BUMPDATE

32 weeks pregnant.

Feeling VERY large. And not so in charge.

This little boy is kicking my butt.

HE is the one in charge. 

haha

Ive been in SO much pain lately, walking just kills. 

My midwife thinks it might be my tailbone outta wack. 

Luckily Im going to a chiropractor soon to get adjusted so I sure hope that it helps! 

Sleep has been.. wait for it.. UNCOMFORTABLE.

Of course.

But its hard to get a good nights sleep when I have to roll over 107540234 times a night, go to the bathroom 12635 times a night and when I try to stretch out get 61348613 charley horses in my legs. By morning my hips are aching, which forces me out of bed against my own will. 

That is why when it comes to Emery's nap time, I am exhausted still and I fall asleep quick and seem to get a good rest whether I only sleep for 30 min of her nap time or the full 2 or 3 hours, it at least is a good sleep.

After nap time is when I am FINALLY able to function more like a normal human being and get done what I need to for the day. 

Ive started feeling like throwing up again. My 1st trimester symptoms are trying to weasel their way back into my life. Yuck.

Ive lost my sweets craving, which is weird. But Im not totally upset about. Haha

Ive actually not really had an appetite for anything lately. But obviously need to eat or I will feel even more sick. 

Pregnancy is just weird.

I CANT WAIT TO BE DONE AND FEEL NORMAL AGAIN.

Sitting is uncomfortable.

Standing gets uncomfortable.

Laying down is no different, still uncomfortable.

My ribs on my left side jab into my uterus so I have this tender painful spot that just aches, all. day. long.

Up until this past couple weeks I havent been very emotional. 

Usually pregnancy just makes me more annoyed with people.

But Ive never been a crier. 

Even while not pregnant I just dont cry. 

Until now.

Its like a switch turned and the littlest things have been making me WANT to cry.

And a few times I do cry.

Im one to try and never cry in front of people so I'll keep it together.

But then like the other day I hop in the shower, not even knowing I felt sad or the need to cry, and BAM Im crying like a baby. 

Okay hormones, okay.

Youre making me a bit crazy.

I really have been losing my mind too.

And I will forever blame it on pregnancy/mommy brain.

Im SO excited to finally meet this little man.

I get so giddy when I think about him.

I cant wait to see what he looks like.

Or what Caleb will finally decide to name him. (Its killing me. We had a list and I told him to pick but now he wants to keep looking for MORE names. UGH. He wants to name him since he said I named Emery. Obviously we'll both agree on a name but he wants to choose it. SO im just waiting. and waiting.)

This post was a bunch of rambling... 

but you thats as good as its going to get for now.

:)

November.

Ok.

I am writing this on December 1st.. (its taken me about a month to do all my catching up...)

but seriously, November just FLEW by. 

Picture time!

This is when we set her bed up, it was like 6pm and she just wanted to lay in it forever. You could say it was a success!

Her new thing to do, put on mommas shoes and hop around, literally hopping right out of them! haha

Just wearing my shoes! Dont mind her crazy hair or mismatched clothes...

I woke up to find this. haha

She hardly EVER falls asleep on me. But she did while we were reading books and I loved it. :)

She is seriously getting so big!

Just taking selfies while we waited for dad to get home

Ok this was toooo funny, first she put that flower thing on her head and continued to play for awhile then she found her toy phone and I hear her saying "CHEEEEEEESE" and look over and shes holding it up pretending to take a selfie. HAHAHA!

My loves just coloring the night away

I have no idea why her shirt is like that, she was just sitting reading while waiting for me to come get her after her nap

Just sleeping in her big girl bed like a pro! I still go in and look at her every night before I head to bed.

My babies ;) hahaha

Outside swinging on the porch swing. She always makes Caleb AND me both sit on either side of her. She'll get mad if one of us has to get up.

My mom and Mike went to California for a week so Emery and I took advantage of their big tub... we loved it!

And again she falls asleep on me while reading! Does this make me a boring mom??? Hahaha I loved the cuddles though!

My cute date! Caleb worked a long Saturday one week so Emery and I ran a bunch of errands. Literally from 10am to 6pm. We did take a break when I looked back at her and she was sleeping, so we went home and I laid her down for a nap, she slept 3 hours then once she got up we were right back out running more errands! She was SO good so we decided to have a dinner date at Noodles before heading home.

