In like a Lion
I talk about Twitter every now and then on here because truly, it’s been a huge part of my life the past 7 months. I’ve made amazing friends…people that I feel like I’ve known forever. Through the course of meeting all these new friends, I met Renee. She was friends with my other friends and she seemed so sweet. I started reading her blog, But Why Mommy, and I immediately became intrigued with her life. See, she and her husband adopted their daughter, Bunny, from China. She’s so cute and reading stories about her took up hours of my day the day I found her blog. As I kept reading I saw that they were trying to adopt again. This time from Ethiopia. A son….they named him Lion. They’ve gotten pictures of him. They already love him. And soon, they’ll be getting him. So a bunch of us Twitter people decided hey, why not throw a little internet baby shower for Lion. So Renee, although I didn’t bake this, you really can’t have a shower without cake.
(I stole this image from www.ameliascakesandfavors.com but it was perfect!)
Here’s some advice about having 2 children instead of 1. I went down that path this year and I have learned a few things.
1. Make sure you still take time for just Bunny. She will love Lion with all her heart…but she might get jealous of him. Make sure she knows that you love her as much as always…that she’s still special to you.
2. I will admit that with the baby coming into our lives, it seemed to make even LESS time for us. Make sure you set aside time for just you and your man.
3. Take TONS of pictures of the kids together. I have lots of my girls together and yet it still seems like it’s never enough. Nothing will make your heart swell more than to see your babies together smiling in a picture.
4. You can pretty much guarantee that having any private time in your house is out the window. I can’t remember the last time I took a shower without a kid in the bathroom with me. Peeing alone? Read the 1st part of this number.
5. Laundry will be a lost cause. I wash clothes. I fold them. 3 days later I have another pile to wash. I now have piles of clean clothes and piles of dirty clothes and I’m just glad I know the difference between the two. Putting them away has become optional.
6. Dishes. See #5.
7. Love. SO SO much more love than you ever thought possible. People might think that having 2 kids stretches out the love. I think it increases it and there’s an abundance of it. I never thought I could love more than I love Hannah. Now I love even more…enough for both of my kids.
I’m so excited for Lion to get here and to see pictures of him…to get to “meet” him. This day is for you Renee!
ps: Issa…thanks for the awesome idea 
I can't take it
another fellow blogger’s sick baby is getting sicker by the second. please go to her blog, show support or simply pray for baby Stellan.
after following the Spohrs’ and their story….I just can’t handle reading about another baby passing away.
how much more grateful am i daily for the health of my babies.
Maddie's brother or sister
i honestly can’t get enough of maddie. i read and re-read all of heather’s posts about her over at the spohrs are multiplying. i’ve been so addicted to their story for months now so when i read yesterday about maddie getting a baby brother or sister early next year, my heart swelled. i know that she’ll be watching from heaven and be the best big sister from up there. i also know that it’s a bittersweet time for heather and mike because they do want another baby and they so wish maddie could be here. the spohrs are on my mind a lot…and now they will be even more as we wait for this new baby to arrive. send prayers for a healthy and happy pregnancy for them. congratulations heather and mike!
Nimmie is here!
so i dunno if yall have read any of the comments in the previous post but i sure did have the baby thursday! i know it’s crazy. i went into labor at work and i didn’t even know i was in labor! i kept telling my friends that i was having contractions but they were pain free so i didn’t think they were the real thing! i went to my regular doctor’s appointment thursday afternoon and they told me that yep i was for sure in labor and rushed me to the hospital to do my c section! Nimmie grace was born at 7:27 pm and was 5lb 13 oz 17.5 inches long. she’s perfect for being 4 weeks early and Nettie’s a great big sister. i’ll post more pics in the days to come but here’s a few for yall!
Guesses???
so, issa made a comment the other day to me on here about guessing the date of Nimmie’s birth and her weight/length etc…
well the date is already decided for march 6th. she’s a scheduled c section since i had Nettie that way. BUT yall can totally go for it with her weight and length! i guess the time isn’t really a factor because my surgery is scheduled for 7:30. my guess is that she’ll be born around 8:30 or so. but me and Hubs have been going back and forth for weeks now about her weight and length. i said she’ll be 8lb 11oz and around 19 1/2 inches long. he says she’ll be 8lb 4oz and he hasn’t given me his guess yet on length.
the good news is that tomorrow i have my last ultrasound and i’ll find out about how big she is now so i can make a better guess for her end weight. keep in mind i’m having her when i’m 39 weeks and 1 day. NOT 40 weeks. and that Nettie was a big baby. i had Nettie at 36 weeks 5 days and she was 7lb 4oz. she was surely gonna be at least over 9 lbs if i went full term with her.
so what are your guesses?
