Baby Number FOUR. What?!

Yeah, so that happened! I'm in my 21st week. Baby is due September 17th, or so they tell me.

And YES, it is another GIRL. Can you believe it? If you had told me when I was in my early 20's that I would have FOUR GIRLS I'd have said you were smoking crack. And some good stuff.

Anywho, I see its been a few years since I've blogged. Crazy town. Chloe is now 7, Shelby 4 and Hailey 2. They are all great kiddos and beautiful.

Hailey kind of surprised me. She was so sweet and easy as a baby and then BAM she was mobile and is my BIGGEST mess maker. Her day consists of one mess to the other. All. Day. Long. Makes for a very tired and slightly frustrated mama. Sigh. But I love her to death and she is still my sweet snuggler. She is going to have a strong personality though. She doesn't take any crap from her sisters and will let them know quick if they are bothering her. She does love her sissy's though, especially Chloe. She is her favorite by far. She also loves to copy and do the exact things her big sisters are doing. She's still not talking near as good as her sisters were at this age, but she's getting there. She can mimic pretty much whatever you say, but she doesn't offer a whole lot of words just yet. She does know how to get her meaning across just fine though with the words she does know!

Shelby is playing t-ball this year! She LOVES IT. And is one of the best ones out there. Well, as in behaving and paying attention, lol. She's not the best catcher or hitter but she tries hard! She is also my horse girl. She has her own pony, Snowy, and would be out there every day if she could.

Chloe tried out girl scouts for a bit, but never really got into it much so we nixed that. She is doing great in school and is such a smart thing. She is going to be my bookish, smart one I think. She likes to read and draw and has no use for the horses. She's still my challenging one emotionally sometimes, but her meltdowns and upsets are very few and far between now, thank goodness!

Not much else has changed. We did start a small business on Etsy and FB making travel saddle stands 2 years ago. It has made us a LOT of money, although we have no idea where it vanished to, sigh. Yeah, we still such with money management. Lee and I are going on our 12th year of marriage, yikes. We have watched many couples we know divorce, its been sad. But we are still going stronger then ever. We are each others other half, and are not complete without the other. So why would we ever seperate??

Well there's your update for the next few years, lol. Adios!

IT'S A....Plus Other Big News!

'NOTHER SILLY GIRL!!

Yup, apparently we are just girl making machines! LOL.

So I really was NOT thinking I would find out at my 16 week appointment last week! But what can I say, my dr is flipping AWESOME. Period.

So he comes in the room and starts talking about how many weeks I am, when I will have my next appointment, which will entail the anatomy ultrasound, etc. And I pop in and was like, Yeah, about that! And I begin to expound how sweet and awesome he was and telling him my birthday is next week and I was SO hoping he would let me do my ultrasound then so I could make an announcement at my birthday dinner.

He starts smiling as he is looking at his paperwork, and goes, well, your just wanting to find out the gender, right? And I was like, yes! And he says well as far as that goes why don't we just look now and see what we can see. And I said HECK YES! :D

So we traipse in there and I lay down, and he finds her right off, a great bottom shot! And I see the LINES. Little silly girl lines! He says, aw, I was sure it was a boy! LOL, join the club!

But I am much less dissapointed this time. I think it's because I really didn't know yet, and hadn't built it up. I did still think she was a boy, going off my cravings and a few things that were different this time. But apparently all the old wives tales don't work on me!!

So he showed me her heart and we listened again, and got to see her bounce a bit and her hand up by her face :). Then we were done! So I DO go back for my 20 week anatomy scan on November 4th, and I am waiting until then for the 'official' announcement on Facebook etc. I have told my close family and all and a few friends too. But from my research online it's definitely NOT unheard of for a 'girl' to turn into a boy when looking as early as 16 weeks! And that is with ultrasound techs doing the scans. My doctor did mine so, we shall see!!

So I was kinda excited because I have a girl name I REALLY like, dare I say love?? And I mentioned it to Lee a few weeks ago and he kind of made a face and said a few things about it, but I thought he kind of liked it! Well now that I want to make that her name he is like NO, I DON'T LIKE IT. Bahh!!!!!!!! Frustrating man! I always have problems with him and names! Well, ever since Chloe that is, but we had already decided we liked that one years before we even got pregnant, lol. (We did have a few arguments over her middle tho!)

Anyway, the name I like is Liberty, Libby for short. IT'S SO CUTE! And goes perfect with her sisters names. Chloe, Shelby, Liberty. Aw.

I don't know, not holing a whole lot of hope that I can convince Lee he likes it, but we shall see. We still have 5 more months :).

I have this fun idea for a photo shoot to announce the gender of baby Mickle #3. I want to get small squeeze bottles of washable paint and put us all in white shirts and jeans and go out in the pasture and squirt the mess out of each other!! While someone takes pics. And also get the girls hand prints on my belly :). It's gonna be so fun!

16 weeks

I haven't done my 17 week pic yet so here is my 16! I'm still feeling good! Am having a bit of trouble finding something to eat that I really like. And I can't eat much of what I do find. Baby is already taking up lots of space! Amazingly I haven't even gained any weight since last month. I'm still 130. Whoop! I guess the walking and such has helped! I'm still going about 3 times a week for a mile. Still no heartburn (although I did have one bout the other day after mexican, lol, but two tums knocked it out!) or anything. But I am still peeing like ALL. DAY. LONG. And all night long, lol. Poor Lee, I try not to jostle him too much when I get in and out. Sleeping is challenging some times as well. I have a hard time finding a comfy spot to stay. And some nights restless leg likes to visit me. All par for the course!!

