A new arrival!

Congratulations to my brother Clayton and Sam

on their baby girl!

Welcome to the world precious Kailyn. 

XOXO

Letter to my Valentine

Jason,

I am forever grateful for the blessing that you have been in my life. Over the past several years, my life has changed SO much but ALL for the better. My love for you grows more and more with each passing day.

You make a wonderful friend, an amazing husband and will be an extravagant father! I can’t wait to embark on the journey of parenthood together here in just a few short months! My heart overflows with peace knowing that our daughter will have such an amazing, Godly man in her life; to guide her, protect her, to be her confidant and to love her unconditionally and because of that, I will be eternally thankful!  

Thank you for allowing me to be who I am as a person and not expecting anything more than what I am! I look forward to many, many, many more years of happiness to come with you by my side!

I love you and Happy Valentine’s Day!

My heart is full of love ...

You are the poem I dreamed of writing, 

the masterpiece I longed to paint. 

You are the shinning star I reached 

for in my ever hopeful quest for a life fulfilled. 

You are my child.

Now with all things I am blessed. 

~Author Unknown~

February 1st - 23 weeks

Here is a picture of me in my 23rd week! 

Blaykleigh is about 11.5 inches in length by now and weighs in a little over a pound. 

I can feel her move around all the time these days! Her most "active" periods of movement

are definitely at night as I am laying down for bed and then early in the morning. Jason has felt her move a few times now, even though he is convinced what he felt wasn't "really her"! I absolutely enjoy any flutter, kick or punch I can get from her ... even if it is starting to disturb my sleep. I guess she is preparing me for the days to come! 

Baby Morphing Schenanigans!

On this lazy Sunday afternoon I got the idea to "morph" Jason and I together to see what Miss Blaykleigh will look like! It was rather entertaining. Not sure who our morph child resembles, if either of us?! Enjoy. 

Jase

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Me

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A child that is supposed to be our future daughter! 

Only time will tell. 

OH me, OH my-baby shoes!

I think I have a new website (SHOES!!!!!!!!!!) that I am in L-O-V-E with. Talk about the most precious baby shoes I have ever seen!!! 


Here are a few of my favorites: 

Ooooooh I may have a new obsession! This can NOT be good.  

Note to self: start a Blaykleigh shoe fund, who needs a college fund when you have sassy kicks like these anyhow?! (totally KIDDING ... kind of!) 

Pregnancy Dreams

So I thought I would share a laugh or two on here.

Pregnancy dreams are that of the STRANGEST dreams I think I have ever had! I read and have heard stories to expect something of the sort but never did I vision myself having some of the dreams that I do.

There is the every so often reoccurring dream of me nursing kittens; one after the other as if I am some type of milk making factory! The first time I had this dream, I was kind of embarrassed to tell Jason because it just felt so unnatural in my “awake” state of mind. But I ended up sharing it with him anyhow. After having this dream more than once, I decided to “google” it and found the following on babycenter.com –

“The presence of friendly animals — rare and charming creatures in dreams — is generally thought to represent a good relationship between the dreamer and his or her instincts. In the dreams of many pregnant women, animals are frequently cuddly and cute. Your feeling about the animal or baby reveals something about your attitude at the time of the dream.”

Thus perhaps me dreaming about nursing kittens isn’t so crazy after all?! However the strangest dream of them all might say otherwise. This dream started off with Jason and I enjoying a nice dinner out, when he asks me how the baby is growing and if she is happy. Without hesitation I take the knife off the table and cut my stomach open from side to side, pull Blaykleigh out of my stomach and begin to play with her right there at the dinner table showing Jason just how beautiful she is! Then as a few minutes pass I tell him it’s probably not good for her to be out this long and that it’s time to put her back in so she can finish growing. I promptly ask the waiter for some foil (yes I said it foil, as in aluminum foil) and when he brings it back to the table I carefully wrap her in the foil and place her back in my stomach! All seemed completely normal in my dream but when I awoke to the afterthoughts I couldn’t help but laugh as creepy as some of it seemed. Apparently putting her back in my belly to “grow” resembled something like that of baking a potato???  

      (This picture doesn't have much to do with the post, just thought it was cute.)