scary night

Hello all! Sorry I've been neglectful on keeping updated, but the baby isn't cooperating a whole lot and the 3 year old baby is making it difficult too! For starters, Rayna did very well in her swimming lessons and even blew bubbles for the first time on the last day. I have still been battling the good old all day sickness and just generally feeling like a slug. I can't wait for it to pass, and my belly is getting bigger too. This week was pretty quiet until last night we had a scare. Rayna and I were trying to fall asleep (in my bed..I are developing a bad habit of letting her sleep with me) and all of a sudden we heard some loud thumps. Rayna and I both sat straight up in bed and kept hearing something in my parents room being beat or "clapping" as Rayna said. I finally called out for my mom, too scared to get out of bed, and she came in and shut the door quickly. My mom was sound asleep and my dad was up watching TV and said he saw something flying overhead. He finally realized it wasn't shadows and was a bat. They have lived in this house for 15 years and never had bat problems! ICK! He began trying to stun the bat with a towel to at least get it outside. That was the "clapping" sound that Rayna heard. After a few minutes he got it outside but it wasn't dead and he had to take a shovel to it. Now imagine trying to go to sleep after that. Rayna requested that our door be closed when grandma finally left. Then this morning, Rayna woke up vomiting and generally sick with a fever. My mom talked to a few people at work and they said that animal control should be called to have the bat tested for rabies. The animal control people came out and said that we should take Rayna in and look for bite marks! ICKY beyond ICKY! So, we took her in and the doctor said she had the good old fashioned virus junk going around and tonight as I'm typing this, she is singing to her music and following grandpa around like a puppy dog. We haven't heard if the bat has rabies yet, but they are testing it and I'll update you on the results. Crazy night! Needless to say, we're all going to bed early tonight. Well, enough of the long blog, but wanted to update everyone. Love you all!

rayna's new baby

My mom just bought my little girl a new baby last night. She hasn't had it out of her arms since...which is strange because she has never played with babies or dolls before. She holds it and feeds it (she shoved goldfish and teddy grahams into the doll's mouth last night for a snack). She has been very motherly lately, and just said to me, "Mommy Kinsey...you are not to play with the computer." I guess she hears "Rayna Kinsey" quite often when she's doing something wrong. It's very strange to hear yourself, your tone, and your words quoted in a 3 year old all day long. We love you JON & DADDY! We were just looking at your picture on a past blog and Rayna said, "I love my daddy so much." We miss you terribly. Until next time.

Wyoming

Rayna and I are in Wyoming for a few weeks getting spoiled by grandma and grandpa while Jon is at camps. My parents computer is weird and won't let me blog there, so I'll occasionally slip up to my mom's work to update any changes. Rayna and I start swimming lessons today in a "mom and tot" class. Rayna is having fun playing with my mom's old bead necklaces and new toys...and a fenced in backyard (yippee!). I am busy working on garage sale stuff for my parents, finishing Rayna's baby book, and starting to study for my comprehensive 4 hour final exam in November for my counseling license. We will be here until the first week in August. Updates later...with pictures of Rayna at her swimming lessons.

baby heartbeat

Hello everyone! Jon and I heard our new baby's heartbeat today after 10 minutes or so of searching....it made me panic a little. The nurse thinks its a boy just because it was being difficult! It feels more real now hearing the heartbeat which the doctor said sounded really strong. I'll have an ultrasound in a month and will for sure post the pictures. I leave on Thursday for Wyoming and am really glad because it's supposed to be in the high 90's and even 100+ degrees here by weekend. Poor Sonshine Festival people...glad I'm skipping this year. Love you all and will post when we get to Wyoming. Oh...another cute thing Rayna did today is...I asked her to pray for me because I was feeling pregnancy icky and she prayed for mommy not to be sick, and then she said...hey mommy, I gave you peas...(which means peace). It was adorable.

lots of activity

Well...lots have been happening here. Rayna had her 3rd birthday party with all of her little friends. It was a lot of fun hearing how excited all of her friends get when they see each other. As more and more people came...our little house seemed really tiny. Rayna had been practiciing singing happy birthday and blowing out the candles for weeks before her party. When everyone sang to her, her face couldn't have been smiling more...she was so excited. She got upset when we cut her Elmo cake though! It wasn't that she didn't want to share, the moment had just gone too quickly and she didn't want her pretty cake cut. My parents were able to be here for that week which was also a lot of fun. Jon and I also celebrated our 7th anniversary and we took my parents to the cities and went shopping at IKEA and then to Cheesecake Factory. We found Rayna her big girl bed and will get it when we get all of the epicenter furniture. THEN...Jon and I went to Tulsa, OK with 15 other youth leaders and students to see the Oneighty building (a large youth ministry with a facility) at Church on the Move. It was really good for our leaders and students to see a youth facility in action. THEN....over the 4th of July, a family in our church gave us the use of their lake cabin as a little getaway for the holiday. This cabin was wonderful and we spent the time with the Cherry's and Jessica...and then other friends came out on different days to visit. We were there for 3 days and just relaxed and swam. Rayna loved the "ocean" and loved to go up & down the spiral staircase that was in the cabin. She also loved her "pretty room" which was filled with flower decorations. She did get scared of the fireworks, which she called "funder." Anything that is loud noises are called "funder (thunder)....or the ice cream truck" which is actually the garbage truck that wakes us up once a week. I am leaving for Wyoming on Thursday for 3 weeks while Jon is at camps and doing a lot of work on the epicenter. I am not working much anymore and my last day is the beginning of August before we go on vacation to New Jersey. It was a hard decision but I couldn't juggle the very part time job on top of everything else going on this fall. The baby is still giving me lovely morning sickness and an extreme fatigue that I don't remember with my pregnancy with Rayna as much. I feel like I could sleep all the time...it makes it hard to get a whole lot done around here. We pray all is well with you and I will be blogging on Wyoming too.