Boredom

So I am sitting here reading blogs and kinda bummed that there are no new posts for me to read. (anyone else do that?!?! or is it just me??) So I thought I would go ahead and do some bloggin. I think that sometimes I just have to much time on my hands which is not a bad thing. I like it that way. 

We have not been up to much around here...

*Nat is very much enjoying his new job 

*I am officially 27 weeks. Never thought I'd see that day! But I like to tell myself that its actually 28 weeks since I go in a week or so early for a c section. Then I tell myself... oh but you'll go into labor before that... after all, Madelynn was 3 weeks early so this one HAS to come early right??? (just let me think it...)

*We have a little somethin somethin cookin up in the Rose household but I cant tell you bout it just yet!! (No, im not pregnant AGAIN) haha. :)

*(I think) we officially have a little girl name. Cheyanne (dont have a middle name yet.) Its most definitely not an easy name to find a middle name for!! We have a few ideas but nothin for sure. 

* and lastly, we have the cutest child ever!  

sweet

Madelynn and I are sittin here watchin the rain and listenin to some Michael Buble waitin for our daddy, so I thought I would share this precious sweet adorable picture with you (I stole it off the family website, Val)

First dance with her daddy. 1 month old.

If that dont melt your heart I dont know what will... maybe its just me since it is my baby girl and my rather good looking husband....

Ok. enough of that. I tried very hard to upload that video and it would not do it so... Ill keep trying!!

Gotta go finish dinner! Hope ya'll had a great day! 

Oh happy day!!

So yesterday, Nat calls me when he is on his lunch break and he says "guess what my hours are..." a few words that I have been not wanting to hear seeing that Wally world is open 24 hours. He proceeds to tell me that he will be working from 4 in the afternoon to 1 AM. WHAT???!? That means I go to bed alone, I eat dinner alone, Madelynn doesnt get a goodnight kiss from her daddy. I dont do that stuff alone, its not legal... but, if I have to, I will survive. Im not the first one to have to have a husband work odd hours. 

BUT, I shouldn't even waste my little fingers typing away cuz... He got another better job! It was always a potential job from the beginning and it didnt look like it was going to work out so we trusted that this was God's plan for now. Then out of no where, it all just worked out. It was all in Gods timing. We are so very thankful!! He is gonna be working at Bug Express, you know the yellow trucks drivin all around town. So if you need an exterminator, Nats your man. God totally took care of us there! He worked there when we were first married but quit so that he could work out here in Mertzon and not have to drive in every day. But, for a season, it will be driving to town every day and maybe, just maybe someday soon we can move to town!! Im not seeing 4 of us crammed here for to terribly long.

(her dream come true^^)

and this little girl... she is back on her yelling and growling streak (you can tell in the picture she is yelling.) She quit for a couple months and I was sooo thankful cuz it got quite embarrassing in public. Its worse this time, we go to restaurants and while waiting for our food she is screaming. Its not a cute scream. Its high pitched, screeching and un pleasant! I got some good video of this issue but its 3 minutes long and didnt think you would wanna sit and watch my child scream for 3 minutes. Ill try and get a shorter one! Today, I was standing in line waiting to pick up a prescription and these 2 girls, probably my age, were standing behind me oohing and aahing over Madelynn and Madelynn was bein cute for them and grinning and waving at them and then she growled and one girl said "did she just growl at me?!?!" I turned around and I politely said, yes, she growls... were not quite sure why... sorry. After that they did not pay any attention to her so Im not sure If Madelynn offended her or what. It was kinda funny and kinda embarrassing. 

Im all alone!

Nat started workin yesterday and I am rather lonely. He was here with us for almost 2 months! But ya know... bills never stop and when there is no cash flowin... it makes things rather difficult. I couldn't even begin to tell you the last time I was home 2 days in a row. I thought I might enjoy it, but my brains already runnin, thinkin of what I can go do... but guess what. I have no car! So Im stuck out here. 