Just jumping around in my boots haha

This is how a lot of my days have been going, me trying to clean while Emery is either busy making messes, or hanging on to me. I usually dont get a lot done because I would much rather play with her!

Running errands with a tired, hungry toddler isnt a good idea. She was being kinda crazy, but I only needed a few things so we were pretty quick. I thought I was in the safe and relieved that it didnt go as bad as I thought. Until we were checking out. She grabbed that pen thing thats connected to the thing that you slide your card on and she would not let go, or let me slide my card or any of that. Obviously I had to so I calmly kept telling her what I needed to do but she decided to scream instead. The cashier was a young teenage boy and he just stared at us not knowing what on earth to do, so finally hes like "Would she like a sticker?...." So I asked her all excited like and she immediately stopped crying and said yes and that made her night and she was totally fine. Let the start of the terrible twos.... and threes.. BEGIN. baahhh.

Being so cute on Thanksgiving day at her Great Grandmas house

Caleb went black friday shopping for literally 12 hours. I thought he would be home at least in time to put Emery to bed buuuut he wasnt. So Emery and I had a fun girls night and watched a movie and had popcorn and M&Ms after dinner.

This cheese face. LOVE HER.

Just a selfie cuz I love my main girl.

Crazy hair dont care

Her and her babies.

Love this little mama. I had forgotten my wallet when we went out to run errands, so we went and played in the toy aisle and it was a lot of fun! Until I wanted to leave of course. Luckily she finally pooped and so I got her to leave by saying "Ewww you are stinky, did you poop? Lets go get a nice clean diaper on you." She said "Ya! Stinky Poop! Poop!" And we went and changed her bum and were outta there :)

Us on Thanksgiving day which was actually Calebs birthday too! We went to my grandmas first, then went to his grandmas. We had a fun day! We havent had time to celebrate his birthday yet. Im hoping we get to soon!!!

Grandpa Mike pulled out their christmas lights and Emery sure loved them! She kept rolling around in them and just wanted to hold them.

We went to boondocks and met up with Kiley and Jason. We had a great time! Even though they both killed us in bowling....

Emery and Jamillie both loved pushing the ball. They were the cutest little bowlers there. 

Now that I am finally all caught up with the month updates I hope to start writing more blog posts!

But life gets busy. So I probably wont write as much as I intend to.

I honestly dont have much alone free time. 

When Emery naps these days, I like to nap. 

When she goes to bed, Caleb and I like to spend time together. 

And to me, naps and quality alone time with my hubs is more important than blogging... 

haha BUT I do need to make a sacrifice more often because I really need to blog more.

So I can print it off into a book! 

#Familypictures #18months

I absolutely LOVE the fall. 

Best time of year if you ask me!

So of course I really wanted to get fall family pictures taken, but it wasnt exactly in our budget, so I just had my good friend Lindsay take some for us! 

We got a few good ones! 

I am so happy that we got some because I definitely plan to take some every year. 

 Here are a few of my favorites:

She kept wanting to play "Ashes" (Ring around the Rosie) We ended up playing quite a few times throughout the shoot haha but I just love this shot and how our arms kind of make a heart :)

Emery also turned 18 months old the end of October so we took a few shots of her for her 18 month pictures. She is way too cute!!!

I cant believe that she is already a year and a half!! 

She has brought SO much joy into our lives and I am so blessed to be her mommy. 

She is growing up way too fast before my eyes, but I love watching her grow and learn every day.

She seriously learns so much and something new every day. 

I learn so much from her as well. 

She loves books

bugs

babies

bubble baths

nursery songs

"ashes"

dancing

animals

coloring

being tickled

playing outside

She has 6 teeth and is cutting 8 teeth right now.... ya. holy cow.

She is a talker. She knows so many words and phrases and learns new words every day. It is so fun to hear her cute little voice talking and I love how much easier it is now to communicate with her.

She is so smart and understands so much, it honestly blows my mind and amazes me daily.

She is still such a good sleeper. She sleeps 12 hours at night then is down to one nap during the day for 2-3 hours. 

She is starting to get picky with food and not eat as much but I've heard thats normal when they are teething.
She loves to help me clean.
There seriously is so much I could write about her but I'll just leave it at this for now.
We are so blessed to have her in our lives and love her SOOOO very much.