I am 18 weeks 3 days pregnant, and we found out today that we are having a little baby girl! Today was a fun day, because we didn't know we were having an ultrasound this morning, and as the day went on my appointment got switched and Darin was home... So it all worked out perfectly and he got to come while my dear friend Jenn watched our boys for us! Lots of fun!
I hope anyone reading this will pray for us as we embark on this new journey of raising a girl, as we are both getting a little nervous about the difference that entails.
Thanks!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
quick post...
I wanted to post a picture of this a long time ago as it was Darin's Christmas present to the boys... but for some reason I never got it up. Darin made this tool bench for the boys and they absolutely LOVE it!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Actually... its "Mommy-girl"
Here are just a few funny things my little babe has been saying...
My boys love to pull all of the cushions off of the couches in the formal living room. And... so does the dog. Needless to say they are ALWAYS (it seems like to me) on the floor in there. Well, the other day I walked in there and once again they were on the floor. Well, I think we had some friends coming over or something and that is the first room you walk into in my house so I hate for it to look like a mess. So... the point is, Conner was standing there (poor guy- wrong place at the wrong time) and I asked him to clean it up. He was going to, without a fight so I figured that he was the one who probably pulled them all off... Until Parker came running up and said "Actually, me did it." I couldn't help but laugh. He used the word actually correctly (just two years old) but then he said me instead of I. What a funny kid!
Also... our dogs names are Pixie and Harley. I guess I started calling them "Pixie-girl" and "Harley-girl." So, Parker has started calling them that as well... And now, he has made his own variation. I am now referred to as "Mommy-girl."
Just wanted to post these funny little things, before I forget them, although I don't know if I will forget "Mommy-girl" as I rarely hear the word Mommy without girl following when Parker is talking to me!
My boys love to pull all of the cushions off of the couches in the formal living room. And... so does the dog. Needless to say they are ALWAYS (it seems like to me) on the floor in there. Well, the other day I walked in there and once again they were on the floor. Well, I think we had some friends coming over or something and that is the first room you walk into in my house so I hate for it to look like a mess. So... the point is, Conner was standing there (poor guy- wrong place at the wrong time) and I asked him to clean it up. He was going to, without a fight so I figured that he was the one who probably pulled them all off... Until Parker came running up and said "Actually, me did it." I couldn't help but laugh. He used the word actually correctly (just two years old) but then he said me instead of I. What a funny kid!
Also... our dogs names are Pixie and Harley. I guess I started calling them "Pixie-girl" and "Harley-girl." So, Parker has started calling them that as well... And now, he has made his own variation. I am now referred to as "Mommy-girl."
Just wanted to post these funny little things, before I forget them, although I don't know if I will forget "Mommy-girl" as I rarely hear the word Mommy without girl following when Parker is talking to me!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Also...
Please pray for Darin's cousins Devon and Rob (and their daughter Riley) as they will celebrate their twin boys one year birthday... but also grieve the anniversaries of their deaths.
I can't imagine what life is like for them... But thankfully we have a God that does know, and can comfort them in all the ways they need. Also... here are links for Devon's blog and Dana's blog (Darin's cousin who I mentioned couple posts ago- whose daughter is fighting lukemia). In case you want to follow their stories, and have specifics on what exactly to pray for for each of them... They are both MUCH better at updating their blogs than I am.
If you didn't already see... I just posted another blog right before this... just forgot to add this.
I can't imagine what life is like for them... But thankfully we have a God that does know, and can comfort them in all the ways they need. Also... here are links for Devon's blog and Dana's blog (Darin's cousin who I mentioned couple posts ago- whose daughter is fighting lukemia). In case you want to follow their stories, and have specifics on what exactly to pray for for each of them... They are both MUCH better at updating their blogs than I am.
If you didn't already see... I just posted another blog right before this... just forgot to add this.
Nap time
For the last two months or so I have been sleeping at every naptime, or really every time I get. Even going to sleep when the boys go to sleep at night... That is why it is pretty hard for me to keep up with my blog. But today the boys are asleep... my house is messy (another consequence of my sleep requirements lately) but I am updating the blog.
Darin has been in school the last 4 days. Here in Dallas, which is really nice, because he's been home at night. He's supposed to fly out tomorrow or Wednesday morning to go to Santa Barbara. That should be fun... for him!:)
The boys are doing well. Although I did have to take Parker to the doctor this morning. He has a "sinus infection." The doctor also said he thinks he has athsma, but is not ready to commit to that diagnosis. So we will start antibiotics today and hopefully he will feel better soon... although I have to say that he doesn't seem to be feeling bad lately. He just has this cough that keeps him up if we don't medicate him. Which is why I took him to the doctor. I hate giving him medicine every night just for him to get to sleep. But, the doctor said that the cough syrup I am giving him is just fine to use over a period of time... So we will continue to use it. And hopefully it won't be athsma.
After the doctors office I surprised the boys with a visit to a park that we see EVERY time we go to the doctors, but have never gone to. The park right next to the Grapevine botanical gardens (which I always thought looked pretty lame from the road-but actually turned out to be really pretty with a lot of great photo ops-to bad I am not good enough to figure out how to transfer the pictures from my phone to the computer)... The park was so much fun I think we were there for over an hour! Then Darin met us there after school, and played for a bit. We had a great time! And afterward Daddy took them home, and I got to go grocery shopping... by myself!