Yesterday I deep cleaned the living room and re-arranged in the process. No, I shouldnt have moved heavy furniture, but I did and I am regretting it today. I have this terrible urge to clean and re-arrange. So I guess I will move my way through the house till its all done. But for now, I must rest cuz I can barely walk, I did waaaay to much yesterday!!

On to Madelynn now, we got rid of bottle liners, Hallelujah!! We spent umpteen thousand dollars on bottles when she was a baby trying to find the right ones and we finally settled on the bottles that you have to buy liners for which were great for gas when she was little. The other day when I was going through all the baby stuff, I remembered that we still have alot of different bottles that were used for... 2 seconds, so I went and got them and she has taken great to them. In case you dont know, bottle liners cost an arm and a leg so I am excited about not having to buy them anymore! Unless of course, this baby is bottle fed. I guess I will have a 3 month break. :) She has also started to walk around the couch while holding onto it. Still not brave enough to try and stand on her own... but were workin on it every day!!!

twizzler anyone??

 

Zoo

On Thursday, we left town and headed to FT. Worth to go to the zoo! I have been wanting to go for awhile now and we were finally able to. Nat and I are both directionally challenged, so we thank God every day for our beloved Tom Tom (GPS.) We cant go anywhere (out of town) without driving around lost atleast one point in time. Sadly, even with the tom tom. Its bad. What we learned this weekend is dont depend on your navigation device to save your life. I turned it on when we got close to Ft. Worth and its tellin me that were in Guam, and no where on there was the map of the US. Valerie told us that we needed to update our maps so we did, and thats what happened. Thanks Val. :) So I will spare you the FOUR HOURS (not even kidding) of driving around looking for our hotel and just say that tom tom is dead, after hours of frustration and agony and a trip to target to get a USB chord, there is nothing. We'll have to get a computer genius to help us and if not... we WILL be buying another one. and I dont like Ft. Worth anymore. I have seen enough of it

Ok, I wont put all of the thousand of pictures that I took but I'll share a few from our trip. Pretty much all we did was go to the zoo and hang out at the hotel. We had very little spending money so I wasn't about to go shopping! It was so nice to just relax. There was a restaurant in our hotel so we ate there a few times. Nat was the honorary guest of the day so we got 50% off our dinner and a free meal at breakfast so that helped alot!  and of course we swam. We had a great time. Last little vacation before Nat starts working and before baby #2 arrives.

this is all Madelynn wanted to look at. Most of the time she couldnt care less about the animals. BUSHES! how exciting.

Just about to close to a gorilla! If he really wanted out, I bet he could do it. No bushes to see so she actually looked at this guy.

I usually like to stay behind the camera in case you couldnt tell... but here is one of me and her. Not to flattering. It was hot.

SHE SMILES! :)

Since I last blogged... Madelynn turned 10 months, and I will spare you the oh how time flies speech... but it does. She claps now and dances when she hears music and of  course, she is crazy crawlin and pullin up everywhere. I am very much so looking forward to her walking. I know you dont hear that to often but... when your in my situation, walking is a good thing.

I got Madelynns room and closet all cleaned out which is something that has been nagging me. I finally got the urge to clean and get it all straightened up. By straightened up, I mean in the corner of her room is all the 'baby stuff' that I have thrown over there as she has outgrown it, rather than putting it all up and getting it all back out in a couple of months. I went through it all and rearranged her room to be able to fit another crib, or bed if needed. And the closet... oh that closet. We have 2 closets in this house. One in her room and one in ours so there is zero storage space in this house so alot of it gets put her closet, but not anymore. Its clean and beautiful. I got all the little boy clothes together and all the little girl clothes out and ready. So Im ready! Last thing to do is to get the car seat settings ready for a newborn but that can wait since it still gets used from time to time.  Yes, I still have 3 months to go but... after Madelynns birth and having absolutely NOTHING ready for her to be born I wanna be more than ready. Plus I just felt like it and who knows when that will happen again. :)

