4th of July

Because this all day pregnancy sickness, extreme tiredness, and being a mom to twin 2 year olds has me worn out and in bed early these days I am way behind on blogging!

The Fourth of July weekend was a busy weekend for us. We started it out by driving to Memphis, Tennessee Friday night the 2nd. We got there just in time to run off a little energy and then go to bed. Saturday the 3rd we woke up and drove to Como, Mississippi for a family reunion. It was so hot, and I wasn't feeling great so we only stayed for 2.5 hours. We drove home that afternoon so that we could be home for our normal 4th tradition. Every year we enjoy hanging out with our best friends and getting with our neighbors in our corner of the neighborhood and having a big picnic. They smoke every kind of meat imaginable and everyone brings a side item to go with it. Once 9:15 -9:30 rolls around all the guys get in front of our driveway and put on a big firework show for everyone. We always have lots of fun, and this year wasn't any different. The only difference this year was my girls got to participate in the fun and watching. 2 years ago they were still in the NICU and last year they went to bed before the fun started and slept thru it all. This year, they had a blast running around and watching the fireworks, and then even helped in picking up trash afterwards. Some of my favorite memories from the 4th when I was a kid was getting to shoot fun neat fireworks with my family. I am excited to now be getting to enjoy doing that with my kids.




Lexyn swinging at the family reunion



Brittyn



Swinging together



All the kiddos waiting for their turn to do fireworks

sweet sisters

Lexyn

Brittyn, yes she is chewing on a used confetti popper. She is 2 and still puts EVERYTHING in her mouth!

Mommy and Britt

Mommy and Lexyn

Brittyn even helped me with a sparkler. She was a little shocked!

Lexyn hanging out after dark watching all the guys put of big "fiweorks"

The results are POSITIVE!!!!

I am sorry about the blogging break, it wasn't intended but lately I have been so busy. Well, more like sick and extremely tired. When the girls are napping I have been napping, and at night after they go to bed I usually eat dinner then lay on the couch and fall asleep immediately. I just have no energy and if I am up then I am nauseated with some dizziness.


After a looooong weekend, wish some confusion, worrying, and planning it all out in our heads; we finally got a call yesterday afternoon at 4:30 that went like this,
nurse: "Kristi, your lab results came back. And your progesterone is a little low so the doctor wants to call in some medicine. Which pharmacy......"
me: "So I am pregnant?"
nurse: "well, I guess so. That is what he is saying. Let me look back at your lab. hmmmmmm...Yes you are!"
me: "OMG, ok....so what about the medicine?"


It started last Wednesday night, well the nausea and sickness. I didn't think anything about it, just took a phenergan and went to bed. When I woke up Thursday morning I started eating some cereal, and got sick again. At that point some crazy thought popped in my head, when was my last period? I couldn't remember. I have never been regular, and haven't been on birth control since the girls were 6 months old. We did infertility treatments for a year, and then finally got pregnant with them by IVF. So what was the point in birth control? We knew we wanted more children but also knew IVF is expensive so it would be several more years before we could do it again. So, anyways, after I got sick last Thursday I decided to take a test. If I ever question a delayed period, then I usually take a test, see that it is negative and I start my period that day or the next. So I was thinking I would go ahead and test, see the negative, start my period before we went out of town for the holiday, and then self diagnose a stomach bug.
But to my surprise, the test quickly showed positive. However, I thought it might have been a little messed up so I got another test, and it too quickly showed positive. I called Ben, who didn't even know I was feeling sick or testing, and told him "I think might be pregnant." He was quite confused! Then, I was doing some research on the medicine I was on, and came across a website that said it could cause a false positive. Since it was a holiday weekend my OB and my PCP are closed on Friday's and they were closed on Monday for the holiday. I had to wait until Tuesday to go get a blood pregnancy test. In the mean time, I took 6 tests and they all kept reading positive! I have been sick the whole time, not actually throwing up like I did with the girls, but extremely nauseated with NO appetite. After yesterday's phone call, we finally know and it all makes sense now!

Although this wasn't completely planned, we are so excited and couldn't be happier that God has chosen us to carry and parent another angel! My progesterone is low, but that isn't uncommon and it was with my first pregnancy so I am on some medicine to help with that. We are praying for guidance on our insurance issue, a much healthier pregnancy than the first, and a healthy baby!

Happy Birthday Neno!

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Lexyn was the only one that would cooperate, if that is surprising! Brittyn would say it but not for the camera, and NOT sitting down!

Lexyn swimming 6/28/10

This was only the second time that Lexyn had been swimming with her floaties on. The first time she hated them and only wore them long enough to jump of the ladder one time. This time once her Gamma told her she HAD to wear them, she quickly figured out that she could kick her legs and get all over the pool by herself. She now LOVES to swim! Brittyn wanted to be as independent as her sissy but it took her a few more days to catch on to the kicking her legs part. She would throw a fit, like in the video, to get down in the water by herself but then would get upset because she would get water in her mouth from not kicking her legs to help her stay up straight. It didn't take her many more days to catch on so I will post a video of her swimming like a fish in a few days. Until then, we will be staying cool in this 100 degree weather by enjoying our new pool!

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The final transition from baby to toddler

Wednesday June 23rd, the girls pushed me into finally turning their cribs into toddler beds. About a month ago Brittyn had ripped her tent so much that it was non fixable, and caused the zipped to brake. We left the tent up on her bed hoping that she knew the boundaries and wouldn't climb out. She did great and never attempted to climb out; that was until Lexyn showed her it could be done!


I woke up to lots of giggling and talking over the monitor last Wednesday. I walked in to the girls room and found that Lexyn had ripped a hole in the side of her tent, climbed out, and then climbed into Brittyn's bed. They were having a great time "tic-tic-ticing" each other. So, when I layed the girls down for their nap, I told Lexyn to stay in her bed. I walked in their room just a few minutes after laying them down and found that Lexyn was in her bed but Brittyn was climbing into Lexyn's. Thanks Lex for making Brittyn aware that she could climb out of her crib! I finally came to the realization that this wasn't going to be easy but that I should transition their beds and begin teaching them to stay in their big girl beds!

Wednesday when we layed the girls down for the night, we talked up the fact that they were sleeping in big girl beds. The first few nights and nap times were awesome, resulting in maybe one or two spankings total for getting out of their beds. At that point I couldn't believe I had waited so long to transition them, this was obviously going to be easier than expected. Well, I guess the new funness had worn off because tonight it took an hour of spanking and putting Brittyn back in bed before she finally gave it up. Hopefully tonight was just a bad night and not the beginning to a new habit.








It makes me sad to think that we just made the final transition from babies to big girls; no more diapers, bottles, or cribs. But we are enjoying this big girl stage too, minus all the 2 year old fits!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the best daddy in the world!

Ben, I am so glad I am on this parenting journey with you. You are a big help. I enjoy watching you interact with them and doing all kinds of crazy fun things with them that only their daddy would do! You are the best daddy to our girls, I couldn't have asked for a better one!


















Happy Father's Day, we are glad we can call you our daddy!

Happy Anniversary Callie and Zach!

Zach and Callie you made it through the first year! I was always told it would be a rough year because you are both learning to live with each other, but Ben and I didn't really agree. Our first year was great with very few disagreements. I think yal could say the same. I believe God knew what he was doing when he allowed yal to meet.

Zach, we love that Callie brought you into the family. Ben likes that yal get to hang out doing what you and he loves most, hunting and fishing. I really like that you love our kids. You are hands on with them, and jumped right in on spoiling them when you can.

Happy Anniversary! We love yal!