Way behind!!! Expecting a new arrival!!

Goodness I am way behind with this blog, things are fixing to change in a few short weeks we are going to welcome another baby girl into the family!!  We are very excited, but as time draws near I am very anxious as well!  The feelings that I had when I was pregnant with Carlie are all coming back to me again.  I am so worried that I am going to show lack of attention to Aiden and Carlie and I pray that is not the case, I am going to try by hardest to give them all my equal attention if that is possible!  I know it will be possible it will be just getting a routine established that will be the hard part.  I love Aiden and Carlie more than I could ever describe and I know that will be the case with the new addition, nothing like the love you have for your child!  For some reason this pregnancy I have been more emotional than with the other due, I will just blame it on the hormones! As time draws near I can't wait to see Miss Priss and hold her and put a face with that little girl that has been moving all around in my tummy!  I can't wait to see who she favors, whether it be big brother or big sister or a good mixture of the two!  I think Aiden and Carlie will be wonderful with her, I feel like Carlie will want to be a little Mommy and maybe want to help a little to much, but we shall see, she may surprise me.  I can't wait to see Aiden and Carlie bond with there new sister, I loved watching Aiden and Carlie bond and they love each other so much even though they may not show it all the time, so I know watching them with our new little one will melt my heart!  It's funny with this pregnancy I waited a while until I "announced" we were pregnant, it wasn't that I meant to, there just didn't seem like a good time to say anything because so much was going on around the time we found out.  Found out in October 2012 and my Niece was planning her wedding and getting married and I didn't want to take away from any of that and then we got all that over and done with and my Uncle Dan got really sick, I had also been helping take care of him which I am glad I got to help him out in his last days, but he has been in the hospital for a few weeks and he later passed away and boy do we miss him!  So that wasn't a good time and I hate like everything I didn't tell Uncle Dan I was expecting another baby, he loves kids and I know he would have loved this one as well, but he knows, he probably knew before I did that we would be having a new little one!  He loved Aiden and Carlie and Carlie especially misses him a lot and talks about him all the time! So then Uncle Dan passed away right before Thanksgiving and then we still hadn't told anyone and come Thanksgiving we couldn't think of a better time to tell the news, we were very thankful so it was the perfect time.  We where at Josh's parents house having Thanksgiving dinner and we started off by going around the table to tell what we were thankful for, as it got to Josh he said he was thankful for Aiden, Carlie, Mommy and the baby in Mommy's tummy!!  I wish I would have been videoing it was priceless, the kids didn't get it at first so we told them again later, but Josh's Mom and Dad were kind of in shock, his Dad's face was priceless!  They were excited but very surprised and I guess more surprised that we had waiting until I was 15 weeks along to tell the news :)  That was a Thursday and the next day Aiden decided he wanted to spread the news to my Mom and Dad and he did a good job, they were both very surprised to, my Mom still can't get over the fact that I "hid" it so well and I was already 15 weeks along!  We are all very excited the closer it gets, but like I said I have many emotions about everything, I hope it's an easy adjustment, but I think I am asking a little much, but it will all be worth it and I can't wait to hold her in my arms and for the kids to see her for the first time, it will be another moment in my life that just melts my heart and a feeling you just can't explain until someone has been in your shoes.  I go back to the Dr on April 29th and I hope we know a little more about maybe when Miss Priss will be here, she has been breech for a little while, at my last appt Dr Niner still seemed to think she was breech, but said she still had time to turn, that is another reason I am anxious the thoughts of a c-section and the unknown, I prefer to go vaginal so I pray she gets turned.  Dr Niner wants to do another scan at 38 weeks so hopefully that will give us more insight as to whether we have to schedule my first c-section, lets pray she has turned!  Anyways I thought I would update since this is really new news in the blog world since I haven't posted anything about it.  In a few short weeks we will no longer be a family of 4, we will be a family of 5 :)

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It want be like this for long......