Disappointment and pictures

Ok, dont get excited. Once again... we couldnt tell. I cannot believe this is happening to us twice!! This baby is more stubborn than Madelynn was, it was sleeping in a little ball to where all you could see is the back bone and the back of its head. Urgh.... The lady had me turn on each side and tried and tried, she gave me some chocolate to eat, she mashed and mashed and wiggled it and the baby couldn't care less. Didnt move a muscle. She said she has never seen a baby do this before and she couldn't believe that we had the same thing happen with Madelynn. She was a much better experience than the first lady. I was very pleased with her efforts!! So... we can kinda say that we have an idea it may be a boy, but im not gonna bet on my life on it. We have a little boy clothes and little girl clothes and anything and everything we have is neutral so were good to go and we'll be ready for either or. The baby was breech (like Madelynn was) it weighed 2 lb 1 oz which is a little large for how far long im supposed to be. So it kinda moved my due date up a week or so. So its all a guessing game. When am I due?? who knows. What am I having? who knows. I am just so very thankful that the baby is healthy and growing good and thats all that really matters! Surprises are fun.

ok. Now for the little girl.

First ride in the blazer! Its up and runnin.

The monkey crawler.

Jumpin on the trampoline. She LOVED it. You can see that she is laughing her little head off. It was fun to watch her. 

Wow. Has it really been a week since I posted last... Im slackin.

My parents have been doing some remodeling and Nat has been helping all week so we have pretty much lived over here, which has been fun! There house looks sooooo good!! They finished everything today and now were childrensitting so they could go out on a date. So there will be no sweet pictures to share with you cuz im not on my computer. So sorry. I know I just lost everyone cuz all ya'll care about is the little girl. :)

Anyways, few things to tell. Nat got a job workin at Wal Mart. Lets just say we wont be rakin in the doe or anything... But, that was the first open door and were goin through it! We are trusting that God will provide for us through this season. Obviosly, I am not able to work due to the fact that I shall give birth in 3 months or so. So Nat will probably be working 2 jobs. In the process, were still looking for something long term.

Nextly, Madelynn has officially been discharged from PT. We had a ct scan done last Mon. which was... not fun. Anyone ever had to have a cat scan done on a 9 month old?? Apparently your supposed to deprive them from sleep so that when you get there, they will sleep and be still for the scan. No one informed me of that till we got there and she had just waken up from a nap... So then they take us to a waiting room that was 98 degrees and full of people and told us to try and get her to go to sleep. We were misurable! The lady informs me that my child looks tired and it shouldnt be a problem at all getting her to sleep... right. Were in a strange place with all new stuff and were sweating to death, not gonna happen. It was tense and stressful and crazy! I couldnt go back with her which is hard but thankfully Nat took her back and she finally fell asleep and it was all over with. We were there for 3 hours! Still have heard no results so Im guessing that thats a good thing. Im still gonna call tomorrow and see. Im not concerned about it.

Lastly, I am having anyother sonogram tomorrow, and Im not excited about it at all (im lying. Just trying not to get my hopes up.) Im gonna drink somethin crazy sugary tomorrow so this kid will move and be seen. I want a for sure, firm ITS A.... not... well, I think its a....

and lastly lastly. We officially have a boys name. Stetson James. If its a girl... who the heck knows! :)

I'll post lots of pictures tomorrow for everyine to see!!

Mothers Day

Mothers Day has always been a great day to me! I just really love the whole idea of it. But this year... being my first mothers day with a child was fantastic!! I feel a sense of pride in what I have accomplished in that past 9 months, and I have so much more to go and I love the thought of that. I can only imagine how my mom feels having raised 5 kids and having 3 of them out on there own making a life for themselves... and havin 2 gradbabies and 2 more on the way! You did (and are doing) great mom! I love you and hope that you had a wonderful mothers day! I hope that one day I can look back and feel even more pride in the work I have done in my kids.

Ok... so being a mom to this little girl that God has graciously blessed me with has been pretty much the best 9 months of my life. My whole life I have only wanted to grow up and get married and be a momma. Never wanted to be a Dr. Never wanted to be a princess, never wanted to be a dentist all I wanted to do was stay home with my kids and be a mom to them. And I am fulfilling that dream! I never thought that day would come and yesterday as I looked back on my life... I couldn't help but to think... man.. Im doin it! Im livin out my dream! I cant imagine life without this kid... what did I ever do before her??? She has been the most joyous, most frustrating, most beautiful, sweetest, most wonderful thing to me and I love her to death!!! 

