it's official

The newest edition to our family will be a little boy!!!

Payton is quite excited, and Jenna is getting used to the idea. She had her heart set on a little sister, but I explained to her that this meant that she got to be the only princess, and that idea is growing on her. Both Jenna and Payton love to give my growing belly hugs, and they pray for the baby to grow big and strong in their prayers at night. We are really excited, and May is actually starting to seem a little bit closer, not a lot, but a little!

Opinions

So, for those of you who do not know what I do for a profession, I am a NICU or (neonatal intensive care) nurse. At the moment I work in a level 2 unit that is joined on the same floor as Labor and Delivery. I attend high risk deliveries and take care of sick infants. Every day I walk by an utlra sound machine, at least 500 times I swear. The other day a few nurses and myself took a peek at the baby. she or he was very cute. the baby was sucking it's thumb, kicking it's legs and waving to me on the screen. I couldn't tell what it was, the legs were crossed. Even if the legs weren't crossed I am not trained in ultrasound readings, and I probably couldn't tell what it was unless the legs were obviously spread and it was flaunting a boy part.

Here is the problem. Aaron was really ticked off at me for looking at the baby without him, and "attempting" to see what the little cutie was. SO, I'm asking would you have looked? I honestly didn't think I would have been able to tell. I mean come on it costs nothing for me to plug this machine in and look. In my opinion who wouldn't have looked? I walk by this machine all day long, and my shifts are 12 hrs long, and it has been incredibly slow at work.

Let me know would you have peeked, or am I the stinker in all of this.

Off the band wagon

I fell off of the blogging band wagon for awhile. There are days where sitting up straight just seems like to daunting of a task. I am feeling better though, and I am starting to have a few better days. All in all I have to say that this pregnancy has been better than the last two, but my coping skills have not been as good. Maybe, because I'm 4 years older than the last time I did this, or maybe I'm just a bigger wuss.

I am 16 weeks along now, and I'm starting to hit the is she fat or pregnant stage. I have managed to gain weight though which is something I have never done before in my first

tri-mester. My pants aren't quite fitting, but I don't want to admit that I need maternity clothes yet. I didn't need them with the other two until around the 5-6 month mark. This baby is much lower, and I guess when you've done it three times, and your 28 and not 22 your body isn't what you remember it being. I started to feel the baby move a couple weeks ago, and it makes me feel better about being so sick. We find out what we're having in three weeks on dec. 21. Aaron and I both think we are having a boy, but we are excited to see if we are right or not. We really don't care what it is, we just want a healthy baby. Jenna really wants a sister, and Payton really wants a brother. Somebody is going to be very disappointed. I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving!!

Turkey Bowl!!!

SO, what is thanksgiving with out football? Aaron sprained his ankle a week ago, and there was a couple days of questionable football availability. However, He went and played on friday after t-day and had a blast. Here are the youngest two participants who played football on the sidelines, while their daddies played with the big boys.

Tyler and Payton are best little buds, and I know that they are going to have a lot of fun as they grow up together! We have been really lucky to live in a ward where are kids have friends around their own age.

Here they are practicing for when they get to graduate onto the big boy field.

I went and watched the turkey bowl hoping to get some good pic's for our ward wall at church. I got a couple, but my camera isn't great. It seemed like I would have a great shot and the pause before the picture took would give me something I really didn't want. Frusterating let me tell you!!

Here is my man, and his cousin Brent Bair facing off!!

I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving!!!

HALLOWEEN

For Halloween this year Jenna was Thumbelina, and Payton was snake eyes from GI Joe.

We went to a great halloween party at my sisters house on friday, well I guess my family went I had to work. Then on saturday we went to the trick or treat and we had a blast.

My happy crew!!

SICK, VERY SICK, VERY VERY SICK!

And this is why....

It has already been a roller coaster, I had a chorionic hemorrhage early on, that we fully believed was a miscarriage, but instead of declining my hormones kept rising! Ultrasound found the hemorrahage and a egg but no heart and no definite fetal pull, (hosptial talk for baby). So, we had to wait another week to see if my hormones evened out and went down or kept rising. They doubled. Then off to the ultrasound to see if the bleed was resolving, and if they could see a heart and fetal pull.

I had fully believed I had a miscarriage, had accepted the fact, and then I found out all of this. I never let myself fully believe that there was actually a baby after that. Too hard to loose it again I thought. When the Ultrasound tech said oh there's the heart and it's beating strong, the tears started rolling down my cheek's and I was gratful it was dark in there. We are not out of the woods yet. The bleed was significant, and I have to have ultrasounds often to see if the baby is developing normally, with the next in 2 weeks enless I notice bleeding. With a bleed the chances of miscarriage are high, but we saw the heart, and we know our peanut is there. Wish us luck. Oh yeah, they moved my due date back from 5/1/10 to 5/14/10 that was a blow, but I guess they come when their ready anyway.

Here is a pic of my last baby, who was also a bleed at 18 weeks. He held on, and made it 2 days after his due date.

beautiful pic of me huh, the joys of labor really bring out beauty in me. ha ha

Oh my goodness look who's three, and in preschool!

Payton had his first day of preschool on sept 1st 2009. He goes on tues and thurs from 9-11:30.

He has been very excited about this as the picture below shows. I hope his preschool teachers are ready for this rowdy little boy!

Notice the glue on his forhead. He was running threw the kitchen to ride on the four wheeler to go check the water, and he bounced of Aaron's behind into the counter. I got a call on my way to work, "payton hit his head, needs stitches do I take him to the ER or are you coming home"? luckily it was glueable. I stayed home from work that night.

Payton has a little buddy in his class that lives out here by us, and goes to church with us. We have become really good friends with his parents. Here are the boys in front of the school sign. Tucker has a little brother who isn't quite old enough to go to school, but def. is one of the big boys!

Some day these three farm boys may reak a lot of havoc together!

Payton outside of school.