Long time, no blogging!

It has been months since I lasted posted a blog! So much has gone on since. We did finally get settled in our new home in Washington. It has definitely been a huge adjustment moving to such a 'foreign' place. It's always an adjustment to move somewhere new, but the environment here is definitely something we were not used to! It's been nearly two months since our move and it's rained 75% of the time we've lived here, lol. That has been a bit on the depressing side. But, spring is quickly approaching here and this past week has been beautiful! Today was the best weather we've had! The sun was shining all day and we had a nice high of 66-67 degrees!

Maddox turned 2 years old exactly one month ago! I can hardly believe my little man is TWO years old! He is growing like a weed and learning new things everyday. He has a new found 'tude that is absolutely killing us, but he is such a riot! LOL. I just love spending time with him and watching him learn new things daily. Last week, I looked into signing him up for pre-school for the fall. We are currently on a waiting list for a really nice 2 day a week pre-school program. It will be Tuesdays & Thursdays from 8:30am to 11:30am. He does need to be potty-trained first before he can start, so this is something we will be working on this summer.

I am currently 14 weeks 3 days pregnant (the ticker on the side is a couple days behind)! My due date is October 20th, 2011! This pregnancy is going by so much faster than Maddox's did. I know it's because I have him to chase around and I don't have nearly as much time to obsess about the pregnancy lol. We are so excited about this little baby! I can't wait to start feeling kicks, punches and rolls. :) So far it has been a fairly smooth pregnancy. I didn't have TOO much morning sickness. I was very tired and moody in the beginning but since the second trimester hit, things are looking up. My mom is flying in from GA on May 6th and staying for a week! We will be going to a 3D ultrasound place and finding out the gender of our little pumpkin on May 12th! I am so ecstatic! I really don't have a huge feeling on the gender either way. I'm just dying to know if we are having a little BOY or GIRL! We will definitely be doing a little bit of shopping the day we find out the gender.

Eric and I decided we are going to keep the baby's name a SECRET until the birth! I am very excited about this! I know it's going to be really difficult to hold it in for that long, but it will be such an awesome surprise for everyone, not to mention it's going to drive a lot of people batty! Hehe. Eric and I are doing wonderfully. He is such a wonderful, understanding husband. I am so thankful for him and for our life! I am also very proud of him! Next month marks 2 years since he joined the Army and he will be promoted to 1st Lieutenant next month as well which is very exciting for him! He is really enjoying his new job and the people he works with.

I really am going to try to blog at least once or twice a week. I blogged almost every day of Maddox's pregnancy and I really want to have something to look back on to remember all of this pregnancy too!

I am also going to post information from babycenter.com on how the baby at the end of entries as well. I always find it so exciting to read all the differences in our little pumpkin as it grows and develops each week!

How your baby's growing:

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

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Here are a few recent photos of the future big brother! :)

Don't mind his winter jammies, hehe. It's time to get him some springy ones!

and the Easter Bunny stopped by our house tonight!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter Sunday tomorrow and don't forget the reason for the season! <3

Well, a lot has changed since my last update...

First of all Maddox was in the hospital for 4 days at T.C Children's hospital for viral & bacterial pneumonia. We spent the whole last Monday before we went to WA (to secure housing) in the ER where Maddox was hooked up to IVs for 8-9 hours and then they ended up letting us go. I wasn't going to go to WA, but then decided to go last minute cause we thought Maddox was getting better. They kept telling us it was just a virus and had to run it's course. He was running super high fevers and wouldn't eat/drink and was absolutely miserable. Anyway, Wednesday evening I got a call that Maddox was taken back to Children's and was being admitted w/ bacterial & viral pneumonia :( He was on IVs for 72 hours straight... poor little man. We ended up cutting our trip to WA a little short so we could get to the hospital to be with him. It was so scary :( He finally got to come home Saturday afternoon and is doing much better. He has lost so much weight though :( He lost about 3lbs being sick. It makes me so sad to see him naked like in the bath and all boney. :/

While we were in WA, we found out some interesting news :p We are pregnant!!!

I have my first OB visit in WA set up for March 2nd @ 10:30am. From my O date I am due October 22nd. I haven't told many people yet. Just our parents and my best friends. I want to make sure we have a healthy HB before announcing on FB or anything! Please send lots of sticky bean vibes my way! We are so thankful it happened with our first round of Femara & a trigger shot! Apparently the trigger shot was just what we needed to make me O :)

We are going to be super busy these next couple weeks. We leave GA to go back to MO to get packed up and then we leave Sunday for our long road trip to WA. I think we're splitting it up in 4-5 days. I don't know when i'll get a chance to update next, but I wanted to post our good news :)

Such a sick little boy...

