Happy 5th Birthday Kaitlyn!!

My niece is 5 years old today!!! Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!!! Can't believe she will be starting kindergarten in a few short months, oh my goodness! We had a lot of fun at her birthday party on Saturday! Venily has been talking about it nonstop ever since! She made her Daddy take her down the waterslide a million times and thought it was just the best thing ever!!!

I have a doctor's appointment later this afternoon. Will update when I get back!

29 weeks- reality is setting in!

So my grandma gave me this super cute gift for Haven. Baby socks, some toys, and the cutest little outfit. And it totally hit me... I'm having another baby... and I can't wait!! I was looking at the stuff and couldn't believe how cute it was and I had SUCH a strong desire to have another small baby, it was unreal. Then I realized that in 2 1/2 months, I WILL HAVE ANOTHER BABY!!! It's crazy how surreal this whole thing is even though it's my second time around and even though the evidence is staring me right in the mirror (and kicking me right in the stomach!)! I just can't believe it! I'm SOOOOO excited!!!! :)

At 29 weeks...

* I am at 134 lbs (+ 14 lbs total gain)
* Haven has a 90% chance of survival if born now!!!
* Haven weighs almost 3 lbs!


My yoga instructor (who I love!) let me borrow a pregnancy yoga book from her. I really need to start doing it more than once a week and there are some positions to help with sciatic pain which I REALLY need to try b/c just relaxing is not going to happen... I have WAY TOO MUCH TO DO before Haven gets here! I was able to get a lot more organizing and cleaning done this week which is awesome! Also all of Haven's 6-9m & 9m clothes are now washed and put away, so she is all set...


I'm still trying to get a good video of Haven with her feet sticking out like crazy, but either Venily wants to get in the way of the video or when I finally get up and get my camera, Haven settles down some... so I will upload the one that I got when I get a chance, though it's pretty tame to what she CAN do, lol! She is soooo very crazy, she woke me up a million times last night! Let's hope she fixes that before she's born!



Looking forward to a nice 3 year anniversary with my husband today!!!!

Happy 4th of July!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July! Ours was awesome! Venily had so much fun!!! And I love looking at comparison holiday pictures, I can't believe how grown up Venily looks now! Definitely turning into quite the gorgeous young lady and she's only 1, lol- I am in sooooo much trouble!

Jason has been coming home every single night since Monday even though it's an extra 2 hrs there and back every day and he has a hotel room down there by him, lol, guess he really misses us! Tonight he is really staying down there though (at least that's what he said, lol, every time I wake up though after he's said that, he's always in bed with me!).

Oh how I love her....

We were getting ready for bed tonight and Venily is just so very cute!!! I always tell her I love her and she always says "Love you too!" in the sweetest little voice you could ever imagine. And tonight she did the same thing and waited a minute and asked, "More 'love you too's,' Mommy?" ♥

Aww, I can't help but cry while I write this! I said "Of course!" and told her I loved her again so that she could say "Love you too!" again. I hope she never gets sick of saying it!

Happy 1st Birthday Bryant!

My littlest nephew is 1 today! I asked Venily whose birthday it was today and she said "Bry's!" She has been saying that his birthday is next and then Kate's since Matt's birthday 2 weeks ago! All these summer birthdays... Venily's not going to know what's going on after Kaitlyn's birthday on the 13th. She has just come to expect that people have birthdays all the time!

28 weeks!!!

My 28 week pics...



At 28 weeks...

* I am at 134 lbs (+ 14 lbs total gain) (I had gained 13 with Venily at this point, so I am staying pretty consistent)
* I have been having quite a few BH contractions every day
* I just started up with getting leg cramps at night/ when I wake up in the morning. It has happened 3 times this past week. I had the same thing with Venily. I am positive that the pain is worse that child birth!
* Still obsessed with cleaning and organizing!
* Haven is CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY!! Moves CONSTANTLY!! Sticks her feet out with such force that I am afraid how much strength she will get within the next 12 weeks! Loves to kick my ribs too!
* People say things to me all the time now about being pregnant. I love the women that come up to me like I'm some kind of celebrity or something and are just so excited for me even though they don't even know me, lol! I also like that where ever I go everyone seems to be talking about pregnancies and babies. Like when I go to the beach (I've been wearing a bikini this pregnancy b/c I don't really care if people like it or not, haha!) and as we walk past people I get a lot of looks and people start talking about what they wore to the beach when they were pregnant, pregnancy in general, baby showers, etc. I'm like... hmmmm.... wonder what made you think to talk about that, haha!


