We are having another baby boy!

That's right folks! Scott and I found out this Tuesday that baby number 2 is going to be another bouncing baby boy! We are so excited. Blake keeps talking about all the things he wants to teach his little brother. He wants to teach him all about power rangers, cars, transformers, and the list goes on. It is really sweet when Blake puts his head on my growing tummy to talk to him. Sometimes the baby gives him a little kick and it makes Blake giggle. At first he thought the baby was hurting me because I won't let Blake kick me. hehehe But now he is ok with that. He is going to be such a great big brother! Now we have to start thinking about his name.... We are still due on December 2nd, but the sonogram showed that the baby was almost a week bigger than he needed to be. I have a feeling we may have something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. :-) We will see... I will write more of an update on all of us later this weekend.

New and old

Something new...We have discovered that Blake really loves to play golf. He wants to go all the time. Scott took him to the driving range and they took Blake's play golf clubs. He wanted to do it so badly that Scott let him hit a real ball with his play set. Let's just say the ball won! LOL One swing and it broke the club. Blake was so sad that he didn't have clubs. Scott took him a couple more times and they used Daddy's clubs. Scott got an idea to encourage this since its something Blake is showing an interest in so we got him a set of golf clubs for his birthday. Scott reminded me when we were buying them that Tiger Woods started at 3. LOL He said Blake can be his golfing buddy. That is so sweet. Scott is such a great Dad. It doesn't matter to him if he spends more time helping Blake than on his own golf game. He has taken him five times in the last week alone! They plan on breaking those out as early as possible. Even as I type, Blake has a golf club in his hand trying to hit a ball. Maybe we have a little Tiger on our hands. LOL Scott said he wants Blake to beat him by the time he is 8. I couldn't resist the easy dig so I said that wouldn't be that hard. LOL As long as Blake still likes it, we will do it. This is a picture of Blake and Scott at the driving range and a picture of the golf club they used which is now in pieces.

Something old... After last summers near drowning in swim lessons I was a little leery of going back and doing that again, but better sense won and I signed him up at a different place of course. We are taking it again with my friend and Blake's girlfriend like we did last year so I have support in case of heart failure. She was with me through the whole ordeal last year so she knows why I am kind of a freak. So far I am very surprised at how well he is doing. Mommy still can't breathe when he goes under water but at least he doesn't know any different. What is funny is that he doesn't remember it at all but his girlfriend that was in the class remembers everything. She remembers what he looked like and me jumping in after him when the swim instructor didn't notice and was too far away to get to him. She was telling him not to "bob up and down in the water" again. I am glad Blake doesn't remember though. Now if only Mommy could forget....

His smile shows that he loves it! His teacher is great. Aquakids is where we are going and Mr. Matt is awesome!

Spring Season of Blastball

It was an eventful season. Blake made some great friends that I hope we can stay in touch with. A lot of them came to his birthday party too. There was a closing ceremony last Monday. It was so fun. We all got on the field with all the other teams and this time around the kids actually stayed in the in field with us. At opening ceremonies they were tackling each other in the outfield. hehehe They have come so far. Scott and I loved coaching! We will be doing it again this summer for Orange Crush. Blake got a medal for his participation and he was the first one to go. It caught me off guard. It was so sweet and of course I started to tear up. He is just growing so fast and he is having so many firsts and will have in the next few months. It just hit me and I started to choke up. Anyways. I must tell the story about the last game because I plan on telling Blake's girlfriends all about it someday. :-) We were playing last Saturday and Blake was running to the outfield which he sometimes does. He called to Scott to come and chase him and we decided we weren't going to make it a game for him so we wouldn't follow. We continued playing the game with the rest of the team and looked back at Blake to keep an eye on him. About that time I saw Blake grab himself! I thought, "OH NO!!" I sent Scott after him, but of course he was too late. Blake dropped his pants and peed in right field in front of the entire stands and everyone. And let me be clear. I do not have a shy son! He was showing it off! There was not a person in the stands who didn't see it apparently. I did mention to my Dad that I blame him for that display after he was joking with me about it. I did remind him that since he went to Grammie and Papa's house where Papa let him pee outside he looks for opportunities to do just that. LOL It was hysterical really, but only because he is 3. Papa said we needed to go check right field for a dead circle. LOL Just when I think Blake has surprised me with everything he could possibly do, I get a curve ball like that! LOL The summer season starts after we get back from Missouri to see Jody graduate from boot camp at the end of June. :-)

Blake turned 4!

Yesterday was Blake's fourth birthday! I still can't believe he is already four. It seems like just yesterday that I was giving birth. Man how time flies!!! I tried not to cry at the birthday party, but man these pregnancy hormones can be killer! LOL We celebrated his birthday at Chuck E Cheese's this year and we invited all of his friends and family. It was an awesome party! We had A LOT of people there, but Blake was so happy that everyone came. He told me today how he was happy because all of his friends got to come to his party. We had 21 kids and over 30 adults. We had a great time! I was so busy this year thought that I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked. :-( My Dad took some so I will get those from him soon. Here is a picture of my prince getting his birthday crown. They did a little parade around the tables with Chuck E and Blake was so excited to see him. We tried to get Blake's picture with Chuck E and below is all we could get. hehehe He wouldn't turn around. He was too focused on talking to him!

