20 weeks

This pregnancy is sailing by. Considering I was two months pregnant before I knew it, that's made things fly by quicker. I'm still feeling great, no stretch marks, no sickness, no problems. With both pregnancies I've craved firehouse subs and guacamole. I'm feeling movement of the baby at night mostly. Movement is faint and soft. My next appointment will be the glucose test for gestational diabetes in about three more weeks. We've started on the nursary...cleaned out the room another words!! Time for some paint and new carpet then Martha, memaw and I can start shopping. I'm going modern and have a great light fixture from IKEA I bought while in Denver.

Holding your hand

The past two weeks Demi has wanted to include me in everything she dose. I mean everything. I must be with her at all times. She grabs my hand and takes me everywhere she wants to go. Though I won't get much done, I'll drop whatever I'm doing to go with her. These days are limited I know. I want to be her best friend as long as she'll let me. I truly love that she's such a Momma's girls right now. It's so much fun and I enjoy every moment. As I took a bath tonight, she stood by the tub splashing my water! I've seen more episodes/re-runs of bubble guppies and this cartoon will forever remind me of her. These moments are cherished!! I love her more than life!!!

Demi may God bless you and you one day too have the blessing to create life! You're my world and I pray we always share that mother daughter bond!! You're my everything and Ill hold your hand through anything!!

Bristol Riley

Wednesday January 9, 2012 was our ultrasound and OB appointment. (19 weeks) We verified that Bristol is, still in fact, a girl!! According to all the diagnostic measurements and results she is in the 50% and everything appears normal and healthy. Praise. The. Lord. During the US Bristol was swallowing and trying to suck her thumb. Demi was also a thumb sucker in the womb. This week we will be working on her nursery.

Pregnancy 19weeks

I haven't been as consistent with this pregnancy to document the details so here is a recap of our surprise blessing...

I breast fed Demi for 1 year and by her first birthday my supply had diminished a lot. By this time I was in the process of finding a new OB doctor and getting back on birth control. So that's what I did. And one month and one week of taking birth control pills I found out I had become pregnant sometime in August shortly after Demi's first birthday. This was a wonderful surprise though if anyone knows me, I'm a planner so I had not planned for this. That's just fine with me because it's Gods plan and that's what I want...His Will!!!

On December 21st we had a gender reveal party, which was a blast and a new fad. Mom and I had went to Tulsa to have the early 16week gender ultrasound and the tech placed the gender in an envelope and we took the envelope to a local boutique. Here we picked out an outfit for both a boy/girl and gave the cashier the envelope as we went to lunch and requested she purchase and gift wrap the appropriate outfit. The next 6 hours were probably the longest of my life as the results were in the back seat. Taunting. Very taunting. Our friends and family gathered at our house that night. As we opened our gift, we found out baby #2 is another GIRL!!! I truly feel two girls close in age will be such a wonderful experience for them both. I can just image them in college together, same dorm room, studying and making friends together, as sisters. My pray my girls are best friends and grow close as they will be 24 months apart.

Our due date is June 3rd 2013. This pregnancy has been very comparable to my first. No complaints. No sickness. Praise The Lord. Very pleasant. I have noticed showing much sooner with my second. Gaining weight about the same as well. Very average. Just praying for another healthy beautiful daughter to welcome to the family this summer!!

Bristol Riley Bowen we can't wait to meet you and see your face!

Happy 18 months Demi

The best 18 months of my life have been the birth and life of our daughter. I can't explain how compete my life has become since the birth of our child. Watching her grow and learn brings joy to my heart that only a mother understands. Since I haven't been blogging, I'll start from today and move forward otherwise I would focus on the past most wonderful 18 months of my life. My intentions for my blogging is more of a journal for my children and a legacy I want them to read...since actual memory of their young age is so often unspoken of and not remembered.

This past week Demi has been speaking in sentences and paragraphs, most we have absolutely no idea what's being said but it's music to my ears just hear her sweet little voice speak and make words. Ill ask her if she has "dirty pants" and she says, "Noooo". So now any question you ask, she responds with a "no." She loves bubble guppies, which is a cartoon she can't seem to get enough of. Last week she heard the train near our house and she said "all aboard", which is a phrase she hears on dinosour train, another favorite cartoon. She starting to associate things like that and it truly makes me such a proud momma. Its the small things. This week she's started holding/grabbing my hand and taking me into her room to play. She's always been a Momma's girl and I hope this never changes!! I want to be her best friend as my mom has been my best friend! This past month teething has really been uncomfortable as we're getting the first molars in. I've been giving into letting her sleep with us, which may not be the best habit to start but my time to snuggle and watch her sleep is short lived so I ll break all the rules on this parenting no no. As far as her eating habits, well she's so picky like me she barley eats. I worry about this and pray her apatite increases. However I will say she loves any kind of fruit particularly grapes and blue berries.

As I lay here in bed watching bubble guppies, one arm around her and one thumb typing this blog I cherish this moment. I would like to freeze the time. The older I get the more I hear how time flies, so tonight I'm going to cherish every snuggle and every foot in my side as I sleep next to my worlds most precious gift The Lord blessed me with. Demi you are my world and these past 18 months have changed my life!! Praise be to God!!

New Year=New Beginnings

This is my first post for 2013 and I'd like to dedicate it to our dog bruiser. Today was a difficult emotional day as we've unfortunately had to put him to rest. By choice? I don't know of you'd call it that or not. Approximately 1.5years ago bruiser was diagnosed with (SARD) sudden acquired retnal degeneration. Meaning he started going blind and quickly became 100% unable to see in either eye. Going 5 years with great eye sight and a life full of chasing other fellow paw siblings, he quickly became nothing but a couch potato. The ophthalmologist said dogs adapt to blindness by increasing their other senses. Well, not bruiser. He went down hill progressively worse as time went on. It was brutal watching him run into everything, finding him frequently staring at the walls. In the past months bruiser had two very eventful tradgies take place. 1. Stung by hundreds of bees and unable to run or find safty. 2. Wandered out of gate and became lost with no food or water for 5 whole days. At this point he felt unsafe outside, peroid. It seems he kept staring death in the face and for some reason kept on going. But was he happy? That's the question I answer and say NO. Not at all. Nor were we happy watching his pitiful face stare at the wall or repeatedly slam his head into everything and trip over his own paws. This was one of the most difficult decisions we've had to make and still unsure of if it was the "right" one. In August we lost Skippy and still have no clue what happened to him. Going from 3 dogs to 1... Not easy. Our house was a crazy, barking, hairy mess. But it was our furry pets that brought so much joy to our lives. So much laughter. Demi called him "Bruz" and would sit on him like a horse. She would pet him, saying his name. He was gentle with her though he couldn't see. Now what? Well to a new beginning. Starting the year our with only one furry pet. It's not going to be what we call normal but it's a new start for us. With baby #2 expected in June and a toddler running around I guess one pet will make things easier. I know that God knows best and there is a time and season for everything. I often question of these two pets I've lost are being replaced by my most two precious treasures... My children? The Lord knows I've always treated my furry babies as of they where children. Non the less, he knows best and here is to a New beginning. Maybe not an easy transition into this "season", but may The Lord give us the strength we need to start this year with a fresh new start! God bless you "Bruz". You've brought so much joy and laughter to our lives. The times Ill cherish of u being Santa clause each year for Christmas. When you would chase skippy gently healing him as of he was a cow, and when you'd run through the snow digging your face into it as if was a magical substance that had fallen from the sky!!! Your memories live on and ill always be your momma! Until we meet again, I pray your sight is back and your with skippy in heaven chasing each other!!! We love you Bruz!!!