we're counting down to the day when we find out if baby #2 is a boy or girl. i know each and every one of you has an opinion, so share it. on the far right side of the screen just below the pregnancy countdown is a poll. go vote!
we'll share the results on september 11th when we find out ourselves.
right now i am going through the emotional stage of pregnancy. i get worked up about everything and get so teary-eyed constantly. recently i have struggled with karsyn being my only child for only five more months. my relationship with her will never be the same because i will have to share my time. i will seldom have one on one time with her and am planning on setting time each week for her only. with this struggle, i'm having a hard time letting her go see grandparents without me, even though i need the break. i want her to be away only for a short time. and she must be home on sundays because those are our only days home with my favorite man.
today, my struggle is learning to love another child just as much as i love her. i'm crying as i type this because i just put her to bed and every night she kisses me and says "i wov woo". without me asking. since my favorite man started back to school and football, most of the time he misses putting her to bed. tonight is one of those nights, and after she kissed me, she leaned over and said "dada" and pretended to kiss him too. it broke my heart. as much of a monster as she can be sometimes, she has and shows all the love in the world at the end of the day. no matter how many times i make her mad or spank her, she always kisses me and tells me she loves me. and she certainly misses her daddy which is wearing on him in only his third week of football practice.
i have to stop being such a sissy, but that kids just amazes me and i love her so much. how will i share my love with another child? i know i will. i know it's possible, but it seems so impossible tonight.
today, my sweet friend, jasey celebrates her birthday. she lives too far for me to celebrate with her, so i thought i'd let the world know that she's a year older.
i stole this picture off of her myspace page, so hopefully she doesn't mind.
happy birthday, sweet friend. i love you and miss you and wish you the best. now hurry up and get back to texas so i can hug your neck. here are 10 things i love about my friend.
1. she's an awesome wife and mother (especially for what she has to work with) :)
2. she thinks of others first.
3. she takes awesome pictures.
4. she's very creative and a wonderful decorator.
5. she's so stinking crazy and funny.
6. she drives a purple car.
7. she lives in oklahoma. for whatever reason she decided it was more important to live close to her family than to me. ugh.
8. she's super smart.
9. she loves me for who i am. at least i think she does.
10. she loves my God too.
ok everyone. let's hear it.
my monday hasn't been too bad actually. the worst things that happened was that karsyn only took an hour and a half nap instead of two hours and she got 4 mosquito bites this evening.
my case of the mondays has to do with how stinking tired i am. i think i even took a nap while karsyn was eating a snack and watching cartoons this afternoon. oops. does that go down as a bad mom mark? late nights on weekends always catch up on mondays.
how about you? did you have the case of the mondays?
i love that picture of my sweet baby. thank you DN for taking it and thank you to my friend jasey in oklahoma for adding to it. karsyn is now 20 months old. what a big girl. we celebrated by going to the circus in austin. more pictures of that to come. she LOVED it.
here are 20 things about my big girl.
*she still LOVES to play outside. her pop just bought her a new trampoline that she thoroughly enjoys.
*her favorite food is strawberries. can you believe she is a picky eater?
*she loves to play with shoes, but really hates to have to wear them.
*she loves to "go swimming" (aka taking a bath ... thank you Nana)
*asks about everyone she knows by name, at least 5 times a day (especially the neighbor kids)
*enjoys her morning "tatoons" (cartoons)
*mickey mouse is her favorite, hands down
*she is still off the charts in height, but now 90th percent in weight. and can you believe the doctor said she has a big head. he actually said "she has a big brain", but still ... i knew what he meant
*she is saying more phrases now, like "dada work", "dada hurry", "please juice"
*she still does sign language for please, thank you, more, all done, and now she does milk
*her favorite game is hide and seek. she tells us to "hide" all the time.
*favorite songs are "itsy bitsy spider" & "if you're happy and you know it"
*says "OK" to everything. she makes it sound like it was your idea to begin with. for example: she'll say "outside? OK!" she doesn't even let you get a word in.
*she knows her animal sounds. several of them have hand motions that go along.
*she loves planes and trains, but big trucks scare her.
*she loves to play babies. she lays them on a blanket so they can go "nigh nigh" and tries to feed them everything she eats. so if you see a baby with smashed strawberries or crackers in it's mouth, it's probably ours
*really gets a thrill out of pestering our poor little dog, colby (aka "bobbie")
*still clings to her blankie, which she refers to as "bebe".
*tells me she has to go potty immediately after she's pooped in her diaper.
