My Life Is About To Get A Little Sweeter

Most of you who read my blog already know that we found out Monday, November 23, that we are going to be having another little girl! We are SO excited!

I think that a lot of people figured (and even said) that we "wanted" a boy, but I honestly did not mind one bit if it was another girl. I would have been tickled to have a boy, but my girls are precious gifts and I would not trade them for the world!

I'm nervous about Addy and the new baby being so close in age (20 months), but knowing it's a girl is making it a little easier. We have tons of girl clothes and toys, we won't have to repaint a room, I have an excuse to get to buy more bows..hehe, and I know girls. I also know how special sisters are and the fact that my daughters are going to have 2 of them gives me so much joy. Oh yeah, and so far I won't have to worry about having a daughter-in-law someday. Did I really just say that? lol I just think that's a hard relationship for a lot of news wives. Thankfully, my M-I-L and I get along wonderfully. The first couple of years weren't perfect, but the Lord was gracious and taught me SO much during that time. I am so thankful to have such a God-fearing woman in my life. I could learn a lot from her! (And just to clear this up, I'm not trying to be negative about boys . I know that boys are wonderful. My nephews are very, very special to me. I could just ball my eyes out telling you how much I love them. I'm just trying to focus on the positive things about having a girl. So far, I'm kinda just pretending that I won't have 3 hormonal teenage daughters with boyfriends who want to dress like hoochie mama's and think their Momma doesn't know anything that would be of worth to them. Wow. Maybe Jesus will come back before then. :-])

I guess the last part of my paragraph showed some of the thoughts that are really going through my head, right? That was a little extreme, but there are a lot of things that I'm worried about. However, I was nervous about having Emmy and it was fine. I was nervous about transitioning from 1 to 2 children and I couldn't have asked for a better outcome when our little Addy arrived. I am now trusting and have faith that the Lord is going to see me through just like he has done in every other area of my life! I can't think of a better "problem" (for lack of a better word) to have!

I guess to sum things up, Tim and I couldn't be happier about having another child, another daughter. 3 little girls. My house, my life is about to get a little sweeter! Oh, and by the way, we are thinking of naming her Molly. "Emmy, Addy, and Molly". What do you think?

Mommy, baby girl, Emmy and Addy

(I'm 18 weeks and 5 days pregnant)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Emmy is most thankful for "Halloween" and Addy is most thankful for "Jew" aka juice.

My children are so sentimental.

I hope your day is filled with food, family, friends, fun and blessings from the Father!

Happy Thanksgiving! However, I think we should be practicing thanks LIVING! I know that I have so much to be thankful for and I'm sure that you do as well!

Halloween!

Tonight we enjoyed a trunk-or-treat at our church. It is basically the same as trick-or-treating, but a lot of the church members meet at the church, decorate their cars in whatever theme they want, and give out candy out of their trunk. We had SO much fun! We were so thrilled to have a TON of people come to this event. It's always neat to just get to meet new people and invite them to the other activities going on at our church. I think things like this are a wonderful outreach. Plus, it gives kids a safe and loving environment.

My little girls looked SO cute. After looking at costumes in a few different stores, I decided that there was no reason for us to buy a $30 costume for Emmy, when she had at least 5 different things that she likes to dress up in. She decided this morning that we was going to be Cinderella. Sounded good to me! I decided to go all out and make her hair curly with a curling iron. After I did that, I put a little of my make-up on her! She LOVED it :-). We did decide, however, that Emmy is much prettier without makeup. I wish that was the case with me! ha! A sweet friend of mine let me borrow her little girls old lady-bug costume. Addy looked precious and was so excited to see herself in the mirror after I put it on her. She looked so cute with her little wings flapping behind her as she walked around!

Cinderella and my little lady bug.

Two pictures in a row of them BOTH looking at the camera. It's a MIRACLE!

On the way to Trunk-or-Treat. She was SO excited! Look at those eyelashes, by the way! She got it from my Momma!

Addy was excited, too!

One of my favorite cars and costumes. She did a great job!

My jungle man. Our van had a jungle theme :-). He gave out the candy with that giraffe thing that's in his hand. When you squeeze the handle, its mouths opens.

Cinderella and Ariel. This little girls Mom made her costume AND made her little sister a Flounder costume. They were SOOOO cute!

Trick or treat!!!!

I can't believe I didn't get any pictures of Addy at the Trunk- or -Treat! She just rode around in her stroller a lot of the time. I hope that you all enjoyed your evening as much as we did! Also, just in case you didn't notice, I just published a post I started on Wednesday right before I published this. Goodnight!

Emmy's Fall Party

Today has already been such a fun day! After I dropped Emmy off at school, I headed to Target. What a great way to start the morning! I don't know about you, but Target just puts me in a good mood. I could do SO much damage to our budget there :-). I had to rush a little because I had to be back at Emmy's preschool for her Fall party. It's ok, though. I got some great things on sale and also got a new little sweater wrap dress.

