Doctor appt. Friday

hahaha seems with my last post some thought this baby was making it's arrival:) Nope....feel like NOTHING is happening! I go in tomm. a.m for another check up. Maybe, just maybe, the doc will be like ''woooo nelly! this baby is going to come ANY DAY, MAYBE EVEN ANY HOUR!!!'' ya think? not likely huh? My toenails have not been painted so that wouldn't be good timeing anyhow:) We did get the carseat the other day, i felt like it was christmas with the UPS man delivering the package, we practiced by putting jakes teddy bear in it and oh, he loved it! He tickled it and hugged it....hopeing for more of that in a few weeks:)
I have been ''nesting'' here lately as well.....won't bore you with all the things I can find to clean and then feel so tired I wanna cry when i don't have enough stamina to clean the bottoms of my kitchen cabinets and the grooves in all the doors. Poor jake...he probably thinks mom has gone looney with it all.....im putting him to work too, I bought him his very own broom to help out. Maybe soon, this crazyness will be over!

I will update in the morning.

We are finished!!!!!

Here is Seth's finally finished room.


The blanket you see there on the chair is the BEAUTIFUL baby blanket Robin Miracle made for Seth. Little did I know that it totally matched the nursing cover Rebecca made me! LOVE matchy-matchy stuff:)

The room has really no ''theme'' we liked the retro cars and tin posters...we really liked the orbit room one:) My wonderful sister-in-law made the valence and the bedding. Round crib bedding is SO EXPENSIVE and so ugly:( She was kind enough to offer and save us tons of money.

36 weeks

no belly pic yet, but...I went to the Dr. today and I have started dilating...almost 1 cent. and 50% effaced. I didn't expect much of anything at 36 weeks but at least I know SOMETHING has started:)

Jake Updates

This is Jake playing hide and seek under the table...not a very good hiding spot! The other is proof positive of us trying to work on table manners:)




These last 3 weeks have been full of challenges and surprises in the hasty house. With my grandmother suffering a major heart-attack and needing an emergency quadruple bypass resulting in taking Jake to Asheville with me, Him having a looong bout of fevers and emergency car repair bills on both our cars that could rival lottery winnings...;) And James uncle given only 2 months to live due to cancer spreading all through his body.......it has been a....season. With that to say, my little man has been SUCH A JOY!!!!! He has been his usual sweet, energetic self even when he had 103 degree temperatues! We have really felt the Lord's kindness through our little trooper these last weeks! I look forward to seeing his sweet ''sleepy'' face when I get him up in the morning and hearing him say''hi'' to everything in his room..one by one. He thinks everything is ''pitty''-pretty-...and is becoming quite the social busy bee. There is not person at Target he won't pass without waving to and saying HEYYYYYYY! We are really working on staying in the shopping cart in stores, otherwise he will take off in the direction of the nearest person to socialize. He is now pointing to my belly saying''babbbyyy'' over and over..hmmm...maby he IS getting it? We have moved him to the table in a booster chair, with that has come early lessons in table manners. Every meal is a new opporunity to explain why he can't pour his yogurt on his head or take chewed food back out of his mouth just to re-eat...yuck! He does love being a part of our conversations though, chiming in with us, understanding 30% of what he is so emphatically trying to saying to us:)
He has taken a new interest in coloring and play-doh and to my surprise, sat for a full 45 minutes playing with his array of colors of play-doh. He begs to sit and watch me cook every evening, it has stretched my cooking time and my patience but has proven to even more be a sweet, sweet time together. He helps me to measure and stir and of course, taste!
James found an onion and squash piece in his coffee canister that was filled with coffee. Jake has apparently snuck some pieces in when I didn't see him and James noticed the next day his coffee tasted funky.....:) Jake still loves anything that has to do with matchbox cars, trains, curious george, dogs, balls, pool time, and ice cream. I guess the ever typical little boy!
I think i am done for now, James just asked me if I was writing a book:)

playing in the rain

This is what we did on July 4th...waiting for the rain to let up to go see fireworks in Harrisburg...it never stopped, so we played outside instead. Jake loved the fireworks he did see from our neighbors backyards.

Jake's lunchtime faces

Jake's lunchtime faces

Pregnancy updates

34 week belly



I just realized I have not written much about this pregnancy....and it's almost over!!! I can't believe I have only 6 weeks left!
I am getting very anxious to meet this little guy, he is already different from his brother in that he moves ALL OF THE TIME!!!! And he still seems so small. I was much bigger with Jake at this point. I have been very blessed to not be sick or too uncomfortable this pregnancy. I have kept the same schedule (plus a few more naps) that I have always had, so nothing really looks different in my day. I think that I sometimes do TOO MUCH, not wanting to use ''pregnancy'' as an excuse, and then finding myself over exhausted and lacking control over my hormones at the end of the day. So it has been a challenge to know when to slow down and change things up in my day to better serve my family and I. That brings me to my emotions....wow! It all started a month or so ago, this bomb of hormones that seemed so incredibly overwhelming. Crying just because. Extreme lack of patience over the smallest of things and just a general fighting hour by hour for joy. James has been so faithful to allow me to cry on him and yet reminding me all the while that I serve a God that is full of grace and DEEPLY desires to comfort me in these times and is never to busy to handle the concerns of my heart, as seemingly small and hormonal as they are. I am so freshly aware of my need for My Father. I am so inadequate to handle ANYTHING on my own and it is through times like these that my relationship deepens with the Lord as I plead for help to battle the war of hormones, doubts, anxiety's within me. I know He will continue to pour out his comfort and encouragement on me these next 6 weeks and probably even more grace when baby Seth comes. Good thing His grace never ''runs up'':)
On to happier news.....
the baby room is almost done!!! My sister in law is coming this week to finish the bedding. We were given a beautiful diamond-in-the-rough round baby crib that needed major work. Well, after hours and hours and weekends of my handy man husband working on it...the end result is simply beautiful!!!!!! We refinished it black along with the changing table. I will post those pics soon. I still feel like I have a lot to do to get ready for this little one, yet I know I still have plenty of time left. As I have more news I will post, my doctor's visits will soon start to tell me something more exciting i'm sure!!!!!