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Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Happy 2nd Birthday Princess
OH MY Heavens! Our princess is 2 years old today. Last night TJ and I were laying down, cuddling, which I loved because its been forever (I miss you babe), and we were reminiscing about the day we were at the hospital awaiting Rhowan's arrival. It just seems so weird that it was 2 years ago...and even more weird that since then we had another baby, our princess #2, Harloe Grayce! Oh my, how time flies. This morning daddy had to leave very early, but he got to see his princess before leaving, yes, at 5:30 am, which mommy wasn't totally excited about, but I was so sad he was having to leave that I went with it! :)
Rhowan had balloons awaiting her this morning and cupcakes to take and share with her friends at daycare. Then mommy picked her up to have dinner and ice cream cake (thank you auntie) at Oma and Papa's. Gringa, Ampa, Auntie, Uncle Anthony, Nate Nate, Lexi and Oma and Papa all helped celebrate her special day. Thank you "Gringa" for the yummy dinner and Oma for having us all over and for completing the dinner for us! It was a great evening and I know she was as happy as can be! I feel so sad that daddy couldn't be there, but he got lots of pictures and updates throughout the night and we sang to her on speaker at least 3 times today! :) She's got it down pat that today was her day! :) She will probably take after mommy and celebrate for a whole week in her college days to come! LOL...She loved her new bike, helmet and rain boots. It was a great day and I couldn't have asked for more from our family, so thank you. The day she came into our lives two years ago has forever changed me as a person, our marriage, our families and everything in my being. We love you princess, more than you would ever know!
"My Bike!" Ok Lexi, you can get on the back! LOL
It's my Happy Day!!! :)
What an amazing day I had!!! You can't see it but she still has her Minnie necklace and bracelet on with her sunglasses in her hands! :)Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Harloe 4 Months Old
Oh my how time is going so fast. I know that is so cliche, but really, where is the time going? Next week, OMG, next freaking week Rhowan will be two years old...I have started showing her how to show that she is two, but wow holding all her fingers down except two of them is hard! LOL...she keeps saying one, but we will work on it. She is just too smart for her own good and the best big sister ever. She takes care of baby...when Harloe is crying I will walk in and Rhowan is already tending to her trying to give her the pacifier or one of "baby's toys cause baby cry." :) She has such a big heart and just loves baby Harloe so much. This morning we were getting in the car and she started jumping up and down saying, "it's raining!" I said, "No mommy, it's foggy." She said, "oh, foggy?" then I put her in the car...all my bags in the car and third trip, baby in the car (Rhowan refers to her as baby, so we'll see if Harloe ever learns her name!) She grabs Harloe's hand and says, "baby, it's foggy. You gringa's too?" Oh my, she is just too freaking cute!!!
Harloe will go to the dr next week for her 4 month old check up and shots, so no stats to report, but stay tuned. Then the following week we will be back at the dr for Rhowan's 2 year check up. I just introduced Harloe to rice cereal Sunday for the first time. This past week she was waking up every 3 hours through the night, so I though growth spurt, but then thought it was time to start rice cereal. I am still trying to nurse as much as I can, whenever I am with her, however with me back at work, I don't have time to pump the way I did with Rhowan, so I see myself nursing less and less already. It makes me super sad cause I went 7 months strong with Rhowan. But I am learning a lot is different the second time around when you have a toddler/baby around! Which is a good thing, just different :)
I am starting to feel human again. The girls have a bedtime routine FINALLY, wow that was the hardest thing to get down with two wanting me to lay with them, hold them, Rhowan wanting to read, both needing a bath, making dinner for me and Rhowan while Harloe wanting her dinner too, Rhowan being needy while I was nursing...phew, it was rough figuring that part out. For awhile I was thinking to myself what I was going to do because I was having to call someone over just about every night just to help me get them down. I knew it would come within time and it did, it finally came. Watch, now that I say that it will all change!
Harloe is such a good baby, very low key and easy going and happy! She has transitioned to her crib very well and wakes up 1-2 times at night to nurse, which isn't too bad! Rhowan is still waking up too to come to mommy and daddy's bed and then most nights she hears me get up to go feed the baby and comes in and lays down until I put the baby back down and take her back to bed. :( I feel so awful because she is waking up too, but what are you gonna do? I keep telling myself, Survival Mode, screw what "The Books" say! Yes, you heard me right. Mrs. over analyzing, want to be perfect mommy said, "SCREW the books!" LOL...Any of you who have two, under two, in diapers, can relate and don't judge me for saying that. :)
Harloe is very alert, already pushing herself out of her swing and vibrating chair, forcing me to strap her in now. She has been on many trips to Disneyland already, and a trooper at that. I still do get that sense of guilt that I don't have the down time to really get to enjoy her and I alone time the way I did with Rhowan. I think that is natural though? So at her 3 or 4 am nursing is when I take advantage of our quiet time together.
