So True is 5 weeks {Wow how time flies!!!}
and as you might guess I am really tired
yet REALLY happy!
I've waited for this little man for a few years
and I am really glad he is here
So Alex has my card reader so I can't upload any new pictures, but I didn't want you all to think I had fallen off the face of the earth.
Kelly had a beautiful over the top shower for True and me on Saturday and I wanted to thank everyone who came. Some of you drove from really far away to meet True and show us your love. I came home with 10 big packs of diapers! Some really cute outfits, a cute book and a picture frame with True's picture already in it! Kelly made me a diaper cake that I still have sitting on a cake stand in my living room, she also gave me his name in block letters that I have displayed in my living room. She decorated so much, it was crazy cute! All Valentines Day- to celebrate TRUE love, how perfect was that! I'll post pictures as soon as possible. { who really knows how long that will be with a new born} I have however been writing in my journal every chance I get. I am hoping not to miss a single detail of this time.
I have been reassured many times over the last few weeks that people love me, and I should listen to those wise ones. I was 'crying' to John the night before my shower that maybe all of Kelly's work would be in vain, that maybe no would would show up for my shower... but as the shower rolled on more and more friends and family showed up, and the friends that were already there said 'see how many people love you', so shame on me for doubting. My apologies.
So many friends have been so helpful to me and my family, and not only helpful, but friendly.
Knowing that I can't drive for another 2 weeks, friends have taken me to the mall to walk around and pick up some things I needed. Friends and family have picked me up lunch, diet cokes, brought me lunch to sit and share with them, taken my kids to do all sorts of fun activities, held my baby so I could fold laundry & shower, let me come sit at their house so I can just get out for a little while, called me to chat and see how I was. Thank you to all of you. You have taught me to be more compassionate. I have learned that I need to help my friends more when they have just had a baby, more than just bringing dinner.
So anyhow, True smiles now when we click our tongue at him- it is super cute.
He knows the difference between day and night, {more so when to sleep},
and loves to sleep on anyone who will hold him. {he's sleeping on daddy right now}
He is such a joy to have in our family, and the kids are always asking to hold him. I love that they love him that much. Thanks for reading my ramblings.
p.s- does anyone have a sling i can borrow? i go back to work tuesday and think it would be helpful for some nursing times.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
The newest member of the Barnes Family
IT'S A BOY!
He was born: January 12, 2009
Time he was born: 9:28 a.m.
Weight: 8 pounds 14 ounces
And now.. you've all been waiting to hear the secret name of the newest member of our Wonderful family!!
His name is: True Torrence Barnes
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
10 days to go
so i only have 10 days till this baby is here, and i'm kinda excited if you know what i'm saying!
i had a dr. appt. this morning and they threatened to send me upstairs for monitoring if i couldn't get my blood pressure down. 150 over80. i've never had blood pressure problems so i asked that they take it again in a few min. low and behold i was right. 118/80 something if i remember right.
another funny thing is that she guessed my baby to weigh about 8 pounds! maybe even 8.5! that will be the biggest baby i ever had! especially since i've only gained 13 lbs this time! {don't worry, i had the o.k from my dr to stay in the 10-15 range}.
i'm getting my prego pictures taken sat. -done by one of my best friends, she did them for me when i was pregnant with shilo and i love them!
just a few nights ago as john and i were going to bed i sprung on him that i wanted to change our girls middle name to something shorter. so no i'm not going to tell what the name is, but if anyone has a cool girl name that is one syllable that they would like to share, feel free. that your not going to use! remember my kids names are chastin zaine, and shilo mae, so we can't use anything even close. plus we have decided that we can't use anything with a B- like blu- because 'something blu barnes' doesn't sound good:)
thanks for reading, i'll post pictures soon of our life:)
btw: does anyone else notice that that baby in the side bar is getting really cramped! i did!
hehe!
i had a dr. appt. this morning and they threatened to send me upstairs for monitoring if i couldn't get my blood pressure down. 150 over80. i've never had blood pressure problems so i asked that they take it again in a few min. low and behold i was right. 118/80 something if i remember right.
another funny thing is that she guessed my baby to weigh about 8 pounds! maybe even 8.5! that will be the biggest baby i ever had! especially since i've only gained 13 lbs this time! {don't worry, i had the o.k from my dr to stay in the 10-15 range}.
i'm getting my prego pictures taken sat. -done by one of my best friends, she did them for me when i was pregnant with shilo and i love them!
just a few nights ago as john and i were going to bed i sprung on him that i wanted to change our girls middle name to something shorter. so no i'm not going to tell what the name is, but if anyone has a cool girl name that is one syllable that they would like to share, feel free. that your not going to use! remember my kids names are chastin zaine, and shilo mae, so we can't use anything even close. plus we have decided that we can't use anything with a B- like blu- because 'something blu barnes' doesn't sound good:)
thanks for reading, i'll post pictures soon of our life:)
btw: does anyone else notice that that baby in the side bar is getting really cramped! i did!
hehe!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
mystery solved
On the 12th day of Christmas my secret friend gave to me...
