17 and 18 weeks with Baby G #3

17 Weeks:

PAINFUL:

Jensen is 2 months Old

Our sweet Little Man is 2 months old. 

Wow, the time is flying and he is growing and changing so much.

We just love this boy! Thank you God for blessing us with Jensen.

Mama's Inadequacies

It's not often that I have a moment to sit and pause and reflect on my life. 

Jensen is napping and Hannah is at a friends house, the cleaning ladies are here and I am FREE for a moment. This blog post was sent to me by my friend Sarah, http://www.whenathome.com/are-you-lonely-mama/ and I think all you Mama's of young children--Yes, YOU should read it too! 

I cried. The reality of the life us Mama's live in, the stage of life, with our babies and toddlers, business gets the best of us. Whether you are changing diapers, cleaning up spit up, finding lost shoes, trying to find something your toddler will eat, keeping  up with laundry or a tidy home, and the list could go on and on. These are the days we are living for. These are the moments we will look back on and wish were still close.

Jensen 1 Month

Jensen Leigh

1 Day Old                                                            1 Month Old

15 Weeks with Baby G #3

Yesterday I was 15 weeks with this sweet little one. 

I am physically feeling well, no real complaints. 

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I am mentally and emotionally tired. It's hard having a newborn, bring pregnant, giving attention to a 4 year old and still having energy to love and honor my husband. This is probably one of the most blessed, but difficult chapters of my life. It's a wonderful chapter and God sure knows what He is doing. That doesn't make it any easier. I just trust that God has got this and I cry when I need to and move on. My husband is so encouraging and believes that I am doing an amazing job. This helps me to get out of my pit when I feel inadequate. Thankfully, I've only had one time where I just cried. I think I am also more emotional because of all these crazy hormones...they certainly don't help. I have moments where I feel inadequate as a mother, wife and what bothers me most is the home maker part. I am used to having my house a certain way, and I've had to really let that go in order to rest and do what is most important...care for my family. I am loving every bit of this journey, but I can't say I'm not without discouragement sometimes. God has planned this explosion of babies and blessings and I am so honored and blessed that he is answering our prayer for more children. 

OK, back to this pregnancy. Heart rate is around 157 BPM and strong. 

Just yesterday, Big Sister Hannah wanted to hear the baby's heartbeat, so I took out the Doppler and showed her. She was in amazement and loved hearing it. 

Today, this is what Daniel captured Hannah doing while I was napping after lunch...

My sweet girl...this just melted my heart. When she was younger she used to say that she had a baby in her belly...so now I am wondering if she is thinking there could be one in there. 

She is very excited about her baby brother or sister...although she says "Kathrin Baby Sister" all the time still. Who knows that my be our name :-) 

I love this time of pregnancy, having a newborn, and a 4 year old to share all the fun baby things with. She loves to be a part of our journey and I just love that she recognizes blessings from God. She prays and thanks God for the blessing of Jensen and the baby in my belly. Precious years!

Okay Sweet Baby!

I am loving you more and more. This is going to be hard for me not to know if you are a boy or girl, but I think it will be the biggest surprise for us. We are so excited either way and we know that God is making you perfectly in His image. He is giving us perfect you, designed for our family for us to love, care for and show Jesus to. I feel you kick every so often, I am excited for when it will happen daily. 

Keep growing and developing as our Father is knitting you together. We are almost 4 months, woohoo!

Love, Mama

First year of Pre-K ends!

Hannah went to 3 day preschool this year and here she was on her first day of school:

The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Crews

Dan's sister Raya was married last weekend to Jonathan Crews. 

It was a very elegant and fabulous wedding. Hannah and her cousins Emi and Jonas were in the wedding as were two of Jonathan's neices. Hannah was so excited to have her hair " twirled" as she called it and to wear her pretty dress. 

Here is Hannah right before we walked in to see Raya for the first time before the wedding.

Hannah's 4 Year Stats

I can't believe our sweet Hannah is 4. 

Pregnancy Update 12-14 Weeks

I have been super preoccupied with being a new Mama to Jensen, taking care of Hannah and surviving the loads of laundry and exhaustion. Every time I think about blogging, I just think how much effort and thought it takes to post. Ok, so I am back. I am going to do my best to get caught up.

12 weeks

This week I was feeling pretty good. I was still a bit tired, but the extreme exhaustion started to dissipate. 

The nausea that I had daily is not such a big deal any longer. I just have to make sure that I eat small snacks or meals throughout the day. I would get nausea when I didn't constantly have something in my stomach. Now, I don't get nausea, i just get those hunger pains.