Almost Time

Well I am 38 weeks a day or two shy from when I delivered both girls although it looks as though this little one will stay put until induction day which is scheduled for the 24th. We won't get out of hospital until Thanksgiving. I am ready. I am not miserable though, hardly any contractions etc. He is quite chill like the girls in the womb. I don't get a ton of kicks. I am so excited to meet him. I guess with it being a boy it seems like your first in a way. But I am not anxious. I think the girls will like having a baby brother. Allison is super excited and I think she will be able to help a lot. Mary is excited but I think she still likes being the baby so we will see how she does. I think she will be much easier to adjust than Allison since MP will have someone to play with (allison) She kisses my stomach a lot. Allison loves to feel my stomach move. I don't think MP realizes the baby will actually come out of mommy's stomach. :) They are both such cute ages, trying INDEED. and I need to work on my nerves. I know it will be hard when the baby is here when I have MP home with me 3 days of the week. I know I will be tired and it will be hard keeping her and doing stuff and trying to sleep. That was the hardest with Allison and we ended up after the first month putting her in Primrose full time which helped. So we will see. I have a girl that says she can come and help on Tuesdays and Thursdays but I am afraid she will want to just hold the baby. So we will see. I can't believe Thanksgiving is upon us and the Christmas season. I am super excited about the baby being here and not being pregnant anymore. I think about it being my last and I know later I will miss pieces of it. SO I am trying to remember things :) Right now me and Mary on the days off keep ourselves quite busy. I used to work out and do an errand in the morning then put her down for nap then get allie from Kinder or bus drops her off. Since I have been more pregnant and not working out at gym I usually do a couple of errands or we will go to park or meet someone and then come home have lunch watch a little tv. Our schedule goes like this: 645: wake allie up and give her cereal or waffle with PB :) while she watches Sofia, Mickey etc get her dressed, she brushes teeth, pack her lunch/water bottle/snack etc and then leave house around 725. Mary usually gets up by 7 and we all get in car. I will either walk Allie in or usually try to do carpool but lately Allison has been wanting me to walk her to front door of school. Then come home feed Mary waffle with syrup or cereal and then get dressed to start the day. Usually leave house by 9/930 and then do errands, come home around noon (or after if we went out for lunch) then have her watch a show before nap then she goes to sleep around 1 then Allison gets home around 304 and starving. Allison always wants fruit snacks, granola bar and then surprisingly wants to play not veg out and watch a show. On Mondays we have gymnastics at 4 so she snacks and then gets dressed and we head out. SO i try to get dinner done once she is off bus. On the other days we will sometimes go to park or go do an errand or just hang out and get dinner etc ready and then Will gets home around 5-515. We usually try to eat around 545/6 and then baths right after and then they can play or watch tv until about 730 which we start books etc. Allison has been doing some homework which is sight words etc and then bedtime is at 8. by about 815 we are telling MP to be quiet etc and then they fall asleep :) but its still a better schedule than what it was this summer as girls were going to bed way too late. We will see how this all changes with baby Luke. crazy that things are all going to change. Allison still hates to eat MP doesn't eat very well either but she isn't picky. Allison is still very picky. Allison is doing really well in Kindergarten and I am glad I started her. She seems to have good friends or like her friends. She also seems to be excelling in reading/math etc. She is learning a ton. I like her teacher, real sweet. I am still really liking Prosper, met some really nice people. We will see how this new adventure goes :)

