Yesterday was the first sign of winter. We had snow flurries off and on. Shay immediately put on her shoes and jacket and said she wanted to go outside and make a snowman. By the time we got out there it had stopped snowing and she kept saying "where did the snowman go?" Anyway we proceeded to have fun playing in the leaves and on the bike and such. She loves the outdoors.
Speaking of outside. We went to Door County in WI last week and enjoyed ourselves. We stayed in a log cabin that was pretty much in the 'county'. The kids enjoyed the change of scenery and slept good for the most part. We enjoyed making a fire, roasting marshmellows and playing outside. The weather was cool and when there was wind it was hard to be outside too long. Door county is filled with small little towns, all about 6 miles from each other with a lot of shopping in little boutiques/antique places. Not kid friendly in the fall but I'm sure in the summer it would be fun. Our ride on the way home was long and dramatic as Jack had a runny nose and made sure everyone in the car knew he was uncomfortable. Shay didn't nap. We survived however and put the kids down at 6pm that night. All in all we had a relaxing time. I was able to read in the evenings and took LONG naps during nap time. We would go back again...even in the winter. It's just so peaceful. The cabin belongs to a family from church and they are trying to sell it. If they don't we would love to go back in the summer...Chris reminds me though that we'll have a newborn. Well we'll see how it goes.
As for the new baby, my due date is now May10th. I had an ultrasound today and saw the baby moving around, crossing their legs and trying to suck their thumb. Isn't that funny, only 12.5 weeks old and already hand to mouth. Cool! Please continue to pray for the health and development of this baby and that my pregnancy would go smoothly. If I can ever figure out how to post the ultrasound picture I will do that. We have a good picture this time!
The past two days have been a little hectic. Shay is testing my mothering skills full speed. I'm not sure if I am doing very well. Today she decided to wake up at 5:20 AM so on top of testing the limits she was also tired. Fortunately Chris got up at 7am and I went back to bed for an hour and a half. That really helped. I'm tired now and ready for bed. Shay went to sleep nicely, no struggles tonight. I think she was tired.
So if anyone actually reads my blog, I would ask that you would pray for me. Specifically for God to give me wisdom, creativity, consistency, perseverance, patience and grace as I deal with her new found independence, curiosity and testing. Along with that, I need prayer with Jack and to have my No's mean NO and not allow him to persuade me otherwise...it's the little things but it's not good for me to be weak.
I'm feeling less queasy so that is good. I just feel hungry all the time and even when I eat I don't feel satisfied. I still have a queasy/uneasy feeling. It's hard to describe.
We are heading up to Wisconsin on Monday. We will be staying at a log cabin in Door County. It's supposed to be beautiful. It's about 5 hours away. When we return home, I am attending a course for work Friday-Sunday...so the next week will be very different. Chris is watching the kids the days that I'm at the course, so I will be praying for him during those days. I'm sure it will be fine. They love daddy time.
That's all for now. I am off to bed.
I haven't posted for awhile for a number of reasons. I'm not even sure who reads my blog but I'll write up a brief summary since the departure of our Iraqi family. Well the family found an apartment on the other side of town. They are all settled in now...going to school, ESL and just doing the American life. We haven't seen them as much as I was hoping but I haven't been feeling good.
So the reason I haven't been feeling good is because we are going to be having another baby. I am about 11 weeks along and due May 4th. When the Iraqi family was here I was starting to feel really sick. The smells of food were bothering, I was very nauseous, sooo tired and just some other "symptoms". Me being the insightful person that I am thought..."man I must be doing too much, I'm sooo tired". Chris kept saying "you must have a bug". Well after about a week and a half of this I thought, maybe I should take a pregnancy test. So I did and it was negative. So a few more days went by and I still felt crummy so I call my family practitioner. During my appt he had me take a urine test for pregnancy just in case. When I got there they weighed me, which I hate, and to my surprise I had gained some weight. I was a little irritated and mentioned that I was going to sign up for weight watchers after my appt if I wasn't pregnant. Well when my doc came in (he already saw my pregnancy test results) he sat patiently and listened my list of symptoms/complaints. I said something like "all these symptoms would be fine if I were pregnant but..." then I stopped and looked at him. He had a strange look on his face. So I said, "wait, am I pregnant?" and he said "yes Laura you are", with a smirk. I just started laughing and mentioned how lame I felt for missing that. Anyway, it was pretty funny.
So here I sit getting a little bigger each day which I often say, "oh it's not me getting bigger it's the baby!". Today I'm feeling better, no queasiness. I think it's starting to subside. I hope. I had an ultra sound and the baby was much bigger than I thought. By the time we saw the OBGYN and the ultrasound I was 10 weeks along. Cool. So all this is exciting news and I had never really resolved that we would have only two kids. So three is great. I know it will be a lot more work but the good thing is Shay will be close to 3 and Jack will be four. So I'm hoping that will help a bit.
Me and the kids just started Bible Study Fellowship. We are all studying the Life of Moses together. I'm excited about this and am eager to get new ideas from BSF on how to teach God's word in our home and make it toddler friendly. Sometimes that is hard.
I better go, Shay is upstairs in the kitchen and last time she was there I arrived to find her sitting on the floor with three different ice cream bars on her lap and one in her mouth (with the wrapper on).
SO long for now. Pictures to follow.
