Oh how quickly they grow up

Amazing how

much they grow up in just

two years.

Very Sad today............

Today is the closing on my mom and dad's house in Powder Springs, GA. They moved to Mt. Vernon, Illinois back in August of '07 even though the house hadn't sold yet.

I guess over the past seven months, even though I've been to the new house in Illinois several times, it hasn't really been "done". While they were gone I've run over there to check on the sale flyer's, turned pool pump off and on, yada yada blablabla. So in my reality everything was still "ok" until today. I took another look around, made sure we got everything out of the house (because whatever is left after closing legally belongs to the New Yorkers) and as I walked from room to room I began to bawl like a little baby. Granted I live 10 miles down the road and I can come see it any time I want to, some just don't understand that as much as I moved around as a kid this was the one house that I thought was home. My parents were in this house for over 15 years and for the Dixon family...that's a long time. I finished high school in this house, I got engaged, married and had two of my three babies in this house. There are lots and lots and years and years of memories in this house. Holidays, birthdays, pool parties and cook outs.

This was the house that I wanted my kids to grow up coming to and having a house that was Nana and Papa's "Home" since I never really had one. Moving every two and a half to three years it's kind of hard to have a "Home." Anyway, today has been a very emotional day not to mention that my hormones are running crazy now a days anyway. I'm happy for my parents but I'm still sad that a chapter, a very long chapter, in my life is finished.

9 Weeks today and yeah Easter's over!!!

My new resident is nearly an inch long (about the size of a grape) and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's or he's starting to look more and more human. Her/his essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: the heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her/his tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone, now more tadpole baby. My baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her/his eyes are fully formed, but her/his eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She/he has tiny earlobes, and her/his mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that my baby's basic physiology is in place, she's/he's poised for rapid weight gain, OH S**T!!!

I've only gained like 2 or 3 pounds so far but I'm also retaining and...well other things, so my weight fluctuates! But oh Lordy, when that nausea is done I do believe the race is on!! My pole on here says you all think I'm having a girl! Why? I believe it to be a boy, Skylar needs to be the only princess and daddies girl! And I miss my little man so badly!! But regardless the sex, as long as this child is healthy I will be happy!

EASTER...................Is over, Hallelujah

Just a brief synopsis of how my Easter week..end was

It started last Wednesday night getting the eggs and stuff ready for Chase and Skylar's class hunt and party. So then last Thursday the kids have their hunt and parties and then when I pick them up from school I'm informed by Chase's friends mom that there's a Joy Club meeting/egg hunt tonight (Joy Club is put on by the Church for the school). It's a night hunt by flashlight, which is where I stole my idea from. Any whoo.. so I drop the kids off Thursday night for the hunt and don't get home til after 10 pm.

Friday (Good Friday) the kids are out and I have a buttt load of things to do, including the lovely task of getting my oil changed. The kids were horrible, especially Chase. When he doesn't want to do something, he makes my life hell for making him do it! Anyway....

Saturday morning we drive out to Douglasville for this county wide hunt (10,000 egg drop), well not even a hunt. A helicopter dropped them from the sky and then the kids went running after them. There were so many kids there that Chase got about 6-8 eggs and Skylar got like 2. Total waste of time! So, I'm hungry, imagine that! We decide to stop in at the Waffle House, mmmmmmmm. I go home after that and prepare for my egg hunt.

Saturday night, after putting reflector tape on 222 eggs and filling the eggs, my kids and several of the neighbor kids had a blast running through the yard with their flash lights looking for these eggs. (I'm still tired!!)

Sunday morning, we get up and go to church with the rest of GA that goes every Sunday and the ones that only attend on Christmas and Easter!! Huge cluster if you know what I mean...Then we go home, eat a little something (I go to the store for more goodies) and then we head to another hunt!! I'm truly hunted out by this point and just want to sleep. Needless to say I still haven't done the "grocery shopping" or the laundry (my Sunday tasks that have been kinda slacked the past couple of weeks).

Monday morning...I am crapping like a mug and don't go to work. Turns out I'm just stressin' and need to take it easy!! No harm, No foul!

So, I'm tired and need a rest!!!!!

8 weeks 6 days

How's baby growing:New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby-- abouth the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

Seven Weeks and Sicker than a dog

Yesterday marked the 7th week and for a week now morning sickness has been kicking my buttocks. There's crackers and a cup of water on my night stand that I'm reaching for before my eyes even open on some mornings. Other mornings I get up and have my cup of coffee (decaf, chill we switched) and I'm good til I get to work and have my apples and cinnamon oatmeal. There are some nights that I wake up and over and over again, and not to pee either. Travis asked me last night while we were up til after 1am cleaning the house for Chase mans 10th birthday party if my prenatal had any affect on my morning sickness?? ;) good point

So I started thinking, could my husband be right? When I went to the doctors office three weeks ago today Vicky gave me a bunch of different kinds of prenatal and told me to see which one I liked. So about every 5 to 6 days, depending on how many are in that pack, I'm taking a different kind of prenatal vitamins. Could that be whats making me sick? The ones I took during the first week didn't make me sick, I've only been getting sick the past week, hmmmmm very suspicious. I have also heard though from two different sources, not doctors mind you, that morning sickness in some is a sign of high levels of testosterone, maybe we're having a boy?

Anyway, this week my baby boo is still hard at work; Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities. Technically, baby boo is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her/his tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Baby boo has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry. In just a few weeks maybe I'll feel those little paddles!!

BooBaby

Is coming October 30th unless Vicky says otherwise on April 16th. That's my next doc appointment where she says she can determine the sex of the baby. WHAT you might be asking since I will only be 11 weeks and 6 days at that time!?! She said if this baby makes it difficult for her to find the heart beat it's a BOY because boys are always difficult, and this is where we all say "AMEN!!"
Some of you may not know this yet because your little man hasn't hit that stage yet. He is still in the cute stage, just wait. And right now you're saying to yourself "Not my little angle!" OH YES!!! I thought that as well and I'm hear to tell you with mine turning 10 in 6 days, OH YES, YOURS TOO!
I have been registering for all kinds of freebies on line and I was registered for this website that emails me with all kinds of really cool info about what's going on from week to week. There are also clubs and groups you can join to talk about your pregnancy and your progression. This to me is SO AWESOME becuase 8 and 10 years ago there wasn't ANYTHING like this. The only thing was a book or two and whatever your elders stories and advise you wanted to listen to.
If any of you reading this want to learn more about it...http://www.babycenter.com/ it is really interesting and informative. I joined a group "October Babies" and there is a group inside that group called "BooBabies" which I have also joined. It's for women all over the world, mainly the US that are having babies the end of October. I have to say another October baby isn't really what I had planned when we were trying but maybe this one will be late like Skylar and be a November Baby? Who knows
But anywho, so this week I have learned that my Boobaby peanut has been busy this week ...This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean. How cool is that!!