12 ice cream drum sticks! then started to sing 'we wish you a Merry Christmas' and popped out from all over the place!
THE KNOWLES FAMILY!!!! from church.
they have a beautifully large family who all took turns making the neat tags and dropping off the gifts!
they thought for sure they were caught a few times- like when john went out to go to his parents house and the dad hid on the side of the house...
or when they thought i could see them....
i am really grateful for them and their example to my family.
i look at their family and think that those kids have no idea how lucky they are to have the parents they have! - what great examples they are, how much they are loved, and the parents are so happy. brother Knowles is Alex's seminary teacher, their daughter who is the same age as Jordan signed up to run cross country with Jordan so she would have a friend when she moved to our house and had to move schools, the mom was there for me when our baby died as such a great support having been through the same thing herself, one of their sons is in Shilo's primary class, and one of their daughters is in Chastin's primary class. i have looked to the mom many times for parenting advice in the last year, and i always walk away thinking how well thought out her answers are. as i had said before, they have inspired me to be a better person, and to do good for a family next year. they will never know how much fun it was for us, & i know it was for them.
they did admit that we are the HARDEST family ever to secret friend. and with us living on a hill and all the snow they actually WALKED to our house several days at 10-11pm!!!they too live in a very hilly neighborhood. i think i might have given up- but not the Knowles family! their teenager boys said it was no big deal! only a couple miles! IN THE SNOW mind you! i hate to say, but i don't think my teenage boy would have thought 'no big deal.'
john said he should have guessed- they are all runners- no wonder they were so fast!
THANK YOU KNOWLES FAMILY! you brought much joy to our family and i hope it brightened your holiday as well!
12 ice cream drum sticks! then started to sing 'we wish you a Merry Christmas' and popped out from all over the place!
THE KNOWLES FAMILY!!!! from church.
they have a beautifully large family who all took turns making the neat tags and dropping off the gifts!
they thought for sure they were caught a few times- like when john went out to go to his parents house and the dad hid on the side of the house...
or when they thought i could see them....
i am really grateful for them and their example to my family.
i look at their family and think that those kids have no idea how lucky they are to have the parents they have! - what great examples they are, how much they are loved, and the parents are so happy. brother Knowles is Alex's seminary teacher, their daughter who is the same age as Jordan signed up to run cross country with Jordan so she would have a friend when she moved to our house and had to move schools, the mom was there for me when our baby died as such a great support having been through the same thing herself, one of their sons is in Shilo's primary class, and one of their daughters is in Chastin's primary class. i have looked to the mom many times for parenting advice in the last year, and i always walk away thinking how well thought out her answers are. as i had said before, they have inspired me to be a better person, and to do good for a family next year. they will never know how much fun it was for us, & i know it was for them.
they did admit that we are the HARDEST family ever to secret friend. and with us living on a hill and all the snow they actually WALKED to our house several days at 10-11pm!!!they too live in a very hilly neighborhood. i think i might have given up- but not the Knowles family! their teenager boys said it was no big deal! only a couple miles! IN THE SNOW mind you! i hate to say, but i don't think my teenage boy would have thought 'no big deal.'
john said he should have guessed- they are all runners- no wonder they were so fast!
THANK YOU KNOWLES FAMILY! you brought much joy to our family and i hope it brightened your holiday as well!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Caught in the act
If our secret giver is a blog reader I wanted to tell you that I DID see you! But not really! Without my glasses I saw you- and without them I can't see past the nose on the end of my FACE! You were so brave to still run it up to the door not knowing if we were watching. I screamed and giggled with delight like a little child, which made all 4 of my 'should be asleep at 11pm children' come running! I screamed at them to look the other way! Turn off the lights! No peeking out the bedroom windows! No looking what so ever!!!!!! And that's no easy task when your husband is just as bad as them! If you have ever done the 12 days of Christmas for a family you know that 1/2 the fun is not getting caught! And as much as I would really like to know and thank them, I know that that takes some joy from them, so we will just always wonder. But I do want to say THANKS! This has been fun! And we will all be sad when it's over.
