BABY CHLOE!

So, I know its been FOREVER! I have been a little busy with the birth of our newest little Shambley!
She is almost 8 weeks old now. She is beautiful and healthy and exactly what we prayed for. We are pleased to introduce to you Chloe Grace Shambley!

My big boy Colton goes to school!

So Colton is off to his second day of Kindergarten. Here are a few pics from yesterday morning and today as he was getting on the bus! He really loves school so far. I am still homeschooling my girls and staying home with Caleb but Colton really wanted to go to kindergarten and since all of my other children did have a public school kindergarten experience, I felt I needed to let him go. We miss him and have found our selfs watching the clock wondering what he is doing at that time and thinking about all of the the things we want to ask him about school when he gets home. I think Christa misses him the most. She waits with him at the bus stop each morning and then goes and waits for him to get off the bus in the afternoon. Christa and Colton really bonded this Summer. They played alot together and now she is back to her homeschool assignments. She is doing 6th grade this year and Chelsea is finishing up her LAST year of homeschool. WOW how time can just passes us by if we are not careful. Caleb is enjoying all of the mommy time he is getting now that Colton is gone all during the school day. He needs to enjoy his alone time while he can because, I am 29 and 1/2 weeks pregnant with our sweet baby girl. She will be making her entrance into the family late October. We have so much to look forward to as a family in the coming days. The last few pics are from our family weenie roast we hosted a few weeks ago.

Mr. Caleb!

As the time is approaching quickly for the arrival of our new baby girl, I wanted to take a few minutes and acknowledge how much our sweet Caleb is growing up.  He is soooo stinking cute these days. I felt like I should give him his own post. Caleb is 23 months old and doing so many things. Here are just a few of his milestones.

Words he can say now...

1. Mama
2. Dada
3. Cup
4. Snack
5. Up
6. Ok
7. No No
8. All Done
9. Hi Five
10. What's that? Look
11. Nana
12. Grammy
13. Pop pop
14. Bubbles
15. Help
16. Baba (bottle)
17. Outside and play
18. Kitty kittty
19. Meow
20. Bye Bye
21. Nite nite
22. OH no
23. Cookie
24. tickle tickle
25. hello (he likes to talk on the phone)


HE still LOVES his blue and brown stripe blanket. He loves to snuggle and be pet.

He Loves VEGETALES and Blues Clues! He can sing most of the silly songs on vegetales DVD's

He call Blues Clues "cue cues" and Vegetales "eggietales"

He loves to wash his own hair.

He likes to color at the table!

Foods he Loves!
1. peas
2. yogurt drinks (yo drinks)
3. tuna salad
4. Jambalaya
5. yogurt of any kind
6. chicken nuggets
7. tator tots
8. crackers
9. cookies (with cream in the middle)
10. gold fish
11. hot dogs
12. applesauce
13. fruit snacks
14. pizza
15. soft cheese tacos

He weighs 25 pounds! He is still in the lower percentile for height, weight, and size of his head.

The BOY LOVES Starbucks (I know that's bad) He will latch onto your Starbucks drink and you will NOT get it back. Dada goes and get Starbucks every Sunday morning before church for mama. When he gets back home with the drinks he has to call the house and get one of the girls to distract Caleb so he can RUN to our bedroom with the drinks...otherwise Caleb would SCREAM for them. LOL

He likes to CLEAN! He sweeps ALL of my floors even the carpet!

Caleb also likes anything in a Sonic cup. He likes to sit on the bar stool and cook with daddy. I guess you could say he has good taste!

Can I just say again, I love this little guy!

Happy 4th of JULY!

We hope you had a great Holiday weekend!

21 week 3D/4D Sono!

So here are some pictures of our BEAUTIFUL little baby girl! I already think she looks like Caleb. I am so thankful we had these done. How sweet it will be for her as an adult to see herself in the womb :)

We love you Baby Girl Shambley and we cant wait to meet you!

Unexpected Sonogram Today

Today I will go at 2:50 for a sono to make sure everything is ok with our little one. I had a few complications over the weekend and my doctor would like for me to have a sonogram today just to double check that everything is fine. I feel like everything is fine and I do have complete peace about this pregnancy. I have prayed from the beginning for a full term healthy baby and I am trusting and believing that will be the outcome!

I will update the blog later with the sono results maybe they will be able to tell the gender today???



UPDATE: So the complication they were worried about was Placenta Previa and I indeed have this going on. This will require me to rest A LOT to avoid hospital bed rest. I have already had some spotting and this is cause for concern due to I have complete previa which means the cervix are completely covered. This could result in a pre term baby and a C- section. My hope of course is that none of the above will happen and that the Placenta will move and allow for a normal delivery.

So the girls ask me yesterday if I was going to find out what the baby was today. I boldly told them I already knew what the baby was because the desire of my heart was a baby girl and I knew that GOD was going to give me the desire of my heart so with that said I told them I felt sure this baby was a GIRL.

So the best news of the day is the gender results.....the sono technician "thinks" its a GIRL!!!!!!! :) :) :) This was the most wonderful news of my YEAR! I have prayed for a girl since the last miscarriage. I just want to THANK my Lord for loving me and giving me the desires of my heart.

Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

                                                                 16 weeks

Relief

The definition of relief is the easing of a burden or distress. Today that's exactly what I received. I went to my 11 week doctors visit hoping to hear this little ones heart beat and behold we heard that tiny little beating heart at a beautiful 184 BPM! That to me fits the definition of relief. Tonight, I am basking in God's love for me and praying that this pregnancy produces a full term healthy baby girl !

