Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Happy Birthday Daddy!
We are so thankful that you were born 28 years ago so we could have the most wonderful husband and father in the world! Love you!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Grayson Greatness
Grayson to Brad: "Daddy, you ate the last pop tart, and I wanted it. You made a mean choice to eat my pop tart!"
Grayson to me: "Mommy, stop arguing with me!" (It's scary when your child says something in the exact tone that you say it in.)
Grayson to me: "Mommy, you going to go tee tee in a cup today?" (In the doctor's office waiting room at the top of his lungs)
Grayson to Brad and me: "You okay, baby?" and "I love you baby!"
(He has quickly picked this one up from hearing us say it to one another and to him, and he doesn't understand that it's inappropriate to call his Mommy and Daddy 'baby.')
Me: Grayson, what would you think if we named the baby X? (No, I'm not putting the name here until we know for sure, which probably won't be until she's born.)
Grayson: "No, I like Jecca" (the special name he came up with for his baby sister, which he insists is her name). "You can name another baby that."
Grayson to me: "Mommy, stop arguing with me!" (It's scary when your child says something in the exact tone that you say it in.)
Grayson to me: "Mommy, you going to go tee tee in a cup today?" (In the doctor's office waiting room at the top of his lungs)
Grayson to Brad and me: "You okay, baby?" and "I love you baby!"
(He has quickly picked this one up from hearing us say it to one another and to him, and he doesn't understand that it's inappropriate to call his Mommy and Daddy 'baby.')
Me: Grayson, what would you think if we named the baby X? (No, I'm not putting the name here until we know for sure, which probably won't be until she's born.)
Grayson: "No, I like Jecca" (the special name he came up with for his baby sister, which he insists is her name). "You can name another baby that."
It's Official - 32 Weeks
As of today, I am officially the most pregnant I've ever been! After delivering Grayson at 31 1/3 weeks, 32 weeks is actually a pretty big milestone for us.Brad keeps saying that he feels like we're just living on borrowed time now.
Despite sporadic moments of paranoia where I convince myself I'm in labor and random anxiety attacks where I wake up insistent that we take a birthing class despite the fact that I've already given birth but feel like I learned nothing, I really am loving being pregnant, just as much as I did the first time around. Yes, I have my back pain, heart burn and restless nights, but its not enough to take away from the thankfulness I feel every day I am still pregnant.
I get asked the question alot why I delivered early with Grayson, and medically speaking, no one knows for sure. While spotting through my first 14 weeks with Grayson, and thinking for sure I was miscarrying at 11 weeks after waking up gushing blood (sorry if this is TMI, but welcome to pregnancy!), a sonogram showed a clot on my placenta. At that time, my doctor said that most women who have clots on their placenta (which is apparently more common than you think) go on to have completely normal pregnancies, which is what we all assumed was the case when I stopped spotting. He said a very small percentage end up having late miscarriages (we will forever be thankful that God spared us from that) and a small percentage deliver early. Of course, this conversation came quickly rushing back when my water spontaneously broke at 31 weeks, and 3 1/2 hours later our precious angel entered the world (although despite his early arrival, his NICU stay was the longest six weeks of our lives).
Because of Gray's early arrival, we have done certain things a little early this time around. For starters, the nursery for the most part is already complete. And, believe it or not, I've actually already packed a bag for the hospital (surprisingly by my husband's request). Because of how quickly Grayson came and because I have occasional visions of delivering on the side of the highway tying to make it to the hospital, I'm actually researching private ambulance companies that I could call if worse came to worse and I couldn't make it in time :) (Don't laugh, if you were in my shoes, you might be doing the same thing)
Despite the anxiety of it all, we are so excited to meet our little girl (even though we don't really want to meet her for at least another 5 weeks) and I have a feeling it's going to be totally different than having a little boy! As we've already discovered just through marriage, boys and girls are each wonderfully unique in their own ways and each have their own set of issues! :)
Despite sporadic moments of paranoia where I convince myself I'm in labor and random anxiety attacks where I wake up insistent that we take a birthing class despite the fact that I've already given birth but feel like I learned nothing, I really am loving being pregnant, just as much as I did the first time around. Yes, I have my back pain, heart burn and restless nights, but its not enough to take away from the thankfulness I feel every day I am still pregnant.
I get asked the question alot why I delivered early with Grayson, and medically speaking, no one knows for sure. While spotting through my first 14 weeks with Grayson, and thinking for sure I was miscarrying at 11 weeks after waking up gushing blood (sorry if this is TMI, but welcome to pregnancy!), a sonogram showed a clot on my placenta. At that time, my doctor said that most women who have clots on their placenta (which is apparently more common than you think) go on to have completely normal pregnancies, which is what we all assumed was the case when I stopped spotting. He said a very small percentage end up having late miscarriages (we will forever be thankful that God spared us from that) and a small percentage deliver early. Of course, this conversation came quickly rushing back when my water spontaneously broke at 31 weeks, and 3 1/2 hours later our precious angel entered the world (although despite his early arrival, his NICU stay was the longest six weeks of our lives).
