Caterpillar Fun :)

Boys and bugs.... they just go together, don't they??!

Looks to me like this caterpillar is saying "SAVE ME!"  :)

This was St. Patty's Day weekend, and so I had to throw in a couple of pictures of the green pancakes my mom made us!  Looks kinda gross, but tasted amazing!

Dex Painting

I'm going through old pictures... Here are some of Dex when we were painting his room.   I thought some of these were really cute!

He would have painted the whole room, if we'd have let him.

Gotta have that tongue out to concentrate!

My little artist :)

Easter Weekend

We started off on Friday night by coloring Easter eggs.  The one thing I regret about this whole deal is that I only hard boiled 6 eggs!  He could have colored 12 more and never lost interest.  He did such a good job, I was really impressed!  I was worried one of the cups would go flying at some point, but they never did :)

His finished products... complete with glitter!  Can you tell he's proud?

Then on Saturday, we went over to Aunt Linda's house to meet up with out-of-town cousins that we rarely get to see and hunt eggs!

On a mission...

Then of course Easter Sunday, he got his Easter basket...

...had to see if there was candy in each egg (this means shaking each one, apparently)...

...then when he decided there WAS candy in it, he'd open it up, set the candy aside, and go for another one!

He got a shovel and rake to help me in the flower garden.  But of course, first things first, he had to bang them together to make as much noise as possible!

After church, with cousins Brooks & Gentry!  Goofy kids!

Fun, fun weekend!  And the weather was perfect :)  I must say I'm loving this Spring so far!!

Happy Easter!

I hope everyone had a very Happy Easter!  We did!  We had a great weekend, actually!  I'll post pictures this afternoon, but here's Dex in his Easter get-up with his new garden tools he got in his Easter basket to help Mommy in the "flower garden."

A family picture :)

Looking the Part

Here's a couple of pictures my mom took of me this weekend!  I figured I couldn't go through TWO pregnancies without any pictures whatsoever.  I don't have a single picture from when I was pregnant with Dex, because I wasn't very big at all and was planning on taking them later in the pregnancy.  Well, we know how that turned out!  haha!

So, I decided to do these early and just poke out as far as I could :)

On another note... I really need to catch up on this blog.  Arg.  I hate when I get behind, because then it's always 50/50 if the stuff actually gets on here.  But I've been busy and trying to get to bed early, so there's my excuse :)  My hope is that by next week, I'll be back to normal on here!!  You have my permission to bug me if you don't start seeing new pictures soon!

Pregnancy Update - Halfway There

I'd like to say these last 20 weeks have flown by, but... not really :)  I feel like I've been pregnant forever already!  I think it has a lot to do with the complications and worry and just plain being nervous about something almost every single day.  Now, I'm not saying I'm grumbling my way through this pregnancy, I'm not!  I am enjoying being pregnant!  And actually starting to look pregnant and getting to wear maternity clothes...  I hope that I get to do this for several more weeks... 20 to be exact :)  However, I'm just conscious of every single little kick, bump, stretching, tightening, pretty much anything going on in there.  I worked myself into a big ol' tizzy this week because I could feel pressure and could also feel what I thought were contractions (although not regular...).  Turns out I was having contractions, but they are Braxton Hicks, and have been very sporadic.  I've been told to stop doing whatever it was I was doing to bring them on (stress, excessive movements, lifting, etc).  Um, okay...  If that doesn't work, I may have to go on some sort of medication, but not right now.

I did go to the doctor this week and although she confirmed my contractions, my cervix is still looking very good, so that's one less thing to worry about (for now)!  ;)  I'm still doing my weekly progesterone shots, and I'll start going in to get a sonogram every week now, instead of every other week.  I think that'll help my stress level immensely.

In other happy news, I'm beginning to really feel her roll around in there!  I'm very excited about that :)  A lot of times, it's when I'm awake and laying in bed at 3 am.  I wonder if that's telling of when she'll be awake when she's on the outside?  I heard it is, and I'm wondering how you get a baby in utero to adopt a different sleeping pattern.  ha!

Since this post doesn't have pictures, here is one of Dex playing in the bluebonnets...

Thanks to everyone for your prayers!  We've been feverishly praying too, and I know God's in control.

xoxo

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Dex spent last week with Pop & Emi, and Sean and I went down for the weekend.  I have more pictures from the weekend, but I thought I'd post these for now, since we're all decked out in our green!

Our annual bluebonnet picture of Dex.  P&E have a HUGE field of bluebonnets in the front yard, so thankfully we don't have to take them on the side of I-30 or 635 :)  Ha!