Haven't updated about Venily in a while. Still doing AMAZING with going on the potty and has had VERY few accidents the whole time she has been potty training (which is over 4 weeks now!). Today we were at a junk yard and she had to go and I BEGGED her to go in the grass, lol. I even took off her underwear and pants and sat her on the ground and told her to go a couple of times, but she absolutely refused! We ended up having to go in some gross porta-potty! She kept saying things like "No pee grass Mommy, pee potty!" haha. I am looking now for a portable one that I can keep in the van that is just open to the ground so that she can go outside if necessary!

Jason is gone now until Sunday (though he will probably be coming back a few hours here and there) but we miss him so much already! He is doing sound for a festival and they got him a hotel room down there. We might go visit him for a day or 2, but we are pretty busy the next couple of days, so I don't think that would work out! Venily hates going any period of time without seeing her Daddy (every car she hears or noise around the house she asks "Daddy here?"), so it is going to be hard especially since I miss him too! :(

26 weeks! and NO MORE DIAPERS!!!

So I saw some really cute belly pictures of a girl in her swimsuit and wondered why I never thought of that. Probably should have tanned up a bit first though, lol!

One day I was laying out and Jason said.... you'd better give her some more sun b/c I don't want her to have jaundice when she's born. I thought it was so funny that he even knew that term when Venily never had it, lol! (Not that putting her in the sun now can help with that, but I still thought it was cute!)


Ummm..... yeah, she's huge! LOL!! I get so nervous when I think that she still has 14 weeks left (and she still has the majority of her growing left to do)!

At 26 weeks....

*I'm at 133 lbs (+13 lbs total gain)
*Haven can open her eyes now!!!!
* She's about 1 2/3 lbs and 14 inches long!
*I'm in the LAST week of my 2nd trimester. Ahhh! That went TOO fast!


Venily woke up yesterday morning, came into our room, climbed up on the bed with me, pulled up my shirt and the first thing she asked me was "Baby sister out?". LOL! She's going to be in for a long 3 months if every day she wants to know if her baby sister can come out yet!!




AND WE ARE OFFICIALLY OUT OF DIAPERS NOW day AND night as of yesterday!!!! So no more changing diapers for 3 whole months!!!!! The last couple of days she has been waking up dry in the morning, so we made the switch. And she is still doing soooooo great! Never has any accidents, and always tells me when she needs to go! I am putting away all of Venily's size 3's that she has left for Haven! And her extra panties and pair of pants takes up less room in the diaper bag than the 5 or so diapers I used to carry!!!!

ABC's and Happy Birthday!

Here is Venily repeating her ABC's, lol. EVERY TIME she hears someone say "O" she instantly thinks of the "Poker Face" song where it goes "oh, oh, oh, oh"!



And here she is singing "Happy Birthday" to Jacki! She can actually do it a lot better and has been doing it all day, but put a camera on her and she acts goofy, haha!!



Note that her hair is now long enough for decent pigtails!! Makes me soooo happy!!!!

100 DAYS LEFT AND COUNTING!!!

Only 100 days left until Haven's due date!!! I remember how fast it goes!! I have a doctor's appointment later today and will update when I get back. I'll get my glucose test results back today as well.



