Our Hospital Visit in March

Starting now I am going to try to write more! Six months have gone by and I have missed writing our little stories and experiences down, but with one computer and one busy husband in school needing the computer, writing on the blog has gone on hold. So tonight while I have a minute I am going to write a few things!

What has gone on? I don't even think I can remember everything! Starting from most recent...Baby number two is doing great! D and I had a wonderful date night at the hospital last Friday after I fell during my last class. I had a few learning moments on Friday...Fourth graders will laugh at a pregnant woman falling not even realizing how scary it can be. I went to do an assemble, not even jumping into it I simply walked brushed one foot out hit a super slick spot and next thing I know both feet were up in the air not completely vertical thankfully, and I was down on my back with one hand bracing my fall. I felt wet and thought oh no was that my water? I stood up amongst the laughter and pretended I didn't hurt at all :) Thankfully it was in my last ballet class of the night and I only had about thirty minutes left! D and miss A picked me up and after calling we went into the hospital. My wonderful brother and sister in law dropped what they were doing to come pick up miss A. She didn't know what was going on, simply excited to play with her cousins and have a sleepover. Come to find out when we picked her up that she refused to go to sleep even though she wanted to sleep over. Funny girl.

We now know what the hospital is like and one of the nurses. We were there for a few hours monitoring baby and contractions. He was great! I was dehydrated...what else is new? I had just been teaching for three hours! They ended up giving me a shot to stop contractions which I was a little hesitant about, but I am glad because I wouldn't want him to have come that early. (March 19th). Come to find out my water did not break... I just wet my pants a little...I didn't think I would ever be so happy to have wet my pants! I haven't slipped since then in ballet and don't plan on it! We are grateful everything was great!

The April Fool's Jokester

We love April Fool's around our house! Miss A now wakes up every morning and asks, "What is today? Is it April Fool's day?" We didn't do a whole lot, but papa certainly got us good! We don't do mean tricks around our house, we just like the silly ones. Since we are living in my parents basement we come upstairs and visit and sometimes eat breakfast with Nana. Well this morning when we got up we found the chairs on the counters and balloons in the fridge. We called Papa immediately and miss A told him all about what she had found. He said, "The April Fool's Jokester must have come". So on went our day...we played and then heard Nana from down the hall ask, "Have you looked in the toilets yet?" Off we went to the bathroom and what do you think we found???

Balloons, in almost all of the toilets. She thought it was the coolest thing ever. She talked about it all day. The day went on. I thought for sure papa had to have done more than that, and sure enough when we went to put our shoes on we found they didn't fit anymore due to tissue paper shoved into the toes. So we decided to switch the cereal inside the cereal boxes for papa to find. We then thought about putting balloons in his shoes. We told miss A should couldn't tell him though, it had to be a surprise. What happened when Papa got home from work? This sweet girl happily and excitedly says, "Papa we put balloons in your shoes, but you won't know because it will be a surprise" and then she laughed.  The only other trick Miss A and I played was during dinner. For part of our dinner we made strawberry juice stuck in a glass. Miss A had so much fun making it...and we even tricked daddy! 

The only trick D and I played was blowing up a balloon in a shampoo container so when my dad went to use it he wouldn't be able to get anything out. Was it a success? We woke up the next morning to the balloon sitting on our kitchen counter with the words "Good One" written on it.

Until next year April Fool's.

Three and a Half Weeks and Counting Down

We are so excited for this sweet baby boy to be born! We only have three and a half weeks left. I can't believe how quickly this pregnancy has gone by. I have so many mixed feelings! I am excited for this little one to enter this world, but oh how I have loved to be pregnant! Watching my belly grow, feeling him move, losing sleep because of bathroom breaks, not being able to lay down to sleep or find anyway to sleep...even after stacking up all of our pillows except two. I love feeling him roll around, kick, stretch, and get hiccups. I love that D and A can feel him too. We just laugh and laugh when he moves because when he moves he really moves. He pokes out until my stomach feels as if it could break!

I am grateful little miss A is excited for him to be born. For a while there were some rough moments- the first one being at the "big ultra sound". We took Miss A with us, which was so funny. The moment the ultra sound tech showed us and out loud said it looks like you're having a boy, Miss A started to do all she could to tell us he was not a boy but a girl. She said to the tech, "no it's a girl, Heavenly Father made her to be a girl". After that anyone who said she was having a brother would be told that we were not having a boy but a girl. We have now gone from that, to her being very excited about having a baby brother. The other morning she woke up and asked, "Daddy is it May?" because she knows her baby brother is supposed to be coming in May. She does pray for her baby sister in heaven and never fails to remind us, "after my baby brother is born my baby sister will be born". We have many colored pictures of ultra sounds of her baby brother :) She loves to draw the ultra sounds.

I am very nervous about the changes that will happen, but I can't even begin to express how grateful I am for our growing family. We have been blessed so much already. In one of our family classes up at school our teacher once said, "It doesn't take money to have a baby, it takes faith". I know it does take money, but when we prepare in all the ways when we can, and when the Lord says it's time, you do your part and the Lord takes care of the rest. We found that with miss A and now with this little guy. Things work out! I definitely found myself saying, "but how?" but little by little and putting trust in the Lord things really do unfold and work out. One funny thing that still keeps me laughing is how I just started a new job, as a ballet teacher, and was expecting. I kept thinking what funny timing right when I start this job we are also expecting a new baby! I know it wasn't just coincidence. Soon after that I found out with this job I get six weeks paid maternity leave. I was placed with level one ballet classes, which although have been very challenging at times, I have been able to keep up teaching the entire time.

We have been blessed, and I never thought I'd say this, with loan money not taken out from the bank but through the school! We were very happy to hear that! We have been blessed with baby needs and just so many things! So if I could say one thing I have learned through this pregnancy I think it would have to be gratitude and attitude.

The Lord does know all things!