My Little Phelpers

On Wednesday, after I got home from mutual, I was sitting on the couch with my husband, watching tv and chatting. He turns to me and hands me his phone saying, “Look, James Phelps is on Facebook.” For a second I was confused. “Who was James Phelps and why is Bryan searching him on Facebook.”

Then it hit me as I looked at the profile picture: it was an ultrasound, our ultrasound. James Phelps is our baby. Our baby set up a facebook page. I looked at it for a few seconds and started laughing.

James Phelps

James’ info says: “-4 months old, Taurus, waiting to make a big splash.”

As I read through his status updates and the rest of his information page, I kept laughing and laughing. In the end I was laughing so hard I was crying.

I knew that Bryan and I were pretty geeky and too many of our conversations have something to do with the internet, but I never imagined our baby would pick up our on all of it so quickly.  ha ha ha!

I think my favorite status update so far has been:

The other thing I think is too funny about our baby’s facebook page is the mixed reactions we have gotten from it. There are some that thing the whole this is bizarre and creepy and some that think it’s just as funny as I thought. My little brother thought it was pretty cool that the baby got wi-fi in there…but thinks the wi-fi might not be the best thing for the baby.  ha ha!

If you’re worried that we might be crazy, and want to tell us that our baby didn’t actually set up a facebook page for himself, don’t worry. It’s just a joke. And I must admit, if you read through his posts, my wonderful husband (who set up the page, but swears it was the baby) is very witty.

I have been long absent from the world of my blog for some time now. It’s time to end the silence with a post about the most important information that is currently going on in my life (it also actually explains the lack of blogging lately).

I am preggo!

my belly, from my angle

That’s right, ladies and gentleman: through the power of prayer, miracle of modern science and so many other wonderful blessings from the Lord, Bryan and I are going to have our first baby and we couldn’t be more excited.

I am due on May 3, so I’m just about half-way through now.  We get to find out what “flava” the baby is next Friday (on my mom’s birthday, I told her I was going to give her a super awesome birthday present. Since it is going to be her first grandbaby, she’s pretty excited too).

So from the beginning: We found out at the end of Aug., and just shortly after that, all-day sickness hit me (morning sickness is a giant lie). Thus, my lack of blogging. When I would get home from work, the only thing I wanted to do was lay on the couch. The absolute last thing I wanted to do was get on the computer. Luckily for me though, Bryan’s younger brother Kevin is currently living with us and during the months that I didn’t want to do anything but die and keep my dinner down, Kevin had made a deal with us that instead of paying rent, he would clean our house.  So our house didn’t look like a complete disaster. That was nice.

I was blessed enough to not be terribly sick while I was with my family in Florida celebrating my parents’ 30th anniversary. I must say though, Disney World isn’t as fun when you avoid all the rides that say, “expectant mothers should not ride.” It was still a great trip. While there, we bought the baby it’s first outfit. Finding a gender neutral baby outfit at Disney World was a little bit of a challenge, but Mel’s husband Tyler found the perfect little onesie — it’s Tigger.  We did buy a cute little girl’s outfit for my sister-in-law, Lindsay who is also pregnant (she’s due in Feb., having a little girl. Our little baby is going to have a cousin close in age to play with).

I’m feeling great now. I have started to feel the baby move and that might be the weirdest, but most wonderful thing ever. I feel like I’m getting bigger and bigger every day.  I’m sure it’s not as big as I think (which is why you get a picture of my belly from my angle, because that’s how I see it. That’s way more interesting that how other people may see it.  ha ha). I do have to admit that I’m getting a little bit tired of my nose being stuffy since Sept., but it’s all going to be worth it.

So that’s what’s been going on with me. In the beginning, I couldn’t figure out how to balance life and be pregnant at the same time, but I’m getting the hang of it and things couldn’t be better. I have so much to be thankful for. For me, the road to get here was a little longer than expected, but I am thankful that I went through all the experiences that I did and my testimony has grown so much through these last three years. It has been a wonderful experience.

(As a side note: If you can guess the movie my quote came from, you can have 10 whole points… I actually watched it today.)