So I know of three other ladies that just found out they are prego! They used to be in my small group. Lee and I have since started our own. The other group up and decided all of a sudden that they were going to be a 'no kids' group, and that did NOT work well for us.

So my birthday was yesterday! 32! BLEH. It was a good day though. I had a nice day at work, my Lee Lee greeted me with a happy birthday that morning. And then they gave me a pioneer woman grill pan when I got home! Love it! After that we rushed to Olive Garden and had a great dinner with my family.  Though sadly I filled up on stuffed mushrooms, salad, and breadsticks before my soup got there! Lol.

I also have some OTHER BIG NEWS. I don't know if I mentioned this before but Lee and I tentatively got into a house flip partnership with my parents last year sometime. We tried to buy a few houses and they didn't work out or fell through. Well then my dad bought a lake house and he said he was out of money. -_-

SO, fast forward about a year and dad has one of his (7) rentals paid off and is starting to let me talk to him about some houses I've found.

Then the realtor we work with found us THIS one:

It's a 1971 ranch, 4 bedroom 2 bath. Approx 1600 sq ft. In good condition, has been updated a bit, not wood paneling and junk still. Has new carpet. Mainly needs updating in the kitchen and baths and floor/paint. Also a new roof. The front columns are pretty bad and need replaced too, and the garage needs a bit of work. We also want to open the front room up to the dining/kitchen area some more, so will probably knock a wall out somewhere. 

I'm SUPER excited. We just have started rolling on it, getting the bank going, appraisals done, etc. So will probably be another month (hopefully less!) before we can start working on it. I'm ready to go TODAY. 

I've already went into pinterest planning mode and have all sorts of ideas, lol. 

Well that's about all for now! Until later!

13 Weeks!

Hello second trimester! I believe with a certain amount of chagrin I need to say that the belly I thought I had like a month ago was actually bloat. LOL.

But now there is a REAL belly! I popped about 12 weeks, as usual with the other two, and am to the no button OR zipper stage, usually with a belly band now. Wilma, one of my good friends, is going to let me use some of her little button things I think, its a tab that goes inside your jeans and buttons to them somehow that lets you leave them undone. Never tried those, so hoping I will like it better then the belly band. It can be annoying sometimes.

Also! Pretty sure I have been feeling the little munchkin moving for a week or so now. It's still in those, wait...was that the baby?? Or gas? stages, haha, but I have a suspicion it is the wittle one! It is about the size of a peach this week :).

Let's see, finally last week I got rid of most of the nausea. But I'm still having trouble finding something I want to eat. And if I don't eat quick enough when I get hungry, I do get nauseous. Fun stuff!! Also sitting down has becoming a slow, easy affair. Otherwise I feel like I'm pile driving my crotch up into who knows where. It HURTS. I remember this with my Shelby pregnancy as well. But other then that I've been good! Not overly tired, no heartburn really, headaches, etc. Yet, lol.

My 2nd appointment was last Wed, listened to baby's heartbeat and took measurement of my tummy. All was good and on track! Weight was 130. Next time I go in I will be 16 weeks, and then I'm hoping to talk him into letting me go back the next week, or latest the week after for my gender ultrasound! :D He seemed fairly amiable about it when I asked, lol.

I have been trying to walk at least 3 times a week at the park a mile at a good pace in the morning before work. I did awful last week but plan to pick it up again this week! I'm not going to be a lazy lay about like I was with Shelby.

So Labor Day was last Monday. We all went out to mom and dads lake house and had a really fun day boating, swimming and grilling. Here are a few pics!

The girls had a ball! It was perfect weather too. We have actually cooled off this weekend and week. In the 70's! Its been heavenly. Not sure if it will last, but hopefully!

Thats about it! Tata.

Baby Mickle #3

All looks good!! Here is our little gummy bear!

8 Weeks 5 days

 I haven't ever had a first ultrasound be so clear with the other ones! You can see all the nubby little arms and legs! So the tech said I was measuring (or the baby was) 8 weeks 3 days, which was close enough to my 8 weeks 5 days they just kept my due date the same. I'm kinda surprised! I thought I might be a bit ahead. Anyway, March 19th it is! Or more likely March 20 something because I'm sure this one will homestead in there like the other two!! That's okay though, I want as close to April as possible really!

So after she measured the baby a bit she showed me the yolk sack, and also told me I ovulated from my right ovary, which was kinda neat, but useless, information! Then she found the heartbeat and we got to hear it for a second. Sounded good she said! I still can't find the little stinker with my home doppler though! But I keep trying every few days or so.

After that the girls and daddy went searching for diapers (someone had a stinky and mommy forgot to reload the bag with diapers) and I waited to be called back to see the doctor. That didn't take too long, and was pretty simple. He came in and said here we go again! Haha, then said, well you tell ME something about pregnancy, lol. He asked how Shelby was doing. He had forgotten about her being breech and trying to come out with her hand in her face though, how, I don't know! And after that we were done!

So I am 9 weeks 3 days today, here's my 9 week pic:

9 weeks

And just a random pic of me in a cute cardigan I got from one of my friends, lol. Speaking of friends, a few months back we, well I, started a ladies bible group. We have our normal Friday night group still where us couples (and silly kiddos) all come together and do one, but we all felt like we needed some sort of group just for US. I wish the men could do one too, but so many of them work out of town. Anyway, I'm not the leader or anything, but I try to keep us organized. We meet in different places each week. Usually someones house. 

