Author Archives: Jessica

I’m almost 17 weeks along today and I’m now feeling great.  I just got back from an OB appointment and got to hear my little girl’s heartbeat.  I’m ready for her to start kicking anytime now.  I don’t care if she jabs my ribs to the point where it hurts or wakes me up at night.  …

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“If you want a baby, all you have to do is pray to God.”

“For Asher’s birthday, can we get me, Jude and Asher fishing poles?”

To me: “Is it okay to call the baby a baby?” Me: “Yes.” Chorus of 3 boys patting my tummy: “Baby, you are a baby; you are a baby; you are a baby… .”

“Mommy, Levi’s being a teenager!”  (Teenagers have a bad reputation in the minds of our boys since they witnessed a pack of piggy teenage girls take all the candy except for one piece of Laffy Taffy in a bucket left outside of a home on the honor system last Halloween.)

“So, when I have kids, you’ll be considered a grandma?”  I then asked him how many kids he was going to have and he said, “I think 19.”

Today Jude and I got an early start to our day.  We needed to be at Children’s in Minnetonka at 7 a.m. for Jude’s MRI.  This was the first time we had gone 6 months between scans.  The appointment snuck up on me and I barely had the chance to worry about it.  After I …

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Asher: “Mommy, do you like something that you like?  Yes you do so why don’t you marry it?” Me:  “I’m married to Daddy so I can’t marry anything else.” Asher: “You could change out Daddy and then some other girl could marry him.” (We then discussed me marrying ice cream, which is definitely something I …

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“So those bumpy things on you have all the milk that the baby needs?”

“Mom, whose going to be in the middle when the baby comes out?”  (It will be interesting to have 2 middle children!)