Hello again :)

I'm not doing that great in keeping up with the blog but mainly since my offline life has been so busy. All is going wonderfully here. E has been kicking more and more and last night C got to feel her little sis and see her moving! It was so exciting, unfortunately hubby was napping so he missed it but I'm sure he'll get his chance soon as well.

Everything has been going well and I love the reassurance of feeling E so much more often. It makes it seem so much more real too. I'm not as big as I was with C or J even though usually you show sooner with consecutive pregnancies but who knows each pregnancy is different after all. All is measuring perfectly and I definitely do have a little bump. Yesterday a mom from playgroup (who's also expecting) noticed and she thought maybe I was but wasn't sure so I got to confirm her suspicions. So we had a big talk on pregnancy and babies. I know it sounds silly but it excited me someone noticing and getting to share our joys and symptom stories for a bit. I also have gotten a couple Little Sis onesies which I found (and matching Big Sis and Big Bro shirts for C and J). It's funny I've felt time has been going so slowly but then thinking I'm already 19 weeks makes it seems like it's actually gone by really fast lol. Now that I'm getting to the fun stage I'm not sure if I want the next few months to hurry or not lol. I am so excited thinking about when she actually will be here in my arms though.

We're getting to the end of Daddy's school term now so things are busy around here. Thank goodness for the gorgeous weather out so C and J can burn energy outside. We had some fun this past weekend, with a shopping trip to get some new outfits for all three of our blessings :) and took the kids to Build-A-Bear. They loved it! C picked out a pink bear and named it Tinka-bear and J chose a panda which is named Pan (get their little theme lol). C found a cute outfit to dress her bear in that matched what she was wearing. J's got a GT shirt and overalls. And I had to make a bunny for E :P though didn't dress that one lol. Sunday we went to an Unbirthday Party the neighborhood had. It was cute, with the Alice and Wonderland theme. Some folks even dressed up as the Rabbit, Queen of Hearts, Mad Hatter, and Alice. There was a bounce house (though C was not a fan J did jump with Daddy), cake, and games. The kids had alot of fun and wore themselves out lol.

C and J are both growing like crazy and both seem so grown up these days. For example in the car the other day C said "My tummy hurts Mommy." I asked her what would make it better and she asked for water please. Then when I handed her the bottle she says "Thank you Mommy for the water, that was very nice of you. It was very good, I feel much better now. Please put the cap on so we can save some for later." She's always been talkative but it was crazy how grown up and polite she was being and that she said all that. She's been saying other things like this too it's pretty crazy. C and J both know their ABCs as well and C has been phonetically sounding out words too! I'm so impressed lol. J is acting more and more like a big boy too and working on actually counting (he already knows alot of the numbers it's just a matter of keeping up on using them and not skipping ahead lol). He's also repeating most things C is saying. I'm sure when E arrives they're both going to seem even older in comparison but I hope they'll both be good helpers and am excited to see how they react to the new little one at these ages.

Well I have to run for now, I will try and get some pics to put on here soon. Our main plan for this week is just hubby studying alot for most of it. But Thursday evening my mom will be coming to visit and she'll be staying till Monday so I can go to the big 20 week Ultrasound! And doctor's appointment!

I feel so blessed and happy right now and just so thankful to God for the many many blessings in my life! He is truly amazing! And I am so thankful! Hope your lives are blessed as well!

Baby Blessing aka Baby E :)

So since we've been able to contact the major family members I want to share on here now (still won't be putting anything on FB for awhile probably yet so Mom's the word on there please :) ).

We are expecting our third little one, due September 12th! About a month after my miscarriage (blighted ovum) I started having symptoms and brought it up to my doctor. He thought it was probably just because my AF was coming soon and told me to come back in after it arrived. Well a month later the symptoms had gotten a lot stronger, nausea replaced my hungry feeling, senses continued to improve (smell especially), and many other little signs so I called the doctor again and said I want a blood test. I got in pretty quickly and when the doctor finally looked at my results he freaked out and called me in. Turns out I was already almost 9 weeks along!