Don t worry, I wont bore you with a million pictures of us... just wanted to share these 2.

Dont mind the drugged up look on my face...  This would have to be the most amazing feeling on the face of the earth, as im sure you moms know!! First time I get to hold my little girl!

and of course now. Look what I have done! She is still alive and healthy! :)

I hope all you momma's mothers day was as wonderful and blessed as mine was!

oh goodness, I almost forgot... now to brag on the husband who kinda had a part in this...

ok.. Nat has a little trouble with the sweet, romantic, surprise me with flowers side of marriage.. you see that MARRIAGE... when we were dating... he surprised me with flowers and jewlery and he was so gushy and sweet... it was all a fake to try and get me to marry him... and it worked... and it stopped the second we got married! BUT... something has changed. As you all saw a few posts ago, he brought me flowers when I was havin a bad day and looky at what he (totally 100%) surprised me with for mothers day. I am a pretty sneaky little person so I usually kinda know what he may be up to this time I hadn't a clue!

Do you see that Kay's box down there... its real!

In case you cant tell, its the open heart thing (ya know on the commercials) and its got 2 big hearts and 2 little hearts and it represents us and our 2 kids. Isnt that sweet??? I couldn't believe he thought to get me something like that!

We stopped by to wish Granny a happy mothers day. 

this is Madelynns first day out of the hospital with granny. Just thought the before and after was neat!

Are my posts to long??? sorry if they are... I just have so much to say every time I start typing.... Almost done.

Thanks to everyone who said a prayer for Nat on Saturday. Turns out that he did not pass the test which was quiet a shock to us. We were both pretty upset about it. Kinda just wondering why and where to go from here? For now, the plan is to get a job wherever he possibly can and he will try again next time the test rolls around. No one knows when that will be, so we just have to keep an eye out for it! If anyone hears of any place hiring or anything let us know! He needs to get a job asap. 

 

I will leave you with this sweetness. Madelynn absolutely loves my littler sisters. She could sit and stare at them all day and be completely happy with life. Yesterday, she was cuddlin with her Aunt Kay and it was just about the sweetest thing. 

ok. now I must go accomplish something today... Having an unemployed husband around your house doesnt make for much getting done. I need to go do laundry while he is in town. I am sure everyone around here would greatly appreciate it! Have a great day!

Finally, a slow week!

Not much goin on around here. We have had a really nice quiet, slow week, which I have enjoyed tremendously. Madelynn and I are getting waaaaay spoiled to having Nat around. I dont know what I am going to do when he gets a job!!! It will be hard for the both of us. Thats for sure!

This is Madelynn's new favorite past time... She crawls over by the door and finds lots of fun stuff on the ground that she can eat! Let me start out by saying, I do vacuum atleast once a day, but as the day progresses, and people go in and out, stuff gets tracked inside. Yesterday, after a long while of silence from the little princess, I (being the great, observant mother that I am) realize that I have not heard any sounds comin from her and decide I should go check on her... she is at her favorite spot, playin with daddys very dirty gross work boots, eating... are you ready?? a leaf, dirt, a small twig, and a rock. All in her one little itty bitty mouth at one time. So that was very exciting! Then later on in the day she was over there and found a screw gun and a gun. So needless to say, the 22 now has a new home. 

As I have said before, she loves to go play with the printer! The other day, Nat's boots were right in front of it and she could not get to it so she had to compromise.  Smart kid!

She didnt notice that I was watching her for a long while... when she did, she sat up and started to fall out. The whole process was quite funny. You could just tell the whole time what was goin through her little 9 month old brain.

