Some Recent Photos From My Phone..

I have a great camera, and cute kids, but not enough hands to keep up with photographing/recording all these memories! So here are a few from my phone. I will work on using that camera more this summer.

Here are L & O at gymnastics. They are pretty strong and enjoy it a lot. They both do a pretty good bridge already. 

 Don't know if I already posted this, but Frankie's favorite dinner is cauliflower. He will eat anything mixed with it lol. I boil it and puree it and freeze it in cubes to defrost as needed. He gobbles it all up---but it does stink...like cauliflower does. It has the consistency of mashed potatoes but more nutritious. The older kids will eat the "white trees" sometimes too.

 My cutie boy. He is such a pretty boy when he smiles, but lately if he even gets a glance of me walking away he screams til I hold him. And unlike Lucas, he is STILL not sleeping through the night. I am nervous about baby #4 and Frankie at night. I feel my hair turning gray already! And my freaking teeth are so sensitive. Not my gums, no swelling or bleeding, but just breathing in gives a sharp pain. I am taking prenatals but some sites say to take/ingest more calcium. I also am still getting over a bad cold and my sinuses are congested which may aggravate that too.

Oh and baby #4 is tentatively named: Felix !

By the way, the video of the ultrasound doesn't show the part where the dr sees he is a boy---the doc barely looked so I am thinking it's still possible that it's a girl. We'll have names picked out either way :)

The Next President?

I've been reading news articles and getting more saddened by the way things are going. It's a depressing thing to realize how backward the people in charge of this country are. Obviously looking around the world at the crazy Muslims with their murdering, FGM:

(entire classes of little girls in Sweden were found to have had their genitals mutilated during their summer trips back to their parent's homelands), beheading and other violence makes me glad to be on this side of the planet, but concerned about being outnumbered as a Christian in this world. Seriously--is their whole religion not based on sexual gratification (for men)? Do they ever come out to condemn these acts? Do they ever give to any charitable causes? I have to wonder what they are praying for, when they pray at 5:00...can't be for world peace. I have concerns that our country is leaning toward an 'anything-but-Christian' attitude, to the point of appeasing muslims.This man was told to take down his flag as it "threatens the Muslim community" in Webster TX--where we used to live when we first came to TX.

(this man's american flag "offend Muslims"--happened in Webster TX)

 And then there's the appeasement (and funding) of the other blood-hungry murderous brigade, the abortion industry. Since the truth is becoming more apparent to the general public, the attacks and hatred is less veiled, and there is no longer room for logic or rational thought in their arguments. To me, those 2 groups represent today's biggest evils. The movie industry has even come to the rescue of the pro-abortion's faltering hopes, by making a 'romantic comedy' about a quirky fun hipster intelligent girl, who gets knocked up, and chooses to kill her baby, and never regrets her decision. Who wants to watch that crap? Defining deviancy down I tell you. We already have seen the damage Obama has done and how sneaky he can be about government funded abortion, inevitably included in his ridiculous healthcare mandate. And now freely-owned companies are forced to pay for employee's abortifacients, as if it's an American past-time, and a privilege the founding fathers worked hard to defend. People choose to act as if that is a civil right, to have murder paid for by your employer. It's not banning it, it's simply allowing a privately-owned company the right not to fund an act they disagree with. Their employees are free to change jobs, or Heaven-forbid, pay the few bucks required to buy their kill-pills. And somehow the Christian stance is the one waging a 'War on Women."

I remember meeting a former Planned Parenthood director here in McKinney, and she talked about how it eventually became too overwhelming to overlook how greed-driven PP is, and that weekly meetings went over methods to push for more abortions always. You can see their crass attempts at boosting 'sales' by where they build their facilities. That's why in urban places like NYC, more black babies were aborted than were born last year. For every 100 black children born, another 77 are aborted!!! This black pro-life writer was threatened by the NAACP after exposing their support of their own genocide. In another heavily black and poor city of Detroit, a third of the babies are aborted. And just last year, everyone was up in arms about my home state of Texas decisions that forced abortion clinics to merely be cleaner, and safer...even that's a threat to their money. That a doctor have hospital privileges, that the doors be wide enough for stretchers (a problem which contributed to a botched-abortion death). And these precautions were attacked by pro-choicers who screamed "Hail Satan" at praying Christians in the capital. Even by celebrities who quickly started funding causes to save dirty TX abortion clinics (you can always depend on that annoying Sarah Silverman to make defenseless murder, into a cute funny hobby for her very active vagina.) She and other questionable comedians went on a tour called "Night of a thousand vaginas" to fundraise for TX abortion clinics. She also calls unborn babies "goo"--looking at my 12 week ultrasound on my previous post, it seems to me she's never seen a baby or fetus. She like many other adamantly pro-choice people, want to stay ignorant.

