Baby Update

I went to the doctor on Thursday (it was so exciting to get out of the house) and everything is still good. My doctor told me that she really wants me to carry these little guys for 37 weeks, so that would be until the last week in January! My stomach is already 40 inches (it grew 3 inches from last week) so I'm as big as a woman who is due to give birth any day. So, I'll continue to be on bed rest and we'll see how long they want to stay in. Jason, JR , and Grandpa Gary are on their deer hunt this weekend. I've talked to them a couple of times and JR is having fun and thinks he is a real hunter. They will be back tomorrow so I'm excited to hear all their stories....which I'll be sure to pass along....

Kickboxing....It's the Sport of the Future

Jason got home from Singapore and Thailand today. We're all happy to have him back on this side of the world. I think he brought back the best present for JR that he could have ever come up with...an official Thai Kickboxing outfit, complete with boxing gloves. JR put it on immediately and started punching and kicking. He even asked if he could go visit Santa in it! The yellow writing on his shorts is Thai and basically says "Thai Kickboxing" which Jason says is different than regular kickboxing.

Good thing JR has been taking karate lessons. As you can see, I'm pretty sure his new sport of karate punches combined with moves he's seen on The Power Rangers Movie will soon be sweeping the nation. How long do you think it will be before something in my house is broken from kicking or punching? I'm betting not long!

I thought I was on bed rest!

And here I was thinking that I was the one that was supposed to be in bed. Last night MawMaw and PawPaw took JR to the mall to eat Chinese food. He could pick any restaurant he wanted to go to and he picked mall Chinese food...I think the mall trip also included a couple of rides on the carousel and some "mall games" (that's what he calls video games at the mall). When they got home it was time for JR to go to bed. I was watching Jamie and Bobby Dean travel around Georgia making and eating candy on the Food Network. JR got really excited about the food (especially when they started making gingerbread houses and red velvet cupcakes) so I let him climb in bed and watch with me. JR loved the show and was pretending to eat all the yummy goodies. Later, they started showing how to make a turducken, which was completely uninteresting to JR and he fell asleep. Unfortunately, I think JR is a more restless sleeper than I am (if that's possible). I took this picture of JR, Buzz Lightyear, and, Hunter on my way to go sleep on the couch. They are all completely sideways in the bed; that's why none of them are laying on a pillow...the pillows are all at the top of the bed. So it was couch city for me last night; I hope they enjoyed it...there's no way Jason would ever let them get away with that one!

Out of the House Adventure!

I got to leave the house yesterday, woo-hoo! It was a big exciting trip to the doctor. We decided that it would be best for Jason's mom (Sherry) to take me to the doctor since my mom hasn't driven in Houston in years. We were also worried that if I got admitted back into the hospital my mom wouldn't know how to find my house (she doesn't really have any sense of direction). But my mom is taking wonderful care of JR and me!! I had an ultrasound and the babies are good. Sherry had never seen an ultrasound so she was excited to get to see the babies on the "big screen". I'm still on the medicine to stop my contractions, but I'm getting used to it; I'm not near as shaky, which is really nice. I'm at the point where I see the doctor every week now, so when Sherry brought me home I said, "Well, I guess I'll get to get out of the house again this time next week". I'm feeling good, just really bored. So, if you need a recap of any of your favorite TV shows or need something researched on the Internet don't hesitate to let me know, I've got it covered!

THE performance

This weekend was the big performance of Away in the Manger at church. The big performance that I've been working on with the kids since September. The big performance that I have whined about in this blog so many times. And, yes, due to this really fun bed rest, I missed both performances. Jason said they did good...I was really most concerned about JR keeping his fingers out of his mouth (he has a real nail biting problem) and he did. All the grandparents were there to see him sing, so at least he had a fan club in the audience. Here's a picture of them singing, JR is on the 2nd row from the top on the right hand side.

Guns A Blazin'

Jason took JR for his first trip to the gun range on Saturday. Jason, Grandpa Gary, and JR are going hunting in South Texas in a few weekends and Jason said he needed to go fire his gun before they went. I wasn't sure how the trip to the gun range would go, and as soon as they were finished I had a phone call from a very mad JR. Of course he's not big enough to shoot Jason's gun, but to make matters worse, he wasn't allowed to stand near his daddy while he shot. He had to stand back with Grandpa Gary and just watch. JR reported that "everybody was mean to him because he didn't get to shoot". According to JR, the best thing that came out of the experience was that he got chicken nuggets on the way home! I think Grandpa Gary has a little gun for JR to shoot on their hunt...Let's hope so, or they're going to need lots of chicken nuggets!

Bed Rest

So here I am sitting in bed, yep, I'm on bed rest. Unbeknown to me, I kinda brought this on myself. We had a Christmas Open House here last night (Sunday) and on Thursday I was trying to get things ready for that. After I got JR on the bus I ran to the grocery store, then Costco, and when I got home I started making teacake cookies. I forgot how much work teacakes can be and I was in a rush to get them made before JR got home. So, instead of eating lunch I ate a couple of cookies and had 2 diet cokes. By the time I got the kitchen cleaned up, JR was home and we had to leave immediately because he had both gymnastics and karate that day to make up for missing karate on Thanksgiving. While JR was in his classes I decided I would get our Christmas cards addressed. I was sitting at a kids sized table in an adult chair, and when I started to get uncomfortable, I decided that it was just because of the size of the table and chair. As I was driving JR home that night I finally realized that something might be wrong. I walked in and told Jason, "I think I may be having contractions". I didn't know if I was or not because I never went into labor with JR. I was supposed to be walking out the door to go to KD dinner, but Jason told me I better call my doctor, who told me to go to the hospital. When we arrived at the hospital my contractions were 2 minutes apart! The nurses told me that dehydration, not enough to eat, and too much movement can start contractions...Well, I'd pretty much done all 3 to myself that day! They got the contractions down to a minimum later on Friday and let me go home on Saturday afternoon. We still had our Christmas Open House on Sunday; I just had to sit and let Jason and all the grandparents take care of everything....which I'm VERY grateful for! It's hard for me to talk on the phone because the medicine I'm on to stop the contractions makes me shake, short of breath, and makes my heart race, but everybody's more that welcome to email me, I need lots of entertainment! Jason has to go to Singapore and Thailand for work this week, but my mom is here to take care of JR and me. I think JR is a little scared of me right now...when he got home from school today he told me, "Mommy, you're stomach is REALLY big!" Hopefully it will get bigger, we need these babies to cook a little longer!