Letter to my son

Dear Lucas, 

There are things in life I hope to teach you. I know I won't be a perfect mom and you will not always be a perfect child but together I hope we can teach each other many many things. These are just a few of the things I wish for your life:

1. I hope you know that I will always love you. No matter how bad things get or if you don't always listen to my advice. I still love you.

2. I hope to teach you how to be an amazing boy and grow into an amazing man. I hope to show you how to treat a woman. I hope you learn how to be an amazing husband some day. I will teach you these things by taking you on mommy/son dates.

3. I hope you know on all days the love I have for your father. I hope we gross you out sometimes because that's just what we do.

4. I want you to be a kid. Get dirty and make mistakes. Play in the mud and don't worry about how messy you get. Jump in puddles even if you don't have rain boots. We can always dry shoes :-) barefoot is even more fun.

5. Eat ice cream for breakfast! But maybe we'll save this one just for birthdays.

6. Cry if you need to. Even when you're older. I want you to know it doesn't make you less of a person to have emotions (and if you're anything like mommy you will have some emotions)

7. Love people. All people. I really hope I can teach you not to discriminate. 

8. I hope you listen to music. Listen to it loud and listen to it daily. Music is so important and is great therapy. And I also hope you don't short yourself by only trying music that's "in" because if there's one thing that took me too long to learn it is that what's on the radio is not necessarily the best thing out there. Also know there are multiple genres and you can like them all if you want to.

9. Don't be scared to try new things (this is something you will learn from daddy, Im still trying to figure this one out for myself)

10. Cook and bake and eat a lot. Your dad can help you with this one as well :-)

11. Spend time with your grandparents.They will spoil you rotten any way so you're going to love it.

12. I want you to be smart in your every day choices. Don't do things just because others are doing them. Do them because you really truly want to. 

13. Make mistakes, and learn from them. Don't be afraid to keep trying because you fail. Life would be so boring if nobody made mistakes or if we gave up too easily. 

14. Hug your mom and dad. Even in front of your friends ;-)

I love you so much already and I want your life to always be perfect and wonderful and I know that's not possible. But I really hope to raise you with a love of life. I really hope you can live life to the fullest and enjoy every minute of it. 

Maternity photo shoot with MegAnn Photography

Baby Shower Number 1

Baby shower was amazing and Ian and I had a blast. Not many pictures have been shown to me just yet but here are a few of my friends pics taken mostly on cell phones :-)

Ian and me with our Goddaughter

Love this!!

HIghschool friends all mommies now :-)

name banner!!

My Best friend Meg and Lucas' Godmother

Best Friends since HS and now preggo with our firsts at the same time, also thats my newest godbaby in there :-)

Photo bombed!! 

So much to update on because I have been slacking just a bit. 

For starters, I hit the 30 week mark over the weekend so just 10 short weeks to go (if he waits that long) I am starting to feel a little over whelmed as my due date gets closer and closer. Ian and I are in the process of buying his parents house and we are moving beginning of August. The idea of moving just a few days short of my due date is a little scary. I do fear that we wont be ready if Lucas decides to arrive early. But I'm just trying to stay calm as we get it all together and hopefully it will all work out! 

I had my glucose test a few weeks ago and I failed the first one by 3 points. We can blame this on the fact that I am in fact a complete idiot and ate a huge bowl of cereal the night before. oops. So I took my 3 hour test, oh so much fun it was too, and passed that one. So no gestational diabetes for me!! Yay!

I am now seeing my doctor every other week and getting regular check ups. Its starting to really feel like I am having this baby soon :-) 

Mothers Day and Fathers Day have passed and I was pleasantly surprised to find Ian had gotten me flowers and a card and acknowledged the day for me. So in return I got him a special gift and card for Fathers Day and he was so happy to be acknowledged as well. Although he fully admits I am a mother already and he isn't quite a father yet. Lol. 

This past weekend was baby shower number one so I will be posting pictures of that shortly and in a few weeks is number two :-) I am feeling so very blessed to have such amazing family and friends!! 

Its A Boy!!!!!!!

Lucas Jameson Greene 

Ian and I did a gender reveal cake and were shocked to see it was blue! After the shock set in we were both thrilled. Now the real planning begins. As well as the intimidation of having a son. lol. Im sure it will all be amazing!! And I cannot wait to meet my little man. 

Anatomy Scan

I had my anatomy scan on April 2nd and it was by far the coolest experience EVER! It was the first appointment where I was able to really see everything. Well, almost everything. I did not want to know the gender at the appointment so I did not get to see those parts. lol. But it was so surreal to see baby in that way. The tech said baby is very very long and has SUPER long legs. This was no surprise to me. I mean hello it is my baby :-)

Unfortunatly the baby would not turn around for the tech to see the heart all the way. So I have to go back in a few weeks to do another full anatomy scan. Not gonna lie Im ok with this because it means I get to experience that sonogram all over again :-)

Well, it's been a while since my last post. Not much really to report so far. Being pregnant is insane! Yes, it's amazing and I wouldn't change it for anything because I know in the end I will have the one thing I have always known I deserve. And as much as I cannot wait to be a mother I am seriously over the being sick all of the time.
I had a very rough first trimester. Not only did I have "morning" sickness(which is a total lie by the way, I had it all day everyday!) but for a week in my first trimester I had a horrible awful stomach bug that literally had me stuck in bed for four days. YUCK!
On the upsid, in all the sickness and craziness that the first trimester brought, I did have my first doctors visit and it was pretty cool. Except we were not able to hear the heartbeat and the printers were broken so we have no printed sonograms. We did get to see baby for a short minute and it was incredible!!! I was also very lucky because Ian was able to come with me to that one. He will miss a lot of the rest of them if not all. But he is very supportive andI know will wait patiently to hear all the details.

First sonogram picture! Baby at 10 weeks 5 days

I cant wait until my next appointment and I can only dream about that heartbeat for now! But the wait will be worth it Im sure :-)