Introducing....

Last week, we welcomed a new member to the family. Scott and I were shopping for Blake's birthday and came upon this puppy in the parking lot of Target. We instantly feel in love and knew she would be perfect for Blake. Trixie is our new puppy. She is actually Blake's puppy. She is a 13 week old yorkie and she is SO cute! Blake calls her "T dog" sometimes and he is "B dog." So adorable. Here is her picture.

Things are looking up!

Well. It has been one crazy roller coaster the last month or so. We ended March with Scott's 30th birthday. His birthday was the 20th. I had a surprise party planned for him on the 21st for over a month and wouldn't you know that it was leaked two days before! Oh well. Scott said he liked it better that way. (I think he was making me feel better.) I sent him and 12 of his friends to play golf that morning and then we met at a restaurant for a little party with about 30 of family and friends. I hope I made it memorable for him. It was a blast!

We got another little surprise on the 27th. I happened to take a home pregnancy test because Scott thought I was pregnant. I didn't think I was because I had convinced myself every month after the miscarriage that I was. I took the test to prove him wrong and it ended up being positive! I was kinda half asleep and didn't realize I took a yes or no test. So when the test read yes I had to look at the directions to see what that meant. LOL It was pretty funny because I was not awake yet. I just thought it meant yes it was working. LOL Hopefully the baby will get Daddy's brains. hehehe We had our first sonogram on the 21st and everything looked perfect. The doc said I have a 95% chance of carrying this one to term and he also said that if I was going to have problems, I would already be having them. I felt a lot better after that doctor appointment. I feel like I can breath a little easier. I am due on December 2nd and the heart rate was 162. The nurse said that girls are usually in the 160's and boys in the 140's, but no guarantees. I honestly would love either one as long as they are healthy and happy. Blake has been such a joy that a boy would be great, but a Daddy's girl would be great for Scott too. I guess we will find out sometime soon. I am nine weeks tomorrow. So I guess that means 9 more to go to find out. LOL

Blake started playing Blastball this month too. I signed him up and Scott and I signed up to be coaches the day before we found out I was pregnant. It has been so much fun! His teammates act like they were separated at birth. They are all so cute and Blake loves getting out there and playing. He played so hard before the game with his friends on Saturday, he was little tired during the game. LOL We will have to make sure we don't get there that early again. hehehe Scott likes to be early though. :-) This is a picture of him with his team uniform and some of his teammates. There were two more added after this pic was taken.

Blake told me the sweetest things about the baby. We weren't going to tell him, but he figured it out and told my Mom I was having ten babies. LOL Scott and I decided we better tell him so he knows its only one. hehehe We told him a few weeks after we found out. Then, I was putting him to bed one night this week and he was telling me what color power rangers we all were. He told me like I have said in the past that he is the red one, Daddy is the blue one, and Mommy is the yellow one. But this time he added that the baby is the pink one! That is so sweet! My pregnancy hormones made me ball at how sweet that was. I haven't told him, but if its a boy, we may have to rethink pink. LOL The next day, he was begging me to let him go to school with me and pink power ranger. Now that was hard to tell him no. He is going to be such a great big brother!

This month we also had to say "See you later to Uncle Mudcat." My brother joined the army and he is currently in Missouri doing his basic training. He wants to become an airplane mechanic. I am so proud of him, but so sad at the same time. I am going to miss him so much, but I support his decision 100%. I would miss him no matter what he was doing anyways. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers please as he starts down this journey in his life.

This year has been hard.

Well, let's just say this school year has been an interesting one. (Since I am a teacher, my year starts in August and ends in June so I measure it that way. If you are a teacher you get it. LOL) It started off great. I was pregnant and so excited, but as most of you know, that didn't turn out so well. I lost the baby on September 26th. It has been a long road, but I think we have made it up the hill and now are coasting down. This last week, my world came crashing down around me once again. I got a frantic phone call around 4:30 on March 3rd from my Mom saying there was something wrong with my dad. I have dreaded this phone call for all of my adult life since my Dad has suffered heart attacks over the years. My Dad had a mild stoke or a TIA as they call it. It caused him to not remember anything longer than 2 minutes for the better half of 9 hours. We would have conversations during this time and he would forget we ever had them. He said he felt like he was hallucinating. It was a long road in the hospital for 4 days and lots of tests, but my Dad was a real trooper. He is such an important person in my life, I can't imaging my life without him. All of this has made me look at life a little more differently. I have to say that the last months have been extremly stressful. The last week especially. I am glad to look to the future and spend as much time as possible with everyone that I love. I may not always feel that I am lucky, but I am. I have a wonderful husband, brilliant son, family that is always there, and friends who listen. I often try to find reasons for why such things happen, but I am coming to believe that sometimes we aren't meant to know the reasons.

Let's move on to some happier news. My son has discovered Power Rangers in the past couple of months. He is obsessed with them. He tells me that I am the yellow power ranger, Daddy is the blue power ranger, and he is the red power ranger. He talks about Megazords and spirt rangers all the time. He is so cute. He has grown up so much in the last months. I love this stage. I am sure I have said that about all of his other stages too though. LOL

One more thing...Scott's 30th birthday is Friday so if you catch him, tell him Happy Birthday. I still think he looks the same as when I fell in love with him when he was just 19.