I am still struggling finding the balance between work and being a mommy. I want to lesson plan all day and night to do everything I can in my class, but just don't have that kind of time on my hands. Then I want to come home and be with my kids and not worry about doing school work and feel I am not giving them my 100 % when I should be. So it is difficult...I know I will never get this time back with my girls at this age so I want to cherish it, but feel like most days I am just going through the motions to get through that day because I am so exhausted and stressed with wanting to be the best mom and teacher.
I feel like I am all over the place right now, but just a little update with pictures to follow. I have to download my most recent pics off of my brand new, professional camera TJ surprised me with. I now think I am the paparazzi so watch out, I have the big lenses that come on and off and everything! :) Love it...
Monday, September 19, 2011
Many Changes...
Wow, I am blogging, can you all believe it?! Change, seems to be the theme in our lives for the past year or so...change is not always a bad thing, its a time to adjust and count our blessings. I like to look at it as a positive thing because of what all the changes have brought to our lives. Since the day Rhowan has blessed our lives we have been confronted with change after change...just before she turned a year old we found out we were pregnant again, at this time I was a stay at home mommy, having just finished a few long term sub jobs. Then along came my office job that I started and worked through my entire pregnancy with Harloe. I was not the happiest there, but thankful for the financial stability it brought to us. I just realized in doing this job that I wasn't an office gal.
Working through my pregnancy I knew I wanted to stay at home after Harloe with daycare so expensive and work schedules not giving me the balance I wanted of being mommy and working. As we are going through my work changes, we are blessed with Harloes presence. This is a major change for all of us and adjustment period. Just as I was feeling like I knew what I was finally doing with two babies under two, it seemed another blessing just fell into my lap, literally. It all worked out being at the right place at the right time...and here I am now, a full time, working, teacher, in my own classroom! Teaching 7th grade at our home parish that we were married at and have grown up going to, what a full circle. I can honestly say, that I believe God has been holding out on me for this opportunity and that this is where I am meant to be. Now I just hope it becomes permanent, right now only being a long term sub position. However, I have not been treated that way and have been doing everything just as it's my own class, which I love!
In such an unfortunate situation with my MIL being laid off, she has been able to provide the best care for our children and even better, it's free! :) Not to mention my girls much prefer to go see "Gringa" (Rhowan's version of Grandma). It warms my heart to have her be the one to watch the girls for me so that I can not feel guilty for leaving them every morning and know they are in the BEST care! Thank you MIL, I couldn't put into words how much it means to us and how blessed we are. Not many people have it so easy with their parents right down the street and on the way to work, all less than 2 miles away from home. Can you say God has been looking out?! :)
So with all the changes have finally come a calming to the craziness. I feel like we are where we need to be. TJ getting his 2nd year contract with UCLA, Rhowan will be turning two and is quite the princess, and then our newest and most precious addition Harloe is almost 4 months old, while I finally get to take on my passion of not only being a mommy but a teacher in the classroom! :) So all the challenges and chaos have been worth the pay off!
Meanwhile, I got to end the summer with an amazing family vacation in Hawaii, (and we already have our trip for next year in the works to go back!) but our annual girls trip was this last weekend. Thank you again MIL and "Ampa" for watching the girls all weekend long, with the help of daddy of course in between his million and one games to recruit, etc. I tell ya, recruiting is busier than actual baseball season! We had such an awesome time in Temecula on our girls trip, wine tasting! Much needed girl time, as guilty as I felt going and being away from the girls it was so nice to have "me" time and girl time. So the pumping breaks in all the bathrooms throughout our wine tour was well worth the pay off of some much needed "girl time." LOL...
That is pretty much a recap of the last few months for you all. I feel like things never calm down in our crazy lives, but for once I feel like we are right where we should be and have worked so hard to be at and waited so long for. I am looking forward to getting on a routine with work and the girls and having some, hopefully, relaxing weekends ahead after an eventful summer.
Wishing this update finds you all in good spirits and health.
God Bless,
The Bruce Family
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
7 Weeks old...
Rhowan wanting to help mommy garden...Little does she know mommy hates that and she'll need to go to grandmas house! LOL
Harloe 7 weeks old
Rhowan being her self! :)Wow, time flies. I feel like we are still getting adjusted and its already been 7 weeks. However, I do feel like I am starting to get into a rhythm just not for bed time or nap time...seems during those two times, the most important, both babies want mommy at the same time! TJ has been getting home earlier at night being able to help hold Harloe or put Rhowan down, but there are nights I am alone and it can turn into an hour to three hour process! Yep, one baby cries when the other is just about asleep. Harloe wants to nurse when Rhowan wants mommy to lay with her and sing twinkle, twinkle. I know we'll get there.
