I just booked my plane ticket for our move to NC. Our stuff is going up via a moving service (less than half the price of U-haul, by the way)in a little over a week, then we will drive up to Melbourne. Andrew will drive up to NC from there the next day, and Jack and I will fly up the day after that. I am not looking forward to the flight - flying ( Read more... )

Jack had his first hair cut this week (try not to cry, Mom), and I am trying to get used to posting more pictures, so here you go ( Read more... )

Its finally happening - the thing I have hope for and prayed for and sometimes even wept for: WE ARE MOVING ( Read more... )

Well, we came up with a name. It took a long time, for us. The new little one's name is Austin Richard. Its kind of fun because Jack shares my initials, and Austin shares Andrew's. Everything still seems fine as far as the pregnancy. I think the whole scare last week was a fiasco ( Read more... )

Um . . . so . . . I'm never going to the ER again! We had our second ultrasound today, and the baby is most obviously a boy. I am excited about it because having two boys so close together will be so much fun. But I am a little sad because "Ellie" was a real little person to me. Ah well - I guess that is the danger of an ultrasound. I am REALLY ( Read more... )

I finally got to see my Dr. today, and it looks like everything is fine. He said the ultrasound showed no tearing, which is what they were worried about. As Chris commented in my last post, apparently this stuff is pretty common. Whew, I feel much better. Why couldn't they have told me that last night, instead of telling me I had a "threatened ( Read more... )

I had a really terrible day yesterday. I spent 8 hours in the ER because of some bleeding and cramping (sorry guys), and after 8 miserable hours spent on a hard chair surrounded by miserable people, I still don't really know if everything is OK or not. Meanwhile, Jack was in the ER at another hospital because he couldn't stop throwing up. It just ( Read more... )

Yesterday when Jack got up from his nap (he didn't actually sleep - he just played in his crib for an hour, until his arm got stuck between the bars), we went outside instead of taking him in the kitchen for a snack, like we usually do. I don't know why. About 30 seconds after we got into the yard we heard a tremendous crash coming from the kitchen ( Read more... )

"Outing compromised ( Read more... )

We have had a really rough time since New Years - between the flu, terrible teething, and the increasing assertiveness of his will, Jack has not been much fun to live with sometimes. One of the hardest things has been that he has been waking up any time between 4:00am and 8:00am, and you never know what it's going to be. And if you try to put him ( Read more... )