Lucy Lately

• Loves being outside, anything sweet, when daddy comes home from work, swinging, doing anything with her cousins, reading books, especially about ducks, and trying to ride Otis
• Understands just about everything I say to her; climbs upstairs when I ask her if she wants to rock; goes to the kitchen if i mention the words eat, breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner;  heads to her room when i ask if she needs a diaper change or to the bathroom when i say bath; grabs her shoes when i say were getting in the truck; puts things back when I ask
• Is a total girl; likes putting makeup on with mama; wants to wear jewelry and barrettes all the time; loves shoes; sits still for toe nail polish; does not like her feet dirty at all
• Repeats most words we say to her
• Wants to make people laugh anyway she can/ has an ornery smile that makes disciplining extremely hard
• Gets more beautiful by the day and shows us just how amazing/challenging/rewarding it is raising a little girl

Weird and Wonderful

It has been awhile but I am back at it! Here is Weird and Wonderful Wednesday back after a two week break.

WEIRD

• Lucy now acting like a kid instead of a baby; eating only the icing on cupcakes, playing on the beach while I was on the boat, holding conversations with us, having morning breath
• Buying underwear for my pregnant self... enough said
• Otis' ability to retain his funky smell even after a bath
• The baby's ability to find just the right spot to make both of my legs numb to the knee
• How long my $4 acme flowers lasted... two and a half weeks!

WONDERFUL

• Lucy's new habit of grabbing me around the neck and planting a kiss right on the lips while I am rocking her to sleep
• Air Conditioning
• Seeing the first vegetable sprouting in our garden
• Four day weekends
• Jameson making dinner
• Freshly washed sheets dried on the clothes line

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Hormone Overload

 It has been one of those weeks. I didn't get around to weird and wonderful wednesday. I never posted a picture or update about baby and my 28th week. I have tons of pictures of Lucy to share. We haven't really gone anywhere or left the house all week but no, its not clean and I still feel like there a million things I have to do. But I have something weighing on my heart. The baby is close to being here. We have less than three months to go and there is a lot to be done. The bedroom hasn't been started. I haven't ordered more diapers. I don't have a plan for where Lucy will go when I'm delivering. I can't wait to meet baby august and I get more and more anxious by the day. But, as most moms can relate, I am feeling guilty. I feel like I need to soak up every moment with Lucy that I can. I feel like I need to shower her with attention and love to make up for the times I won't be able to come August. I can't help but feel nervous about splitting my attention between two babies under 18 months. I want to give the new baby as much cuddling and snuggling as I gave Lucy when she was new. I want to hold the baby and let them sleep on me. I want to nurse whenever they want. On the other hand, I want to still rock Lucy to sleep for naps and nighttime. I want to still stop whatever I am doing and read to her when she brings me a book. I want to cuddle her when she is waking up and when she gets hurt. I want to watch every new thing she does and discovers. How will I be able to do both?
  One thing I do know, though, is that I can love them both. I learned immediately upon finding out we were pregnant that I can love two babies, each with all my heart. I learned that my love doesn't lessen for Lucy but just multiplies for the new baby. I learned what my heart is capable of doing. Now its my body's turn to keep up. On top of all these feelings I have, thanks hormones!, I found this poem which, of course, gave me yet another reason to cry this week.

You will always be the one, who gave our hearts unmeasured love.
Fulfilled a couple's dreams, and gave us purpose from above.
Each day will hold another first, our lives immersed in loving you.
So awed, proud and delighted, by each little thing you do.
You will have untrained parents, yet our affections all your own.
New toys with all the pieces, drawers filled with unstained clothes.
We will quietly watch you breathe, and tiptoe as you sleep.
We will mark each little milestone, recording them for keeps.
You will always have us near, at times holding on too tight.
We will be guided by your love, as we learn to parent right.
You will always be the FIRST, the genesis, the start.
You will always be the baby, who engraved love upon our hearts.

I know I will manage. I know we will find a new normal and that both babies will be loved as much as if there were only one of them. I know Lucy will be an amazing big sister and will love this new baby even when it takes Momma's attention. I can't wait to hold my two babies and love them both, figuring the rest out as we go.

Happy Birthday James!

