Hunger Games and ME being ME very boring blog post

I read the Hunger Game series right after I had miss Emma in Novemember. It took me forever to decide to read the books becausemy sister said the ending was terrible. Well, After being so obsessed with Twilight and being very disappointed in the ending of the last book I told myself no reading that series. But, Being up every couple of hours and getting sick of watching tv, I started to read them. Well Lets just say I fell in LOVE! OMW! I get very sucked into books with a little romance and some action. Obviously. I read all the books within a few days. My sister was telling me as I was excitingly telling her about my thoughts and feelings on the books that they were making a movie. WHAT?!?!?!? I WAS SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well March came and the opening of the movie was there. EEEECK! I was planning on going to the midnight release with my friends (naturally). But I had a break down and I decided not to leave the baby who was up a few times during the night still. So I was so sad not being able to go. I tried to watch it again and again but I still didn't have the chance. Until yesterday. YAY FOR DVD! Well... I liked the movie I did. But nothing like the series. (DUH?!?) I bet its so hard to make a book into a movie with people like me watching closly to make sure you make it right. But I am glad after months of waiting I finally got to see it! Thank you Stace for buying it for me!!!!!!! :) Well I am a little over 34 weeks pregnant. I have a little less then 6 weeks until I have Cutie is here. I am starting really really really freaking out. Emma is still being a momma's girl and wont let many people hold her without reaching out for me. I feel like I can't go anywhere. And what will happen when I am taking care of of Cutie??? I am now starting to get really emotional about not having the time Emma wants me to have with her. Not to mention Noah. He is used to my 100% time 24/7. My mother says that it will all work out. But, She should seriously shut off my brain sometimes because she might say those words but my brain isn't listening to her. Emma is starting to stand up on furniture and crawl super fast towards plants and doors. Its pretty cute to watch her crawl after people too. She just wants to be a part of the action. :) Noah is all set to go to school. I have bought the clothes, supplies, and now shoes. We now wait 2 more weeks until the big day. He is so ready to go back and see his friends. Which I don't blame him. School is exciting and fun especially to a 2nd grader! I can't wait to see him suceed!!!!!!!!!! Well that is me just talking... I know I know a little boring but that is me!!!!!! :)

almost 32 weeks, almost 9 months, and a 7 year old

What a summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love summer. Its always so nice to see family more often and enjoying the weather but ITS BEEN SO HOT! I am not sure if its only me being massive and pregnant but some days all I want to do is stand in a freezer. lol. Here is what is happening... Okay I am now almost 32 weeks along with Cutie. That is right 8.5 weeks more until I am holding my newest baby. I am totally excited and totally freaking out! I am soooooooooo ready for not being pregnant ever again!!!! ;) But having two babies so young. I AM SO SCARED. Emma has starting becoming a mommie's girl and I am very worried when Cutie comes. Well never the less here comes Cutie. Plus, Cutie is still Cutie...... She has no name. Stacey and I are still having troubles finding a names we both like and agree on. Well we will see... My Emma is almost 9 months old. MY BABY! ugggggg.. Time has flown! :( But I really love having her this old bc she has so much personality! She is crawling.. well sorta. She swims basically. But she is getting around rather fast and really really growing up. I love it! I am so glad she is my little girl and I love being a mommy! :) Well its official! I HAVE A SEVEN YEAR OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am freaking about that still. When did I get old enough to have a 7 year old??? Noah is huge! He had a great birthday and I am so glad he did. He was so excited for this big day he hardly slept. Which is really funny bc I remember doing that when I was a kid. And the first of Septemember he will be in 2nd grade. YIKES! I am not sure if I am prepared for this. I mean in like one second my first baby will be in college! I am so proud of him and I am glad he is my awesome 7 yr old. He is an amazing lil guy and an amazing a HUGE helper and great big brother! I LOVE HIM! Well I guess that is it for now. My life is seriously crazy and I am adjusting very well. (I think) I will post more soon. Bc a lot of life is happening in a short time.

