Surprise! I'm Pregnant again!!!

So my life has completely changed!! We found out on Mother's Day that we are pregnant for the second time!!! Another unplanned and unexpected pregnancy just like Nevaeh. Nevaeh hasn't even turned a year yet at that time! I knew I was feeling a little weird and I would joke with my yumkin that I thought I was pregnant. My boobs were killing me and I know it's gross but I could squirt milk out of 'em too. Not really the every day occurance for me. It was sunday and we got home from church. I asked my yumkin if I should take the test now or later. He replied ' Does it really matter?' Nope. So I took it and couldn't believe it. Pregnant. I yelled ' you're not going to believe this!!' Yup pregnant again. Another surprise. I couldn't help but smile. Nevaeh and this baby will only be 20 months apart. Talk about scary! She's a handful already what am I going to do with two!!

I immediately started to show, which was a bummer because I was just now starting to lose the baby weight and fit into some old clothes. I'm really worried about gaining the baby weight again. No matter how hard I try at eating healthy and working out and drinking a ton of water, I still pack on the pounds. It's really depressing. I don't want to be 200 lbs at the end of this pregnancy! But my body somehow keeps gaining the weight. I don't know where it's coming from!!!! So with that worry out in the open, I have another. What am I going to do with two kids. I'm so warn out and tired all the time with Nevaeh. How will I even survive another baby? Nevaeh is finally starting to sleep through the night and take naps regularly. She's fifteen months now. Do I have to wait that long for baby number two to get the whole sleeping thing figured out? I sure hope not. I was a zombie for the first five months of Nevaeh's life. I don't jump back from labor and delivery very well. Am I really ready to go through this again? I didn't even have a choice! I'm so done with surprises!

So I'm half way through this pregnancy. 20 weeks. I've seriously blown up like a balloon. I asked my hunny if my butt was getting bigger and he said yes. So sad. My butt is already huge. We find out on tuesday if it is a boy or girl. I'm really thinking it is a boy. Everytime we go in to the doctor's, they have a hard time finding the heart beat because he/she is moving around so much. The baby is nick named Ninja baby for now. Always on the move. So fingers crossed we are having a boy!

And it is so true that every pregnancy is different. I had morning sickness, acne, gross hair and horrible mood swings with this baby. With Nevaeh I was the happiest pregnant woman alive.

Crying It Out

Ohh my goodness. So me and my husband have trying to figure out what to do with our dear sweet baby when it comes to bedtime. She ended up sleeping in our bed when she was four months old when she was teething. It was nice then because I was able to sleep longer and didn't have to get up in the middle of the night to grab her out of the crib. But as she got bigger and more wiggly, our full size bed seemed to get smaller and smaller. It became impossible to sleep at night. Between making sure she didn't roll out of our bed to fighting for space with my husband who loves to sleep all sprawled out, I didn't sleep anymore. I couldn't fall asleep or stay asleep. Nevaeh had to leave our bed.
When we moved out, I decided we would make a change. We set up our bed and put up a co sleeper in hopes that she would just sleep on her side. It didn't happen. The first night she slept just fine. The second night she sleeped on the crack between the two beds. And finally on the third night she was back in our bed. Yumkin was tired of it and demanded that Nevaeh get out of our bed. So we set up the crib, and waited to put her in it. I just couldn't even imagen letting her cry it out. But at nine months and me being at the brink of exhaustion, she needed to be in her own bed. She needed to fall asleep on her own, put herself back asleep and stay asleep.
 We started on tuesday. I would be at basketball from 9 to 11. Yumkin would take the first shift. And wouldn't you know it, that little stinker didn't make a fuss or a peep the whole entire time I was at basketball, but as soon as I came home she started to cry. She didn't cry long which was a huge relief and we slept pretty good. Last night she cried alittle longer but I at least had my hunnybun to play phase 10 with and keep me from running back in the bed room to pick her up and hug her and tell her how much mommy loves her and put her back in our bed. Tonight she cried and cried and cried. It broke my heart. I hate it!  Every time I would check on her she would just cry harder. It took her about an hour to fall back asleep. I went in and checked on her and saw her slumped over her little blue moo cow clinging to it fast asleep. I felt like the worst mom in the whole entire world. I am horrible. She prob feels so alone. I hate it!!! How do I get our dear sweet baby to sleep in her own bed and to stay asleep the whole night. We tried to do it gradually but nothing works. I love her so much. I don't know if I can survive another night of this. Please please sleep my baby...

Gregory and Me!!!

So I decided it would be awesome to write about how I met my wonderful amazing husband. I love him so much!!

We met when I was a freshman at OSU. It was the single's ward halloween dance. I didn't have a halloween costume so I just wore a black shirt with skinny jeans and these crazy light up black and orange halloween socks. I showed up and was just wandering about feeling out of place when I saw some guy dressed in a Navy uniform. Ohhh snap I thought what on earth do those strips mean? I was in the Navy Nurse Corp and was wracking my brain to remember if it was a Petty Officer 1st class or 2nd class. When I felt confident I went up and talked to him. It was the best friend of my future hubby. After talking a bit he introduced me to Greg. He was wearing a white t-shirt and all sweaty from dancing. Gross. It's so funny to think about now. Greg was an awesome dancer. We danced a couple of dances and I found out he was a return missionary that could speak spanish. He promised me that he would take me out dancing. Ha he never took me out!! I didn't hear from him again until January!!!