Because of Gray's early arrival, we have done certain things a little early this time around. For starters, the nursery for the most part is already complete. And, believe it or not, I've actually already packed a bag for the hospital (surprisingly by my husband's request). Because of how quickly Grayson came and because I have occasional visions of delivering on the side of the highway tying to make it to the hospital, I'm actually researching private ambulance companies that I could call if worse came to worse and I couldn't make it in time :) (Don't laugh, if you were in my shoes, you might be doing the same thing)
Despite the anxiety of it all, we are so excited to meet our little girl (even though we don't really want to meet her for at least another 5 weeks) and I have a feeling it's going to be totally different than having a little boy! As we've already discovered just through marriage, boys and girls are each wonderfully unique in their own ways and each have their own set of issues! :)
Monday, July 4, 2011
Pregnancy Pics
We had plans to take maternity photos when I was pregnant with Grayson, but that obviously got scrapped when he made his early arrival (along with the birthing, breast feeding and child care class :) so we took advantage of the opportunity to take them this time around!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
A Nursery & Shower for our Little Girl
Her nursery...so far. The big space above the crib will be where letters for her name will go once we have one :)
A special thanks to Carrie for sewing the beautiful chair covers and helping me make the mobile! I can't wait to see her bed skirt!
Just a few from her baby shower...Melissa has the really good ones on her camera, but for now, just a few from my sister's camera.
A special thanks to Carrie for sewing the beautiful chair covers and helping me make the mobile! I can't wait to see her bed skirt!
Just a few from her baby shower...Melissa has the really good ones on her camera, but for now, just a few from my sister's camera.
Family, Friends & Grayson Greatness
Amy -- how did we not take any pictures while you were here? :(
Our out of town friends...The Hargroves & as Brad likes to call her "Les is More"
Nana, Pops & Uncle Blake (and our trip to Galveston)
Miranda & Pete...Love you girls!
Memorial Day with our friends the Shearers
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Must Be Pregnant
5 Months (23 1/2 weeks) and I must officially be pregnant. I finally started getting the "stranger" comments this week...the when are you due, how far along are you, do you know what you're having yet from random strangers. This is incidentally almost exactly when it started happening with Grayson.
It all started with the receptionist at our vet's office. As I was trying to pay, Grayson was being his normal rambunctuous self, running up and down the hallway, when she looked at me with this "I feel really sorry for you" look and said, "And you have another one on the way???" (Thanks alot for the encouragement lady!)
Besides all of a sudden looking obviously pregnant to the outside world, the scale has started to pick up some of the pounds from this baby bump, also something that didn't happen until now with Grayson. For whatever reason, I gain very little weight in the first half of my pregnancies, but when it finally starts coming, it comes at a frighteningly rapid rate. Although it could be partially blamed on the pretty seriously addition to kit kats I have going on right now. (Luckily a friend of mine informed me recently that kit kats are apparantly one of the most low-fat/low-calorie candy bar because of the wafers, which I don't plan to Google just in case she's wrong.)
Overall, I'm feeling great and loving being pregnant with first trimester nausea gone and not quite to third trimester aches and pains. We still don't have a name and at the rate we're going, we may still be calling her Baby Girl Smith when she's 13! But, as my husband so annoyingly likes to remind me, we still have time.
The Progression...
11 Weeks
15 Weeks
19 Weeks
21 Weeks
23 Weeks
It all started with the receptionist at our vet's office. As I was trying to pay, Grayson was being his normal rambunctuous self, running up and down the hallway, when she looked at me with this "I feel really sorry for you" look and said, "And you have another one on the way???" (Thanks alot for the encouragement lady!)
Besides all of a sudden looking obviously pregnant to the outside world, the scale has started to pick up some of the pounds from this baby bump, also something that didn't happen until now with Grayson. For whatever reason, I gain very little weight in the first half of my pregnancies, but when it finally starts coming, it comes at a frighteningly rapid rate. Although it could be partially blamed on the pretty seriously addition to kit kats I have going on right now. (Luckily a friend of mine informed me recently that kit kats are apparantly one of the most low-fat/low-calorie candy bar because of the wafers, which I don't plan to Google just in case she's wrong.)
Overall, I'm feeling great and loving being pregnant with first trimester nausea gone and not quite to third trimester aches and pains. We still don't have a name and at the rate we're going, we may still be calling her Baby Girl Smith when she's 13! But, as my husband so annoyingly likes to remind me, we still have time.
The Progression...
11 Weeks
15 Weeks
19 Weeks
21 Weeks
23 Weeks
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