Oklahoma State Fair - our first time

My favorite animal from the animal barn - an Appaloosa Horse

Raegan cheering on pig #2 in the pig races

Ice cream - our treat at the fair, Raegan didn't like her M&M blast ice cream cone, so I traded her and she ate my Oreo one

I'd say it was a successful afternoon!

Trip to Grammee's house

 Wearing her overalls to help Papa water the horses, this is Precious and John. You have to wear your overalls on the farm : ) Love this girl!

Cheesing for the camera while sitting on Grammee's green bucket, she's growing up so fast!

Happy 3 1/2 birthday to Raegan! Baking cookies at Grammee's house - what could be better : )

Sept. 21, 2012

Update...

Life has been super busy, but while I was talking to my mom on the phone this morning she asked if I still kept up with this blog.  I always think about things, like oh I should remember to write that down, but I don't get to the computer with free time to write them out very often... so this one's for you mom ; )

It's Friday night and we are enjoying a family night and sitting on the couch watching Baylor play the University of Louisiana Monroe and I decided half time would be perfect for updating the blog.

I am 32 weeks along... and feeling MISERABLE!  I'm 42 1/2" around (I was 42 inches around right before I had Raegan), I've also gained 38 lbs. so I'm about on track with the 50 lbs I gained when I was pregnant with Raegan.  I had to explain to the doctor this morning that I'm not worried about gaining a lot of weight and I'll probably just have a big baby again.  I'm also working a busy season right now, which means 50-60 hours of work a week, which I am certain does not make this more enjoyable. I try to keep reminding myself that things will be harder after he is born and that I will miss being pregnant. 
Here is a picture from 9/11/12 of our active baby boy.

I think he looks a lot like Raegan, here is a picture of her when she was 1 week old...

See that bottom lip and chubby cheeks?

With all that's going on, we decided next week would be a good one to send Raegan to spend time with Philip's parents.  She loves going to see her Grammee and Papa, visiting her cousins and great grandmother, and of course Precious, her horse.  Speaking of Miss R here are a few more of Raegan's funny sayings:

- "Mom come wipe me" "why" "just because I love you SO much"
- Mommy do you love daddy so much?
- Clap for Raegan
-here's my number, so call me maybe
-I'm a Baylor girl
-That's not a touchdown thats a touch up
-Are you pregnant?
-I love my sisters so much
- Yea! I'm so excited
-5, 4, 3, 2, 1 blast off
-there's one inside and two outside, that's three mom
-Mommy you be nice or I go to school without you
-I like daddy's hello case very much
-ask daddy please you have more ice cream, ask him that
-if you a girl you say "yes ma'am"
-I have to make cupcakes, my grammee said make cupcakes, so I am


She's such a little chatter box and so very enertaining!

Here is a sneakpeek Jamie Krishner shared with us.  She donated a photography package for a YWCA silent auction that Philip and I won.  Raegan was cooperative for most of the session, so I can't wait to see more!

Perido y encontrado

Reason # 976853 why I love my husband so much:

I took Raegan to the library last Friday after I picked her up from school.  She loves to go pick out new books, play on the touch screen computers, put puzzles together, and make new friends.  She ran in Friday and fell in love with this book :

She picked it off the shelf herself and went and sat at a table and started "reading" it in her loudest voice, so all could hear.  The librarians there are great and found this to be the cutest thing and then asked if they could video tape her reading sometime, because it was just too cute.  I think Raegan liked the attention because she just kept going and going.  I went on to find some books with read along cds and never had to worry about where she was because I could hear her reading from across the large room.

Anyways, Raegan finished "reading" this book and carried it with her from one activity to the next in the library.  I tried multiple times to explain to her that I couldn't read that book and maybe we could get one in English instead.  She insisted that she needed this book and when I would conveinently forget to pick it up after we set it down to play on the computer or do a puzzle, she'd always make sure to run back and get it. 

Philip had a very long day Friday, setting up by himself to sell CFA sandwiches from 3 different locations throughout the OU stadium. With wind gusts over 50 mph one of his tent locations went down, meaning the metal posts actually broke due to the force of the wind and his menu signs were lost.  Major setback the day before the first home game.  Thankfully, our good friend/fellow operator Mike down the street had an extra one in storage that Philip was able to borrow (although that did include killing a black widow spider to get to it, but that's another story).  Philip made it home for dinner before 8 and took on the challenge of reading Raegan's lovely book.  Raegan handed it to him and said, "daddy, can you read this?" He took it like any other book and started reading it in Spanish, he sounded nearly fluent as if he spoke the language everyday, he actually seemed to be enjoying the story, at least more than Raegan and I did as we clearly had no idea what was going on besides what we could gain looking at the simplistic pictures.  I'm sure his highschool spanish teachers would be as proud of him as I was and I'm thankful that he is such a wonderful daddy. 

