Colbie born 4/16/15 8lbs. 10oz. 21 inches
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
She's Here
Well it's been a slow and full spring, one where our family went from 4 to 5.
We've spent a lot of time at home, a lot of time soaking up our new bundle. At least I have. We have had such great help from family and friends. We didn't have to make a meal for weeks and family made sure our big kiddos were having fun out of the house since I was healing from my csection and bonding with our new girl. The kids have been so great with her and really Lydia has been such a big help. This is a totally different feeling then when we brought our son home, I was in tears multiple times a day so overcome with how difficult it was adding to our family. From 2 to 3 has been such a fun blessing (most of the time, lets not totally sugar coat it, we have our moments) Colbie is a doll baby, she's so snuggly and good. I love having a baby in the house :) I've braved outings with the 3 of them and if things are going south we abort quickly and what a freedom in knowing I can do that. I'm not a failure if that happens, it's the season we are in and my kiddos need a mom who isn't a crazed lunatic so if our time out is cut short and we head home to start over, IT IS OK!!
Monday, March 2, 2015
Busy but not Busy
It's March 2nd....the snow is piled up outside and thank goodness I heard a plow hit our street at 1 a.m. this morning or Matt might have been snowed in our court. Lydia and I both prayed for snow as our winter was looking not too promising...it delivered and it's been fun and beautiful. I am slowly getting ready for warmer weather but the cold doesn't bother me being 33 weeks pregnant, less swelling more layers I'm ok with that.
I've also had a lot of bump dates since I last visited here...I am so thankful for Instagram and the cell phone camera for helping me document this pregnancy, I've only had my big camera out once and that's mostly due to the fact that I come home from work and smell like dog or look like I haven't showered or done my hair in days (mostly true) so this works better for me this time around. I'm starting to have some pain in my back and lots of heart burn. I am down to snacking all day because larger meals are hard, still not a big meat eater and love salads, pasta and fruit. She is a moving squirming machine in there but only during my quiet moments so mostly after the kids go to bed we have a good hour of bonding time while she dances and swims in there. I'm trying to soak this all in realizing it's the last time I will feel a little baby growing inside me. It's bittersweet, I love the pregnancy part I love the miracle of growing a baby inside and I am extremely lucky with relatively easy pregnancies.
I feel like the time is flying by this time around, my schedule doesn't allow for as much sitting and dreaming but faster and fuller with a split shift of work and a day full of making lunches, continuous snack/drink retrieving, wiping noses and butts and the constant up and down that is a mom at home during the day. I am thankful for this time with them as we just registered Lydia for Kindergarten and I realize she will be gone all day next school year. I am beyond thankful to have had that time with her even if some days all I really want to do is lay in my bed with a book or my shows and rest. It's just a season and one that is going all too fast. Our days are busy with normal life stuff, we have had relatively uneventful weekends full of watching basketball, movies and home projects...Colbie's room is almost done and Matt's been painting our master room (why do we wait til last minute to tackle the master bedroom, it's been 2 years in this home and it's not been touched)
Matt and I did take a weekend for ourselves and hit up a fun bed and breakfast in Brown County for the weekend while my mom stayed with the kiddos. Kind of a last effort to be lazy get in some much needed zzz's and time together without juggling kids between us. It was just what we needed. The place was so cute and had animals roaming the property which is fun for us since we are animal lovers. We went into town for shopping and dinner one night but otherwise had movie marathons, read, actually talked to each other over breakfast and enjoyed the company of best friends who have now been married for going on 7 years and just need a couple days to rejuvenate ourselves and our relationship.
The countdown to 5 heinekamps is down to 6 weeks this week...let the emotional rollercoaster begin.
I've also had a lot of bump dates since I last visited here...I am so thankful for Instagram and the cell phone camera for helping me document this pregnancy, I've only had my big camera out once and that's mostly due to the fact that I come home from work and smell like dog or look like I haven't showered or done my hair in days (mostly true) so this works better for me this time around. I'm starting to have some pain in my back and lots of heart burn. I am down to snacking all day because larger meals are hard, still not a big meat eater and love salads, pasta and fruit. She is a moving squirming machine in there but only during my quiet moments so mostly after the kids go to bed we have a good hour of bonding time while she dances and swims in there. I'm trying to soak this all in realizing it's the last time I will feel a little baby growing inside me. It's bittersweet, I love the pregnancy part I love the miracle of growing a baby inside and I am extremely lucky with relatively easy pregnancies.
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Matt and I did take a weekend for ourselves and hit up a fun bed and breakfast in Brown County for the weekend while my mom stayed with the kiddos. Kind of a last effort to be lazy get in some much needed zzz's and time together without juggling kids between us. It was just what we needed. The place was so cute and had animals roaming the property which is fun for us since we are animal lovers. We went into town for shopping and dinner one night but otherwise had movie marathons, read, actually talked to each other over breakfast and enjoyed the company of best friends who have now been married for going on 7 years and just need a couple days to rejuvenate ourselves and our relationship.
