Egg Hunt with DeeDee & Handsome

DeeDee and Handosme came for a visit yesterday.  All so they could have an egg hunt in the yard with Miss little Kensleigh.  She ran out to the yard and picked up about 5 eggs, placed them in her basket before moving on to the next activity of blowing bubbles and drawing with sidewalk chalk.

I got one!

Look here's another one.

I think I'm tired already...

Really more eggs?

Okay, i'll go grab a couple more.

I got a blue one!

ooh, bubbles?

I love bubbles!

What? side walk chalk?  You guys were holding out on me.

Well, you didn't tell me there were animal "caackers" in the Eggs.  I would have kept grabbing them!

Would you like one?

It was an eventful day of playing outside, inside, Chipotle, Mellow Mushroom and naps for everyone.  Kensleigh had a great time seeing DeeDee and Handsome.  And I'm pretty sure they had a great time too- watching her play and draw and say "uh-oh" about a million times!

18 Weeks

18 Weeks and feeling pretty great (with the exception of the stomach bug that took over for 2 days)  Thank goodness for my husband-had it not been for him I would have called my mom and begged her to come up and help with Kensleigh.  Literally could not get out of bed.

Definitely having a hard time sleeping at night-not because I'm uncomfortable yet, but mainly when I wake up for my nightly bathroom break I crawl back in bed and think of everything...

Current thoughts:

"What color should I paint Kensleigh's big girl room? Light green? turquoise? pink?"
"Should I paint a stripe at the top?"
"Well, how about the nursery?  What about navy or lime green or gray?" hmmmmm....
"And then what about bedding?"

Literally toss and turn thinking about this.  With Kensleigh's nursery I new exactly what I wanted to do but with baby boys I have many ideas and can't come to a conclusion.  Decisions, decisions...
I'm staring to consider myself like the ladies that would come into PBK and have a million questions and want to see EVERY. SINGLE. PIECE. of bedding before making a huge mess and then not buying anything.... I really don't want to be that person.

I am mostly hot all the time too and if it weren't for Kensleigh I would probably turn on the AC, but  I don't want to freeze her death.  And its not even Summer yet or really Spring for that matter...

My mom bought baby boy his first little present.  Its the blue seahorse that glows and plays music/ocean sounds.  Kensleigh has the pink one and I started playing it for her when she was in my belly.  We took it to the hospital and played it for her when she was born and she knew it and was mesmerized.  So we have started playing it for baby boy at night and I have fallen asleep many nights lately with  it, only to wake up to rolling on top of it when switching sides.

Speaking of beds, I think I might go crawl in mine right now-goodnight!

16 weeks!

I know I need to start taking belly pictures because I was so good taking them with Kensleigh, but  when I think about it, It's always first thing in the morning or last thing at night.  And lets just say you'd rather not see me that early or late-I'd scare you.

I had another great check up yesterday, baby boys heart beat was 156.  Its starting to feel more and more real as my belly grows- I'm just having so much fun chasing around and playing with Kensleigh that I don't think about being pregnant.  And then he kicks me, catches me off guard and I remember that I'm not growing out of my clothes for no good reason, but for the best reason- bringing him in to this world.  I heard something that made me laugh the other day, "I'm not a person any more, I have an invader inside me, therefore it makes me a host." hah-it made me laugh-because on the days when you don't feel good, are queasy, and heads in a toilet you may have felt that way too.

Let's see no major cravings currently, though right at first it was Papa Johns cheese pizza.  I do tend to lean towards Chick Fil A  a lot.  I did that with Kensleigh too-something about a large sweet tea and original chicken sandwich-mmmmm.   Another craving thats a little bazaar i've had is a margarita.  I know, I can't and won't give in to that one, but I craved that with Kensleigh also.  Oh well, I'll just have to wait....I have felt much better and "normal" since entering my second trimester.  It was kind of  like magic-  I just woke up one day when I was in my 14th week and knew the "queasies" were over.  Praise the Lord!  I'm excited for warmer weather, beach trips, and walks at the park! Bring it on!

Totally enjoyed the beautiful day today with my girl!  Hoping for many more beautiful days to come!

Please don't judge the dogs.  My poor fur babies are in need of hair cuts and bathes-luckily they go to the groomers next week-I think they're just as excited about it as I am.

