Kicks

Baby's kicks are getting strong enough,the big kids can really feel them now. Always so fun. I am trying to soak up every minute of kicks and flops and movement I can. Feeling this could very well be my last pregnancy.  What an amazing miracle life is! Only 14 more weeks to go. Trying so hard to stay vertical  and off of bed rest.
David's soccer game was yesterday. I really need to find my camera! Winslow was awesome enough to jump in and ref. After the game David told him "Thanks for being my coach dad!." So much fun to go sit in the sunshine and watch my little man tear up the soccer field, high fiving and hugging his team members. We know most of the parents on the team so it's been a fun time watching together!

Happy Days

Abby got to have her friend Anna over for a late night. Anna is such a good friend. She loves Abby and always includes Rachel in their play. I get such a kick out of hearing them play pretend in the girls room across the hall. Abigail was my big helper yesterday and tidied the house (with some bribery) while I was at the Dr.'s office. Thanks Abby!

Jacob had his first scrimmage Thursday afternoon. He was so excited. I had fun getting him dinner food to take with and some of his favorite snacks, powdered donuts, sunflower seeds, and gatorade. It's the little things that say I love you! We missed his scrimmage. Winslow and I had a temple date. We wouldn't have missed it for anything less. But they won! Hurray.

Rachel got to come with me to my dr.'s appointment again. I think she had a good time in the end. We went to lunch and to the quilt shop together. She likes my doctor's handlebar mustache, and that he gives her a sucker at the end. She's not big enough to ride her bike to her friend's houses yet (they all live far enough away mom still has to drive her for a few more years.) So she's bummed that Jacob and Abby have more opportunities to see their friends since they are big enough to go on their own. Today we will have her friends over so she can play. 

David has his first soccer game today! He had pictures and practice yesterday and I missed it because of my appointment. Thank you Jodi for taking him. He was so sad that I wasn't going with him. He was so cute in his uniform and my heart broke not to take him. But my dr's apt had been scheduled for over a month and his pictures for only 4 days before hand. So I gave him lots of hugs and Jacob distracted him with playing Mini Ninjas. Ha ha. Little boys move so quickly from one emotion to the next. 

I loved going to the temple with Winslow this week. Our family scripture study this last week dealt with a lot of principles that are taught in the temple. And I felt like I was learning so much. That this particular session had deaper meaning for me. I always come away from the temple realizing that there is a much bigger picture. I love going. Thanks sweetheart for taking me!

I loved hearing the baby's heartbeat and hearing that everything looked good on the ultrasound. I'm trying to take it easy as to avoid bedrest. Easy? you say. Ha ha, okay physically easy, well easier, ha ha. I really wish I was working out for my mental sanity and being able to watch baby P a little longer. But I tell myself that giving up some things now will allow me to not have to give up EVERYTHING later. Like the simplicity of getting up to get my own drink of water~ Yep it gets that bad. So stay inside your little oven baby. 

I'm also trying to ignore all the comments of "you're gonna be huge" or all the surprised looks when I say that I have 4 months left to go. (we are 24 weeks along now.) Um no, I am not Jennifer Anniston with a fake belly bump that will magically disappear when the baby is born. I am 5 foot 2 inches and I have 7-8lb babies. Think about 8 lbs of butter and then put that up to my tummy. Yeah, it's gonna stretch a little! It hurts my feelings I will admit, and then I think of smart comebacks like "yes, I'll be huge but I will stay weigh less than you do." But, I'm not thoughtless or careless or mean, and I realize that those comments would hurt their feelings. Wish they would think a little longer before they make their comments to me. Oh well, that's my preggo soap box for the day. NEVER say anything but you look fabulous to a pregnant woman. We are emotional! Ha ha!

Thank you by the way to my sweet husband who tells me daily. 

Keep it up Honey! It means more than you will ever know!

Hello Again

So, shortly after getting back from Time Out For Women, I got sick. Really sick. All of my kids were sick. We had the pukeys. And well, everyone got better, but me. LOL~ My sickness would last for the next 3 months. I have to say I was so very excited to find out we were expecting baby number 5. I had been feeling the desire to have another baby for a while. I couldn't help smiling for days. But of course I couldn't share my secret so soon. LOL! Well, my secret didn't stay secret for long. I was sick. Very sick. I have NEVER been so sick when pregnant. Poor Winslow and my children. Mommy was down for the count. The tv on made me ill, the oven, the fridge, pb and j sandwiches, soda, trash cans, you name it, it made me sick. A few weeks in I decided we needed to take drastic action. So I started taking Zofran for the sickies. It helped, but not nearly as much as I would have liked. So we grinned and bore it. Not really, I lived on the couch or my bed and my hubby did an amazing job of taking care of the rest. Abby told her friends I had cancer. Silly girl.
Thankfully, in the last few weeks I have begun to feel better. Food is no longer a chore, and although the queasiness has not completely passed it is so much better. I have amazing friends who made me dinner, cleaned my house, and helped me stay mentally sane. I am so grateful.
This summer we have taken on the project of building onto our home. So far we have done a lot of digging! We dug out our footers by hand (over and over again until we got it right.) And the concrete was poured late last week. Now onto the block for our stem wall. So my back yard is completely unusable for kiddos. We are now using the front yard to house all our yard toys. Progress is coming, I can feel it.
This has been an emotional ride for me. Yesterday, I asked Winslow to give me a blessing. I was concerned with not having felt the baby move for almost a week. Normally this would not make me so worried, but in light of my loved ones who have recently suffered from the loss of their babies, I am especially freaked out this pregnancy. I am so grateful for the power of priesthood blessings. I cried this morning as I was laying on my bed with the laptop and felt kick after kick.
Of course, I am showing already and people have begun to reach out and touch my tummy. Some of them I don't mind. Others I do!
It's 4th of July week and we have the Saline's coming again this year. Hurray! But instead of getting my house ready and all the laundry done, I have been planning this coming year's preschool curriculum. What can I say, when the ideas start coming you have to run with it. 
There. I have missed way too many things in my absence of writing. I will try to do better.