These are posts from my mommy website i'm apart of. Justmommies.com

2/4/2011:
I'm sure most of you saw on FB. He has been miserable the last couple days so I was gonna take him to the pedi after Eric's BOLC graduation (thank the Lord we're done with that school!!!) and when I did he had a 101.8 fever. I didn't even know he had a fever. They swabbed him for flu.. it came back neg. But he was so listless just laying in my arms whereas he usually runs all around the room... sick or not. Anyway, our pedi ended up admitting him because we thought this was the pneumonia not getting better. But after a chest xray and a blood work it looks like it's another virus on top of the pneumonia. His chest xray looks "better" she said and his WBC is down but his fevers are high. When the motrin wears off it's always around 103. They tried to get an IV to do fluids and abx but after 5 sticks all together (2 by the anesthesiologist) every vein would end up blowing cause of his high fevers. So, he's drinking his almond milk but won't eat a thing. He also lost 2 more oz... making his over a pound down since his 18 month check up He's so skinny. Anyway, we will probably be released tomorrow afternoon and head to GA. We had to miss Jena's birthday We were supposed to leave today and stay in a hotel in AL and then go to her party tomorrow. I'm so sad we can't make it. Anyway... thanks for listening to this super anxious mama. I'm so tired of winter. Seriously.... go away already!

Today:
Maddox got discharged from the hospital on Saturday afternoon.. and we came on and drove to GA. DH had already taken leave days. He graduated BOLC on the same day Maddox was admitted. Anyway, Maddox has continued to run super high fevers and sounds horrible. But last night in the middle of the night he ran a 104 temp and then all morning was lethargic. DH and I decided to take him to Children's hospital in Chattanooga, TN (our parents live like 20 mins from the TN state line).. and he just laid on me the entire time. Each time he was moved he cried. He was so dehydrated. We could barely get him to drink and eating was out of the question. Then, he had thrown up bile 2-3x this am before we went to the hospital (definite sign of dehydration). Anyway, they finally got an IV in him and ran fluids for about 8 hrs today. He also got another chest xray and it showed something viral, but no pneumonia relapse. The doctor was having a hard time hearing breath sounds on his right lung which was freaking me out and his pulse ox was only 93%. I was really surprised we were released, but I figured after all the fluids that's all they can really do since it's a virus.

We REALLY need prayers if anyone can spare any. DH and I are traveling to WA tomorrow to secure housing for our move at the end of the month. I don't feel like I can bare to leave my sick little boy, but at the same time the last time DH picked out our housing I hated it and we moved 6 months later. The plane tix are booked for in the AM. We will be going the 8th-10th. I know he is in the best hands... (my mom and my best friend Liz) and if need be Children's hospital is a half hour down the road, but still babies want their mommy when they're sick Please pray for him and please pray for me. I think after the fluids he should be good and should be on the mend, please pray for that and pray for safety for DH and I and good luck securing our housing. All you ladies are like my second family... thank you for listening to me freak. I know everything is going to be okay. *deep breaths*

Thanks if you made it this far

*please keep us in your prayers... please I will be forever thankful & in your debt!*

4DPO and New Car!

So today was spent getting me a new mommy-mobile. I had a 2007 Toyota Corolla but when we do get pregnant with baby number two, it is going to be much too small to have two carseats rear-facing, especially extended rear-facing. I should have added in my "about me" I'm a carseat Nazi. Maddox will definitely stay RF until at least three.. but maybe until 4, which is why he has a Radian XTSL carseat. We got a great deal on it (although it didn't matter, I was going to get it regardless). It RF until 45lbs and FF to 65lbs if have my numbers correct. I *know* I'm correct that it rear-faces to 45lbs which is why I bought it! That and because it fits tall children, like Maddox. Anyway, I am LOVING my new SUV. What is it you ask? It's a 2006 (so new to me) Toyota Sequoia!!! It has all the bells and whistles. leather seats, heated seats, the two back head rests have tv/dvd players in them! It is just awesome! I am so thankful God allowed us to get this vehicle today! I will be getting a job when we get to WA. It is time for Maddox to learn to be without mama a little and I need to get out and socialize with people at my own developmental level. As much as It tears me up to leave him, I know it's the right thing to do. AND, who doesn't want extra money?? So if I am pregnant, I will work up until delivery and then quit and be a SAHM again for a big unless I'm really loving my job, then I may just take maternity leave and go back to work. We will have to see! Well here are some photos of my new SUV! I took them from the dealership website cause we just have too much snow to get pictures right now! So - that's why snow is not in the background hehe!