Summer 2015

Well here we are 6 months later from the last post and we are in the middle of summer. We now have a 5 year old and a 2 year old and we are pregnant with a LITTLE BOY that is 20 weeks. We have had a good 1/2 of the year. For MP birthday we went to a place called Playstreet Musuem and had a Mary had a Little Lamb party. It turned out good. We did it in the morning and had chick fil a biscuits, fruit, and donut holes along with milk/juices/coffee. It worked out well. For Allisons bday we did a mermaid theme party at the park near our house with a splash pad, bounce house, and sno cones. It went well and think she had fun. We found out we were pregnant March 13th or so but it was a scary deal at the beginning considered I was bleeding once again at the beginning of the pregnancy. I can't remember if I mentioned we had a miscarriage in december. but nonetheless we went in to see Dr. Harms at almost 6 weeks but when we did sono they didnt see anything. So along with the bleeding that happened at the beg and nothing on the sono Dr Harms felt pretty good that this pregnancy would not be viable. So we did a miscarriage work up along with pregnancy blood work. So the next week we went in and found out our HCG and progesterone levels were quite high (progesterone being 36 at 5 weeks) Dr Harms was excited and on the sono we saw a heartbeat!!! so we were a little more optimistic. She did find out that I have two clotting disorders the main one being Factor V Leiden single copy and MTHMR. With that information Dr Harms started me immediately on Lovenox 40mg Sub Q Daily (meaning shots every day), folic acid, vitamin D, and baby aspirin. So far so good although the first trimester was really hard for me. I felt terrible. I was always dizzy, weird heart palpitations, racing heart, so so so tired, headaches, not too bad morning sickness but present, shortness of breath, low blood pressure.. an entire list of stuff. it was weird and it sucked. but around 14 weeks it went away although after 10 weeks I started to get some relief. nonetheless it went away and I am feeling great. At 12 weeks the sono tech said she felt like it was a boy (75%) and our down screening came back great with a risk of 1 to 10,000 chance of a baby with chromosome problem. then at 16 weeks she confirmed that it was a boy and we got our second set of screening tests that came out good with a risk of 1 in 10000 again. We just had our 20 week scan yesterday and all looked good except they saw an echogenic focus on the heart which is a marker for downs syndrome. We went to the specialist today and he felt that everything was fine and there were no problems. It was a huge relief although we are waiting for the blood work results to come in to help confirm no chromosome abnormalities. But the specialist felt like we didnt even need to do the blood work. We are looking at names I like Luke William or William Luke but Will maybe wants to do his name so we will see. So back on how things are with the girls. they are good, very cute, but a handful :) they fight a lot. MP has started hitting things so we are teaching her :).. They are both funny in their own ways as well as their sweet side. But both are pretty stubborn and very strong willed. Summer has been good. We have been swimming a lot, the girls love it. MP can fit in her puddle jumper great and Allie has been swimming great. Mondays we take Allie to gymnastics and then in June we had tuesday swimming lessons. Then we eat lunch out or what not then come home for MP nap and then after nap we either hang around the house, do a play date, go swimming or go do an errand before Will get home. If he is out of town we sometimes are in dallas or keeping ourselves busy as I hate being home with the girls for many days when Will is out of town for work. Its been a fast summer so far. the girls are in crockett this entire week so they can get some time with Wills parents and then we are picking them up to go to gulf shores AL for a family vacation just the four of us. Im excited it will be a good time. Cannot believe Allie will go to Kindergarten in 40 days. INSANITY. we went to san antonio in May before the crawfish boil and did the river walk and swam. it was fun. took girls by the Alamo, shopping, down to the market where the girls got guitars and then went to the river WHERE IT FLOODED DURING memorial day weekend. we had to evacuate in the middle of the night. the river got over 43 ft high and was more than 4 ft in our house. SAD but we were all safe THANK the lord. We are redoing the river house now since it got destroyed. It was the craziest night. Other than that things are going well. Will try and keep up more. Girls now sleep together at night in Allies room. we are about to get them new beds as MP is moving into Allie's room. Allie and MP love mexcian food esp queso, they eat waffles almost every morning, Allie with PB and Mary with syrup. We do cheese quesadillas a lot and they are obsessed with sno cones. They will eat fruit esp watermelon this summer. MP not picky although doesn't eat as much anymore. Allison is still very picky so were trying to work on that. :) they both sleep til about 730/8. They go to bed at like 8-830 but RIGHT now we are dealing with them taking a while to go to sleep so sometimes we are in there until about 930. it can be brutal. so our new goal once we their beds is to not have to lay with them mainly Allie until they are asleep. so we will see how that goes.

