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May 30, 2013

{2 of probably 3 photos i have taken of her this spring. go ahead..yell at me)

i cannot believe i am fifteen weeks and in the second trimester of this pregnancy! i have a little belly to prove it and it is my current favorite thing in the world. i keep my hand on my tummy pretty much all day. it looks like a beer gut the first half of the day but grows to a legit belly by the end of every day:)

i had a pretty easy first trimester. my stomach was off for the first 8 weeks. but i never threw up so i am thinking i was lucky. i was repulsed by anything green. i ate more cheese and egg biscuits and bagels then i have combined in my life! biscuitville basically became my kitchen for a few weeks. around ten weeks i finally started wanting greens again. very happy about that b/c i felt like a bad momma feeding the baby biscuits instead of healthy stuff:) i would say my main problem during the first trimester was worry. i was up at crazy hours worrying. but every since the 12 week ultrasound (i will not even tell you how many ultrasounds i had b/c of my worrying!) i have been a happy, pregnant lady. fully believing and not worrying about every twinge (there are a lot of twinges!)

we found out that the little apple (its size this week!) is a GIRL! we found out early b/c of new dna testing they offer. lee and i went on a 3 day getaway to florida and we found that friday. the timing was perfect. we had just gotten in the rental car and were heading to a late lunch. i put the phone on speaker when she told us. we immediately celebrated with lunch. i called my mom and when i got back to the table lee had ordered celebratory drinks. my drink was an odoull’s:) we called to tell lulu and she screamed and jumped up and down. it was a pretty spectacular day.

is this boring? hum..probably so. just making sure to write it all down before i forget. i mean really life just happens so fast. and here i sit..days away from JUNE. life has been hectic. traveling a ton for out of town weddings and family sessions. i am gone 6 weekends in a row. some beach time in there too which i am really looking forward to.

my other baby-miss lu-is doing great. one more week and she will graduate from kindergarten. ok i just passed out. she has grown a ton this year. we just had her 6 year appt and she measured in the 3rd percentile for weight/height. tiny little lady. and she will be in 1st grade next year…whaaaa? i die over it. its a good thing ill have a new baby to keep me from melting. lu is veeery excited about this little sister of hers. i asked her last night what she thought the baby was doing in my tummy. she said, ‘um, probably playing with a toy’..hee. she is very interested in how the baby got in my tummy and all the other lovely questions that come along with it. im keeping it simple. she drew the ‘life cycle of a baby’ a few nights ago. it included the heart beating, the umbilical cord, etc. so funny. just little bits and pieces of things she is picking up along the way but doesn’t understand. i loves her.

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May 2, 2013

i have always been an early bird. lee says my eyes open like a robot in the morning. open and im up and going 100 miles an hour. but the first few weeks of this pregnancy were different. i was waking up even earlier (4am kind of early) but laying in bed for hours still as can be. i prayed like i never have before and kept my hand on my tummy. i asked to be able to handle whatever happened. i think after so many years of trying i felt like i shouldn’t even be asking for more then that. so i prayed for strength over and over. no matter what let me be strong.

the day that i found out i was pregnant-two blue lines. i cannot possibly explain what if feels like to see two lines after so many failed test. over nine years of negative test. then two blue lines. i went in for a blood test hours later. the nurse called back and said everything looked good. i asked her if she could just tell me what i wanted to hear. she laughed and said ‘you are pregnant mam!’

i was really nervous the first few weeks. i basically laid still in bed not moving. it did not feel real. i was borderline miserable i was so scared. and then we saw the heartbeat. a little white dot flashing. the next time we actually heard the heartbeat. that was when i lost it. tears. my mind racing over everything it took to get to this point..all leading up to this perfect sound. the tiny little baby in my tummy with a heart thumping. its a miracle. i am so grateful we never gave up.

i have the weeks leading up to baby all in my calender. and my summer is packed. shooting wedding, lots of travel, photographing families, camps for lu, beach, dunwoody. it will literally be november before i blink. and how perfect is the timing? from december until the flowers start to bloom again i will be hibernating with my family. the four of us. plus all of the animals (anyone want a fish or small dog? free to good home:) lloyd is not for sale-so dont ask!)

im excited to document the entire journey. just like i did for lulu. thanks for all of the sweet comments. it has been so much fun to share. and i know i shared WAY to early, but im 11 weeks now. one week until first trimester is DONE! seriously, im so happy.

