Pregnancy Update!

I must say that this pregnancy has been amazing compared to the past. Had this been my first pregnancy I may not think it is that great, but my perspective is different than most I guess. I had one really bad week of migraines, but since I now have a neurologist I immediately called and made an appointment. I had 6 migraines in 7 days! I cant live that way! The magnesium I used during the last pregnancy just wasn't working this time. The dr decided to put me on some blood pressure medicine even though my blood pressure is completely normal. He said it would help keep my blood vessels from dialating which would prevent migraines. He also said they recently cleared it for pregnancy. I sure hope they are right, but I have no choice. I have to take the medicine so that I can function! I trust that God will protect my baby just like He did Ryan and Bekah! After a few days I started feeling back to myself and my vision started coming back. I've now gone 1 week without a migraine and I am so thankful!! Other than that one bad week I haven't felt too terribly bad. Every evening I have cold chills and am very achy. Sometimes I have some nausea at lunch and in the evening but nothing that bad. I have not thrown up once except migraine related. This is amazing because with the girls I threw up every single night after dinner and after brushing my teeth! As long as I take a 20 minute nap everyday after lunch I feel pretty good. I only feel like I have the flu for those 2-3 hours but this I can handle in comparison to what I dealt with with Ryan and Bekah. I hope that this means we are having a boy this time around. If not we will still be happy, but I would be lying if I didnt say I would be slightly disappointed. It is hard to believe that I am already 10 weeks and I don't feel like Im never gonna make it to the 2nd trimester. Instead I feel like it is flying by! I am so thankful that God has allowed this pregnancy to be so much easier than the last so far. I pray things continue to go smoothly the rest of the way!

They really aren't sick All the time!

Sometime last week I had brought home a nasty cold. Somehow the first time I had been sick since last February! I was pretty proud to make it one full year! However, I knew it was gonna be trouble for the girls. Sure enough one week later Bekah came down with my cold. However, it was a nasty cold so she got the cough and all! After 2 days we went to the dr and she said it could be pneumonia, but we would have to wait a couple days to see if a fever develops. Sure enough the fever developed and we headed in for an x-ray. It was indeed pneumonia! Poor Bekah was pretty sick and still is trying to get over it on antibiotics. She is a trooper though and has hardly complained but has had trouble sleeping with the cough.
Ryan finally came down with it next. Of course I took Ryan in quickly to see the dr knowing she always gets ear infections. Of course she had a double ear infection. She also has a terrible cough but we are hoping that since she is already on antibiotics she won't end up with pneumonia. She could still end up with bronchitis again but that isn't as scary as pneumonia! Other than the diarrhea in the begining of winter the girls did really well this winter. This is only their second cough/cold this winter! Im happy with that! It just seems that the stuff going around this year is not simple and easy to get over. We hope that this is the last for a long time for us! If Ryan has any more trouble with the ears she may be up for tubes like Bekah. We really arent opposed to tubes simply because they have helped Bekah immensly! But Ryan usually has this problem every winter and by spring has no more problems so we shall see what happens.

Expanding

As many of you know we bought our current house with every intention of fixing it up and selling it within one year. Well after 4 1/2 years of living here we have found many reasons why this is a good place for our family. First of all, at one point we bought some land and some how found the worst possible neighbors you could find. So after much prayer we decided we couldn't move our family next to these people and therefor put the land back up for sale. We were pretty disapointed, but started looking for something else as our house began feeling smaller and smaller. We must say though that this experience immediately made us realize that the neighbors we currently have are not something to take for granted! We all watch out for one another and generally care what is happening in one another's lives. Next door is a pool at Mrs. Barbara's house which we are able to use quite often. The girls love it and their dogs! Anyway, as we kept looking for other houses we constantly were comparing them to where we are now and what we have now that we aren't willing to give up. For instance we are within walking distance to Mrs Curl (the best ice cream shop in Greenwood!), the library (which we go 2 times a week), 3 parks, the big fireworks, parade, and all greenwood events! We have a great neighborhood for walks, a great back yard, and close to the interstate. As you can see we have come up with so many reasons why we wished we could stay where we are but somehow have a bigger house! Well when we went to our realtor in January to see how much our house would sell for in this market we realized we werent leaving anytime soon. We had lost all 30,000 in equity because of the falling market. So Scott got to work to figure out a way we could add on and get everything we want in a house since we already have the location we want. Brillant Scott figured out a way we were both excited about. We are adding on to the front instead of the back in order to keep our big back yard. We will have 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 2 car garage! Plus a bigger kitchen and dinning room! With Scott being able to do all of the work we can do it cheap enough that we will get our money out of it by the time we ever decide to sell. Scott has actually already begun renovation. Ryan's room is now an extra bathroom and a hallway to lead to the new bedrooms he will add on soon. We are really excited about this which is funny because 4 years ago we would have never imagined this would be what we would want. Sometimes God changes your heart and desires! What is amazing is that we always said we wish somehow we could have a 4 bedroom house within a certain amount (which most laughed at us when we gave the number) plus not have Scott gone for 9 months to fix a cheap house, and that God did grant for us and for that we are truly thankful!! God is good!