Randomness...

Cute story..

On Monday I was paying bills online and Hudson came up and said, "Mom, whatcha' doin'?" I said, "Paying bills." He said, "You're not Bill, you're my mom!" Isn't it funny the things that come from their mouths!

Aunt Casey is home and last night Hudson spent the night with her. I was so sure he would never make it since one time he said he was staying down there, I didn't even get the door shut and he was bawling. I figured it would get bed time and he would want his Mom to rub his back since that's what he wants every night, but not last night. They came bee bopping in the house at 7:45 this morning. He normally gets up at 9:00 so I'm hoping for a long nap time :) Never knew I could miss someone so much from just one night. Jason and I didn't know what to do with ourselves last night so we sat on the couch and talked then watched some Andy Griffith. We're so old!

Pregnancy update...I am only feeling sick at night now and I've managed to not take my nausea med. for several days now. When I start to feel bad I'm trying to go to bed because I don't like the side effect from the med. But the nausea going away is AWESOME! Hopefully the migraines will be under control soon, I have been on a preventative for a few days now. We have one month and we'll find out if it's a boy or a girl, I'm really looking forward to that. I'm pretty convinced it's a girl, Jason thinks so too. Hudson is convinced he wants a brother. Either way, we'll be happy!

Jason took one exam today and has 2 more on Tuesday and this semester is over. He hasn't made his mind up about summer school yet, I think it will all depend on his business.

NAP TIME!

Permasmile

I was trying to be sneaky and snap a few pics of these two thoroughly enjoying themselves yesterday afternoon.

But I was caught! And the smile never left his face. He smiled ear to ear the entire time they were mowing the yard except for...

when he was so focused on steering. I think we have our next employee. I'll remind him when he's 14 and he's getting ready for work how much he used to enjoy riding the mower :)

Fishin' for the First Time

Friday I took Hudson fishin' for the first time. He had been asking all week to go and I actually felt good enough on Friday to walk down to the pond. We had bought him this fishing pole long before we ever saw his face and it looks like he's going to put it to good use. But Jason's gonna have to take him fishing so that he can actually catch something. I'm not exactly a fisherwoman. I've never enjoyed it because it required me to sit or be too still for way too long! And Hudson is the same way, so when he lasted about 5 minutes and then wanted to go look at the turtles, that was just fine with me!

Last week was nuts and I'm just hoping for a much better week. I've been having migraines, I've always had them, but they've been awful for about the past 5 weeks. After trying several medicines and none of them helping, I had a bad one hit Tuesday right after lunch. Hoping that rest would make it go away, I cancelled lessons, but by that night I was in tears. By 3:00 a.m. my whole body was shaking, I was hurting so bad. Thankfully my neurologist is also a friend and I knew if I could wait til morning that hopefully she would let me come in so we didn't have to go to the ER. She gave me a nose spray, a shot of fennegrin, and two shots in the back of my skull that numbed the nerves going to the part of my brain that causes migraines. It was crazy, but it worked. I went home and slept for almost 6 hrs., woke up for a little bit and then went back to bed for 11 hrs. Thursday I was still weak and dragging. But Friday I felt great and actually had some energy which Hudson was very happy for!

Hopefully they'll go away soon. Seems that some women's migraines go away when they are pregnant and some of them come out worse than ever. I thought the constant nausea was enough! I'm ready for this to get better like everyone says it should in the second trimester. I've had a few good days and it's just a tease and gets my hopes way up because it doesn't seem to last. I know I'm being a downer. Just be glad you are a blog reader and not having to put up with me on a regular basis! And if you do have to put up with me on a regular basis, I'm so so sorry!

On the bright side, I have a wonderful family who I will take a moment to brag on...Jason is amazing (even if I do remind him often that this is his fault ;) He has been so wonderful. The other night he fell asleep sitting up in bed while trying to take care of me and my migraine. I'm not sure how he's doing it all. His business is in full swing, he's had to write many papers for school and finals are coming up, he's taken over mom and dad role with Hudson when I'm passed out or curled up in a ball, and he's got this wife who has turned drama queen, high maintenance, and whiny, and still manages to love her so much! He's a pretty good ol' boy if I do say so myself! My poor Mom and Meemaw have made any and every food for me. I've attempted to cook several times only to get sick over the smells. They call every day to see what I want to eat and if I need anything. They even put up with my specifics, no onions, I like my bacon crispy, and so on. I'm just awful, y'all, and 5 more months seems like forever away! I'll spare you anymore of my complaining, have a great week!

Easter

"CHEEEEZZZEE"

Easter day was fun and beautiful. After church we went to Hoss and Meme's and the Attebery's and Head's ate lunch and let me tell you, that is some good food! Hudson had a blast playing with my cousin Richie's two boys. And finally we made it home for a short nap and then off to church again. I think we should eat like that every weekend so that I can eat leftovers for the days afterwards :)

(Sheryl, you'll have to e-mail me some pics we took with you guys, I took them all with your camera.)

