A man, a woman, a baby, 2 dogs, and a cat

Reflecting

November 15th, 2008 by Jessica Posted in Everyday life, family, pregnancy#2 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been thinking a lot about Phoebe’s birth lately. I will fight the urge to retype it all here, since it is all in that post. I think this reflection is understandable, considering my current state. I didn’t write much about how I felt in that post. I remember being anxious, excited, nervous, and scared to death. I was facing a surgery that I did not intend on having. When she was born, I was overjoyed. Hearing her cry that first time is one of the best sounds I’ve heard in my life.

As this pregnancy is nearing its mid-point, I find myself constantly thinking of that day Phoebe was born. We will plan a C-section with this one. That was a decision that I did not take lightly, and sometimes I still wonder about it. The good news is that now I know what to expect with that, so it is perhaps less scary than the other option. But I think that any surgery is still scary, even if I’ve already been through it once. It should be a bit more relaxed this time. And not in the middle of the night!

I know we’ll be just fine in the end. In several more months, I very much look forward to meeting this new little person. For now… I have to go back to organizing my whole house!

She walks!

November 13th, 2008 by Jessica Posted in Everyday life, General, celebrations, family | 4 Comments »

I have two videos! The first is of her walking. She’s been walking more and more lately, though she does still crawl quite a bit too.

The second is a video of her snuggling the giant bear. This bear is really special. Rick got it for me when we were dating in High school. We are both pleased that she is getting so much joy out of him right now. Neither of us would have thought that gift would bring so much joy to our future child.

Enjoy!

Bunches of Photos

November 12th, 2008 by Jessica Posted in Everyday life, family, pregnancy#2 | 1 Comment »

Catching up on 12 days worth of photos! :) These are just samples. As always, there are more in the album!

From November 2008

Rick and I in our masks before Jason’s Masquerade Wedding at Burritt. This wedding was really beautiful. It was in the gazebo, overlooking the valley at sunset. Really, really beautiful.

From November 2008

The girl scout trying to eat her breakfast while dad tries to take a picture. She really wasn’t into cooperating with this photo. Also, my hair is really wet. I had just gotten out of the shower.

From November 2008

Before church on Sunday. I loved this jumper on her. I got some of those baby legwarmers at Target. I fear they were cutting her circulation off at the top part of her legs, so I may stick to leggings …

From November 2008

Bear Snuggles! We got video of this too. Some day we’ll transfer that onto the computer… It is really, really cute!

From November 2008

17 weeks! Last time I blamed Rick’s trick photography for making me look bigger. At least in this one, I think I look bigger in real life. Oh well. I am angled a bit, so that may be part of it. Please excuse the no makeup and wet hair… again…

I hope everyone is having a great week!

Morning with Phoebe

November 11th, 2008 by Rick Posted in General | 2 Comments »

With Veteran’s Day here, the daycare is closed and I am home with Phoebe. It’s really nice to have a day home with her that is not a result of her being sick. While checking my e-mail earlier, she crawled up to me and indicated she wanted to play. So I opened up notepad, pulled her into my lap, and let her go to town. The video below is what came of that. Let me just say that keyboard shortcuts in windows are BAD when letting a toddler type!

Cutie patooties

November 1st, 2008 by Jessica Posted in General | 1 Comment »
From October 2008

Two very scary spiders and one very cute puppy dog. :)

I hope everyone’s Halloween was as good as ours. There are more pictures from yesterday in the album.