds...and now being pregnant (early pregnant 5wks) I can't take anything I don't think. I'm not miserable but I'm always weird about medicine and pregnancy. So pray that I'll be fine. Wow, this paragraph kinda turned into a "whining" section. I guess thats ok sometimes. Well this is really all for now. So until later posts, thanks for still reading.

My sweet babies.

Oh, I'm already getting kinda sentimental about Hannah being a "double" big sister, and Caleb not being my little baby anymore. Atleast I hoping to have lots of time to cherish all the moments until this baby arrives. Ok, I know I am ONLY 3w5d pregnant, so I have LOTS of time, but still, the time will pass quickly especially since I'm busy with my other little ones.

Ok so I've only known for 4 full days now that we're expecting another baby, but it is kind of consuming my thoughts. I mean I think about it all the time. Did I eat enough good stuff today? Am I supposed to drink more milk? Guess I need to eat some vegetables. I know this is my 3rd pregnancy, but I forget stuff. So I kinda want to pretend like I don't know anything and let the doctor treat me like I'm a first time mom : )

Anyway, even these past few days there have been some overwhelming moments. Like...oh my gosh, 3 kids. Can we do this? Like today ( now wednesdays are harder because i work on wednesdays at the hospital, the kids stay with a lady from church, so naps aren't very routine there) I was trying to get supper ready, Hannah was tired and just wanted me to hold her and read her a book (so we did that), Caleb wanted me to hold him while he just held his blanket, so I held him too while I was reading Hannah her book. I thought, atleast my stomach is still really small and we can all still fit : ) When I put them down, everyone started whining and crying. So, dinner was leftovers, Caleb even had ketchup on his plate tonight to make him eat his food...he smeared ketchup ALL over his hair, I mean I gave him a bath, and SCRUBBED his hair, and it still smells like ketchup. So, all this to say, it's gonna be ok, and we can do this. God totally sustains and gives us strength to endure what He has given us.

So all that to say, I love being a mom, I love this picture of my kids, they had so much fun just sitting in the big green bucket. The joys of motherhood far out-way the kind of stressful times.

Another one on the way!!!!!!!

Yep, you read correctly. We are going to have another baby!! I took the test Sunday morning at about 7:45am. I just thought maybe I'm pregnant, but really it's probably too soon, only day 24 of my cycle, and usually they are about 30 days. However it was the last test of the box, and I just wanted to know. So of course Hannah is on the couch watching her movie, Jeremy is in bed, Caleb is sleeping. I do the test, and well the first line shows up quickly all the time, so I didn't think much of it, then I looked again, and saw the "other" line start to appear, I thought "oh my gosh, it's probably just fading in and out", I kept watching, and my heart started beating like 130 beats/min. Seriously it is the EXACT same reaction every time...both with Hannah and Caleb. I am just like, I can't believe this!!!! So I run into the bedroom to show Jeremy and Hannah is in there. Not too sure what to do about her really , so I turn on all the lights, put the test on Jeremy's night stand and say "look at this". I take Hannah back to the living room to watch her movie. I go back into the bedroom and close the door. I said, "does that look positive to you", he smiled and said "yeah" still kinda of asleep. Poor guy, with Hannah I found out at 6am, Caleb was midnight, and this one early too.

So we're excited, can't really believe it. I haven't had a hard time getting pregnant..it has always been in the 2nd month and I am SO thankful for that. Pregnancy is a true miracle from God. To create life like that is amazing to me every time. Even now as I think that this little baby is a group of cells right now rapidly multiplying and attaching and growing exactly like it's supposed to is AMAZING to me!! I am VERY early pregnant, like only 3.5 weeks....so still early early. I found out early with Hannah also.