Speaking of the grocery shopping...just a quick question... Does anyone know if there is a curry spice that is yellow? Can you buy it in the spice isle? I couldn't find it in our WalMart, but I also know that the Super Walmart- no matter how super often fails to provide all the items a normal grocery store offers.
I don't know if I've posted anything about Conner and Parkers crazy and life changing sleep habits (I mean life changing for Darin and I). But both of these boys have issues with sleeping. Conner's I can totally trace back to my mistakes with him as an infant...ie, letting him sleep in the bed with us until he was one... never putting him in his crib for a nap, instead letting him sleep on me (Darin was totally guilty of this too) for the duration of his nap. But we made a lot better choices with Parker... and after he turned one... sometime after... but definitly before he turned two we changed our poor habits with Conner. Anyway, the point is, these kids do not sleep well. The hardly ever were sleeping through the night... Ending up in our bed halfway through the night. So finally I asked for some advice (and I had been given this advice before and ignored it... now I know why-sorry Wanda)... the conclusion "put sleeping bags down in your room... if they get up they have to sleep in the sleeping bags... not in your bed." Sounds great until every single night you are fighting one or both of your children at 2 o'clock in the morning, over which sleeping bag they are sleeping in (they always both wanted the same one-right next to Mommy's side of the bed). Or fighting them to sleep in a sleeping bag at all... then waking up with them cold, or crying because they rolled under the bed and then bumped their head. Anyway, this became an every night event also. They would go to sleep in their bed and EVERY single morning we would all wake up in our room. Still.
So, I put up the sleeping bags and told them to stay in their beds or their doors would be shut and if needed they would get spankings. This was about two weeks (maybe a little more) ago... and they are still sleeping (for the most part) in their beds... without getting up. This is not a new method that I am saying will work for anyone, and I have never tried it before. In fact... I am a little leary about how long it will last, because I have done this, and countless other things many times in the past and nothing has worked... So whatever is different this time... Yay! Getting a good nights sleep is also life changing!
WOW, that was a long post about something that may seem trivial... but trust me it isn't!
Darin has been in school the last 4 days. Here in Dallas, which is really nice, because he's been home at night. He's supposed to fly out tomorrow or Wednesday morning to go to Santa Barbara. That should be fun... for him!:)
The boys are doing well. Although I did have to take Parker to the doctor this morning. He has a "sinus infection." The doctor also said he thinks he has athsma, but is not ready to commit to that diagnosis. So we will start antibiotics today and hopefully he will feel better soon... although I have to say that he doesn't seem to be feeling bad lately. He just has this cough that keeps him up if we don't medicate him. Which is why I took him to the doctor. I hate giving him medicine every night just for him to get to sleep. But, the doctor said that the cough syrup I am giving him is just fine to use over a period of time... So we will continue to use it. And hopefully it won't be athsma.
After the doctors office I surprised the boys with a visit to a park that we see EVERY time we go to the doctors, but have never gone to. The park right next to the Grapevine botanical gardens (which I always thought looked pretty lame from the road-but actually turned out to be really pretty with a lot of great photo ops-to bad I am not good enough to figure out how to transfer the pictures from my phone to the computer)... The park was so much fun I think we were there for over an hour! Then Darin met us there after school, and played for a bit. We had a great time! And afterward Daddy took them home, and I got to go grocery shopping... by myself!
Speaking of the grocery shopping...just a quick question... Does anyone know if there is a curry spice that is yellow? Can you buy it in the spice isle? I couldn't find it in our WalMart, but I also know that the Super Walmart- no matter how super often fails to provide all the items a normal grocery store offers.
I don't know if I've posted anything about Conner and Parkers crazy and life changing sleep habits (I mean life changing for Darin and I). But both of these boys have issues with sleeping. Conner's I can totally trace back to my mistakes with him as an infant...ie, letting him sleep in the bed with us until he was one... never putting him in his crib for a nap, instead letting him sleep on me (Darin was totally guilty of this too) for the duration of his nap. But we made a lot better choices with Parker... and after he turned one... sometime after... but definitly before he turned two we changed our poor habits with Conner. Anyway, the point is, these kids do not sleep well. The hardly ever were sleeping through the night... Ending up in our bed halfway through the night. So finally I asked for some advice (and I had been given this advice before and ignored it... now I know why-sorry Wanda)... the conclusion "put sleeping bags down in your room... if they get up they have to sleep in the sleeping bags... not in your bed." Sounds great until every single night you are fighting one or both of your children at 2 o'clock in the morning, over which sleeping bag they are sleeping in (they always both wanted the same one-right next to Mommy's side of the bed). Or fighting them to sleep in a sleeping bag at all... then waking up with them cold, or crying because they rolled under the bed and then bumped their head. Anyway, this became an every night event also. They would go to sleep in their bed and EVERY single morning we would all wake up in our room. Still.
So, I put up the sleeping bags and told them to stay in their beds or their doors would be shut and if needed they would get spankings. This was about two weeks (maybe a little more) ago... and they are still sleeping (for the most part) in their beds... without getting up. This is not a new method that I am saying will work for anyone, and I have never tried it before. In fact... I am a little leary about how long it will last, because I have done this, and countless other things many times in the past and nothing has worked... So whatever is different this time... Yay! Getting a good nights sleep is also life changing!
WOW, that was a long post about something that may seem trivial... but trust me it isn't!
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