What will you do?...

A commonly asked question these days is- What will you do with Charger when the baby comes? Yep, it's true, our dog thinks he's a person! And because he thinks he is a person, it's almost like we are having our second child not our first. It's all our fault, we admit it. It probably started the night we first got him when we thought it would be cute and funny to drive through Taco Bell in celebration (get it? he's a chihuahua). The drive through employee fell in love at the site of our little mascot and offered some meat for him. That was his first people food and it was all over from there.
The first night was much like Lady and the Tramp. We were back and forth from the laundry room all night long. Our friends assured us that would stop after a few nights but apparently we no will power because Charger sleeps with us.

When we take him places, (yes, we take him around town with us), he rides on our shoulders. We wouldn't want him to miss out on any of the scenery.

I vowed not to be the girl with the dog in the purse, but as you probably already know or can guess, I have the purse and he happily travels in it.
He goes with us on vacation, to the grocery store (sometimes), to the mall, to run errands, and he has even been in a few restaurants undetected thanks to the dog bag. I know, don't judge.
He has a great personality and is all in all a pretty easy pet despite how high maintenance I make him out to be, but you can understand why these habits might make it hard to introduce a baby into the picture.
So, for the last half of my pregnancy we are going to try our best to undo the horrible parenting we did with Charger for the first year and a half of his life. We will see how it goes.... wish us luck!

It's a Girl!

We went to the doctor yesterday and found out we are having a girl! She was very modest at first and wasn't going to let us take a peek. The nurse poked around for a while and continued taking pictures of every other body part she could see but was hesitant to tell us what she thought we were having till she got a good shot. After some persuasion the nurse fessed up that she thought we were looking at "little girl parts" and Marshall and I cheered, after which Baby Girl Beeson opened wide to let us confirm. I guess she figured if that's all we wanted she would cooperate. We can't blame her for wanting to be a little lady. We left with several pictures. Marshall even commented that it looked like we spent the afternoon in a photo booth with the roll of pictures we left with! We will post one as soon as we can find a scanner. In the meantime, everything else seemed good and healthy and I appear to be right on track for my estimated due date of June 10th. We are pretty sure we have her named already but we want to take the weekend to think about it before we make it official.

Another exciting first yesterday... Although I have been feeling those little tickles and bubbles in my belly for a few weeks now, I felt her kick with my hand for the first time late last night!

I'll be better... I PROMISE!

I've found that since I have started this blog I have not kept up with it the way I had originally planned. I thought I would be so anxious to post things that I would run out of things to post. In fact, some of you will remember that I stated in the very first post that I would back post the first year of our marriage as a form of an online journal.... that is yet to come.
I originally was avoiding updating my blog back in October, while still anxiously waiting for new posts from all of you, because I had no faith in our ability to keep the pregnancy thing a secret for any amount of time. I tried to repent for my month long absence by posting the whole months events at once, but then quickly went back to avoiding it.
When we finally told friends and family our news we were heading into the holiday season. So I dutifully posted the ultrasound pic and a brief explanation/apology and in my mind I told myself I would be better and that there would be plenty to blog about during the holidays.
Well, the holidays have come and gone, and we were pretty busy like all of you I'm sure. Every time I thought about posting a blog it seemed someone beat me to it. Don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone has the exclusive rights to blogging about a particular event... I more used it as an excuse for myself not to mimic everyone else's blogs, you know, I was procrastinating, justifying, avoiding. I actually thought several times of creating posts sending you to blogs I have linked to mine to let you know what we have been up to. If you have time in your life and ever get anxious for some news from us, it is sometimes helpful to visit our family members blogs. They post pictures and everything!
That leads me to another excuse ... pictures! It seems I have it somewhere in my pregnant mind that you can't create a post without a picture! I tried to tell Marshall a few weeks ago that we need a better camera. He informed me our camera is fine and actually not too old and that the problem is that we always rely on others to take pictures for us. It's so true. We really take family and friends for granted that way. We are never the ones with the camera.
So, now that you have heard them all.... NO MORE EXCUSES! I PROMISE I'll be BETTER! From now on were we go so does the camera! And some of you family and friends may get the smallest feeling we are mimicking your post because chances are that any shared event we will be the last to write about! In the mean time, some of you will be called upon for holiday pictures because although a lot were taken this season, none were taken by us!
If you braved it through this rambling....look forward to beautiful posts and pictures this year from the Beesons!