My last baby...

We are having a baby!!!
Due February 17th 2012. I am 15 weeks today. I found out in June 8th and for the third time in my life I dropped to my knees the moment the little line showed on the test. Happy, nervous, excited, scared, I can remember just repeating in my head 'praise, praise, praise, praise'. I have never taken a test with Pete there so there has always been a bit of time when just God and I know and there is something so special about that.

We kept it a secret from EVERYONE because it was a weekend filled with graduation celebrations for so many of our friends and Phil and Jenna's going away party so we wanted to keep the focus on them, not us. The day after we told Phil and Jenna they found out they were having a baby! It was a perfect crazy emotional time I will never forget. These cousins are due 5 days apart in the middle of February.

It was also the week Phil and Jenna moved to Hawaii (things actually couldn't change any more for them that month) and I went with them to house hunt and help get settled. And just vacation. :)

The day I left Hawaii was the day 'the sickness' settled in. And then I'm just blacking out the following 2 months. Not even joking. I. Felt. Terrible. It was nothing like my first two pregnancies. I was nauseous, exhausted, miserable. I even made a Dr. appointment for the sole fact I needed an ultrasound because I was convinced I had at least 4 babies in there. Thankfully found I there is just the one. :)

I wasn't going to go to the Dr. because I decided to have this baby at home! I'll post about home birth later but I am very excited and I LOVE my midwife.

I feel good now, still a little worn down but I remember feeling this way with Mo too. This pregnancy is going by fast! We also decided to find out wether this one is a boy or girl at 20 weeks which we hadn't done before so that will be the end of September. Can't WAIT to find out.

Another thing is that we know for sure this will be our last baby. Pete and I both feel like our family will be complete. So it's actually pretty interesting going through a pregnancy knowing that it will be your last time. I'll never find out I'm pregnant again, never go through a first trimester, never get to tell friends I'm pregnant again. So it just makes me stop and cherish each thing a little bit more.

As for telling Emma she said, 'I don't want another baby, Mo is enough." :) She's getting used to the idea though. Likes to make plans about where the baby is going to sit at the table and in the car (ug, we have to see if we can cram 3 carseats across our car!) She is also excited to share a room with Moses, she is incredibly good with him, it breaks my heart in the good way to hear them talk and play, it's so sweet. He mostly just answers "dah" or "no" and she asks him good yes/no questions. :)

This is me 8 days before I had sweet MoMo,

Camp Tadmor and more

One week with my family by a lake in the forest? Yes please. Add 250 middle schoolers? Even better. More entertaining when they fly off the blob.
Pete was the camp speaker last week at Tadmor and we went with him and spent the week in the lake house. The kids loved it. I didn't bring any toys and they didn't notice just played with rocks and sticks. Emma loved finding treasures like pinecones, feathers, rocks. Mo loved trying to jump in the lake. He fell in within 10 minutes of us being there, soaking his only sweatshirt. Oh Mo.

Backpack, check. Baseball hat, check. Pants, oh. Shoot.


Scotty and Crystal stayed with us for a night and so did Nathan and Kari. It's a good thing they're all so cute because they woke us up EARLY. (The kids, not Scotty and Crystal, although they are cute too).

I came home for a night halfway through the week because my softball team was playing our last game or so I thought because Bulldogs are going to playoffs baby! Corvallis women's D-league is not even going to know what hit them. We play tomorrow at 6:00 at Sunset park, come cheer!
Here are my favorite softball players minus the ones not pictured either because they weren't there that game or they moved far far away. :(


Dox has been outside again this summer and it's been awesome. So great to worship in a nook of trees and flowers.

Right now Emma is picking flowers outside and I heard her laugh/scream so I asked her why and she said she got excited because there was so many. Aw, so sweet. Also, they're mostly dandelions, so now I have a vase full of weeds. Motherhood perfection. :)

Tap Tap, this thing on?

My nice sister-friend Jenna reminded me how nice it is to have a blog to look back on. I do love that so much of Emma's first two years were captured and I wasn't able to do that for Mo :( I came to a spot when I was so low on time/energy/heart that I just didn't want to sit down in front of a computer even if I did have a spare minute.
We also don't have a camera right now so it has kind of been a deterrent from blogging but Jenna said (and she's right!) that my phone does the trick.
BUT on the other hand I LOVE writing and what a better way to figure out life then recording your thoughts. So hear I go, giving it another try! I hope that Em and Mo will enjoy reading it later. (Or be mortified?! I guess that's possible too!)
This is Mo from a few months ago, just being himself. :)

Pete's Top Albums of 2010

In case you missed it, Pete posted his top albums of the year on the Dox website. http://doxcorvallis.org/#/news/petes-top-albums-of-2010

Fall!

Pumpkin patch







Trick or Treating! Pete took and Emma and went with our culdesac neighbors.
Didn't you hate it when your mom made you wear a sweatshirt under your costume and running shoes with tights?!
I stayed home with Mo to give out candy and got a total of FIVE kids! Mo and I felt like we threw a party no one came to. :)

Downtown on Friday before Halloween. Such a great day with sooo many people.

We had about eight of these pictures taken, Pete and i were looking in different directions in every single one.

Cutest lion I've ever seen

Pre-race smiles. "Okay mom, I'll just try to feed mo before I leave and then he can just keep sleeping until 8 or so..." Ha! My mom was such a trooper, getting up at 5:30 with Mo and me in our hotel downtown.


Team Awesome.

Heather and I kicking it in, it was fun to finish with her! I look like I'm smiling but I wasn't. Seriously, I couldn't even make eye contact with my mom, Jenna, and Ruby (who finished a half hour before us!). Every single ounce of energy was going to sprinting it in at the finish.

Cute kids, mushy brain

So my witty captions are on hold... :)

Go Beavs!

Little lady Emma turned 3!
Birthday week was a perfect combination of chaos and fun. She got a big kid bike she loves to ride in the culdesac "with the guys" (we have a lot of little boys on her street she loooves to keep up with)


Cooooool, guys

First day of preschool, jury's still out on her she feels about it but we are figuring it out together

Ok so Mo is the happiest baby in the world. So sweet, so happy, all the time. Every time I grocery shop this is what I see when I turn to the cart. It makes me smile so I had to take a picture.


3 is fun.

Love, Love, LOVE

SAD

Our camera broke on vacation and then this week my computer died!!! Wahhhhh.

Life is different sans internet. I mean, I use Pete's laptop when he gets home but it's weird not having internet access all day. By weird I mean miserable.
Maybe I will have a season of living more simply without technology and maybe that's not sooo bad.