Oh and little Miss Rhowan has finally learned to crawl out of her bed and open her bedroom door to find mommy and daddy. Last night I went in the baby's room to turn on the night light before bed and I turn around to see Rhowan staring at me from the doorway. I said, "oh, hi, what are you doing?" I pick her up to take her back to bed and what do you know...Harloe starts crying in her bassinet! So, back to mommy and daddy's bed we go and little Miss Rhowan was a happy camper back to sleep in seconds. hmmmm, what have we created?! LOL...Oh well, can't sweat the small stuff as badly as I want her in her OWN bed and sleeping through the night, right now I just gotta focus on routine and not the details! I knew this day would come and she is now 21 months going on 5 with her chatty self and independence!
I am feeling in the need of an hour in the am or night to have some alone time, so I started setting my alarm and setting up the coffee maker to wake up and have a cup of coffee after I nurse Harloe and then waking Rhowan up at 8 so that she can have an earlier bed time then what we have fallen into (9ish, I want her back to at least 8 o' clock!) So like I said, we are getting there. Things were so crazy and hectic that it's time to start slowing down, staying at home more to prepare for earlier bedtimes and start enjoying my two babies because before I know it they will be in school!
So...Harloe is now 7 weeks old and already so strong. She is wanting to lift her head up for longer periods of time then what she realizes she can, I guess I have another curious one that wants to know and see all that is going on around her. :) She is already kicking those legs like crazy when I am holding her to push herself up when on my chest. She has already transitioned so well to taking a bottle of my milk to nursing and back and forth when mommy needs a mini break! She is just such a good baby. Still sleeping more in the day than night, but that is ok. She has started to sleep from like 11-4:30 am these past few nights (in her bassinet), so that has been amazing!!!! I feel so bad for that typical 2nd baby stuff that everyone comments on: how we let them fuss longer, hold them less, etc. I have so much guilt but can't help it because Rhowan keeps me so busy during the day. When it was just Rhowan I could hold her all day and God forbid I heard a peep I went running. I guess that just means Harloe will be a much better self soother! :)
Sadly, we had to give our dog Jada back to the breeder for a better home. I just couldn't walk her like I used to or give her the attention she needed once Rhowan came. Now with two I needed our backyard back so Rhowan could play with her set up back there and she was deadly scared of Jada and Jada was so hyper she would jump on everyone not being good for having little ones running around out there. It was very difficult (thank you mom and dad for taking her) but I know in the end she will be happier and Rhowan is already loving her backyard: her slide, her fishie pool, her jump house and even wants to help mommy get the back yard in shape with gardening (as you can see in the pictures I've posted!) It has been really nice just sitting out there so Rhowan can play or leaving the door open and being able to see Rhowan out there playing and having fun. Cheap and easy entertainment and Rhowan LOVES to be outside.
I have decided to take the extended 6 week disability for bonding time, being I am still feeling very unsettled and not ready to go back to working. I am not going to stress about anything right now but focusing on my family and being a good mommy and will worry about it when this 6 week is up again! :) TJ is very supportive, having loved that I was working and we had two nice incomes coming in to do all the extras we wanted and never having to worry about money like we used to but just enjoying our time and doing what we wanted when we wanted (to a certain degree of course!), but to me it is more important to raise our children and be here for them than daycare raising them. With TJ gone so much for work, he is a work horse, I feel like I need to be there for them that much more, you know? I can go back to work when they are in school, we can stand to be on a tight budget and one income again for at least another 4 years! That is unless we decide on more kids???? That's for another blog later! LOL.
Well until next time that is about all the updates I can think of for now, so I hope this finds all of you in great health and happiness and keep checking for updates on our growing two little babies! :)
Much love,
The Bruce's
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
6 weeks ago today...
Harloe Grayce Bruce blessed our lives on June 7th, 2011. 6 lbs and 14 oz and 19 inches long at 3:22 am
Rhowan was in love from the beginning...I stressed for so long about her reaction and couldn't be happier with her excitement for her baby sister! 
Daddy's P2 (princess #2)
Daddy with P1 and P2...who would of ever thought that he would be so happy and content with two girls?! Every man wants a boy but not this daddy! :)
Rhowan meeting Harloe for the first time...Are we a complete family yet??? ;) (for now at least!)
