1 week and 1 day

We are coming down to the end... We have been through so much the past few weeks.. i started going to the Chiro 3 times a week which has been a God send!! My tension headaches have been next to none and it has really helped the pressure of my hips and lower back having the proper realignment every few days!! I passed the 4 hr glucose test with flying colors, We started and completed our birthing classes, I passed the group b strep test, I was 1cm dilated at 35weeks, Crazily measured 40wks at 36wks with the dr giving us a scare that lil man was already 10lbs, Had a growth ultrasound at 37wks that showed the lil guy measuring right at 37wks with the approximate weight of 7.1 lbs at that time, and at 38wks I was dilated to 2cm with the cervix softening... So we are moving right along.. We were blessed with 3 showers one being a couples shower thrown by our church family and it was such a blast to have Daniel there!! And my work did a surprise luncheon and Daniels work friends have been bringing in gifts left and right... Lucas is definitely one blessed lad!! We have got everything ready and waiting for him.. Just have a lil bit of our laundry to do and of course would love to have the bathrooms and rest of the house spot cleaned before his arrival!! But from the looks of it he doesn't seem to be going anywhere right now so I guess we have time... Daniel for sure thought he would come this weekend and has been all psyched up about it and even has had me a lil anxious but as I sit here the weekend is almost over and I still have a baby in my belly and have extremely HUGE swollen elephant ankles/feet.. Actually if you have seen the movie Wall-E my legs, ankles, and feet look like the that of the fat people on the ship who hadn't walked our exercised for years...lol can't wait to be back to normal again!! Hopefully times flies and we get to hold our lil guy very soon I know he has a mommy and daddy and lots and lots of others that want him here super quick!! I have pics of me and my belly, the finished nursery, our beloved bugaboo stroller etc that I want to post... Just gotta find the transfer cord first :o( hopefully I can get it up soon!! Hope to post pics of Lucas soon as well!!

Time is flying: 8 weeks & 3 days to go..

We are on our way to the finish line!! As usual we have been busy busy busy.. I have been feeling good just trying to stay cool in this wonderful HOT HUMID Florida weather I live in... We have now reached the point where we go to the doctor every 2 weeks which totally makes time fly!! Next week I have a Chiropractic appointment, a 4hr glucose tolerance test (Yes I failed the the 1hr test because I had ice cream cake and a glass of milk for dinner the night before!!), and my 32 week check up... Other than some minor aches and pains (hopefully the chiropractor can fix these) and some feet swelling (which the HOT weather doesn't help) I have been feeling pretty good... I have notice that occasionally some of the tiredness and nausea that was experienced in the 1st trimester has tried to sneak back up on me but I have been coping pretty well... As for Lucas he is very active although he hasn't let Daddy feel him move around very much when ever he tries lil man stops moving.. He is measuring on the smaller side so they are thinking he will be a tiny guy which is fine with us as long as he is healty.. He has a very strong heart beat and is doing good... Daniel and I are getting anxious and excited about the arrival of him with every day that passes!! We start birthing classes this coming Tuesday night and are looking fwd to that... Of course we are trying to use every spare minute we have to get things ready here on the home front which for those of you who know our lives we don't have many spare minutes available ;o) I was blessed to have my first baby shower with some of our family and close family friends this past Saturday May 30th (I can't even believe it is time for showers!!) It was such a lovely shower given to us by Daniel's Aunt Becky, Cousin Jessica, and our dear friends Courtenay and Vicky.. I am so thankful for all the blessings we have begun to receive for Lucas it is amazing how giving and generous people are and how much his life is already being sown into.. I am thankful for the lil guy that is continuing to grow in side of me.. As I'm typing Daniel is busily putting the second coat of baby blue on the nursery walls.. He has been so great!! He worked so hard on the bathroom it looks great and now is determined to get the nursery room finished!! I took some pics of the bathroom (It is my favorite thing ever!!) and of few of the bedding in the crib so I'm going to post them.. Hopefully we can get the nursery put back together after this second coat of paint goes on and I will take some pics and post them as well..

