Still a sister!

It's still a girl!  Two ultrasound confirmations!  The pink nursery stays and I don't get in trouble for jumping the gun and painting too early!

Lavender Moon

Well, the nursery is painted!  Thanks to my awesome friend Julia for helping me...and making me do a thorough job!  We even used caulk to get the straight lines and uncaulked and recaulked the windows.

The paint has to cure for at least 15 days before adding the vinyl that I found for the wall.  Special thanks to Courtney for letting me steal the idea from her!  These are the vinyl stickers that will go up!  I am very excited!

Now, I go in for an ultrasound tomorrow...here's hoping she is still a she and the doc didn't mess up last time...I think I will die if he was wrong! ;)

Oh, the irony of it!

I told Travis that I really did not want to buy any more maternity clothes this time.  We are done after this little girl gets here and I really don't want to invest a lot of money on clothes that I will only be wearing for 4 more months.  I figured that I can just use the 2 pairs of maternity jeans for when I go places and then sport the sweatpant pregnant look at home...right? 
Well...I went to put on a pair of maternity jeans the other day.  I was in a slight hurry and as I quickly yanked them up, I totally ripped most of the blue cloth part at the top off.  Lovely, right?  Irony, right there!
Oh, and it continues!  I decided that instead of running to Motherhood Maternity and paying 4X what I would for a normal pair of pants (I am a Ross shopper...$12 jeans are for me), I would order them from JC Penney for $25 bucks.  It was free shipping and heck, they usually ship in a couple of days!  I placed my order and with my confirmation comes...are you ready...a backorder message.  Yep, the pants are backordered until January 18th!!!  Needless to say, I am not buying any more.  I will just have to be very careful not to rip my last pair and to make sure that I don't have too many places to go for too many days in a row!  No errands on laundry day!!

Half Way There!!

Today I am officially 20 weeks pregnant and am SO happy to be half way there!  And if this is anything like the last two, I will be induced 2-3 weeks early...which means I am over half way!!  Yea!  She is growing well and I am really feeling her kick now.  So fun!
Along with being halfway, things are going better than the last ones!  My body definitely hurts worse, but I typically have gestational high blood pressure and am on medication by now.  The minute that I deliver, my blood pressure goes back down to normal.  Crazy!!  With this pregnancy, my blood pressure is higher, but not high enough for medication yet.    I am SO excited to add one more to our family and I think that she will be a great addition!!

And it's a ....

Girl!!  We are very excited...especially the mommy!!  Now to break it to Jack that we aren't having a puppy...

Success!!

I told Jack that after his birthday I was not buying him anymore diapers. A little harsh?  Yes, but I knew that the kid could do it.  He by far excels at all things physical for his age and I REFUSE to buy diapers for 3 kids!  So, 1 week after his 3rd birthday, we started!  He had 2 accidents on the first day and I was getting pretty discouraged because he has NEVER peed on the potty...but he figured it out!!  We even headed to my mom's house to stay with my niece and he went there too!!  So, in 6 days, only 2 pee accidents.  We're still working on the poop part, but I can live with that!  We are VERY, VERY proud of our Bug!! 

 The very same day, we took away Charlie's binky.  I'm kind of a crazy, cold turkey kind of gal.  Although Charlie has not gone to bed quite as smoothly, he is now sleeping through the night without it and things are looking good!  I'm counting my blessings right  and there are lots!!

Only 5 more days until we go for the next ultrasound to see what gender our little one will be!!  Jack is still rooting for a puppy.  I feel that he will be rather disappointed!  Check out our blog on Thursday evening and see if the background is pink or blue!! (Of course, this will mean that the baby will not cooperate and we will still not know!!)

Falling in love...with FALL!!!

It's no lie that I have had felt like garbage for the past...oh...9 weeks!  Growing a baby is hard work and the 1st trimester has always been the hardest for me!  I'll take the soreness, lack of sleep, heartburn and swelling ankles third trimester over the 24/7 nauseated, pray to be able to puke, where I'm generally useless first trimester any  day!!  Luckily for me, Autumn has entered my life and I am in love.  And somehow being in love makes the bad stuff seem not so bad!

Travis has been so good to take us on multiple drives throughout the last 9 weeks just to get me out of the house or give me some time to nap with the boys restrained in their car seats!  This last weekend, I was feeling up to a little mini hike in Logan Canyon and the boys LOVED it!  It was very refreshing and renewing for me as well!!  Enjoy the pics!