Shopping Endeavor

SJ chowing down on a sucker

The boys
BFF's and kiddos

Photo courtesy of Micah

SJ was ready to crash

Steph and I loaded up all 3 kiddos and took them to the Avenue to do a little shopping. I moved Pax's car seat and he was in the back, and thought he was big stuff. After hitting one store (that was all we cared for), we went to Steak and Shake for a yummy dinner! It was fun to have time with Steph and to let our kids be together!

When we got home, I brought Pax's jammies in, and Micah said, "Why is Pax wearing my jammies?" Funny, as you can see from the picture, that they have matching jammies! They then got to "jam out" in their matching jammies! Hahaha! Funny, huh??!?!?!?

We had a great time! Thanks, Steph, for the pictures, and for driving us on our endeavor!

12 Weeks and Thankful!

1st belly picture taken. I can't believe it's been 12 weeks without pictures!!! This is so different than with Pax!

Our sweet baby!!

I am 12 weeks now. I can't believe that I am officially out of my first trimester!

I have not been as nauseous, and am able to eat again in the evenings. I'm not gagging as much, either!

I had a regular doctor's appointment with Dr. Pittman. They weighed me, and I am actually down 2 pounds, and my blood pressure looked good. Then, she pulled out the doppler to listen for the heartbeat, and kept moving it around, and moving it around, and moving it around. She looked up at me, and then back at my belly, without saying a word! She couldn't find the heartbeat!!!!!! Then, she says, "I'm going to see if I can get you a quick ultrasound." My heart dropped!!! I held it together, but didn't know what to say. Dr. Pittman came back and said that Mrs. Jean would see me in about 5 minutes, and she walked me down a really long hallway without saying a word. I sat in a little cubby hole trying to keep the tears back, and texted Brad. It seemed like a really long time, but I know it wasn't. I just didn't know what to think, or what to even pray!

Dr. Jean saw me very quickly and did an internal ultrasound. She DID indeed find the heartbeat, but not without some work and searching. I actually have a retroverted uterus and the baby is located around my colon and intenstines, and is back pretty far. She says that Dr. Pittman never would have found the heartbeat with the doppler because I wasn't far enough along. They think that I must have had the same thing with Paxton, but it fixed itself as the baby grew, and my uterus moved upright. I didn't have my first doppler with Pax until 13 weeks. The bottom line is that this baby is growing and moving! During the ultrasound, I saw it jump and flip! Soooo reassuring to see and hear the heartbeat!! We are soooo thankful!!!

T-Ball Pictures

Team picture

Individual (with Pax's pants pulled up to his goozle)

Pax had t-ball pictures and I got to snap a few shots of my own. I thought the team picture was cute of all the boys!

Game Day

Pax is ready to go! All decked out for his first game!

The team in the parade

Todd Pratt--he is the director of Bill Arp Park, and was a former Major League player

Pops, Pax, and Grandma

Papa, Pax, and Mimi

Bonnie, Pax, and Alison

There was a lot of this--playing in the dirt!

This adult to kid ration cracks me up!

Sweet picture of Dallas!

Pax was chanting, "Let's go Braves!"

I think Dallas needed a break!

Pax in the pitcher's circle.

1st at bat

Keep your bat up!

Aww! Nice try!

He made it to 2nd

These were taken by Suzie:-)

The Braves had their first game today! They don't keep score, but just play to have fun. And, fun it was! They didn't know which way to hit it, which way to run, where to go, or what to do, despite our weekly practices! It was quite entertaining, and took all hands on deck to help them out. I think they all had fun, and all the boys ended up dirty, so I think that's a good sign!

Pax had quite a few fans in attendance! He had his own little fan club that consisted of Grandma, Pops, Mimi, Papa, Summer, Suzie, Bonnie, and Alison. I think everyone was quite entertained by this game!:-)

The FOUR the Merrier

It's official----Pax will be a big brother at the end of September!!!

This is a picture of our "speck" on Feb. 4th. I was six weeks along. Remember the words of Horton (from Horton Hears a Who), "A person's a person, no matter how small!!"

The class after they finally figured out Pax's shirt! Paxton's really cute shirt--courtesy of Aunt Steph!

Pax, Brad, and Mom all came to school Friday (Mar 4) to help me share the news. This was also Dr. Seuss day, thus the Seuss reference above!! Pax came dressed in his Big Bro shirt, which we also wore to tell the youth at church Wednesday. The kids kept reading his shirt, but definitely didn't get it. We started asking them questions, and Pierce said, "Oh, I get it, I'm HIS big bro!" Uh, no, Pierce, his shirt is the one that says that! Then we asked, "Does Mrs. Dobbs have any other kids?" Still didn't get it! About 10 minutes after they saw the shirt, Aeffrey finally announced, "Mrs. Dobbs is having a baby!" Thank you, Aeffrey!!! It was funny! They didn't believe it at first, and some didn't really get it. It was a very fun way to tell them, though!

Since this is my first "post" about being pregnant, I feel there's a lot to update on. We found out the evening of January 16th. I took a test at home, and the lines were very faint, so I took another one the next morning. Again, it showed positive. Brad and I were sooooo excited! I decided to head on in to the doctor and let them confirm it through some blood work. That resulted in 2 more doctor's visits to check my levels. They looked good each time, they were just being cautious. We finally had an ultrasound on Feb. 4, and heard the heartbeat at that time, too. It was in the 120s, which is supposed to be strong for such a young baby. Paxton got to go with us for this. It was a very sweet and special time for our soon-to-be family of 4!!!

Back to January 17th. After confirming that we really were indeed pregnant at the doctor's, we shared with our families that evening. Unfortunately, we had to share with Mimi and Papa on a 3-way call, because Brad had headed out of town that morning. We wrote on a tennis ball, "I'm going to be a big brother" and let Pax toss it to our families. I think it was a pretty fun way to share!:-) Thanks, Aunt Sarah, for the idea!

Then I texted this picture to other family members that we couldn't tell in person.

After that, we kind of kept it low-key and didn't tell many people. I didn't even tell any of my friends until Friday! That's a long time for me to keep a secret, but I guess it was still a little surreal. Paxton, of course knew, and if you would ask him, he would say, "Mommy has a baby in her bewey!" He would come out and ask things like, "Can we keep it?", "Is it mine?", "Will it wear a hood?" Things you could tell that he was thinking, but that he didn't really get it. One night, we were watching One Tree Hill, and Haley told their son that they were having a baby sister. Pax looked at me and said, "He's having a baby sister like me!" From that point on, our house thinks that it's a girl!!:-)

I also think it's a girl, just because this pregnancy has been SOOOO different already. I am 11 weeks today, and have been very nauseous. I even had morning sickness while we were out for winter break. I didn't have ANY at all with Pax, so this was a shocker, and really knocked me back! I have even been getting car sick the last 2 weekends when we've been traveling. I haven't been tired, like I was with Pax, just very irritable, grumpy, and nauseous. Don't ask Brad about the grumpy part! You don't want to get him started!! Anyway, that's just my premonition for now. But, we'll know in about 5 weeks, because we plan to do a 3-D ultrasound! So exciting!

I announced to the Facebook world on Friday by posting this picture below. I got some funny comments back!!! But, now the whole world knows!!!

We are expecting in September!!

Good Times on the Gator

Christian came over and played with Pax on his Gator. I don't know who had more fun! They were very creative in their uses of the Gator, skateboard, as well as the wagon!!