Ok, so I took long enough to post pics and updates, but our lives have taken an even busier turn and for the better of course. People tell you how crazy it's going to be for the first year with two so close in age, but you can't really prepare yourself for what you are about to experience. It's been a blessing for sure and we couldn't be happier. It has just been a very BIG adjustment for all of us. Terrible 2's seemed to have ironically (or not) hit the day baby came home, which at 20 months is expected. Daddy has been busier than ever with work, traveling, recruiting, working loooong hours, etc. and Mommy is trying to adjust to no sleep and taking care of two babies under two. Thank goodness for our families being so close and involved in our lives and willing to help at every minute they can. I don't know what I'd do...bed time routines with the new baby haven't been exactly established being Rhowan still loves for us to lay with her to get her to sleep and that's always the time Harloe is ready to nurse! I am trying to tell myself, to adjust and be on survival mode and after 2 months or so start establishing routines. Enjoy your babies Heather because you will never have this time back as stressful as some moments get!!!!My aunt and uncle/God parents came for a week to stay at my parents while they went on their yearly/tradition cruise to help me out with the kiddos and let me tell you, I was in Heaven. I love having them around, visiting, walking the beach, eating their delicious dinners they cook up every night, etc. I just love being with them and couldn't be happier that they came down to stay and keep me comapany and help me with the girls. Thank you Aunt Barbara and Uncle Fred. You guys mean more to me than you'll ever know! I had the best week ever and it was all just in fun and relaxation having you here! xoxoxox
So much to catch you all up on. Rhowan went camping with Grandma and Ampa for 3 nights and 4 days, longest she's been away from home...pictures to come. We spent lots of one on one time before baby came including a trip to Disneyland, trips to the park, etc. I have loved being a stay at home mommy again and pray every night for God to show me my direction next as for where I am meant to be and meant to do.
As for more babies, we are good for right now. This labor was much more intense than Rhowan's...both were induced but not at all what I expected the 2nd time around. I won't bore you with the details but my body doesn't take to an epidural and being induced it was much needed after about the 10th hour of labor. The pushing, well not pushing she pretty much fell out before the dr even got there, was much easier and so was the recovery, but I could've done with a much different labor process! TJ said in the middle of it, "we are done!" Um, are you in pain or labor right now?! LOL...it was a stressful week leading up to it because they were right in the middle of playoffs and we were anticipating him having to leave town on that Wed with our set date of induction being Monday. Anyway, with his career that is the way it is and I wouldn't have it any other way to have him doing what he loves! As tough and emotional as it was, I was so proud of him as a coach that I knew God would take care of it whatever the outcome was.
I am happy to say he is renewing his contract with UCLA for a 2nd year, so we are very happy and blessed for that! He sure as hell has worked for it! His parents understand that he can't be there and have done an amazing job making up for what he can't do right now not physically being available and God I am thankful for that. It has been really nice having so much help right now that if his mom ever goes back to work I am in for it, she has truly spoiled me with how much she does for us. We have been spending a lot of time at my parents too since my mom is off on summers and Rhowan, Lexi and Nate just love to play with each other non stop!
As you can see we have been non stop even with the arrival of Harloe, I think I was out and about just days after she was born...no time to sit around in my rob and relax all day in pjs like I did with Rhowan. It makes me sad, but I just take advantage of the moments nursing and when Rhowan is at daycare twice a week to get our bonding in.
I will post more pics and updates later...I am missing so much before the birth, between and since to catch you all up on. I have pictures, our computer is up and moving now in its new location and I am learning to function again so no excuses! I will do my best! :)
Miss and love you all and forgive me for that typical "2nd child procrastination" everyone speaks of. It is so sadly true but doesn't speak for the amount of love she has from us still! :)
xoxo,
Heather, TJ, Rhowan and Harloe
Monday, March 28, 2011
Baby Lulu Fall 2011
Rhowan and Lexi got asked again to do the Baby Lulu catalog. As you can see Rhowan was very excited to accept! LOL...that is actually the picture that made the back cover and then Rhowan and Lexi made the front cover, Rhowan is 2 for 2 with success on making the clothing lines catalog front and back cover, 2 years in a row. Ok, ok, I am tooting her horn for her, but I am just a proud mommy. I didn't get to take her to any of the photo shoots this time, grandma took over with Auntie and Lexi because I had to work, but I was so happy to see the results and get more cute outfits for Rhowan's hard work! :)They are also online on the catalog at www.babylulu.com. Her clothes are mostly sold in boutique stores, but I've seen them on other websites too! So exciting!!!
I am sure it was a crack up to be there and watch Auntie and Grandma put on a circus show to get the girls to smile, but whatever they did worked! :)
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Rhowan Update!
Our princess is almost 17 months already!!!! OMG, time flies by, but I do have to say with every day, month and time that goes by she is getting to be such a fun, loving, bright and entertaining princess! It is so fun to watch her grow and just how much they learn and pick up in these months.