After my little shopping trip, I dropped Addy off at her Grandmommy's house and headed to Emmy's school for her fall party. It was so much fun! They has chicken nuggets and chips and also some yummy treats. I signed up for desserts and thought I did a great thing by going to Walmart and picking out a cute little orange pumpkin shaped tray of orange sprinkled pumpkin shaped cookies. When I showed up, I noticed that the other Mommy who signed up for desserts made these little hand made treats. They were little owls made of moon pies on a stick with an opened oreo for eyes, a candy corn beak and cute little hand embellishments made of icing to really make it look like an owl. Oh yeah, they were also all individually wrapped with a curly ribbon tied around the bottom. It looked like something my Mom would have done! I guess I need to get on the ball!

After lunch, the other Mom's and I went into the other classroom to get a head start on the scare crow that each class was to make. The scare crows are going to be displayed at the fall festival at the church where Emmy goes to preschool. The people who attend it will judge them and the class that wins will get another special lunch one day! (They usually don't eat lunch at school because she gets out at 12.) After getting most of the scare crow put together, we took it in for the children to stuff. Wow. They fought over who's turn it was and pretty much didn't care about what they were doing. One of Emmy's creative teachers decided to give them all some orange felt and let them cut out triangles, circles, and squares and one of their names was written on each shape and then glued on the overalls like a little patch. Needless to say, the Mom's did most of the work. It still had a personal touch, though!

I really enjoyed getting to have that time with Emmy today. The past couple of years I have worked at her school, so I couldn't be involved much with her class. I had my own class to take care of! It was so nice to get to focus on her and help with whatever was needed. It was also cool to see her with all of her little friends acting like such a big girl! Before I know it, she's going to be in KINDERGARTEN! My, how time flies by!

I hope that you are all enjoying Fall as much as we are. I LOVE this time of year. The colors are absolutely beautiful here. Emmy is even noticing how pretty the leaves look! On the way to church Sunday she said "Mommy, look at all the colors! There's red, green, purple and gold!" It was a perfect opportunity to talk about how awesome God is and give her yet another reason to praise Him! Good times...

Emmy's BFF, Brooklynn. They are inseparable.

Lunch time!

Emmy's class with their scare crow.

I took this photo later on during this day before we went to church. I think it's my favorite picture ever. :-) (Laurie, do you think you can work with this?)

A New Life

Since Tim and I got married, we have always talked about how many children we would have, what we would name them, how we would raise them, etc. I guess you could say that once we had Emmy-we were in love with being parents and couldn't wait to have another one! After Addy came along, I realized that kids are a lot of work. Don't get me wrong, having a second child pretty much confirmed why I love being a Mommy so much, but I was tired and felt like 2 little girls were perfect. I had always pictured myself with 2 girls, so it seemed like our little family was great the way it was. Ironically, God had other plans.

A few months ago, Tim and I started looking at houses. We decided that this isn't the right time for us to buy, but it did make us think a little further into our future. One day, I just basically said "Tim, do you think that we will have any more children?" He grinned from ear to ear and said "Yep!" (I'm glad that he had figured that out already, because I had NOT! LOL) Next thing I know, on August the 7th, I was looking at a positive pregnancy test. And just to get this out in the open you CAN get pregnant while breastfeeding AND on birth control! I know that was a litte TMI, but wanted to make it clear that we were not planning to have our kids this close together. That's why this child's name will be Serendipity-the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. :-) Ha! (I'm j/k, by the way.)

Today, I'm 14 weeks and 1 day pregnant. Tim and I got to experience an ultrasound together this morning. It's so cool how every pregnancy, every new life, is so exciting. It is amazing to see that little baby wiggling around on the screen inside of me when just 8 weeks ago it wasn't even recognizable. I am in awe of God's power.

I hope that you are all just as excited as we are about our news! My hands are full already, so I ask that will pray for me! The enemy is really good at controlling your thoughts and at times I am overwhelmed by the thought of what my life will be at the end of April! However, I know God will provide the patience and strength that can only come from Him. I am also praying that I will be able to ignore those lovely comments that people like to make when you're pregnant. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Thank you all for your prayers and support! I am excited to be able to document this pregnancy on my blog! I didn't have a blog when I was expecting the girls, so this should be fun! Have a wonderful Tuesday!

I'm Still Here

I'm still here guys! I'm just kind of blank about what to write about these days! I will have something exciting soon.... I PROMISE! Thanks to those of you who check it often!

Happy Birthday Addy!

As I type this, Addy is a little less than 48 hours away from turning one! I can't believe it! When I had her, for some reason I thought that it wouldn't fly by as fast as Emmy's first year did. I figured that since I already knew how fast everything went, I would enjoy it more and it would slow down. I really have enjoyed her first year probably even more than I did Emmy's, but just the fact that I'm SO much busier than I was when Emmy was a baby is probably the reason why it has flashed before my eyes.