Godly Heritage

God has really been dealing with me this week about mine and Daniel's Godly heritage. My older cousin was killed in an automobile accident this past weekend and when my mom called to tell me my first thoughts were dear God please don't let him be in hell.. Although he was raised differently and lived a different life style than me he was still given the same opportunities at an early age to accept Christ and we know that he did when he was 7yrs old and again in his early twenties... But from the outside appearance that is all he did to acknowledge God's existence in his life.. He chose to live his life the best he knew how which most of the time didn't work out so well for him.. He chose choices that weren't the best and got himself into trouble time and time again.. So as I've been watching my mom sisters side of the family deal with this sudden tragedy they have been coping with Alcohol etc.. I've found myself silently standing by watching from the outside thanking God for who He is and what He has done for me.. I look at mine and Daniels lives and I am so thankful that someone somewhere prayed and interceded for us that somewhere down our family line someone called us forth to be who we are today.. Don't get me wrong mine and Daniel's parents did their share of sowing into us and praying forth who we are today but if you stop and think about it generations before us sowed into who we are by even praying our parents forth.. As we continue to prepare for Lucas I am constantly reminded that he is who God has given to Daniel and I.. He is our miracle he is the one that we spent many nights crying out to God for.. In Psalms 127:3-5 it says that Sons are the heritage from the Lord, children are a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies at the gate. As I read that this morning I was hit with 2 thoughts: 1st Daniel and I have a ton of spiritual sons and daughters that we have been given to pour into.. At times I feel like they drain me constantly but I am getting a fresh breath of air realizing that we are pouring into their spiritual heritage and destiny and I am honored to be given such a job!! Second Our Son Lucas is the heritage of the Lord he is a gift that God is giving us to raise up pour into and release into the destiny that is before him.. Psalms 138:13-18 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of the came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. So today I am thankful that my son is being born into Godly heritage that he has a calling and a destiny on his life even inside the womb.. I am thankful that he is being fearfully and wonderfully made and is being in trusted to Daniel and I to love and raise and to have a son to pass on our Godly heritage to!! I pray that he is a light to this world and even his story is a light into both sides of our unsaved family.. As my side of the family deals with life being stolen I pray that the joy of Lucas opens their eyes to the joy and love of our father!! Today I am thankful that mine and Daniel's parents prayed for us and sowed into us.. I'm thankful for the many generational curses that my parents broke off of me before I was born so that I didn't have to walk down that same road as family members in the past.. I am thankful for the knowledge of who He is and for all that He has done in mine and Daniel's lives.. I'm thankful for the calling that we have individually and as a couple and a soon to be family.. Today I am thankful for LIFE and GODLY HERITAGE!!

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)

Happy Birthday..

Happy 2nd Birthday Kayleigh Poo... We sure do miss you!!

Busy Busy Busy

We have had a busy weekend... Saturday was Valentines day and we spent a quiet evening at home due to the nasty rainy weather that graced us and the fact that Daniel was feeling under the weather. So we just stayed home and enjoyed time together and even though Daniel wasn't feeling well he still managed to surprise me with a yummy home cooked Whole Foods dinner and bought me beautiful Whole Foods flowers... We love that place if only it was closer!!! Then on Sunday after church we headed off for a Disney getaway... We were anxious to get there because Amanda and Chester were already there with little William for his first Disney trip. We enjoyed meeting up with them and spending some quality time together although lil man might not remember the trip he was still so cute taking in everything!! The Spellmans had to head out that evening but we stayed over night. We took Monday casually and enjoyed our day off and our time together... Then this morning it was off to the doctor I was sad yesterday because I knew that Daniel wasn't going to be able to go to this appointment with me. But this morning he woke up still not feeling well so he didn't go into work which meant he could go to the appointment with me and then come home and rest... This appointment was short and sweet they took my blood pressure, weight and listened to the baby's heart and then the dr. went over my blood work results. She said things were looking good, my pressure is good, my weight is good, and all of my blood work came back normal and looked good, and the baby's heart sounded good... So today's report all across the board was GOOD! So our next appointment is scheduled for Wednesday March 18th and this appointment as long as wiggle worm is cooperative we will have the ultra sound to find out the sex and also they will look at the baby's heart, lungs, brain etc to track the development and then I will have a routine check-up... AAAHH another month of waiting!! We have waited for 4 months already so I know we can do it but I sure was hoping it wouldn't be that much longer of a wait.

Wiggle Worm

Yesterday morning was our 1st ultra sound with the new doctor... MY MY HOW THE BABY HAS GROWN!!! We couldn't believe our eyes when that little one popped on the screen. We were able to bring a dvd with us this time so not only did we get a couple of pictures the actual ultra sound was recorded... It's was pretty amazing to see the baby fully formed into a baby and moving all over the place... The tech lady asked us if we wanted to know the sex if she was able to tell and of course we said YES but the little one was too active... She had a hard time getting clear still pictures because the baby was moving so much... Watching it move around was a lot of fun it kept putting its right arm up to its head almost like it was scratching or fixing its hair and then the mouth kept making sucking movements... We were also able to hear the heart beat... Up to this point we have only been able to see it beat but hearing it was pretty cool 143 bpm... The tech kept saying what a cute baby over and over which Daniel and I thought was funny because to us although we think what we saw was amazing we weren't sure how she could see cute through that black and white picture.. Guess that's why she is the expert and I'm sure she is right it will be cute... She reported that everything looked good and that the baby was measuring right to date so we were very pleased although we were disappointed that we couldn't find out if it was a boy or girl we are definitely thankful that everything is looking good and healthy... Still waiting for the second trimester bliss that everyone has told me about to kick in though.. I still haven't been able to sleep through the night without getting up and going to the bathroom no joke a good 6 times a night and I have had a lot of sinus pressure and congestion which is no fun drug less... I'm told all the time this to shall pass so I'm still waiting as patient as I can... For now we have a check-up appointment scheduled for Feb. 17th and then at that time they will hopefully give us the date for our next ultra sound lets just hope by then little wiggle worm slows down some so that we can see what it is... Daniel and I are very anxious to know what it is we've got lots to do and we want to buy everything we see and are having to hold back which is no fun WE WANT TO SHOP!!