A little of this and that

Well, we found out on May 23rd that we are having a little GIRL! I knew it. The morning of the sonogram, I took Jacob to Mother's Day Out and then stopped at Target and bought a "Little Sister" outfit. I stood there and looked at the "Little Brother" one for a minute, but I KNEW it was a girl, so I checked out and hit it in the bottom of my purse. We sat in anticipation in the waiting room, and for some reason, I was really nervous! I was so anxious to know. It is beyond me how people wait 40 weeks! I had a hard time making it to 16 weeks! The moment of truth came when the sonographer said, "do you see that?" I shouted "THERE'S NOTHING THERE!!!" I was referring to the between the legs shot. HA!! Yep, I got my little girl. Before I got pregnant, I wanted a little boy because I thought I was meant to be an all boy mom. Then when I got pregnant, I knew it was a girl. I just had this feeling inside me and I was RIGHT! We are beyond excited. I couldn't stop crying after she told us. She had to stop for a second because my belly was moving too much from crying! It was such a sweet and special moment. Alex is terrified. He is SO excited, but so nervous of the "unknown" if you will. Just wait though, this little girl is going to be daddy's little princess. I have NO doubt in my mind. We went to lunch at one of our fav places here (Abuelo's) and called the family on the way. Everyone was beyond excited for us. Of course afterwards we had to buy a few pink outfits and headed to Khol's. :)

Sadly, when I went to get Jacob from school he was really sick with a high fever, so the excitement ended there. We were going to spend the evening celebrating with a few friends, but our poor baby boy was sick! It broke my heart to see him so sick. The doctor said it was just a virus and we had to wait it out. His fever got up to 103, which scared us, but by morning he was so much better! The fever was gone and he was somewhat back to his old self. Well, not completely. He is JUST now getting back to his old self. After that happened he caught a cold and then a semi ear infection AND his two top molars are coming in. Poor baby! Needless to say, it's been a rough 3 weeks. I knew he didn't feel well because he wasn't his same happy self. He was very whiny. Not like him at all. I didn't know if it was the age, or because he didn't feel well. He's always been the sweetest little boy and I knew he couldn't have changed over night! Yesterday was the first day he was almost 100% himself. It was so nice to see.

I can't believe he's going to be 2 in LESS than a month!! We are having a birthday party for him here in Midland at a place called Flippenbounce. He is going to LOVE it!! It's superhero theme because that's what he's OBSESSED with right now. He loves Iron Man the best right now and will ask to watch it ALL day. He has a little Iron Man toy that he got from Target that he's obsessed with. It's adorable. It was Toy Story for awhile there, but we quickly moved on from that phase. He still enjoys Woody and Buzz, but not like his Iron Man.

More to come...he's up and we leave for Vegas today! Time to get us ready!

Life

Things are still looking great with this pregnancy. Betas are going up like they should be (or a little faster than normal). They were 144 on Monday and then on Wednesday they went up to 429. So that's a really good thing. I had a dream we were having twins last night. It was so vivid that when I woke up I was convinced it was real. We had two eggs that were ready to go at the same time, but I'm almost positive it isn't twins. We will find out soon enough though. I believe I will have our first ultrasound on March 13. Seems like so long to wait. I'm Mrs. Impatient!

Jacob is amazing. I can't believe how much I love that kid. He says, "one more" and holds up one finger. It's adorable. We finally got it on video. He's trying to talk so much more lately, but it's just jibberish for the most part, but he's trying. I think the tubes have really helped him with his speech (NOW that he can HEAR us!!). He's eating a lot better too, which is such a blessing. We were really worried about our baby. After the scopes in December, we were pleased it wasn't something serious. Now, I honestly think he wasn't eating because his ears hurt him all the time. He's still on stomach meds. I've only been giving them to him at night though and he seems to be doing ok. I need to take him to an allergist though because I still think he has issues with milk and possibly eggs? It's not horrible, but he gets dry skin and a little rash all over his poor little body. The rash doesn't seem to upset him or bother him at all though. It's so weird.

The idea of moving to Dallas recently came back up again. Of course this happened right after we decided to build a house here. We are currently put on hold until we figure out what we are doing. I don't want to leave now! I finally love our life here. I have amazing friends. I love our church. Jacob has amazing friends. It just works right now and I hate to change that. We have to do what we have to do though. We should know in the next month or two as to what the plans will be. If we don't move, the new house we plan to build won't be ready by the time this new baby gets here though. That kinda sucks, but we will make whatever work. I sound spoiled!

Little man is getting up and I need to fix his oatmeal. :) He loves his oatmeal in the morning!