The countdown to 5 heinekamps is down to 6 weeks this week...let the emotional rollercoaster begin.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Prayer and Word for 2015
Christmas has come and gone and those of us with little ones know just how much of a joyful blur it is. Early mornings full of excitement and questions of "how many more days until Christmas" It's a challenge to make it through the day unscathed from the wrath of an anxious 4 year old but so sweet to feel the magic and excitement.
Santa was good and the playroom is full to overflowing, our kids are well loved (I choose to say that as opposed to spoiled, I am trying not to raise spoiled kids, just well loved kids)
Now comes the moment I look back at 2014 on this Sunday evening before we head back to our regular programming of early work mornings and school days for Lydia.
2014 was one big announcement after another for our family.
- WE ARE ADOPTING
- WE ARE PREGNANT
It was a year that we stepped out in blind faith not really knowing what the heck we were doing with all this paperwork and check list after check list. The world of adoption is a big fat risk, one that has no guaranteed end. We are walking through each door as it remains open for us and that was a big lesson this year...to continue on a path that we cannot see the ending but trusting that we were walking it for a reason. We then decided to follow our hearts (well really this mamma's heart) to have a baby in the wait. I turn 30 in 2015 and I had this desire on my heart to do this pregnancy thing one more time before then. So here we are entering 2015 expecting 2 kiddos, one who's due date is written on our calendar and the other who's entrance into our world is still an unknown.
2014 for us was about leaping into the unknown and not letting ourselves get too comfortable, 2015 is about living intentionally in this stage we are in.
INTENTIONAL - is my word for 2015.
Intentional - in my time of prayer and devotion - I want to read more books by women who are walking or have walked this same journey as me, to build me up and give me strength in the throws of motherhood. Time in prayer for my baby growing inside me, her siblings here in our home, my husband, and our birth family and child who are still a mystery to us.
Intentional - about time spent with those I love, my kids (putting away the phone and pouring all myself into them when it is time) more date nights with my husband, more time sending encouragement, making time for dinner/lunch/coffee with those girlfriends who mean the most to me. I want to build up a community, motherhood can be lonely.
Intentional - about what we spend our money on, more local, fair trade and necessary items for our family.
Intentional - with my time, that is spent not just staying busy but doing things that build us up as a family or me as a woman, not just saying yes to say yes because I don't want to disappoint somebody but being intentional in using my best yes possible.
2015 we will adjust to being a family of 5, of sending a kid to school full time, entering a full year of waiting and celebrating many moments as a family. We are ready for what 2015 brings... LETS DO IT!
Santa was good and the playroom is full to overflowing, our kids are well loved (I choose to say that as opposed to spoiled, I am trying not to raise spoiled kids, just well loved kids)
Now comes the moment I look back at 2014 on this Sunday evening before we head back to our regular programming of early work mornings and school days for Lydia.
2014 was one big announcement after another for our family.
- WE ARE ADOPTING
- WE ARE PREGNANT
It was a year that we stepped out in blind faith not really knowing what the heck we were doing with all this paperwork and check list after check list. The world of adoption is a big fat risk, one that has no guaranteed end. We are walking through each door as it remains open for us and that was a big lesson this year...to continue on a path that we cannot see the ending but trusting that we were walking it for a reason. We then decided to follow our hearts (well really this mamma's heart) to have a baby in the wait. I turn 30 in 2015 and I had this desire on my heart to do this pregnancy thing one more time before then. So here we are entering 2015 expecting 2 kiddos, one who's due date is written on our calendar and the other who's entrance into our world is still an unknown.
2014 for us was about leaping into the unknown and not letting ourselves get too comfortable, 2015 is about living intentionally in this stage we are in.
INTENTIONAL - is my word for 2015.
Intentional - in my time of prayer and devotion - I want to read more books by women who are walking or have walked this same journey as me, to build me up and give me strength in the throws of motherhood. Time in prayer for my baby growing inside me, her siblings here in our home, my husband, and our birth family and child who are still a mystery to us.
Intentional - about time spent with those I love, my kids (putting away the phone and pouring all myself into them when it is time) more date nights with my husband, more time sending encouragement, making time for dinner/lunch/coffee with those girlfriends who mean the most to me. I want to build up a community, motherhood can be lonely.
Intentional - about what we spend our money on, more local, fair trade and necessary items for our family.
Intentional - with my time, that is spent not just staying busy but doing things that build us up as a family or me as a woman, not just saying yes to say yes because I don't want to disappoint somebody but being intentional in using my best yes possible.
2015 we will adjust to being a family of 5, of sending a kid to school full time, entering a full year of waiting and celebrating many moments as a family. We are ready for what 2015 brings... LETS DO IT!
Thursday, December 4, 2014
20 Weeks and It's A....
We had an exciting holiday week...we started it out with a gender reveal party at our house on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We had our immediate families over and Lydia helped me open up a box of balloons revealing that we are having a precious baby.....
