never knew...

Ok, so i am at work again...browsing the net and i nosed my way over to baileys page and then from hers, i went to her friend taytums. i had to stop myself from crying in front of the boys! i felt everything she was saying! she just found out that her and her husband are finally preggo! and i say "finally" because of her little journey to get there. When jimmy and i first got pregnant, we were NOT planning, so we are one of the "accident" couples that she spoke about. then we became pregnant with Jayla and were REALLY excited but took it for granted and became the "its so easy" couple. we found out we would be expecting baby #3 in september of last year. as soon as i found out, i told everyone..."no big deal." i went to dr's appointment on october 31, halloween, to hear the heartbeat and never heard it. two ultrasounds later and a trip to the hospital finalized the idea i did not want to accept. I was under the impression that i had two healthy pregnancies before, why would this one be any different??? It hurt. my cousin and his wife went through this on their first one and i didnt quite understand until it happened to me. I feel for the couples who never get a chance to experience childbirth and being pregnant and i am lucky enough to have done it twice already. yessss, i am one of those women who do NOT get sick and i love being preggo! i think having jimmy and the other two children in my life helped me a great deal with the miscarriage. i never had to experience the uncertainty of whether or not i could even get pregnant until now. We still want more kids but knowing the we have little control over what happens, it hurts and its scary. so sandee, sometimes i cry when i read your blog. you know that our due dates were within, what, 2 weeks? i love you and all my girls that are preggo or have kids or are trying... or not at all. i just wanted to say thanks to those who helped out and supported me and the fam. LOVE YOU! okay, thats enough of the mushy stuff, not so much me. thanks to taytum for reminding me just how precious our children are and the gift of life is!

Christmas

This is the ONLY pic I took with my camera phone on Christmas morning. We had the video camera going and let me tell you how retarded I am... Grampa Leo and Gramma Penny came over early on Christmas day to watch the kids open their presents. I was so busy helping put together this toy or put a battery in that on that I didn't notice that I also received a present. Jimmy was behind the recorder as he went to the side room, pushed a huge flat screen tv into the room, went and sat behind me and I didn't notice it for about 20 minutes. I took Jameer outside, we rode his trike around, and when I walked in I saw it and thought he brought it out when we were outside. Anyway, it was a lovely gift and I can now lay in my bed and watch tv while Jimmy is on the 360...yeah! What a thoughtful husband, or is that because he wanted more time on the game w/o me asking to watch tv???

Now on to the kids, who I always say I will not spend more than a certain amount... never fails that I go waay over my limit every year! Maybe I should have spent even more and bought a bike that Jameer actually fits! Don't laugh at that giant riding the little trike! (It will be Jayla's soon.) He just did not look like he was going to manage a big boy bike when we were doing our "toy test run" in the store! I wish I would have known he would catch on as quick as he did, then I would have got the other. Jayla's Christmas was full of baby dolls and barbies. She loves to push her baby around in her stroller everywhere she goes. It's so cute to see her being such a "girl." The other day we went out to eat and I put Jayla in a dress and put her bracelet on and fancy little shoes and she was struttin her stuff! Jameer asked me if she was a princess and kept referring to her as "the princess."

to suck or not to suck...

Okay, this belongs somewhere in the middle of December, but because my blogging came to a screeching halt immediately after starting it up, I have to play extreme catch up! No, Jayla DID NOT break her arm or hand, but her babysitter and the ladies at the daycare at LA Fitness probably wanted to call CPS on us when they saw her! :) Some of you feel me on that, right? This is my oh so intelligent hubby's way to deter Jayla from sucking her thumb! Okay, we had Jameer off the paci before he turned 1 and Jayla is now 1 1/2, but he has the girls entire arm bandaged up! I came home from work and saw this for the first time and started dying laughing, but Jimmy was as serious as ever! I don't know which was more funny....Jimmy being as serious as he was or my poor baby bandaged up like that!

Jimmys 28th Birthday!!!

Okay, we celebrated Jimmy's birthday early December and I took a couple cute shots of Daddy and kiddos but I think they are on the 'real' camera???? Here is one of them the other night before headin off to bed. I was actually the one reading to them until HE got home and they ditched me for daddy! We had a fun day making cookies and playing games with the fam...then the little ones were shipped off to Aunt Bai's and we were swooped up by the limo. Yeah, we thought we were living the high life, til the limo company decided to charge extra dinero to my cc card and after calling and calling, voice mail after voicemail, that sucker still hasn't reimbursed me!! I am still calling at least once a day, I might have to march my happy lil self into Scottsdale and handle things in person. I am trying to avoid that because, I'm sorry, Bai, but you know I will have to take the little angels to you for a couple of hours. On that note, I just wanna say that Jimmy and I really do appreciate all the time you are willing to spend with Jameer and Jayla. They can definitely be a handful and when you throw Brody in there...it's a zoo!!! I think, maybe cuz all three of them do NOT know what an inside voice is........
"they get it from their mama(s)!!"