I called my OB doc in Victoria to find out what to do. He requests that I get a "lab" confirmation before I come in for another visit. So I went to the hospital and did another urine test and it was still POSITIVE (i was actually kinda nervous waiting for the results, don't really know why, but was relieved that is was still positive) I have my first ultrasound scheduled for Jan 2...seems so far away, and I absolutely can't wait for that day. I always am so curious, do you see a heartbeat, and how MANY babies are there. Twins are in the family, when I didn't have children I SO wanted twins, my cousin and I were praying for twins. Now that we have kiddos... one at a time is just great : )

We told Hannah, and well basically everybody on Sunday. It was a busy church day, and I knew I couldn't keep this in. So we called our parents early that morning, then told the youth, and my sunday school class. So fun. I told Hannah "Mommy is going to have another baby, there is a tiny baby in my tummy right now". She said "We're gonna have it today". I said no it has to grow really big before it can be born. She now asks everyday if the baby is still in my tummy...several times a day. This will be a long pregnancy for her...sweet girl. She definitely wants it to be a girl and tells me that multiple times. I just say well God gets to decide what it's gonna be.

I'll have a repeat c-section this go round. I have debated back and forth, and feel that this is the best plan for us. We are also gonna wait and not find out the sex of the baby. We did this with Hannah, and it was so fun. We found out with Caleb, which was just as neat for me too, but since we have one of each we're gonna wait, and be surprised.

So pray for a healthy baby and pregnancy. With my complications I had with Caleb, we just really want the placenta to be attached up high in my uterus. So pray for that!! Praising God for this little blessing already!

Sleep like a baby??

Yep she was sound asleep. At first I was like "Oh, thats gotta be SO uncomfortable", then I thought it was kinda funny. Both taken over the thanksgiving holidays. So of course, I had time to take a pic, and then put my sweet girl back in bed, and then figure out a way to prop her up in her carseat. Any suggestions ??

NO Screaming...

Ok, there is always the questions of how to discipline your children, when to start, what methods to use, spanking, swatting, timeout, etc..I mean it's totally overwhelming and you wonder are there gonna be scars emotionally for my children when all this is done. Well...lately Caleb has been doing this screaming thing. I mean all the time. Especially when he wants something. He TOTALLY knows how to sign "please", "more", and "eat". He also says please, more, eat, milk, blanket, mama, daddy, hannah, ball, night-night, cracker, cookie. I mean he talks a lot, he can point, and can go get things if you tell him "go get your ball". So why does he have to scream to get your attention or when he wants you to give him more food, or whatever.

The latest has been in his highchair, he absolutely throws a fit. So I'm like ok, enough of this screaming...it's really loud, and it is NOT crying. He's just mad. So I've been saying very sternly in his face "Caleb no screaming", then I'll ask "what do you want". He screams again...I repeat NO screaming, THEN, get this....he throws his hands and either pushes me away, or hits me in the face. He kinda has a stare and pouty look on his face...like he kinda knows he shouldn't have done that. Mmm, mmm...

What??? This is NOT acceptable. I've given my life for you, all hours of the day, love, sacrifice, nuturing, really almost anything he wants....and he wants to hit me in the face. Oh...I just don't remember Hannah doing this. I'm sure she did at some point, but I just don't remember very well. So my sweet little boy, maybe he's strong willed....I don't know yet. He has been a very good baby, and I'm sure this is a stage we're going through....hopefully it won't last for years.

Zoo Trip, and Extras...

Last Friday we went to the San Antonio zoo, it was fun to get away and do something a little different as a family. Jeremy is usually off on Fridays, so we try to do something fun together those days. I love this pic (i wish Caleb was looking), we were feeding the birds, Hannah wasn't really sure, birds were flying everywhere, and Caleb just made barking noises at all the animals. It initially started as a barking sound at dogs...but now every animal seems to be a dog. Oh well...he's learning.


Hannah and I walking across the lillypads trying not to get into the water, and then her and Jeremy posing with some sort of animal..really not sure what it was, but this was in the "kids section" of zoo. Specially designed for ages 2-5yrs old.

This was fun...we went to the petting zoo, where the kids could pet, feed, and brush the goats. Hannah warmed up to it after awhile, Caleb was chasing them...in this pic, this goat was sleeping, so I thought this would be great to get Caleb acquainted with the animals. After a few minutes, I guess it didn't want us touching it anymore, he kinda jabbed my arm with his horn/antler (not really sure what you call it).

