bringin' it back on the road

I know i've said this in every post, but from here on out, I'm commited!  I'm going to make sure I update at least twice a week!  That's big talk, I know, but I really  want a place where everyone can keep up to date on macie's comings and goings!  

She's getting so hilarious now, and it blows my mind how smart she is.  I've recently decided to start setting up our home preschool......she's too eager to try new things to not get going with it!  I've been super inspired by several Montessori mama blogs, so I'm really thinking we'll lean that way.  I think it will fit us really well.....she's really independent already, so if I can further cultivate that and let her learn, then fantastic!  

19 months is a fun but difficult age..........her personality is really blossoming now......i get glimpses of what kind of girl she'll be every day.  She's got such a mix of me and bobby.......she's wild and loud and outgoing, but such a homebody too.  and too many kids totally overwhelm her.  she gets that from bobby.......

an entire year (plus a month!) has passed since i became a mommy, and as i write that, it's still unbelievable! i love every minute of it......even the difficult ones, and there's are many! right now, at this very moment, she's trying to eat a crayon......yeesh! I'm going to try to start keeping this up for my family and friends, as a way for everyone to keep up with macie as she grows. we have lots of videos but no time to make them into movies that we can send out, so the least i can do is try and upload some pictures at least once a week with a little update!!

she's a walking fool now, and loves to climb the stairs, so our baby gates are being put to good use! she's also picking up some sign language, which is great! bobby and i are really trying to at least get her the basics so that she can tell us what she wants before the has the words for it. She loves the baby signing time videos, so that makes it easy for her, and us to learn together.

i'm going to send this address out to everyone, so keep on me to update!! I'll do my best!!!!

 
boy oh boy, has it been a long time! down below is what i looked like about 15 months ago, and to my left is what I'm dealing with now! she's a mess! Macie's first birthday is less than a week away, and I can hardly believe it! Motherhood has been a constant adventure, and I'm loving every minute of it! I don't really guess there's an effective way to catch up with the last year of my life, so there's really not much use in trying. It's been so amazing being her mother....there aren't enough words to say how blessed I am to have her! She gets better every day....and funnier, too!

bobby and i had a fantastic weekend......we went camping waaaayyyyy back in ashe county with bobby's family. the weather held out for the most part, which was great! there wasn't any rain until our last night. it was nice to have a break from everything, but it made it that much harder to come back to daily life......especially since we came home to a leaky roof (again!), a leaky window, and the cat locked in our bedroom. of course, the cat in the bedroom meant that she hadn't eaten, drank, or had access to her litter box in oh......3 days. She did good, though.....i feel bad for having left her, though. she only peed one time all weekend. we got everything cleaned up and settled down eventually.


i'm getting bigger, and that made camping an adventure......my sleeping bag was definetley not made for people of the pregnant persuasion......all in all, i had a great time, and i'm glad we squeezed it in before the baby. hopefully, though, our kids will love sleeping outside as much as i do so it can be a regular thing for us.

ok, so this is a little late....bobby's way more on top of this than me.....he even has video up of the ultrasound. oh well. every day this whole pregnancy thing gets more and more amazing. the baby is super active now, which is fun, but crazy at the same time. today, it felt like it (he or she? i don't know!!! someone guessed girl today, though!) was doing somersaults.......actually that's still what it feels like right now! in the past couple of weeks bobby's been able to feel the movement from the outside when he's patient enough to wait for it. i'm growing quickly now, so i'm obviously pregnant.............which is far better than just looking like i have a beer gut!

it's sooooooo strange to look at myslef lately.........just in the past week or so i've started to look really pregnant, and it's very bizarre and surreal. I caught myself just staring in the mirror this morning while i was brushing my teeth, thinking that doesn't look like me at all........I love the way i look right now, though. i don't have to look at my stomach and be worried about it being flat enough anymore. i just look at it and marvel at what God is allowing to happen inside of me, and i'm just overwhelmed.......i'm so blessed, and it hasn't even really sunk in yet! i still have a tendency to kind of forget that i'm really pregnant.....i mean i look at other pregnant women, and i don't really associate myself with them yet. that'll come i guess.

working!!

so here i am, working on a saturday. it's been so dead this morning it's not even funny. oh well, i get off in 30 minutes, so i can make it! My mom's coming this afternoon, which is great. She and my sister are the reason that i get homesick......our family is so close knit, that it's like a part of me is missing since i don't get to see them every day. I grew up in a family where we saw at the bare minimum, one extended family member every day of our lives.........I can't imagine what it was like for my mom when she was married to my dad and living in texas, louisiana, and mississippi.......missing all of her holidays, and never getting to see her mom or sisters. it's bad enough for me living less than 2 hours from them. That is the only thing that saddens me about having a baby right now.....i had cousins that were close in age to me, and they were the best friends i had growing up.......none of them are even close to ready to have kids.......not, that i want them all to settle down immediately and start popping out babies, but i guess i'm just selfish in not wanting my kids to miss out on the relationships that i had with my family growing up. Hopefully by the time I'm ready for my second, my sister will be getting close to wanting her first one......surely she'll be married by then!

hmm........blogging, huh?

so, here i am..........i have succumbed to bobby's urging to join in his blog crusade! it's crazy that as addicted to blogs as i am, that i have a super hard time keeping up with one, and i do not have even the slightest idea how to work this place, but we'll see how i do!