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Thrift-wearing Thursday

Today Teagan is looking super cute in an outfit that is all thrifted and I love it!

The adorable faces are credited to the "Choo Choo" she heard when we were getting out of the car.

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Holy freak out mode, Batman!

Okay, I have been convinced up until last night that we were having another girl.  I'd convinced myself I was carrying the same way, that nothing was different and I wouldn't let myself believe otherwise.  There was no way in the world there was a boy growing in my belly. 
I had a "gender" dream that rocked my world last night.  I am now officially convinced we are having a boy. NO, we do not know for sure and we won't until Baby Bear graces us with their presence but I figure I should start researching different things about baby boys.  There is a world of difference between a baby girl and a baby boy and I don't want to go into it uneducated. There is circumcision, pee pee tee pees, involuntary baby boy erections, oh my!
Do you have any hint for us just in case my dream happens to come into fruition and we do have a boy growing in my belly? I am more then willing to hear them!

Bumps and bruises, oh my!

If Teagan is one thing she is her mother's child.  That includes bumps and bruises and scrapes that turn up out of nowhere. 
Last night while I was fixing dinner Teagan and Josh were playing in the yard.  She recently got a cute little red & yellow "chubby car" from a sweet friend and she loves it! She was trying to get out of it and her feet didn't quite make it out but her head did.  Direct hit to the concrete.  Josh came rushing, not panicking, in to get a "boo-boo pack" with a crying toddler.  I knew she had hit hard when he didn't answer me right away. Luckily it was not as bad as it could have been.  A "boo-boo pack", lots of kisses and snuggles and some Baby Signing Time helped make it better. 
But boy does she have a mark to commemorate the event...

A burden lifted.

The Lord is full of surprises.  The last few weeks I have been praying for the strength and will power to combat the inevitable.  Gestational Diabetes.  I don't even know if I prayed not to have it. I just immediately assumed after my numbers were kind of high at 18 weeks and when I failed the first glucose test that I was going to have to deal with it.  So, I prayed for strength and wisdom to get through it this time.  The Lord was giving me the motivation to find breakfast alternatives to the eggs that I ate every the last 3 mths I was pregnant with Teagan.  I was researching and setting myself up mentally. 
I got the call this morning and I "passed"! I do not have gestational diabetes this time.  I think I scared the nurse on the other end of the phone.  I asked her if she was serious and was she sure she called the right number.  She laughed and said yes.  She told me the numbers were normal. NORMAL people! And I was good to go.  I told her thank you and how excited I was.  She laughed and said she was glad she could make my day.  I told her quickly that she had just made the rest of my pregnancy!
Thank you to those who I know were praying for this result.  I appreciate it so much.  This is just a testament that the Lord is full of surprises.    



I love my lab tech...

Yes, I just said MY lab tech.  There is a lady in the lab at my OBs office who has needle magic in her fingers and if she is not there when I get there I actually ask for her by name.  Her name is Brenda, by the way.  She has the kind of blood-taking ability that you can't feel! I don't even feel when the needle goes in.  This comes in very handy when I have to get blood drawn 4 times in 3 hours.
Today was my 3 hr glucose test.  Honestly, at this point I feel like it's a technicality for insurance because I know I'll be making my appointment at the diabetes center within days.  They don't have a Brenda.

*sidenote-they do have a Brenda at the diabetes center but she is satan.*

Why I don't wear earrings more often.

When I was younger we moved around a lot. I will proudly tell anybody it's because I am an Air Force brat.  Both of my parents served and I say that with enormous pride.  That has nothing to do with the story but anyway.
We lived in SC for about a year and that is the only time I ever really had to ride the bus.  There was a girl on my bus who, in the 2nd grade, would wear dangling earrings all the time.  One day she came on the bus with tape on her ear and no earrings.  She and her sister had been fighting and her sister ripped her earring out! It went all the way through her ear lobe!  Ever since then I've been scared to wear earrings.  Not that I'm going to get into a knock-down drag out with anybody who is going to rip my earrings out but I can't get over it! I thought I could start with small ones and then work my way into the adorable ones that I see and would love to wear but I have a toddler who is just as grabby now as she was when she was a baby and now we have another on the way! Maybe I will venture out when they turn about 5...

Until then here are some cute ones that I've seen and would love to wear:

By ILoveJeans on Etsy.

By Diagrings on Etsy.

By vanistudio on Etsy

By Sarathomas on Etsy