Happy Birthday to my littlest BIL Matthew who turned 7 yesterday!!! 7 years ago yesterday Jason and I were in an evacuated girl scout camp all by ourselves when we got the call that Matt was born! And Happy Birthday to Jacki tomorrow!!!! Matt's birthday party was fun yesterday. Venily was feeling all better and had fun running around like crazy! She also wore her little panties and peed 2 times and pooped once while we were there! Then on the drive home she said she had to go so we pulled over to Burger King and she went there as well! HAHA! Any extended road trips are going to be interesting this summer!!!

Venily is 20 months!!

She had a 103 fever yesterday afternoon and this morning and was up a lot last night! :( It seems to be getting better today though, mostly in the 100/101 range with Ibuprofen every 6 hrs! I hope she's all better by tomorrow!

She is still doing great with potty training- WE ARE OFFICIALLY DIAPER-FREE NOW ALL DAY IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE, including nap time (and only using one at night)! We will try not having one at night once she is feeling better, she's been waking up a lot at night and I don't want any accidents to set her back! She had no accidents again yesterday or today though!!!

We were out of the house for Yoga on Friday and she told me she had to go THREE times during the 1hr session (sometimes stopping in the middle of playing with her new friends to tell me) and she actually peed ALL THREE TIMES in the toilet there (lol, she had drank a whole thing of juice on the way there)!!!!! I also had her at Walmart today with no diaper on and she went in the toilet there as well! We bought some more new panties and some new plastic training covers to use at night when we are ready.

I am nervous!! Venily has definitely been my easy child! Her birth was easy, she was an easy baby, she learns new things easily, and now she is making potty training so easy for me... I hope I'm not in for a shock with Haven!!!

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At 20 months, Venily is....

*One of the most caring people I know! She is always concerned with how others are feeling. And if I am cleaning or something and am like "Man, my back hurts" (to my self) she will come RUNNING as fast as she can to give me a kiss and make me feel better!

*Talks in multiple word sentences. Jason and I are so amazed at how well she can talk! And the amount of things that she picks up on and remembers! (Definitely doesn't have her Daddy's memory- she must get it from her cousin Kate!)

*Can't wait for her new baby sister! We talk about her every day! Here is how our conversation usually goes, she's so funny!

Me: Who is in my tummy?
Venily: Baby sister!
Me: And what is your baby sister's name?
Venily: Hay!
Me: And when she's bigger how am I going to get her out?
Venily: (Very excitedly) PUUUUUSHHHH!! PUUUUSHHHHHH!
Me: Yep! And what is she going to do when she comes out?
Venily: Cry! (and she fake cries)
Me: Yep, she'll cry! And what are you going to do with her when we bring her home?
Venily: (hold her, feed her, kiss her, hug her, etc.)

*Working on counting to 10! If I help her she can usually get 1, 2, 3,...5... 8, 9. And she loves to say 3, 2, 1!! (b/c I am ALWAYS saying it to her!)

*Loves books, playing outside, playing with water out on our deck, ALL animals, other kids (especially older girls and little babies), going for walks, BIRTHDAY CAKE (we have been to so many birthday parties lately that's all I hear about!), singing songs (she can say the last word of each line of almost ANY song I have sung to her!), helping out around the house, and mimicking EVERYTHING Jason and I do (my morning routine takes twice as long b/c she has to brush her teeth with me and spit in the sink when I do, put lotion on, put her "makeup" on, etc., it's so cute! She even "shaved" with Daddy yesterday, lol)

*And her overall personality is just happy, goofy, and fun!!! She always has a ton of energy and is shy to new people but warms up fairly quickly!

*She hates to be tired though! And still needs me to lay with her (singing songs and making up stories) to go to sleep for her daily nap (after lunch for about 1.5-2 hrs) and at night (she usually goes to sleep around 9:00-9:30pm and wakes up around 7:00- 7:30am)

* She is also really into opposites right now. Clean/dirty, Hot/Warm/Cold, Big/Small, Upstairs/Downstairs, Wet/Dry, etc. and always wants to talk about what things are!

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I got my butt KICKED yesterday at yoga, oh my gosh!!!! I've been paying for it all day today and am still soooo sore! My thighs and back are just killing me, but in a good way!