3D Ultrasound!

We got to see Baby Hudson on a 3D ultrasound this past Wednesday. Big brother didn't cooperate on his, so we had to do two. Looks like Hudson is a little more cooperative. :) Gammy was able to make it and join us for the show. The consensus is that he looks like Harrison did. He already has some chunky cheeks!! We all can't wait to see him in person!!

Usually, Harrison wants to sit with Daddy during visits. This day, however, he had to sit on the table with me.  :)

Look at those lips!!

Cheeks, cheeks, cheeks!!!

My Aunt Laura said that he is thinking of how he is going to aggravate Harrison when he gets here. :)

We go back on March 6 for our monthly visit and glucose test. I can't believe I will be 28 weeks this week! Time is flying by. That being said, Mama needs to get on the ball with getting the room and everything ready!!

Visit from our Linam girls!!

 A couple weeks ago, we were having a chat on FaceTime with Katie and Taryn, (H and T love talking to each other.) Katie asked, "Harrison, do you want to play with Taryn?" I was confused, but that's not saying much. H kinda looked at her, and she said, "well, you can next Wednesday!" I think I almost stepped on my lip! I was so excited!!! They drove in last Wednesday. Caleb had to work, so it was just a girls' trip. I know Jeff really did miss Caleb (and the Nerf gun war.) Wednesday night, Jeff grilled steaks for all three of us after the kids went to bed. Thursday, after morning naps and a trip to the grocery store, we stopped by the office to get Harrison's Valentine's Day gift from Gammy and Pawpaw, then it was off to the mall. Where else? We shopped until we dropped. Well, this girl dropped before anybody else due to the extra weight I'm carrying around these days. :) We got home pretty late that night, so it was dinner and off to bed for the kids. P.S. Harrison was exhausted every night! We never heard a peep out of him when we laid him down! Friday, we took the kids to the park and took some photos. I didn't really think the whole park thing out when I was planning some quick photos. The kids were way more interested in the playground and the ducks. Duh, Mom! They were too cute though! Taryn loved the slide, and Harrison loved the swing! After the park, Katie wanted to stop by the dealership to test drive a car or two. She had been talking about getting a new car, but nothing really set in stone yet. We dropped her off with David, and the kids and I took off to Jeff's office. Papa helped a girl out and took Harrison to "drive" one of the cars on the floor. That's his favorite thing to do at the dealership. Needless to say, he is like his parents. Katie got back and was talking about getting a new vehicle. We tabled it for a few minutes and went home to get some food in the kids (and the pregnant lady!) Finally, she decided to get a car. We always appreciate family and friends supporting us with a purchase from Wiesner!! That girl was beyond excited!!! I was so happy for her....she got her remote and cruise control. :) While she was doing that, I had both kids. Let's just say that God knew what he was doing when he didn't give me twins. They were so good; it's just a ton of work to get two toddlers ready for bed! They had to leave on Saturday so that Katie could get ready for a class in Montgomery the first part of this week. Harrison cried when they left, and I have to admit, that I did as well. We watched Mickey Mouse with tears in our eyes. We had so much fun with those two, and we miss them SO much already.

Taryn loving on Sam. She would just walk up to him and kiss him on the nose.

Happy Valentine's Day!!! My gift from Jeff. The kids, Katie and I all enjoyed it!

Doing a little shopping.

Kinda how posed pictures went....

KK and H!

Bath time!!!

LOVE!!!!!

LOVE these girls!!!

AWE!!!

Picture Update!!

I just wanted to share some photos taken the past few weeks! Our boy is such a ham!!!

H loves everything his Daddy does, hence, the wrestling.

Clockwise: H wearing Daddy's hat. Sitting in Big Easy while Daddy wasn't home. Trying on some new duds while shopping. And trying out his business attire. 

We have been going to the park when it's nice outside. This kid LOVES it!!!! I have to drag him away when we are ready to go!! 

25 Weeks

Holy cow! 25 weeks down! I CAN'T believe it!! We had our monthly checkup this past Wednesday, and everything looked great. Our little boy's heart rate was 155. He has had a heart rate almost exactly like his big brother's. This past week, the Luker household has been very sick. We have all had a nasty cold. I called the nurse the other day because it had gotten really bad. She said it sounded like an upper respiratory infection so she called me in some antibiotics to help. We got that taken care of. Thank goodness. (Harrison was on antibiotics as well. His manifested into an ear infection.) Dr. G said that everything looked good on that front. In two weeks, we will have the 3D ultrasound. Hopefully, baby boy will cooperate on the first try, unlike his big brother. Then, our March visit will be my glucose test. Yuck! I have been so sick with this one, it makes me very nervous having to drink that stuff. :)

25 Weeks

Size of Baby: the size of an acorn squash (feels a lot bigger)

Total Weight Gain: 6 total lbs

Maternity Clothes: yes!

