Still Alive...and Baby #3 is Here!

Hmmm...I missed an entire month in blog land, and we are over half way thru March.  Oh well.  My days are full with 3 little kids age 4 and under and some days we don't make it out of our jammies.  Just keepin' it real. 

I took my last pregnancy picture the night before my c-section.  Only Baker accidentally erase all my pictures on the camera in the hospital just after being admitted.  Deep breath, went and changed into my hospital garb and took a new "last pregnancy" picture - while on the phone trying to sort insurance mix up stuff.  Real life people.  Real life.  This is it folks.

Baby Hayden joined us on February 7th @ 8:11am

8lbs. 4oz and 20" long

My sweet baby boy.  Chillin' with momma and getting some needed rest.

Going home from the hospital.  Just moments before he was screamin' mad.  My other babies did that too when I buckled them in their car seats @ the hospital.  Strange.

My three amigos on Valentines day.  So cute!

Who doesn't love a sleeping baby???

38 Weeks

Surely this belly can't get that much larger!!!

It's been an interesting couple weeks.  Feels like we live at the doctors office.  Natalie and I both had ear infections (I had two), then a week later she wasn't better...wasn't sleeping and woke up and vomited one morning.  Found out she had walking pneumonia.  Bleh!  Between ears, nose, throats, pneumonia stuff and pregnancy checkups...we've spent a lot of time at the doctors office and pharmacy. 

Hopefully, that is all behind us as this little boy is set to arrive Feb. 7th!

37 Weeks

36 Weeks

Miss Nat decided she wanted to take a belly picture too ;)

One day she showed me her belly and told me Baby Hayden was in her tummy! 

She cracks me up. 

She talks so much and is very smart...to much for her own good at times.

34 Weeks

(Jan. 1st)

33 Weeks

Apparently, I got all off schedule remembering to take belly pics on the even weeks.  Oh well.  This is our only baby born in an odd year...maybe it's par for the course???  After a lonnnngggg two days of celebrating Christmas...this is what this prego was looking like.  Not. So. Hot.

31 Weeks

I've decided black is the best pregnancy clothing EVER!  Although, this isn't a maternity top...so whatever.  Since I didn't get a full belly shot @ 30 weeks, I had Baker take this one at 31.  It's getting closer!

30 Weeks and Christmas stuff...

Yes, this is the only picture I got of my belly @ 30 weeks.  It was sooooo cold the day we went to get our tree, that we decided to bundle up and go 5 minutes down the road and support the local boy scouts.  Our Christmas tree cutting adventure turned into picking out a tree from the Four Square Church parking lot ;)  We still had a blast and found it amusing when Luke didn't like the tree I picked out.  "No!  Not that ONE! It's too little!  We need a BIG ONE!"  So we ended up with a taller, imperfect, crooked tree that met Luke's requirement of what he thought a Christmas tree should look like.  It was still a great tree in my eyes.  As long as you didn't view from the side to see just how crooked it was - HA!

28 Weeks

Still growing!

Baby Wearing

With Baby #3 coming into our family in the next couple months, I have a question for all the baby wearing mommas.  What carrier(s) did you use and did you like them?  Here are the two I have been looking at:

(photo compliments of Target.com)

 The Moby Wrap

(photo compliments of Ergo.com)

Ergo

For my first two babies I used the Baby Bjorn, and wasn't overly impressed.  Mostly, it hurt my back.  If there is a carrier out there that doesn't put strain on your back, and allows you to have two free hands, will you PLEASE let me know?  Much thanks :)

24 Weeks

 I have a folder full of pictures and blogs to write...however, these days it obviously just isn't a top priority.  Here is a picture of me...on my birthday (which was wonderful by the way)

at 24 weeks pregnant with a

...baby BOY! 

Baker won out.  I wanted to wait until the baby was born to find out the gender.  Baker...he didn't want to wait.  He had legit reasons and he saw during the ultrasound.  I however, did not see during the ultrasound.  Baker took me to breakfast and gave me the envelope with our ultrasound pictures in it.  I opened it and started bawling like a baby.  STUPID HORMONES.

I wasn't sad because it was a boy...we have talked about wanting another boy forever it seems.  I was sad because this is probably our last baby.  We have talked about 3, wanted three and now...we will have three.  But...there's this part of me that doesn't want it to be over.  And sitting there at breakfast, for the first time ever, Baker admitted that maybe we weren't done with three either.  That made it even more confusing for this hormonal preggo woman. 

We don't know what the future holds, but that's okay. 

That is part of what makes life stressful interesting!

People say the strangest things . . .

Today I was at our local grocery store where I usually frequent once a week for our milk and some produce. I was in line to purchase my items when the clerk asked, "have you gotten bigger since I've last seen you?" Mind you, I am 33 weeks pregnant, I was wearing a white t-shirt and no makeup (not the best outfit) and thinking . . . "what would that mean if my belly hadn't grown in the final trimester of pregnancy?" In other words, "DUHHHHHHHHHHHHH." Okay lady . . . here's your sign. (For those of you who don't know what a stupid sign is click here). She then proceeded to tell me that she had three children of her own. In other words, she has experienced pregnancy and still . . . asked a stupid question. Last Friday, I had two ladies in the same day ask how much longer I had to go, I said 6-1/2 weeks. Both women had eyes as large as saucers and said "Wow! You still have a ways to go!" or "That's a long time!" I was with my mom when one lady made her comment. I leaned over and said, "that's the second time today!" Apparently, people use to make the same senseless comments to my mother when she was pregnant too. So, that leads me to believe that not only to people say senseless things, but that my belly is large. I didn't accomplish the petite looking figure with a bump in front with my last pregnancy or with this one. Oh well. Maybe third time will be a charm. Only 6 more weeks to go. Might as well enjoy it and have a brownie : )