Mary Had A Little Lamb...

Last Saturday was Rob's families annual Halloween party. Of course this isn't complete unless you dress of for the occasion - especially the little tykes... For some reason, this year almost all of the adults were a little bit ba-hum-bug and I think there was a grand total of 6 that actually dressed up. Normally we all dress up, much to Rob's dismay (He totally hates it, but will do it to please me but our compromise is that it has to be a mellow costume where he won't look ridiculous -his words, not mine...) Well with me feeling already like a good year blimp, totally opted out of the whole dressing up, needless to say, I don't have too many of my costumes that fit me right now which really made Rob happy to the fact that if I wasn't dressing up, then he wouldn't have to go in costume...
We got Maysie in her costume about an hour early so we could take a few pictures of her being all cuteness and all. So here is a few of our favorites for your pure enjoyment! Funny thing is, is once we went outside, Maysie started Baaing like a sheep... She totally knows how to play the part! :)

Just An Update

I finally went to the Dr. today and got the pregnancy confirmed! Hooray! Much to my mothers sorrow, there is only one baby growing inside of me, (Thank Heavens). She was practically convinced that I was going to have twins when she saw me last week. :) Everything looks great and the baby looks to be as active as Maysie was and/or is... Constantly kicking and punching who knows what throughout the ultrasound. :) The heartbeat appears to be very strong too. That is always comforting to know. She gave me a due date of May 19th which puts me at 10 weeks along. So here is a sneak peek of our new bundle of joy!!!












As for the rest of things... I have been feeling way better with this pregnancy than I was with Maysie. I haven't been too sick, a little nauseous yes, but at least able to keep food and water down. I tend to only suffer from the minor pregnancy symptoms... Fatigue, and headaches. I am so lucky! Rob has been busy doing winter fill, which means he goes to Montana to get a load and bring back to one of the local refineries so he is gone basically every other night. He was lucky enough to have just enough time to lay over here at home to go with me to my appointment today. :) Yea! This schedule of his will probably go on for 3 or 4 months with occasional breaks when the weather is really bad. Maysie is growing and learning with leaps and bounds. It seems like every day she adds one new word to her vocabulary and her new favorite saying is NO! NO! She would rather play with the kids then chill with the adults and is not quite as clingy to mom and dad. Finally, I thought that that day couldn't come soon enough. :)

Family of Four

As you can probably guess by the title, Rob and I are preggo with baby #2. We have known for a few weeks and we have been trying to be patient and not tell anyone until after I go to the Dr and get it confirmed but I couldn't get in until the end of the month... and we just can't keep it a secret any longer, so you get to find out before we go see Nancie, (Our Dr.-well actually she's an LPN but it's all the same to me). We also were trying to wait until Rob got back from his trip to Cali and Nevada so we could tell the family together. (Seriously, I think his family thinks I am dying or something cuz they can tell I haven't been feeling good the last few weeks. I told them it was just a really bad migraine which started as the truth and I have had many headaches since but they don't know the real reason of why I am getting these.) I kinda think that I am due in the middle of May, but this is a totally uneducated hypothesis. I am sure that when I go to the Dr's, Nancie will do an ultrasound and give us a better idea. This totally came as a shocker to us since we figured it would probably take another 3 years like it did the first time since my body seems to have a mind of it's own and acts completely abnormal 95% of the time yet we are getting excited about our new arrival. So far things have been going ok, I am just getting to the yucky stage where instead of nausea 24/7 I actually get the 5 minutes of relief once I flush my breakfast, lunch or dinner down the toilet... (Seriously, why do they call it morning sickness, when you are actually sick the whole day, and even most the night?) And Hello Heartburn... I'm pretty sure that is all courtesy of the acid from the human volcano that has inhabbited my body. I have also quickly discovered that I don't have the energy like I used too. When I was preggo with Maysie, I just had to worry about going to work 3 days a week and then I knew that I could take some time to recuperate in the middle of the week to keep up my energy, but with this one I don't get that luxury. You don't ever get a break from being mom all day, although, I have slacked off in the homemaking department, (There are many days my home looks like a tornado has hit it lately.) Maysie wears me out pretty early in the day especially since I have been battling parenthood solo since I have found out about the baby (with the exception of the 16 hours Rob was home earlier this week, yet most of that was in the middle of the night). Rob got home today from the road and will actually be able to be home for a few days, or so they say, so hopefully my energy will increase with the extra help. :) As for the food cravings: I crave banana's (I know total Kodak moment since I can't stand the yellow fruit) and Mexican food.... Yumm, makes me hungry just thinking about it. So far there are not any food aversions, yet it is still pretty early in my delicate state... I am sure that their will be a list sooner or later. :) So stay tuned for further details.