Turn, turn, turn...

I had my 34 week OB visit yesterday, and to my dismay, baby girl is breech again! I first found out she was upside down at my 29-week ultrasound, but I tried a little acupressure on my pinky toe and, praise God, she flipped that night. But I guess she is a stubborn thing, and she's breech again. I'm trying to do acupressure and positions to see if it will help, I scheduled a chiropracter appointment for next week, and I may consider acupuncture too. At 36 weeks, if she's not head-down, my doctor will schedule a version, where they try to flip her from the outside, at 37 weeks. Pray for her to turn! I should call her Nadia or MaryLou due to her gymnastics!

Happy June!

I can't believe it's June already! And it has been WAY too long since I've blogged. We just spent a lovely weekend in Cincinnati visiting our cousins...Ryan, Wendy, Emily and Will; and Darin and Bethany joined us. It was a great mini-vacation. Because of the intense heat, we drove the Honda down, and Jackson did really well in the car. We had a few breakdowns, but overall I was so proud of him, and thankful. The other great thing was that Wendy let us use Will's crib, so Jackson slept great! Unfortunately, he still woke me up at 6am every morning. Oh well.

We had a very busy weekend, filled with swimming in the "Blue Ash Kiddie Pool," as Jackson liked to call it:

a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo (which only lasted an hour due to a fussy 2-year old--we basically saw the carousel, the zoo train, and the petting zoo):

a great church service; good food (especially Wendy's homemade salsa); a Memorial Day parade where we got to watch Emily carry the flag for American Heritage Girls:

lots of playing outside (J was ready to go as soon as he woke up):

and even a trip to the mall on two separate occasions--one with the girls to get pedicures, and one with just JW and I--he got a cool watch and I bought two new maternity tops at H&M; I love that store!

Here are some funny things that Jackson did and said this weekend:

--he fell down outside and scraped his knee, complete with blood, and he immediately started crying and saying, "You're okay, you're okay" because that's what I normally say to him if he falls down, and he confuses "I" and "you"

--we were outside on Memorial Day, and it was supposed to rain (had sprinkled a little bit earlier, in fact), and Jackson randomly started saying "Rain, rain, go away, come again another day, little Jackson wants to play"--so he really does listen when I read him Mother Goose!

--he was in love with Baby Will, and he really liked to push him in his little bouncy swing; we found his cars sitting in Will's seat with him (so Jackson IS starting to share); and when Will was crying because he was hungry, J even offered him his sippy cup of milk

It was so nice to have some fun time with Jackson and the family. I'm really tired (and should be sleeping instead of writing this blog), but it was still great.

BTW, I'm 33 weeks, only 7 more to go!

Bulldie Bed!

Last week, my parents came to visit us and they brought Jackson his big boy bed! Our dear friend Dick Pierce made it totally freehand, I was so impressed! It looks just like a bulldozer. Jackson loved it! He still does. He calls it his "toys" bed. He's been doing pretty well sleeping in it until yesterday; we reverted back to the crib for our own sanity; we left it in his room, just in case. He was just getting out of his bed too many times, and sleep is too precious for me to mess with. I figure we have awhile to help transition him, and I don't want to rush into anything. There have been and will be so many changes coming up, I don't want to overwhelm him too much. On the other hand, I can't wait until we can get that crib out of there; it's a little crowded with two beds in there. Here are some pictures!

I'm a Truck!

Jackson and I went to Hobby Lobby tonight so I could stock up for my scrapbook day tomorrow. Of course I found a book to add to his collection. It was called "I'm a Truck." So naturally, he kept repeating the phrase over and over. When a passerby sweetly asked him, "Are you a big boy?", he sweetly replied, "I'm a truck!"

Tractor Tipping

This is a hilarious video with Jackson imitating "tractor tipping" from the movie "Cars." Don't forget to stop the music player at the bottom of the blog before you watch!
Enjoy!

To everything there is a season...

It's been a long time since I've blogged, but our family has been going thru some major changes. We moved on April 10th, with the much-appreciated help from our care group at church. It was amazing--the old house was packed and the 26-foot U-Haul unloaded into our new house between 8am and noon. Amazing! Thanks to my friend Jenny, every box (not including the basement) was unpacked by that evening. It felt so great to have everything done! And by the next day, pictures were hung and things were in place. I took Jackson to our old house to say good-bye; we went to every room so that he could see that nothing was left behind. Meanwhile, I was bawling my eyes out. I didn't realize I was sad, but once I wasn't bustling about (and once the pregnancy hormones kicked in, I'm sure), tears were streaming. That house sure was good to us.

But we really are enjoying our new surroundings. We're closer to church, which is a bonus since one of us is there 6 days a week. Wow, I didn't realized that. We're also closer to some different stores (including Target, which I remember how much I like!) The only problem has been sleep. Jackson likes our new house, but he has had a hard time adjusting. It didn't help that I thought it was a good idea to make the transition out of his crib at the same time as the move. Good move. I might as well have had the baby, too. So we weren't getting ANY sleep and patience was running very thin, especially mine. Thankfully, JW and I came to the conclusion that Jackson staying in the crib was NO BIG DEAL and so he is back in his crib and we are all SO much happier. Especially me. My parents will come soon with his "big boy bed" that is a bulldozer, which I'm sure will excite him, but NO RUSH to get him into it. I mean, I figure baby girl will be in the Pack'n'Play for at LEAST her first 3 months if not more, buying Jackson at least 6 more months in his crib. So we're good.

Another factor in my fatigue has been that I went to a conference last week, and because I didn't want to take days off of my maternity leave, I am working 5 days/week for 2 weeks. Not a big deal before, when I was working 6-7 days/week, but when I'm used to having that day, trust me, it IS a big deal. No offense to my patients, whom I love dearly, but quite frankly they are very needy and whiny, and I thought my 2 year old was whiny! My patients are SO much worse. So that doesn't help my mood when I get home at the end of the day, believe me.

I am very much looking forward to a weekend off. I'm planning on taking lots of pictures this weekend of our new surroundings to blog and to scrapbook, so keep your eyes out. Thanks for reading and thanks for all your prayers!

He is Risen!

Happy Easter, everyone! Our family had a wonderful day full of worship, friends, family...and a little work thrown in there, too.

JW did an awesome job on the worship team at church. I chose to dress Jackson just like his Daddy.


I bought a new Easter dress so that I could look cute for Jesus, so here is our little family portrait...

When we got home, Jackson found his Easter basket and some plastic eggs outside. Then we enjoyed a wonderful Easter brunch with Grammi.

Finally, after Jackson went down for his nap, I packed up basically the entire kitchen. I was pretty tired, but it felt nice. One more week until moving day!
Praise God for Jesus' sacrifice!