It was really good in the beginning, but we have sort of fizzled out a bit. Just have to keep praying for those that aren't as excited about it.

Here is a few pics of my silly girlies!

Well thats about all for now! Until later!

Time for Round THREE!

Yeah! I'm THRILLED! I never would have thought before I got pregnant with Chloe, or even after she arrived I would ever want, or have, three kids! I never even LIKED kids! ;)

So I found out when I was almost 4 weeks, July 11th, to be exact. The weekend after fourth of July. We had went over to Lee's parents to do our firework celebration and I had just happened to pick up some of those dollar pregnancy tests that day as I was getting a few other things to take over there.

We had decided the month before to go ahead and start trying. Well, actually I THOUGHT we had, until Lee found out I was off my pills and said he had no idea I was serious. WHA??

Anyway, we got that worked out, and we didn't even really TRY real hard the next month, but I went ahead and grabbed one of the tests out of the truck and went into the in laws bathroom to do my thing. Well low and behold as I'm standing there watching it I see something start showing up and I say to myself, hm, that looks kinda like a line...THAT IS A LINE!!

SO! There you have it! As far as I know right now I am 8 weeks 3 days going off when my last period was. Which I know exactly because I was using this neat fertility app. But, until we do our first ultrasound I won't know for sure. You can ovulate late, or early, so when the egg actually got fertilized can be different for everyone.

But FINALLY our first ultrasound is Thursday! Two more days! Whoop whoop! I went in two weeks ago for blood work and family history junk, but didn't see the doctor. I will go in Thursday at 3:30 for the ultrasound and then see Dr. Wideman at 4:00. SO EXCITED! But I will also be a bit nervous. I know of two of my friends who had a miscarriage just within the last month or month and a half. Both found out because they couldn't see the heartbeats on their ultrasound. SNIFF. It's been rough, they are doing okay now, but it just makes me more aware, you know? I know I have had two perfectly healthy babies, but still. Anything can happen.

I have been feeling pretty good so far! The nausea crap started about week 6 and is still here, but it's not been too awful. I haven't been real tired like I was with Shelby. I do get out of breath but if I remind myself to take deep breaths until it passes, I do fine. We went on a canoing trip with our small group a few weeks ago and I did better then all the other girls there, lol.

Here is a bitty belly pic! YES, already I have a belly. This is kind of alarming me. One - because that means I will be BIG AS A HOUSE in March before I deliver. Two - It's starting to freak me out that it may be twins or something!! EEP.

8 weeks 3 days

So in other news, Chloe is starting KINDERGARTEN TOMORROW! I know, what the mess??? We could have held her back another year since she JUST turned 5 the 5th, but Lee and I both talked/prayed about it and feel this is best. Much to the dismay of the in laws -_-.

We had her open house last night and it went well! Her teacher seems nice.

It was kind of neat being there and knowing we are part of a school system, team, family etc again. I think it will be great. I definitely plan on helping in the classroom when I can!

UPDATE! So I didn't get this published yesterday. And today was her first day! I CANNOT believe how awesome and great she did. She didn't cry a bit! I had a little bit of trouble getting her to take off her backpack and sit at her desk but once she did she just started coloring and was so good. I flashed her a I love you sign and she waved at me as I walked out. SO PROUD! SNIFF!

I can't wait to hear how her day went. I'm probably going to text her teacher about 12, lol, just to see how she's doing. It was only girls today and only boys tomorrow, so she will have tomorrow off. Which works great because my dr appointment is tomorrow and I wanted her to be there to see the ultrasound! Then back to school all together Friday.

Here is my big girl!

Scotty had to help take pics, too, lol

Flashing me the I love you sign as I walked out ;)

So, I guess thats it! I will update after our ultrasound tomorrow! Adios!

7 Months!

Well, I suck at posting lately! Haven't even thought of it, really. Anyway, lets get to what is going on at the moment!

So on Fourth of July Shelby will be 7 months! That is this Friday. She is such a sweet, happy baby, thank GOD! We finally got her over all her sickness and ear infections, hopefully. (I say hopefully because something has been bothering her this week and not sure what it is yet, hopefully teething!!)

She is officially an outdoors baby now! Last weekend she went with us on an overnight canoe trip, was so fun. We camped Friday night at a place just over the TN line, then went canoeing all morning and afternoon. She was really good until she got sleepy, then she never did get a good nap, so I ended up nursing her a lot.

Anyway, lets get into what Ms Shelby Marie is doing lately! She sits up really good now, but still topples if she leans too hard the wrong way. She is now in her OWN room, thank God, and sleeping much, much better. I kicked Lee's brother out of Chloe's room (they are still living with us) so she could get out of Shelby's bed and back in her big girl room. The last two weeks she has been waking up twice a night most nights, but she isn't hard to get back to sleep. Probably just a phase.

She LOVES our food and sweet tea, lol. But not so much on the baby food. She does like the puffs things pretty good though. She is eating about every 4+ hours now, yeah. Here schedule is usually wake up around 9, drive to work and fall asleep in the car, sleep from 2-3 hours. Usually about 12 then, so we go get lunch, I feed her, then she plays a bit before going back to sleep in the back room for a bit. Usually doesn't last long unless it stays pretty quiet in the shop. She has been sleeping in there now for quite a while though, yeah! She did an hour 45 the other day, been about an hour in there today. Like I said before, something has been bothering her so she usually sleeps a lot when she is not feeling good. I have her a chiro appointment Thursday, new dr. A good friend of mine worked at our normal chiro and had a falling out there, so I decided to switch. Never got a real good vibe off him anyway. If I like her I might ask about prices for me. I have been having some weird shoulder pain for over a month now.

