Prayers Please

Update: I'm back from my appointment. Dr. W. said that my cervix checked out great! No pressure being put upon it and the blood didn't appear to be coming from it. Yay! Still no telling where it's coming from but she didn't seem terribly worried about it so I'm trying to not be either. She went ahead and did my 28 week checkup while I was there so all that I have to do tomorrow is the glucose test. She said that since I'm doing so good I can start to do more on my feet and less laying down! Yay again!



Oh Lord, the drama that is this pregnancy. So I went to use the restroom and realized that I was spotting. Again. I called my doctor's office and spoke to a nurse and she said that they would squeeze me in at 4:30 today to check and make sure that it wasn't from my cerclage giving out (or from anything else worrisome for that matter).

I told the nurse that I had a my regular 28 week appointment tomorrow morning at 10:15 but she said to come in anyway. She did seem really relieved though when I told her how far along I was. Thank goodness for that brief amount of positivity!

Ya'll please say a prayer that it's nothing. Personally I'm praying that it's something really stupid like hemorrhoids. (I can honestly say that I have NEVER prayed for hemorrhoids in my life but I am now!! :)

(sorry, humor is the only thing that keeps the anxiety from setting in full force...)

In The News!

We just realized the other day that Bobby and Graham made one of the local papers! I'm so proud of them!

Bobby's elbow is covering most of Graham's face but you can kinda still tell that its him. :) As you can see it's from the 4th of July parade that the guy's were in for Graham's Cub Scout Troop. 

Bobby has been in the paper before but I think that this is a first for Graham!

Begining Of The Week Randomness

Ugh, I have soo much to blog about and I just either haven't had the time to sit down to do it or I've been too tired to sit and form complete thoughts :). The 3rd Trimester tiredness has all of a sudden kicked in. So, once again, I'm turning to my favorite thing in the world right now...bullet form!

• I adore bullets. It allows me to have to avoid the aforementioned inability to form complete thoughts. I'm all about doing anything the easy way these days!

• I can tell that either the baby is getting much larger or I am gaining weight at a crazzzy rate (probably the later) and now I can't hardly fit into any of my maternity clothes. Crap, crap, double crap. Tops and bottoms, they are all too tight. Being a stay at home mom, I don't really need all that much to get by, but Ya'll, I'm down to like maybe 1 pair of shorts and 2 shirts. I hate the thought of buying anything more as this is the last baby and watch me go into labor the week after I spend good money. Crap.again.

• A waitress offered me Wine at Olive Garden this past weekend. I was all "Whaaaa?". I'm guessing that when I sit I just look hefty and not prego??

• I got myself into a big flower kick this past weekend and did my nails in flowers and then bought some for my table too!

• The boys and I watched the last space shuttle take off the other day. I love it that not only do we get the NASA channel but that both of my boys really enjoyed watching and listening as it took off!

Are my kiddos the only random ones that like to lounge around in laundry baskets to watch tv?? :) Please pardon Grady on the potty. That is a whole other post I have in my head...

•  Graham finished up swimming lessons on Friday night. We adore the place that he goes to. Graham gets to learn from the daughter and granddaughter of the the sweet lady who taught Bobby. Graham already knows how to swim but I like that he gets to strengthen his strokes and learn more about water safety in general.

I forgot to pack my camera on the last night so all I had was my phone to take pictures. Yikes! This is the best swimming one I got... :(



Graham was so proud to receive this years achievement certificate!



• Today both boys got to start Vacation Bible School. Our church does such a good job getting all the kids closer to the Lord! They had a blast today! I'm sure I'll have another post coming up later this week with more pictures.



I tried to get the boys picture together for about 20 minutes this morning. I finally gave up. Sadly (or funnily, however you like to look at it) this was the best! :) Grady was in full-on Monster Mode this morning.



Prayers for Baby Acorn

Some time ago I did a post for a fellow Baby Loss Momma, Emily (and you can read, or re-read that here). As a quick recap, she lost her first child, Aidan, at around 23 weeks. She went on to get pregnant again (yippee!) but soon started having problems all over again. This brave and wonderful woman has gone an astounding 15 weeks with ruptured membrane and no infection is now giving birth to her next child! I'm guessing that he or she will be here sometime today!

Emily is only 32 weeks (which still rocks!) but is still of course nervous as to the outcome of Baby "Acorn". I'm praying to God this morning that while he or she  may be born small they will hopefully be incredibly healthy! Emily deserves this baby soo much after all that she has been through with his/her brother and then during her long and stressful pregnancy.

