Week 27

We are now in our third trimester! Wow, I really can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday we were just finding out about this little one and I remember thinking that the third trimester would never get here. But it is here and we are just so excited that in less than three months we will be meeting Hutton!

We are officially in baby mode. Trying to get everything that we already have in the baby room sorted, getting baby registries completed, showers are on the calendar, maternity photo session has been booked, birthing classes happening in two weeks. It's been crazy busy around here, but it is such an exciting time! Two weekends ago we headed to Coppell to visit my sister Marci and her family. They were giving us their rocker/chair that they used for their two kids and we were so excited to be getting it from them. The chair is beautiful and was just what we were wanting. Well on the way back to Abilene with the chair in tow....it flew out of the back of the truck onto the highway. Words can't really express the madness that was going on and how sad I was. I thought the chair would be ruined. I mean it flipped out onto the HIGHWAY. Miraculously it just suffered two minor holes in the fabric. I thought we would have to pay tons of $$ to get it reupholstered...which made me even more sad because I already loved the fabric that it had originally. BUT we were able to get the holes stitched up and you literally can't even tell what happened to it. And now we know we have one sturdy chair if it can handle what happened to it ;-)

I wish I would have taken before pictures with the holes in the chair, but I forgot. But here it is now! See...can't even tell anything happened to it!

 Speaking of my sister Marci, will y'all be praying for my nephew Joshua? He broke his leg (tibia to be exact) jumping off a jungle gym :-( Poor guy is only two so you can only imagine how hard it is for him! Be praying for quick healing! 

How far along?: 27 weeks 3 days

Baby is the size of a: Head of Cauliflower, around 16 in. and 2.5 lbs

Development this week: Hutton's practicing inhaling and exhaling with his rapidly developing lungs
. It's official: Baby's showing brain activity! And his brain will keep on getting more complex.

Best moment this week: Getting Hutton's Chair back from getting it fixed. It was such a relief that you couldn't even tell what happened to it!

Food cravings: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Can't get enough!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing this week.

Symptoms: Leg cramps...oh mama. They are bad. I have about three or four charley horses during the middle of each night. Not too bueno. 

Happy or Moody most of the time: Still happy. Although I do start getting moody when my back starts hurting :-/

Looking forward to: EASTER!

Sweet Frank

Today has been a hard hard day..

I am so emotionally drained that all I want to do is sleep. But I feel like writing sometimes clears my head. Even though I am not even a good writer... I think it just helps to get your words and thoughts out. Today our sweet little doggy Frank passed away :-(

I was babysitting for some friends last night and came home around 9 pm to a very sick dog. Frank had thrown up and was not acting like himself at all. Shane had said that after throwing up he let him go outside  but once outside Frank just collapsed. He got back up but slowly walked to a dark corner of the backyard. Looking back on it now we think he knew it was his time and he was trying to find a quiet spot to go in peace. After a while Shane went and picked him up (he wouldn't walk) and brought him inside and laid him in his kennel. This is how I found them when I got home. Shane just sitting by Frank petting him and trying to make him comfortable. I could tell he was not doing good. We had never seen him act this sick. He couldn't even lift up his head. He just laid there panting hard like he was trying to catch his breath. We didn't know what to do for him, so we just stayed with him for awhile. He did start to act a little better. Not back to normal, but he would somewhat lift his head and reposition himself. We decided there was nothing we could do for him at that point of the night, but in the morning if he wasn't feeling better that we would take him to the vet. I think we both knew it wasn't going to get better though. I didn't sleep much. I tossed and turned and kept wanting to get up and check on him. But I didn't in fear of how I might find him if I did. Finally Shane's alarm went off around 5:15 am and I told him to go check on Frank. I got up too but just waited for him in the hallway. When Shane came towards me he said Frank has passed in his sleep. He said he looked so peaceful though and looked just like he always does when he sleeps. We really think Frank died of some type of heart failure. Though we really will never know, this is what makes the most sense. We kind of knew this day would come, but we just didn't know when. We adopted Frank when he was 1 year old and shortly after adopting him we found out he had heart worms. Though we started him on some heartworm medicine once we found out, we knew that we would never really know the damage that had already been done to his heart. Looking back on how he acted, he had many signs and symptoms of heart damage from heart worms. Of course I feel very sad and wish there was more we could of done for him last night, I know there really wasn't anything we could do for him. This happens, often really. But it doesn't make it any easier. Especially with this crazy preggo hormones I am having. We know that he went the best way he possibly could. He didn't seem to be in pain for that long and the last thing we heard from him was his sweet snoring in his kennel before we went to bed. Please just be thinking of our family as we go through this. It will get better of course, but today we are very very sad.
Here are just a few of my my favorite pictures of the little guy...

My all time favorite picture of him. He always was just snuggled up on the couch.

The day we got Frank! What a cutie he was!

We will miss you so much Frank. You were such a sweet dog that wouldn't harm a thing. We enjoyed our last four years with you more than you will ever know!

Week 24

Well another weekend has passed but yet I still don't feel rested from it. I actually feel the complete opposite. How does this happen? Oh, I know....because cleaning when you are 6 months pregnant is not an easy task. I woke up with sore legs and a hurting back. The feeling I get after an intense workout. But there was no working out going on. Well, unless you count cleaning your whole house as an intense workout. Which I think I might start counting it as one..

Not a whole lot of new stuff going on here. Just going through the motions and still trying to prepare for this little one. Monday night was Dittos for Kiddos. If you are not from Abilene or not familiar with this, it is one MASSIVE kids consignment sale. I have had this on the calender for awhile now and was super excited about it. Shane on the other hand was not as excited. He said that just because things are cheaper, doesn't mean we need to go crazy a get more. Well guess who was the one going crazy at the sale? Shane. Yep, the guy was like a kid in a candy store. I think he might just be a little excited about Hutton ;-) We came out with some great finds! But we have now decided that we do not need to do anymore shopping for him till after our baby showers. This is going to be a hard task, but I am trying to stay strong.

So instead of shopping for the little guy, we will just build stuff for him! I had thought of this idea to make these shelves/holders for his books. Since Shane had made his name sign out of old fence wood, I thought it would be pretty neat to make the shelves out of this too. Well, I turned to etsy for some inspiration and sure enough they had something just like I was imagining....just for $90 dollars. Well Shane whipped this out in about 30 minutes for a grand total for $0 dollars. Man, I sure love my handy man!

I still need more books to fill them with, but I absolutely love the way they turned out!

How far along?: 24 weeks 4 days

Baby is the size of a: Cantaloupe. This kinda shocked me. To me cantaloupe's are big. I can't believe he is already this big! But it makes since now why I feel so big...

Development this week: His see-through skin is gradually becoming more opaque and it's got a new pink glow, thanks to the small capillaries that have recently formed.

Best moment this week: Dittos for Kiddos for sure...and our monthly checkup on Hutton. Heartbeat was great and he is measuring exactly on his due date. AND finding out that Hutton has a best buddie coming in August. Our friends Katie and Eric found out last week they are having a boy! Parker and Hutton are already besties and don't even know it!

Food cravings: ehh maybe fruit? Strawberries

Anything making you queasy or sick: Raw meat kind of grossed me out this week.

Symptoms: Not a whole lot of symptoms, but I am very tired. I have my days. Most days I feel pretty normal, but then I have my sleepy days. Today is a sleepy day.

Happy or Moody most of the time: Very very happy! Happier than usual.

Looking forward to: Seeing some of my family this weekend. I havn't seen them since Christmas!