So! Shelby is around 16+ lbs right now. And really not a whole lot more to report. She rolls around on the floor good, and today when I had her on her mat every time I turned back around she had spun herself a new direction, lol.

It's freaking HOT around here right now! 90's and tons of humidity. UGHH, sucks to be outside after 8am and before 7pm. I can't believe its July already though. Gosh, the summer is flying by.

Lee's family  is finally about to move out I think, they are going to rent a house in town for a while till they get something going over at their place. Probably going to be a double wide. I will be SO glad to get back to normal. It's been 6 months. Crazy. We only lived in our house with Shelby for a month before things got crazy.

My old QH Daisy died the other day. :( Really going to miss her. She was a great horse. I haven't been horseless for a long time. Feels strange. And immediately makes me want to buy another one like NOW. When it's in your blood, it's in your blood, lol. She was a good old girl and lived a great life. She got to eat as much as she wanted and just be a horse most of her life. Was a great mama to three foals... She only started looking even part of her age this last winter. So I'm thankful!

Well, started trying to get our finances in place again last month. I sat down with Dustin and he set me up a system, let me know where we are and where we need to be. The problem is IMPLEMENTING it! I am really struggling. Numbers just wig me out!! I'm trying though. We have got to get it under control. I hope by next post I will be able to talk about my sucess with it.

Chloe is doing well! She will be FOUR next month! Holy crap!! SNIFF! Time slow down! I can't believe she will be in school next year, makes me want to cry! I'm so proud of the girl she is. She is so sweet and caring, and loving. She loves her little sister and will do anything for her. She goes potty all by herself (hardly EVER has an accident) brushes her teeth by herself. Can get dressed by herself. She is learning some letters and can count to 14 or so. She is a little artist. She loves drawing. And playing with water, lol. She is still definitely my drama/girlie girl. She wants to do ballet so bad but I just don't know...I think she will have a hard time. I put her in cheerleading on Wed nights at church for three weeks and she ended up not liking it at all. Ballet is too expensive to be a waste of time, you know?

My grandpa died last month as well. It was time. He was miserable. Meme is doing ok, but definitely sort of lost without him. Thankfully her sisters are here to help her for a while, and then are going to take her back to OR with them in a few weeks. I sang Grandpa by The Judds for him at his funeral. It's really opened me up to playing my guitar again, its a lot of fun. I even brought it on the canoeing trip and we sang some praise and worship songs that night around the fire.

Well better get some work done, tata!

Spring Time!

It finally decided to STAY warm around here! Well, for now at least, lol. It has been mostly 80's for a few weeks now, so maybe we are safe!

So! Lets run down current events. Um, Easter was okay, it rained so much they couldn't hunt in the yard. Lee's family is STILL living with us. *Sigh* Lee bought a new truck, a 2004 F250 diesel that he loves. I have a new car too, got it in Feb or something, its a '03 Expedition, love everything except putting over a $100 in it a week for gas, sigh. We have had never ending sickness running through the house for 2 months. I think we MIGHT be done with it for now, please Lord. My poor babies have been sick so much. Chloe had a AWFUL ear infection last week that caused her to throw up and have a terrible fever of 103+ for two night. It was kinda scary.

Shelby is doing good except for SLEEPING. You know how I bragged on her last post?? Hahahaha. I read that again and was like, SIGH, why can't she still be like that??? So for about two weeks now she has been waking up at LEAST twice, and then again in the morning early, between 5 and 7. And she will NOT be put back to sleep by anything but nursing. I used to be able to pat her hiney or a bit and she would be fine. No more! I CAN get her to sleep by holding her laying down and bouncing on the bed while patting her hiney, but as SOON as I put her in her bed she wakes back up and I end of having to feed her ANYWAY!! GRRRRRRRRR. I know, I know, these days shall pass. But um, they can go already, we have had enough!! Right at 4 months she started this crap. Like the day after. And its gotten worse and worse. We tried leaving her out of her swaddler thing last night thinking maybe it would help, but nope. She is really too big for it anyway. I would be putting her in her new room (and already having her sleep in there for naps) BUT we have house guests still which makes that out of the question.

So, Lee and I keep hoping it will soon PASS. She has slept all night once in like a month. BOO! Poor Jesse and Josh have to hear her every night too, lol.

Anyway! She is doing great otherwise. She is so good at picking up toys now, and sitting up by herself very well. She still topples but doing really good most of the time. She turned 5 months old a few days ago! I started her on rice cereal a fe weeks ago and she loves it. Its just kind of a pain for me because I have to pump milk to put in it. She also likes apples, but not as much as her rice cereal. She did NOT like squash and ate a little of bananas and carrots, but then started gagging, lol. She will drink out of a cup! But its a messy process.

She started touching faces a few weeks ago, its so cute, and she will reach for you if you are near her. She smiles all the time. She is generally a happy baby. She loves playing under her play mat, and rolling around on the floor. She is pretty good at rolling over from her belly to her back now!

Our daily routine has changed now. She hardly every sleeps in the morning now. Usually we get here around 10, she plays for a bit and then eats around 11. Then we go get lunch and she takes her a hour to two hour nap in the car. Then she eats again and plays then we are gone to the park to jog! Today was a bit different though, she took a short nap after we got here in the car. Then ate at 11, then we played a bit before going to lunch and she is still sleeping out there. Only about an hour to go! I think tonight we are going to jog then let Chloe play on the swing set a bit. Then take Lee some dinner over at his side job and hang out there. I just don't like being at home without him.

