Nine Months of Love!

How quickly has time flown. In a few short days we will be enjoying our newest little bundle of joy! Its been a great pregnancy. I am feeling great! But now I feel like time has stopped. I am so tired of the series of false alarms over the past week. I know its going to happen... Hanging in there...

The nursery is up!

Well today I got accomplished what I wanted. I finally finished the nursery! I have to get out a few more things but at least I got this part out of my system. I was so worried about not getting her nursery letters right. But I am happy how it turned out. For now, Grayson will continue to use the crib. So I have to put his bedding back on for now. When she is born we will have her in a bassinet style porta crib. Her name will stay on the wall. :) Waiting on 5 more weeks!

Nesting has begun

Well here I am just about 5 weeks from having our baby girl. Stretch marks and all. This was taken last night at 34 weeks 3 days. So many emotions have emerged from me lately. I am anxious for her arrival but nervous at the same time. I have dreams of her delivery. How strange it will be to have another little baby in the house again. Its been 12 yrs since we have had a little girl. In that sense I am so excited to see her little face and hold her tiny hand.

I have gone through the house with the intentions of getting the house in order. But I feel like I am at a stand still. Of course we can clean the house to prepare it for her arrival. But I want to do so much more. We are very limited by finances that it makes it nearly impossible to even think about modernizing the kitchen or bathroom. Forget about the livingroom or porch that needs remodeling. We struggle with keeping utilities up and running, forget about upgrading. What I really could use is some help and inspiration to get by. I am far from creative. Discouraged!

As far as preparing for the baby, we are 95% ready I guess. I mean, what else is needed besides a bed, diapers, car seat and love? As for food, I breastfeed until they won't anymore. Well we have the car seat, bedding, swing, high chair, stroller, clothes and a few other ods and ends of things. I do not have one diaper! What am I waiting for? Well I am kinda hoping thats what people bring when they visit. Or if they ask what we need I can say diapers and wipes. I enjoyed picking out all her little clothes myself. I love Carters and Children's Place clothes. Oh those little dresses are just so cute! She will be a princess for sure! I have a fetish for pink and brown anything. I am sure she will learn to hate it. But for now, I love it!

I have been obsessed with home birth/water births lately. I have done plenty of research, watched tons of YouTube videos, talked with people, been supported by my midwife and of course my husband. I have been talking very closely with a friend of mine who has been delivery babies for many years. She has agreed to deliver our baby at home. I am excited about the idea of having the delivery of my choice. The thought of being hooked up to machines and monitors and tubes and nurses hounding me every 15 min turns my stomach. With such a healthy pregnancy I dont see why a home birth wouldn't work out. Its still up in the air so more to come on that subject.

A little family background to start

Well here I am... being myself... I guess I have to start somewhere right?

From the beginning...

My name is April. I am 32 years old, a birthday in April, married to a wonderful man, Scott who is 36. We have 7 children, 5 boys and 2 girls. March 3rd our little girl is due to come into this crazy world. We live a simple life, go to a nice Baptist church, never really been adventurous so we look forward to the day we can go on a real vacation together, alone.

You might wonder how someone so young can have so many kids? Well if TLC got a hold of us they would put us on air... Scott and April plus 8! Our family is constructed of a his, mine and ours team. When Scott and I met back in '95 he had a 3yr old and I had a 15mth old. We were both single parents with nothing to do with the missing parent. In '96 we shared a daughter. It was beautiful. We were both very happy. About a year later Scott received a call that he might have a daughter in another state. Long story short she came to live with us a short while later. So we were up to 4 kids by then! I was like 21 yrs old with 4 kids!

It went on.. in '00 we had our first son together. Some time later in '04 we had another son trying for a girl. So we figured we would try again and in '07 we had another son. We were trilled and blessed. But we both longed for a girl again... so one more time and in March of '09 we will have our little girl at last! So here is our family in order Anthony 16 1/2, Samantha 15, Daniel 14, Cheyenne 12, Shaiman 8, Logan 4, and Grayson 21mths. Our little girl will be named Sequoia Autumn. Its been a long road the past 13 yrs but we have made it this far and plan on going on as God allows us.

Anthony is not in the picture because he wasnt available and i have yet to photoshop him in. :)

Where do I start?

Well this is my first blog. I have never had one of these before. I figured I would give it a try. I am not counting on anyone reading it but it might be helpful to keep a few thoughts written down. Tomorrow I will give it a try and type something maybe worth reading.