Our Lil Munchkins: February 2010

Well, it has been a BIT long since a blog update. We've had such a busy & fun few months with exciting news too. First off, as many of you already know, we are expecting another baby this summer, due July 10th. We found out two weeks ago that Shelby will have a Baby BROTHER!! Yes, we are expecting a little boy and starting to mentally prepare ourselves for it, ha! We think we're pretty spoiled by Shelby. :) We know it will be great and we're super excited to add a new little one to our family. Shelby is especially psyched about being a big sister, she is talking a lot about teaching the baby how to play with toys as well as how to crawl and walk..."Because the baby won't know how to walk Mommy." (As she explained to me a few weeks ago. ) Now Drew will have two Jeepin' buddies.....I've suggested that when he wants to go on Jeepin' trips, he can take the kids and I will go to a spa! We'll see if that actually works out. :)

Our last blog update was October and I found out I was pregnant at the end of that month. The start of this pregnancy was a little nerve-wracking because I had to have a breast biopsy in November. So at 5 weeks pregnant I went in for that procedure. After waiting for two days (being a bit anxious I'll admit), doing a lot of praying, we received the wonderful news that the cysts were benign and diagnosed as fibroadenoma cysts, something very common. All looked good and I would just have them rechecked at my next annual. God is SO great and truly provided the answer we had hoped for. SO, now I could focus on our pregnancy and looking ahead!

And then......the morning sickness started. This pregnancy was much more difficult than what I went through with Shelby, I was much more nauseous and really struggled to have an appetite for anything. I lost 7lbs. in one week!! I opted for taking medicine this time to help with the nausea just so I could get food down, but then that knocks you out! Poor Shelby watched a lot of DVDs and didn't have much of a playmate for a couple of months. She was so excited when Drew would get home. I hadn't planned to tell her about the baby until much later, but she would ask so often why I didn't feel good and finally Drew explained to her that Mommy had a baby in her tummy, and sometimes she would feel sick, but that it would go away soon. I didn't know this and the next morning we get up and she tells me that she does not feel well. When I asked her what was wrong, her response was "I have a baby in my tummy." I was like "HUH?!?!" She was having sympathy pains, ha!! Later I found out what Drew had explained and it all made more sense, but I admit that stunned me just a bit that day! Thankfully around week 16/17 I felt like I was pretty well past the roughest part, although I'm at 20 weeks now and have still had a bout with it here & there, oh well, those are the "joys" of pregnancy right?! Because it lasted much longer than with Shelby and was so much worse, we kept thinking it was a boy. I've also had other different symptoms that made us think it had to be a boy. Needless to say it's been a rough time for me, but not anything out of the ordinary according to my Dr....she says I am "textbook"!! (Not what you really want to hear though when you are suffering!!)

We made it through Thanksgiving, with my family coming down here to visit. It was great, everyone else cooked and allowed me to just lie on the couch in my misery. Russ cooks awesome breakfasts by the way, so we loved that. Along with his chili, the fried turkey, etc.! In early Dec. I went to Oklahoma for the Deeper Still Women's Conference....it featured 3 Christian speakers, Kay Arthur, Beth Moore and Priscilla Shirer. It was amazing and so much fun. We had a big group from our church go and it was just a wonderful time of fellowship and studying God's Word. Drew had Shelby for the weekend and learned that you really have to worry when it gets TOO quiet. Shelby gave herself a little haircut in front, mostly her sides. We probably should've guessed that might happen, she had been playing salon a lot and pretending to cut & color our hair like her Aunt Kellie (she'd just use her fingers for scissors though and a crayon for the color). It had not occurred to me that she'd actually CUT her own hair for real. But all the Mom's with me that weekend reassured me not to be too worried and shared all their kids' haircut stories! It does grow back! But Shelby's front hair grows sooooo slowly, we've got a ways to go! We had Christmas in Oklahoma and got to enjoy the AWESOME snow they had! It was so much fun! We built a snowman, made snow angels and had a snowball fight. Shelby & Mason seemed to enjoy throwing snowballs the most, ha! We all got a kick out of watching the kids in the snow, it's so fun to see things through their eyes!! Kellie & I were trying to remember the last time we played in the snow like that, we had a blast too!

January came & went with just getting back in the groove of preschool after winter break, Dr. appts. and I started a bible study at church. Drew is starting a new Jeep build for a customer. So, we are in process of getting a ton of Jeep parts delivered to the house, so far I think we've had about 40 boxes or so and there's more to come! It's going to be a really nice Jeep, I think he will have a hard time giving it to its owner, ha! This is his 2nd Jeep build for a customer other than family...he did his own lift kit and my Dad's and then another Jeep for a friend in Iraq. He's super excited about it. Our biggest challenge is shifting cars around so he has room to work on it. We're trying to come up with a plan for storing the Mustang short-term, we've stored his government car downtown at his office parking garage for now. We need a bigger garage!! :) Next month we are planning a trip to California to visit Drew's family, Shelby is super excited. She loves going to visit and it's exciting to take a plane ride. But we're only flying out one way because we'll be driving back in an RV!! We are going in w/Russ to buy Drew's parents' RV. I never thought I would be an RV person, but this thing is so awesome! I will love "camping" even more now, ha!! Russ will be out there for training and we've coordinated our trip with that so we can drive it back together. Think we're going to stop off at the Grand Canyon too, try to make a good road trip out of it. Can't wait!!

Quick update on what Shelby's in to these days.....she loves to help cook. She pulls up a chair to the counter and wants to help stir, pour ingredients, etc. Little messy, but that's ok, that's what Clorox wipes are for! She is also very into cleaning these days....she helps me do laundry, even getting it out of the dryer by herself when the buzzer goes off! She enjoys doing the swiffer, dusting the TV, putting away the silverware and yesterday even tidied up her room all by herself! I was so excited! She has also enjoyed helping Daddy unload all these Jeep parts and helps him gather all the peanuts for trash. She also loves Tinkerbell, we watch that DVD most I think, and still loves Mickey Mouse. And lately she has been getting into listending to audio book CDs in her room...she got a couple from Chick-fil-A in her happy meals and loves to go to her room and just listen to them. She'll be in there for like an hour! I'm looking online for some books like that, thinking what a great thing that may be for her to do when I need a little rest or something after the baby is here!

Well, I think that is about all we have for an update.....Hope everyone's doing well, enjoy the pics below!

At the park when Grandma & Grandpa Bomar visited...just think it's a cute shot of Shelby walking with her Daddy...they would then run down the hill, so fun!