Please stop by and leave Emily some love and words of encouragement as she gets through this last hurdle to becoming a Momma to angel here on Earth!!

The Almost 27 Week Doctors Appointment Update!

I had my regular every 2 week visit with the specialist this morning and everything came back not too crappy this time! :) My cervix is only borderline iffy measuring in at an average of 2.67 cm this morning (2.5 and below is crappy) and with only some slight funneling. The baby however looked great! He was weighing in at around 2 pounds 5 ounces (in my book that's almost 2 and a half pounds... I like to look on the bright side of things). On average he is still measuring at around a week bigger (whoop whoop!!) at 27 weeks and 6 days. My AFI (amniotic fluid index) was at 11.95 which kicks butt too since that's usually what keeps me up at night worrying about. Overall our little guy is in the 56% this week for his growth which they said was excellent. Grow baby grow!!

And now for the exciting stuff (because mostly what I posted so far only interests me and is for my records so that I don't forget)!

What a way to start out a Wednesday! There is just no other high in this world than seeing your baby happy and healthy!

Disgusted

I don't want to harp too long on this subject and foul my family blog with what is going on in current events right now. I'm sure everyone is totally aware of what has transpired in the Florida court system this afternoon. All I can say is I am beyond DISGUSTED.

That foul "mother" and her family have only succeeded in making me want to hold my boys tighter, read to them longer, spend even more time with them, kissing and hugging them every second that they will let me, and truely love them to the end of time and then back again. If nothing else has come from the tragedy of an innocent little girl loosing her life, it has made me want to be an even better mother than I thought possible. I'm hoping every other mother in America feels the same way so that she didn't loose her life in vain.

If you have a second go and check out The Heir to Blair. She really said it best.

Happy 4th of July and a Commenting Challenge!

What a crazy, fun long weekend we have had! I'm super excited that I can share all of our festive 4th of July celebrations (and other miscellaneous goings-ons) by joining up with Jenna from Jenna's Journey! She is doing a super fun challenge to link up and then  read at least 10 new blogs a day for 7 days and leave a comment on everyone. How fun to get to know other people and have other people get to know me and my family!

Graham and I started out the weekend by escaping from the crazy heat here in Texas and heading to the nearest movie theater! This has always been one of our favorite places for him and I to have Momma/Graham dates.

Yikes! Not the greatest picture of Graham and I at the movie theater but we just had to commemorate our finally seeing Kung Fu Panda 2!

Sunday for us started off pretty low-key and ended with a bang! We headed out to church for the 11 am service and then went to lunch afterwards. Grady can always be bribed to smile for the camera with the promise of a french fry! Graham has just learned from over the years that it's better to just smile and get it over with or else I will just keep bugging him until he does. He is one smart kiddo! :)

When we got home from lunch, I had Bobby take a quick picture of me for this weeks pregnancy journal. I think here I am 26 weeks and 3 days! Can you tell that this is definitely a post-lunch pregnancy belly?? I swear it was not that big when we left the house that morning!!

We rested up for the rest of the afternoon and then headed out the Circus!


At the age of 9 Graham is starting to get really tired of me asking him to pose for his picture everywhere we go. Thank the Lord he is such a good sport most of the time!

Two Words : Cotton Candy. Yummy!!

Poor Grady started to have a meltdown in the middle of the show. By this late in the evening he had just had ENOUGH of being cooped up in our little part of the row. I finally took his picture mid-cry and showed him the camera and thank goodness he was all distracted by it!! :)

The fun end of the show parade!

This morning we woke up and headed out to start our 4th of July activities! Graham is in Cub Scouts and we were able to participate in tons of fun activities in our little community here. The first thing that he and some other boys were able to do was the flag raising at the local park!



(I was trying to get a close up of the boys doing the flag and consequently you can't see Graham in this picture! Oops!)







I am soo proud of Bobby and Graham! Bobby is the assistant Den Leader for the Webelos group. I love that they have this special thing that they can do together!

The boys also got to be in the Garden Ridge parade around the neighborhood. I was standing on the wrong side of the street to get a good picture of the boys. Can you see Bobby waving at me though? :)

Grady was equally excited by the parade as he was as all the candy that he collected!

After the Parade the Cub Scouts had a "Rain gutter Regatta". Bobby and Graham each built a little wooden boat to sail down a rain gutter.  No trophies were won but they had such a good time participating!

We are about to head out to my in-laws house now for a little cookout.  We seriously celebrate the 4th of July around here almost all day long! I hope that everyone else has had a great long weekend!!