the last 7 months.... WOW

Well it has been almost 7 long months since I have posted anything on here. SORRY!!!!!!!!!!! Going from a mother of one 6 year old to having a 6 year old and a 7month old has been an adjustment to say the least. So what has happened? Well Noah just finished the first grade last week. I am so not ready for him to be in 2nd grade. I can still remember well my 2nd grade years and that is very bothersome that my son will be about to experience this new adventure. He will turn 7 next month and he is so excited!!! Its pretty cute. I can't believe that my baby boy is turning into a big boy right before my eyes. He is such and amazing little man. He helps out with Emma so much! He loves loves loves his sister. He wants to hold her, cuddle with her, make her bottles, play with her, and even change diapers. I cannot ask for a better son that what I have!!! ;) Emma is growing like a weed! She is almost 7months old and I cant believe she isn't as small as she once was. When she was born the doctor had a concern that she would have downs syndrome. Which devistated me. Not saying that I would love her less but I guess I was overwhelmed with the a guilty feeling that I did something wrong. But I came to an understanding with it and I know how amazing downs kids are and how special they are. I wouldn't have loved her any less.. After taking tests, 2 weeks later, the results came out normal. She has been a very cry baby and very hard. She also spit up a lot. So after some switching around with formulas I am proud to say she still fusses but nothing like she used to be. She is so happy!!! ;) She is also trying to crawl. She sits on her knees and swims. I feel soon she will be very mobile. HEAVEN HELP ME NOW! lol The new news that I have to tell everyone is that I am pregnant again. 23 weeks to be exact! YIKES! I know I know I know... I MUST BE OUT OF MY MIND! Well ready or not!?! I found out on May 17th that its a girl. So I will have 1 boy and 2 little girls.. SO ADORABLE!!!! She is due Sept 29, 2012. Emma and the new baby will be 11 months apart. HEAVEN PLEASE help me! I haven't decided onthe name yet. Although Noah did name her, Cutie. So that is how she is refered to as. I am scared out of my mind to be a mom again. I feel like I haven't had enough time with Emma. But God doesn't give us trials that we can't handle. So I am going to be ready for this! Noah is so excited and I know for a fact that he will be an amazing brother to this new addition!!! Well I will keep better updated on my blog. I know you are all dying to know what happens next bc my life is full of DRAMA. lol.. I am glad I am a mother and I love love love my kids. I cant think of a life before them or without them! Thank you for taking the adventure with me! I hope you have a great weekend! Until next time!!!

Emma Grace Stoddard 11/10/11

EMMA IS HERE!!!! :) On November 10, 2011 she was born in this world! What a crazy labor and delivery we had. Here is here birth story. I had a doctor's appt on 11/7 where she checked me to see if I would be okay to induce on that thursday. Well... I was still only dialated to a one and Emma's head was still so far up. (looks like she didn't want to come out anytime soon) but being so swollen she gave me the great news that we will plan on thursday anyway. (When I heard those words I have to admit I FREAKED) I was so ready to have her out, but actually having her out was really overwhelming and I felt so unprepared and so nervous. But, she was coming no matter what.. The next few days were a blur. But I got instructions to call on thursday @ 5:30 am to the hospital so we could see if there was a room for me to be induced. Well there wasn't until about 11am so that is when I was going in! (let me tell you Stacey and I didn't sleep at all that night we were so nervous and excited I swear one of us was waking up every hour on the hour) Well... They got me in my room for labor and delivery. I had a great nurse and a few student nurses that were there as well. She checked me and I was dilated to a 2 and completly soften! YAY! I could have gone into labor maybe by myself. :) She got us all hooked up to the monitors and to my suprise I was actually having contractions every 2 ish minutes.. I have never felt contractions before so it was kinda nice. So there I was about noonish hooked up to meds and having contractions! I was going to have a baby and I was for sure thinking it was going to be the longest day of my life. Well when I was to a 3 the nurse suggested that I have my water broken and then get my epidural. Well I let me say I really hated getting my water broken its so gross and you feel so gross.. But, that is what happened... (this is where it gets gross) I was so full of fluid I had tons of water leaking from me! ewwwww... And when I got my epidural every contraction tons more water exploded from me.... The nurse was joking with me that if the baby turns out to be a boy that I should name him Noah, bc she hasn't seen this much water for a long time! (too bad Noah is already taken). Well it took the doctor 2 times to get my epidural in and WOW it was painful! (I don't remember that with Noah at all. But It stopped the little pain I was having so I was good to go. I was happy bc I was going to take a nap and get ready for the delivery part. Well that didn't go as planned. She checked me an hour or so later and I was at a 4.5. But all of a sudden I could feel the contractions again. WTH! So the nurse gave me some more meds in my spinal.. well.. that didn't work.. I was about a 7 ish before the doctor came back in and shot some more powerful stuff in my and I was more relaxed... I was about a 9 when I could feel it all again.. OMW! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!! Then right before I started pushing they gave me more powerful drugs... (Thank goodness) I could feel tons of pressure and it wasn't as painful. Emma finally arrived at 8:13 pm and she was purple. (The doctor didn't tell me but her heartrate drastically was low and was worried) good thing I didn't know that... She was beautiful and I was so excited to have her out and not to be pregnant anymore. Emma was 7lb 2oz and 19 3/4 inch with tons of dark hair! (I swore she would be blonde or bald.) I love being a mom again. Noah loves his little sister! And Stacey is a proud daddy! She is growing bigger and bigger everyday and I can't believe that she is, today, 3weeks old. :)

