Announcing Names!

Well because we never find out whether we are having a boy or a girl and that drives people crazy we are kind enough instead to share the names we decide on. We have had more trouble with this being the 4th, but I do believe we are settled. But just because I post these names does not mean we dont have the right to change them! Also, if you do not like them well keep that to yourself because honestly we dont really care. However, if you do like them you are allowed to voice your acceptance.

Girl:
Kaelyn Mae Moon

Boy:
Koy Whitford Moon (Whitford is in honor of Scott's Grandfather whom he admires so much.)

It may be a boy because Im carrying the baby very low like I did with Caleb. It may be a girl though because the first trimester was similar to both girls. All of that to say...I dont know what we are having!!! I just love the excitement!!

Changing Caleb!

Well I seriously didnt think that Caleb would ever say anything besides "mmmm." However in the last two weeks he has proven me wrong! I must say Im okay with that. We recieved a video by Leapster that sings an annoying song over and over doing letter sounds and the kids love it! Apparently Caleb learns through music becuase after one week of watching it once a day he started babbling all kinds of sounds constantly! He is know our little comedian with all of his new sounds he is quite funny and he cracks himself up too. He is also in speech therapy once a week which he loves, but I really dont think that is where he learned all of these new sounds. After a few weeks of speech he started saying "bah" which was great improvement, but that is it. She hasnt worked with him on anything besides "ma" and "bah." Im so thankful to our friends for giving us the most annoying video ever! I dont think Caleb will ever be our "quiet wanderer" again!!! Maybe the tantrums will even become less and less. Let's hope!

Ryan Turned 5!!!

My Ry Ry Bean turned 5 on July 5th!! I do believe she had a great purple and yellow lady bug party that she wont forget for a while! Even though I was on bedrest I did make and decorate her cake which is always the best part of birthdays for me! I still cant believe Ryan is 5 already. Seriously a Kindergartner!! I never thought she'd be old enough to make sure we were really going to homeschool. I loved having a 4 yr old and I must say that so far I love having a 5 yr old as much. She is becoming such a big helper around here and enjoys it! That will be huge when there is a new baby in this house. This is the first time we have had a child excited about us having a new baby. She is constantly giving her oppinion on names, gender of, and nursery themes. Of course she wants a girl but knows that a brother wouldnt be so bad. At the age of 5, Ryan is learning to read short sentences, write correctly on the lines, and add single digits. In the spring, she kept saying she wanted to go to a school for kindergarten but after 2 days of VBS without myself or her sister she realized she wanted to stay home. Not that we were going to let her choose but it is a little easier to have her on the same page as us. We started her kindergarten in June instead of Aug that way we can take time off once the baby comes. It was a bit of a tough transition for her but now she loves it. She didnt understand why Bekah didnt have to do the same stuff but now she brags to Bekah that she can do more. Of course Bekah now doesnt want to do her preschool work and wants to do Ryan's! Why is it that one child doesnt want to grow up and all the other one can think about is growing up faster? We did Ryan's 5 yr checkup and it was as terrible as I expected recieving 3 shots. However, she checked out great in the 90% for height and a BMI at 13. Tall and lean as always but healthy! Her favorite activities havent changed much compared to age 4. She is still one active, sweet, and happy little girl!! I look forward to another year with my girl!

Too Long!

You'd think while being on bedrest for 4 or 5 weeks I'd have plenty of time to update my blog! But the truth is when you lay on a couch all day you start to loose interest in doing anything at all. First of all, Im not supposed to get up too much so when I think of something to do it usually requires getting up to get something. That added to the fact that I hate constantly asking people to do things for me. So I continue laying here wishing I had something to do. About a month ago I was put on bedrest because of contractions. After a week or two of calming the contractions the dr let me continue taking meds and get up half of the day to see what would happen. Of course I only made it 2 weeks or so before I ended up back in the hospital with contractions 2-3 mins apart! The biggest problem with all of this is that my uterus at 21 weeks is still far to small for the dr to monitor my contractions. Therefore, we cannot really tell how serious they are. All we know is that Im not dialating inside, but the outside has opened up. The baby is growing and getting stronger every day. Ive switched my medication and am back to strict bedrest all day and night. This will most likely continue until 37 weeks. For those of you calculating, that will put me to the week of Thanksgiving. Most havent even thought about Thanksgiving yet, but I will say Im counting down the days! At this point Im trying to take my meds as little as possible since Im still in the 2nd trimester and it could be dangerous for the baby. But being born at 22 weeks would be more than dangerous so that is why Im taking it at all! The first couple days I was going as long as 24 hrs but today Ive had to take it at 4 hr intervals. Which is the most I can take it. Im hoping this is just a bad day and everything slows down again tomorrow. This trial in our family has been difficult on all of us. Scott is swamped with work, Caleb hates strangers (which we need to help us), Bekah is 3 1/2 (which is hard enough without drama in the family), Ryan wants her Mommy all to herself without someone interupting us to help out, and myself who hates not being able to take care of my family! It is so hard when you see your family struggling and there is little you can do but find more people to help out which isnt really what they want. There are days I stay positive and think I can do this and then out of nowhere I loose hope and dont know how I will survive one more minute on this couch! (I know my life could be so much worse and that makes me feel more guilty!) More than anything I wish I knew someone who understood me. I will say my husband is a great listener, but I know he doesnt understand so I try not to make him suffer through my emotions. Each time I read my devotion Im amazed at how God uses it to lift me up. Today when I couldnt stop the tears I got on the computer to read my devotion about how God will give us every bit of strength we need through the hardest times to keep going (Wow) then I checked my facebook to find that someone offered to bring us dinner tonight. My spirits were lifted so much! God provided exactly the way we needed today. We had 2 different people helping play with the kids today but there was no way Scott was going to have time to cook dinner. So eventhough I feel like no one understands me right now I know that God does care and will provide. Maybe one day at a time but he will provide what we need. I honestly dont know how one can live in this world without God in their life! He is truly what keeps me going! I know God wants me to have peace and joy even doing nothing which is so hard for someone who loves to go all of the time! So all of this to say, if you have a moment pray for my family! We will be fine but a little extra strength for each of us would definitely be accepted!