Oh GOOD!

This morning I woke up and felt OK. I felt gross, but I didn't want to hurl. I toasted a bagel and gave Isabella half. I chose the small half. Less stuff to come up later. I put butter on it. It was DELICIOUS! I didn't feel so great afterwards and was not looking forward to what I thought might happen. So, I ate an orange. It was gooooooood. So I had another one. Then I had a small glass of orange juice. Guess what?

It all stayed down!

For lunch I ate 2/3's a box of mac n' cheese. Not the best, I know, but it also stayed down!

I don't know if I should worry about the baby and think something's wrong, or if I should just REJOICE!!!! Right now, I'm kind of doing both. I started bleeding a little yesterday, and if that wasn't going on, I think I would just be very very happy.

Tomorrow, a nurse is coming to help me with my new zofran pump. I had this when I was pregnant with Isabella. Not my favorite thing, but I have zofran in my system 24/7, so that IS a good thing. Maybe I will be able to eat more and start gaining some weight. Maybe....sigh. I am looking forward to tomorrow, however, I am NOT looking forward to having to stick and re-stick myself every 3-5 days. I hated that part. My mom had to do most of the sticking for me last time. And since I have two little ones at home, I have to make sure that they won't pull my line out. That would so not be cool. Hopefully there will be enough fat to pinch so I can stick myself. My poor body.

I'm off to try to eat and drink something else. YIPPY!

Today

Pictures of the kids in their costumes. Isabella was a butterfly, Alexander was a lion!

I had my doctor's appointment today. I found out that I am 12 weeks and 2 days pregnant, and that my baby is due May 17, 2010! The baby sounded good, which was a relief. I will hopefully be trying acupuncture soon for the nausea and vomiting. I hope it works! I am down 19 lbs!!!!! YUCK!!!

My brother fixed our hot water Monday. Yesterday I bathed the kids and took a bath myself. Today I took a really HOT shower. It felt soooo good. I'm grateful for hot water.

Daddy got one of the Christmas trees down and I "fluffed" it. It looks so pretty. Isabella thinks Santa is coming tonight, but I told her he is still very busy making toys. She is very excited for Christmas.

Life is good. I'm glad to be alive. I'm glad I wasn't born earlier than I was. I don't think I would've survived pregnancy. Like I said, my life is good and I'm am BLESSED!!!!!

Oh....and we FINALLY got our car back yesterday. I stinks inside like paint, but it feels so good to drive it.

And....I got glasses today. I can now see, for REAL! Everything is so much more beautiful!

Mami mami mami mami mami......

I put the kids down a little early for their naps today. (And they also didn't wake up until 9:40 am.....AND they went to bed at 7:30pm last night.) They are still up. Isabella is reading her book and Alexander is saying "Ma may" "Ma may". He started saying "mami" a few days ago. That's all he says now. It's very sweet. This morning I woke up to....

Alexander: "MAAAA MIIIIIIII!"

and

Isabella: "Mami, I'm awake!"

This is what Isabella says every morning when she is up.

We finally carved our pumpkins this morning before Ronald left for work. They look great. Isabella didn't want to get the "guts" out. She thought it was gross. Last year she was brave and did it without hesitation. I will post pictures later.

Daddy is going to get the Christmas trees down for me today when he gets home. I know. I'm crazy. But I'm really really excited for Christmas this year. I think part of it has to do with my hormones. (Well, I can try to blame it on them, can't I?) I have big plans for Christmas this year. I'm surprised Daddy is willing to get the trees down for me so early. Normally, we would probably refuse. Again, thank you hormones!

Have a safe Halloween.

Not the right timing

Where do I begin.

A few people know that I am pregnant. If you didn't know, now you do. I am very excited about this new life, even though it was TOTALLY unexpected and not planned for (we were going to wait 2 years or so until Ronald is almost done with school). I have no idea when my due date is, sometime in May. I should find out for sure next week at my doctor's appointment.

Last night I took the kids my myself to church for the annual trunk-or-treat. Ronald had school. Isabella was really looking forward to this, and even though I wasn't feel great, I took her. Near the end of the night I felt some "wetness", more than usual (you know how it is being a pregnant woman, you NEVER know what's going on with your body), so I went to check it out. It was BLOOD! LOTS OF IT!!

I freaked, but very quietly. I didn't want to scare Isabella. Okay, I'll just stuff some TP in there and be fine. I did, and it wasn't cutting it. I didn't have anything in my purse that would be handy. WAIT....a diaper! Yes, I used a diaper, and it worked great. (I felt totally weired.) We hurried out to the car. (For the first time, I told Isabella to run in church. I felt really bad saying that, but I did.) We got home, I called the doctor, they said "come on down". Ronald still wasn't home so Daddy took me all the way down to Franklin Square. The midwife on duty checked me out. No cramping, good news. No dialation and a long cervix....very good news. They would try to listen for a heart beat and if that didn't work, they would do an ultrasound. The most beautiful thing ever gave my heart a little hug, I got to hear my sweet new growing baby's heartbeat. So I must be between 10-12 weeks....I think. I felt relieved, but I'm still not in the clear. Now I have to take it easy, which I think I've already been doing since I feel so nasty all day long (but it is WAY easier this time around than with Isabella and Alexander....with them I threw up 8-12 times a day, with this one it's only 2-4 times a day!). If I bleed a whole whole lot, I have to go back. I'm still bleeding, but I'm still not crampy.

