Goofing Off

Michael being goofy and stuffing his bowling ball under his shirt at the beach! Elea is still a lot bigger- but he can get a little taste of what I go through! LOL... what a goober, but gonna be such a good Daddy!

Sorry, it's been a while!!!

Wow- so it's been 2 months since we have posted anything on the blog... Oops!!! Life has been interesting since the last blog... let's see:

On May 20th Michael had an accident at the church while racing with some of the youth and fell and fractured his skull. We tried telling him we knew he was hard headed, but he didn't have to prove it. He spent 3-4 days in the hospital and then was on bed rest for the rest of the month and well into June. I had to stay with him majority of the time and help him get around and use to daily activities again- so my doc wrote me out on bedrest. We made a great couple at that time- neither one of us could do anything!!! :)

Then Michael started doing really well and summer with the youth started... we've had a crazy schedule and lots of things! Camp Thursday, VBS, plenty of doc visits, a week vacation at the beach with the family, trips with the youth, etc...

Sorry we didn't post for a while- we have been keeping up with everything on Facebook though!

Elea Ruby

We got to see Elea Ruby again this week on Monday. It's amazing to see how quickly she is growing and developing. She decided to move around quite a bit again- kicking the technician and rolling over the minute we could get a good picture of her. She's already a fiesty one in the womb- maybe she's getting it all out of her system now- ha ha! She's changed her sleeping position/resting position to having her hands up at her chin.

We're going to try and scan a picture of her from the ultrasounds to put on here- but the scanner is in Michael's office. So, hopefully we'll get that done sometime soon!!! Stay tuned...

Just Growing

Sorry there were no posts last week we were on Spring Break!! We enjoyed the mountains and traveling to Raleigh to visit friends all last week... now we're trying to get back into the swing of reality again.

Elea is growing more and more each day... I am at the point right now that I seem to always be hungry and can never get full. So the weight will definitely be up when we go to the doctor again next Monday- oh well!

We have her crib set up, her room painted, and her bookshelves up with books on them. Of course she already has a ton of books- none are quite her favorite yet. We will post some pics more each day...

She is weighing in with pounds now instead of ounces and throwing out some dangerous punches and kicks. She loves and already knows when she is being talked about- if you start talking to her, especially her Daddy, she starts moving around non-stop!

It's a Girl!!!!

Michael and I found out this morning that we're having a GIRL!!! Little Miss Elea (said like Ella) will be here in no time at all. She was very active this morning and it took us a little while to determine what she was. We actually go back in 4 weeks for another Ultrasound- a couple of the pics the doc needed were hard to see and get b/c Elea moves too much! But I'm so glad she's moving around... although her punches are getting harder.

Her name will be Elea Ruby Rakes... Elea is after my gma named Eleanorah (hints the reason why we spelled it the way we did) and Ruby is after Michael's gma. We were very close with both of them and admired them so much.

Now we're busy getting the nursery ready- her nursery is a jungle theme and the walls are light blue and green (no pink). We registered today too- it's amazing how much stuff you need for a baby- we put lots of things on the registry, b/c we had no idea!!!

Stay tuned for more info...

A lil' scare, but all is well!

We had just a little scare this week- thinking something could be going on- but God is so good and everything is fine! We thought I may be in pre-labor, Braxton pains already, or a bladder infection- so we had to go visit the doc.

After testing and a full exam come to find out the baby has just positioned itself directly on top of my bladder and my bladder is pushed very low (alongside of my cervix basically- sorry if TMI). So it's just the joys of being pregnant, but I'm carrying low and b/c of the bladder that's whats leading to the pains.

So, baby and I are just resting and taking it easy for now! Only a few more days and I can stop calling it baby!

Running Rakes

We went to the doctor this morning for our monthly checkup and everything is still going GREAT! Weight gain is still going really well, baby's growing normal, and the heart rate is still 161. We tried to talk the doc into doing the ultrasound a week early, but he wouldn't. The doctor came walking in with a Gonzaga shirt on and Michael asked when we were switching doctors... ha ha.

The Baby ran around this morning trying to get away from the nurse. She tried to find the heart beat and when she went to one side you could hear it for a second, then the baby would run to the other side. We had to chase the baby down for a while before we could get it to stay still! Hopefully that's not insight into what's to come... ha ha- we'll be running around like CRAZY!

The nursery is probably going to be the Fisher Price "Jumping Tiger" set... we found more items that match it at Burlington Coat Factory- thanks to my co-workers!

By the next post we'll be telling you what we're having... stay posted!!!