Our crazy summer is winding down and I'm so excited. I finished summer term A with an A in Developmental Psy (that was online, thank you Adam!) and a B in Anatomy 1 (I was very proud of that B, with all I'm doing I did well and it was a 6-week course)! I'm now taking Anatomy 2 (another 6-week course), Nutrition online and Micro Bio (both of which I have been taking all summer long).
It is busy and stressful and hard and difficult to be away from my family so much, but we are surviving well.
My schedule:
Mon: school 1pm-915pm
Tues: work 8am-5pm, school 6pm-915pm
Wed: school 1pm-915pm
Thurs: work 8am-5pm, school 6pm-915pm
Fri-Sun: study, study, study
It is really hard when I have a Wed or Thurs test as I don't have much time to study that.
I only have 5 more weeks of school left and only 3 more weeks of work. The last 2 weeks of school shall be crazy, but it will be nice not to have work too. Then, when I'm done with that, I'll have a few weeks to have some really good Mommy-Jacob time and get ready for the baby (wash and organize everything!).
This has been a crazy season, but we are pulling through with flying colors. God is a big God!!!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Conversation with Jacob
Me: Jacob, are you my big boy?
Jacob: Noooooo, I a boy!
We have repeated this several times. No matter the day or what he is doing, his answer is always the same! =)
Jacob: Noooooo, I a boy!
We have repeated this several times. No matter the day or what he is doing, his answer is always the same! =)
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Baby's Name
It was so hard to choose the baby's name. It was an overwhelming task. With Jacob we already had a name we liked before I got pregnant, but with this one, we had no boy names before. It was a big decision. He is stuck with his name for the rest of his life!
Parker Christian Shaw
Parker means spiritual light.
What really helped me settle on this name is that I was praying and asking God to give us something to help us narrow down the names as we were stuck on 2 or 3 at this point. Adam prays for us every night and he puts his hand on my belly. Most of the time, Parker always kicks or moves (even if he has been still before and he'll be still afterwards). I was thinking about that and thinking how he seems to "light up" when he is being prayed for. Hello confirmation! Since we chose the name, Parker has been prayed over a few times by different people and the same thing has happened each time. I can't wait to see what God has in store for this little one!!!
Parker Christian Shaw
Parker means spiritual light.
What really helped me settle on this name is that I was praying and asking God to give us something to help us narrow down the names as we were stuck on 2 or 3 at this point. Adam prays for us every night and he puts his hand on my belly. Most of the time, Parker always kicks or moves (even if he has been still before and he'll be still afterwards). I was thinking about that and thinking how he seems to "light up" when he is being prayed for. Hello confirmation! Since we chose the name, Parker has been prayed over a few times by different people and the same thing has happened each time. I can't wait to see what God has in store for this little one!!!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Jacob is 2-1/2 years old
...well, he was on Saturday! He is growing so fast and so is his hair! He HATES hair cuts. I have trimmed it and tried to help buy us some time, but it is almost time to get it cut. I'm tempted to shave it off because it takes 2 of us to hold him down for it to be cut, but it is such nice hair that I can't do that!
He is a wonderful little boy! He is non-stop energy. A friend of mine, who has 4 children of her own, was commenting on how she wondered how we, parents of just 1, had enough energy to keep up with him all day. He is constant movement and constant talking, but he plays great by himself (he is playing in the other room right now and singing to his movie) and wears himself out.
He still sleeps great. He gets up a bit early, 630am normally, but he then naps for 2-2.5 hours and goes to bed right at 7pm. We really can't complain.
He is talking great and says such big words. As long as he isn't whining, you can understand everything he says. He knows what he wants and he knows how to tell you. He has a great memory, which he gets from his dad (I'm in big trouble with that one!) and he is stubborn, which Adam says he gets from me. I put his Woody toy down one day next to Buzz and he got mad at me because Woody goes on the other side of Buzz...my bad, I haven't read the toy handbook yet.
He likes to help and he is pretty good at cleaning up his toys. He is so much fun!
Friday night was emotional for me. We put him in his big boy room for the first time. He screamed in his bed and kept yelling "I want get out!", but after 10min he had calmed down and slept through the night. When Adam got him up Saturday he said, "Daddy, I did it!". Hopefully that attitude will stick.
I cleaned out his "baby" room Saturday. It was weird to shut the door. Jacob is growing up and done in there and soon Parker will be in there. Sad and happy emotions.
(He just interrupted me to help him find something and as he was running to the other room he said "Go Seminoles!" Why? I don't know. I can't figure out how things pop into that kid's head, but it is entertaining!!!)
Operation Big Boy:
Round 1: move into big boy room and bed...check!
Round 2: get rid of paci. We'll give him a few weeks to get used to the room and then since we tried the quitting the paci cold turkey, I'm going to just start cutting the nipple back little by little every few days. If he wants his paci, he can have it, but it will be my way. That is the plan at least!
Round 3: potty training, but not until after the baby is here and mommy isn't gone so much.
He is a wonderful little boy! He is non-stop energy. A friend of mine, who has 4 children of her own, was commenting on how she wondered how we, parents of just 1, had enough energy to keep up with him all day. He is constant movement and constant talking, but he plays great by himself (he is playing in the other room right now and singing to his movie) and wears himself out.
He still sleeps great. He gets up a bit early, 630am normally, but he then naps for 2-2.5 hours and goes to bed right at 7pm. We really can't complain.
He is talking great and says such big words. As long as he isn't whining, you can understand everything he says. He knows what he wants and he knows how to tell you. He has a great memory, which he gets from his dad (I'm in big trouble with that one!) and he is stubborn, which Adam says he gets from me. I put his Woody toy down one day next to Buzz and he got mad at me because Woody goes on the other side of Buzz...my bad, I haven't read the toy handbook yet.
