Gotta Start Somewhere!

Well, to say it’s been rough would be an understatement. Sweet little baby #4 plus moving plus 3 kids has proved to be a challenge that I am not handling very graciously. I was thinking the other day about my past pregnancies and our previous moves and realized that we have moved at least once, sometimes twice during every single one of my pregnancies! Geesh!

Ok, so here is what is going on and where we are now. We moved out of our Mountain Green home and we are now settling into our on base home, which I LOVE! I don’t feel so far away from everyone and everything anymore and more importantly Aidan is in a new school with a new teacher! This woman is the greatest blessing ever. She has 27 years of experience, loves her students and it shows. It was like pulling teeth to get Aidan’s previous teacher(the devil) to communicate with me but Mrs. Moore(a saint) has e-mailed me several times just to keep me up to speed with how Aidan is adjusting. Also, she has arranged for him to meet with the Speech Therapist to be re-evaluated so that we can get him the extra help that he needs. Can not even express the peace that she has brought to me.

Also, I am still pregnant!!! We had quite the scare a couple of weeks ago because I had been bleeding. Anything and everything I did would cause me to bleed. After several doctors visits and ultrasounds my doctor was able to diagnose me with Partial Placenta Previa which basically means that part of the placenta was covering my cervix which made hardly any movement cause me to bleed. Awesome. I pretty much put myself on bedrest and after a couple of weeks of being super careful I have been incident and pain free. Now, I don’t mean to be dramatic but now I think I may be anemic. Rich is scheduling an appointment for me to go into the lab and get tested so I can figure out why I feel so dang crummy!

Here is baby peanut’s first picture ever:

This was taken at 11 weeks and I am now going on 17 weeks so he/she is bigger and I can’t wait for my next ultrasound!

A few random pics since I’ve recently felt good enough to actually leave the house…

The base had a super fun family event that we took the kids to and had so much fun! There was a clown and a bunch of fun little games for the kids to play to win candy.

Marshmallow roasting/burning

 

Indoor canoeing

And face painting

Cutie!

See the goofball guy off to the right? That’s Dave, one of the pharmacists that Rich works with. He thought he was pretty funny. Haha! I’ll crop it later but I thought I’d leave it for now as a fun memory.

It felt so good to get out of the house and I loved seeing the kids have fun since they’ve been trapped inside with a tired momma.

The other day the girls went out to build a snowman and I felt good enough to grab my camera to snap a few pics of them.

“Mom, the sun is too bright!”

Once the snowman was finished, Arabella was ready to go inside. Maya stayed behind because she wanted to give the snowman ears.

She was so excited to come and get me a few minutes later to show me the snowman’s ears.

She said it is a bunny snowman named “Head”. She later changed her mind and named it “Peter Rabbit”. She just cracks me up!

I’m so grateful to be feeling a bit better so that I can enjoy these moments with my kids again. I’ve missed taking pictures of them and having fun with them. I hope we can get this crumminess figured out so that I can enjoy them even more!