Marriage potential

Taking the clothes out and folding them....

Returning them to the hamper for delivery.  This IS what he does.  He's got a great example for a Dad who is always helping out and making the women in his life swoon.

You know you want this one for your son-in-law!  We can discuss negotiating a dowry.

Loversonisms

Ireson, or more appropriately named "Loverson",talks daily to his baby brother in my belly and usually tells him he loves him and something about learning to wrestle sprinkled with other sage advise. Well, yesterday he told baby: "You're going to grow up to be a big boy one day but your head probably won't be as big as mine." Yeah- here's hoping as his siblings constantly remind him that his big head broke my pubic bone when I was pregnant with him. 

 

Today he told his baby, "and when you get big and learn to wipe your own butt I will check you to make sure you did a good job, but Teagan won't check you because she won't check me if she's being mean." 

And there you have it friends- words of brotherly wisdom from a 5 year old. I will keep you posted on the daily dose of Loversonisms.

Hello New Friend

Since I'm feeling practically normal with this pregnancy, we decided to go ahead and get another dog now before baby comes and while we have time to devote to training her and simply as therapy after losing a dog.  Though I'm not a "dog person" getting our new friend has really been therapeutic for all especially Teagan since she is the one who babies and mothers her new little sister.

Meet the newest edition to the family- Alaska "Storm" Ross- adopted 2-11-12. We picked her up in a wicked snow storm and her freakishly blue human like eyes remind me of the X-men character Storm.  She is 1/2 Husky and 1/2 English Spaniel.

Of course I don't have any updated pics as she is about twice that size now!

Goodbye Old Friend

During all of the hoopla of pregnancy we had to put our dog of 10 years, Lexi to sleep.  Here is a my former facebook post and some pics.

 

Watching your children go through true grief and acceptance of pain and sorrow is an amazing spiritual lesson indeed yet incredibly hard for a parent to watch. It's a hard life lesson that I pray will help them appreciate the joy that is to come in the kingdom. They know they're being tested they've said. 
 She's been their best friend and nanny their entire lives and ours for 10 years. She is incredibly smart, well trained and obedient and taught them a lot of responsibility. I've put to sleep 1/2 a dozen pets over my life and I think it's harder when you watch your children have to experience it. It just doesn't get easier and almost doesn't seem worth it....almost.

Petition

Teagan's prayer the night before we went to find out the sex of the baby.

"Lord, if it's your will to make the baby a boy then that's okay. I'll be content with that....but Lord, if you choose to make it a girl I would really appreciate it and there's still time to change it from a boy to a girl tonight before we go tomorrow but.... Lord, I'll be happy if it's a boy but PLEASE help me be happy if it's a boy if that's your will." Sheesh....she's killing me.

Slacker and Serious Stuff

Apologies my friends and followers.  I have been too busy, too lazy, and too full of excuses to maintain any sort of regular blogging.  I will try to do better.  Since many of you live far and wide and have asked me how things are going prego wise- I'll give you the gist of the past 7 months.

As for an update- I'm 28 weeks pregnant and in the home stretch called the third trimester.  I'm due mid June but I'll be shocked if I make it past the first week or so of June.  By the grace of God this has been the "easiest pregnancy" of them all.  Though that sounds like an oxymoron I am serious!  Yes, I had morning sickness for 12 weeks where I felt like I had the flu each and every day but big whoop by comparison.  I threw up only about a dozen times total this pregnancy as opposed to the hyper-emesis that I had with each of the other pregnancies where I was throwing up 12 times a day for 12 weeks...true enough. Perhaps since it has been 5 years since I was last pregnant, starting out in great shape, or simply being older with older hormones has made this time around so different.  The symphysis pubis disorder that I had mildly with Teagan and severely with Ireson and that is supposed to progressively get worse with each subsequent pregnancy hasn't nearly been as debilitating.   In fact- it's down right manageable.  I've had days where I feel like my hips are on backwards and my tail bone is facing the opposite direction, but that will last a day or two and then I'm back to skipping up the stairs, and moving around as though I wasn't pregnant.  Ireson's big ol' head broke my pubic bone during the third trimester and he was my most difficult labor as well.  So there are still a couple unknowns that remain to be seen. 

All in all though- God has been so good.  I think it's even more exciting this time around since the kids are all so much older.  9, 7.5, and 5!  They are all so in love with me being pregnant again and they're soaking up all the science and facts about fetal development and drawing so many spiritual conclusions on their own.  We've done the 40 days for life prayer marathon during this pregnancy and with all the abortion agendas going around in the news, the kids have really been prayer warriors for pregnant people and unborn life. 

SO- there you have it in a nutshell.  Now- I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures and keep you updated on all the sweet things that Ireson says to my belly everyday and I'll leave you with this:

"Good night baby.  I love you so much.  Sweet dreams while listening to Mommy's heartbeat." - Ireson (Loverson) Ross