We’re doing the guessing game again! This time I’m doing it on a different website, so if you would like to enter my game this time, please go to this website.
Winner will receive a $25 Scentsy Gift Certificate.
Current Stats:
4 Boys, 3 boys born at 36 1/2 weeks, 1 boy born at 40 weeks. Weights were 5 lb, 4 oz, 6 lb, 2 oz, 5 lb, 14 oz, and 7 lb, 3 oz. Average length was 18 1/2 inches long.
Happy Guessing!
After a little scare on Wednesday morning, I was able to get in to see my doctor that afternoon. We were able to see the baby with a strong heartbeat and measuring at 1 CM in diameter. He/she is so tiny!!!
We are very thankful for this new addition to our family 🙂
I can’t believe we’re in November now. October went by way too quickly, and now I’m starting to plan for Thanksgiving. We’ve had a lot of things happen over the past month or so, and here’s a rundown.
1- We found out that we are expecting Baby #5 in July! July 13th to be exact, which happens to be the day that both my Feucht grandparents died, 10 years apart from each other. It’s also my sister-in-law’s birthday. Knowing the way my family likes to share birthdays and other events, I am thinking this baby might just come on his due date. If you do the math you will probably realize that I’m a day short of 5 weeks, and believe me, I normally don’t like to announce these things that early. However, my sister let the cat out of the bag! We would appreciate your prayers for a safe and healthy pregnancy.
2- We added to our family through the adoption of a more prickly sort of baby. We got a new pet on Sunday- a baby hedgehog. She was born Sept. 26th and we’ve been on the waiting list since the spring to get her. The boys are very excited, although a little intimidated, by our new pet. The hedgehog is a GIRL and we have named her Prickles.
3- I’ve been having chest pain for the past week and they haven’t been able to find out what the cause of it is. They suspect stress, though I never got any definite answers. I went in on Friday to see my family practice doctor, where they took my pulse, blood pressure, O2 levels and gave me an EKG. Everything came back normal, so he sent me to a cardiologist. She took a look at me on Friday afternoon and said that everything looked normal, but wanted to run an echo to make sure. So, I went on Monday morning and everything came back normal. Since I’m pregnant they can’t do any other tests, and I thought it was getting better but today it came back worse again. So I’d appreciate prayers for that as well.
4- I’m planning to take a break from Sarah’s Baby Boutique. It has become pretty stressful, and I am trying to reduce my stress. I have been doing Zumba though, and that has been wonderful. I am really enjoying it. My instructors, Mandy and Kristyn, recently won the top fitness instructors award for Western WA for the second year in a row! They are really fun. They are also both Christians and have kids at preschool with Sam. Mandy’s older girls also attend Patrick’s elementary school. I am also now doing MOPS at a local baptist church. They meet twice a month and it has become a real blessing already, even after only 4 meetings!
5- Boys are doing great. They have been keeping me busy. Patrick is learning how to read, Sammy is learning how to write his name, Ethan is learning how to talk, and Liam is so close to learning how to walk. They are all developing at their own pace, which is fine for me.
6- Patrick turned 6 on the 18th of October and Ethan turned 3 on the 1st of November. Patrick wasn’t picky about a birthday theme, but Ethan insisted on Elmo. I am not sure why Ethan is so interested in Elmo, but he absolutely loves the furry red monster!
7- After lots of drama, many company policy changes and a lot of stress, I have decided to leave PartyLite. The company was just not for me, even if I did like the products. So… I am now selling Scentsy and all the problems I had with PartyLite are gone. I am very happy with the switch. Scentsy primarily sells plug in electric warmers and wax melts, although they have some other fun stuff as well. All the boys, plus the new baby, will be getting a Scentsy buddy for Christmas. The lion goes to Liam!
So, that’s everything in a nutshell!
… but insanely busy.
Between taking boys to and from school, doing Zumba 3-4 days a week including Saturday mornings, working really hard making diapers for a growingly popular business, and doing fun trips here and there with boys (the zoo, the library, and fair, for example), I’ve had little time to blog. We are all doing well, though! One of these days I’ll catch up!!!
If anyone in the area is interested in trying a Zumba class, let me know. I can get you a free weeks’ pass. I’m feeling very energized by going. Doing it in the morning has been giving me the energy to get through the days. It’s a fun and very good workout. I love it!
So, I took a good bit of time to write that blog post about Liam on his birthday, but I failed to mention Sam on his birthday. Well, Sammy turned 4 on July 24th, a mere two days after Liam turned one. Unfortunately, I had plague. Well, not plague, but I did have strep throat. I came down with it on the afternoon of Liam’s birthday, and thought it was the flu. So, I was sick… really sick. It took me 5 days to go see the doctor about it, and finally when I did I was properly diagnosed and given antibiotics. After that, the pain, the fever, and the vomiting cleared up within a day. I wish I had gone sooner. So, as you can see, I was really quite sick for Sam’s birthday, and I barely got out of bed. We did have a cake for him, and I did get some pictures, but it wasn’t the party that I had planned. I had imagined a really fun Thomas the Tank Engine party, complete with shish kabobs, baked beans, rice pilaf, fruit salad, a jello salad, and cake, with an electric Thomas train chugging along the track laid out on the table, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. Maybe next year…
Fortunately, I was able to recover in time for Andrew and I to celebrate our 7th anniversary. We went up to Victoria on Friday morning, and stayed one night. It was a lot of fun. We didn’t really do very much besides relax, but it felt really good. It was just the sort of break we needed, and now that we’re home again, it’s back to reality. I have so much to catch up on. One of these days I’ll put up pictures… well, at least I keep on telling myself that, but unfortunately, I’m not entirely sure if it will ever really happen or not. I’m finding it very hard to maintain a blog these days!