Gender: BOY!!!!

Movement: tons of movement! Especially when I lay down to go to sleep

Sleep: eh...I've slept better

What I miss: hot bubble baths

Cravings: french fries

Symptoms: the morning...all day sickness has been back this week

Best Moment of the Week: buying an outfit that actually says, "Baby Brother." I still can't believe it!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

I know, I know. I'm terrible at keeping up with the blog.

Jeff's 29th (gasp!) birthday was last Sunday. His birthday usually falls around the Super Bowl, but this year it was ON the Super Bowl. We decided to go out for lunch after church with the family. Jeff picked Saltgrass, a local steakhouse. Then, Jeff wanted to have people over to watch the game later that night.  Jeff's grandparents came in town for the weekend, so they were able to join us for the birthday festivities.

Harrison and I got up that morning and made the birthday boy some homemade waffles for his breakfast. After breakfast, we gave him his gift from us.

An autographed football by Joe Namath. Jeff is very hard to buy for, so coming up with something to get him racks my brain. Luckily, Bama memorabilia tends to do the trick. :)

Grayson and Uncle Jeff

H and Gammy

Teeny and Baby Grayson

The whole table-minus me, Teeny, Devin and Gabby

H and Reese helping Jeff blow out his candles.

H and Daddy ready for the game!!!

I am so thankful that this man is in my life. He is the most wonderful husband and dad to Harrison. My boys and I are the luckiest people. I have no idea what we would do without him. He is my best friend, and I grow to love him more and more each day. Happy Birthday Honey!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!

It's a....

BOY!!!!! (Yes, all of you know this already.) I'm a little late on my posts. And oddly enough, I told myself when the new year started that I would do a lot better with updating the blog. That's why I don't do New Year's resolutions people!!
So...back to our sweet baby boy! We found out the week before Christmas. When we found out that Harrison was a boy, there was absolutely no question about it! This one, didn't give up the shot as well as his big brother. Going in, Jeff and I totally thought it was a girl, with about 95% of everyone else! The ultrasound tech wasn't our usual tech, so I was a little nervous.  She fiddled around for a minute, and then typed out on the screen, "IT'S A BOY!"  You could have knocked us over with a feather. We had not talked about boy anything!! This little fella is already playing jokes on us. Yikes! We didn't see Dr. G that day since the appointment was in between my usual appointments. We went back this past Wednesday. Everything was confirmed! He is definitely all BOY!! She did the anatomy scan and everything looked great. He is still measuring a little big, which makes me a little glad that I will have another C-section. :) His little heart rate was 148, which is about the same as every other visit.

20 Weeks!!

Look at that sweet profile!!

20 - 21 Weeks

Size of Baby: the size of a banana

Total Weight Gain: one pound from pre-pregnancy weight

Maternity Clothes: I can still wear regular shirts, but I have pretty much switched to maternity pants

Gender: BOY!!!!

Movement: oh yeah!!! This kid is very active already!

Sleep: eh...I wake up about 1:30 every morning like clock work.

What I miss: to be honest, I'm tired of not being able to take regular medicine. I had a cold with a terrible headache, and I would have loved a BC powder!

Cravings: water. I know right?!

Symptoms: just headaches...and uncontrollable crying

Best Moment of the Week: I asked Harrison, "where is baby brother?" And he walked over to the fridge where the ultrasound pictures are and pointed. I picked him up and he leaned over and gave him a kiss. :) 

Jeff and I are so excited to have another little boy running around this house. I'm going to be outnumbered, but I'm going to love it!! Jeff did say that we could talk about getting a girl dog, whenever we get another one. Don't worry, that won't be anytime soon!! 

Also, we hope that everyone had a wonderful New Year! We were pretty low key...again. :) Oh, and ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!! 

Merry Christmas 2012!!

WARNING: This post is LONG with a LOT of photos!!

Whew! This Christmas has been a super busy one! We haven't been to Alabama for Christmas since before we were married, so this year we were finally able to go! I was so excited for Jeff and Harrison to experience Christmas with my family and our traditions.  Since we were going to Alabama, we decided to have Santa come to our house a little early, (we wouldn't have been able to get everything in the car to take to Mom's.) The Wednesday before we left, Santa showed up at the Luker house! It was so much fun watching Harrison. He wasn't too concerned about opening the gifts as much as playing with the ones that were out, but that's how I figured it would go. :)

His loot!

This kid is OBSESSED with Toy Story 3, so Santa brought him a Woody doll.

Still a little sleepy.