Happy 26th Birthday James! Thank you for everything you do for our family and for me. You are an incredible father and I am so happy to be able to share every day life with my best friend. Even the small things are more fun when we are together. Thanks for sharing Mothers' Day with me this year too :) I love you, Meg

Happy Birthday Daddy! I loved having you home all day on your birthday so we could play and eat pancakes. I hope you liked me helping you clean and tune your bike. Thanks for taking me out to dinner with you too. Love, Lucy

27.5 Weeks

I don't have much to report so this will be a quick post and picture update. I am feeling surprisingly well for being in the THIRD TRIMESTER! now. I am definitely tired by the end of the day but I am pretty sure that is true of most moms of a 14 month old :) The braxton-hicks contractions are getting stronger and stronger all the time and I experience some almost everyday. They are particularly strong after exercising but I am trying to keep as active as possible. Baby is a mover and doesn't seem to be slowing down at all though I am sure the amount of room in there is getting tight as baby grows. I had my glucose test this week and for some reason I was ordered a 2 hour test which meant nothing to eat from 10 the night before until 11 that morning... baby wasn't happy and neither was mama. No more lab work though so after this week's appointment on Thursday we will have appointment every 2 weeks until 36 weeks. I am looking forward to hearing that heart beat then and closing in on month 7. More to come after our appointment...

Weird and Wonderful

Wednesday again! I find myself thinking about this post a lot through out the week in between so now it's just a matter of remembering what happened.

WEIRD

• Taking a shower with an audience; always Lucy, most days Otis, and two days a week Hunter.
• Lucy's obsession with toothbrushes. She NEVER liked a pacifier or even her thumb but now when she gets upset she heads to the bathroom and gets her toothbrush out of the drawer. Weird but hilarious.
• How sleeping flat on my back is somehow still the most comfortable position.
• Lucy's ability to find birds at all times. Playing in the living room, she saw one land on the clothes line on the porch and called out "Duck!"
• How Lucy called all birds ducks until just this week
• The boy who motioned to my sister to blow her "big rig" horn while riding in her minivan
• Growing a baby in my belly but somehow now having room for a toddler in my ass

WONDERFUL

• Having the perfect size belly for a few weeks
• Watching Lucy catch minnows
• Chocolate
• Watching Lucy freak out when she hears Jameson get home from work
• Buying non-maternity pants in my third trimester
• Sleeping with the windows open
• Working in the flower beds; its my therapy even though I pay for it at the end of the day
• Seeing tiny babies and knowing I get to have my own soon!

Enjoy the rest of the week :)

Weekend

We had one of those weekends, the kind you never want to end because each day of it was just perfect. The weather was beautiful and we made the most of it by being outside as much as possible. Luckily, Lucy loved every minute of the beach with her cousins...even catching minnows.

Have a happy week everyone...only 4 more days until the weekend!

Weird and Wonderful Wednesday

Here we go...

WEIRD

• having to check the spelling of weird every time I type it
• getting hit on while pregnant and holding my 13 month old
• only having 14 more weeks of pregnancy
• lucy already knowing how to pick her nose
• collections of naked baby dolls at crumpton auction- i saw at least three
• having your leg go completely numb in two seconds flat just because the baby moved
• having to consider what bathing suit to wear this summer- everything just seems wrong

WONDERFUL

• Painting toe nails with Lucy- mint chocolate chip for me, hot pink for her
• having dinner at my parents once a week- time with family and not having to cook dinner
• $4 flower bunches at the grocery store
• Hot-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies
• How I could potentially fill out the top of a bathing suit if I decide to put one on
• Lucy's hair curling up in the humidity

Now it's your turn :)

Dear Baby

Dear Baby,
     I already love you so much. This week my excitement to meet you has multiplied and I find myself daydreaming about you more than ever. Your constant kicks, nudges, and rolls are your little ways of telling me you are ok in there and growing just like you should be. You certainly have not been easy on your mama which may add to my growing anxiousness to see your little face. Your daddy and I already feel like we know you so well even though there is so much about you that you have kept hidden. Even though we both think we know your gender, you kept it pretty well hidden from even the doctor. You also must not have wanted us to catch a glimpse of your face since you wouldn't let us get a picture at 20 weeks that so many people have to hold on to. Its amazing how little we know for sure. But we know you are ours, and that we are so excited to meet you in August. We know that you get super jumpy when mama has sugar and that mornings are for sleeping. We know you move a lot by looking at how much the shape of my belly changes from day to day. We know you like to kick your sister when mama is rocking her to sleep and that you are going to be one adored and cared for little brother or sister. We know that we have dreams for you, and can picture the things that we will do together as a family. Daddy knows he can't wait to hold your tiny little self against his chest. Mama knows she can't wait to kiss your head and smell your new baby smell. I can't wait to get out the little baby gowns and blankets that your family made for your sister that now we get to use with you. I can't wait for the moments of just you and me, when I get to hold you against me and nurse you to sleep. Lucy doesn't know much about you yet but she likes the way you are making mama's belly big and round. And she loves that mama will hold her for as many naps as I can so I get a few minutes of rest too. Our family will only be more complete when you get here. Keep growing baby, keep filling out that little face that we have yet to see but will soon be covered in kisses by your eager and ready family. We all love you so much!

xoxo,
Daddy, Mama and Lucy