Harley Jean

Happy Holidays everyone! On the 23rd of December we had what my ob (who I love) calles a 'fast free ultrasound' so that my mom, who is here on her Christmas vacation, could see the baby. My ob never came out and told me 'its a...' but he did tell my mom so that she could tell my grandma on Christmas. However he did let me look so that I could make and educated guess. My guess is that we are going to have another girl. So, in May we will more than likely welcome into the world baby Harley Jean. And if you are wondering the spelling will probably change before she is here. We will go back in January on the 20th for the full level 2 anatomy scan and will post more pictures then! But until then...Enjoy!

Legs side by side, potty shot, tail bone to the left legs to the right


head and face, legs pointing left the birght spot between them is her hand



3d profile looking to the right sucking her tumb

Another potty shot legs to the right

2, 25, 25, 18

No not a football hike or game scores. Those are things we have celebrated so far this month. On the 10th Daisy Ann turned 2 and James turned 25, we celebrated the weekend before with a small, but it was still a happy birthday for them!

As of today, I celebrated my 25th birthday and my 18th week of pregnancy! I am officially 5 months pregnant!! Woo hoo, 2 weeks to the half way point and 22 to the finish line!

I wish everyone a happy holiday season and hope you and your loved one are happy, safe and healthy.

Birthday's

Just a note: James' 25th and Daisy's 2nd birthday parties will be on Sunday the 6th at our house at 12:30. I am providing food, cake, and drinks. I wasn't all the ball enough to get invitations sent out in the mail this year. So if you can come we would love to have you. It's at our house. If you can make it please just write a reply to this blog, or if you can call!

Hope to see you all there!!

4 years

Just a quick note to say Thank You to my wonderful husband James for 4 years of marriage.

Dear Santa

Today we got the girls' Santa pictures done. Aunt Jenni says Daisy looks like Mary-Kate and Ashley Oleson from their Full House days. Either way it was fun...

Doing Marriage Math

So the other day I got to thinking about how this is my 3rd child in 4 years of marriage. Then I thought I would do some math (even though I hate it). My husband and I started dating in the end of June 2005, 3 weeks later I found out that I was pregnant with my oldest. We got married in November 2005, so we dated for a total of 5 months before we got married. This year, in a couple of weeks actually, we will celebrate our 4th year (48 months) of marriage. When the new baby comes in May we will have been married 4 years and 6 months.
So, assuming I can add right, 48 months of marriage + 5 months of dating + 6 months until baby = 59 months my husband and I will have been together.

Of the 59 months we have been together I have been pregnant 30 (I dont care what they say 40 week IS 10 months). Given that 59-30=29 months we have been together when I haven't been pregnant.

Up until just this August I have been sick for 18 months, plus one month of recovery from my surgery. Then adding in 4 months of recovery from child birth (8 weeks each child currently born at the moment). 29 weeks of not being prego - 23 weeks of illness and recovery = 6 months that my husband has had a non-pregnant completely healthy wife.

The man has put up with so much from me (not all of it my fault) that I truely think I must just keep him forever, because he has seen me at my worst and only had glimpses of me at my best and yet he stays with me without complaint. (He even, after 15 hours of work wont even complain if I ask him to stop on his way home to pick something to eat up when I get a craving!) I really do love that man *Heart*

Gender Identification

No we can't tell what it is yet. But I thought I would update on what my husband calls cruel and unusual punishment. As I mentioned before, I do not want to know the sex of the new baby is. Partly because its going to be my last, and also I want James to be the one to look down after hours of labor to say "Its a ......!" He will not be attending the ultrasound appt. in December and even though he desperately wants to know ahead of time I wont tell him, because I won't know either. (he's lousy at keeping secrets anyways)

BUT my only living grandmother's health is not that spectacular and being as she's a planner (she love to plan suprise birthday, anniversaries and what not) and she really wants to know to so she can start planning, I will be taking an envelope with a paper that say BOY/GIRL and I will have my doctor circle which ever baby is put it back in the envelope and seal it. I will send it out immeadately and she has been sworn to secresy. She may not even tell my grandpa-which she thinks is hillarious. When I told her last night she went out to the living room where my grampy was and started singing "I'm going to know something you wont know!"

I've decided to buy neutral things until baby's arrival, and I am going to make a Dr. Seuss themed nursery set and then after baby's born we will have a shower/show off party!