boy girl boy girl boy girl ahhhhh

Sooooo, now that people know that we're prego...it's been like a week haha.  The question is gender, gender, gender.  What do you want? what does Pat want? what do your families want yada yada.  It's still way way too early to tell.  Actually on ultrasound at weeks 11-13 all babies, boy and girl have little nubs sometimes they just lay at different degrees/angles so it's a risky time period to try to tell gender.  Last week I could've sworn I was having a girl just by the way I felt and scanning myself, and this week I think it's a boy so it's totally up the air.  We already have one healthy hilarious little boy, and not gonna lie I kind of want another little boy and then a girl.  Yep I want three kids, and Pat's still on the edge of 2-3, not sure if he can deal with me pregnant again haha.  I know some of our families are routing for a girl, but I really think boys need a brother to run around play and be rough with.  Also, there's just something about a boys different bonds with their mama and their dads that I had NO idea about. Yes, I'm sure girls have these bonds in their own way too, but growing up in a house full of girls it's really neat to see Jack bonding and so in absolute love with Pat.  It's so different from what I was used to with all the drammma with females lol It melts my heart every single time.  I remember when I first found out I was having a boy with Jack I was slightly freaking out because we come from a family of mainly females and I was worried we would have no idea what to do with all those extra parts haha.  Now, I really can't imagine life without him! The bond he has with me is so different than the rough and tough making daddy proud bond that him and Pat have.  I can't wait to be wearing high school hoodies and routing on the football team (hopefully I'll understand football by then) or soccer or whatever he chooses to do.  So my answer to people's questions, if we got to choose gender would probably be to have a boy and then down the road have a little girl if Pat can deal with me pregnant again ;) I'm sure pat's answer would be 2 boys and done ;)

Baby Rooney #2

Welp by this time in Jack's pregnancy I had documented every week and every feeling....they say the second time is different and HOLY hell is that true! I'm 12 weeks give or take a few days and feeling pretty horrible.  Jack's pregnancy was amazing, I was in a great mood yes I puked, actually I puked alot~~but I like to call it happy puking.  I'd get sick and then move on with my day.  This pregnancy I've actually gotten sick less, but feel the worst hangover of your life all day and all night.  It hit me like a ton of bricks right at 6 weeks pregnant.  The only thing that has kept me thinking positive is looking back at how bad I felt week 6-9 and I know that is has gotten tiny bits better than those weeks.  I was still nursing so I literally was exhausted getting up off the couch to run to the bathroom.  Everyone keeps mentioning zofran & anti-nausea and anti-puking drugs, but to be honest I'm not puking that much it's just the true exhaustion and those drugs scare me.  They haven't been used long medically during pregnancy and side effects are just now coming out from effects used during pregnancy.  I'd have to be risking the baby's health to break down and take them.

With all this exhaustion I've had to totally back down from photography until all this passes.  I shot a friend's shoot a few weeks ago and was so faint/dizzy/pale for the rest of the day.  I hate not getting out and enjoying all this awesome summer sunset light, but to be honest the thought of editing makes me want to puke and it does make me puke.  It is so strange!  I've been trying to edit my friend Lauren's engagement pictures since June! Thank god she's been so patient with me.  Every time I open up photoshop and start to edit, my head starts to hurt or the screen makes me dizzy.  I'm so tired once we get Jack to sleep that usually I go to bed, so I've been having a hard time even finding the free time to edit.  I ended up telling clients the truth and just being honest that I have no idea when this will pass and I'm hoping in fall to be shooting again.

I'm so thankful that my husband has been so amazing through all this.  He comes early from work when I would text him that I literally was laying on the bathroom floor.  He comes home and quickly whisps Jack away to go run at the park or run outside.  Jack and baby #2 you are very very lucky!  He also brushes his teeth and washes his face 90,000 times so I smell no alcohol on him before bed and continues to do the greasy dishes and totally random things that set off these lovely hormones.  It must be so so weird for men so deal with all these changes and not really be the one *feeling* it all. 

The one great thing about feeling so blah is that I know my hormones are high.  With Jack I'd feel so great and have so much energy that some days I'd get worried that levels were dropping.  I think God led me to this career because thank God I can check on the baby atleast once a week :). 

 I'm so thankful to be coming out of this first trimester and so hopeful that my energy will be back 2nd trimester :) baby #2 I know you will be so worth it!!!


