OB appt!

So I totally made it 4 whole weeks for my ob appt!! I didnt even call the doctors office one time. I actually surprise myself sometimes. Mike even told me that ive been doing really good lately not getting anxiety due to this pregnancy. Everything went really good. The hearbeat was 159 which is really good and strong and my weight is... well its the other thing in pregnancy i hate. I hate seeing the numbers get higher and higher each month but im up 10 lbs total so far and i gained 7 of it in 4 weeks..ahhhhhh! i hope next month brings a little better number. But i guess the pumpkin pie and the bread im eating doesnt help!! Other than that i go in 4 more weeks and get to do the glucose test...yay for me. But as bad as that drink is, it lets me know that im getting farther along and thats really reassuring. I can feel Lincoln move all the time now and that is the best thing in the whole world, I love it. So that was my day so far and tonight i get to work really late so i better go rest for a bit.

Bryce is in preschool!!!

I know its been forever since i have blogged but im just not a good blogger. Two weeks ago today Bryce started preschool. I cant believe my baby is old enough for preschool. Time really flys when youre having fun. He was sooo excited to finally go to school like his big sister does. When we dropped him off he didnt even bat an eye over it and was totally fine leaving us for the 2 hours. If any of you know bryce really good you know that he is very much a daddys boy and I as his mom pretty much doesnt exist most days. But I was soo excited to pick him up with dad and bailee and he told me that he missed mommy!! And when mike asked him if he missed him, bryce said "no i only missed my mommy" i seriously wanted to cry, i guess i do exist somewhat in his world. But he did great and really likes it.Its not bad he goes only thursdays and fridays from 11-1:15 so its not too long but just long enough. we are soo proud of him and know he is gonna do just fine in school.

this is his teacher Mrs.Kerry! she is soo sweet and is most definately a preschool teacher. She has soo much energy its amazing! and she is the same teacher that bailee went too as well so she know us really good.

This is Bryce when he finished with school that first day and he still looks happy!!

Funny story

I just hought i would share a funny sotry about a ruby! I know not something you probably want to read about, but the story is pretty good. My mom has had this ruby ring that i have wanted since i was a little girl. It was handed down through the years from my dads side of the family. In my eyes it was the prettiest thing i had ever seen. well about 10 years ago my mother had it changed from a ring into a necklace pendant. I was really upset about it. But i convinced her in the last couple of weeks to give it to me since this ruby came from my side of the family and my mom and day are no longer married. so she finally gave it up. The jeweler that changed the ring 10 years ago looked at it and said it was worth 5000 dollars!!! crazy, so anyways i took it to a jeweler that i know and he looked at it and said it was fake!! WHAT???? so he took it to a ruby expert and that guy said it was fake too. so i immediatley told my mom that shed been had by that jeweler years ago and he stole our ruby. I was distraught. so i had to tell the news to my dad and he said there is no ways that ruby is fake. so my mom in the mean time was trying to think of the guys name who changed the ruby and just couldnt remember. then my dad called back and said he found out through the family that the ruby was indeed a FAKE!!! I started laughing so hard to know that we all accused this poor guy of stealing our stone and i literally cried for this ruby. In the end i dont actually care if it was real or not i just wanted it to be the same ruby that came from the family. which it is thank goodness. my mom owns a sign and t shirt shop and 2 stores down from her is a jeweler so she went in there last week and he had wanted a new sign for something and they were talking about their hobbies and she realized that he is the same jeweler from 10 years ago. Its just crazy how our world works! the whole time that we were thinking he was a thief, he was 2 doors down! crazy. its a story that just makes me laugh when i think about it, just the fact that we were so sad over it and then everything comes full circle.

Its been a while!!

Well I thought I would catch you up on whats been going on with the Porters. Last week I had an enrichment activity(craft) at my house and that was soo fun. I was actually surprised at how many people showed up. It was a little stressful but We got through it.