The Easter Egg hunt at church was a blast for Hudson. He was all over the place playing with his friends and the different inflatables. This slide was his favorite. He was much more into the egg hunt this year than last. He almost filled his bucket up. After the hunt Jason stayed at church for the wild game supper and me, Meemaw, and H. went shopping since I have no pants I could button. I'm into my 4th month now and have a pooch growing but I am not planning on wearing materity clothes just yet. So thankfully it seems the style this year is loose on the belly so I found several cute shirts.

We went yesterday for our second ultrasound and this time Hudson went with us. You could really tell this time there is a baby in there and not a jelly bean. Hudson was amazed looking at it moving on the monitor. This baby is a wild one! Even the lady that was giving us the ultrasound was entertained. It was bouncing up and down and rolling over and really moving those arms around. Pretty funny!

Hudson was so sweet. We were eating at O'Charleys afterwards and hadn't mentioned the baby in a while when he leaned over and said, "Mom, you got baby in your tummy, it's beautiful!" I have no idea where this came from but it was too sweet. My rough, jump in every mud puddle, play with bugs and worms, little man manages to say something so sweet to me every day. My favorite are the random I love you's!

CRAZINESS...

2 posts in 2 days, insane, huh?! But I'm finally feeling close to my normal self. It's been a great day so far. No nap, no nausea, 6 loads of laundry, Hudson's summer clothes down and sorted through, I've done more today than I have in the past 2 months combined!

But I'm a little sad today, and I don't think it's hormones. My little man is growing so fast. These 3T clothes look huge to me but they're the only things that are going to make him look like he's not preparing for a flood! I thought I wanted a girl but after looking at all these cute little boy clothes, I'm torn, so I'll be happy with either.

I'm also sad but I'm trying to be realistic. Today I am saying goodbye to my size 10's. Oh, how I miss them already. The comfort and looseness we once shared is long gone. Ann Taylor, I'll miss you, you were my favorite, but I'll be back for you again one day, until then, enjoy your stay in the attic.

This means I have to head to town sometime very soon to get some pants that fit, hopefully tomorrow I can have a mini shopping spree :)

I'm looking forward to the weekend. Friday we have a birthday party for my cousin Abbi, Saturday is another cousins Bettye Jean, and also the church Easter Egg Hunt, Sunday should be fun filled with matching Easter outfits, plenty of pictures, and good food at Hoss and Meme's, not to mention the best of all, celebrating our risen Savior! And I can't forget to say Happy Birthday to Aunt Casey! She'll be home tomorrow and I'm sure we'll have to celebrate since all she's done for the past week is remind me that her birthday is Friday! And Happy belated birthday to sweet Loretta!

Happy Easter to everyone!

Hard to Believe, but I'm Blogging...

Those eyes just melt my heart!

Took the pic. above with my phone. These two have way too much fun together!
Below is a cute train set I found at a cosignment sale. He's been knowing all his ABC's and their sounds but just recently has he been able to sing the ABC song and get them all correct and in the right order. He's also counting to 20 and always misses 13!

I know, I'm a slacker! I have a million excuses but I'll save you the missery of reading them. Hudson is growing so fast. I'm soon going to put away all the 2T things and break out the 3T clothing. Not because he can't wear them in the waist, rather because they are high waters. He's still so skinny, but eats a ton of food now. His favorite is apples with peanut butter, grapes, and tacos (he can easily put away 2 tacos!).

His newest thing to say is, "Hey wait a minute second!"

He has been so concerned with the way I feel and when I am laying on the couch (which seems like always), he will say, "Mommy, you sick?" I tell him I am, then he kisses me and says, "You feel better now, you so happy!"

We spent this past weekend in Chattanooga. I had a horse show and we were able to stay with Will and Casey. Hudson enjoyed hanging out with Aunt Casey all day Sat. and Sun. She took him to the zoo on Sat. and although he enjoyed the animals, he was even more into the equipment they were using to do work on the zoo. Aunt Casey would say, "Ooohh Hudson, look at that monkey." And he would say, "Ooohh, Aunt Casey, look at that backhoe!"

The get away this past weekend was so needed. I could use a few more getaways.

On the pregnancy end of things, I'm closing out the first trimester, gladly. I'm hoping what everyone says is so true, that the second trimester I will start feeling better. For all those women who just love being pregnant, you are nuts! They gave me medicine for nausea, which made me feel so much better at first but lately I've been feeling nauseous at night or if I don't eat in time. I guess that's better than the 24 hours that it was before the medicine. I have already gained 10 lbs. and I feel so old lady because in order to button my pants I have to pull them above the bulge I've got going which puts my pants right above my bellybutton-great! Just call me Grandma! I don't feel as tired as I was, but it may because I'm now on a good napping routine with Hudson!

