Friday, March 18, 2011
I can't believe how fast we are approaching the halfway point of this pregnancy! Exciting! Somewhere around there we will have a sonogram and make sure all is developing normally but not (gasp) find out the gender of our baby. This drives our friends crazy! Dave's best friend even offered to find out but keep it from us last time. I am pretty sure he was joking! I can't really tell you why we don't want to find out. I guess we like it to be like in the old movies where the baby catcher announces "it's a..." I hear the funniest things from strangers about it too! One lady told me "Well, I wanted to pick out a name." Umm, I got to pick out two names, one for a boy and one for a girl. Then I heard "I wanted to decorate their room" Yeah, we did that too. Our nursery is white with safari animals. It is cute for a boy or girl and we haven't had to buy all new stuff for every baby. Plus, it was a lot of fun to decorate Emma's room for a big girl when she moved out of the nursery. With the girls it wasn't hard for me not to find out. I don't usually get anxious until the last few weeks to know who will be joining our family. This time is a little harder for me. I don't know if it is because it is our last baby or because we will be having a baby in a new season and I don't know what will work from last time. But we will wait to find out who is in there until they make their first appearance in Sept. I did hear a really compelling reason once to wait to find out what the your having until birth. Most of us deep down have a preference about boy or girl, at least a little. Finding out what you are having at the sonogram can often lead to disappointment, at least for a moment. Don't deny it, I have heard many of you say, oh, I really wanted another boy or wanted that little girl. But if you wait to find out what you are having until you meet your baby it is really hard to be disappointed at all looking into those beautiful little faces!!! And she didn't want a moment of disappointment about her baby.
Sunday, March 13, 2011

So my girls are very close. They love to be together and take great care of each other. Yesterday Sammi got in trouble for picking on Emma and when I got on to her she turned to Emma to hold her and baby her! But they are so close that I wonder how the new baby will fit in with their twosome. Will they be as close to Trey as they are to each other? Will it make a difference if it is a boy or girl? And this baby will be 3 1/2 years younger than Sammi. Will that make a difference? Emma and Sam are right at 3 years apart. I think Sammi needed the extra time as the baby. Emma was always more independent and mature. Sammi liked being the baby. Until recently she insisted that she was not a big girl but "mommy's baby" Now that she is 3 and in Emma's room she finally says she is a big girl. And they are both excited about the baby. We have started watching birth videos and reading big sister books to prepare them. Emma knows what to expect since she has done this before but Sammi is in for a surprise. At first I didn't think she would like being a big sister as well as Em but now I think she is looking forward to it and will take to it pretty well. Emma loved being a big sister from the first moment. She held Sam as often as I did in those first weeks. She still wants Sammi to be the first person she sees in the morning and after school. It is so cute!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
When I was pregnant with Emma I craved pineapple for a small window of time. With Samantha I craved frozen waffles and frozen pizza the entire pregnancy and ate them almost everyday. With this baby, I am craving everything! Now for those of you who know my eating habits, it is not unlike me to have food cravings, anytime. But man, everything I see on TV, I want. And I want it now. Dave does not like to go get me my cravings, especially after the kids are in bed so for the most part I have to make do with what is at home. Although I did make an 8:30pm Jimmy John's run the other night for myself. I really want a turkey sandwich, but since I can't have deli meat, I have to stick with their veggie sub. It is still yummy! And really restaurant turkey doesn't have any taste. I want curly fries, Jose Peppers, guacamole, ice cream, lemonade, pretzels, lots of oranges and apples, salad, big time! At least a lot of it is healthy. Hopefully that means this baby won't be a picky eater. I don't know that that really has anything to do with it but I ate pretty well with Emma, although I worked time at Sonic so there was a lot of fast food, but still. With Sammi, being home full time and craving frozen food, I ate like crap. Emma is my adventurous eater and Sammi is very picky and limited in the new things she will try. I don't know how long the cravings will last this time, hopefully not too long.
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