Well, about time to get outta here, till later!

3 Months!

So here we are! Bad needing an update on how little bit is doing!

She is 3 months old now, probably around 14 lbs. She was 13 a few weeks ago. But we won't go back to the pediatrician until next month.

She is such a smiley happy baby. She is starting to talk even more and making squealing high pitched sounds, too cute. She loves to stand up, and really likes laying on the floor as well. She started picking up and pulling on her blanket a few weeks ago and is now playing with toys too. Well, she is picking them up and putting them in her mouth! Lol. Unfortunately I think she is teething already, yeah, I know. My first one didn't get them till a year and now my second is going to have them EARLY, ugh. I know she won't have teeth for a while yet but her gums are definitely bothering her.

She still sleeps AWESOME at night! Although she is very ready for bed around 8 o'clock. She gets very fussy. Last night we were watching Catching Fire and she Lee got her to sleep in her bunny rocker around 8, that never happens! She actually slept till 9:30 and we were able to finish the movie, that never happens anymore! The house shuts down at 9, lol. Well, for the four of us. The rest of Lee's family stays up a bit later. Yeah, they are still with us.

So anyway I wrap her in her swaddler and then nurse her on the right side for awhile, then I lay down with her and nurse her on the left, usually dozing in and out until she is done. Burp her and then lay her in her bed. I pat her hiney a few minutes to make sure she is going to stay asleep and then she is down until 8! Thank you Lord! Every so often she might wake up in the middle of the night but I just pat her a few times and she goes back to sleep. Or in the morning she might wake up early around 7 so I either put her in bed with me and she goes back to sleep or I feed her on one side and she goes back to sleep.

I get up at 8 to go to work so usually I get up, sometimes I get dressed, sometimes I feed her first. Usually I go get Chloe who is awake and she plays on the bed with me or watches tv while I feed sister. Then I lay Shelby on the bed and get ready the rest of the way. Head into her room and get her dressed and then I give her to her papa who talks to her while I get my food and such ready and load everything up and then we are gone to work! She usually sleeps from the car till around 12, sometimes 1. Though this past week she has been waking up around 10 or 11. Boo! She is still asleep today though, and its almost 12, so she might make it. Then we go get lunch and I come back and feed her. She plays for a little bit and then is ready for another nap. And then she is awake again to eat (maybe) and play and usually gets sleepy again right before its time to go home at four. Which works good for me, I've been jogging again right after work so she sleeps all through our time at the park, thankfully!

So here I am again to finish this post! Like a week later, lol. Monday boo, spent half of last week in bed with the stomach flu. NO FUN. Specially trying to nurse poor Shelby with a ever diminishing supply of milk. I think today it might have finally picked back up. Throwing up and not eating or drinking will do that! -_-

So sweet baby finally laughed the first time on Saturday!! It was so cute, I was giving her kisses on her cheek and neck and she did it a few times, it was adorable! I have got to get her 3 month pictures taken!! Here are her 2 month and some other random pics from 2 months:

I got a double jogger the other day! So  now I can go on the days I have Chloe girl too. I went the first time with them the other day and it was really not any harder then just Shelby! (Which it might help if I aired up Shelby's strollers tires, haha) I felt pretty bad A running around there pushing them. Wonder woman! I even had one guy tell me what a strong mama I was, haha. Shelby was ready to sleep so wasn't real happy, plus the sun was in her face. I tried putting her hat on but she didn't like it either. We made it around without her having too big of a problem and then I got her out and she was happy to watch Chloe play for quite a while on the playground. Here they are trying it out at work the first day I got it:

And just a sweet Shelby pic :)

Well as for what else is going on, not much. Still have a house full with no end in sight...I got a new phone the other day that I LOVE. Its an LG G2, its freaking awesome. Um, Lee got his shop finished, its really nice. Starting to get warmer around here finally, though it is supposed to be in the 20's tonight, good grief. It was nearly 80 on Saturday. This winter has been so annoying!! Worst I can remember in a long time.

My grandpa is still in the hospital. He has been in and out for months and months now. He's getting closer to the end I think. My poor meme is so exhausted.

We have a new small group we really love right now. All the couples in it are so neat and we have a TON of fun together. Its weird because its the first group we have had without my little bro and sis inlaw being in it. We hardly ever see them now though :( Which really bothers Chloe, she loves her Lukey.

Well guess thats all for now, tata

Welcome Shelby Marie! 6 Weeks Old

Yeah, so somebody doesn't have a computer at home and did not post about our new little arrival! Yeah, that was me, ;)

So here she be!!

Shelby Marie
7lbs 9 oz 21 inches

Yes, she is in a special care bed, I'll get to that later!

After being pregnant for what felt like all of 2013 (and really almost was) she finally made her appearance on December 4th, just a day after her due date! Good girl, hehe. I actually went into labor on the 3rd but she wasn't born until that next afternoon.

So I had been contracting a few days before this off and on with nothing progressing. Then that day at work I was having some more and also happened to think, hey, I haven't felt her move much the day or so. Which they always say is a big red flag. So I thought, well I'll call my dr and see if they can get me in just to make sure she is okay. So turns out my doctor was about to leave to Birmingham for a meeting he could not postpone. Boo. Then they were like well we want you to come into labor and delivery so they can monitor you. WHAT!? I just wanted to see my dr and be done with it! But they insisted and said they were going to call down there and tell them I was on my way. Sigh. I felt like such a dodo head, like one of those first time moms freaking out about nothing.

