How Time Flies...Yet Again

My girls today! So sweet!

I just can't believe it's been about 2 months since I've last posted. It's been a roller coaster that's for sure.

On September 19, 2009 my wonderful grandmother (Grammie to the grandkids), Elsa Cline passed away unexpectedly. She was 79 years old and had been married to my Grandpa Gene for 61 years. She will be missed dearly. It has been rough on all of us losing both of my grandmas in 6 weeks. Here is my grandma and grandpa with the girls in May.

For the good news....lil Miss Kasey Jo is now able to sit up all by herself without any support! She is now 7 1/2 months old. I need to get some toys for her to sit and play with. I still had Caeleigh's Fisher Price musical ring stacker and she is really enjoying that!

Yes, we are still rockin' leg warmers 80s style! Kasey has just been doing so much. She is babbling a lot and eating most anything. I think the lil thing would much rather eat table food over her baby food! She will follow the fork from plate to my mouth with such intensity. She has sampled baked potato, biscuit, mashed potatos, cracker, cheese spread, applesauce, choc. pudding (just a taste). I just can't believe how big she is getting!

Caeleigh just got her first quarter report card...all A's and B's! I'm so thrilled. Her teacher says she is reading on grade level, needs to work on math fact memorization, and is such a good girl to have in class. Here she is helping me butter, salt and roast the pumpkin seeds this week.

Halloween was a lot of fun. Caeleigh wanted to be a vampire princess. Sean was a "workman" from the Dharma Initiative (a LOST character). Kasey wore a "Marie" from Aristocats sleeper that my good friend and co-worker, Cindy, bought for her.

Here is the crew after pumpkin carving!

Well, need to pay more attention to the Colts game and get more laundry done. Have a wonderful November everyone and a blessed Thanksgiving!

XOXO,
Sarah

Santa Breakfast

Just wanted to share a few pics of Caeleigh at the Brownsburg Band Booster Annual Breakfast with Santa. We've gone every year since she was two. My mom comes to town to enjoy this activity with Caeleigh. I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful family.


Caeleigh and Nana (my mom)





It's a busy week this week. Caeleigh gets to see some girlfriends from her old school on Monday night for a pizza playdate (and I get to socialize with the moms!) Caeleigh's Christmas program at school is on Thursday night too. Hopefully this week will go fast! Only 10 more days of school before Christmas break.

Have a great week! Oh, and if you don't follow my husbands blog...you need to check it out. He has a poll going for girl baby names. I really like McKenna...and Scout is catching up! Click here for Sean's blog

Was that flutter a gas bubble or baby moving?

Well, over the past week I have really started to feel this baby growing inside of me move. At first, I wasn't sure...Sean says I'm pretty gassy lately, so I passed it off as gas. But then the movement persisted and my lower stomach just felt "twitchy." I'm 18 1/2 weeks along and should start to feel movement, so I'm hopeful that it was!

My bloodwork for syndromes and various defects all came back negative so that is a good thing! I have another check-up tomorrow. The progesterone shots have been going well, no real side effects (Thank goodness! Internet postings had me petrified! I really should follow my own advice and not believe what I read on the net, but I was so anxious about these shots.)

Halloween with Caeleigh was so much fun. Nana made her mermaid costume and I found her a wig to complete the Ariel look. Sean took her trick-or-treating in the neighborhood and I handed out the goodies to the kiddos. Usually I'm pretty strict about the middle schoolers who don't even bother to dress up and don't give them candy, but this year I only saw one! My new pet peeve is a doozy though! This year though, many kiddos don't even bother saying "Trick or Treat." They just open their bags after I open the door. Geez! What is the deal with that? Finally with the older kids I would stand there holding back the candy until they said those magic words...boy! Did I get some eye-rolls, but they said "Trick or Treat!" (And luckily no one smashed our pumpkins later!)

Well, the Colts are coming on soon! Gotta get ready...I'll keep you posted on tomorrow's appointment!

First Entry

Well, I have entered the blogging world. The driving force...well, if Sean can do it, so can I??? No, probably the fact that I realized when I was pregnant with Caeleigh (8 years ago!) I diligently kept a journal for her about my pregnancy and her birth. Can you believe it was...dare I say...handwritten???? So now finally coming to terms with being 17 1/2 weeks pregnant with baby number 2 on the way, I am feeling guilty that I have not kept a journal for this baby. What a horrible mother I am!!

So to catch you up on the past 17 1/2 weeks...it all began with a fantastic sushi dinner, couple of glasses of wine and some key lime pie martinis....and after a fantastic trip to Disney World, a "+" pregnancy test. Needless to say, I was in a state of denial, and did not want to tell Sean. But sucked it up, cried through the whole thing, and then got used to the idea of potty breaks shortly after drinking anything, sore ta-tas, and the constant worrying about every twitch, cramp, or drink that I consumed after conception!

We told my family about the pregnancy on a weekend trip home to celebrate my Grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary in September. Caeleigh was so excited to share our "secret." We waited to tell her until the night before we left b/c she CANNOT keep a secret. She was so excited, cried ("happy tears, b/c she was no longer going to be an only child"...feeling that twinge of guilt!). All the fam was very excited. Sean had his mom come over during the week the next week after work to tell her. She was so worried we were ill, getting a divorce, or something else tragic (even though a co-worker told her "Hey, they're probably pregnant!") She was overjoyed with the news!

So at my 12 week appt. the doctor was concerned about my bloodwork coming back positive for exposure to a parvovirus (Fifth Disease...you mommie's know this as "slap-face")...so those lovely once/month appts. became biweekly appts. Everything is checking out A-okay...did get to have an ultrasound at 14 weeks (and as soon as I figure out how to scan it and post it in a blog, I will!) Yes, we want to know the sex of the baby, but could not tell yet. My 16 week appt. was last week and was uneventful. I did have to start weekly progesterone injections b/c Caeleigh was a pre-term baby. Apparently, having these shots weekly from 16-32 weeks will help this bun bake a little longer!

I go back again on the 3rd and then will have my 20 week ultrasound on the 17th of November. Stay posted for updates!