It's Official

Whoooohooooo!!! It's finally happened - Abby's tooth came out!

To make a long story short, there were a lot of tears and drama involved but after a good nights rest Abby was ready to brave the "pull out". I got the job of tooth puller-outer and let me tell you that tooth was so loose it was nasty. Abby could wiggle it to 90 degreee angles. Ugh. I don't know how it didn't just fall out on its own. Needless to say, it made my job very easy. All I had to do was grab ahold of it and it fell into my Kleenex! When I pulled the Kleenex out of her mouth, Abby thought I had a fuzz ball and told me to hurry and get on with it and get that tooth out. She hadn't felt a thing!

Here she is very proud and relieved at having it done with ( and maybe a little psycho looking.....it was a stressful ordeal:)



Everybody was happy it was over with!! Hip-hip-hooray!


In other news, it's official that we are expecting! Ok, right off the bat I realize I'm late with this announcement.....I am 17 1/2 weeks along. And yes, I am showing, I was at 9 weeks.....(I try to forget about that), so people around me know, just you people who don't see me don't know:)

So here are some quick stats about this pregnancy:

I never really had morning sickness just mild nausea, but it's generally worse at night than morning.

I was plagued with headaches nearly every day for the entire first trimester and even a few weeks after (which I haven't had with my other pregnancies). Did I say EVERY DAY. Yes, well needless to say I'm glad that's over with. I still get headaches but not like in the beginning.

I started to pop out embarrassingly early (9 weeks, actually earlier but no one dared say anything at that point:) nobody noticed except family......or so I choose to believe:)

My skin broke out like a hormone crazed teenager and I am just now "recovering".

I had my first Dr.'s appointment at 16 weeks. That's when the lab tech drawing my blood told me congratulations and then asked what number we were on. I told him 4 and he gasped and then spluttered, "What! Are you kidding? Don't you guys have cable, or- or something better to do?!" Ahem. Well then. Apparently I've surpassed my child limit. No one let me know that bit of information.

I'm not really sure but I think I've gained about 5 lbs.

I'm still running but not as fast and more frequent breaks if I need it. I ran almost 4 miles yesterday but usually stop around 3.

No weird food cravings but many things I used to love don't taste good right now.

I guess that's all for now. I should have gender news soon so stay tuned!

Abby's tooth

About a month ago we made our bi-annual trip to the dentist. Abby and Brooklyn have a slight aversion to the dentist (probably because my "go brush your teeth" screech echoes in their minds as well as the never fail threat " Do you want a shot? In the mouth??...." ) but it generally turns out well for us.

And everything was fine this go around too. Yippeee!

But we found out some exciting news. Abby has her first loose tooth! We had no idea. It was just slightly loose but the technician thought she would lose it by the end of summer. Enter Abby wiggling the heck out of it day and night. How fun! How exciting!

Or at least it was. Until the tooth got super duper loose. And now Abby is rethinking losing that tooth. In fact, there really isn't anything exciting about it anymore (she was a sobbing mess last night about it). She might really need that tooth. And it doesn't seem natural to have a hole in your mouth. I don't blame her.

No one is allowed to touch that tooth anymore. If you want to know if it's gotten any looser you can watch it wiggle from a safe distance. I'm not sure if she'll ever lose it now. One quick bite of an apple and it would be gone. A glancing blow from Jace would take care of it. A little nudge from her tongue would send it flying.

But Abby has learned the art of keeping that tooth in. Only time will tell how long you can actually keep a tooth that's on its way out. I guess we'll just wait and see. We certainly won't be pulling it out..... Heaven forbid.

Rain, rain, rain

a few weeks ago, we got one of the biggest rainstorms I remember since living in Lamar. It started raining about 7:30 in the morning (which is strange to wake up to here) and rained hard most of the day and finally ended about 5:00 that evening.

Unheard of for Lamar!!

Anyway, the kids loved watching it all day and loved playing in the puddles afterwards.



Here they are seeing who can make the biggest splash.



Jace was doing all he could to make his little legs make a splash and it was really funny to watch. If only we could have rain like that more often. Maybe we wouldn't be considered a desert!