Small Child Needed!

Wanted: small child willing to ride around in this great "ride!"

We got this for Christmas but unfortunately we have to wait another 6 months for a baby to put in it. I have considered going for walks with an empty stroller but I have been assured people will think I am crazy! What's a girl to do?

Baby Daddy

I want to direct you to the a post on this baby's daddy's blog. It is very sweet. It made me cry, but considering pregnancy hormones and such that may not be saying much.

Check it out over at the daily fiesta

New Baby Pics

Here are our newest baby pictures. This is a 12 weeks inside picture!

High Maintenance

So, apparently either the baby or I are high maintenance. I'm not sure which it is but the pair of us seem to be high maintenance (just ask Lee). We had an appointment at 10 weeks where the doctor tried to hear the heartbeat but she couldn't find a heartbeat. She didn't seem worried but she wanted us to come back in 2 weeks (instead of 4) so they could check for the heartbeat again. Well, today we had our second appointment to try to hear the heartbeat. The nurse tried to find the heartbeat-no luck. The doctor came in and tried to find the heartbeat-again no luck! Apparently my uterus is very tilted toward the back which causes problems with heartbeats but they sent us for an ultrasound. I was a little worried!

We went in for the ultrasound and at first I had no idea what we were looking at but the ultrasound tech said she saw the heartbeat so I took her word for it and felt a little relieved. Then the picture of the baby started taking shape and I could see what we were looking at. The baby had it's hand on it's brow and it's legs kicked up. As we watched the baby started waving it's hand around and kicking it's legs. Then it started doing the kind of ab workout where you lift your legs and butt up in the air. I think this baby will be in good shape.

Lately I have been feeling like maybe I was just imagining this whole pregnancy thing. Our first ultrasound helped some but I was still skeptical...seeing the baby moving this time (and looking more like a baby than a snowman) made this pregnancy seem a whole lot more real. I am starting to believe that in about 6 months I am going to be bringing a baby home to my house!!! Wow what a thought!

Thanksgiving in NC

This year we thought it might be fun to host Thanksgiving at our house. We have been known in year's past to make the Eastern seaboard tour in the four days we have off from work. This year we invited both our families to make the trip to our house for some yummy food and entertainment. Lee grilled the turkey which gave us more room in the oven for the other food. My mom and Lee's mom brought yummy desserts and bread. Amazingly everything got done at the same time and tasted good. We also didn't have too many leftovers to have to deal with later. Just enough for a couple meals while we were too tired to cook!

The FOG

So Stacey and I have been attending the "Newcomers" class at this new church we've been attending for the last month or so, which basically introduces us to the many, many opportunities they have for involvement (small groups, sunday schools, community outreach, volunteering, etc etc).  This week we all split up into areas of potential Sunday Morning (sunday schoolish) involvement based loosely on life-stage.  Of course, in keeping with typical church programming everything is creatively named...and by people much more sensitively natured than myself.  For instance, what I might call "The Overthehillers" they call "King's Pilgrim's"...and so on.  As we are the proud expectant parents of an aspiring "Infant to Toddler", we fall into the group called, "Families on the Grow".  Representatives from the class were there to tell us what the group is like, what they cover, what they do outside of church...blah blah blah (no really, it was really fascinating... really it was... truly fascinating)  where was I...oh! 
BLAMMO. 
It hit me:  Families on the Grow.  F.O.G.  Well, FOtG really, but that's not quite as epiphanizing and brain shattering.  Seriously?  FOG?  Do they all know something we don't know?  I know, all of you parents previously initiated into the fraternity of parenthood are shaking your head at me and thinking, "oh you just wait!"  We have stories (from most of you).  We have books (apparently from ALL of you...we have the entire Baby isle from Barnes & Noble littered throughout our house).  I'm learning none of this really and truly prepares you for the sobering reality of new-parenthood.  Much like someone who has heard descriptions from friends and read the manuals and books on driving stick...and then shoving them into a tiny 4-speed Yugo and turning them loose in a rural North-Florida town with his older and much more experienced brother who learned like two whole years before.  ...what could go wrong?!  ...not that I know what that's like...but you know what I mean. 

In 30-ish long weeks we will experience the FOG of parenthood as most of you have...whether we're ready or not.  So thank you all for the books, the maternity clothes, the stories, etc.  ...but thank you mostly for the bushwacked paths you've all blazed for us to follow, and for the battlescars you've revealed.  I'd say we couldn't do it without you but that's not true...we could do it, we just might kill each other first.

Here's to finding 1st gear on that hill.

Are you kidding me?!

We have always wanted children. In our minds we would have both biological children and adoptive children. But, after 18 months of trying to get pregnant we started to think that we might not have biological children. At first that was a really disheartening thought but throughout the process in our last month of trying we really came to terms with the idea and were very glad to be heading down the road to adoption. We decided on a country and filled out applications and were just waiting on the final verdict of our last month of trying. I took a pregnancy test and it was negative so we sent off our application (forgetting to include the check)
TWO DAYS LATER:

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?

So I called the adoption agency and said "we sent in our application but forgot our check but then two days later took a positive pregnancy test so I guess we'll get back with you in a couple years!" After that it was still really hard to believe that we were actually pregnant. It hasn't worked for so long so why would it this time. It was also really early so it is common to have something bad happen this early on. But today we went to the doctor for an ultrasound!

Everything looks great. We are 7 weeks along. The heartbeat is good. The doctor said we can get excited...so get excited with us!!