Hard to believe that Carlie will start her first day of preschool tomorrow, yes it will only be for two days a week for a few hours, but still seems like she was just born!  Hard to believe little man Aiden will be going into first grade starting on August 27th!  Carlie has not really been into this whole school thing, she says she will go when she is bigger, but we have been talking her up some and I think she is ok with it!  Tonight we let her pick out a lunch box online hoping it would help, she picked out a cute mermaid one so now we just wait until it comes in the mail.  She will be going to the same preschool that Aiden went to, but I didn't start Aiden until he was 4, I think this will be good for her, I hope.  I have told her all the fun things she will get to do, like paint, color, and dress up, she loves all of that, so hopefully after her first day she will be ready to go back, Mrs Robin is an excellent teacher and I know Carlie will love her and Mrs Robin will have lots of fun with her!  Tonight she ask me if I would miss her, boy that caught be off guard, it was so sweet and of course I told her I sure would miss her, but I would be back to get her in a few hours!  I am going to of course take my camera and capture her first day of preschool and hope to get some good pics, Carlie don't always cooperate for pictures so we shall see.  Well I will update after tomorrow and let everyone know how she does!  Pray it goes well for the both of us!

Here is the lunch box she picked out!
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Here are just a few recent pics from our Beach vacation we took with our growing babies! We had a great time and I will post more pics from that trip soon!

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WOW It's been a while! Christmas is Fastly approaching!

I can't believe that 2010 is almost over and done with!! Seems like we were just celebrating Christmas 2009 and Carlie was 10 months and Aiden was 3 years! Time flys way to fast! Each year I look forward to using Shutterfly to create calenders for family, and they always expect them, perfect gift. I also look forward to creating cards with shutterfly to send out to family and friends! This weekend we are planning a trip to the NC Mountains to find the perfect Christmas tree to bring back home with us to decorate! I am hoping to get some good pictures of the kids to use on our Christmas cards this year, maybe 2 or three pictures so I can use more than one on the cards, since they offer various layouts. Shutterfly has wonderful quality and there prices are really reasonable to! The Calenders are something you can keep for years and look back at them. I am going to share a few links with you in case you want to check out all of Shutterfly's neat products and make a friend or family member something they can cherish forever!

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2 Month Check Up

Carlie went for her 2 month check up today and she is still growing like a weed. Carlie weighed 11 lbs 6 0z and she was 22 1/2 inches long. They don't stay little for long that is for sure, especially her considering she wasn't very little when she was born. We discussed with the Dr how fussy she is and he wants to work with us to try everything to fix the problem and hopefully to have a happier baby. He thinks from the way we describe her actions that she has severe reflux, with of course colic. He increased her dose of Zantac to the maximum amount for a newborn to see if that helps any, if it doesn't he is going to switch her to prevacid. He also mentioned maybe adding cereal to her feeding, which I am not to fond of at 2 months I don't want her to get to big just yet, he said he thought it would even out, because she may drink less milk. He didn't mean give her a lot of cereal just a little maybe in the morning and a little at night, he said it would help coat the lining of her stomach and may help with the spitting up, which is terrible. He also mentioned Enfamil AR which has the cereal mixed in and that formula is especially for babies who spit up a lot, but I really don't want to put her on formula unless I just have to right now. I was happy with how the visit went today and I feel the Dr is going to try and figure out why Miss Carlie is not a very happy little girl and we are going to get her straightened out soon. She got her 1st shots today, she ended up with 6 immunizations, but only three sticks in her little legs, one of the immunizations were liquid (RotaTeq Rotavirus Vaccine), which I don't remember with Aiden, but Carlie loved it and she didn't miss a drop! She did well with her shots, of course she screamed and turned beet red, but after it was all said and done she was ok and she slept the evening away, the most she has slept soundly since she has been born I do believe. We go back in a week to talk with the Dr again to see if we notice a change in her and see if increasing the Zantac has helped. If not we will see what the next step is and I may try the rice cereal to see if it helps soothe her stomach, I didn't start Aiden on cereal until 6 months! LOL This goes to show that all babies are very different!! So that is the latest on Carlie, I hope we can figure out what is bothering my little girl so that she can be as sweet as she is beautiful!