He likes to help and he is pretty good at cleaning up his toys. He is so much fun!
Friday night was emotional for me. We put him in his big boy room for the first time. He screamed in his bed and kept yelling "I want get out!", but after 10min he had calmed down and slept through the night. When Adam got him up Saturday he said, "Daddy, I did it!". Hopefully that attitude will stick.
I cleaned out his "baby" room Saturday. It was weird to shut the door. Jacob is growing up and done in there and soon Parker will be in there. Sad and happy emotions.
(He just interrupted me to help him find something and as he was running to the other room he said "Go Seminoles!" Why? I don't know. I can't figure out how things pop into that kid's head, but it is entertaining!!!)
Operation Big Boy:
Round 1: move into big boy room and bed...check!
Round 2: get rid of paci. We'll give him a few weeks to get used to the room and then since we tried the quitting the paci cold turkey, I'm going to just start cutting the nipple back little by little every few days. If he wants his paci, he can have it, but it will be my way. That is the plan at least!
Round 3: potty training, but not until after the baby is here and mommy isn't gone so much.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Big Day
Today is a big day for me and full of emotions. One of the reasons I'll post about later, but the other is because I'm 30 weeks and 2 days pregnant and this is the longest I've ever been pregnant before. Here is a glimpse of my emotions this time and 2.5 years ago with Jacob:
30 weeks with Jacob: I got ready that morning completely unaware that by lunch time my world would never be the same. I went to work and then to my doctor's appointment, only to be sent to the hospital. Adam and I went to sleep that night (well, we tried) hoping that maybe my blood pressure would come down and if not that Jacob would be born that weekend (it was a Tuesday).
30 weeks with Parker: I got ready that morning, emotional about what 30 weeks with Jacob had been. I was so grateful that nothing in my world would change that day. I went to work, then studied and then went to school to take 2 tests.
30 weeks and 1 day with Jacob: We woke up that morning and were told that Jacob would be born that day. I was so sick and I think Adam was so focused on making me comfortable that neither of us completely understood what that meant...to have our child 10 weeks early! The c-section was scheduled for after lunch, but I got worst and they said they were taking him now and he was born about 30min later.
30 weeks and 1 day with Parker: I woke up realizing that by lunch time I would reach a point in my pregnancy that I had never hit with Jacob. Adam's GA family was in town and wanted to play with him, so I ran errands all day and then came home hoping to be productive, but rested instead. What a contrast to 2.5 years ago!
30 weeks and 2 days with Jacob: I never reached that point.
30 weeks and 2 days with Parker: big day for us. I have never been this pregnant before, but I'm super excited and can't wait to see what it is like!
God is so faithful to not only carry us through this point with flying colors, but to keep me healthy with all of the added stress of school and our crazy summer. I'm patiently waiting for my baby boy to be born and looking forward to holding him right after he is born (not several days later like with Jacob) and bringing him home from the hospital with us!
30 weeks with Jacob: I got ready that morning completely unaware that by lunch time my world would never be the same. I went to work and then to my doctor's appointment, only to be sent to the hospital. Adam and I went to sleep that night (well, we tried) hoping that maybe my blood pressure would come down and if not that Jacob would be born that weekend (it was a Tuesday).
30 weeks with Parker: I got ready that morning, emotional about what 30 weeks with Jacob had been. I was so grateful that nothing in my world would change that day. I went to work, then studied and then went to school to take 2 tests.
30 weeks and 1 day with Jacob: We woke up that morning and were told that Jacob would be born that day. I was so sick and I think Adam was so focused on making me comfortable that neither of us completely understood what that meant...to have our child 10 weeks early! The c-section was scheduled for after lunch, but I got worst and they said they were taking him now and he was born about 30min later.
30 weeks and 1 day with Parker: I woke up realizing that by lunch time I would reach a point in my pregnancy that I had never hit with Jacob. Adam's GA family was in town and wanted to play with him, so I ran errands all day and then came home hoping to be productive, but rested instead. What a contrast to 2.5 years ago!
30 weeks and 2 days with Jacob: I never reached that point.
30 weeks and 2 days with Parker: big day for us. I have never been this pregnant before, but I'm super excited and can't wait to see what it is like!
God is so faithful to not only carry us through this point with flying colors, but to keep me healthy with all of the added stress of school and our crazy summer. I'm patiently waiting for my baby boy to be born and looking forward to holding him right after he is born (not several days later like with Jacob) and bringing him home from the hospital with us!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Conversation with Jacob...kindof
Jacob: Where's Buzz?
Me: I don't know where he is.
Jacob: Mommy, I talking to Woody.
-He stares at Woody intently-
Jacob: Woody, where's Buzz?
I thought he was talking to me. Some days he likes his toys more than me. =)
Me: I don't know where he is.
Jacob: Mommy, I talking to Woody.
-He stares at Woody intently-
Jacob: Woody, where's Buzz?
I thought he was talking to me. Some days he likes his toys more than me. =)
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
iPhone
I can blog from my phone (well I think I can. This is my first post.)! The iPhone can do almost everything (except replce my husband who really can do everything).
I figured since I'm either working, at school or studying for my 2-3 tests each week, I'd try and blog some on the go. We'll see if it works.
You'll have to forgive my spelling (no spell check) and typos.
Well, off to Anatomy class...
I figured since I'm either working, at school or studying for my 2-3 tests each week, I'd try and blog some on the go. We'll see if it works.
You'll have to forgive my spelling (no spell check) and typos.
Well, off to Anatomy class...
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