Just to make you smile...

Snow days

I have officially decided that winter is too long and I dislike it very much. It is too cold and I hate be cold, it causes doggy footprints through the house which makes cleaning the floors never ending, and you can not take your 2 year old out very often to run off energy. Being stuck in the house all winter really is starting to take it's toll on Dylan and I. I am going stir crazy and he doesn't know what to do with all his energy so he has become destructive. Now I know that maybe that's just a given trait for a toddler boy, but some days I think I'm going crazy. So this week I said we are going outside I don't care how many layers we have to put on we are going out. So after 45 minutes of getting on layer after layer, while chasing him to do it, we made outside. Dylan actually really enjoyed and so did I. He had a little trouble walking in places because it was too deep so I'd have to carry him, and let me tell that is no small task anymore. But we did get out his sled he got for Christmas and I could pull him around in it which helped a lot. Here are some pictures from our day.

He was very excited about this huge icicle

....Until he decided to shatter it on this pole,
remember the destruction phase I was talking about

Fun in the sled.

Yeah he can already drive in the snow.

Ultrasound

It's a Girl!!!

Here she is. This was the best profile picture we got. The video is way better. She was moving all over the place, very active. I was almost afraid we weren't going to find out the gender because the tech had so much trouble getting her to lay still to get a good shot for us. When I watch the video now, it's obvious. But she wouldn't lay still long enough for out tech to freeze the frame. We might have another Dylan on our hands as far as the energy level goes. I was so nervous when we got there that something was going to be wrong with the baby. I didn't have a preference for boy or girl so I didn't think about that much, although I was excited to find out. When the tech said "you see those 3 little white lines" I knew it was girl, thanks to Stacey explaining her ultrasound pictures to me. I looked at Gene and said "It's a girl" He was ecstatic. His face just lit up, just like when we found we were having a boy the first time.

She moves around so much now, and it makes everything feel real. It's going to be so different this time. I have never in my life, well once with Morganne, changed a girls diaper. It will be a learning experience for me. And the fact that we get to buy pink is so exciting. Now I am by no means frills and lace, but I do like girlie stuff. I'm glad Gene's sister is having a little girl, they will only be 2 months apart, since my side has 6 boys already. I need John and Stacey to move back up here so the girls will be able to grow up together. Hopefully that will happen eventually, until then we will have to settle for yearly vacations to Florida. Luckily with Holly having a girl too there will be one girl up here for her to play with, that we know. I have a few other friends that are pregnant that we don't know what they are having yet.

I will say I am very nervous about raising a girl, more so than raising a boy. I'm not sure why. I think it's those high school years, they intimidate me. Good thing Holly is going to go through it first with Morganne, maybe she can give me some pointers.

Well we are still working on names. Nothing is set as of yet, but we have a few in mind so we will decide on one soon enough.

Christmas

I feel like we didn't have a lot of time to really get into Christmas, with being gone until the week before and being so busy before we left. So we didn't even get a tree up until the Sunday before Christmas, but it turned out to be a good thing because Dylan liked taking everything back off of the tree and throwing it across the room. I think I redecorated the tree everyday. Plus we got a cheap little tree from big lots so it was anything great like we're used to. But you don't care about our tree, you want to know about Dylan's Christmas. He had a lot of fun opening gifts and playing with the boxes. He didn't understand why he couldn't open all of them, that some of them weren't for him, so that was funny. Anyways here are some pictures from our Christmas:

You know it was a short tree when Gene is taller than it :)
Cheese!!! Santa brought dinosaurs!!




And here's my big kid....

The holidays this year were so much fun. It makes us realize how blessed we are. I love the time we got to spend with all of our family and then with all of our friends for New Year's.

Sorry this post was a little late, I tried a few times but my computer is still picking on me a little. I think its me.

Florida trip

Our trip to Florida was fabulous. We enjoyed the entire trip plane ride and all. There only a couple of rainy days the rest of the time it was beautiful and very warm, very unlike it was and is here right now. Dylan always surprises me at how well he adjusts to new surroundings, and stays pretty much in a good routine just like we're at home. His aunt Stacey has a little chiuaua (sp?) named Reggie. He's still pretty young and loved to play. It only took Dylan about a day to warm up to him and by the end of the trip they were buds, running through the house playing. We spent a day at the zoo there and Dylan really enjoyed it. He got to feed a deer, but all daddy kept talking about was shooting it. We also spent two days at the beach. He loved, loved, loved the beach.






Here is him and daddy going out in the waves:

And then suddenly....

These pictures will now explain this video:


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If you listen or I guess watch closely at the end he tells the water to "shh". This was the day after he was hit by that wave and he was a little angry still at the water. But he got back into it a little later. We had lots of fun an can't wait to go again soon.

Here is a link to look at the rest of the pictures. I had made a slideshow but for some reason my computer is picking on me and won't let me upload anything anymore. Enjoy the pictures and sorry for the late post.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Gosewehr/Melbourne2009#

I know I'm terrible at this...

