My poor little boy!

My poor littlest guy is sick and it came on so suddenly. He was great yesterday until after nap when he got 102 fever and all he wanted to do was cuddle with mommy! You know they don't feel well when they would rather lie there and cuddle than play! We had a rough night being up all night with high fevers and throwing up.....luckily we go to the doctor in about an hour to see what is wrong. I suspect more ear infections since he has been pulling on his ears telling me it hurts. You always feel so helpless when they are so sick and wish you could make all their pain go away! It breaks my heart to see him burning up and shivering with a fever and not be able to keep anything down! Poor little guy......we love you and hope you start feeling better soon!

22 weeks and still growing!

Here I am at 22 weeks.....more than half way through!! I cannot believe that we are halfway through this pregnancy! It must seem to go by faster since I am so busy taking care of two other little ones!

I went to the doctor today and everything looks great. I have now gained a total of 8 pounds with 5 of those just being in the last four weeks! I am finally starting to put on some weight. I am still pretty sick but sometimes I have to force myself to eat for the sake of my little girl! I am feeling little movements here and there but nothing very big. My doctor looked at my ultrasound report and told me that my placenta is right in the very front which acts as a cushion for all those movements. So with the placenta being right in the front and with her still being relatively small I don't feel much movement which sometimes worries me, but my my doctor assured me that she is in there moving around! So when I can't feel her move I take out my stethoscope and listen to her heartbeat. Of course I don't hear it as well as I do with the doppler but it is enough to put my mind at ease!

Everything seems to be going as it should be. We will just have to wait and see how this little girl is when I start to get examines in the next two months to know whether we can have a vaginal birth or have to have the c-section. I am hoping for the vaginal birth but I know that the most important outcome is a healthy baby!

Ultrasound pictures of our baby girl!

Here are the pictures from our ultrasound a few weeks ago. I went in a week ago and it was confirmed that she is still a she!

Showing us her girly parts!

Picture of her face

Her two cute little feet!

Profile of our sweet baby girl

Showing us her girly parts again!

For Sale!!

Our house if officially up for sale now as Jake put a sign up this evening. He put the sign up and all I could do is cry......I'm sure being pregnant, hormonal and emotional doesn't help!! I have mixed emotions about selling but we really do feel like it is the best thing for our family now. We need more space as we will be welcoming our little girl home in four months. We also need to be closer to Weber State as that is where Jake is going in the fall for his construction management degree. They only have a bachelors degree for that at BYU and Weber State.....so we feel we need to be closer to Weber as that is where Jake will be going for the next two years.

When we moved to our home here in Murray we never realized just how much we would come to love the area. Our friends and neighbors have been so wonderful to us it is hard to imagine moving away from everyone. It is especially hard for me to leave all the wonderful kids and their mothers that Samuel, Jack and I have come to know and love! We appreciate everyone being so kind and welcoming us into the neighborhood and ward. We truly have felt the love that everyone has for their neighbors and ward members. I remember shortly after we moved in having the Rose Circle block party and we knew then just how wonderful this area was going to be. We have spent many months thinking about this move and it has been a hard decision for us but it is something we need to do for our family. We love the area so much we even considered adding on to the house but with Jake going to school at Weber State he just wouldn't have the time for that. We will be very sad to leave this house and neighborhood but I am also looking towards the future and what that may bring. I am not someone that deals well with change......in fact it is very difficult for me but I know that no matter what happens my Father in Heaven will help me through this difficult and exciting change in our lives!

I look forward to the many new adventures that will come about from this difficult change of leaving our house and friends! I hope that I can keep in touch with all of you through this wonderful world of blogging!

It's a GIRL!!!

That's right......the Romney's are going to be having a baby girl in the house!! Our ultrasound revealed on Friday that we will be having our baby girl! I am still really skeptical about it being a girl since we already have two boys, I wonder how it is possible to be having a girl.....I am only used to seeing the little boys parts on ultrasound, so when the technician pointed on the three white lines for the labia I just couldn't believe it.