So I left work kind of wigging out, on the verge of tears. What if there WAS something wrong with her?? I call Lee (who is working an HOUR away of course) and then head to the hospital. I'm sure I'm going to get there and they are going to say your not really having contractions, or, worst of all something is wrong. Well they put me in a room and I have to get all my clothes off yeah, and put that gown on. They hooked me up to the machines and little girl is perfectly fine. She THEN proceeds to start being a wild child in there of course, lol.

The cool thing was the nurse taking care of me was BECKY!! My nurse with Chloe that I was praying I would get again. Thank the Lord! So she went out at one point and came back in with guess who?? My wonderful awesome doctor!! He said he came by to check on me before he left for Birmingham, I thought he was long gone! I love that man! So he looked at my stats and such and started talking about how long they would keep me and observe, etc, then he goes, "well, heck, you aren't leaving here without a baby". Hallelujah! So they then took me and put me in a BRAND new delivery room! I thought I was stuck in the one I was being observed in, it was smaller and had an awful tv in it, lol.

I settled in and made all my calls and here we go! I started having more contractions throughout the night but they would never get real consistent. I wanted to walk but with baby still breech they said I probably shouldn't until the doctor got back from Birmingham, since he is the only one that will deliver me breech.

IV still sucked, but not as bad as last time. That morning early Lee and I started making rounds of labor and delivery. The contractions had pretty much petered to nothing during the night, boo. So walking started them up again but I decided to go ahead with a little bit of pitocin as suggested by my doctor to get things going. That did it! I started getting pretty uncomfy so since I came IN 4 cen I could have my epidural whenever I wanted. I don't remember what I was dilated at that point but I went ahead and got it. I felt it this time! But it really did just feel like a bee sting, which is how she described it. But my contractions never did really 'hurt' they were definitely not fun and uncomfy but nothing awful. After my epidural I felt real itchy and warm, kind of sleepy.

So after that we really were waiting on my water to break. It finally started leaking, but that was it. Doctor didn't want to break it because of her being breech. So they had me sitting on my bottom as far as I could in the bed, that didn't work, then the nurse asked me if I wanted to try turning on my side. Well not long after she left the room Lee's brothers had arrived. They came in to see me and all of a sudden I felt SOMETHING come OUT. I knew it couldn't be her head but I really didn't know what it was!! Mom said she will never forget the look on my face, lol! So I said real fast "something just came out and yall need to leave!!" to his brothers, haha, poor guys.

I frantically pushed the nurse button and here she came running, she checked me and said it was my WATER BAG. What?? Then all of a sudden I had four nurses in there staring at my water bag lying on the bed, lol, so funny. They were all like wow, we've never seen that! Haha. Glad to be your entertainment, ladies! So everything got kind of fast and blurry at this point. The doctor was called (he was in the other building doing his patient appointments) and then all of a sudden her heart rate DROPPED big time and everyone started getting pretty busy. They put a oxygen mask on me and told me to breathe real deep in and out and Becky got on the phone again with the doctor telling him very calmly, for my sake I'm sure, that he really needed to HURRY, lol. As for me I was lying there silently FREAKING OUT and praying. I was so scared she would stop breathing or something and get stuck in there and die, ugh. But her heart rate jumped back up to normal and was fine from then on, thank GOD!

So doctor gets there and here we go. Lee said he finally broke my water, though I don't remember this and I started pushing. And I gave it all I had! I really only pushed like twice and she was out to her head but then I hear people saying she has her arm up in her face, and I can feel him pulling and dong all sorts of stuff down there. Gahhh kid!!! So the doctor had a HECK of a time getting her to move her arm so I could get her out and I was so worried all I knew was I needed to push her out and FAST. At one point the nurse even jumped up on me and was pushing on me to pop her out. I was just about done for when they finally got her out! They laid her on my chest and she is not moving, shes white, all sprawled out and lifeless! But I wasn't worried, I knew they can be stunned sometimes when they come out backwards, I was just so relieved she was out.

So they took her over pretty quickly to the warming place and worked on her there getting her to breathe and cleaning her up, checking her out. And as they are doing that the doctor is delivering the placenta and checking me out and he says, "now I heard her arm pop when she came out, she might have a broken arm or shoulder." WHA....WAIT WHAT?! Then he starts saying but that will heal, its no big deal, yada yada. And I'm laying there thinking, I should have just gotten a c-section!! Then my baby wouldn't have a broken arm!

They brought her over to me so I could see her, but I really just wanted them to go ahead and take her for xrays! They thought she was probably okay because she had started moving it and wasn't crying when they messed with it. But I was so afraid to touch her if it was broken! They took her pretty quick after that and I rested and ate some food. I was starving! Hadn't ate since lunch the day before and it was late afternoon the next day.

Everything turned out great, God is so good. She was completely healthy and the xrays came out normal. So thankful! The family got to see her through the nursery window while Lee was back there with her, and then they came in after I had nursed her the first time. We had Chloe came in first and it was so sweet. She kept saying, shes so beautiful! :) Love that girl.

