Evening with Maddicakes...

Well now that Molly is on a normal schedule and sleeps at night, I get to have some one on one time with Maddison in the evenings. Tonight we colored, made a map, she helped me make dinner, she helped me do dishes, and now we are chilaxin watching "The Big Bang Theory" LOL She was telling me about her monkeys and I painted her toe nails (of course with her Biddidi Bobbidi Boutique nail polish) she is something! I still can't believe she is about to be 4 years old. I was asked today if she was 6!?! I was like umm no she isn't even 4 yet LOL I am kinda happy she didn't get selected for preschool one more year with her all the time will fly by! Plus Matt will be leaving soon for tech school so she will have a lot of change. I am hoping and praying that Pampered Chef will really start going so I can put her in this christian preschool on my terms of what days and times. She is such a great little person! I can't wait too see the person she grows up to be!!! She is so loving to Molly which just makes my heart smile! I know that won't always be the case but for now it's great! We have been thinking about them sharing a room next house but we shall see :) for now I'm going to continue to enjoy my evening with my girl before bed!!!

7 months already...

Shew can't time just slooooowww down for a few! Today we celebrate Molly Elizabeth being 7 months old and I can hardly believe it. October 4 at 8 o'clock my water broke here at home and I kinda had an "are you serious" moment because I was only 37 weeks preggo and NONE of our house hold good's were here yet from Okinawa!!!! I called labor and delivery and to my surprise they told me to not come in...I don't think they really believed my water broke it was almost as if I didn't know what I was saying maybe I had peed on myself but my water broke with Maddison at home as well and I knew I hadn't peed all over my bed! So I was like well fine, I will just say home and hope I will start contractions on my own maybe I would get out of a c section! My plan was to stay at home as long as possible and hope to go in at like a 8 or 9 and go from there...I found out that they don't do VBACS here and well they can't make you have an elective surgery unless it's medically neccessary. BUT as the night went on nothing happened and by that morning I knew a c section was my future and it was going to happen that day...so the following day at 9 am I called and they had me come and and well I was sent to the hospital from there :) A friend we were stationd with in Okinawa is also here and she was graceious enough to take Maddison for a few while Molly was born! At 2:05 pm, weight 7 lbs 7 ounces and being 18.5 inches long Mollybug came into this world a healthy baby! Before the doc showed her to us as they were getting Molly out we heard her say "All you look just like your sister" and well she did! She looked just like Maddison the day Maddison was born!

Maddison was so excited to see her little sister and to hold her. She kept asking if we were going to keep her and could we take her home :) It made my heart smile! I didn't think I could love another little person as much as I love Maddison but shew I was way wrong!!!! These little girls are our world and it made my love Matt even so much more!

Molly was born here in Valdosta, Gerogia at Smith Northview by Dr. Courson. Her clinic also gave Molly her first bible with her name stamped on it. Such a blessing! I wanted to leave the hospital and go home ASAP and they were so great about making sure I was ok and helping me along so that I could get out of there as quickly as possible. I went in on a Wednesday and I was able to go home on Friday. I wanted a great nice shower and to lay and rest in my own home even if there wasn't much there! My amazing hubby went out and bought me a glider since I couldn't sit in the camping chairs anymore because of my surgery. He is so sweet to me and takes such great care of me and the girls! Maddison was just so in love and couldn't leave Molly's side.

 

The one thing I wanted more than anything was for Molly to nurse. Maddison didn't and I was and am ok with that, her jounry into the world was a little different than Molly's. Molly did great and latched on no problem and well she nursed strong up until two weeks ago and I am ok with that. That's almost 7 months longer than I did the first time :) Molly is such an amazing little person. She is already trying to walk, she pulls herself up on all kinds of things and already has two teeth through and possibly some upper ones on the way! Gibber gabbers away, always has to be checking out what is going on around her, LOVES TO EAT! She is just so much fun, such a happy baby!!! Happy 7 month's old to our sweet girl! We love you so much!!!!



All our dreams came true!!!!

