Exciting news!

                             One of many tests we took :)

Just last week we found out that we are expecting our second child! We will be five weeks along tomorrow, so the only people we have told so far are our immediate family members.

I think that I would like to do weekly update on here, survey style, throughout this pregnancy.

                                                        4 weeks pregnant


How far along: 4 weeks, 6 days

Symptoms: occasional, very mild nausea, so so so tired. I am sleeping at least 8 hours a night, usually a little more, and still I have zero energy during the day. It is like I am living in a fog. When you have an almost two year old, there is no laying down to rest during the day.

Weight gain: nothing yet

Gender: undecided as to whether or not we will find out, we did not with Janelle

Feeling: excited, wanting to be further along.

Milestones: nothing major yet, it will be a while before there is any movement or anything

Next appointment: ??? I should get on that...

I am terrible at this.

Right after having my daughter I found myself with a lot of "time", as in: sitting on a chair/couch/bed while breastfeeding my daughter and not much to do except use my iphone. I cannot remember exactly how I found topbabyblogs, but I did, and I was hooked. I read mom blog after mom blog, eventually building up a list of blogs I regularly checked and cared about. I was inspired by those blogs, and determined that I would become a mom blogger. Ha. That lasted all of about 5 seconds. That last post I wrote of my daughters birth story? She will be two in a month. TWO. Janelle turned out to be an extremely active and strong willed child (who I love dearly). I spent all of my time trying to keep her entertained, as well as starting back at work one day a week, moving, buying a house, and moving into the house. Then there were what seemed like endless home improvements and time was just passing us by. There is a half finished post from just after Janelle's first birthday, so obviously I attempted to start up again and failed.

Anyway, the point is, I think that I have life as a mom semi figured out now. There is finally a feeling of normalcy. Janelle is beginning to self entertain a little, she can hold a conversation with me, count to ten, gets time outs on occasion, and is in the beginning stages of potty training. In other words, she is growing up. It is high time that I begin to write about our everyday occurrences, big plans, and the not-so-everyday things that make life interesting.

This is a start at least.