Expanding our life

Well yesterday we made the first step toward acknowledging the fact that our family is going to be doubling in size in a nine month period.

We bought a double stroller.

I just happened to be on Craig'slist and someone on base was selling a double stroller in our light green color for $50. It was in excellent condition -- didn't even look like it had been used --and so I decided to take her up on the offer.

Of course, in order to get it home, we had to leave our trunk open. The double stroller won't fit in on our Saturn. Either will a second car seat.

This has meant that we have had to begin a search for a second vehicle. JB and I haven't been car shopping since the first year we were married -- when we bought this tiny little Saturn we are driving now. That was ten years ago. The Saturn has been extremely faithful to us -- taking us to nearly all of the Continental United States including an east coast and west coast trip of 5,000 miles each. But it is very small. It is so small that we are not sure how I will be able to get Isaac's car seat in and out of the backseat when I am significantly pregnant. It would take some special skills, that's for sure because getting Isaac's car seat in and out right requires some interesting twists and turns to achieve.

I really dislike grown-up decisions. Like, really, really dislike them. How do you decide what vehicle to buy? We have always said we will not take on a car payment, and while we may have to take on a small one, we have made the decision we will not buy anything remotely resembling new. But how "old" do you go? There is a place on base where people sell their old vehicles. Yesterday we drove a 2004 Chevy Trailblazer. I LOVED it! Not only was it not a mini-van (I really don't want a mini-van) but it had incredible leg room, a 3rd row (which is mandatory since we most likely will have 3 children under 3 in just 2 years), a DVD player, rear air (very helpful when your little son overheats in mere seconds), and a host of other wonderful features. Scrubs would be able to take trips with us again as well. But should we go older and cheaper? Or go newer and more reliable?

I don't think we need advice as much as we could just use you prayers that we make the wisest decision we can make. I know people buy vehicles everyday. We just haven't bought one in a decade. (Well, unless you count my bucket which we purchased from friends for $500, could fit about nineteen of my athletes in it at one time, and I sold four years later to a student for $500.) Okay so it didn't have heat or air, and I had to drive it in the winter with my head out the window because the defroster wouldn't kick on. Oh yeah and sometimes the hood flew up while I was driving too. That was interesting. But, hey, it was $500, and it made the 3 mile commute back and forth to my Kentucky high school each day without incident. Well, unless you count the time it ran out of gas in the middle of an intersection right before school started. (The gas gauge didn't work either.)

On the topic of adding to our brood, as of Sunday, I am ten weeks pregnant, and nearing the end of trimester one. I've never been pregnant before, so I don't have much, well anything, except my friends' pregnancies, to compare my own pregnancy to. I have got a good case of nausea and food aversions, but most days they are pretty manageable. JB has informed me that I can worry later in pregnancy about eating healthy and right now, my priority is to find something that I can eat. My list of can's is pretty small but right now it includes: toaster streudels which I haven't eaten, like ever in my life. I can also eat Cinnamon life, bananas (on occasion), trail mix, sprite, and other foods as the spirit moves. Last night JB went and got Greek for dinner (it was the only thing that sounded good), and I ate it during the Bachelorette finale (I know. I'm horrible. Can you believe Jesse won?!) My fatigue seems to be dissipating some which is probably a combination of pregnancy and Isaac sleeping through the night about 50% of the time. If he doesn't make it through the night, he only wakes up once, around 2-3am.

I don't look pregnant so sometimes I have to pinch myself to remind me it is real. If it wasn't for the nausea, I don't think I would even believe it. I have decided (well, JB helped me decide) to give up running. So each evening, after it starts getting a bit cooler, Scrubs and I go for a long walk. We tried to take Isaac one night, but the kid, seriously, overheats in a few seconds and gets pretty upset and wants to return to the air conditioning immediately. He is definitely his father's son. So instead, Scrubby and I walk for exercise, and I really enjoy the quiet time with just me and my pup, who has become a pretty good leash-walker if I do say so myself.

My first OB is appointment is tomorrow. Then on Friday Isaac has his two month appointment, and I have my first real ultrasound on the same day. That's sort of weird huh? I'll make sure to update you after these appointments on our little growing boy and our little growing belly baby.

P.S. Oh and JB said that Isaac giggled last night while he was changing him. His first laugh! JB saw it. I missed it!