So! We are nearly 2 months old now! 7 weeks. Overall impression is she likes to eat A LOT, not a calm baby unfortunately. She likes her schedule, 9:00 is bed time and she will not sway from it! (found that out a few times the hard way!) She was nursing nearly every hour the first two weeks, lol, still every 2 hours now unless she is sleeping. She started smiling about 3 weeks, so sweet! And a bit after that with coos and such. If you get her in just the right spot in front of you she will smile and talk at you for the longest time. She really loves talking to her daddy and papa Mickle. The best thing ever is she SLEEPS ALL NIGHT! She will sleep from 10 or so all the way to 6 or 7 in the morning. No joke. THANK GOD! I love it! She is in a co sleeper next to my bed, the one my sister in law used which is my other sister in laws, lol. We swaddled her for about a month or so and then she started busting her arms out of it so now she is swaddled in it below her arms to keep her warm. But this week she has started busting out of it too! So I may have to do a blanket soon, boo.

She sleeps a lot still. I started back to work this past week and she usually eats before work, sleeps a bit after we get  here, eats around lunch time again, and then sleeps nearly until time to go home at four. Pretty easy! Sometimes she is awake when we get here and fusses until I feed her around 11:30. Then sleeps the afternoon away.

OH! I forgot another awesome thing, she drinks a bottle! Hallelujah! We have her on a Avent natural and she does great with it. I am able to pump about 5 or 6 ounces every other day or two or so and have been freezing it. I don't have enough to leave her all day but plenty for an occasional bottle while we are out, or for date nights. She also takes a paci at times, but not easily.

So Chloe is a GREAT big sister! She is so helpful fetching things for me or the baby, gives her kisses all the time, etc. She loves her. She isn't really jealous too much, but sometimes she wants us to hold her TOO. Or she wants a blanket too, etc. Its been a bit hard at bed times sometimes, when Shelby wants to eat NOW and Chloe wants me to put her to bed, etc. Like last night she was screaming wanting to eat and Chloe wanted me, and I hadn't been able to put her to bed for quite a few days so I went ahead and put her to bed. When I walked into the bedroom this is what I saw, lol:

Such a good daddy! He has been great helping with Chloe and the new baby. She can get pretty fussy at times so its nice to have someone to hand her off to. She likes the big swing Chloe loved too thank goodness so she sleeps in it a lot at home. I also have a rock n play she likes pretty good. And a bouncer, she likes movement!

Here are a few pics of sweet Shelby:

Sweet babies!

First day back to work!

2 Weeks old! Just before Christmas

One month old!

Well in other news my husbands childhood home burnt the ground two weeks ago. It was awful. Thankfully they were all gone on vacation. I still feel awful I didn't see it. I was home the whole time and never even knew until I saw a car go by the road really fast and I jumped up to see where it went and saw flames coming out of every window. The really bad thing is they only have insurance enough to cover paying off the loan on the property. But not to build again. So they still really don't know what they are going to do.

So right now they are living with us, yeah, 5 extra people in our 1300 sqft house, heh. His mom and dad are sleeping in the fifth wheel and his two brothers are in our workout room and his sister in Chloes room. We moved her back into the nursery, took the front off the crib to make it a big girl bed. She is cool with it! So we are just in a holding pattern right now! It was a bit rough to begin with but I'm okay with it right now. Hopefully I will stay that way!

Bout all right now, till later, tata!

T-Minus 8 Days!

Come on already baby!! I was pretty sure I would go into labor this weekend, but, alas, was not to be.

So let me tell you why I was thinking this. Wednesday I went in for my appointment and left shortly after. She said he was still at the hospital delivering babies and all the exam rooms were full PLUS there were like 4-5 people in front of me waiting. EHHH, no. So she got me in Thursday morning at 9 thankfully. Fast forward to then! We got in there and less then five minutes later they call me back, woah, that was fast! So I figured I would be waiting in the room for him forever, he came in pretty quick too. I was a little worried about Chloe being with me (she is with the sister in law Mon and the mother in law Tues and Wed, at work with me Thurs) mostly because of the cervix exam, lol. Nobody wants to see that! I tried to explain to her a bit before hand what would go on and she seemed a little confused but ok with it. So when he came in I just had her watch lalaloopsy on my phone over in the chair and she was fine!

So he measured me, said I was measuring a bit small but that I wasn't big anyway. (Oh by the way I rolled over 150, boo, 151 as of Thursday) And heartbeat was good. He asked me if I thought she had flipped yet and I said I wasn't sure but she did feel like she was in a bit of a different position. So he checks my cervix, says that feels pretty hard, I think thats a head! I was like REALLY?! Lol, so then he tells me I'm a good 3 cen dilated and he could stretch me to 4. Heck yeah! I was shocked, being only 1 a week before. So then he goes well just to be sure, lets go check the ultrasound and see if she really is head down. I was all for that! Got my clothes back on and we headed across the hall. I get Chloe settled in another chair and lay back on the table. He starts looking around....and BAM, nope, she is still head up. GAHH!! Earlier in the room while he was washing his hands after examining me he said and I was kind of looking forward to delivering a breech baby. Well looks like he is getting his wish!! -_- Dadgum stubborn baby!

SO! When we first walked into the ultrasound room he was looking at the calendar and saying I could be induced this Tuesday if I wanted, since I would be 39 weeks. But then I would be getting out of the hospital on Thanksgiving, ick. It was tempting! But I said no, I'd rather wait. And after we found out she was breech still he said its better for breech babies to go on their own without help anyway.

Well that was that! I go back again Wednesday unless she decides to make her appearance before hand. As for why I thought she was coming this weekend. Ever since my appointment I started having HUGE gobs of mucousy discharge every single time I went to the bathroom almost. And that is a lot, lol. And I mean a ridiculous amount. Also I had some pains on Saturday that I haven't had before. Apparently we are getting close yes, just not that close. So I'm walking around 4 cen dilated. Fun, lol. She is still pretty high though, I wish she would get out of my ribs!! She will just make them acheeee. No 39 week pic yet, but will try to add one.

