Super Lolli!

Tomorrow morning, Foxie leaves for 3 WHOLE nights with Lolli (Lee's mom)! Normally, I would be super sad about this, but words cannot express how much I am looking forward to having time to just rest and feel nauseated all by myself. I know that sounds terrible to be excited about your child leaving for a few days, but it is literally me and Knox ALL day long and I am starting to feel a little sorry for him as I just lay there and let him crawl all over me during the day. 2 weeks ago, Lee and I decided that since 100 + degrees heat index doesn't mix well with an 11 month old and pregnancy, we had some friends from church come over and help break down our guest room furniture and move it to storage so that we could seriously throw every single toy Knox owns in that room and let him go to town in the A.C. All I can say about that is praise Jesus! Lee even got him a slide and Knox could spend hours on that thing (trying to go head first, of course). It's very chaotic in there and a little tacky, but at the moment I have no concerns about the appearance. It is serving its purpose and I am super thankful. Now, we will have to say bye bye to the "playroom" in about 6 and a half months, but we will be sure to get much use out of it before then.

Seriously, I am so thankful for Lolli and I know that Fox will have a blast with her in Auburn (although, he better not come home singing any AU fight songs :)). I am 10 weeks along, so hopefully I am coming to the end of this hard spell. I never realized how much I took feeling well for granted. Zofran has been a friend of mine!

There has been quite a few things going on with us and with Foxie, but I will save that for another post. My best friend down here is in the process of packing up her house and moving to Atlanta, and I am not sure that I can even really talk about it. She leaves on Thursday and I am still in denial. I am sure there will be an entire post on that very soon. Foxie is getting his top 2 teeth in and has taken to chompin' on his crib. There is already a bite guard on there, but we needed to come up with something so that he wouldn't chew threw it or around it. I took some pics tonight of how we rigged it up and how, ummm, happy Knox was with the end result...

"Mom. What are you doing with those blankets?"

"NOOOO! I want to chewwwww!

"SERIOUSLY!!! Take it down!!"

As you can see, he was pumped about it. AND...it looks AWESOME. ha. You do what you gatta do. It's all about survival around here these days...

Introducing...

The newest member of the Lawson family! Healthy and strong heartbeat, and should be here around January 28, 2011. When we were in the ultrasound room yesterday, I told Lee that I felt like we were JUST doing this with Knox...hearing his heartbeat and living at the doctor's office. I wonder why?...



The heartbeat was such a sweet sound. Being pregnant for the second time has been so different. Not just because I can barely lift my head without feeling the need to lose my lunch, have migrane headaches (and I'm not a headache person), my face is breaking out like a teenager, I'm dizzy a lot, and I have crazy ulcers in my mouth, but maybe because I was in such a rush to meet Knox and once he got here everything went SO fast. I barely even remember him beong a newborn. With this one I want everything to slow down so I can enjoy it. I don't know if that makes sense. I should clarify that I want the sick part of pregnancy to hurry up and be done with, but I want to take everything else slow. With the way I'm feeling, this one could be our last so I need to soak up every minute while I can!

On the bright side of traveling...

As many of you know, the hubs has been doing a bit of traveling with his job. He is gone-on average-1 to 2 nights a week. This is because he is living in Fairhope and doing a job that is based out of Montgomery, so he is there quite a bit during the week. He does SO much driving during the day, it's insane. He does trips to Birmingham and back some days just so he can meet with his prospects and then be home in time to feed Knox and put him to bed (and to see me, of course. Because I am SUCH a thrill to be around these days as I lay in the fetal position declaring-while moaning-that this will be our last child :)). I am so thankful that he works so hard and that he makes such an effort to be here as much as possible. However, there are many times that he has to travel out of the country for a few days or even somewhere in the states that requires him to be there for an extended time. Those days are hard because, well, I miss my husband and I also miss having an extra set of hands helping out with the little rascal. Anyways, I can get very sad when he has to leave and lately I have been somewhat bitter about it. Sometimes I just wish he had a normal 8 to 5 job and he could be home every night. BUT...I know that the bitterness is not good at all and that I need to be thankful for his job, especially during the economy these days. Since I've been married to Lee he has been in Economic Development, and I have never seen someone love their job as much as he does. Whenever he lands a business in one of his territories ( he has 49, thats why he travels so much), the first thing he tells me is not what kind of company it is or how hard he worked to build relationships with the prospects (and I know he works hard), but he tells me exactly how many jobs will be provided for people. Thats his favorite part...knowing that he has somewhat helped in finding employment for people without jobs. Sometimes it's 500 jobs, sometimes it's 2, 500...etc. Anyways, all this to say that because of all his travels he has accumulated many points from flying and hotels, and last night he put some of them to good use! Ladies and gentlemen, behold. This little lady is now the proud owner of this puppy:

It's true! I am super pumped about using a camera other than my IPHONE! haha. However, I am sure that I will have to study the manual front to back before I do anything with it seeing as how we all know that I am technology challenged. SO...hopefully I will have some clear pictures to post in the next month or so. I'm sure it will take me that long to figure it out. I love that we decided to break down and get a nice camera now that our child is almost a year old. O well, better late than never! Major bonus that we did not have to spend our own money on it, and were able to use his points. Thank you, God, for always sending sweet little ways to provide.