I had gone on a couple of dates with Greg's friend and was really liking him. I remember one night before FHE I was starving so I decided to go to Grinders for a pizza. I was walking down the sidewalk freezing by butt off when I say Greg and his friend. I made a big point to smile real big at Greg's friend. They told me to look at the girl working in grinders. I guess she had some crazy hair style of something. Greg thought it was ugly but his friend thought it was cute and they wanted to know my opinion when I made it back to the church. I thought her hair cut was alright, but I would never shave half my head. At FHE, Greg sat next to me instead of him. Ohhh I couldn't understand why Greg was sitting next to me!!! lol. I guess I kindof gave Greg the cold shoulder. After FHE, Greg and his friend wanted to go to a movie with me but I didn't have money so I copped out. Greg walked me to my car and it was one of those akward goodbyes. lol. I got in my car to drive away and I had a flat tire!!! I went back into the church and the guys were very nice at getting a donut on for me. Greg's friend wanted me to text him when I got home to make sure I got there safe. I remember that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. hahaha.

Well Greg's friend moved to Arizona. I remember how it broke my heart. I was talking to him on facebook and he was asking if anybody was taking me on dates. And I was like nobody has the guts to ask me out at singles ward, they are all to busy with school, blah blah blah. He told me one of his buddy's likes me and wants to take me out on a date. I remember telling him to tell his friend that he needs to quote 'grow some balls and ask me out himself'. Greg's friend told me he have Greg my number and thought that I wouldn't mind. I didn't. I didn't hear from Greg until later that month. It was a Sunday and I had left church early to see this other guy. Well this other guy was a reject and stood me up for our lunch date. I was sitting in my car and got this call from an unknown number. I didn't pick up but listened to what had to have been a 5 minute message from a Gregory Sanders. I had no idea who this was. But he was asking if I wanted to go to brownies at the Barneys and that he got my number off of a buddy and that he hoped I'd give him a call back. It was a very long message. I had to listen to it like three times so I could get his number. (His number is still saved in my phone as Gregory Sanders lol) So I called this Gregory Sanders back and told him  I was free and would love to go to Brownies at the Barney's.

It was an excited afternoon as I was getting ready for this blind date!! I remember telling my Grandma that I had no idea who this guy was but he was going to take me to a church thing and that he was a guy from church so it must be alright. Greg had to keep calling me to figure out how to get to my house. I was getting excited!! He came to the door and rang the doorbell. My heart was skipping a beat. I told Grandma 'this must be him'. I opened the door and there he was. My Greg. We talked and talked and talked. I don't even remember what about now, but I remember that it felt like we had known eachother forever. I remember laughing and having such a good time. At Brownies at the Barney's, I remember posing for a picture. I put my arm around Greg and he put his arm around me and it was the weirdest feeling. I gave him a squeeze thinking that he would like that. We went around and talked to the other people there but we always met back up at the brownies and talk. It really was the best date ever.

I guess the rest is history. We say eachother every day after that. Our first kiss was on Tuesday. hahahaha. Greg had only kissed one other girl after he had got off his mission. I guess he was really out of practice. It was awesome that we got our first kiss together, but it was a really gross kiss. hahahhaaa. Well we got engaged in April and were married in August. In September we found out we were pregnant, four weeks pregnant!!!

Nevaeh's Fasination with Paper

So our baby Nevaeh has always had a fasination with paper. The way it would crinkle when she touched it, the texture and the irresistible taste!!!! She has an obsession with eating paper!!!  When she sees me cutting the weekly coupons out of the paper, she will gaze very intently at me as I flip through the ads and use my sissors to cut a few out. She would even try to jump out of her saucer with excitement to get to it! This is always expressed by bouncing with flapping her hands and waving her arms. This is always accompanied with quick excited breaths almost like panting. Pure excitement at just ordinary paper!! When she was little it was really easy to keep her away from it. You just got it out of arms reach. But now that she can crawl, explore and even climb, paper is very difficult to hide. It's everywhere!!!!!
    On the chance she does achieve her mission in getting paper, she has a very creative way in trying to disquise that she is eating it. She sits with her back to you, and every once in a while she turns around to look at you with a piece of paper sticking out of her mouth to see if she is caught. The stinker! She's only eight months! So as every good mom would do, I hurry over and try to get the paper out of her mouth. She is not going to give it up without a fight. I say 'No Nevaeh, we do not eat paper' as I wrestle to get it out of her mouth. She wiggles to that it is hard to keep her still long enough to even see the paper I'm trying to get. She turns her head back and forth making it difficult to stick your finger in her mouth to swipe the paper out. When you do get your finger in, she bites it with one of her six teeth. Trying to extract paper from a wiggly baby is hard!! Her favorite defense is to clamp her mouth shut so that mommy's fingers can't get in to take her precious paper away. HAHAHA I got to laugh that she is really clever for such a little thing. But mommy always wins!!