On another note- on day 7 my secret friend gave to me ...
Seven swans a swimming in superb 7 -up! 7 origami swans tied to cherry 7-up.
Well once again it was late and all the kids had gone to bed, the dogs were barking and we were kinda keeping an eye out for our gift to arrive on the porch. I went upstairs to wrap presents, dogs were still barking, our neighbors were out at their car packing for a trip, so we just assumed that's what was causing them to go crazy.
I look out the window again and I see my neighbor outside walking back and forth in front of our house looking at the porch, he waves me out. I call to John who was downstairs to go with me.
We open the front door and there it was! Our day 7! I scoop it up in delight and say " it came!" and show it to John. { i think i might be even more excited than the kids!} The neighbor and his brother are asking what it is. I am so excited- reading the package and all, and talking over them, trying to explain the 12 days of Christmas to my Jehovah Witness neighbors that I barely heard him say he thought it was A GAS BOMB! What? I look up in surprise! A gas bomb I laugh! It's cherry 7 up!!!! He explains that he saw the 'guys' running away, saw something red in a bottle on our porch and thought 'well that's not right!' so he came to tell me!!!! I am still cracking up over that!!!!! A GAS BOMB!!!! hahahahahah!!!!!!
Oh that's funny!!!!!!!!
Well anyway John was asking who it was- what did they look like? The three guys start to talk and I yell over them and shake my head and tell them not to tell. WE don't want to know! Even if John thinks he wants to know.
What I do know is that they have inspired me to bring joy to another family. Although I might not be as creative as they are....
Goodnight.
P.S- I don't think our secret friend thought it would be so hard to 12 days of Christmas us.
1st of all we don't go to bed till really late
2nd my in laws live across the street and have their curtains open till the wee hours of morning
3rd there are 6 people who live here, someone is almost always in the living room
and 4th I NEVER close the curtains when it's Christmas time- all of our lights look so pretty, teenagers are less likely to mount my buck on my doe when the curtains are open, and the snow looks so pretty,
which leads me to # 5- it's freaking icy out there! I bet they never thought they would have a hard time getting to the door, let alone our street!
They are doing a great job with all of these things working against them!
On another note- on day 7 my secret friend gave to me ...
Seven swans a swimming in superb 7 -up! 7 origami swans tied to cherry 7-up.
Well once again it was late and all the kids had gone to bed, the dogs were barking and we were kinda keeping an eye out for our gift to arrive on the porch. I went upstairs to wrap presents, dogs were still barking, our neighbors were out at their car packing for a trip, so we just assumed that's what was causing them to go crazy.
I look out the window again and I see my neighbor outside walking back and forth in front of our house looking at the porch, he waves me out. I call to John who was downstairs to go with me.
We open the front door and there it was! Our day 7! I scoop it up in delight and say " it came!" and show it to John. { i think i might be even more excited than the kids!} The neighbor and his brother are asking what it is. I am so excited- reading the package and all, and talking over them, trying to explain the 12 days of Christmas to my Jehovah Witness neighbors that I barely heard him say he thought it was A GAS BOMB! What? I look up in surprise! A gas bomb I laugh! It's cherry 7 up!!!! He explains that he saw the 'guys' running away, saw something red in a bottle on our porch and thought 'well that's not right!' so he came to tell me!!!! I am still cracking up over that!!!!! A GAS BOMB!!!! hahahahahah!!!!!!
Oh that's funny!!!!!!!!
Well anyway John was asking who it was- what did they look like? The three guys start to talk and I yell over them and shake my head and tell them not to tell. WE don't want to know! Even if John thinks he wants to know.
What I do know is that they have inspired me to bring joy to another family. Although I might not be as creative as they are....
Goodnight.
P.S- I don't think our secret friend thought it would be so hard to 12 days of Christmas us.
1st of all we don't go to bed till really late
2nd my in laws live across the street and have their curtains open till the wee hours of morning
3rd there are 6 people who live here, someone is almost always in the living room
and 4th I NEVER close the curtains when it's Christmas time- all of our lights look so pretty, teenagers are less likely to mount my buck on my doe when the curtains are open, and the snow looks so pretty,
which leads me to # 5- it's freaking icy out there! I bet they never thought they would have a hard time getting to the door, let alone our street!
They are doing a great job with all of these things working against them!
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