Spending the summer at the doctor

Where did August go!  I feel like this summer was filled with doctor visits, not just for my pregnancy, which included a trip to a specialist, as well as multiple blood samples, and that awful glucose test.  We go back to the specialist for another sonogram on Sept. 11th, I can't wait to see how much this wild little boy has grown. 

Below is a picture of Philip recovering from his deviated septum surgery.  This was a pretty hard surgery for him to recover from.  Luckily my mother in law came up to our home to help us out around the house and with Raegan.  Dr. Buyten, who is the same doctor who did Raegan's ear tubes in 2010, did a great job on Philip's surgery.  He is doing much better now and can breathe much easier.  He's also going to get allergy shots once a week now.

Raegan visited 3 dentists this summer before we found one to fix her cavaity between her two front teeth.  We had to go to the hospital on August 15th so they could put her under general anethesia for the procedure. She did well and her teeth look great. 

This is a picture of her after they gave her stickers and let her pick out a teddy bear before she went in for the procedure.

On August 24th Philip had a colonoscopy.  We were blessed to find out there were no real concerns, I think the problems he was having were just due to stress.  He was under conseous anthesia which made him very forgetful.  When I was waitiing with him afterwards, he would ask me, "Have you talked to the doctor? Did you like him? So no polyops, no cancer?" I'd answer him with, "Yes, you spoke with Dr. Baradi too, he's nice, no polyops, no cancer." Then he'd fade off to sleep and wake up 2-3 minutes later and say, "Have you talked to the doctor? Did you like him? So no polyops, no cancer?" I answered straight faced for about the first 5 times and then I just couldn't help but crack up.  Made me think about how he may be when we are in our 80s and how much I'll always love him.

Let me out!

26 weeks along

I haven't done a great job at documenting this pregnancy.  Okay I will rephrase that I've done a horrible job.  With Raegan as soon as we found out (albeit a little later than most), I took pictures of my belly, counted down days, picked out a name, decorated a nursery, etc...  Maybe it was the newness of it all.

Honestly, to figure out how far along I was before writing this post I used some online calculator and when people ask me how far along I am (usually accenuating I look like I could pop any minute) I just say I'm not due till mid-November, because I haven't been keeping track. 

Anyways I really am more than 1/2 way there and I know these next couple of months are going to fly by!  We have two trips to Texas planned during August, we are anxiously awaiting some important news from Chick-fil-A, our 5 year anniversary is in September, I will be promoting to Manager at Ernst & Young in October the same day as my birthday actually, and I have a busy season to complete between now and the time this baby is due. 

I do have a name picked out, its just a matter of convincing Philip its the right one : ) don't worry Raegan has been a big help in this process.  Speaking of Raegan, she is so ready to be a big sister, anytime I call her princess, sweetheart, silly, etc... she says, "no, I'm the big sister, Raegan Smith."  She talks to her brother daily, tells him to watch her, reads him books, gets on to him for kicking mommy too hard, gives him hugs and kisses, and tells daddy to give him hugs and kisses too. I can't wait to see them interact with each other, its going to be so special.

Besides my poor tracking, this pregnancy has been so much different than my first.  He is sitting (well swimming) VERY low.  Raegan liked to hang out under my ribs, but I'm afraid that if I sneeze this little boy may just make an early appearance. 

Thinking of Others

Raegan had a physical this morning so that she could get cleared for her surgery (dental fillings) on Friday.  Besides her normal shyness around people she doesn't know, this was the best doctor's visit I think she's ever had.  (Possibly due to a little bribing went on before we went into the office, but I'll never tell)  She stood on the scale and weighed 29.2 lbs and stood up tall so the nurse could measure her height of 35 1/2 inches.  The doctor checked on her and her cough and decided it would be best if we rescheduled the surgery because of her cough, so we did. 

After her appointment she got to pick out 2 stickers for being such a good girl.  She picked up Dora right away and then seemed to have a hard time selecting the 2nd one with the doctor and I both encouraging Ariel, Cinderella, My Little Pony, etc... when to our surprise she picked up Spiderman.  Both the doctor and I were a little thrown off, but Raegan didn't say a word.  We checked out and on the way to take her to school she said, "Mommy I got Dora and Spiderman, a girl and a boy. Dora is a girl and Spiderman is a boy.  Dora is for me and Spiderman is for Jonathyn because Jonathyn likes Spiderman." We didn't get to school till after 9am so I figured all her classmates would already be in class and I was a bit worried about her taking in a sticker for only one friend.  However, we pulled in right after Jonathyn and as soon as she saw him, she practically jumped out of my arms to run and give the spiderman sticker to him before we even reached the front door of the school.  He was so happy and they ran off to play together on the playground and never turned back to say bye.

I'm thankful that she is such a sweet girl who is always thinking of others and who loves her friends.