She was very sick, most of February she was in and out of day care and the Dr's with one thing after another. Downfall of daycare! :( I am all about building their immune systems, but come on, after almost 5 straight weeks of being sick, getting better, being sick, etc. it gets very wearing and tiring! It finally got real bad with her having a double ear infection and what we think a viral infection of some sort. She was vomiting, not eating, diarrhea, sleeping a lot, not active at all, just NOT herself. It was awful and so sad to see. I finally took time off work to be with her because as much help as I get and appreciate I just felt I had to be with my baby. I've never seen her like this and it literally broke my heart. I finally became so emotional over it thinking every worse case scenario, you wouldn't even want to know, and just having a break down. She saw me crying hysterically and gave me her pluggie to soothe me! LOL...such a sweetheart. I then realized, she knows you are upset, stop it!!!!! Do what it takes to make her comfortable and better and just focus on her and pray to give her the strength back to feel better. I then kicked my butt into "mom" gear, the non worry and non preggo one with a rational mind and took her out of the house for a walk and just focused on her! It helped, not to mention my many phone calls to my sister, husband and of course nurse Jen, so thank you for dealing with me! LOL.
Anyway, she is back to herself, energy back, eating again and just her happy self. I cried when I finally saw this, and of course it was on the day daddy took off to go back to the Dr with me to ask all the what if questions so they wouldn't think I was nuts! He says she was just smiling cause he was finally home! LOL...which to be honest I am sure it was. We will be laying in bed to put her down and TJ will call to say he's on his way home, hoping she is still awake when he gets there, which most the time doesn't happen with his hours, but anyway, we will be laying there, she is calm, just had her baba and ready to knock out. She immediately knows it's daddy and starts talking to him and laughing and playing. It is so cute that how can you be mad at that!
She is loving to kiss and rub my belly and my "other baby," she is still my baby. She is a sponge repeating everything we do and say. Every morning as I am getting ready for work she pretends to be doing her hair as I am doing mine, she gets into my jewelry box to get "pretty" while mommy gets dressed and accessorized. She wants to do everything herself...put on her shoes, socks, jacket, go down the stairs, etc. She wants to drink out of our water bottles not her sippy cup and if you don't give it up, she will let you know exactly what she wants!!!! Overall she has a very good temperament, but she does have those moments poking through where I can see the little attitude coming through as she tests her boundaries!
She is still into books, wanting to go on walks in her car or stroller, throwing balls, yes, she actually throws them, daddy showed her and she says, "weddy (i.e. ready)" then chucks it at you!
Well I could go on for days. I will update you all as our chaotic and crazy lives continue!
She was very sick, most of February she was in and out of day care and the Dr's with one thing after another. Downfall of daycare! :( I am all about building their immune systems, but come on, after almost 5 straight weeks of being sick, getting better, being sick, etc. it gets very wearing and tiring! It finally got real bad with her having a double ear infection and what we think a viral infection of some sort. She was vomiting, not eating, diarrhea, sleeping a lot, not active at all, just NOT herself. It was awful and so sad to see. I finally took time off work to be with her because as much help as I get and appreciate I just felt I had to be with my baby. I've never seen her like this and it literally broke my heart. I finally became so emotional over it thinking every worse case scenario, you wouldn't even want to know, and just having a break down. She saw me crying hysterically and gave me her pluggie to soothe me! LOL...such a sweetheart. I then realized, she knows you are upset, stop it!!!!! Do what it takes to make her comfortable and better and just focus on her and pray to give her the strength back to feel better. I then kicked my butt into "mom" gear, the non worry and non preggo one with a rational mind and took her out of the house for a walk and just focused on her! It helped, not to mention my many phone calls to my sister, husband and of course nurse Jen, so thank you for dealing with me! LOL.
Anyway, she is back to herself, energy back, eating again and just her happy self. I cried when I finally saw this, and of course it was on the day daddy took off to go back to the Dr with me to ask all the what if questions so they wouldn't think I was nuts! He says she was just smiling cause he was finally home! LOL...which to be honest I am sure it was. We will be laying in bed to put her down and TJ will call to say he's on his way home, hoping she is still awake when he gets there, which most the time doesn't happen with his hours, but anyway, we will be laying there, she is calm, just had her baba and ready to knock out. She immediately knows it's daddy and starts talking to him and laughing and playing. It is so cute that how can you be mad at that!
She is loving to kiss and rub my belly and my "other baby," she is still my baby. She is a sponge repeating everything we do and say. Every morning as I am getting ready for work she pretends to be doing her hair as I am doing mine, she gets into my jewelry box to get "pretty" while mommy gets dressed and accessorized. She wants to do everything herself...put on her shoes, socks, jacket, go down the stairs, etc. She wants to drink out of our water bottles not her sippy cup and if you don't give it up, she will let you know exactly what she wants!!!! Overall she has a very good temperament, but she does have those moments poking through where I can see the little attitude coming through as she tests her boundaries!
