So we get to find out the sex of our second baby next week...and both of us cannot wait!! It is funny how different pregnancies can be from the first to the second. This one started out a lot easier (minus the whole progesterone and blood getting taken....) without near as much morning sickness and still tiring, but manageable. I am however starting to change my tune that this one is much easier than the last one and the reason being is that my stomach is already starting to feel so tight and uncomfortable. The babe seems to be sitting really really low...so low that I swear when I finally go to deliver it will have been 100% effaced the entire time!! Before it seemed like the top of my stomach was stretching out-right below my chest area-well just a bit below that...but this time it is all below my belly button and boy is it tight!! I think too this babe will be bigger (as most second babies are) but it would not be hard to do since Isabelle only weighted 6.6 pounds at birth.
I do enjoy being pregnant for the most part. It is so strange and wonderful carrying a little human in your tummy. I seem to know a trillion people that are pregnant right now as well-and it is always interesting to see just how differently all of us women carry our babes. Nate was a darling and bought me a baby heart monitor so that I can hear the baby's heartbeat whenever I want to. Having gone through a miscarriage I think it has made me just a bit more paranoid-so it is wonderful whenever I am having a creeping fear for any reason to just pull out the monitor and hear that lovely little beat going crazy!! Nate thinks of everything!! I love him!
I just spent this cold afternoon painting and sewing in the basement. I love to do it-even when results are not always what I wish them to be. Anyhow....that is all for now. Much love...
High Point: Isabelle not only sleeping in until 9:45 (she usually wakes up at 8:15) but her also taking about a two hour nap!! I was so productive.
Low Point: The dry/chap layer on my lips....they seriously are peeling off an entire layer as I write!! Yikes!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Snow and Smiles
The view out our front window right now.....lovely. There is snow falling-in case you cannot tell from the shot.
The stockings and tree.
This is little Isabelle...whenever I am dressing her she loves to run off without the entire outfit on. I always find it quite amusing....who can resist those little legs!?
I love winter.....totally and completely. And what is more-I love winter in Wheaton, Illinois. People so often complain of the cold and the snow...on and on they go. But I LOVE the cold and the beautiful white snow. It is literally pouring down outside the window as I write this-and I love it. There is something so romantic, childish, relaxing and beautiful about snow...especially when it is falling. Things here have been so wonderful as of late. Isabelle is being my usual delight. Nate is the love of my life and we have a baby on the way. God is pouring out upon us and I am full of thanks!!
Isabelle has developed even more into such a goofball-which is so fun. She has formed very adorable routines or things she loves to do. For example, the girl is in love with music. So much so that almost every time I get her from the church nursery on Sunday they tell me how much she loves music and cannot be separated from it:) The same at home goes for her. We have a boom box on the ground in the kitchen and Isabelle will just either sit herself down next to it or (more often than not) right on top of it. She will boop her little body in beat to the music and be quite content like that for a while. She also loves to remove all the kitchen utensils from the drawer and line them up on the stairs. Once finishing this task she will put them all away again. She loves spaghetti and meatballs-and (just like her mother) will start to get really goofy about halfway through mealtime. I believe this is because she has reached that lovely point of not being hungry anymore and now finding the lovely delight of food. She just sits there and smiles at me...refusing to eat until I let out a laugh at her. Which is never forced mind you-little Belle can always get me to laugh!!
You know how people teach their children the game..."How big is Isabelle....soooo big!" And the child then lifts their hands over their head. Well...Nate and I thought we could do something much more creative than that game. Ours is called...."What do you do on a rollacoaster....WEEEEEEE!!" Isabelle is displaying below just what she does:)
Told you she loves music;)
This is often how Isabelle will stand....it is so funny to me....just pop a squat and read a magazine.
I have included these pictures of her being her sweet little self.....but believe me nothing shows her preciousness as being with her. Which, blessing from the Lord, I can be everyday!! My treasure!
Yummy sugar cookies that Nate and I made and frosted one afternoon. This always gets us laughing so hard-probably because our frosting job always ends of being a little off!
And what kind of parents would we be if little Isabelle could not sample one of the yummies??