Our little one wasn't very cooperative at the beginning with the cord being in between the legs but after I was able to empty my bladder we were able to get her to move around and show us her parts!! I asked the technician several times if she was sure it was a girl and she kept reassuring me that all the girly parts were there pointing them out to us! I still have a hard time believing it so I am actually going to go back for another one in another week just to have them make sure it is a girl and also to have them record the ultrasound since I took my tape in and the recorder was being used upstairs. They told me I could just come back in and they would record the ultrasound and make sure the girly parts are still there and no boy parts decide to show themselves!!

I will have to post some of the pictures we got from our ultrasound later. I am once again dealing with sick kids today!! We are really really excited about having a daughter and cannot wait to welcome her into our home.

16 weeks and counting!!

I decided to post a picture of my baby bump......I have had the baby bump since about 7 weeks and I am now almost 16 weeks along. The picture of my baby bump was when I was 14 weeks.....it keeps growing and growing. I feel like I am going to be huge this time! Here are just a few stats on my pregnancy so far:

• I am due sometime around November 17
• we are going to be trying to have the baby vaginally again. I was successful at having a vaginal birth with Jack after my first birth with Samuel was done by c-section due to him being breech.
  
• I am still felling the nausea and thinking it better go away soon!
• We should be finding out our baby's gender in a couple of weeks.....we are hoping for a girl but will be just as happy for a boy! Samuel tells me there is girl in there....then he changes to a boy and then one day he told us there were two babies in there!!! As far as we know there is only one in there!
  
• weight gain to date: 2 pounds......due to being so nauseous!
• Cannot stand the sight, texture or taste of ground beef......has never bothered me until this pregnancy!
• Cannot stand to drink any citrus juices like orange juice or V8 fusion and splash
• I can pretty much eat anything else but if it has been more than a hour or two since I have eaten then I really start to feel sick and makes it even more hard to eat.
• We are very excited for baby number three to arrive and are happy Jack and baby number three will be 26 months apart instead of the 18 months apart Samuel and Jack are!

A DAY OUT WITH THOMAS 2008

Sam waving goodbye as we drive away on Thomas

Sam pulling his whistle on Thomas.......whoo whoo!

Jack enjoying his ride with his Thomas and friends trains

We decided to try to get those boys picture as they sat on one of the many trains at the Heber Creeper!

Samuel getting his picture taken with Thomas....we tried to get Jack in there but he just kept running away!

Trying to get the boys in front of Thomas to have their picture taken, as you can see Jack is trying to run away again!

We had the opportunity on Thursday to go up to Heber and ride Thomas the Tank. I had heard great things about this so we decided to purchase tickets and go. I had bought the tickets two months ago so we had no idea that is would be a freezing 41 degrees outside! Despite the freezing temperatures the boys loved every minute of it. We were able to visit the gift shop where they had EVERYTHING THOMAS......and of course Sam and Jack wanted these huge Thomas balloons and then we got another little train to add to our collection of the wooden railroad! We were able to look at and play with train sets and then finally able to ride Thomas. The train ride was 25 minutes long which was perfect for the attention span of little kids. After we got off Thomas were waited in another long line to get our picture taken with Thomas. Sam loved to stand and have his picture taken but all Jack wanted to do was run away from us....which he has now mastered. I suppose this running away and not staying put is the age he is at! I'm not sure who had more fun....the boys or me! I just absolutely love seeing my boys soooo happy and doing something they love and enjoy! The boys kept telling us the whole day they they were going to ride Thomas. During the train ride they kept saying choo choo over and over and playing with their Thomas trains! We had at great day visiting Thomas the Tank. As we were driving away from the trains Samuel asked me "where did Thomas go"......we told him he had to go back to the Island of Sodor but we could see him again next year! We will be making this a yearly family outing as they come every year over memorial day weekend!