 

 

 

And from now on till I test I'm going to put this quote at the end of my entries:

•  Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. -Mark 11:24

3DPO

I hate waiting! 10 more days till I can test and get that bfp!!! *fingers crossed* So because I'm bored... i'm going to play the purse game. I'm going to post pictures of the contents of my purse. If anyone else wants to join along please do :)

This is my coach bag I got for my anniversary on 12/16 right before Christmas.

 

This is what all is in my purse. My coach wallet I got my xmas, my coach mini thingy i keep appt cards in, sunglasses, ibuprofen, twilight woods lotion, curious perfume, a speeding ticket (that's what that envelope is... already paid), gum a pen and lots of lip stuff

 

This is a better view of the little card holder, my lip gloss, chapstick, etc. Also that silver thing is a little pill holder so if I run out of the house and forget my daily pills (for anxiety mostly) then I have them! Nifty, but kinda makes me feel like a granny lol.

Here is a quote for the bible someone recently told me about it has really made a true impact on me so I am going to share it with you guys :)

•  Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. -Mark 11:24

2DPO

Today is 2 days post ovulation and I am so tired. That trigger shot really makes you feel about 5-6 wks pregnant. It's 5000miu of hcg (pregnancy hormone) so I've been just so tired. I could sleep all day. I guess this is what I have to look forward to :P I am happy to look forward to it if it means i'm pregnant! Right now of course, It could go either way and that is what is scary. I will be so disappointed if I take my test on the 11th and it's negative. But we will keep trying if that's the case... it will just be up in WA. I keep thinking maybe my egg will split into identical twins and how neat that would be! :) It's such a long shot, but it is for everyone who conceives identical twins. Well, I came on here with really not much to say. All i've done today is take a jumperoo I gave away on Craigslist (it had a broken part that needed fixing so I made it free). I was 30 mins late getting there cause I got so lost. LOL. I'm so glad to be home and now it's M's naptime and I just ordered a medium pizza (for later) and a sandwhich for now from Dominos. Mmm I can't wait till it gets here! I will leave you with a photo of Eric and I from his Dining Out ball.

 

Today (well technically yesterday now) was the big O day!

So 24ish hours after the trigger shot the nurse told me I should ovulate and I've had some serious O pains and been super tired from the hCG shot... or just maybe being going all day, I don't know which. Today.. I had to go get my hair fixed. The girl who did it last time didn't fix my roots. Like.. why would you NOT fix somebody's roots... isn't why they come in to get their hair colored in the first place? Then I wanted more red, but she said she had no idea what I was getting at, she just couldn't picture it. So I had talked to the girl who curled my hair and did my half up-do of the Dining Out yesterday and I called her and made an appt for 3:30. Basically I had to waste like 3 hours in because I was 30 minutes away from home and didn't want to waste gas going back and forth. My hair is how i wanted it now though. The girl at the first salon did all over color like I wanted her to do in the first place in a the dark brown I wanted and then the girl at the second salon put in a color called 'lava' w/ a kick of rocker red to make it show up better since my hair is so dark. It looks cute.

I went to this boutique today whole I was waiting and got the cutest picture frame! It's going to be for the first u/s of our little bean. Even if it's not this cycle we will keep trying until it's God's time. I am putting my trust in him. Then, I came home to a big package of cloth diapers. I have decided to start cloth diapering Maddox again. It makes PT'ing sooo much easier. Plus, they are a adorable!!! <3 Here's some photos of my goodies from today. Some of the cloth dipes are in his room that came yesterday... I'll have to get some pictures of those tomorrow. One is personalized :)

From L to R is a Kiwipie Fitted, a Kissaluvs Marvel, a Knicker Nappies (lol), A Rumparoos & a Happy Heiny's diaper cover as well as 3 cloth wipes. Maddox has 5-6 more diapers in his room a quite a few more on the way :) He was CD was about 4-8 months but then it just too overwhelming because my parents's had a front lodaer, they would refuse to change his diaper, etc.

Well I can't hold my eyes open. I hope everyone is having a fab weeekend!!