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you are six.

April 21, 2013

( february in san diego – visiting your favorite animal, the giraffe! and a picture from your SD journal from our day at the zoo)

APRIL 17th, 2013

lu.

ok, so it happened. you turned six. i told you to stay five and you didn’t listen. i opened your pink door this morning and found that you had grown.

mommy: happy birthday lulu. you are six! lulu: (you thrust out your feet) did my feet grow?

i laughed b/c those were the first words out of your mouth last year.

i miss your chubby sumo wrestler thighs. i miss the days where you would sign for more or milk. and days when you slept in a crib and i fed you bottles. but i wouldn’t go back. because i love who you are today. and i could not enjoy you more. you are FUN. i tell you all the time that you are the best. and it is because you are…you are the best, my lu. i have loved every ounce of your life. every stage (ok, maybe i could have skipped over age 2!) but it amazes me how it just gets better.

you make something out of nothing. the recycling bin is your art store. you tell me..’mommy, some artist use one thing to make their art, but i use everything.’ its true. and you are very messy artist. it drives me crazy and i love it at the same time.

you have never swayed from your amazing social skills. it reminds me so much of my mom, your nana. i throw you in the middle of 100 strangers. within five minutes you have charmed them all. 100 new best friends. i love that about you. you love your friends. you love to talk. talk and play and create. snack. repeat. your teacher has said you are the chattiest child around (she smiles most of the time she tells me this…) they finally put you next to a child who did not speak great english. but your teacher said that did not stop you. you kept on chatting..the kid just staring at you. but he is a person, so he is a friend. and you have much to say to all of your friends.

you went to big school this year. kindergarten. i had heard that children grown up a lot that year. and its true. it was awful dropping you off the first day. i literally feel to my knees when i got home. but you were fine and happy and have been every day since. learning and growing every day. learning to read and other amazing things. its been a big year.

im pretty sure your dimples got deeper this year. they are my favorite. that and your tiny blue birthmark. when we were in vietnam i was so worried the mark was something scary. but it is just part of you and i love it so much. your daddy and i adore all of the little unique things that make you YOU.

what a crazy journey this has been creating our family. who would have thought it would have ended up so completely different then we thought? so much better than my wildest dreams. and now-finally-you will be a big sister. in november you will take on that title. you have asked me a hundred times about the heartbeat. what did it sound like? you are so protective of this little baby already. you caught me drinking a caffeine free diet coke. you took it from my hands and told me that was not healthy for the baby. i am pretty sure i would be living off of kale and carrots this pregnancy if it was up to you. you will be 6.5 when the baby arrives. a big girl. i can’t wait for my belly to get bigger so you can rest your hand on it and feel the baby. you are old enough that you will remember these things. you worry that the baby might be a boy. when you pray at night you thank god for your baby sister. i gently remind you to pray for a sister OR brother. and you say ‘fine. or for a stinky brother.’

life will change for us so much once the baby arrives. it has been me and you up until this point. one hand in yours the other free. the other hand will soon be holding another little hand. your brother or sister. we will not have the same amount of time together we have had for all these years. while my excitement for this new chapter is unreal…there is a little twinge of sadness that these five plus years of over. but we have enjoyed it, haven’t we? we have done it right and had fun. and i will forever remember all of the days we had just the two of us.

everyday on the way to school i ask you if you know how much i love you. your answer is always the same..’a hundred million, more then the stars, more than the earth, more than the moon’. and i always say yes you are right. but then i think-not really. i love you more than that.

lulu corey. you are my favorite person ever. happy sixth my baby girl. xxx000

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