*and lastly, so sweetly gives us bedtime kisses and says "i wove woo". melts my heart every time.
i now have TWO friends here that are pregnant. one due in november. one due in march. i'm in between in january. finally we'll have friends with babies. those babies will be so blessed and will know love from the very beginning. i'm so excited to share in this journey with them both. did i mention these will be the first babies for both of them? and that they both work at the same place i did when i was pregnant with karsyn?
Lord, i pray for these two ladies as they go through this amazing blessing of birthing a sweet child. i pray that you keep them healthy for the months to come and to prepare them for the months after their babies arrive. continue to bless their families, as i know they will raise these two precious ones knowing who their Lord and Savior is and what He can do for them. thank you, Lord, for this amazing gift of being a mother. Amen.
here are 13 of my favorite things at this moment, mostly because i'm pregnant
1. remember this? well, this baby L.O.V.E.S this ... (could be another post for another day)
2. sweet tea, from mcalister's and chick fil a. no other place stands up to the quality of those at this moment. my favorite man's sweet tea stands above them all though.
3. cheesecake, sparingly. so sweet though.
4. SLEEP.
5. pedicures.
6. spicy nacho doritos. why? i'm still wondering that myself.
7. spending time with karsyn while she's still my only child. it's hitting me now folks that my baby is not going to be my only baby in 5 months.
8. SLEEP.
9. blueberry muffin frosted mini wheats.
10. spaghetti.
11. SLEEP.
12. having energy to do anything.
13. SLEEP.
why is it that my favorite things while pregnant revolve around food and sleep? hmmm ...
it's so hard to believe that karsyn is about to be 20 month old. oh how it has gone by too fast. i'm trying to enjoy these times while it's only her and trying to savor every moment i have with her alone. her favorite thing to do right now is play with her babies. i'm hoping it is a good sign of things to come, but sometimes these poor babies endure things that no human should ever have to. other times, you would wish you were her baby. here is one of my current favorite pictures.
this photo shoot quickly came to a close as soon as she discovered how to stand in the window and wrap the curtains around her. those activities resulted in a nasty fall and a quick rearranging session of the living room furniture. it's trial and error around here.
here is another favorite. this was a very serious mud pie making session with the neighbors. did you know there is actually a recipe for mud pies? it requires a certain amount of every ingredient. i have never seen karsyn act like she knew what she was doing more than while she was making mud pies. it was like she was performing brain surgery. so serious. and there were no room for errors or they had to start over. by the end, she was disgustingly filthy, her face was red (under all the mud), and she was exhausted.
( ps. let me know if my pictures look distorted. they required a lot of adjusting.)
my favorite man is back in action. two-a-days started last week so our time with him now is limited, but still so special. our last few days haven't been so exciting as karsyn has a double ear infection, running fever, and has a sinus infection. we're on antibiotics and breathing treatments hoping to knock it out in just a few days.
i go to the doctor again on thursday. i'll be 16 weeks. can you believe it? it's going by quickly, but creeping by at the same time. i wish it was january, but we won't let our time with just one child sneak past us to quickl, that's for sure. i'm no longer nauseated, which makes for much better days at the hill house.
and lastly, we are thoroughly enjoying the olympics. my favorite man and i have always been huge sports fans, so we love every minute of these two weeks. what makes it even better for me though is one of my hometown boys is competing. that's right. straight from lavernia, texas. dusty jonas will be competing in the high jump. root him on! he is ranked #1 in the world, but came in 6th at the olympic trials. it's really cool just to say that i know someone there and hopefully we can watch him on tv. look for him folks! root him to a gold.
some days i want so much more than i have. other days i realize life doesn't offer anything better than this ...
i must agree with dayna. this stuff is de-licious. when ice cream shopping, i usually go for the plain ole' strawberry, but my pregnancy cravings ran over that one and headed straight for my southern roots. it didn't quite taste like granny's blackberry cobbler, but it runs a close race. now if it only had granny's crust.
on the pregnancy side of things, i do crave sweets more than normal this go round. not too much, but more than normal. i can tell a huge difference in this pregnancy than when i was carrying karsyn. for one, i was still puking for another 3 months with her. boy am i glad that's over. the next big difference ... my crater face. it feels like the surface of the moon, no kidding. no matter how much i wash or what products i use, i break out. i feel like a dang teenager again. with karsyn, my skin was smooth. milky almost and my hair wasn't too shabby itself. must be what boys do to you, eh? that is, if i truly am having a boy this time. Lord help us all.
