Things and such

At the library sitting on the Indian statue
After playing with the trains and puzzles


A storm knocked down half of our back fence last week.


My sunflowers are growing!


Baby girl is growing and we are thinking about names.
Maybe something that starts with K?
Austin got to hear baby sister's hearbeat at the dr.
My mom did, too.


Potty training is going really well - thank you Jesus!!

This face.

I love it.

There's never a dull moment with him.



Our first night.

This was our first night together.

Just us two with little one in my tummy.

Thought it was important to document.

We survived.

I am woman.

Hear me roar.

He is little.

Watch him grow.

We pray to Jesus.

He sustains us.

Hello Summer.

Our first day of summer was Thursday.  Austin's last day of school was Wednesday.  He brought cookies and hugs to share with his friends.  We celebrated our first day of summer by eating at Krispy Kreme, getting a watermelon at Walmart, riding in Uncle Wayne's big truck, and not taking a nap.

 

We've spent a lot of time together.  This is our normal and with this newness comes frustration.  Let's just face it - I am a pregnant single mom.  I am in charge.

My other half has left and thinks it's purely ok to see his son for two hours at a time.

Frustrated - yes!  But trying to focus on teaching and loving and mothering this sweet little boy everyday - yes!!

 

 Playing with the train at the library

Waiting for our pizza at Hungry Howie's

I also set up our trainset from IKEA,  put up black out drapes in A's room, & watched as a lady blew Austin a kiss from the motorcycle nearby.

 

 

Him.

Can count to 6.

Knows his letters.

Loves yogurt bites and Finding Nemo.

Made me a Mama!

Is 3 months from being 3!

Everything's OK?

No.

When a husband leaves his pregnant wife and 2.5 year old son things are not ok.

NOT ok.

Geez.


But this? this pair - good. Very good.

Just the Two of Us

Well,

My hat is off and I bow down to single moms everywhere.

It's just the two of us for two nights and lets just say our sound machine has been put to good use.  It covers up the creaks and cracks in the night.

 I'm trying to have a normal schedule and love on my little guy as much as possible.  This week was probably was one of my worst, but I'm glad I have people who love me and will help me through this.

Happy Thursday!

I did it!

I did it, Mama!

 

 

Wow! Great job Buddy!

Atlanta

This weekend wasn't all that great.
I went to a marriage conference with my spouse who is about 5% into our marriage.
It was hard to watch other couples in love.
It was hard listening to what a great marriage looks like when you aren't sure of your future.

On a brighter note
We ate at Jason's Deli Saturday night

We both got California Clubs with fruit & fruit dip.
It was yummy!

And it was good to come home to my buddy.
Who had a great weekend at the beach
And has recovered from Strep. Wahoo!

Last full week of April 2013

Here are some photos from this week:

 Creating really cool drawings on the magna doodle

 Golfish & yogurt raisins afterschool - Little One is tired here - 10min. nap doesn't cut it.

Started teaching Smudges in the county schools this week.  Kids like the artwork b/c they get to play with model magic.  Incorporating science into the lesson this time - living/nonliving things in a swamp.

 

And I am 13 weeks pregnant.

 

So life is very uncertain. That's for sure.

Please pray your spouse today.

While your at it - get on your knees pray for him/her.

Prayer works.

Fever free Saturday!

Austin didn't take a nap at school Wednesday so he went to bed at 7:30p.m.  He woke up at 8:10 the next morning (which is late!) with a fever and missed his Easter egg hunt and party at school, but we had a good time at home.

He has been fever free since Friday morning and has found a new love for sidewalk chalk.  He always draws or colors in straight lines.





You can see the patches of straight lines that turn into one big color blob.  It doesn't end with the driveway.  He has drawn on his zebra and the flower pots and the front porch.  This is why we don't have a chalkboard in the house. :)

We are loving the weather and loving being outside.  If only we can teach him to stay out of the street.  We went this morning to get flowers at Home Depot.  After I put him in the cart I thought, "How am I going to do this?"  Every flower I wanted to get he said, "I want to hold it."  We came home with flowers and vegetables and soil all in one piece.