Baby Kim Due Late August!

What?!  I can't believe it-we are going to have a baby, again!  No seriously though, there are days when it still surprises me.  

Baby boy at 10 weeks

13 weeks - Heartbeat was 163 BPM

Up close and personal-13 weeks

So, again a lot changing around here these days, but we are happy to announce that baby Kim #2 is due in August.  And "It's a boy!"  

My story begins back on December 27, 2012.  I had an appointment with my OB/GYN and I was filling out my paperwork and realized that I was late.  Now, I do keep up with these things normally.  However, here it is christmas time with me working in retail, with a toddler at home and it happened to slip my mind.   So they decided to do a pregnancy test and low and behold it was positive.  Yep, thats right, they pretty much had to mop me off their floor. 

Now, here we are at 13 weeks and they told us that we were having a baby boy!  We couldn't be happier.

I will say that this pregnancy has been so different already.  I am at home now (more on that later) so I don't know if its the fact that I have time to think about how I feel or just that I feel bad constantly  worse than I did with Kensleigh.  I have been nauseous most days along with having headaches most days-so there are some days when I am just flat out pitiful.  I've had to use the bathroom all the time (I think from they moment they told me I was pregnant) and i've already started my middle of the night bathroom trips.  I hate the bella band this go round and just wear yoga pants most days.  It's funny to me how your own pregnancies can be so different.

We are so grateful for this sweet gift and can not wait for Kensleigh to meet her baby brother.  I am just hoping she grows out of the lets poke the babies eyes out phase before he arrives.  Gods timing couldn't have been more perfect-even if I was a little  lot shocked-we are ecstatic.  Everything fell into place just as it should, God is so good.

Mini recap

I can't believe I haven't blogged since Halloween... Crazy how time flies right?  So much has happened between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.  So I guess I'll do a recap and then try for a fresh start this month.

Thanksgiving was crazy with traveling to Jong's parents, spending time and the night with them.  Then traveling to my Aunts house the next morning (where all my Dads family gets together) and having Thanksgiving dinner (and a movie-our tradition).  Then back to work for Black Friday the very next day.  Thats one of the downsides to retail-not getting to spend much time with family-just sell, sell, sell.  Needless to day it was fun and great getting to see everyone.  Kensleigh did not sleep Thanksgiving Eve though, so mommy and daddy were very tired.   However, we did squeeze in a nap on Thanksgiving thanks to DeeDee taking Kensleigh off our hands for a little while!

DeeDee and Kensleigh

Aunt Beth and David Ryan

Aunt Lynn preparing the Turkey!

Throwing Kens up in the air- I think she liked it...

Several generations of the Johnson women.

Just call us the three little piggies! lol

Christmas, was spent at our house.  With both myself and Jong working so much we weren't in the spirits to do another crazy one day trip.  So I cooked a big breakfast- waffles, cheesy o'brian scramble, bacon, biscuits, grits, fruit...We pretty much ate off of it all day.   We snuggled, watched movies, and watched Kensleigh play with her new toys.

Santa brought Kensleigh a kitchen set.  She is one lucky little girl because I'm pretty sure Santa's elves spent a good chunk of time building that kitchen set.   She had a blast with it and still does every day.  I mean I am a little surprised at how much she does love it.  She likes to stir things in her pot, try and cut her fruit, bathe her baby in the sink, as well as feed the baby popsicles in the sink-lol.  Everyday she has a ton of fun creating one big mess for mommy to clean up later!  Her DeeDee got her a cute little apron to wear and I know i'm biased but she is pretty darn cute with it on.

Would anyone like some tea?

Kensleighs Kitchen

What, I'm cooking?

Going grocery shopping

Stir, stir, stir

Toast!

Well, Kensleigh has awakened from her nap so duty calls!  I'll try to getting better at blogging more often and catch ya'll up on whats been going on around here!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

We hope you had as much fun as this little butterfly did!

We played...

And danced...

And pretended to fly!

and even tried to jump on the bed.

We had BIG smiles,

and lots of laughs.

and don't forget the candy!

Yum!

I think I'll have some more...

and more.

All done...

We got dressed up,

to play trick or treat,

and pass out lots of candy!

M&M's anyone?

It wore me out-

Needless to say.

So I picked up all my candy

and

crawled up the stairs to bed.

Are you coming mom?