We're having a baby......

GIRL!!!!!! Luke is getting a baby SISTER!!!! Needless to say, we are beyond excited! Luke had said all along that the baby was a girl, so it was no surprise to him. I, on the other hand, thought that it might be a girl because my pregnancy has been so different from Luke's, but at the same time just thought it would be another boy. Luke went to the ultrasound with us and was excited to see the baby on the "TV's." The only thing he was interested in was seeing her eyes, which as you can tell, we can't see all that great on the ultrasounds, but he was great. I was also relieved to hear that all of her organs, heart, liver, brain, etc. all look normal and she is healthy. We are truly blessed! I thank God every day for Luke and this little miracle growing inside me!



(saw this on a fellow blogger's site and couldn't resist putting a little bow on her head!)
Also, it's a little hard to see on this scanned picture, but I love that she looks like she is going to put her thumb in her mouth!

Announcement....

ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON!.... But I literally haven't had time to up load pictures. Hope to have some time this weekend......

In the mean time, enjoy these little snap shots into these gems of conversations between Luke and I this week:

Conversation 1:

Let me set the mental picture for you. Picture Liz and Mom sitting at the table. I, the frazzled mom, am cleaning up the FULL cup of sticky coke that Luke just spilled. Luke has been banished back to his seat (no high chair, so he has freedom of movement and boy is he moving Up, down, out of his chair, in his chair...a WILD man...got the picture...)

So, me in my frenzy, look straight at Luke from the sink and say in my "mom means business" voice say "LUKE! If you don't sit down in that chair, I' am going to whip your TAIL!"

Luke replies in his sweet little angel voice "But, But, I don't have a tail???"

Needless to say, Mom and Liz BUST a GUT laughing and I, in turn, start howling, too!

Conversation 2:

Later that same night after we had all calmed down, out of the blue it went like this:

Luke: Ears hear.
Me: Yes, they do! What do eyes do?
Luke: They see!
Me: What does your nose do?
Luke: It blows boogers out!!!

These are just a snippet of what comes out of this clowns mouth. I am loving his crazy little 3 year old self!!! Happy Friday!

Whirlwind Weekend....

Friday tipped off a crazy whirlwind of a weekend....


8-11:15am- I worked at Rotary and was super excited to get off a few minutes early!

11:30-12:30- ate a leisurely lunch by myself at the Atlanta Bread Company and got a had a nice chat with MMGK and talk to Liz who could literally have that baby at any moment (Things are happening and she has TOTALLY dropped!) I can hardly stand the wait!


12:30- pick Lukie up from school where they had a full day of fun Halloween festivities, complete with costumes, pizza, crafts and apparently a LOT of candy. Luke was bouncing off the walls!

12:45-2:00- nice long outing to Lavretta park to burn off some of Luke's sugar rush energy!

2:30-3:00- put back on the pumpkin suit to visit daddy at work! He was still wound up even after the park and we had to make a pretty quick visit. No sugar rush crash for this guy!

3:00-4:00- killing time at target to pick up a few last minute costume things for a Saturday night party!

4:00-4:30- met Jeremy at the Pumpkin patch to get our yearly "pumpkin patch" pictures. Luke ran around like a mad man yelling "PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS!" He did settle down long enough so we could get some decent pictures! He did NOT want to leave the patch. The only thing that got him away was the promise of carving the pumpkin as soon as we got home!




4:45-5:30- the carving of the Pumpkin began! Luke was a little interested at first but quickly lost interest. He want to make a "scary" pumpkin and I wanted a cute/happy one, so we compromised and made a smiling pumpkin with scary teeth!


5:30-6:30- I got ready for a bridal shower while the boys (mainly Jeremy) continued to carve.



6:30-11:00- Mom, Liz, and I went to a shower for our soon to be sister in law, Alan (Alan is the one between Liz and I and her sister, Louise is sitting next to me). It was such a great party and she got so many nice things! Man, I wish I had another one of those delicious brownie bites!



11:30pm-Crash in the bed! What a fun filled crazy day, and the fun doesn't end here. Saturday and Sunday are just as busy! More fun weekend festivities to come!

My first Show and Tell!

Today is my very first show and tell! We were supposed to dress up like a community helper and I decided to be a train conductor! Thanks to Mamaw and Papaw and Aunt Christy's Christmas gifts last year, I had all of the things I needed! What made it even better is that I will get to tell my class that my Papaw used to work on trains!



It was so much fun to see what my other friends dressed up like! This has already been such a fun day!

Wordless Wednesday

Luke 2 weeks old:


Luke 3 years old:


Luke has literally slept like this all his life! So funny!

Girl or Boy?

It has been fun thinking/dreaming about if this new little one will be a boy or a girl. Luke seems to grasp that he will be getting a new brother or sister as well as a 3 year old can. Just the other day I was leaving the house and he ran over to me saying "I want to give the baby a kiss!" and sweetly kissed my belly! He also likes to "talk" to her as you can see in the pic.

I think understanding this whole baby thing has been a little easier for him since my sister is having her first baby at the end of November! Luke has seen her growing belly and said from early on that she was having a BOY! And he was RIGHT!

Here's to hoping Luke will be two for two because he has said for months now what I am having a GIRL. Only time will tell and I just hope and pray that this baby is perfectly healthy! Oh, and the day that Luke told us that it was a GIRL when we asked him what we should name her, he said "TRUCK" and then Jeremy said what will her full name be? and he said "DUMP TRUCK PAYNE!" And he as called 'her' TRUCK ever since! Ha!

Happy Wednesday!

Pledge of Allegiance

Check out what Luke learned at school! We were driving in the car one day and he just busted out with the WHOLE pledge. I was blown away and didn't even know they had been learning it! He has learned SO much since school started and his teacher told us last week that he wasn't getting "challenged" enough in his age group, so during what she calls the "academic" part of the day he is going up to the next age group level! Part of his homework today was to look through a magazine and cut out pictures of words that started with the letter S and the letter D. Is he REALLY this old? Are we already at this point? Just yesterday he was my little baby boy and now he can say the pledge. Time puh-leaze s-l-o-w down! Enjoy the video (and please ignore the mess that is our desk in the back ground)!