She is still into books, wanting to go on walks in her car or stroller, throwing balls, yes, she actually throws them, daddy showed her and she says, "weddy (i.e. ready)" then chucks it at you!
Well I could go on for days. I will update you all as our chaotic and crazy lives continue!
Baby #2 Update...
This poor 2nd baby of mine is already being neglected....I blogged so much when I was pregnant with Rhowan and as she was growing each month. It is just so different your second time around. I keep finding myself saying that, but my friends and family have so nicely been reassuring that yes it is and it's not just me! I often find myself thinking, OMG, how am I going to do this with 2? Are we doing this too close together (Rhowan and the new baby will only be 20 months apart!), but you know what, I need to focus on what a huge blessing it was to get pregnant on our own without even trying and remember what joy being a mommy brought to my life and stop worrying about other stuff. Easier said than done, sometimes the anxieties overtake my excitement for this new blessing, but I know it will all be good. Rhowan will adjust and eventually be very happy to have a baby sister to play with. She is such a loving and playful little girl that she will be a great big sister!
Enough of my tangent and back to the update. I am almost 7 months along...I had a dr appt yesterday. My weight gain is going faster with this one than it did with Rhowan...I have already gained almost 20 lbs with this one, which is totally stressing me out and that is putting it lightly. I refuse to gain more than 30 so I started walking 45 minutes a night or day last week! I am still weighing in less than I was when I found out I was pregnant with Rhowan, but I am literally having nightmares that I will have a hard time fitting back into my clothes I just got back into after this baby! I had for the first time felt great about myself, my weight, shopping, etc. that I want to make sure I get to that again. So I will be purchasing that double jogging stroller sooner than later! :) Baby is moving more now, I was worried because she seems calmer than Rhowan was in my belly. She really likes to let me know she's awake when I'm laying down to go to bed! hmmmm, is that a hint for what's in store?! Everything looks and sounds great according to the dr, but next appt, in April, she wants to do another ultra sound to be sure it's a girl. Yep, just to be sure! She asked me if we knew the sex, I told her what the tech told us, but we got no pics this time, she got them all, so she said she wanted to do one next appt to take a look! Wouldn't that be funny if they were wrong?! Not really, but kind of. I guess better now than later when the room is officially done, etc.!
No, still no name...I know, people ask and its like we hardly talk about it, but then again we hardly see each other and I hardly have time to even feel or be preggo right now. Or maybe its because my mind is just hard set on what I want it to be?! :)
I can't believe how fast our lives will change in a matter of a few months. It is and will be baseball season still when the baby arrives, so I am stressed about that. I told my sister yesterday, as much as I'd love to give her the experience to be in the delivery room with both moms, assuming TJ won't be there, I really need her to be my caretaker for Rhowan the entire time I am in delivery and in the hospital. She loves my sister and the Baca Family and gets so excited to see them and is truly comfortable with her, so knowing she is in good hands is my #1 priority. I know what you are all thinking, why are you stressing about all this. Because PEOPLE, I worry, I plan and I hate not knowing if my husband will be there (hoping he's not career wise!) I need to know my baby will be ok! :)
Then there is the after part...She is due June 12th, TJ hopefully goes to College World Series shortly after, David goes with to support, MIL stays home to help me and Rhowan. Then my family goes on a nice and wonderful cruise without me for a week or so and TJ's parents go on a trip the same week!!!! AHHHHHHH, can you say I freaked, ok, cried when I realized this. Not that by any means I want anybody to put their lives or vacations on hold for me, I am just freaking out, how will I take care of 2 when Rhowan is still so dependent on me. Does it just come naturally to her and me that there is a new baby? Will we all adjust ok? Please don't mis read this that I am not happy or excited, I am just a worry wart!!!! LOL.
I know all will turn out ok, we have been so truly blessed and everything has worked out for us so wonderfully so I am sure I have nothing to worry about. We have so much love and support around us, that I am eternally grateful for. I am just venting and letting you all into my brain that goes 100 mph all hours of the night! :)
Well that is about it on our end. It is now time to start Spring Cleaning, preparing for baby #2, getting house ready, room ready, etc! The fun part! :)
Love to you all! Til next time...