And on to something I am sure that you are all wondering about.... or maybe not?? :) I have some pretty exciting news to share and some prayer to ask for! About a month or so ago, Nat applied to be a police officer. He has to pass a civil service exam, background check,  drug test (which im not sure he will be able to pass....) and I think thats it. Anyways, tomorrow is the big test!! I want everyone to know that I am sooooooooooooo very proud of him and all his hard work studying!! Nat is not to good in the book smart area, he could build you a house, or a vehicle, he could fix any problem that you ever could imagine having, but ask him to read a book or take a test on reading a book and you will probably get shot down very fast.. as his sweet mother knows from years of homeschooling... :) So this is a huge step for him and we have had many late nights studying together and getting all this stuff crammed in his brain and he has soaked it up like a sponge. He has such determination and an "I can do it" spirit! Its been great seeing this side of him when it comes to school stuff! He is a very smart guy! So if you could, say a little prayer for him in the mornin. The test is at 9 a.m.  and I know from the many late nights up with him that he can pass this test! 

And... I just wanna share this cuz its my most favorite time of the day!!

Right after bath time. Got a full belly, her hair is still damp and freshly combed got those cozy jammies on and the eyes start to get heavier.... uhhhh there is nothing more precious to me than this! I love it! Then to pick her up and go put her in her crib and watch her slowly drift off. Ill take some of that!!

So I lied....

Seems to be that any time we have an apt for her neck whether it be PT or Dr. She wakes up like this. Was I not just bragging about how good she was doing??? It has been an unpleasant day 'round here. She has done nothing but cry and fuss and cry some more. I have never seen her act like this! It is bothersome, but I dont know if she is totally that wiped out from this weekend or if there is something really wrong. She cries any time she eats (real food) and so that makes me think teeth??? but how the heck would I know, I have said that many a times in her life and she has yet to get a dang tooth. I cant even put my finger in her mouth without her goin nuts. Then also, I have tried to stretch her neck out and she goes crazy... so then I think that her neck is hurting (looks like it could be to me!) Its pretty bad today. I have never had her refuse me to touch her and act like she is in pain like she did today. Or could she really truly be so worn out that anything and everything is bugging her??? Who knows, just wish this kid would talk to me!

On another note... well not really. her 9 mo. check up was today. She weighed 18 lb. 10 oz. and was 26 in. long! She is in the 50th percentile in just about everything. Then it was on to her neck. (sorry if yall are sick of hearin bout this.) He said no need to keep doing PT, we can just do it at home... but, since it was so bad today, and this is such an ongoing thing, he wants to do a cat scan on her brain just to eliminate that also. He said it was more than likely fine but wanted to be on the safe side, which I am very thankful for!  I am glad that he wants to eliminate anything big from being wrong. 

She has slept probably 50 percent of the day, which is another kinda weird bothersome thing to me... Its only 7 now and she is konkin out in her high chair... Urghhh, the frustrations of motherhood.  

Be prepared... Its a long one.

Wow. What a weekend! We went to Abilene/Buffalo gap this weekend for Karl and Crystals wedding. It was fun and alot of work... Nat being in the wedding= Mara being a single parent. We didn't really get to see each other a whole lot cuz he was always havin to do somethin. Thankfully my mom and Micaela came for the wedding so I was able to hang out with them and have there help. 

Sleep, or I should say naps, were non existant for Madelynn. I dont think that one person saw her without making a comment on how tired she looked. We were always somewhere with lots of people and new faces.. how could a girl sleep with that?!!?  She has not eaten breakfast or lunch today and has only had 2 bottles as of now and I think that its because she is so completely tired and worn out that she doesn't even want to eat... something that we have never seen before from her! 

this is what she looks looked like this whole weekend and now. (As she lays in her bed screaming) Her schedule is so thrown off, I will be happy when she is back to normal!