January-post holidays

WOW I was thinking I had at least typed something on here since September. Nonetheless I have not. Things have been going by pretty quickly. All of the holiday were really great. We had Halloween here at the house, mom and nat/wyatt came out along with sara/jt and their families. It was a lot of fun. We dressed up like the wizard of oz characters. Allison was dorothy. MP was a lion although she wouldn't wear her costume :(. She wasn't having it nor did I stress to make her which was nice. We had thanksgiving here at the house with mom/fred ,nat and wyatt, dad, the hortons, and my family of course. It was really nice. LOTS OF WORK to pull that off, people make it seem so easy. but man the clean up after takes an entire day :) I did the turkey, mashed potatoes, apple pie, creamed corn. Everyone else brought stuff. We had a great time though. Christmas was fun too we had Christmas eve here mom/fred came out along with brett/alaina for dinner and then Will/I went to Xmas eve service at church. We actually found out two or three days before xmas eve that we were pregnant but unfortunately on dec 29th we miscarried. It sucked, but was grateful it didn't prolong if something was wrong with the pregnancy. The girls are doing really well. MP is in full toddler hood but she is soooooo funny. Great personality, goes up to almost anyone and asks them to pick her up. she copies allison a lot which is cute. they do a routine in their elsa dresses which are actually PJ's but I have to introduce them as Elsa/Anna and they come running down the hallway and sing Let it Go for us. Its really cute. MP saying sentences, especially NO, or No Way or Hey you. But she asks to get her down, can I have some??? She still loves to eat which I love. There really isn't anything she doesn't like ex

January 2015

Okay new years resolution over here to post more and more pictures. I feel like things are already going at warp speed and I need to try and remember it all as WE ALL know my brain won't remember. Things are good. Will started to travel this week. WE had a great holiday season, can't believe I didn't blog about it. We had a halloween party and we were all the cast from The Wizard of Oz. Allison wanted to be dorothy and we all followed suite. We really had a fun time around the neighborhood trick or treating. It was on a Friday this year. The whole neighborhood gets in on the fun and everyone is outside handing out candy and something mom/dad "juice" :). MP didn't want to dress up, and I didn't stress much about it. She was the lion but refused to wear the hat so she just wore a brown suit :). Thanksgiving we had everyone mom/fred, nat/wyatt, dad, and the Hortons over for the day. It was fun but man what an ordeal regarding all the dishes that we had to clean. For Christmas we had mom/fred over for Christmas Eve Dinner which Alaina/Brett came over for to. Will and I went to the Christmas Eve Service at church. We found out we were pregnant on the 22nd. Which was exciting although we miscarried a week later. The girls loved Christmas, Allison got overwhelmed again but not nearly as bad as the last year. She got peppa pig stuff, art stuff, a barbie bike. They both got a store to share and big leggos. MP got a slide, a riding toy thing that sings. Although we try to ride that now she is a little too big. We went to crockett after we opened stuff from Santa and mom/dad and made it for lunch. We stayed until that sat night. It was a good christmas, grandmother and grandaddy gave them pottery barn sleeping bags and gift cards etc. Besides all the business of the holiday season, January has been relatively quiet which we have enjoyed. We are planning on going to Hot Springs in Feb. The girls have been good, they are playing with most of their toys. They love peppa pig, bubble guppies. MP obsessed with the movie frozen and little rascals. She is really talking more and becoming a stinker, but still HILARIOUS. We call her thighs HAMHOCKS. she still loves to eat. Allison still hates to eat unless its pizza, quesadillas, pb and j :) always a struggle. We start reading to them around 730 and then put MP in crib, we usually sing to her Hush little Baby and Allison sings it with me. Then we lay with Allison until she falls asleep. So somewhere btw 830-9 we can relax. I am always so tired by the time 9 comes around. The girls are loving school. Its so nice to not fight with them on going to school. I hope it continues. I worry about Allison going to Kindergarten next year and being so young. I know she will have a tough time. The girls have been doing very well, usually after I pick them up from school we will either do an errand or come home. I let them watch a little tv and have a snack if they want. then we will play or do something until 5 I am usually still trying to clean and fix dinner. Girls always want to do arts and crafts, play calico critters, sometimes we play store. Another cute thing the do a lot is wear their frozen nightgowns and we introduce them at the end of the hall and they come running into living room to sing LET IT GO. Allison loves going to the movies, I can't wait to be able to take both of them to it. MP still takes nap around 1230/1-330/4. She still takes a paci and has her music in her room. Allison is obsessed with Bailey, it gets kind of annoying bc she is always wanting to hold her or touch her and bailey gets scared.