Happy

Austin loves taking pictures with my new phone.

Except my mail isn't working properly so I can't get pics off my phone unless I put them on facebook.  Boo.







Praying for my Aunt Darlyne today - hoping for good things all the way to UAB. xoxoxo

Monday

Well.

I went to my regular dr. today and got more bloodwork done for my thyroid.  He said he will either up my medicine or not.  I'll find out tomorrow.  They had to up my medicine when I was pregnant with Austin.

Zofran is helping but nausea is still there.  Nothing sounds good, not craving anything.  When something sounds good I'll eat it and trying to eat all throughout the day.

We have an ultrasound Thursday and can't wait to post a pic of it to show you.

We had chicken pot pie for dinner tonight.

Austin took an itty bitty nap today and does not want to go to bed tonight.  What's up with that?  Time change?

Happy Monday!

Happy Friday

This is my 1201st post!

Since I've been at home with morning sickness most of the week I've been reading and finished this one in about a day.


You can find it here.  I've read the first 3 books in the series in TX and this is the 4th. 
Setting is in Africa...easy read...loved it.

In other news Zofran is working and making me feel better.  Here we are before bed last night without a stomach ache....yay!

Well...

I am 8 weeks pregnant tomorrow.
I have to say this one is completely different than with Austin.
I'm not sure how I could teach 850 students with the kind of nausea I have right now.
I am very thankful for Keith & that he works hard for us.
I am thankful for my mom who got me out of the house today and brought over groceries.

We are trying our hardest to potty train Austin.
He's trying his hardest to not tee tee or poo poo in the potty lately.

It will come.
Every morning when we are walking to school I say,
"When you can tee tee in the potty you can go to the big school for PreSchool."

My dr. called in Zofran for me today.
I'm going to take my first half pill this afternoon.
I hope it doesn't make me feel weird.
I hope it takes away the terrible nausea I have.

One week and we will have an ultrasound!

Happy Thursday!

She Let Me.

This is how we told my mom.

Austin wore his big brother shirt.

She didn't notice it at all.

We told her to look at Austin's shirt and then you can see what happened after!

Ha.

I'll be 8 weeks on Friday.

A new week & prayers

Well...

We've got some news for you.

Austin's going to be a big brother in mid-October!

He will also start 3 year old preschool on his birthday as long as he's potty trained.

I asked him the day I went to the dr., "Austin do you want a brother or a sister?"  He plainly said, "Sister."  Same goes for Keith.

This early pregnancy is nothing like when I was pregnant with Austin.  I feel like I have 24/7 nausea and it will not go away.  I have this weird taste in my mouth.  I have to make myself eat but nothing sounds good.  Hoping this stage will pass soon. 

I went to see the nurse last week and got 6 viles of blood drawn.  I sat down for the lady to take my blood and she kept putting viles inside this box so she would be ready.  She said I looked terrified and I said that's going to be a lot of blood.  I was already queasy so I prayed it went by fast and it did!  Keith and I will go March 14th (9more days!) to have an ultrasound.

Lots of excitement! Lots of questions!

Please start praying!

 drinking chocolate milk out of a big boy cup

learning colors with mini m&m's

Tuesday

Someone went to sleep late last night and

Someone woke up early this morning

I think he had a bad dream.

What could I do but get in bed with him

And hope we could both go back to sleep.

But sleep didn't come

It was time to get our day started

He's 2.5!

He's 2 1/2.  Two and a half!  Half way to 3!

On February 21, 2013

Wow!

He likes to stack up these colorful blocks and say, "It's high!"

This is Austin at 6 months!

Messy Marvin

Austin's going through an extreme messy phase with food.

 

I leave him alone for a minute and he has dumped his milk out and is splashing in it.

 

We are sitting together and he squishes his banana in his fingers and all over his tray.

 

I put his dinner in this cute little organized container - he drops it on the floor full of food.

I give him a juice box and about half way through hes spraying juice all over himself.

He does really well with a spoon, but likes to put his whole hand in the carton before he's done.

 

This too shall pass....but boy is it messy!