xoxo,
The Bruce's
Enough of my tangent and back to the update. I am almost 7 months along...I had a dr appt yesterday. My weight gain is going faster with this one than it did with Rhowan...I have already gained almost 20 lbs with this one, which is totally stressing me out and that is putting it lightly. I refuse to gain more than 30 so I started walking 45 minutes a night or day last week! I am still weighing in less than I was when I found out I was pregnant with Rhowan, but I am literally having nightmares that I will have a hard time fitting back into my clothes I just got back into after this baby! I had for the first time felt great about myself, my weight, shopping, etc. that I want to make sure I get to that again. So I will be purchasing that double jogging stroller sooner than later! :) Baby is moving more now, I was worried because she seems calmer than Rhowan was in my belly. She really likes to let me know she's awake when I'm laying down to go to bed! hmmmm, is that a hint for what's in store?! Everything looks and sounds great according to the dr, but next appt, in April, she wants to do another ultra sound to be sure it's a girl. Yep, just to be sure! She asked me if we knew the sex, I told her what the tech told us, but we got no pics this time, she got them all, so she said she wanted to do one next appt to take a look! Wouldn't that be funny if they were wrong?! Not really, but kind of. I guess better now than later when the room is officially done, etc.!
No, still no name...I know, people ask and its like we hardly talk about it, but then again we hardly see each other and I hardly have time to even feel or be preggo right now. Or maybe its because my mind is just hard set on what I want it to be?! :)
I can't believe how fast our lives will change in a matter of a few months. It is and will be baseball season still when the baby arrives, so I am stressed about that. I told my sister yesterday, as much as I'd love to give her the experience to be in the delivery room with both moms, assuming TJ won't be there, I really need her to be my caretaker for Rhowan the entire time I am in delivery and in the hospital. She loves my sister and the Baca Family and gets so excited to see them and is truly comfortable with her, so knowing she is in good hands is my #1 priority. I know what you are all thinking, why are you stressing about all this. Because PEOPLE, I worry, I plan and I hate not knowing if my husband will be there (hoping he's not career wise!) I need to know my baby will be ok! :)
Then there is the after part...She is due June 12th, TJ hopefully goes to College World Series shortly after, David goes with to support, MIL stays home to help me and Rhowan. Then my family goes on a nice and wonderful cruise without me for a week or so and TJ's parents go on a trip the same week!!!! AHHHHHHH, can you say I freaked, ok, cried when I realized this. Not that by any means I want anybody to put their lives or vacations on hold for me, I am just freaking out, how will I take care of 2 when Rhowan is still so dependent on me. Does it just come naturally to her and me that there is a new baby? Will we all adjust ok? Please don't mis read this that I am not happy or excited, I am just a worry wart!!!! LOL.
I know all will turn out ok, we have been so truly blessed and everything has worked out for us so wonderfully so I am sure I have nothing to worry about. We have so much love and support around us, that I am eternally grateful for. I am just venting and letting you all into my brain that goes 100 mph all hours of the night! :)
Well that is about it on our end. It is now time to start Spring Cleaning, preparing for baby #2, getting house ready, room ready, etc! The fun part! :)
Love to you all! Til next time...
xoxo,
The Bruce's
Monday, February 14, 2011
More Pictures...
Happy 1st Birthday Lexi...what a fun day we had at the park!
oh, daddy has taught you well already! :)
It was almost impossible to get Rhowan off the playground...she kept "ampa" busy! 
"weeeeeeeee"January Pictures
I love the swings!!!!
Happy Birthday cousin...Rhowan loves "exi" as she pronounces it! :)
awwww, so loving!
Rhowan loves to play with Nate and "exi", especially when they are doing the chasing! :)
Mommy's bday...yummmm!!!!Happy Valentine's Day
Look what I got for Valentine's Day?! My first JUICY purse!!! :)
Baking cookies with Grandma....or should I say eating all the frosting?! Thursday, February 10, 2011
15 month Update...
Hello Everyone,
Well our little one is already 15 months going on 16 months...wow, time really does fly! She is getting so big and independent. We went for her 15 month check up and she is off the chart in her height, 100% and went off her curve a bit in weight at 90-95%...ok, so she loves french fries and pasta (carbs), so we will do more of the veggies, cause yes she eats those too! And no more churros, "ampa!" LOL...
Dr is very happy and impressed with how much she is talking...oh and yes, she is at that point where she is going to be testing the waters for those lovely terrible 2's...Dr's comment was I don't know why they call it terrible 2's because you will see it starting now, and yes, we do a little bit...but boy do I see it coming! Rhowan is very independent and stubborn and wants to do it herself and she will let you know it!!! She likes to throw herself on the floor every now and then to make her point or scream to get your attention...So we are doing our best to stay on top of it because I know the best has yet to come! :)
She is finally well and over her 3 week of being sick and not sick, sick and not sick...the one downfall of daycare. I would get her better, one day back and she was sick again. It got to be soo much that she came down with RSV, Brochialitis and double ear infection...my poor baby. She is well now after a week of recovery and staying home and hopefully stays healthy. I am all about building their immune system, but mommy is preggo, working and tired too and I can't have my child sick for 3 straight weeks!!! Come on parents, keep your kids home if they are sick!!!!