I am now 16 weeks (though since I'm measuring a bit ahead and have no LMP date the due date may change we'll see). Everything's been going wonderfully since. I surprisingly started feeling flutters at 12 weeks (was 15w with C and 14w with J). C and J are really excited about Baby Blessing :) and we found out a few days ago that this little one is 100% a.............................GIRL :)

And here's a couple 3d shots of C and J's little sister E :)
She kept kicking during the Ultrasound and the Tech kept saying how long her legs are already
Here's a better face shot with her legs crossed (she likes her yoga poses too :) )We plan to go back for more 3d pics in a few weeks (they have a great deal going on now and it's the same tech who we saw with C and J). In the meantime just letting our littlest blessing, E, grow and develop as she gets ready to add to our family come Fall :)

Just a quick post

We've had a nice weekend with snow Friday and then a pretty wonderful Valentine's Day today, starting with a playgroup party and ending with hubby and I going out to eat. Also we still have some long stem strawberries and chocolate we need to eat lol. Sorry I haven't posted much in a bit but things have been pretty crazy around here and I will be getting back into the world of exciting long posts in the future lol. Days like the last few definitely remind me how blessed I am to have so much love in my life and in my family, even if it isn't always easy it's definitely worth it. Hope everyone else had a happy holiday with your loves :)!

February: It's not just about Valentine's Day

My earlier Groundhog's Day post got me thinking about what other Holidays fall in February and I found this site http://www.brownielocks.com/february.html and thought it'd be fun to share some of the other celebrations from this month. I'm just listing the daily ones but the link has monthly and weekly as well. There's quite a few funny ones :) Enjoy!

February Daily Observances
1: Freedom Day, G. I. Joe Day, Give Kids a Smile Day, Hula in the Coola Day, Robinson Crusoe Day, Spunky Old Broads Day, Working Naked Day
2: Candelmas, Groundhog Day, Hedgehog Day, Imbolic, Sled Dog Day, African American Coaches Day
3: Four Chaplains Memorial Day, National Girls and Women in Sports Day
4: World Cancer Day, Liberace Day, Quacker Day, USO Day
5: Weatherman's [Weatherperson's] Day, Move Hollywood and Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day, Wear Red Day, World Nutella Day, Bubble Gum Day
6: Dump Your Significant Jerk Day, MOBIUS Awards Day
7: Ballet Day, Daytona Pole Day, Man Day, Orthodox Meatfare Sunday, Super Bowl XLIV, Wave all your fingers at your neighbors Day
8: Boy Scout Anniversary, Laugh and Get Rich Day, Grammy Awards Day
9: Read in the Bathtub Day (I like this one lol)
10: Plimsoll Day
11: Be Electrific Day, Pro Sports Wives Day, National Shut-in Visitation Day, Satisfied Staying Single Day, White Shirt Day
12: Darwin Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Oglethorpe Day, Safety Pup Day
13: Madly in Love With Me Day, Employee Legal Awareness Day, Get a Different Name Day
14: Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, Daytona 500, Ferris Wheel Day, Library Lovers Day, National Have a Heart Day, National Condom Day, World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day, League of Women Voters Day, National Women's Heart Day, National Call In Single Day, Race Relations Day, National Donor Day, Quirky Alone Day, Shrovetide (14-16), World Marriage Day
15: Presidents Day, Lupercalia, Orthodox Green Monday, Susan B. Anthony Day, Shrove Monday, National Gum Drop Day, Rabi'I, Westminster Dog show (15-16)
16: Mardi Gras, Fastnachts Day, International Pancake Day, Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday, Paczki Day, Washington's Birthday
17: Ash Wednesday or Quiet Day, My Way Day, National PTA Founders Day, World Human Spirit Day
18: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (lol hubby will love that), Pluto Day
19: Chocolate Mint Day, Iwo Jima Day
20: Love Your Pet Day, Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day, World Day for Social Justice, Clam Chowder Day
21: International Mother Language Day
22: Single Tasking Day
23: Curling is Cool Day, IHOP Pancake Day, Spay Day USA
24: Inconvenience Yourself Day
25: National Chili Day, Ta'Anit Ester
26: For Pete's Sake Day, Levi Strauss Day, National Personal Chef's Day
27: Open That Bottle Night
28: Floral Design Day, National Sword Swallower's Day, National Tooth Fairy Day, Purim, Perigean Spring Tides
And the 29 or Leap Day won't be back till 2012 :)