My doctor's appointment is this Thursday. We are praying for a ONE healthy heartbeat. Lee has some twins genes in his family and it has been quite the talk over the past few weeks since the gene has not manifested itself in our generation yet. I am remaining calm. My sweet, sweet Jesus knows me well enough not to give two babies to me at one time. But until Thursday, I think I might remind him in prayer ALL the reasons why it wouldn't be the best idea. :)

Green beans anyone???

I'm away with girlfriends at the beach right now, but I got this pic and laughed. Green beans for dinner anyone?






And look at these cheeks! What a cheese ball!!!






Life is good...






I am having a BLAST in Seaside catching up with sweet college friends, but boy I sure do miss my boys. In the meantime, here is our awesome view! We ate at the Red Bar tonight and then came back to the condo for movie night. So fun!










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Here we grow again...

Whatever you are thinking about this title, IT'S TRUE! It looks like the Lawson clan will be a family of FOUR come this January!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I am actually posting this, but if you know me then you pretty much know that I am an open book and don't mind sharing the news early. A big reason for that is the fact that I know that the power of prayer is tremendous, and boy do we need some prayer these days :).

Let me first go ahead and tell you that this was a bit of a surprise. Yes, I am obsessed with babies and with pregnant people and we definitely desired to have the kids close in age. However, Lee and I just had a talk last month about how happy and content we were with where we are in life, and how nice it was to be able to spend time with Knox and watch him grow. We then decided to wait a little bit after his birthday, and once we got back from some trips that we have on the calendar to start trying for a second. Well, Sike your mind because the Lord said that He had some different plans for us...

We went to New Orleans last weekend to visit the zoo (which was AWESOME, by the way. pics to come), and once we got back my friend was telling me that she was starting to get her monthly cramps (sorry if that's TMI). It wasn't until an hour later that I thought about MY monthly cramps and wondered why I hadn't had any. I went and checked the calendar and realized that I was SIX days late. Nice. I immediately went and bought a test. Well, 2 more tests later and a total of 3 bright positive results, I cried for a bit Monday afternoon and then sucked it up and packed Knox in the car and went and bought a ton of pink and blue balloons to surprise Lee when he got home. I drew question marks on all of them as well as baby names that we have talked about all along and tied them to Knox's highchair and put Knox in it when Lee came home. He walked in and just paused. He didn't understand at first. he thought that Knox had hit a milestone, like walked or something, and I was trying to celebrate that. He then read the stuff I wrote on the balloons and said, "Are we pregnant??!!" I said yes and he just ran to me, hugged me, and cried! I think I have seen Lee tear up ONCE in our marriage. He didn't even cry when we got pregnant with Knox. He has been elated ever since. Sometimes I ask him, "Do you understand whats about to happen to us in 8 months? Good-bye awesome sleep schedule and routine we have spent 10 month perfecting!" I tease, but his reaction to this has been really good for me and it's kept me from not freaking out and being overwhelmed with anxiety.

All I keep hearing in my head is "acid reflux" and "colic", as well as "you can't take care of two babies that small." I know that these thoughts aren't from the Lord and that I am believing lies, but I am still struggling a little with it. I am definitely feeling extremely nervous and scared, but I know that God is good and he has really blessed us and will carry us through.

If you think about it, please pray for our doctor's appointment. We don't go for 2 more weeks, and I remember how hard it was to wait so long with Knox to hear that reassuring heartbeat. In the meantime, I am trying to refresh my memory on all the do's and don'ts of pregnancy, as well as try to remain calm and truly trust God for his promise that His ways are always higher than ours. Thank you, Lord, for this amazing gift you have given us and for entrusting us with yet another child to -prayerfully-grow in Your image!

Hope this little guy is getting prepped for big brother-hood :)

Rough Day

I sat down tonight to feed Knox his veggies before we got ready for bed, and when I looked up from his green beans and saw him under the kitchen light, I just shook my head. This picture doesn't even do it justice. You can barely see it, but he has a long red line starting at his hair line is about a good 3 inches...a bump above his left eyebrow, another bump on his right front shoulder, scratch on his belly, and a huge bo bo under his eye. Geesh. I promise I didn't make him do Insanity with me today. He just for some reason honestly thinks he can walk and lets go of everything to take steps. Call it ambition or call it lack of sense, but whatever it is it isn't a good mix with the hardwoods.






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Let the transformation begin...

At exactly 7:18 p.m., this golden package arrived at the casa. Good bye post-baby body, hello shredded beast. The life change will have to start tomorrow, though. Extremely full from meatloaf and mashed potatoes...