We were on the second floor in the hotel that we stayed in and were so sweetly blessed (not) with hearing little feet run across the floor above us at ALL hours of the day/night... when I say all, I mean ALL! I am tellin ya, every time that we have ever stayed in a hotel, we always hear what sounds like a heard of elephants above us. I was askin Nat, at 3 in the morning, if he thought maybe hotels hire someone to stay in a room and pay them to run across the floor to annoy people.  I am not even kidding. It is crazy. Like seriously, what are you and your child doing up at 3 in the morning and why are you letting your kid run all over the place??? (You could very well distinguish what kind of person was walking across the floor) It was horrible. So it was hard getting her to sleep with that craziness and of course, the thought of her momma being 2 feet away from her was way to exciting so I turned out all the lights and sat there till she finally stopped screaming and fell asleep. 

Do you see the tiredness in this kids eyes???

I made the mistake of my life on Fri. night... Sharon brought me some sonic for dinner. Just a burger and a cherri limeaide... Bad idea! In case you dont know, I have the worst heartburn on the face of the earth!!! (I like to think I do atleast) It is pretty bad tho. Started when I as pg with Madelynn and never went away after I had her then I got pg again and I have had it since day 1! Tums are long gone, so I have been buying pepcid complete which has worked ok... till about 3 weeks ago when I started taking 3 or more a day. At 9 bucks (generic brand) a bottle, that was gettin way to expensive. So I finally gave in and bought prilosec (sp????) and its been AMAZING!!!! one pill a day and heartburns gone.... UNLESS you drink a cherri limeaide and eat a nice greasy burger with tator tots and then go to sleep 2 minutes later. The box never said that!!! :) So 2:00 Rolls around and Nat finally gets back from the "bachelor party" and I am dyin!!! So I just decide Im gonna wait it out and just deal with it cuz I didnt bring any back up or just in case heartburn meds. So Im trying to sleep and its just not happenin. 3:00 rolls around and im listening to the little pitter patter above us and getting very frustrated cuz I am sooooooo tired and sooooo annoyed and acid was eating away at my esophagus so I finally about 3:30 wake Nat up and tell him I cant do it anymore and I needed to run to the convenince store and get some tums or something and he says I dont wanna have to bug anyone to go out right now... just lay your head back... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?! I told him that I dont want anyone to be bugged by heartburn like I am right now... and I HAVE BEEN LAYING MY HEAD BACK!!! ugh... can you believe that!?!? (Nat is famous for carrying on a full blown conversation while sleeping and not knowing a thing about it the next morning, I have lots of fun with this!!) So I knew that he was sleep talking to me when he said just lay your head back... cuz he knows better than to say somethin like that to me when I am dying of heartburn. At this point it is gradually going down and I can hardly keep my eyes open so I just decide to forget it and I finally fell asleep.

Saturday was the wedding and my mom came down a little early and we went and ate lunch. It was freezing and sprinkling most of the day  (weather is just a little more dramatic when you have a baby) and I brought no jacket, no thick blanket, no pants and everything that I packed for her was sleeveless or shorts. So that was no fun, but we managed.

My beautiful little girl!

Dont they look good??? Nat looked very handsome. 

and our sweet little family. Even got a little smile outta the little girl.

another tired picture...

Madelynn had her first swim this weekend!! I was so excited to get her in the pool cuz she loves water so much, but has never had the chance to be in it, apart from baths. She really enjoyed it! I cant wait for summer!! I have a feeling we will be living in the pool!

We went to Kohls today... does anyone else vote that we need one in Angelo?? would that not be the greatest thing ever?? We didnt buy much just a few shirts for me and a few monster truck shirts that we had to get for the (maybe) little boy. I was looking at the childrens books and heard some ruckus coming form behind me and turn around to see my husband and daughter playing.... Dont you know that I am pg with my 3rd child????

And last but not least (sorry this was so long, just had alot to talk about!) Madelynn is the proud owner of a head that sits STRAIGHT on her shoulders! All the frustration and fighting her has paid off!! We got lots of comments this weekend about how much better it looked! I was glad! Mostly because we go to the Dr. tomorrow for her 9 month check-up and as of her last apt, the PT was going to tell Dr. Wehner that something else needed to be done cuz PT wasnt workin. So yay!! I am excited about that! If you notice in her pictures, it looks so much better! And as expected, when she gets tired or not feelin to great, it will still not be 100%.