I never knew how much fun it would be to teach my little girl how to put her hair up in a ponytail. She has so much patience that I've never seen before. We're having a super time. Girls days are the best!

Precious Ginger

The news is definitely official now. Baby number 3 is on it's way! I found out a week and a half ago. I'm very excited! Although the sickness that comes along with this journey isn't very exciting, the rest of it is. I haven't been terribly sick and I'm hoping that this is the worst it will get but something tells me not to get my hopes too high on that one.

I would say that Isaiah and Makenna are excited about having a baby brother or sister. Makenna will rub my belly and kiss it and talk to the baby. Isaiah will tell me to open my mouth and then he'll yell inside my mouth thinking the baby will hear him that way. Both of them are precious with their ways of showing how they're excited. We told them about a week ago and that was such a wonderful day!

I'm going to try Ginger Tea tomorrow to see if it will help settle my stomach in the mornings and in the evenings. The evenings are a little worse than the mornings so I may have an afternoon tea ritual before long. 

So much to do to get ready for this baby but all will be worth it!

Tooth Fairy

I got to pull Isaiah's tooth this morning! It's been loose for about a month and it's been barely hanging on the past couple days  This morning while I brushed his teeth I noticed that it was turning nearly all the way around when I went over it with the toothbrush, so I decided this was the last day for it to hang on. After convincing him to open his moth for me to touch it, I gave it a quick yank and then we both just looked at each other with wide eyes. He kept saying "What? What?!" Then I showed him his tooth in my hand and we both giggled at each other.
While he rinsed his mouth out, he gave me a wink :) He told me on the way to school that he was happy I wasn't asleep because Daddy might have pulled it instead. He was happy that I did it for him.
Another Mommy-Isaiah moment to go down in history.

It is today that I can be thankful for the emotional and verbal abuse that I have once endured because it is also today that I can help another in the same situation. I'm given opportunity after opportunity to speak truth into the lives of others and also show them an example of God's grace in action. It is today that I'm thankful.

Bitter-Sweet

My baby cousin got married today and everything was so gorgeous. The colors, the people, the music, the vows, the sand...yes the sand. It was really cool that they chose two different colors to pour into a glass to represent the unity of two becoming one rather than using a unity candle. They actually had three colors of sand and added little Jillian into the mix and made it the unity of the three of them which really touched my heart and was precious. They wrote their own vows and they were so sincere and beautiful. I'm happy that they are so happy. He's a husband and father now which blows my mind but I'm so proud of that booger head. I love him so much!

I'm learning right now that rap music helps me focus on my math better. I would only know this because it BLARING outside the library while I'm working on homework. So apparently I just need some crazy fast lyrics that I can't keep up with along with a hard pounding bass drum to appeal to my ADD so I can get these numbers worked out. Sweet!

I have a rather testy 4 year old for the past few days. She really is testing her limits with me. It's difficult to say the least. On top of that, I have many hours of homework to get done today. So for now I will continue to split my computer screen with her and let her watch kids songs on You Tube while I work on my math.
Yeah, so, whoever is in school full time and do not have kids or a house to maintain as well as a marriage, consider yourself privileged and a little more sane than those of us trying to conquer all of those put together.
Sleep will be my best of friends tonight.