Everyone petting the same nice goat that really wanted us to leave it alone.

Back to the birds...they just went nuts when you walked in carrying the little cup of nectar that they got to eat. One bird actually landed on my hand, pried the lid off himself and ate the whole thing..no sharing for the others. Notice the bird that is on top of my head in this pic. I just didn't want it to poop in my hair. There were some lucky people there that got that special little treat.

After a full day at the zoo, we rode the train at the end, I think that was Hannah's favorite part!

My sweet girl...she was SO tired. She walked around the zoo the WHOLE time, my double stroller is broken, a wheel fell off when we were at Seaworld, we really want a double jogging stroller : ) Anyway, Caleb got to ride in his stroller, and we offered to carry Hannah, or whatever but she insisted of walking herself. So as soon as we got in the car, she took her shoes and socks off, and fell asleep. She doesn't ever want to miss a thing. I love her pose, she's leaned over, looking out the front window so she can see everything, and well just couldn't keep her eyes open. Caleb was passed out at this point too, no pic of him, he's still backwards in his carseat (I know he's 16mos now, 24lbs, but I just think it's safer facing backwards).

Ok thats all for the zoo, but this was funny. I was in the kitchen the other day doing dishes, Hannah and Caleb were playing in the toy room. I kinda hear some screaming, not really serious screaming, but then Hannah comes running to the kitchen saying, "Mommy come look, hurry, look at Caleb"...I'm thinking OH MY GOSH, what happened, is he bleeding, is he stuck somewhere, what did he eat... so I go in the toy room, and she said he fell into the toybox. At this point he was happy and playing. So I took and picture, and then looked him over to make sure he was fine. He actually wanted to stay IN the toybox.

My sweet family, this was at lunch one day, they are always so happy to see daddy at lunchtime. Yes Jeremy has a black eye too...Caleb hit him in the face with a book. You gotta watch him, he likes to throw things.

Day to Day Life...

So cute, playing outside in the front yard on our slide.


At our fall festival at church, wagon ride.


Hannah loved the bean bag toss, I was in charge of that booth, and well she stayed there basically the whole time and didn't want anyone else to have a turn. I mean tears and all when another kid came..thats what no nap during the day will do to you. And she is sporting her SSBC shirt from Monahans...this is one of her favorite shirts ever!


I know, isn't it great. I am so into braiding these days. This is now Hannah's favorite way to wear her hair, I didn't even get a face shot, but I'll post one soon. It stays out of her face better now, and Caleb can't pull her hair as much. Seriously, he LOVES to pull her hair, she's so good about it. Poor kid.


Just lovin' on each other, they really love each other so much...of course a moms wish is that it will stay like this forever. I just realized this pic came after my posting of how he pulls her hair all the time...well in love of course I'm assuming.



Pooped out Kiddos! After work on Wednesday I picked up the kids from "grammies" house. Hannah hadn't slept all day (like usual over there), Caleb slept only about 30min. So these pics were taken at 6pm!! They were out cold. I had to wake them up so we could get to church at 6:30. Maybe I should have skipped out huh.... anyway after they woke up, they were ready to go for a few more hours. This is a classic "sleep" picture of Caleb, he always sleeps on top of his blanket which is almost always curled up into a ball...whatever works, oh and of course the fingers.


Doing laundry, the kids just decided to crawl into the basket and watch me...isn't that nice of them to sit and watch while I wash everyones clothes.


Me and Caleb at the game...I love this picture, he is so sweet and looking more and more like a little toddler. He has 2 more teeth coming in right now, the 2 on the top....so then he'll have 4 up there. Still just the 2 on the bottom.


Mom came to visit for a few days last weekend...so fun, I was so glad to have her here. We went to the last Kenedy football game of the season, it was COLD...but we had a good time. The kids have loved going to the games all year. And yes...Hannah does have a black eye, this was actually post accident about 4 days. Poor sweet girl, we were at a friends house and Hannah was swinging the swing, and it came back and hit her in the face. It was bad, turned purple immediately. Much much better now though.