A Possible Move in the Future

Well I have learned some very stressful news....Andrew may be transferred to Houston. Sad, but true. His company has been laying people off by the handful every month. It all started earlier this year when projects weren't coming in due to the economy. By the grace of God Andrew has made it through several rounds of layoffs. Now they are to the point where if he wants to keep his job his only option may be moving to the Houston office. Which means starting all over again for us. The good thing is we have an opportunity to get closer to family with this. Andrew decided to put out new job applications in Oklahoma and in Longview,TX (where his parents live). So I really hope that something comes from one of those places to avoid the move to Houston. I want to get closer to family, not further away!



In the past year we have bought our first home, joined a wonderful church, and made some great friends. We have lived in the area for about two years and it took us that long to get where we are now. I don't look forward to going through that process again. Now we have to worry about selling our house too! That does not sound like a fun process. I have a hard time keeping my house nice and tidy on a day to day basis. I don't even want to think about getting an unexpected call from the realtor saying hey I want to show your house in an hour! Yikes!



Another added stress is the fact that we are having a baby! I have no idea when the move would take place or where I will be in my pregnancy. Hopefully everything will work out and I won't have to worry about have a home birth or anything like that! :) I need my epidural! I think the thing I am most sad about is I won't be able to decorate the baby's nursery exactly the way I want. If our house is going to be on the market we need to keep the walls as neutral as possible. I have the cutest idea for a little girls room that I guess I won't get to do anytime soon. :(

I absolutely HATE not knowing what is going to happen. I like to plan and have details worked out. It is impossible to do when we have no idea where we will end up and when. I know that God is in control. He knows our needs and will provide for us. He loves us and doesn't want us to worry about these details He already has worked out. I just have to put my trust in Him and let Him lead us where HE wants us!

OH Baby!

Here is a new picture of our precious baby. This was taken at my 14 week appointment. Can I just say my doctor is awesome! She just randomly said "Hey do you want to run back and see if we can take a peek between the baby's legs?" I was like, "UMMM...YEAH!" Most of the time you only get two sonograms throughout your pregnancy unless you are high risk or have an awesome doctor. She said that at my next appointment we can take another look to get a better answer. We couldn't get a really clear look but she didn't see anything poking out down there! I sure hope it stays that way! I would love to have my big boy and little girl. How perfect would that be! I also don't think it would be too bad to have two little boys either. I just want to keep balance in the household you know! I can't wait for Dec. 11th to get here! Hopefully we will have a definite answer then!

Christmas Presents!

Hey Everyone! I have a friend of mine that just started making really cute signs. Check out her website. She is very reasonably priced and makes a bunch of really neat items. They would make great Christmas or birthday gifts! Who doesn't like things to decorate with! Enjoy!



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In other news....



Things have been getting a lot better! I actually feel good most of the time. I wish I could say my appetite was back to normal but it isn't there yet. I can't stand the sight or smell of anything beef related! Although I can eat spaghetti with meat, but I think it is because it is covered in sauce. I recently purchased a heart doppler to listen to the baby whenever I want. I love having it! I listen about twice a day. At night I let Cannon listen and he loves it too! He will sing to the baby and then hug my belly and says "I love you baby." It melts my heart! Hopefully he will feel that way in about 6 months when his mommy is holding that baby! I am getting so excited about finding out the sex of the baby. I have this feeling that it is a girl. I don't know if that is because I really want it to be a girl or if it is my maternal instinct but that is what I am feeling. I have also done numerous tests with the wives tales and they all point towards girl too. They baby has a high heart rate. I conceived on a girl month according to the Chinese birth calender and my hair has looked horrible lately. They say little girls still their mother's looks. Hmmm....yep I'll just pretend that is what is wrong with my appearance lately! So we will see in hopefully 4 weeks. I will feel just as happy if they say it is a boy though! I love my first little boy and I will absolutely love a second! I will just have to start planning all the boy stuff because I already have everything planned out for a girl! :) Silly me!

Halloween

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! Oops! I have just had a lot going on. But let me catch everyone up on what has been going on in our little world...

Our Halloween plans ended up being quite different than we planned. My mom was suppose to be coming to Dallas to spend halloween with us, but instead we made an emergency trip to Oklahoma. Thursday night I got a call from my step-dad telling me they thought my mom was having a heart attack. Talk about scared! I didn't know what to do! I didn't know if I needed to get in the car right then and drive or what. I waited it out to hear her condition and they said she was stable. So I decided to wait until the next morning to leave. Well of course everything that could go wrong did that morning. Not with my mom, but just with me getting ready for the trip. So I didn't end up leaving Dallas until about 1:00. By the time I got to Tulsa my mom had been released from the hospital, Praise the Lord! They said it was a result of really high blood pressure and stress. They found no damage to her heart which was amazing! Sp she of course had to take it easy the next few days. But on halloween we headed over to Aunt Stacey's house to let Cannon and Gage go trick or treating together. Cannon was a pirate and Gage was a dinosaur. They both looked so cute. Cannon would go up and ring the doorbell. He would great the person who answered with "ARRRGGG! I'm a pirate!" He is such a little ham! I don't know where he gets it! Talk about personality!

