sneak peak (bows)

Here's a sneak peak at what's coming NOW to the Little Bow Head etsy store!


Also available, very soon-like sometime today, will be some Halloween/Fall bows. Seeing as how Halloween is two weeks away all Halloween bow will be shipped the same day as purchased...given that it's not a Sunday or other random holiday that would give the post office a reason to be closed :-).

I am sooo sorry that I've let my bow making come to a halt. I'm really trying to pick up the pace here. Being pregnant and potty training a two year old who has just recently figured out how to open any and all doors in the house is no easy feat. I'm trying!

I hope you find something you like and just HAVE TO HAVE ;-).

Isabelle's echo

I had Isabelle's fetal echo today. My appointment was at 2:15. I got there at 2:10 and didn't get called back until 3:45. Talk about FRUSTRATING. It should be illegal to wait that long in a doctor's office with no notice of WHY it's taking so darn long! I got back there and they weighed me, I went potty and the lady started the ultrasound immediately. I gained another pound. I think this might make 4 or 5 now. AH! The most I've gained this whole time.

Anyways, sweet little Isabelle was FULL of energy for some reason and wouldn't sit still long enough for the lady to get all the necessary pictures in the "allotted" amount of time. I have no idea why she was being so active either because I had only had a bowl of cereal the whole day. I think she was HUNGRY. I know I was starving.

She's laying with her head on my left side and the rest of her body on my right side. Every time the lady would push down with the wand thingy she would punch it or kick it. It was pretty funny. Then she started rolling from side to side and putting her arms over her chest where the lady needed to be getting pics and such. I was laughing.

Before she started getting the important pics she snapped some profile pics, hand and foot pic and a "YES! It's a girl!" pic. That was super fun. I was eating it up. She is such a cutie.

She is weighing in at 1 lb. 5 oz. and a tad bit on the SMALL side for her gestation. I was for sure she was a chubbo but apparently not.

Her heart looks perfectly fine. She mentioned that with pulmonary and aortic stenosis it usually runs a higher chance of reoccurring in another child than any other heart defect. They don't know why but the percentages are higher. So, I'll go back in nine weeks for another test JUST to make sure it hasn't popped up out of nowhere. As of right now though, she's been cleared of inhereting her sister's previous condition. Praise Jesus for a healthy and ACTIVE little girl.

I walked out of there at 5:15 and more hungry than I've been this whole pregnancy. Not to mention, greeted by Austin's lovely 5 o'clock traffic. UGH.

Now it's time for dinner.

23 weeks

Today I enter my 6th month of pregnancy. It feels nice to be a month closer. The activity of this little girl has picked up BIG TIME and the other day I'm pretty sure she was up moving for a straight 48 hours. Haha! It was crazy.

I can already feel her kicking up pretty high. I was confused about it but I'm assuming it's about right. My OB has yet to check the size of my uterus. It seems that every time I go I'm getting other procedures done and it counteracts him needing to check. Like my last visit, which I think is when he was supposed to start really keeping up with it, I had an ultrasound. Sooo, I think this next one he'll check and I wouldn't be surprised one bit if he said it's measuring a bit bigger than normal. It's supposed to be measuring around 1.5 inches above my belly button but I'm pretty sure it's around 2 or more. We'll see what he says. Maybe I'm wrong and everything is right on track.

I finally scheduled my appointment for the fetal echo. I go on Tuesday at 2:15. It's supposed to take an hour and I'm excited to see my little girl in action for that long. YAY. Sean will stay home with Anna-Kate since it would most likely be disastrous to take her considering her nap is at 2.

Here's my belly shot today. I couldn't find the black shirt I've normally been wearing and I was heading to the store so I figured this shirt would do. I really prefer to do them every 2 weeks at this stage since every week is probably a little overboard BUT I know some people like this kind of stuff so I did it for YOU!
As you can see, Anna-Kate was excited to have direct access to the camera so this was the best I could pull off this morning.

Hope you all had a great weekend!

our weekend

We went to Waco on Friday afternoon after allll the rain stopped. We were opening up for a garage sale on Saturday morning and needed to get all of our stuff ready. I didn't think we'd actually have that much stuff to take but after cleaning out the storage shed we quickly realized we had more junk than we originally thought. We filled up the WHOLE back of our truck with stuff to get rid of. It was nuts. Anyways, here's Anna-Kate posing in her cute outfit before we were about to leave.

In this picture I told her to give me cheese and that's the face I got. It was hilarious.

Then she climbed under the coffee table to get away from the camera, I guess.

I love being able to put her in fall clothes for the time being. Right before it rained and stayed in the mid 50's it was 90 degrees outside. It's supposed to go back up sometime this week but right now I'm enjoying a nice 57 degrees.

So, about the garage sale. My mom and I got out there around 6:30 AM to get everything completely set up. We had it pretty organized but needed to pull the GREAT stuff out into the drive way :-). People started showing up immediately and my mom and I came to the quick realization that the two of us together totally suck at telling people no. She totally sold some awesome stuff for hardly nothing because she doesn't have it in her to say heck no. Once my Granny got out there we finally started making some money. HAHAHA! In the end, we left with $76. My mom made $173 and my Aunt made like $30-something. I thought it was a good first garage sale for us. Definitely helpful financially AND in space. We really needed to clear out things. Oh, I forgot to mention, I did all this money making on a measly two hours of sleep. I was soooooooooooooo tired.

We left for home later that afternoon. I could barely keep my eyes open and did some catnapping on the way home. I figured out how to make myself comfortable by propping up the uneven side of me with a rolled up blanket (the side AK's carseat takes up). Between her kicking me in the arm and whining about her video I probably slept about an hour of the way home. Not bad. We stopped off at Jack-in-the-Box about 15 minutes from our house and got some burgers. Anna-Kate saw Daddy eating his like a "big boy" and decided she needed to eat hers like a big girl. She wasn't having that whole "pinch me off a bite" thing.

It was sooo cute to see her mocking him.

We all went to bed early that night (lastnight). AK was in bed at 8. I was asleep by 10. Sean by 10:30. I woke up at 3 something to relieve my bladder and then went RIGHT back to bed (I usually have a really hard time going back to sleep) until 10 AM this morning. I woke up sooo refreshed and happy. Ahhh, gotta love you some good sleep.

This morning I walked into AK's room to find this.

My kid is HILARIOUS! Gotta love her, that's for sure.

Today is like any other Sunday. Relaxing, napping, eating, football, laundry.

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