Doctors Stuff

This is a mini-rant, today's topic being doctors. I had to set up a doctor's appointment since though I'm over most the issues I was having I still feel off and need to get checked out. Usually my doctor's office is super helpful and my doctor's assistant is so sweet, well this week she's out of town so I felt like I had to explain that I wanted what I thought was just an easy appointment in very slow words to the new lady, who kept jumping to other things and I had to tell her no that's not it....overall very frustrating. Anyway I got a mini-appt. of sorts yesterday just for some quick tests and the nurse said they would call again in the early afternoon today to possibly schedule an appointment with my doctor if needed. They were very sure that they would be calling soon after lunch and not too late in the afternoon. Needless to say they didn't call so I put in a call at 4:30 since they close at 5 just to check. The temp. nurse said that my doctor has already left for the day so they'll call tomorrow morning instead argh. She said it should be before 10 and to call if no one has called me by then.

Then at 4:45 amazingly I got a call back from my doctor who happened to come back to the office and he made me an appointment. So I get to get checked out and feel kinda victorious that I got the appointment finally! Wish me luck!

The other doctors stuff of today was setting up J's well check-up. The kids' pediatrician is usually pretty tough to arrange appointments and J needs his 18 month appointment (a little late since I've been sick). Well today when I called the pediatrician's office I had the easiest experience with them ever! It was crazy, I told them when I needed the appointment it was open and it's set up! It only took 2 minutes or so. I think the universe must be going nuts or something lol.

So hopefully all will be well and everyone healthy with both appointments.

Groundhog Day

I realized today was Groundhog Day when it was mentioned through the MSN homepage after I logged out of hotmail lol. I know this holiday may not mean too much in the grand scheme of things and the groundhog mentioned in the MSN article has chosen winter 90% of the time and has supposedly only a 39% success rate so I'm not putting too much into this either way. My first thought upon hearing this was actually the question "why didn't google have an appropriate title image on the homepage today?" I find this to be a kind of funny and sad realization on how dependent I've become on Google to remind me of random holidays. I definitely don't need the search engine's help on when Christmas or Easter are but for things like President's Day, random historian's birthdays, and the first telephone or whatever I have learned many minor days of note from none other than google. You would think the opportunity for google to add a cute brown rodent to the title would be jumped on today despite his low track record, maybe the next groundhog will do better.

Anyway, according to the groundhog Winter will be staying around for awhile, but I think rain or shine, warm or cold I will just go with the flow and keep the heater on and long-sleeved wear out as long as needed. And I still am slightly disappointed I didn't get a groundhog depiction on my Google page this morning lol.

A Long Week

So the last few days have felt like they've taken forever but I'm still in shock it's already almost Thursday. The main reason for this feeling is me being sick. Just a general cold/winter crud I think but pretty miserable. My throat has felt so rough and I wake up stuffy and can't seem to get a good night's sleep with all this on. I'm thinking our thermostat being up more recently probably hasn't been helping the dry feeling in my nose and throat. Then today when I woke up my ear was aching too which I think is connected to the congestion as well. I've also had some nausea due to my throat being so damn sore and if I don't eat I just feel sicker but am afraid it will hurt to eat, overall fun times argh. Anyway there's my whine about that lol.

Luckily this seems to be on me only and I'm very glad the kids aren't sick. My little ones have both hit a growth spurt and MIL and I have been discussing a shopping trip soon but I need to go through alot of clothing and put alot of stuff in storage in the meantime. C is tall for her age but skinny so it's hard to find clothing that's long enough but not falling off her. For example her best fitting pants are still 18 months and 24/2t ones fall off but the 18 months length are more like capris. Boys clothes seem to all fit alot easier and for alot longer though J is getting too tall for some stuff as well. It's seems from 12-24 months sizes alot of the tops change from button onesies to regular shirts so J seems to have gotten too tall for most of the 18 month onesies already. My little ones are getting so big, I can't help but get a little teary when looking at all the little outfits which they could wear just a few months ago. I'm guessing this will be a general feeling every year when I have to put away the outgrown stuff.

Not too much else going on besides the general daily routines. Hope everyone else is staying well and having a good week and the weekend is here soon :)