Sweet moments: Lila knew from the VERY beginning and started acting very snuggly with momma....now Jack knows where the baby is and rests his head and smiles on my belly.  I can't believe he even knows what I'm saying, but he gets it!  They say if your nursing your milk changes and the nursling knows~~so who knows maybe that's what happened.  He's such a great big brother to Lila I know he'll be a great big brother to you baby #2. 

Whoa I'm pregnant?

SOO I knew I wanted to have another baby around when Jack was 2-3.  What I wasn't planning in my head was the fact that you were pregnant for a whole 9 months basically a whole freakin year....I somewhat started panicking in June when I realized that I hadn't even had one period since having Jack in 2011 and that if we were planning on baby #2 I'd obviously have to be somewhat fertile.  I also did NOT want to be super pregnant in the summer months~~I can't imagine dealing with the heat and swelling in july/august! I guess God had a plan that we had no idea about.  Turns out I must of become fertile when I had that thought and when Jack starting to slowly wean from daytime nursing in June.

When I went to my OB in March she was mentioned nursing not being a total 100% birth control.  I actually asked, "without periods, how do people know that they're pregnant, without buying 1,000 tests throughout the year?" she answered that when you are nursing a toddler and become pregnant you will know as soon as you become pregnant I promise.  I didn't really believe her, and wasn't really thinking about getting pregnant yet, but I did know my lil man loved to nurse and we could possibly be nursing well after 2 years old so I thought I'd ask.

One thursday I drove home from work and felt like total hell.  It's that dry mouth, pukey, tired, ready to either pass out or puke feeling that hit me like a ton of bricks.  I called Pat and told him for some reason I think I'm pregnant.  He started laughing, and totally thought I was crazy, but I made him buy pregnancy tests on his way home from work.  He said there's no way, your nursing Jack your working your running around like crazy there's just no way.  Negative Negative and negative.  I knew it though, something was telling me I was pregnant.  Friday night came and I took another negative.  Saturday night came and I was having girlfriends over for wine and Pat had a bachelor party.  I filled my coffee cup with ice water and deep down knew.  Pat wasn't even supposed to stay the night at the bachelor party and I ended up calling him and telling him to stay the night and have a blast for both of us bc it might be a while before we're partying again.  I think that's when he knew I was serious ;).  Saturday night I noticed I left a pregnancy test out from earlier that day and there was a super super faint line??? Was I hallucinating? Was it an evaporation line?? Who knows....but the next morning Pat came home and I took 2 more tests and sure enough the positive lines started to appear.  Yep I could've taken the digital, but they actually need an hcg level of 50 to trigger positive and the first response only needs a 25 :).  I think me and Pat were both a little shocked and just thankful that it happened SO quickly and without us really even knowing it!!! Baby rooney #2 is due march 12 2013 Jack will be 25 months and it just worked out more perfectly than we could've ever planned it! 

What a year!

Whoa! It's been over a year since my last post.  That makes me sad, I wanted to keep up with Jack's new activities and it looks like after 6 months things just got crazy! Here's some things I remember:

Jack took his first steps at 10 months, but didn't *really* start walking instead of crawling until after his first bday party.

I was on call on Christmas, but this year Jack didn't really understand much so it worked out for the better that I'm off this year :)

On Friday April 13 pearl was hit by a car and she is still in recovery from a horrible femur/hip fracture.  Her leg has healed shorter than the other, but her little hobble is still so cute.  She has been so strong through it all, considering she is so scared of even getting her hair cut that we sedate her.

At the end of April Jack broke his fibula going down a slide at St. Barnabas (yes we've had the summer from hell).  He was casted for ~4 weeks and then in an air cast for about 4 weeks.  Turns out it wasn't just his fibula he broke his tibia too :/, luckily the healing/casting would've been the same :) We had lots of stroller rides to the zoo and to the children's museum.  He did so great!

We had our first trip/road trip with Jack to Iowa for Lauren and Jon's wedding and also to meet with Pat's grandparents.  The trip turned out great and Jack did surprisingly well on the 8 hour car ride!

We took Jack on his first "vacation" to michigan dunes.  He loved, loved, loved the beach.  I have never seen him so content all day long.

On July 1st mommy found out she was prego with Rooney baby #2...

Whew it's been a hectic summer no wonder I can't keep up! :)