Back to work
i’ve mentioned countless times on here how badly i wanted to quit working when i had Nimmie. and then it was like a real possibility. and as soon as i got super excited about NOT working, the dream came crashing down. Hubs had to bring me back into reality that he’s only a cop and makes crap pay. i make 1/2 of our income. losing all that…there’s just no way. we still want to refinance our house and pay off our debt. but even after that…and even with me working part time…we just don’t think it’ll work. we don’t see HOW it can work. i mean, i’m sure lots of people make things work on VERY limited money BUT we like to buy stuff….like you know, from target and not from the dollar store. and we like to travel…and heck, for me it’s really about just being able to see my mom in ohio! that’d be next to impossible if i was working part time. so THEN i thought ok fine i’ll work full time but closer to home so i can get home earlier. but THEN i thought it’d be pointless to NOT come back here if i was already gonna be working full time. i’ve been here for 7 years. and i have 3 weeks vacation every year…seniority..awesome health benefits…etc. so it’s like almost for sure i have to come back here. being gone 12 hours a day from my baby is NOT something i’m looking forward to. i will get my 3 months maternity leave so that’s good. and i pray that when i have to come back the days aren’t so horrible for me. i’m grateful that we don’t have to go the pricey day care route…Hubs’s mom and Hubs will split having the baby during the day and i will of course all evening and night. oh yeah, Hubs’s back to nightshift now…his special assignment on dayshift has come to an end. total bummer. so anyway, Hubs will have Nimmie mondays and tuesdays all day and then wednesday thursday and friday his mom will have her til noon and then he’ll have her the rest of the day. i’m struggling with this because we all know what i went through with Nettie NOT really caring about me coming home at night up until about last year because she had been with her nana and dad all day. i’m planning to really stick with nursing this time and continue to nurse after i go back to work so the baby will be excited to see me when i get home. sorta selfish i know but it’ll benefit her too. so that’s the latest. sucks. i hate it. but i gotta do what i gotta do. i’m hoping that after i come back i can really get into photography or SOMETHING that’ll give me some extra money outside the house so many i CAN go part time in the future. but for now, with this job being extremely steady and not subject to the crappy economy…i gotta come back here. for the sake of my family. for the sake of Nettie’s school and dance tuition. for the sake of Nimmie’s diapers and clothes and bottles and everything else a baby means. i know i’m not the only mom who works full time and is away from her baby all day. BUT i don’t have to like it. and i don’t. at all.
*Sigh*
What a weekend. I like to relax on my weekends and i didn’t do much of it. Saturday i was supposed to go to Denise’s baby shower but instead woke up not feeling too hot and Nettie’s been sick on and off all weekend so i didn’t make it to the shower. I did perk up though by the middle of the day after laying in bed til after 1 pm. So we went to family night as planned saturday nite. (we have family nite once a month) I just have to say—Jace is NOT helping me in the hold off on having a baby game. i know i’ve said this before but look!
Doesn’t holding a baby look good on me???? He’s too cute anyway so *sigh*—gotta press on i guess! lol. Yesterday i took Nettie to see Ice Age 2. super cute movie. loved it. we bought her Ice Age 1 saturday to remind her of the movie which she’s now watched 128 times in the past 2 days. starting to get a little sick of it. And Rico got groomed yesterday. i forgot to take a picture of him but his little curly locks are gone! i didn’t get him cut too short but you know they blow dry their fur and brush it out so its not as curly anymore. he still looks SO cute. The one funny thing i could not stop laughing at all weekend is this face Nettie’s been making. Its so freakin hilarious. its like some squi
shed up mean look but its SO funny and she does it when she’s like being hard core about something. 1st time she did it a wiggles song was on in the car and she was really concentrating and singing hard and i cracked up. so she did it all day yesterday to make me laugh and i happened to get this picture of her doing it again. cept the face she kept doing all weekend didn’t have the puffy cheeks BUT those eyes and nose. i gotta get a better more accurate one of her but i dunno if she’ll do it if she knows i’m taking a picture of her. kids are hilarious. she made me laugh alot. yet ANOTHER not so good thing for me in the holding off on another kid campaign. so anyway that was my weekend in a nutshell.
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