Well our 2012 Walt Disney World vacation came and went...all tooo fast!!! Our trip started last Saturday (21 April) to which we dropped of Daisy and Dukie pug to the kennels and cleaned up a bit, then we were off to Orlando airport to pick up Mamaw and Papaw Blevins! Living in Valdosta we are only about 4 hours away so it wasn't too bad of a drive down there (or home either). That day we just kind of rested, by the time we picked them up and go to the Shades of Green on Disney we were pooped LOL :) The next day we got our day started, walked around Shades of Green and checked it out. Walked over to the Polynesian resort which was right across the street and rode the monorail and just checked out everything. That night we watched the lights parade and the fireworks at Cinderella's castle at the Magic Kingdom. So Monday started our 4 days at Disney one day at each park. Monday we did Animal Kingdom. Maddison enjoyed the safari, she did the boneyard, we watched the Festival of the Lion King, we did Rafiki's plant watch, and Matt and I rode Expedition Everest...we were so bummed that It's Tough to be a bug was closed :( we also watched a parade that afternoon.
On Tuesday we took a break as we needed to get some supplies from Walmart and Matt wasn't feeling too great. So Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we hit it hard and went to Magic Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Epcot. We watched parade's, met characters, rode as many of the rides we could, went to shows, stuffed our faces and just had a blast at Disney!!! Maddison really enjoyed doing the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Downtown Disney on Saturday!!! Althought it was expensive I would trade her fun for the world! She is also a roller coster junkie and enjoyed all that that she was tall enough to ride!!! This was her second Disney experience and I hope she has many more! There is just something about that place!

Catch up and Throwback Thursday!!!!

It's been a little bit since my last post, I  have missed a few Throwback Thursday's :( but life has been a bit crazy! The girls and I went up to Kentucky to be with my best friend in the whole wide world when her grandpa (which was like my own) passed away. She called me early one morning and that afternoon we were on our way! I couldn't imagine not being there for her and at the very moment for the first time since leaving Japan I was happy to be only 10 hours away. We have been BFF's since the 4th grade and I know know we will be those crazy old ladies one day :) Her family is like my family...I love them all. Of course while we were up there the Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA tournement so that was fun too!!! I even let Maddison stay up really late to watch the game with me ha! She thought she was sooo cool! While being in Ky my brother and sister in law came in from NY where they are stationed. He had just gotten back from Afghanistan so it was our first time seeing him a very long time. First time they had met Mollybug and I believe Maddison was one and a half last time they say her...it was nice to spend time with them and see everyone else...we even drove up to Ohio to see some family up there where the girls met their great great grandma!!! It was a nice trip all in all but we were all ready to be back home with Matt...we sure missed him! I believe he missed us as well. Right now we are getting ready for a trip to Disney World with Matt's parents. Maddison is super excited and Molly well she will have a great time LOL :)

Now for this Thursday's Throwback picture:

This is a picture of our sweet Maddicakes and the same age our sweet Mollybug is now :) Matt was deployed it was our first one and we were living in Okinawa at the time. Maddison was such a great baby just as her little sister is. It's crazy how they are so much alike yet so different. Maddison had more hair than Molly at 6 months, her chicken hair as we called it because it always stuck straight up no matter what we did. I had already pierced her ears too. By this picture she could roll, she never crawled, and of course she was sitting up. She didn't have any teeth yet, her's didn't start coming in until she was 1 years old. She looks so much like Matt I think. I always have. I wasn't sure how this deployment was gonna go since I had never been a mom before but because of how great she was it was kind of easy...we had our routine and it made time fly while Matt was gone. She was and is amazing! I can't believe she is almost 4 years old :( It's so true as Darius Rucker's song says, she wasn't like this for long and I don't really remember her like this...it went too fast! I am so thankful for pictures! Hope everyone has a blessed Thursday!!!!

First addition of Throwback Thursday!!!

So I have decided to so my own segment of Throwback Thursday with posting an old picture and talking about it :) And what better way to start with a picture that started it all!