In other news! Lee got his shop started! I forgot to take a picture of it this morning, boo, but he has all the posts set and concreted, gravel spread out. Here is a pic of them Sat night before getting the poles set:

Had fun last night with a few friends, which was funny because we were all pregnant, lol, 12 weeks 33 and 38! Which meant a lot of bathroom breaks lol. We went and watched the second hunger games movie, which was AWESOME!! Way, way better then the first.

Thats about all thats going on, until further news, adios!

Hello Week 38!

Here we are in the homestretch! Two more weeks baby!! Officially 15 more days. WOW. I'm so ready, this belly is beyond annoying. Plus I'm getting really low on energy. I spent most of it the last few weeks I think cleaning house and clothes and packing bags! We still haven't painted the nursery, too much other going on, but I'm okay with that. She isn't going to be in there for a while anyway.

I have her bag packed with my nursing pillow and a blanket sitting by the door. And my bag is packed with all that I can do now in our bedroom. I went to walmart and got a ton of little travel size things to put in a toiletry bag so I don't have to drag all our regular stuff there. Plus I can use it again camping, etc. We bought Lee a duffle bag which is also sitting there, with nothing in it, lol, that will have to be a last minute thing, he wears all his clothes all week!  

So the baby shower went well, got my stroller! Its so perty! I installed Shelby's car seat so that is all ready to go. Chloe loves riding in the stroller :). I did still have to buy quite a few things myself, no one really seemed to look at my registries, o well. This saturday we went to babies r us, which is conveniently also the same store as toys r us (they split it down the middle). So I got the baby stuff I couldn't find anywhere else and also knocked out all the kids I have to buy for Christmas! Preston, Dawson, Olivia, and Luke. Yay! I also got Chloe some things as well, I had her walk around with me first and tell me all the stuff she liked and then sent her out with her daddy, lol. She is so easy anyway, she loves all kinds of stuff!

I'm so excited for Christmas this year! Having a newborn and then Chloe being 3 and really into it, is going to be so fun. We will get to pick out our tree all together and everything, its going to be so fun! Family of four! Wow. Doesn't seem real yet, I have a feeling it will take a while even after she is here, lol.

Halloween went good! Here is my little 'puppy':

The tutu came out so good! I never did find the shirt and leggings I wanted, so I used some EIGHTEEN month leggings we had already, lol, and found a shirt that worked okay at walmart. She had so much fun!

And I don't think I ever posted a picture of Shelby's bedding, here it is! Super cute right? And check out my cute diaper bag over there on the door, its a kalencom I got for like 10 bucks. Used of course, but in very good condition. 

So the refinance went through! We got our 9k check in the mail last week. Already spent some of it, lol. $400 of it went in a big pile of rocks Friday:

Yeah, I know, freakin-a! Four hundred dollars for ROCKS! -_- O well, it is what it is! Poor Lee was wanting to start on his shop this weekend but it rained all weekend. Boo. This Saturday he and a buddy of his are going deer hunting (opening weekend for rifle) so not sure if he will start then or not. I'm excited to see it done!

So I keep skipping around but back to baby stuff! 38 weeks tomorrow. I am 149lbs as of last Wednesday, would not doubt if I have rolled over 150 by today, lol. I know I will have by my next appointment Wednesday! I went in and did my ultrasound last week first and of course she said baby is still breech, but all looks good and she is measuring 6lbs 12oz. But I don't hold a whole lot of stock in ultrasound weights, they can be a whole pound off either way! Doctor said I am the perfect patient, never have any isses with blood pressure, protein in urine, didn't gain but 22lbs, never swollen, etc. I was like, well thank you! Haha. I said too bad my baby isn't perfect! ;) He then said I was also the perfect candidate for a breech birth if we have to do one. I've already had a baby vaginally, she wasn't large, and baby is in the 'frank' breech position which is the best one to be in for a breech birth. SO, he said if you are okay with it, I am. I said yeah, lets do it, I would like to avoid a c-section if at all possible! I wonder if I go into labor and still haven't broke my water, if they will try to turn her again. I hope so! I'd much rather have her come out head first!!

So I've been at 1cm both appointments he has checked my cervix, which is really not bad at all, I remember it being worse with Chloe! (which of course its all a bit more stretched out now, lol) I was having braxton hicks contractions a bit two weeks before last, but this last week I haven't, thank goodness. Those were freakin annoying!! She has been changing position a lot in there lately (especially through the movie we watched Saturday night! lol Lee and I went and ate dinner and watched Thor, probably last date night for awhile! Chloe's uncle was so sweet to watch her for us) and I'm hoping she is thinking about getting into birth position soon. Although the best time for her to come really is her due date week, as much as I'd like to see her now! If she comes this week or next it will be thanksgiving week the rest of her life on her birthday off and on since it usually comes the 3rd week of the month, but sometimes, like this year, its the 4th week. But I hate all this waiting!!

No signs of imminent labor though! Next appointment is Wednesday so we will see if I've dilated some more or not, he said I was thick and high last week.

Here is my fat self at 38 weeks!

38 weeks - Shelby

38 weeks - Chloe

So not too far off, lol, although its hard to tell when I'm not holding my hands the same. Well thats about all right now! Just hanging in there! Can't wait to post a picture of my sweet newborn baby!