In other news, I took Caleb for a hair cut today at Hair Diddle Diddle and they gave him a very handsome hair cut! The best part for him is they gave him a sucker to eat...this is the first one he has ever had and he LOVED it! I guess his Easter basket may have a few of those this year :)

                           Caleb after his hair cut still eating his sucker!

It's been awhile

Sorry, I know its been awhile since I post anything. I am currently 10 weeks and 4 days pregnant! Things look good as far as I can tell. I have a doctors appointment on Thursday afternoon. I am trying to be relaxed about the appointment but truth is I'm really SCARED. I guess its because the last 11 week appointment I went to pregnant, I found out about the miscarriage. It was sooo disappointing and sooo unexpected. I had no signs of miscarriage at all. SOOO even though I feel fine and I have NO sign of miscarriage this time I still have anxiety about going to this appointment.. I know I need to trust and I want to TRUST.  Its just really hard to do after a loss. I promise to update the blog on Thursday after my appointment. I am hoping to hear the heartbeat :)

Today's Sono!

Today I had my second sono for this pregnancy and was able to see the little heartbeat! 152 beats per minute. It shows that I am 7 weeks 3 days and that my due date is November 4th. I am so, so, so happy! I am trusting God that this will be a full term-healthy pregnancy! Below is a picture of our sweet little one.

Jeremiah 29:11 ¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Sono Update!

On Thursday I had my first sonogram. The sono confirms there is a sac and a yolk sac present! That being said the sono dated me to be 5 and 1/2 weeks PREGNANT!!!!! I am VERY excited but still reserved in light of what happened last time. On March 21st I will be having a second sono to hopefully to see the heart beat. My doctor said a second sono was not needed medically but he understood if I wanted to come in and see the heartbeat, and that he had no problem with me coming back in 10 days. He assured me that this pregnancy looks great my HCG levels have tripled as they should and what they could see on this last sono is all the expected to see at 5 1/2 weeks. I am thankful for a wonderful caring doctor. I always/also want to thank my GOD for this tiny little life growing inside me. I am thankful HE holds my future.

HCG update #2

Ok, so good news from the doctor! My HGC levels are increasing and it looks like exactly what we had hoped for! I am scared to even say the word pregnant because I am afraid if I do,  something will happen and I wont be. I guess this is normal after having a miscarriage. I know I need to put my trust in God and I do. I just think we are all human and human emotions can be a hard thing to control at times. I will be going next Thursday for a confirmation sonogram in hopes that everything looks normal for a healthy pregnancy! I am excited but reserved knowing that pregnancy can not be taken for granted, life in itself shouldn't be either. Each and every moment is truly a gift from God.

HCG Levels

I guess I should start this post with an update. I went last Wednesday after getting a VERY faint positive home pregnancy test to the doctor for blood work confirmation. They were to check my HCG level and my progesterone level. My progesterone level came back high...which is good. My HCG level came back low which is ok for early pregnancy, but my doctor wanted to wait until today and re-check my HCG to see if the levels increased. This will tell us if this is a true pregnancy. I should know results by Thursday afternoon. I know that God is in control of all of this and that its his will not mine.Its the waiting that's hard.  So I am waiting/ praying for good results and hoping that we will soon see the desire of our hearts. (maybe via ultrasound)

Desires of your Heart

So...to give an update on where we are with this fertility cycle, we are 5 or 6 days post ovulation. Im sure that doesn't mean much to most, but to me its the offical count down to knowing if we are expecting. When will we know if we are expecting??? The answer...maybe next Thursday! I have much hope that this could be our month but I also dread taking a pregnancy test as well because I hate to be disapointed if its negative. I know when the time is right we will be pregnant again. How can I know this for sure you ask??? Its a promise of God. Psalm 37:4

Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.

I know this verse is true because, I have four beautiful kids all of which were the desires of my heart.
That is proof enough for me.

Its Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day to all of my friends and family! This year Scott gave me some beautiful pink tulips! He also made us dinner reservations for last Saturday night. I got him a card and some chocolate covered strawberry's. We got the kids each a stuffed animal and candy. Caleb a bumble bee. Christa and Chelsea got dogs and Colton got a frog. Green is Colton's FAVORITE color. Happy Valentines Day everyone!

Super Bowl Sunday!

Today our City is privileged to welcome the Super Bowl to town!!! We will not be going out for any festivities but rather stay home and have a party at our house! Needless to say with the Super Bowl in town there is a lot of traffic and the restaurants are PACKED...I heard 3 hour wait times at some of the downtown locations. I guess that is unless you are a celebrity then you can get through the back door. There are plenty of celebrities to go around this weekend, as I watched the news last night they were reporting live from a local night club and they had the RED CARPET rolled out waiting on Jamie Fox, and Adam Sandler. There are so many parties going on its unbelievable, but as for us we will party here with family and friends! I will try to post pics later tonight. Who am I pulling for you ask??? The Steeler's...why I have no idea. I guess I have to pull for somebody and since the Cowboys are not in it... then Steeler's it is!!!!
 
                                     
          Love this tablecloth with the Dallas skyline and stadium!

                                          Caleb eating his veges!

                                         All four of my kiddos!

                                               Aunt Amanda

                                                     My hubby

                                                             

                                    Grammy and Caleb!

The Super Bowl game was ok but the party at my house with family was SUPER!