Announcing!

Announcing what 90% of our friends and family know already, but I haven't written it in the blog yet. . . . .

We're expecting Baby #3!

I am currently about 9 weeks along, feeling pretty icky, but very excited that our somewhat long journey through the scary world of "infertility" is finally at a close, at least for this go round. I had an ultrasound at 6 weeks, because on fertility drugs there can be an increased risk of ectopic pregnancy and to put my mind at rest that there really was something in there doing well. Everything looked good, implanted in the right place, only one baby, phew :-D I am going to have another ultrasound on Monday to ensure everything is still progressing as it should.

We are very excited and overwhelmed that it's actually happening! You'd think that when you try so hard to get something, that when it comes you'd be relieved, and I AM!! but I'm also nervous about the future, about how we'll handle the added stress of a new baby, if I'll be able to still work part time doing craft stuff, if the kid will know Chris when he's gone so much! just kidding ;-D but I know all that stuff will work itself out, and that we're so blessed to finally get another little spirit into our home. It seems like everyone in the world is pregnant or just had a baby around me, so I'm so excited to get to hold MY little bundle of joy. The kids are so excited, of course Maci wants a girl and Gavin wants a boy. We'll find out around June I think what it is and who will win that battle. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers as we've traveled this road and can finally see the end!

If God wanted holes in your ears. . .

Oh well, we did it anyway! We let Maci get her ears pierce a couple weeks ago. She really wanted to do it for her 7th birthday, but we decided to wait a couple weeks to make sure she REALLY wanted to do it. I initially thought we'd wait for a momentous birthday like 8th or 12th or something, but she wanted to do it and I thought she's old enough to make that decision, and I really don't have a passionate stance one way or the other, so I said she could go for it.

We made it a girl's day out and went to lunch at Chili's before heading over to the Mall. We had a great chat at lunch and ate delicious Chicken Crispers, yumm. Then we scoped out Claire's at the mall, it was crazy busy, so we just walked around and looked for future earrings to wear, and Maci wanted to see one girl get it done before she did it herself. Big mistake! It was a younger girl, probably 4ish, and she screamed for a good 10 minutes after she'd had it done. So. . . that freaked Maci out. We decided to go down to a little kiosk in the mall that didn't have quite as long a line and where we were guaranteed to have 2 people to punch the holes at the same time. So she picked out her studs, and then proceeded to freak out and cry for about 5 minutes, all the while I kept saying she didn't HAVE to do this so the workers knew I wasn't forcing her!! Then she finally settled down enough to get in the chair, crying all the while, and they just went for it. She said it hurt a lot!! and continued to cry for another 10 minutes, while I was blowing on her ears, etc. All the moms passing by gave me pitiful glances and one even came up to Maci and said "Oh your ears look so great!" which made me smile, thank you kind mom :-D She finally quieted down and we went and picked out some more regular earrings for her to wear when she's done with the studs. After she said over and over how GLAD she was she did it even though it hurt. I was proud of her for facing her fears and being brave!

I think I drilled it into her enough that we only get one set of earrings, although mommy had her rebellious days when she had, gasp, 5 holes in her ears! Hopefully Maci will see the error in my ways and won't make the same choices I made, even though I loved how those earrings looked in my younger, cooler days.