I know its been forever...

March 18th:
Our ultra sound was scheduled for 3:15 and we were able to take Brianna and Sydney with us. The whole day was very nerve racking was it a boy or girl? I picked up the girls from school and then we headed to meet Daniel and then over to the doctors. They were able to get us right back and the ultra sound began the tech loves this baby!! She started with the top of the head and kept saying what a cute head its so cute.. She asked the girls what they wanted a boy or girl (I guess Daniel and I looked old enough to have a 14yr old and a 10yr old) Syd quickly spoke up and said Um we want a girl!! Bri just shrugged her shoulders.. She then began to ask dad do you play basket ball, do you play baseball, do you want to coach lil league, because its a boy... I remember just laying there feeling numb and the look on Syds face was as if we had just smashed her dreams (calm down before you start judging the reactions I'll explain!) Daniel and I quickly started telling Syd all the great things about boys and how much fun we were going to have...The tech continued to say what a cute baby he is so cute..As soon as we found out Daniel called my mom for me because I still had to see the doctor and we were on a time crunch to get her the news because my dad was on his way out of the country and his plane was leaving.. We then started sending the text out and Daniel made a few calls...After the appointment we went straight to Babies R Us to get our selves in boy mode considering we had a whole pink nursery fully stocked with girl clothes waiting for us a home and absolutely nothing blue.. We all looked around at all the boy stuff and bought a few outfits since the lil lad didn't have anything... After our trip to Babies R Us we were off to church the girls enjoyed recapping the doctors appoint with Marissa and showing her the pictures and DVD of the ultra sound.. After church we meet Daniel's parents for a late night dinner they were both really excited and bought us some boy baby clothes.. The whole day was kind of a blur the fact that it turned out being a boy was such a shock to us...WE PRAYED FOR A LIL GIRL FOR 2 YEARS!! We have day dreamed of a lil girl our whole relationship together a boy was always in our distant thought of oh one day we would like to have a boy too BUT our little girl was the main focus forever.. So with that thought in my head I wasn't really sure what emotion to feel..

March 19th:
Time to get rid of the pink... I woke up with a mission to pack up every single bit of pink all the clothes bedding etc.. As I began to pack everything up I was yet again faced with the challenge of knowing that ultimately God is in complete control and He is good and knows what He is doing!! Its not always our ways or our timing in fact I don't think it ever is :o) AS I packed up all the pink and sobbed and mourned the thought of a girl and also the loss of Kayleigh I realized that I still had some "girl" healing that I needed to deal with... That entire pink nursery was full of Kayleigh memories and all though we had purchased tons of brand new clothes for a new lil girl on top of the ones that were Kayleighs the room was still full of "old" vision.... God really dealt with me that day that He wasn't ignoring our prayers for a lil girl or punishing us by giving us something other than what we had cried out for.. He showed me that He was starting us out fresh with a new vision from Him.. He was giving us His best and allowing us to start out new not just replacing what we had lost the year before.. When I was able to grasp that I was able to get excited about our lil man that God hand picked him and is fearfully and wonderfully making him into who He wants him to be for such as time as this!! So our boy journey begins.. Daniel placed an order for the bedding that we had found online asap and we started researching names and looking at all the boy stuff options..

March 22nd:
And he shall be called Lucas Tiago Rumbach.. We have settled on his name and love it.. Tiago is Portuguese for James and a name I absolutely have loved ever since I first heard it in Brasil.. In fact I really wanted that to be the first name but knowing our family Daniel and I both knew that they would never be able to pronounce it right so it was better to make it the middle name ;o) The meaning of his name is bringer of light, one who supplants... Luminous, supplanter.. Having a name to call him is just one more step in embracing the lil guy it has helped me be able to connect more with him and to have a name to pray for has definitely helped in the connection process...

March 30th - April 3rd
My birthday and our anniversary week was a jam packed fun filled time... I started feeling Lucas move off and on it has still been very faint.. We left for Disney on the 31st which was my birthday... We were excited about going because Disney all this year is offering a one day free park admission on your birthday but for us since we already have a pass we got a gift card equal to a park admission.. So we got a free $75 to spend... We have decided to do the extra bathroom in Mickey and figured when our lil girl comes it would be easy to add Minnie in there as well.. So we bought some Mickey towels and had Lucas' name embroider on them.. They turned out sooo cute I can't wait to get the bathroom done.. Mr Lucas also got a ton of disney clothes with Mommies birthday gift card... We also went to the outlets and found a few cute things... It has become more noticeable to us that boy clothes are super hard to find!! We have been use to buying girl clothes on the clearance rack for dirt cheap and that just isn't the case for boy clothes they aren't cheap and most of them are pretty silly looking... So our search has been on to add to Lucas' wardrobe with cool clothes not silly ones... It was nice spending the week with Daniel we had a lazy Anniversary day Friday and didn't leave the house till that night.. We had no plans for the evening just went to the town center and walked around and enjoyed being together.. It got fairly late and the stores were closing so Daniel started quizzing me on where I wanted to eat.. And as normal I didn't have a idea good thing he had something up his sleeve a surprise dinner at the melting pot.. We love that place!! It is soooo good and a perfect ending to our long week!!

April 13th - 17th:
I woke up early monday morning and was barely able to make to the bathroom because i was sooo dizzy.. The dizziness continued into the morning and was really bad I called the OB and the nurse told me to rest and drink water she then called back and said that the doctor said it could be an inner ear infection so I should go see our primary care doctor... Daniel was able to get me in for a late an appointment and came home and took me.. The doctor checked over everything my pressure was good, my ears looked good, he made me touch my nose, close my eyes all kinds of stuff to check my balance I guess and said hat everything looked fine.. He wrote up a lab request for some blood work to check my iron and some other stuff and the gave me a RX for some dizziness med...The meds def helped!! No matter how bad i was feeling Lucas was still active off and on through out the day..
Tuesday I woke up feeling better no dizziness but I had a super bad headache and was suppose to go in for the blood work.. I called my OB to check on the medication the doctor had given me to make sure that it was pregnancy safe and to talk to them about the blood work.. The OB said I could just do the blood work in there office since I was going there Wednesday... Lucas was pretty sluggish through out the day and I hadn't really felt him to much... Finally when I got to work he started moving around I made sure to let Daniel know he was moving because he was concerned.. He is so attentive to me and what Lucas is doing he can't wait to be able to feel him and I can't wait to share that experience with him...
Wednesday I went to my OB appointment the doctor I was going to see was at a delivery so I saw the nurse practitioner who was really nice... My weight has continued to be good, my pressure was good and Mr.Lucas' heart beat was very strong she commented that we were going to have an active boy on our hands because you could hear him moving all around.. She went ahead and sent me for my blood work but wasn't too concerned with the dizzy spells... I was able to schedule our 4d ultra sound and my glucose test for the same day so we will go May 13th for my doctors appointment and ultra sound... when I go to school we had an African group doing a program for us... Lucas loved all of the percussion he was so active it made me laugh i wished someone else could feel him dancing all around!!
Friday morning before Daniel headed out to work he had the realization that we have 5weeks before our first shower is being thrown for us.. It sent him into a lil bit of a panic mode because we have TONS to do to get the nursery ready which we would like to do before we start bringing stuff home.. You know perfect plans have a place for everything not sure if it will happen but its on our goal sheet now just to find some time ;o)