She goes back for her 18 month in 2 months and that is when we have to start talking about no more bottle and slowly taking pluggy away...I am sure that will be fun when the baby sister arrives and gets both those things...hmmmmm???!!! Oh and yes, not sure if we offically announed on the blog being I don't get to update much anymore, but we are having another baby girl!!! Rhowan will be a big sister and show her the way to being a princess!
Well that is about it for now...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Hormonal Mess...
So this morning I am driving to work, running a little bit late as always. We are at that stage where Rhowan wants to walk herself out of the house and into the car and be a big girl down the stairs, etc. Needless to say, getting home for the day and leaving for the day is a 10 minute task. But I allow her to do these things because I am the one always rushing out the door and hurrying up, she doesn't know the dang difference between 7:40 and 7:50 and what just ten minutes does to your ride to work!
Anway, I drip her off to daycare, go to Jamba Juice for breakfast on the way to work, and I am on my way. I am less than a mile from work, when I am braking from the hill on Willow and whatever street it is with the cemetery right there when a cop sees me, from the other side of the street, makes a u-turn with his lights and pulls me over.
I am thinking, SHIT, my liscence is expired, but I have a DMV appt. So he comes up and says, "are you in a rush?" Well, "yes, I actually am, I am pregnant, not feeling well, having a bad morninig and late to work." He says, "do you know the speed limit?" I say, well it must be 40 as there is a sign right in front of my damn face! He asks for license, registration and an updated address, I explain I have a dmv appt. He says, "you were going 54 in a 40." He walks away, I begin to cry...I mean ball, I can't stop the tears. All I can think of is shit, we already have a $456 camera tix to pay of TJ's, I need to re do another baby room, why another expense. I am soooo upset. He comes back, continues to lecture, sees me full on crying, and rubbing my belly for more of a dramatic spin, and he says, "slow down for now on" and walks away. I couldn't even drive away for a few minutes because I was crying to hard. I get to work and I am still crying. First off, what is wrong with me? It's just a stupid ticket? Then I am pissed! Who gives a freaking crying, pregnant woman a ticket. Go catch a F*&#ing criminal and use your time wisely!!!!! UGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I am still upset about it as you can see. My fault, yes. Big deal, not really (unless you're the one paying my bills.) It just ruined my day, threw me off, and makes me want to go home and call it a day!
I don't remember being this emotional when I was preggo with Rhowan...I cry on every TV show, at every memory, at every song on the radio, at pictures, etc. What is going on?!!!!
Anway, I drip her off to daycare, go to Jamba Juice for breakfast on the way to work, and I am on my way. I am less than a mile from work, when I am braking from the hill on Willow and whatever street it is with the cemetery right there when a cop sees me, from the other side of the street, makes a u-turn with his lights and pulls me over.
I am thinking, SHIT, my liscence is expired, but I have a DMV appt. So he comes up and says, "are you in a rush?" Well, "yes, I actually am, I am pregnant, not feeling well, having a bad morninig and late to work." He says, "do you know the speed limit?" I say, well it must be 40 as there is a sign right in front of my damn face! He asks for license, registration and an updated address, I explain I have a dmv appt. He says, "you were going 54 in a 40." He walks away, I begin to cry...I mean ball, I can't stop the tears. All I can think of is shit, we already have a $456 camera tix to pay of TJ's, I need to re do another baby room, why another expense. I am soooo upset. He comes back, continues to lecture, sees me full on crying, and rubbing my belly for more of a dramatic spin, and he says, "slow down for now on" and walks away. I couldn't even drive away for a few minutes because I was crying to hard. I get to work and I am still crying. First off, what is wrong with me? It's just a stupid ticket? Then I am pissed! Who gives a freaking crying, pregnant woman a ticket. Go catch a F*&#ing criminal and use your time wisely!!!!! UGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I am still upset about it as you can see. My fault, yes. Big deal, not really (unless you're the one paying my bills.) It just ruined my day, threw me off, and makes me want to go home and call it a day!
I don't remember being this emotional when I was preggo with Rhowan...I cry on every TV show, at every memory, at every song on the radio, at pictures, etc. What is going on?!!!!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Christmas Morning...
What a fun year it was. Last year she sat in her vibrating chair wondering what the heck was going on I am sure! This year, she was so into it...Next year, she will be showing her brother or sister how its done! 2011 will be another great year!
xoxoxoxo
More Pics...
Mommy and Rhowan
"Ramma" and "Rampa"
Rhowan wasn't really feeling all the pictures this year! Thanks for the smile princess! LOL.
Papa and Oma after Christmas Eve Mass.
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