Cannon has been talking non-stop it seems. He says some of the most random things too. I hate to admit it, but I let Cannon watch a little too much tv at times. But hey, I am pregnant and tired so sometimes that is the easiest way to distract him while I get some rest! I feel somewhat justified in this decision because I only let him watch educational shows. He doesn't get to watch just random cartoons. He watches Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Dinosaur Train, Little Enstiens, etc. He is actually learning a lot from these. In the past few weeks I have heard him talk about hexagons, ovals, machines, he drew the number 6, and countless other things. I am shocked everytime he tells me something like that! Last night we were cutting up potatoes and he told me "Hey, Mommy those are ovals!" Wow! Smart kid! I can't wait to see when he starts school. He is going to be a fast learner I can already tell.

As far as baby news, as you can see by the ticker at the top I have reached the 12 week mark! Hooray!! Things have been good. I don't get nausea as often now. I still have a hard time eating somedays. Nothing sounds that great to me. I know this will pass soon though and I will be stuffing my face constantly! Next month we will find out what we are having! Can't wait!

Pumpkin Time!

This weekend we carved/painted pumpkins. Last year I did it at the beginning of October and the pumpkin didn't make it to Halloween. So I made myself hold off until now to do it this year. I got a pumpkin for each of us this year. Mommy, Daddy, Cannon and Baby. I let Cannon color his with marker and he had a blast doing that. Of course there was a big mess afterwards! Andrew was a party pooper. He didn't want to carve his pumpkin so I did both of the bigger ones! I really like doing it, but my hands hurt really bad after. I can't wait for next weekend. Cannon had a lot of fun last year trick or treating and I just threw a costume together at the last minute. This year he is going to be a pirate! He is the cutest little pirate there is too!

Lord Please Bear Me Strength!

*Please ignore the nastiness around the toilet but I just had to take these pics!*

My son is the master of messes I have decided! I can not leave him alone for 2 seconds without finding some disaster to clean up after. It is very tiring on a poor ol' pregnant mom too! Doesn't the boy have any R-E-S-P-E-C-T! I think not! Take a look for yourself:

If you have figured out what this lovely white mess is then, it is white out. Yep! Where he got it I have no idea. I was talking to my mom on the phone and she mentioned that Cannon was being awfully quite so he must be getting in trouble. I assured her than "Noooo, nooo, he is in his playroom watching Nemo. He is either passed out on the floor or just playing quietly." Almost my exact words. HAHAHA! What planet was I on! It MUST be the hormones. Cannon was nowhere to be found in his playroom. I ran to my bathroom and the door was locked. I started to panic because it was really quite in there as well. As a mother you have all of these horrific scenes play through your mind of what you will find behind the door. Mine was what if he has drowned himself in the toilet bowl or the sink! Yes, a weird thought, but again it must be the hormones! Well, I was "lucky" that my imagination was incorrect. No, he was alive and well, painting the bathroom tile with white out. Nothing major! Seriously! Where does this child get his ideas! I don't understand why he feels a need to do stuff like this constantly. What am I doing wrong. I think the problem is he need to be somewhere doing something all the time. He isn't one of those kids that likes to sit and watch tv or lay around. He has to be actively doing something every minute he is awake! Which is a good thing, but I am just going to have to find some activity to keep the boy busy! I use to think I would not send him to preschool or anything but I am quickly changing my mind. He is just one of those kids that needs to be entertained and learning all the time. He is a very smart boy. He knew he wasn't suppose to do that, which is why he locked the door. He knows that he is not suppose to get up out of bed once we put him down for the night, which is why he uses the excuse "But I need to pee pee mommy!" Yes, he is a very smart boy indeed!

Baby Bump

Here is a picture of our new little one. This ultrasound was taken at 7 weeks and 3 days. How this wee little baby, the size of an olive is making my belly look like this, I will never know!

I have always heard the second pregnancy you show a lot faster, but wow! At this rate I will be a hippo before it is all over with! But that is okay! I love having a baby belly. It is one thing I missed after Cannon was born. I loved feeling him move and get the hiccups. I can't wait for this baby to get big enough to feel. It is so wierd because last time I had an aversion to chicken. I wanted to throw up at the sight or thought of it. Now it is about the only thing I can eat. I love huge salads with chicken on top. This time around I am not too fond of beef. I don't have a total aversion to it but it doesn't sound as appietizing as it once did. I really have to be in the mood to eat beef.

Things have been a little rough lately. We have had two stomach bugs hit our family in a weeks time. I also have been EXHAUSTED! I find it hard to keep my eyes open so at times I wake up to messes beyond belief. I don't like to fall asleep while Cannon is awake but some days he will not take a nap no matter how long I fight with him. So I wake up to a little boy covered in sugar and a kitchen much the same. I also found toothpaste all over the couch arm ( thank goodness it is leather!) with cars tracks that have been driving through it. I really wonder how he comes up with these ideas! I wish I could get inside the brain of my three year old and know why he thinks these are great ideas. I am just waiting for that second trimester to get here. You know they say you get your energy back then. One can only hope...