I thought for this day, I would write out all of the memories I could think of off the top of my head of her first year. I hope that when she gets older, she will look back at this in her scrapbook and know how loved and cherished she was from the moment that I saw those 2 little lines!



*When I gave birth to you. It was SO much more relaxed than when Emmy was born. I watched you being born in a mirror and held you immediately. I probably held you for at least thirty minutes like that with a blanket over you keeping you warm. Those moments were so precious and we were in love with you, just like we were the moment we met your sister.

*The morning you met Emmy she ran into the room and jumped on the bed with us. When you started to cry/grunt, she started singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and you immediately calmed down. I hope that you girls will always have that special relationship like your Aunt Nah-Nah and I do.

*We went to Target on the way home from the hospital and got Emmy a doctors kit from you so that she could help take care of you. When we got out of the car, we gave it to her and told her it was from you. She immediately said "Thank you, Addy!." She still uses that kit to this day to help take care of you if you are sick!

*The night we brought you home from the hospital you slept until about 5AM. You woke up, ate, then went right back to sleep. That morning Daddy and Emmy got up and left us in bed. We cuddled until 11AM. It was SO sweet!

*When you were about 8 weeks old, we traveled to GA for the weekend so that Daddy could fill in for Mr. Ron at his church in Rockdale. You slept all through the night in an unfamiliar place! I was so thankful!

*We started Mother's Day Out when you were about 8 weeks old and I worked in your class all year long. You changed so much from October to May. It was so much fun to see you go from a little lump that didn't care about what was going on to a crawling baby that was extremely tough around the other kids who were all several months older than you.

*You started going to the nursery much younger than when your sister started. I think it helped you because now you pretty much have no problem going to other people.

*When you started smiling, it melted our hearts! You would smile at your sister more than anyone! You have always had the sweetest smile-just like your Daddy!

*I will never forget the decision we made to let you visit Granny in the nursing home when she moved here from NC. I was so worried about germs, but ended up getting over it and I am SO thankful that I did. She died just weeks after she moved here, but the look on her face when she held you...I will never forget it.

*Rolling around was your FAVORITE thing to do when you started! It was all I could do to keep you still for a diaper change or changing of clothes. You're still a little wiggle-worm, but much stronger than you were then!

*When you were about 4 months old, we traveled to VA, to meet Danny, Laurie, Gabbie and Luke. You were SO good the whole trip! The ride home, however, was a NIGHTMARE! You were SO tired of being in the car. Thankfully, when we got home you were happy to be in your own bed and slept well. I will never forget that loud car ride home, though!

*You acted like you were going to crawl for about a month and a half before you actually did it. You started at about 5 months and learned how to get faster very quick. It was then that I got the full-effect of this 2 kid thing. :-)

*I love that you and Emmy could play after you started crawling! Emmy was always very gentle with you and you LOVE playing together.

*You did not do well with babyfood for several months. We eventually decided to give you mushed up table food. After a few weeks of that, we tried babyfood again and you did great. I believe you were about 9 months old when you started eating babyfood well. Now you can't get enough of food.

*Speaking of food, when we're at the dinner table, or table in general, you make this noise like "MMMMMM, MMMMMMM, MMMMMM" and it is SO loud. Once we give you a bite of something you stop until you swallow then it's "MMMMMMMMMMM, MMMMMMM, MMMMMM" the rest of the meal until you are full!

*You put EVERYTHING in your mouth. I am constantly picking things out of your mouth throughout the day. Even though it scares me to death, I think the little chewing face you make when you've got a non-food item in your mouth is SOO precious!

*You are and always have been a Mommy's girl. You love it when Daddy gets home, but are ready to be back with Mommy shortly after you give him lovin'. I hope you stay that way! (Let's keep that between you and me, though!)

*Until about 7 or eight months you were a chunky monkey, but now you've thinned out and are average in weight and above average in height. I loved those little rolls you had, but think your little figure is so cute and girly now!

*I guess you will see in your pictures that I always put either a headband with a big bow on your head and as your hair grew I started to put just a bow on your head. You're precious with or without them, but what can I say?? I LOVE bows and my philosophy is the bigger the better! Just wait until you see your first birthday bow!

*At about 11 months we were all sitting at the dinner table. I looked at you and told you I loved you. I swear right after that you looked at me and said "Iloveya".

*Sometimes when we are playing, I will try to work on speech stuff with you. You are already starting to repeat some things with me. F.E. When I say "Fish" you repeat "shhhh". I know you're not talking a lot yet, but you are definitely understanding me!

*You love music and often direct Daddy on Sunday mornings when we sit in on him practicing!


That's all for now! Your birthday party went great and I will be posting that very soon! We love you sweet girl! You are such a blessing to our family!

-Mommy