this woman is hilarious!

Decaf THIS!
by The Sarcastic Journalist

Once I started “showing” a little baby belly, there were certain things, such as downing a pitcher of beer, skateboarding and pole vaulting, that I decided to stop doing in public.
You see, many people view that belly as a way to tell you what you should and shouldn’t do. I don’t know how many times I walked into a coffee shop only for them to ask me if I wanted my drink “decaf.”
Uh, no. If I wanted my drink without the “good stuff” in it, I would have told you so. Also, why are you looking at me strange? What? You don’t allow cigar smoking inside Starbucks? Okay, fine.
All kidding aside, it really chaps my hide when I see people telling a pregnant woman what to do. Even better is when the advice is coming from someone who has never been pregnant.
I know that the 16-year-old making my mocha thinks that all caffeine is bad, but it isn’t. That is because she hasn’t studied up on what is okay during pregnancy.
Instead, she listens to what she has heard and assumes that any woman that dare drink a cup of joe that isn’t decaf is going to have a five-headed baby.
Even if the baby does have five heads, I’ll make sure to teach those heads not to give unsolicited advice to pregnant women.

Updates and lots of them

18 weeks and 4 days

Caleb was trying to see the baby with his little flash light

The front entrance of our neighborhood

Back covered patio

The front of our house. We are even going to have a front porch big enough to put some chairs and a table on. So cute!

Well, it feels like the belly has made it's way out now. I feel like it literally happened over night. You can totally see the shape of a preggo belly now and Caleb is even starting to notice it. He is very sweet with it. He likes to come over and say hi to the baby. He also has been talking a bunch about a "baby sisar". That is what he likes to call it. We don't know what it is but Caleb thinks he does. Every time I say what about a baby brother he always corrects me and says "No, baby sisar". Funny. I don't know if people are asking him that question a bunch or if he has just made up his little own mind. Whenever we talk about it we always say "baby brother or baby sister". We never just say one or the other. Anyways, I think it is very cute. Onto another subject, our house seems to be coming along. They worked on it a lot over the weekend. I took some shots of it. So, that is the news and I'm stickin to it!

18 weeks today!

It feels like the time is going by so quickly. I can't believe I am already 18 weeks. I haven't felt much movement. Kinda weird because I felt a lot of movement with Caleb starting at like 12 weeks. I know every pregnancy is different but it still concerns me a little. I am very excited for our Drs. appointment on May 5th. That is always exciting to be able to see the little baby and to hear their heart beat. It is always so reassuring. I know that I am growing because the scale tells me how much I have grown and my clothes remind me of that too but it just doesn't seem to be showing a whole bunch of belly yet. Caleb was so cute last night. We were sitting in the living room and he came over to my belly and lifted my shirt and said "baby, in there". I told him to say "Hi baby". So he did! Then he said "I yuve you". So cute! I wanted to cry. Then as I was putting him to sleep he was almost there and with a little whisper he said "momma, have baby sister"! I don't know where that came from but it was soooo cute. We don't know what we are having and we won't know but it was too cute to hear him say that. I am sure he will be a great big brother to either a brother or a sister. Well, I have tons of house work to do and then I have to go to the church early to help Josh set up for youth tonight. Hope all is well out there with everyone.

As for me and my house we will serve the Lord!

Caleb and his new sun glasses. I just had to add this picture because he was so proud of them!

Josh getting ready to shovel out the spot where we put the bible.

The bible before Josh loaded the dirt on it.

Our picture with the bible.

Our house from the side view. I love all our trees in the backyard!

Yesterday was an exciting day. We went and buried a bible in our foundation. We opened the bible to Joshua 24:15 ...as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Then we put the bible in a plastic bag so that it wouldn't get messed up. We also dated it and it had our name on it. We placed it right where the front door will be that way whenever someone walks in they are standing on the word of GOD! How cool. After that Josh prayed over the house and our "new" lives together. It was a very special moment. I thank God so much for blessing our family.

another thought

Just a thought...does anyone else feel that their nose grows when they are pregnant? I feel like every picture I take my nose is huge! I don't get it. For example I'll post a picture to show what I am talking about. Ha ha, just making fun of myself. I guess it keeps me sane.

16 weeks (Four Months!)

I love how black shirts make you look!

We are pushing out of the normal clothes!

Crazy how time has gone by so fast. I remember when I was pregnant with Caleb I felt like I was stuck at week 11 forever. This second pregnancy is going by so much faster. I almost want it to slow down a little bit. I probably will look back when I am in the 8-9 month stage and say what was I thinking then! I remember that the 4th, 5th, and 6th month felt like really good months that I actually liked being pregnant. Then those last couple ones hit and all I wanted to do was get the baby out! Life has been good. Caleb is getting so big. He is becoming a real 2 year old with his tantrums and saying no all the time. Oh and his other big phrases are "Where's my daddy? or where's my mommy?". It is quite embarrassing when we are in public and he asked "where's my mommy?" because the child looks nothing like me and so people probably really think "where is his mommy?!" Funny. Oh, last night we went to District Council. Gaitha and Jessica, it was sooo good to see y'all there. I am glad that I got my Jessica fix! You always make me laugh. Your kids were cute too. Gaitha, your baby Emma is the cutest girl baby ever! So sweet and looks just like her daddy. I am glad y'all are doing good. I wish I could see more of these girls. Anyways, I am going to go try to clean the apartment up a bit. You know it is bad when toys are taking over the world!

Going everywhere

Well, Melissa, since you asked...I am doing okay! I am expanding everywhere though. It is kinda scary to have these hips thrown on both sides of me. I mean I had hips before but my word not this big. And my boobs are ginormous! I can't seem to contain them. I am already growing out of my bra! Don't know if that is too much info but I figured we are all girls on here so we can handle it. I love being pregnant though. It is just sometimes uncomfortable because it is not the norm. I am actually starting to feel some movement too in the belly. So cute to know that the little person inside of me is already starting to swim around. It is nice to have that feeling again. I remember the first couple of nights home after Caleb was born I would look into his crib and see him moving and wish that I could feel that in my belly again. So sweet. I think that about covers how I feel in a short version. I could go all out and be very in depth but I'll just save that for someone that really wants to hear it! Ooh. They started the forms for our house this week. WE HAVE TREES!!! I am so excited. At our Houston house they knocked down all the trees in the neighborhood and so in our back yard we had complete sun and no shade. It didn't make it nice for the grass or the dogs while we were there. Although, Houston seems to get more rain than San Antonio so that helps, but anyways, with this builder we were able to tell them what trees we wanted kept and ones we didn't want. Caleb will be able to have a swing from a tree and maybe even a treehouse when Josh can build one. He will love it. I can't wait to see it done. Okay, so I am going to go to bed now. Hope all is well with everyone else.

Another Dr. appt.

Yesterday we had another dr.'s appointment. Everything is going great! We finally got to hear the heart beat for the first time. So precious. That little heartbeat was going so fast. It was ranging between 151-156. So our next appointment will be May 5th. That is the one where she will do another ultrasound to see how the baby is growing and then it is suppose to be the one where we find out, but of course we aren't going to do that. It is going to be sooooo hard not to find out but it will be fun in the end. So that is it on the updates! Just needed to type that out for my journal update.