Please tell me why you love this time of year??? If you do that is:)
The stockings and tree.
This is little Isabelle...whenever I am dressing her she loves to run off without the entire outfit on. I always find it quite amusing....who can resist those little legs!?
I love winter.....totally and completely. And what is more-I love winter in Wheaton, Illinois. People so often complain of the cold and the snow...on and on they go. But I LOVE the cold and the beautiful white snow. It is literally pouring down outside the window as I write this-and I love it. There is something so romantic, childish, relaxing and beautiful about snow...especially when it is falling. Things here have been so wonderful as of late. Isabelle is being my usual delight. Nate is the love of my life and we have a baby on the way. God is pouring out upon us and I am full of thanks!!
Isabelle has developed even more into such a goofball-which is so fun. She has formed very adorable routines or things she loves to do. For example, the girl is in love with music. So much so that almost every time I get her from the church nursery on Sunday they tell me how much she loves music and cannot be separated from it:) The same at home goes for her. We have a boom box on the ground in the kitchen and Isabelle will just either sit herself down next to it or (more often than not) right on top of it. She will boop her little body in beat to the music and be quite content like that for a while. She also loves to remove all the kitchen utensils from the drawer and line them up on the stairs. Once finishing this task she will put them all away again. She loves spaghetti and meatballs-and (just like her mother) will start to get really goofy about halfway through mealtime. I believe this is because she has reached that lovely point of not being hungry anymore and now finding the lovely delight of food. She just sits there and smiles at me...refusing to eat until I let out a laugh at her. Which is never forced mind you-little Belle can always get me to laugh!!
You know how people teach their children the game..."How big is Isabelle....soooo big!" And the child then lifts their hands over their head. Well...Nate and I thought we could do something much more creative than that game. Ours is called...."What do you do on a rollacoaster....WEEEEEEE!!" Isabelle is displaying below just what she does:)
Told you she loves music;)
This is often how Isabelle will stand....it is so funny to me....just pop a squat and read a magazine.
I have included these pictures of her being her sweet little self.....but believe me nothing shows her preciousness as being with her. Which, blessing from the Lord, I can be everyday!! My treasure!
Yummy sugar cookies that Nate and I made and frosted one afternoon. This always gets us laughing so hard-probably because our frosting job always ends of being a little off!
And what kind of parents would we be if little Isabelle could not sample one of the yummies??
Please tell me why you love this time of year??? If you do that is:)
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Share 7 random and/or interesting facts about you / your family
I was tagged on Caitlinesque's blog and asked to answer the titled question. Here goes
1. Nate and I sing to Isabelle every night the song "Edelweiss" from Sounds of Music....using her name rather than the titled one and altering a few of the words
2. Nate and I probably tell each other we love one another over 20 times a day.....and we mean it!!
3. We do not own a television
4. I sometimes get paid to do voice work for different things (books on tape, commercials, radio spots, etc.)
5. Nate and I have not been apart one night since we were married
6. Isabelle loves to sit on our cd player when she is grooving to the beat
7. We often use sounds effects to describe how we feel about things-rather than words....try it, it really is quite effective!!
There you go:) That was quite fun
1. Nate and I sing to Isabelle every night the song "Edelweiss" from Sounds of Music....using her name rather than the titled one and altering a few of the words
2. Nate and I probably tell each other we love one another over 20 times a day.....and we mean it!!
3. We do not own a television
4. I sometimes get paid to do voice work for different things (books on tape, commercials, radio spots, etc.)
5. Nate and I have not been apart one night since we were married
6. Isabelle loves to sit on our cd player when she is grooving to the beat
7. We often use sounds effects to describe how we feel about things-rather than words....try it, it really is quite effective!!
There you go:) That was quite fun
Friday, November 21, 2008
Typealyzer...I stole:)
Alright...so I was reading on another blog and came across this very fun thing called a Tylealyzer....it looks at your blog and then spits out what it would label your blog's "personality" as. Here is mine.....I guess it is not too far from the truth:) Feel free to do it to your own....it is pretty fun!!http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=en
ESFP - The Performers
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
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