I was very happy to get sick this morning. It made me feel normal. Hopefully things will be okay, and if not, I put all my trust in my Heavenly Father.

If only this all happened at home.......and not at church. sigh......

Isabella turns 3!

My Isabella turned three last week. She was has been so excited so her birthday this year. No kidding, every day for a couple of months before her big day, she has been talking about her birthday. She was so excited when the day finally came!

She got her very own fish! She named it "Banga". As in "bang" with an "ah" on the end. She named him right away.

"Look, I got my doctor toys back!" She's been wanting these since FOREVER!
" A BOOK!" This girly loves to read her books. Seriously, after she unwrapped her presents the first thing she did was look at her book. No requests were made for the toys to be opened. She just sat and read.

A prince, princess, and a wedding all in one box. She was pleased with her little people.

The birthday cake I made for my princesa. It's a pillow with a crown on top.

Uncle Cookie was the chief of the pancake flipping. Isabella said she wanted pancaycays (that's what she calls them) and bacon, and orange juice. This girl LOVES her breakfast foods.

My two sweet babies.

Happy birthday, sissy!

Excited that she finally gets to open her presents. Notice the jewelery. I put the clip on earrings on her and she said, "owww, take them off." I said, "wait, I want you to see how pretty you look first." I took her in the bathroom and put her on the counter. She saw herself and smiled. The earrings did not come off. The price of beauty.

Checking out her new Bitty Baby from Nanny. She loves loves LOVES her Bitty Baby (so does Auntie Beebs).

Singing happy birthday to my sweet girl (and Bitty Baby).

Preparing to blow the candles.

and they were out! I seriously thought one of my brothers "helped" her, but they didn't. She was pretty far from the cake. I didn't think she'd be able to blow them out from that far. I was wrong.

YAY! Now she can finally wear the princesa crown from the top of the cake! (And yes, I did wash it off first.) Such a pretty girl.

Riding on the motocicleta that Uncle Grant and Jenny got for her.

The Bitty Baby toting, motocicleta riding princesa Isabella.

Happy Birthday, punkin! I LOVE YOU!

Alexander turns 1!

My little bear turned one year old two weeks ago. I can't believe how quickly his birthday came. I remember being pregnant with him. I remember all of the contractions I had with him during the hay right to the pumpkin patch at Brad's. I remember hearing, "It's a boy!" and thinking, holy cow, I have a SON! We'll that sweet baby is one, and I just can't believe it. We had a nice birthday dinner for him with family. I love my little choo-choo.

The cake I made for him. Megan, I know it doesn't compare to your cakes, but I was very pleased with it.

The vines around the side of the cake.
The family, minus me, and Uncle Jeffrey wasn't there yet, either. Daddy had to work.

Eating his birthday dinner. I made him plain and blueberry waffles. We also had fruit salad. This boy LOVES those things.

The birthday boy, not sure what is going on.

Playing his drums that Nanny got for him.

Sitting on the "crrrrruck" that Nanny got for him, too. It makes lots of noises and plays music.

My brother Grant and his girlfriend Jenny got him this HUGE dump truck. Grant was hoping that Alexander would climb into the bed of the truck. Here he is doing just that. Grant was very pleased.

Sitting in the dump truck and holding the boat that Grandpa got him.

This is the face he was making while we were singing "Happy Birthday". He was grinning the whole time. So cute!

Trying to put the candle out with his fingers.

We called for back-up. Isabella helped Alexander blow out his candle.

mmmmm.....cake

It never ends

This morning on our way to the doctor's, we were rear ended. This happened on the busy busy 50 + miles per hour road near our house. The boy (okay, he's 22ish) who hit me was texting. IT"S AGAINST THE LAW!!!!!!!!!! Laws are made for reasons. Today, that reason was shown. When you text and drive you CRASH! The guy in front of me was turning right into his driveway. I slowed down and looked in my rear view mirror. I saw the car coming. TOO FAST! I literally said out loud, "slow down buddy.....oh no, you are going to hit me.....hold on!". He didn't hear me. I looked in the left lane and no one was coming for a long while, so I steered into that lane. He hit me on my right rear bumper, we went into the guard rail. Alexander cried at the top of his lungs. Isabella's eyes were really big. I was very scared. (I thought we were going to go over the guard rail into the trees, but we didn't....thankfully.)

Our car is pretty messed up, but the important things is that

WE ARE SAFE.

I'm glad I prayed for safety this morning before we left. I almost didn't pray (I don't know why, I always pray before we go anywhere.) Heavenly Father loves me and my sweet babies. I'm glad he heard and answered my prayer today. He DOES hear and answer prayers, and I am greatful.

Now, let's hope nothing else goes wrong this week. We still have no hot water, but someone's coming out to look at the heater tomorrow morning (hopefully) and he has experience with our heater!