You know Gene told me when I started this that he didn't think I would do very well at keeping it updated and here I am proving him right which I dislike doing very much :)

So here's a recap of the last few months. So the last posting was about the H1N1 vaccine and whether or not I should get it. After much research and prayer we decided to go ahead and get it for me. It's been 5 weeks and no reaction, still praying there are no side effects for the baby. We also decided to vaccinate Dylan. All of his cousins have had the flu already and he hadn't gotten it yet so I just decided to go ahead and get it just to keep him healthy. It's been a week for him and no reaction.

Ok now on to the fun stuff. My dad turned 50 in September and some of my family from Florida came up to celebrate. This was so much fun for my dad and I'm glad we could make it such a wonderful day for him. Here are a few pictures from the weekend they were all here.

Papaw and his boys. Besides the grand kids there's my cousin Logan (on the arm of the chair) and my cousin's baby Gavin (dad is holding him)

I just love getting pictures of this kid he has such a sweet, innocent face.

What can I say, he's proud of his body

The family the night before they all headed home, a few are missing for a softball game.

We brought this over for my cousin's baby to use and Dylan just loved climbing in it. It's going to be fun when the next baby comes, he'll have all new toys to experience.

In October we had our 8 week appointment, which included an ultrasound. We took Dylan, which was fun and hectic at the same time. He enjoyed looking at the screen during the ultrasound but when we went in to meet with the nurse and just go over things he became very bored and destructive. The baby looked great on the ultrasound and everything is going great. My due date is May 24th, which is great because I will get the whole summer off of work. Gene's sister and brother-in-law came up for a visit and we go to throw her her first baby shower. And guess what?!?!?!? She's having a girl, I got to buy stuff for baby girl shower for the first time. Sorry Holly I didn't even get to come to yours. It was so much fun at the shower seeing her be so excited. And she looks beautiful. We get to go visit them in December and I can't wait. And I can't wait to meet my baby niece in March!!!! For Halloween we debated on whether to buy a costume or use a hand me down. We decided hand me down which was good because he didn't stay in his costume for long. But I must say he was the cutest little chicken I have ever seen.

See you can't help but say "aww how cute!!!"

At mamaw G's

With his cousins. As this clan grows up, I fear for the town of Lebanon. There has already been another boy added, and what if I have another boy too. Ahh!!!!

Trick or Treating. He would seriously clean people's candy bowl out if they didn't take it away from him. He just kept reaching in and grabbing more. It also took us over an hour to walk around one block.

That brings us to November and what an exciting month already. Brandon and Gretchen's long awaited bundle of joy arrived on November 3rd, about 3 1/2 weeks early. Josiah Lee Williamson. He weighed in at 6 lbs 10 ounces and was 19 inches long. He is beautiful. He did have a bit of a rough start but with a week stay in the NICU he is now home doing wonderful. I haven't gotten a lot of pictures of him mostly because I haven't been able to visit him very much. With his scary arrival and being so early I am trying to keep Dylan away awhile, mostly because he is very touchy and kissy with babies and I don't want him to pass any germs. Hopefully we will be able to go visit this week sometime.
I also had my 12 week appointment and got to listen to the heart beat. The baby is doing wonderful and the pregnancy is going great. Besides a few extra aches and pains, and a little extra sleepiness everything is going great. I was looking at a Chinese calender that is supposed to be able to predict what gender you are having. It's based on the mother's age and the month the baby was conceived and the chart was right for Dylan. This time it said that we are having a girl. Based on it's way of predicting it has to be right, right??? No but seriously I will be extremely happy with whichever we have. Dylan could have a sports buddy or I could have a dress up partner, it's a win win situation really.


Wow that was a long one. Well you can look at it this way, if I only update every few months you will have a very long post to read and be able to kill some time, hopefully you are at work killing time. My next post will probably be about Thanksgiving and our trip to Florida so it will be a few weeks. Thanks for reading!!!

Scared...

I have to get this out there and ask for thoughts from other people. Ever since I found out I'm pregnant I have been comtemplating whether or not to get the H1N1 vaccine for myself and for Dylan. I am scared to do it because I don't feel like there has been adequate testing though I know they are still testing it. I'm scared if I do get it for myself or Dylan it could cause serious long term effects. But if I don't get it and either myself or Dylan gets it and something happens to him or the baby I'm carrying it would be devastating. I am trying to research and get more information to help make my decision but in the long run I think it's going to come down to me weighing the risks. I am not as worried about Dylan. He isn't around a lot of other kids or anything like that and he doesn't have any other health concerns. But for myself being pregnant knowing the increased risk of pregnancy and the flu, whether it be H1N1 or just the regular flu, I'm totally at a loss for what to do.

Maybe I'm overreacting, maybe I'm hormonal, but I'm very concerned about what to do with this. I had never gotten the regular flu vaccine until the year after Dylan was born. I just wasn't comfortable taking it. So I think well I didn't get too sick with the flu when I was pregnant with Dylan so I should be fine with this pregnancy. But then I start to second guess myself thinking what if I don't get the vaccines and something does happen to me or I go into pre mature labor or something.

Help....I am thinking too much on this?