Since I'm being Debbie Downer, let me say a few positive things...I get to ride horses as long as I want I just have to be careful. And we really like our dr. Her name is Dr. Piper and we'll be delivering at Baptist. I also appreciate my man more than ever, he's helped so much and doesn't seem to be minding. Not sure what I would do without him.

Some BIG News

So, no pictures today and a long post. I haven't done a very good job posting lately because I've been so tired. Want to know why I've been so tired? Hudson would tell you, "Mommy has a baby in Mommy's tummy!" And, he's right. What we never thought would happen has happened. I'm 8 weeks, due Oct. 21st.





I have to be honest in the fact that I'm struggling quite a bit with this. I say this not to get lectures from people, but rather prayers. Three of the things I love dearly I'm struggling to do. One is play with Hudson. I'm used to having an endless supply of energy and chasing him all over. Now not only am I exhausted but I am nauseous 24/7. I also haven't been able to work out because I feel sick all the time. I've gained a little over 5 lbs. and I think it's because I haven't been running or on the elliptical. And of course I love what I do for a living but if I don't eat right before I ride then I feel awful so I'm trying to be really careful and eat when I should because I already have a hard time knowing that I'm going to have to stop riding for a little while, I don't want to have to give it up early because I'm so sick to my stomach all the time. On top of all of this, I am emotional and have been negative which both are totally out of character for me. So I'm not handling being pregnant very well. I went from tough girl to whiny sissy and it stinks!!





We had already started out second adoption and just hadn't shared it yet but that has to be put on hold until at least a year after the baby is born. I was so pumped about this. I had never visioned my family being built any other way than adoption and quite frankly this scares me more than adopting. I love the thought of adoption, still do, and still plan on adopting another child.





On the more positive side, Jason has been amazing. Since smells tear me up, he has cleaned the kitchen several nights. He cleans Hudson's potty every day. While Hudson and I were napping this past Sunday he swept the kitchen and cleaned the backporch (yes, Jason Carney did this:)! He and Dad have been feeding horses for me in the morning since mornings are the worse. And I don't even have to ask him to do much, that's the best part. I think it scares him a little to see me like this. Seems to bother Dad, too. He's called and checked on my several days (yes, Wesley Attebery did this:)!





Hudson so far seems to like the fact there is a baby in my tummy. He likes to "tickle the baby". Here's a cute story that I'll remind him of when he hits those teen years: I was holding him the other night and asked was he going to help me with the baby (he loves to help with anything), and he very excitedly said, "YES!" Then he said, "I love you, Mom. You're my best friend!" Talk about a heart melting, mine did. Sweetest thing ever!





We go for an ultrasound this Friday. Keep us in your prayers!

It's been a while...

So, I'm really slacking on the blogging but I think I have good excuses! I'm trying to get geared back up for lessons to start next week. This weather has made feeding take up so much more time. I'm ready for the mud to dry up, it'll make riding 4-5 horses a day so much easier.

Hudson is pretty much potty trained FINALLY! He hadn't made much progress since Russia until we finally buckled down. He always knew what to do on the potty but wouldn't tell us if he had to go or not. So as long as we got him to the potty then it was okay but I knew he knew when he had to go since he just wouldn't say anything. So, like everything else I do, we went all out. We did the Dr. Phil, potty party and a stuffed animal that pretended to use the potty. We did the no underwear or pants for the first few days since he didn't care if he used it on himself or not this was the method suggested for children who use it on themselves without a diaper and don't mind at all. We also rewarded with candy. As a lot of you know, we're weird and don't give him candy and don't keep it in our home, so when he could have a sucker he just thought it was wonderful.

He is also falling asleep on his own in his bed, most of the time. Sometimes he still asks to go to sleep on me and of course, that's okay with me. The first night he fell asleep on his own in his bed, I was a bigger wreck than he was. Jason said, "We don't want him falling asleep on you when he'd 10, do we?" My response, "YES we do and don't even mention 10, I'm struggling with 2 1/2 right now." He's growing up so fast!

I've got to get back in the picture mode, I haven't taken any in a while so I'll try and do more of that since it motivates me to post more often!

Shaving Already!?

Hudson received the coolest package in the mail this past weekend from Uncle Will and Aunt Casey. He is OBSESSED with shaving and stands in awe when Jason shaves. He's constantly pretending to shave his own face. So when he received his own shaving kit, it's all he could talk about. So Saturday night he was able to try it out. He was so pumped and excited but the second the shaving cream went in his hand he got all serious and focused, it was cute! He's been begging me everyday to play with it. Matter of face when I woke him up on Sunday morning the first thing he said when he rolled over was, "shaving cream"!

I haven't done a good job keeping the blog updated with some big things going on like sleeping and potty training. I'll do that one day this week when I have time.

Happy Birthday Grandmom...

Want to wish Grandmom a very happy birthday! Unfortunately we weren't able to make it on Friday to celebrate Gmom's or Aunt Jeanna's birthday because of the snow so we're looking forward to celebrating real soon! Hope you have a wonderful day Sheryl! We love you!