So this was on June 6, 2002 our last day of school Matt's senior, my junior year. By this time he had taken me to prom and already stole his first kiss! That day he drove me home from school in his red truck and that night we went to Walmart and did some shopping around and then decided we wanted to rent a movie. Matt hates scarry movies but we rented 13 Ghosts. I remember him saying how stupid scarry movies are LOL and during the movie ha! We went back to his parents house and started movie night...during the movie he asked me one question I had been waiting on LOL and I'll never forget how the converstation went ha! Matt "So if I asked you to be my girlfriend what would you say?" :D HA HA HA Jessica "I'd say yes!" Matt "Well how bout it?" Jessica "Ok" I still laugh about it ha ha ha but it was our special moment. To think that moment happened almost 10 years ago still is so neat to me. Matt still gives me butterflies even after 10 years! We have made it through me finishing highschool and college, Matt deciding to join the Air Force, and those hard deployments. I had no idea that saying yes to that question was going to bring me and us to where we are today and if I had to do it all over again you bet I would in a heart beat without even thinking twice! It's so neat to look back on all we have gotten to do together! We still enjoy that day June 6, 2002 :) it was our first anniversary so it's always gonna be special to us. It was a day that changed our lives and us forever! Who knew it would lead to the 2 beautiful girls we have now!!! But that's for another day! I added some other pictures from that day!!!

Ahhh the hard life of a 3 year old...

Well yesterday (Monday) was a fun day in our house...Monday's Maddison has ballet/tap class which she really loves but yesterday was just one of those days! We have all been pretty sick in the house and I offered to let her stay home but she begged me to take her so we went. I knew though that she was not going to listen and that she would be the one her teacher (Mrs. Patty) was calling on and what do you know...she isn't listening then she starts crying and snot is everywhere and ugh class was almost done so I had a talk with her and she finished tap out just fine. Well come time to leave and I was talking to another momma and Maddison did her little you wanna mess with me thing she does and I told her to come on and well she proceed to tell me she was going to bust my ass at which I looked up and her teacher and all other parents were looking at me...I wanted to laugh not going to lie but she knew she was in the wrong and that we don't say those kind of words so...she got a spanking and had to apologize to everyone. I don't know where she heard that, we don't say that to her for that very reason. I have always heard it's the terrible twos but after having a two year old and now a very mouthy, mean at times, attitude filled, not wanting to listen three year old, I think 3 is the number not 2...Maddison was an amazing 2 year old...COME ON 4, I mean it can only get better right...someone say right! I know she is testing the water and I understand that. Sometimes I also think it's just to get attention (Molly requires a lot LOL) and we try to give her her own one on one time. This is also a big time for her, the world is just such a big place and she is trying to figure out where she stands. She is soooo independent...dresses herself, goes to the bathroom herself, always telling me I can do it. I love that about her, she is an amazing little person and I can't wait to see where she goes in life. However I will be glad when we are done with being a 3 year old. It's a hard life!

We love our Maddison Kay!

Thankful Thursday!

So today I am doing a Thankful Thursday! I haven't wrote in awhile so I need to catch up too but today I am most thankful for (other than my husband and my sweet girls) is my brothers! My brother SPC Joshua Shoemake returned from spending a year deployment in Afghanistan. I am so happy he is home safe and with my sister in law! I know she missed him as I know what it's like to be in her shoes! Matt has not been deployed that long but the feeling is just the same. He has been through a lot while serving over there, we are just happy to have him home. Not everyone is as lucky and for those we pray for them and their families.

I am also thankful for my bother Jonathon. I haven't seen him in a little bit but love him just as much!

I'm thankful for my family! I have an amazing husband who does so much for me and the girls! We are so blessed! For Lent I gave up a few things and I can already see a change in me and it's what I needed. I chose to give up things that I really have struggled with and that I feel like really have a hold over me. I gave up processed foods, grains, soda, all things really bad for me. I used to never think twice about food and for some reason it's like now food has a huge hold on me! But no more and what better way to think of it like this...if Jesus died on the cross for me the least I can do is give up those things for him! And it has really helped! I haven't thought twice about eating those things or having soda! I have also started training for a 10 mile race in September at Walt Disney World in FL! I found a running plan on line: 10 Mile Running Plan and I am on week four of it and wow I am loving it! I have lost weight (which was not really my reason for this running) but I know by September I'll be where I want to be! One of my new years resolutions was to lose 50 lbs this year and I believe I might lose more! I have God on my side and when I'm running I can definitely feel him there with me every step I take. I ran four miles the other night without stopping which was HUGE for me! I can not even begin to say how humbled I am right now for our heavenly father! I do not deserve any of the blessings in my life I am nothing but a sinner saved by God's grace! Which is the most amazing thing to be thankful for!