Today....

is just one of those days when no matter what I do, I get a complete meltdown from Thomas. I am frazzled.

Ultrasound ---EDITED TO ADD

I have not been happy with the ultrasound pictures I have gotten of Grayson, but oh well.
I was checked again today, to make sure that the placenta had moved up, and it has, and I got to spy on baby for just a few minutes. He blinked while we were watching him - so very awesome!

Here is the one and only pic they took today. It is of his head/face. You can see his eyes, nose and his big squishy lips -- I had to giggle. I hope that he is just making pouty faces LOL.
extra picture added to help you SEE him.... click on the pictures --- it makes them bigger to see

It's ME!

I forgot to put this on the blog. It was taken about 3 weeks ago - so at about 25 weeks.
I wore this dress to Church, and suddenly everyone realized - "hey, she's pregnant". We are usually a tiny bit late for church, and consequently, we have to sit up on bench second from the front - that's the "Owen" bench. So we walked past everyone, and I could just FEEL all the looks, and almost hear all the whispers. I got A Lot of questions that day - "when are you due?" "is Thomas going to have a brother or sister?" "how are you feeling?". I was a bit amused - finally people knew I was pregnant, and not just getting fatter.

Count your blessings

I got really sick on Sunday night/Monday morning. I am all better today. It was weird. But I think that sometimes we may just need a reminder once in a while that we need to be grateful for our blessings.
Yesterday it took all my will power and strength just to get up and take care of Thomas. THANK YOU SHELLY for coming over to help me!!! I couldn't have done it without you.
Today, I kept looking in the mirror and thinking, "WOW, it is so great to be healthy again".

What are you grateful for today?

A Sunday Funny

Our nursery at church has a tiny "peek hole" in the door, so parents can look in ans see how their kids are behaving, without the kids seeing them.

Well, I always like to peek in to see how Thomas is behaving during the lesson, and listen to hear what he is learning about, so we can talk with him about it afterward.

He isn't doing so well at sitting in his chair during the lesson (there were other kids out of their chairs, so that doesn't help him behave either).

So after church today, we had him sitting up to the table with us for lunch in his highchair (made into a "lowchair") - and I asked him about what he learned in Nursery today. He couldn't tell me, and I said something along the lines of he wasn't sitting in his chair at church, that is why he couldn't hear the lesson.
Thomas responded with "those chairs don't have buckles"

so apprently since he can't be stapped down, he doesn't have to stay seated :) LOL

Happy Halloween

I am going to attempt to take Thomas to do a tiny bit of Trick-or-Treating in about an hour. We won't be going far, since my back hurts too much to walk much. And we will just be going to the members houses around this block. Thomas doesn't care for candy much anyway, and I certainly don't need it. I just want him to have a little fun.
We will see what he thinks, and report back later :)


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well , it took me about an hour to even get him out of the house.
He literally threw a fit when I told him we needed to put his football jersey OVER his coat - but once I wrestled him into his coat and got it on over top - he was just fine.Once we got outside, he saw the other kids out walking around, I asked if he was ready to go for a walk - and he was quite excited about that.
He would knock on the doors and say "Treat" and then "thanks" so cutely after he got a treat. He had fun, but really enjoyed the walk more than the trick or treating part.
We didn't go too far - about 2 blocks, so maybe a dozen houses or so.
I brought his favorite "lightning treats" (fruit snacks) with me, and put 2 in his bucket after we were done, so when he looked at his stash, he found something that he actually liked. I got to eat his snickers and milky way bars LOL. The rest of the stuff, I will see if he wants to test anything out tomorrow.

A Halloweeny Slide Show