We are so thrilled to hit the 20 week mark with a healthy baby girl growing in there. She is starting to move more and more and things are looking great, still hit a sleepy time everyday and don't make it much passed 9:30 most nights but that's the life of a mom of 2 other little ones. Lydia is so excited to have a baby sister because duh brothers are old news. She even went to my 20 week check up to hear the baby's heart beat.
Here is her first close up and we do have a name.... Colbie Marie :) She is so loved already and although we are excited to hold her in our arms I am soaking up this pregnancy and my time alone with her. Plus we have a nursery to put together and tons of girl clothes to go through and wash up!! I can't wait to get out Lydia's old things to share with her sister.
Thankful to get to experience this miracle all over again. It's something that amazes and humbles me daily that God would grant me this privilege not even just once but three times now! Praises to him for these gifts I call my children.
GIRL
We are so thrilled to hit the 20 week mark with a healthy baby girl growing in there. She is starting to move more and more and things are looking great, still hit a sleepy time everyday and don't make it much passed 9:30 most nights but that's the life of a mom of 2 other little ones. Lydia is so excited to have a baby sister because duh brothers are old news. She even went to my 20 week check up to hear the baby's heart beat.
Here is her first close up and we do have a name.... Colbie Marie :) She is so loved already and although we are excited to hold her in our arms I am soaking up this pregnancy and my time alone with her. Plus we have a nursery to put together and tons of girl clothes to go through and wash up!! I can't wait to get out Lydia's old things to share with her sister.
Thankful to get to experience this miracle all over again. It's something that amazes and humbles me daily that God would grant me this privilege not even just once but three times now! Praises to him for these gifts I call my children.
Monday, November 17, 2014
17 Weeks
Well I hit the 17 week mark last Wednesday with this little peanut and I am feeling pretty good these days. I am craving salads, fruit, cheese fries, dr. pepper and have a major sweet tooth. I have started feeling inconsistent flutters but cannot wait to feel this baby dance around in there! We find out what we are having the day before Thanksgiving and am really looking forward to it this time around, we've done it both ways now but finding out is probably my favorite!
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Waiting Family...Officially
11/14/14 ... the day we officially became a waiting adoptive family. That is our DTE date (Dossier to Ethiopia)
Now I am doubly pregnant and we settle into a wait. A necessary wait if we want to be sure all is done legally and in the best interest of our child. So today I am pregnant with two children, one that I have begun to feel move in my belly and the other that has already stretched my heart a few sizes.
There are a lot of unknowns and what if's currently in our adoption process. Right now we are staying put in the 0-4 age range, healthy or with minor special needs. That wait is long and we are not naive about this wait, we are expecting it and expecting the ups and downs a long the way but we know in the end God has a plan for us and we are only beginning to see the glimpses of what is to come.
Happy National Adoption Month to our family, how fitting that we started this process in January (officially) and this stage has come to an end and the next begins in November, National Adoption Month.
Now I am doubly pregnant and we settle into a wait. A necessary wait if we want to be sure all is done legally and in the best interest of our child. So today I am pregnant with two children, one that I have begun to feel move in my belly and the other that has already stretched my heart a few sizes.
There are a lot of unknowns and what if's currently in our adoption process. Right now we are staying put in the 0-4 age range, healthy or with minor special needs. That wait is long and we are not naive about this wait, we are expecting it and expecting the ups and downs a long the way but we know in the end God has a plan for us and we are only beginning to see the glimpses of what is to come.
Happy National Adoption Month to our family, how fitting that we started this process in January (officially) and this stage has come to an end and the next begins in November, National Adoption Month.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Holy Guacamole
So it's been quite a while away from this blog and mainly because this mama is beat I mean totally wiped of all energy and we have one teeny tiny growing blessing to thank for it.....
That's right....we are expecting sweet Baby H #3 (our tie breaker) in April. I am nearing the end of my first trimester and praying that my energy returns. This little one has been a bit harder on me than the other 2 but this could also be the change in our lifestyle since the other 2. Having 2 kids this time around and a job that has me up earlier in the morning and working at home as a mama during the day. It leaves me with nothing left but I want to soak it up and take none of it for granted because this will be our last pregnancy as we are still in the midst of our adoption journey. More on that hopefully in the next week or so!
I told my coworkers daughter (who is 3) that I was pregnant again and having a baby just like her mommy just did and her reaction was "Holy Guacamole" too cute that girl.
That's right....we are expecting sweet Baby H #3 (our tie breaker) in April. I am nearing the end of my first trimester and praying that my energy returns. This little one has been a bit harder on me than the other 2 but this could also be the change in our lifestyle since the other 2. Having 2 kids this time around and a job that has me up earlier in the morning and working at home as a mama during the day. It leaves me with nothing left but I want to soak it up and take none of it for granted because this will be our last pregnancy as we are still in the midst of our adoption journey. More on that hopefully in the next week or so!
I told my coworkers daughter (who is 3) that I was pregnant again and having a baby just like her mommy just did and her reaction was "Holy Guacamole" too cute that girl.
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