Baby Emma and the last weeks

I have to say that I have had a pretty good pregnancy so far! Sure, I was sick in the first part but I have almost forgotten that part. It hasn't been easy being pregnant while my husband has been away but it probably wouldn't have been easy if he was home. lol... I have noticed this last month of so that its been more crazy then the 9 months before!!! I think I finally have lost my mind completely.. I can't remember anything anymore! (I hope my mind comes back after the baby! I have really really missed it) I have been more emotional like crying over no reason. I am talking about CRYING. I have no idea why and how it comes on, it just does! Its funny really to witness myself in one of my crying moods because I am not sure what is going on! And I have been a little more witchy to everybody! MY WORD! I am so ready to get back to normal self I can't tell you.. I don't like my emotions on my sleeve so much! But, It is worth it in the end when I get a new beautiful baby to have in my life!!!!

I go into the doctor today to see if I can have this baby by Thursday. I have retained so much water and am really swollen that the doctor is concerned. So if my cervix is soften enough then its a go.. If not, I guess we will wait!! I am so excited to see her!!!!!!! So time will tell us when she will come into this world.. I am so nervous and excited and sooooooo many other emotions! I can't believe that I am actually talking about the delivery! Its been a wild ride but it comes to an end eventually! :)

This is Halloween This is Halloween!

Well being almost 39 weeks pregnant on a great holiday like Halloween isn't the most fun thing I can think of... I feel bad for Noah mostly.. (I am so not fun right now!!!) I decided to go to the Walmart trunk or treat on Saturday but the line was so HUGE!!!!!!!!!!! My feet were swollen and there was no way I wanted to wait in line (I heard from people 2 hours! YIKES) I felt bad telling him that we should go. He was so pumped up to get candy... But he agreed after we had been standing in line hardly moving for a half an hour. So we went out to dinner instead :). Well When Halloween actually came, Noah was so ready and so excited. This year he wanted to dress up as the Black Spiderman. He was so excited to wear the costume at school and have a party and a parade! He had a great day for sure! Then we decided to go old school and go trick or treating! I love to see him running and being so excited! He got tons of candy! And yes I was so swollen it was awful, but He enjoyed it!!!! I really am glad though I got to see another holiday through a child's eyes. I wish we all could be kids again and be so excited for small things. I love how enjoyable one day is to them and how excited they are for the next year. I hope Noah never ever looses that excitement!

The Time Has Come and all Things Must Come to an END

WOW! That is all I can think of. My husband decided to be sneaky and tricked me into thinking that he wasn't coming home until the end of the month but he ended up trying to surprise me! He comes home this weekend!!!!!!!! Let me tell you I AM SO NERVOUS! Every minute it become more and more true that he is actually going to be here in the flesh in a matter of hours. WHAT? Am I ready for this? Well I better be because no matter what he is on his way!!!!!

This year has been an roller coaster of emotions! But I MADE IT THROUGH one of the hardest years I hope to ever see!!!!!!! I know I wasn't in a war zone or fighting bad guys but I do believe that being left at home is a very hard job! There were days that I didn't think I would make it through or holidays I didn't think I could stand another minute!!!! But I did it!

Being an Army wife for a year has taught me alot about life, people, and myself. Life is too short! Enjoy every moment of every day. Surround yourself with good positive people. It makes your day much happier and easier to live through. There are hard days and there are good days. Push past the hard days and keep on hauling for the good days!!!

There have been many army wives before me and many after me. I don't know how these women did this all without technology. It was so nice to email, skype, and IM all I needed too. But, I couldn't help but wonder the wives in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, and Korea must of felt not knowing anything for many many months or not at all. Even during this war, the internet wasn't always available to many soldiers.. I am thankful for technology and being able to see my husband's face everyother week helped the time go a lot faster!!!!! It has been a crazy year, but I am glad I did it and even more glad it's over!