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36 Days and Counting...

Yikes.... 36 days!!! But, I must say, I am SO ready to meet this Brenley and SO ready to not be pregnant anymore! :) Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE being pregnant! I love knowing and feeling the little life inside me. I feel so overwhelmingly blessed to be able to carry two babies in my womb. I would not trade the aches and pains of pregnancy for anything... that being said... I am ready for the end.

Kyle says that the Lord created us this way, so that we would actually want to go through labor and not remain pregnant forever, and that I think is so true. Even though I have been through the labor process before. I was in labor from start to finish for about 9 hours with Ryland. There are so many unknowns and so many steps to go through before meeting our sweet baby. But... if that means that I can actually feel comfortable in my own body once again, then I am ready!

My official due date is September 2nd, but when we had our sonogram they estimated more around August 31st. But, I feel like it could be sooner. Oh no.... I better not have just jinksed myself. We were 10 days.... yes.... 10 days LATE with Ryland. So anything before 10 days late would be better! I never even felt a single contraction with Ryland until being admitted into the hospital. Things are quite different this time around. I feel contractions just about every night. I think part of it is just being exhausted from the day and needing to rest, because once I fall asleep they stop, but still.... it makes the evenings not very fun.

And, I think Ryland is ready for her mommy to not be so large! :) Every time she tries to sit in my lap she get VERY frustrated at my belly and pushes on it until I tell her to stop. She wants my belly to move so she can sit there comfortably. Within about three mins or so she either gives up and goes to Daddy or sits next to me, aggravated. I find it pretty funny, but I better not laugh or she gets mad at me too!

Praying...

Please join me in prayer for sweet baby Stellan!!! I have talked about them before on my blog, but he is in really bad shape right now fighting to hold on to life with everything he's got. My heart hurts for their family. He NEEDS us to stand in the gap and lift him up to our Healer!

Touring the New Cowboy's Stadium

Fun with Paparino & Ammy

Summer Fun in Oklahoma

Make-up Time

This is our everyday routine! Ryland cannot go anywhere without her make-up first! :)

Bigger?

Here I am 34 weeks along with Brenley Grey. I feel bigger, but I am not sure that I look it. I have not gained any more weight with this one then I did with Ryland and I am measuring perfectly in line with weeks.

This is 34 weeks along with Ryland, I think I was actually more exhausted being pregnant with Ryland because I was still working full time and driving just over 50 miles one way to work each day. I DO NOT miss those days!

Update

OK, I know I have been absent from the blogging world... sorry. But, I have not felt like writing much nor have I had the motivation to. But, I will give you faithful readers a quick update on what is going on in the our home:

Ryland is growing up faster then our minds can keep up with! She is talking in sentences and says pretty much anything she wants to now. Mind you, sometimes it still all runs together and you can quite understand what she is saying, but most of the time, you can get the gist of it. She is SO much fun to play with. She has such a huge imagination and can entertain herself for hours with just a spoon and a bowl. She LOVES going places and usually asks to go somewhere by the end of the day if we have not left the house at least once that day. She has started to become a little bossy, she tells me what to do in the morning like, "Let Toby Outside" and "I hungry" and "Where Juice" and my favorite "Get up Momma." She eats everything big people food, no more toddler or baby snacks in her diet at all. Her absolute favorite thing to eat is cheese and will eat how ever much you put in front of her.

Brenley is doing great. Just getting bigger and bigger everyday! Her due date is still around August 31st, but I have am having no intuition if I think she will be early or two weeks late like Ryland was. We have almost everything we need for her and we will be finishing her room up this coming weekend. If you ask Ryland where Brenley is she will pull up my shirt and point to my belly. She will even give her kisses sometimes. But, I think she still gets a little confused because the other day Aunt Tal asked her where Brenley was and she pulled up her own shirt and pointed to her own belly. Who knows.

I am doing good. Seriously questioning why the Lord wanted me to go through the end of this pregnancy in 104 degree weather... but I'm not complaining. :) I feel much more aches and pains with this pregnancy then I ever did with Ryland, but I have heard that is normal your second time around. I have MAJOR hormones and I totally know that is what they are, but still choose to take them out on Kyle most of the time. Poor guy. But he is a trooper and usually says nothing at all... but hey, at least I know that's what they are and I don't actually hate my husband for doing nothing wrong. :) I am starting to think that I do not make for a very good pregnant woman, but there is an end in site and I would not trade the feeling of Brenley stretching inside me for anything (bring on the hormones baby)!

Kyle is doing fabulous! He is starting to get stressed about having a second baby, but that is to be expected. He just finished a GREAT quarter at work and is providing for our family in so many amazing ways! He is loving his role as Daddy. He comes home and greets Ryland with a huge hug and makes her belly-laugh every night. He has taken on the role of putting her to bed and settling her back down in the middle of the night (if she wakes up). Frankly, he is better at it then me. I hate that, but love that for him. She prefers her Daddy in the middle of the night and would much rather just play with me. Ultimately will work great when there are two to put to bed and two possibly waking up at night... easy split... unless Brenley prefers him too and then I will just feel sorry for him! :)

All in all, we are doing great. Getting ready and trying to enjoy our last few weeks with our only child. I have tons of pictures to post and will do that soon! Thanks for staying in there with us!

Noticed...

Wow, has anyone noticed that the baby ticker for Brenley says I only have 55 days to go... holy cow!!! Um.... there is so much to do in so little time!!! Yikes!