Beach Bums

Bri & Debbie invited Lennox to go to the beach yesterday. It looks like he had a fun time!

Then they went to the park...

Best Buddies

Baby #2 - 12 weeks 5 days

I went to the doctor yesterday and everything looks good. I didn't ask the heart rate. I don't know if that's true that you can tell the sex of the baby from the range. I gained 2 lbs. That's not too bad I guess, especially if you could see what I've been eating lately! I crave breakfast food and potatoes. So nutritious!

I am almost feeling like myself again. I haven't been able to sleep much though. I fall asleep on the couch but if I get up and get in bed, I'm wide awake.

I already look pregnant. I can't believe it. I didn't even tell anyone I was pregnant with Lennox at this point. I guess that's what happens with a second baby. I am seriously considering busting out the full blown maternity clothes. This stage is so difficult b/c you don't actually have a "belly" but you can't button regular pants either! I tried a bella band but it just rides up and then my wide open fly shows! ha ha. That's attractive.

Everyone keeps telling me this baby is a girl but I was thinking for sure it's another boy. Although, I thought for sure Lennox was a girl up until u/s day. Speaking of, we get to find out in 6 weeks!!! I thought my doctor would make me wait until my regular appointment but she said definitely not. She's awesome.

Since we have a family history of heart defects, I'm going to get an echo-cardiogram done around 24 weeks to check the baby's heart. Since I don't know what the history is exactly, it is hard to know if it is a hereditary problem. Let's hope and pray that it is not!

Good Reads

I love to buy Lennox books that I will enjoy reading to him. I really hate those kid books with no point! I randomly picked up a couple of books by P. K. Hallinan one day at Marshall's. If you don't have any of these books, I highly recommend them. They teach values like the importance of sharing or kindness and, best of all, they are Christian based books. I have only found them at Marshall's and on Amazon. I like to get recommendations on books for Lennox so I just thought I would share...

My next purchase is going to be Value Tales. Do you remember those? They aren't in print anymore but you can find them on ebay. Each book is about a historical figure and a value they possessed which helped them succeed. My favorite is The Value of Believing in Yourself: Louis Pasteur.

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21 months

• You keep saying "Eeewwee Weee, All white" I don't know where you got that from but you say it all the time


• You are loving some rap music and you cry if I turn the radio station... I'm sure that's not very good parenting but whatever


• You said "shut up" after hearing the ever so tactful Khloe Kardashian say it. I don't think you even know what it means so I didn't make a big deal about it. Again, Keeping Up with the Kardashians is probably not the best choice of television program for a one year old but it's so hard to turn it off!!! I really do want to try my best to preserve your innocence.


• You are counting to eleven really well. I guess the number of the day being 16 really paid off! You still pretend 7 doesn't exist though. When we sing the ABC's you join in on a few letters instead of just humming the tune. You're recognizing some letters (E, O, L, X) on occasion but every very time I think you know them, you give me the clueless face. I thought you had finally mastered the basic colors too but suddenly everything has become red.


• Your new favorite book is an Elmo book with pictures of stuff you have to find in the scene... like the toilet paper in the bathroom. You're pretty good at matching the pictures.


• You have a recent obsession with dump trucks, bull dozers, back hoe's, buses, and motorcycles. Every time we pass one on the road, you yell & point and say "dunk" for dump truck & "bat-toe" for back hoe/bull dozer & "bull dus" for school bus. Maybe we need speech therapy!? ha. Oh, the "too too tain" is also a very important fixture in our lives. It gets thrown across the room numerous times a day though. You can't seem to figure out how to hook the car in the hole of the engine. Anyway, I just laugh and show you again. I understand where your temper comes from...


• We found a little baby turtle and I thought you would just love it. I held it and showed it to you. After I put it down on the ground you tried to whack it with a gold club. Lucky for the cute little baby turtle, you missed. I had a stern talk with you about how animals are our friends and we have to be nice & easy with them. You said you understood. Feeling like I had done a good job at teaching you this lesson, I let you go and you went and stomped right on the turtle. Good thing for turtle shells. :(


• Every time I get off the phone you look at me and say "who dat?" When the phone rings or beeps with a text you run and pick it up and said "who dis?" ha. You are very polite about it though... you only ask after we hang up.


• At your last doctor's appt you had to get shots. It wasn't pretty but I didn't think you would remember. When you went to the doctor's office with Erica, you screamed and cried and said "no hurt" when the nurse came in. You weren't even there for you! Then, yesterday, you went to the doctor with me and as soon as we went into the exam room, you started to cry saying "no hurt mommy, no hurt." That's pretty sad. I am not looking forward to the next visit to your doctor... I'm afraid it probably will hurt!


• You definitely have your mother's lack of caution when it comes to running into things and falling down. You are constantly hitting your head on the floor, skinning your knees, and most recently you scratched the skin off of your nose and upper lip at a birthday party.


• You are still super friendly and social. I really can't keep up with you at birthday parties. You are all over the place, trying to play with the older kids, eating off stranger's plates, sitting in kid's plates, etc. I'm glad you are a busy kid but it is exhausting.


• You cry when the train passes or an airplane flies out of view. You just can't understand where they are going?!


• You are looking like a big boy now. You are getting taller and thinner. You won't eat like you did when you were a baby. Mostly you just chew up your food and spit it out... unless it's a nack. You have been sitting at the table with us instead of in your high chair. You run to the window if you think Jay is home and say "daddy home mommy!" You like to announce alot of things like "Daddy peepee in potty" or "Yoyo poopoo out dere." You are really fascinated that dogs poop in the yard... I can only guess where that will lead!

Happy Halloween 2010

*Disclaimer: I do not know this baby but it is cute!

We're expecting a new baby at the end of October!!

I am currently 11 weeks along. I feel ok, just nauseous in the afternoon. I am starting to get some energy back which is a relief. I was starting to feel like a permanent attachment to the recliner. All in all, I feel pretty good and I am thankful that I have not had my head in the toilet !!! I had an ultrasound at 8 1/2 weeks. I can't remember exactly but I think the heartbeat was about 170. I think I feel pretty similar to how I felt with Lennox. I am definitely showing faster but that is to be expected with a 2nd baby (& the 5lbs I never lost from Lennox... but that's another story). I am craving breakfast food so much lately. I have got to get some self control and stop getting my breakfast food at McDonald's/Sonic!

We are all very excited about the new addition to our family but we are anxious about some big decisions we have to make between now and then. Although I have faith that God will provide for us, I am almost certainly developing an ulcer over the worry of being laid off, Jay changing jobs, not knowing where we will be, not knowing if we will sell our house, starting school, and the list goes on and on. Apparently, I'm much more of a control freak than I had previously thought!? Although we are facing so big changes, I do feel confident that we are moving in the right direction. Doors seem to be opening for us so I feel like that is God's way of assuring us we're making the right decisions.