Baby Life

I'm so not good at keeping up with blogging haha. I realized my last blog was right before I had Noah so I guess I've just been preoccupied.
So as you may have guessed Noah is in the world. Born April 3rd at 2:33am, 7lbs 10oz. Now he will be 5 months old in about a week and a half. Time has flown by! The first few months with him were more challenging being that his days and nights were mixed up and he needed to be fed more often. Now he only wakes up once in the middle of the night to eat. He sleeps from about 8pm until 7:30am which is awesome and takes a few naps in the day. It's so amazing how fast and drastic babies change in such a short time. He has smiled, rolled, found his hands and feet, grabs for things, babbles, holds his head up, loves looking at himself in the mirror, bounces on the jumperoo, and is teething; just to name a few.
He has brought so much joy to Tom and my life. It's not always happy or easy but I wouldn't change having him for anything. There is so much responsibility when you have a baby. They're so helpless. I knew of course they are a lot of work but I didn't truely know until I had him. Don't get me wrong, I love love love being a stay-at-home mom but every now and then I miss the freedom I had before. That's why I think it's so important to have Tom watch him so I can do things for myself and also have others watch him so me and Tom can have husband/wife time together. I remember when we had our first date night babyless it felt like something was missing. It gets a little easier a. as he gets older and b. if we keep have our time.
There are so much things I am looking forward to experience with Noah that's why I love being able to stay home so I don't miss any of them. I love Tom and Noah so much. God has truely blessed our family :) <3

Getting closer.

There is only a week and 3 days until my due date but the time is going so slow. The first part of my pregnancy seems like it went by so fast but now it seems like it's going so slow to make up for how fast the first part went. I'm enjoying my alone time and time with Tom before the baby come but being this pregnant makes me very tired, but I suppose it's just preparation for the lack of sleep i will be getting soon.
I've had two baby showers, one my mom threw me and one my mother-in-law threw me. I got so much stuff. We got pretty much everything we needed so we set up the baby room a week or so ago. We painted and set up all the furniture so now we are just waiting for the baby to come.
The pregnancy is going great. At the last doctors appointment my sister-in-law got to hear Noah's heart beat. A couple weeks ago I got checked and I was not dilated at all but that is pretty normal. There have been no signs that he is coming early so I think I will go past my due date. At the last doctors appointment I asked about my heart because I have a heart disease (S.V.T.) which makes my heart beat too fast on occasion. The doctor said if it is acting up when I'm in labor the will probably give me antibiotics through the IV and if that doesn't work I will just have to get an epidural. All in all she said everything will be fine and they have delivered women who have had S.V.T. before so I'm not worried.

Monday is me and Tom's 2 year anniversary. I feel like it's kind of getting pushed under the rug because we are so focused on baby stuff but hopefully I get to go swimming. I want to go to a water park for our anniversary, not to go on slides because I don't even go on them when I''m not pregnant, but to go swimming. Swimming is great in your 3rd trimester because it takes pressure off your joints and muscles and I have back pain all the time now. I can't believe we have been married for 2 years, it's been amazing!

The next time I have another post on here I will probably have the baby, I hope :)

Scatter Brained

Just a few things on my mind. Mostly about my doggy, honey. She has hip dysplasia and she isn't even a year old. I feel like crying constantly just watching her do little things like walk up stairs or get up when she is laying down. She seems like she is in so much pain even though dogs are good at hiding their pain. When I try to move her back legs or touch them I can tell she doesn't like it because she doesn't bite me but kinda mouths at me to get me away. I give her glucosamine pills but I don't know how much they are doing for her. It is putting so much stress and worry on my mind. I can't help but feel so bad for her :'(

On a happier note, it's Christmas!! I love spending time with the family and just relaxing with them. We have already has our Christmas day with Tom's family on sunday and it was lots of fun. Today we had the Jurica Christmas and it's always loud and entertaining. Tomorrow we wake up and have family Christmas then go to Iowa for that Christmas. I'm so upset about the dog thing I can't think so that is all.

Firsts

So catching up with what's been going on in my life, not my whole life but recently. I've been married for almost 2 years now to Tom and it has been so amazing. Two years seems like a short time but it feels like I've known him my whole life. Since we've been married a lot has happened. We started off in an apartment for a year and while we were there we got a orange and white cat named Sweetea. She loves me but is pretty much afraid of everything and everyone else but a good cat. When our year was up in the apartment we bought our first house! It was a long and stressful process but the end result was definitly worth it. We have lived in our house for almost a year now. When we bought a house I wanted a dog right away because my parents would always tell me, once you get married you can have your own dog, because they didn't want to get a dog. So in March we got a 8 week old golden retriever puppy and named her Honey. Tom wasn't the biggest fan of this choice because he grew up mostly in the country and they usually have their dogs outside where I always grew up with my dogs inside and he is more of a cat person anyways. A little after we got her we went on vacation for our one year anniversary to virgina. We had an amazing time together there just relaxing and doing whatever. A few months after that we got yet another pet :) A kitten. Tom wanted a cat that would be social and let people pet it because sweetea would just run from everything. So we got a cute little boy kitten and named him Icee.

Taking care of all the pets, a house, and a husband can be a lot of work at times but I enjoy it. Training the puppy was hard and I don't think I ever want to get a puppy again but it was a good experience. The cats are always easy to take care of because they are so independent. I love living in a house and being able to do whatever I want to it, like we recently got a fence and I love it because I can just let the dog out without having to go out with her! Tom works 12 hour shifts at his job so they days he works I don't get to see him very long but he has a good amount of days off that I get to spend with him so it balances out.

At the end of July we found out that we are pregnant!!! We were't trying to have a baby but we also were'nt not trying. We just put it into God's hands when the time was right it would happen. The first trimester was a bit rough. I had morning sickness constantly in addition to a plethera of other symptoms. I got through the first trimester though and everything went great. We heard the heart beat in the first trimester and it was so amazing. As the second trimester started I still felt sick but about week 17 I started to get over the initial symptoms and got some new ones. I would get migraines, headaches, and heartburn. I don't have headaches much anymore but now I get heartburn more often and for that I have yummy tums. At week 21 we had our first ultrasound and found out that we are having a boy!! We are very excited but still deciding about a name. I am 25 weeks pregnant and have been feeling the baby move for sometime now and I love it when he does and when Tom can feel it too. So far the pregnancy is going great and time is flying by. I can't wait to see and hold my baby :))

That's pretty much everything in a nut shell. There have been more little things that have happened but I just wrote about the big things that I could think of.