Then over the labor day weekend we went camping with my family and the kids had a blast. I dont care to camp too much but it was actually somewhat enjoyable(maybe i shouldnt admit that...dont tell mike..hahah) anyway it rained pretty much the whole time we were there but i love, love, love the rain so it was nice. There was a little boy named Reed that was there that was a grandson to one of the families and he was 6 and him and bryce played soooooo good together. It was really nice not to have to entertain him. But bailee on the other hand kept asking me "mom, what can we do now?" I told her " Bailee we are doing it, this is what you do when youre camping...nothing" thats why i hate it so much, everyone just sits around and stares at the dirt. Or maybe i just dont know how to entertain myself. Bu all in all it was a fun trip.



Something else that we are looking forward to is my next ultrasound. Its thursday at 8:30am so that will be fun to get to see baby Lincoln for an extended period of time and get to see all his measurement. then on the same day at 11am bryce gets to go to his first day of preschool!!! we are so excited for him and know that he will be such a good boy and learn so much from mrs. kerry!

Doctor appt today!!!

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Well today we went to another doctor appt today at 9;30 this morning. I get soo nervous before my doct appts that i feel like i need to use tha bathroom or i need to throw up. But this appt went really really good!! I had an ultrasound first and the baby was 3 times the size it was 2 weeks ago, its absolutely amazing what our female bodies can do. Anyways, they did all the measuring and she asked us if we wanted to know what the gender was and of course we said yes. We werent sure they would be able to tell because im only 16 weeks but the anatomy was there. There was definitely some junk in between the legs, which means.... its a boy!! we are so excited! Bryce went with us and got to see the baby on the screen and couldnt believe that was the baby in my tummy. But then we had to tell the dreaded news to Bailee who was very insistent on it being a girl. so we picked her up from school and had Bryce tell her, she of course didnt believe him and we had to tell her it was true. So her response was, " well, mommy when you have the next baby then that one can be a girl." So I guess she's not gonna give up on the idea of having a sister. We are gonna name him Lincoln so its fun to know and be able to call him his name and say he or him and not it or baby. Everything else in the ultrasound went great and theres no complications at this time. I go again in 3 weeks for my big ultrasound where they actually measure the legs and arms and check the face and head. we are extatic that everything is going so awesome, any prayers or thoughts that anyone has had for us is truly a blessing and we are very grateful

Bailee's first day of first grade!!

Well today was the first day of school for Bailee. She was not too excited last night when we would talk about it but she was excited to pick out the first outfit(of course)! So this morning mike left for work at 5:30am and he saw that she was already awake!! holy cow she was gonna be tired today.So the kids came and got me about 6:10 and we started our fun day. I could tell she was a lot more excited today to go to school. She actually let me take some cute pictures of her and she even posed for them. Last year for kindergarten she wanted nothing to do with taking pictures or even talking about school the first day. So this was a nice change. I definetley missed her today but the house did stay so much quieter with only Bryce and going to walmart this morning was a peice of cake when you only have one kid asking for toys!! haha Of course i counted the time to go pick her up and was so excited to see her at the end of the day. She said she really likes her teacher and she even made some new friends but she didnt know their names! we are so proud of her and cant wait to see her grow this year.


ps. She started piano lessons last week and is doing pretty good with them. And I started lessons too. I figured I wouldnt be able to help her if I didnt know how to play at least a little bit, its pretty fun to learn something new.

Meet the teacher

I know its been a while since i've posted. On thursday night bailee and I went to meet her teacher. She had been talking about it allllllllllll day, so we finally got to go and it was exciting because this year now that she will be a first grader, she gets to have her own desk! Im sure it makes her feel like a big girl because she gets to actually take her own crayons and pencils and a box to keep it in and she doesnt have to share with everyone at the table like in kindergarten. So I think it will be a fun year for her and I cant wait to see her progress this year. She like hers teacher alot and as much as she says she doesnt want to go to school on monday, I think she is actually excited deep down inside. We love you Bailee and mommy is gonna miss you while you are gone all day.