  So with the prospect of Hillary Clinton as our next Commander-in-Chief, I shudder to think of how much more damage can be done here and around the world. Her fake concern for women's 'healthcare' in being worried about botched abortions in third world countries sickens me. She will talk about how she thinks she brought the abortion level down when she was first lady with her fight against teen pregnancy. And how pregnancy without abortion options around the world, forces a life of oppression and hardship on women. (No human progress without abortion-on-demand) But to publicly fund Planned Parenthood, allow them in schools to indoctrinate young kids (and teach them about sado-masichism) and then act like that doesn't encourage sex, violence, rape, and abortion, is crazy. Of course to me, the sexual education starts at home, but to her, it's the village that raises the child, and the village is the federal government.

   Obviously she is more intelligent than our current president, but her coldness scares me. Even her reaction to seeing Muammar Gaddafi being tortured and dragged in the streets was unsettling to me (of course I didn't like Gaddafi, but no one should be that callous in witnessing barbarians torture and kill.) Having seen her lack of concern for Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi, and her angry defense of inaction after repeated requests for more security measures, exemplifies her cold cold heart. And now here's a recording from the 1980's where she discusses a "favor" she did, in freely defending a man who raped a 12 yr old girl in 1975--she even finds it laughable that she got him off with time served (2 months), when she knew his guilt. The victim has recently come out to talk about what hell Hillary put her through, and ask 'how can she say she cares about women?"


Scary times we live in. I guess I better build up the Christian army for God. Another issue in this country...people's disdain for children. The birth rate has dropped to 1.89 in the US, which means less than even replacing the 2 parents. Whats wrong with people and their priorities?

This guy says it better for me...Gavin McInnes--start watching at 22:25. I love him :)

I was wrong!

My doctor recommended I get a 12 week nuchal translucency scan done to check for markers for chromosomal issues. Since it was non-invasive and i've miscarried before, I agreed. I am always excited to see the baby growing and moving! Even at 12 weeks, when they are the size of a lime, they are so human to me in their movements and look, that it amazes me anyone could think otherwise.

    They measured the fold behind the neck, and said everything looks healthy, heartrate was 163, and the baby actually measured 7 days bigger than my gestational period suggests :) Maybe we will have a Christmas baby!

   To my surprise, (as far as the dr could tell at this point), the baby looks to be a boy---I was so sure it was a girl, I had a name picked out and was saving more of Olivia's old clothes. But John is happy, I'm happy and Lucas is happy to get another baby brother. Olivia still wants a girl, so I said "maybe next time, or when we adopt". :) So far the name we like best is Benson. We really like this show called "The Regular Show" and there's a character named Benson. You know we'll probably call him Benny. Well, we have time to change our minds by New Year's Eve.

     Of course, at my 20 wk scan, we could get another surprise and find out it is actually a girl :) Who knows!

Slacking

Been slacking on the blog. Here's a quick update of things I can remember!
-We got a new car...after looking at various 7 seater vehicles, we deduced that the only one that had efficient space for the inevitable double stroller, was...our brand new huge Chevy Suburban! Pictures soon..

-I go to my 12 week nuchal translucency scan tomorrow, during which time I should find out if I am correct that #4 is a girl :)

-Norman has moved out and lives in Austin for now with his fiance--and they adopted Shmoopy! It was the right thing to do; Shmoopy was my baby but is now neurotic and too needy for me. My priorities are now my real kids. He is getting the love and attention he needs with Norman and Emily. Tyrone is a better dog, and is not neurotic. He's fairly reliable left alone. (no licking, panting, droopy eyed sadness, not willing to go outside etc...)

-I have deduced that Frankie's rash is related to an allergy to polyester. His favorite cozy blankie, (not to mention many clothing, wash rags, and toys) are made of polyester and he was rubbing his blanket on his face causing the rash. I have thrown it out and bought a few 100% organic cotton blankets. His face has improved, but we are using a little topical ointment to keep it away. I think he's just my sensitive baby!
It sucks to have thought it was something in my milk...and changed my diet drastically and then eventually giving him a special probiotic formula, when it was his blanket. His dr isn't sure about my diagnosis, but nothing she has done has fixed it for over 5 months now. I read other mom's accounts with the same experience.

Ready for the beach "pool'!

Anyway, today we took our big car an hr north to the border of OK and TX, on Lake Texoma. I read about the Eisenhower State Park and how it has a nice sandy beach. It was beautiful but hard to walk down to with all our kids and gear (and back up was obviously worse!) It was so hot but I was grateful John bought us this canopy at home depot. Our kids are too pale not to have lots of shade. They all enjoyed themselves and we put sunscreen on all the kids....and on John...but I thought I was too cool for school, so I just put whatever was left on my hands on my shoulders..and that was it. I now have crazy sunburns/patterns on my red hot shoulders. Oh well!  Here are some pictures from our day--we are thinking of going camping there later this year before #4 comes---crazy, i know.

 There's John and the kids. The water was really cold, which felt great after burning in the sun and on the hot sand.

 There were cool caves in the rocks--full of people's names. Tried to carve our initials..but couldn't get it deep enough with a rock.

Our swap meet stand as I call it...it was nice to have our own oasis though. Lot's of stuff to carry on the long trek...pics of the never ending stairs next time!--and without the huge cooler!

 Lucas says"mama! I made a friend!" And they played badminton. I was surprised the dollar store/cheap target stuff I bought worked out!

Summertime lovi-i-in, lovin in the summertime.