Working!

Safety first!

We left that Saturday headed to Alabama. Harrison did really well on the trip. He got fussy about Baton Rouge, but it may have something to do with the fact that we were sitting in traffic for almost an HOUR!!! We finally made it around ten to Katie and Caleb's house. We stayed the night with them. It cut off about 45 minutes of our trip. The next morning, we headed to the "compound." Nanny and Paw-paw were having the whole family over for lunch that day. When I say the whole family, I mean all of Paw-paw's brothers and his sister and all of their families. There were a TON of people there! That night, Mom watched H, and Jeff and I went to Excel to see Drew and Matt and Drew's family. Matt, Whit (Drew's sister's boyfriend) and Jeff decided that they would play some basketball while we were there. They had no ball and no goal. So...they improvised. They went and bought a ball, and we loaded up and went to the Excel pool that had a goal. However, the  goal was outside with no lights. They went old school and used the car lights to play....for over two hours!!! It was so much fun! Drew and I had a blast just watching them. 

Monday, we met Katie, Caleb and Taryn at the nursing home to see Me-me. Our cousin, Amanda and her husband, Noah, were there, along with Uncle Mickey and Aunt Sue. Me-me did very well. She had some trouble remembering people at times, but for the most part she did great! She was such a trooper. I believe we all wore her out! After seeing her, I had a craving for the Mexican restaurant in Atmore (yes, I know I live in Texas, but there is something about that Atmore Mexican food.) We ate, then headed back over to Uncle Mickey's to hang out with them for a bit. 

Tuesday morning, we got up and went to eat breakfast at Nanny and Paw-paw's. It's a Christmas tradition. After we ate, everybody opened gifts. All the grandkids were there, except Jake. :( He has been deployed to Afghanistan for the second time. We sure did miss him! THEN, we went back to Mom's to open gifts there! We had to wait on Katie and them. We didn't want Taryn to miss her big gift from Gigi and Pappy. The kids had so much fun!!! By this point, we were all exhausted!! 

We had such a busy and short trip, but I am so glad we go to make it!!! I know holidays from now on are just going to get more and more hectic for everyone, so I LOVED being able to make this trip and see all of my family! 

This was the Friday night before we left. A guy in our neighborhood puts up a ton of lights, and puts them to music. The show is about 45 minutes long, and he runs it from 6 to 10 every night around Christmas. Harrison LOVED it...he would say, "oh, wow!" :)

My handsome guys!

:)

My Nanny and Paw-paw with Uncle Doug, Mom, Uncle Jeff and Aunt Laura.

With the great-grandkids. Everyone was clapping to get them to look, and H thought it was all for him and it was so funny!! It's Taryn, Lainee, Brenden, Harrison and Cooper.

Us with Mom and Paul. Jesie, Paul, Mom. Caleb, Katie, Taryn, Me, H and Jeff.

Grandkids. Paw-paw, Nanny and Mallory. Me, Katie, Jesie, Melissa, Cody Jena and K.C.

With Spouses. :)

Playing with his tools from his tool bench.

Taryn was cooking H something in her new kitchen. He was testing it our.

They played together so well!!

LOVE!!!

My beautiful sisters!!

The kids!

Us with Mom.

Caleb got a Nerf gun, and we spent the rest of the time dodging bullets. :)

We headed back Wednesday. However, while we were there, Harrison picked up some kind of stomach bug. No idea where it came from. Nobody that we were around had anything, and nobody has gotten sick since. So....needless to say, the ride back didn't go as smoothly as the ride there, but we made it. Harrison was a trooper. 

Since we weren't here for Christmas with Jeff's family, we did all of that this past Sunday. We went to his Dad and Amy's for lunch. Steak, yum!! Then, we headed over to Jeff's mom's house for dinner. We did gifts at both places. We were STUFFED by the end of the day!!! I didn't realize that my battery had ran dead on my camera, so there aren't any pictures. :( I know, terrible mom! Maybe I can borrow some of Aunt Teeny's if she took some. Well, I do have one.

This is the chair from Gammy and Paw-paw Mike.  He loves Reese's chair like this. :)

H has still been sick. The nurse said it may take up to ten days!!! Today is day 8, so hopefully, it will be gone in the next day or two. 

This was from today...he doesn't feel too bad, but still has the symptoms. He LOVES that chair...He LOVES all of his toys that he got. 

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. We are truly blessed with amazing family and friends. Harrison made out like a bandit from EVERYBODY!!! I couldn't possible list everything that he got! Our living room has looked like a Toys-R-Us the past couple of days! Thank you to all of our family and friends for making it such a wonderful holiday for the Luker family!! Hope you all had an awesome Christmas!!!