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OurSpringBaby
	Age: 33 Country: USA Province/region: Midwest City: Partner: Husband--Craig Children: Yes, 2 Pregnant: Not anymore Occupation: American Family Insurance and also a hairstylist on the side
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excited and hopeful - Saturday, 27 December
Thank you very much for your wish.. I hope your Christmas holidays are going well and in peace. Ours was very nice...we really enjoyed all the good food and all the nice time with all the familly. It was nice to have my mom here for the Christmas.. we haven't spent it together for past three years! Wow! How was little Garrett? Did he show some action to other members of your familly? Joe was very calm on 24th. and 25th., I started so worry that I was almost ready to call a doctor, but he got very busy on 26th, so I didn't call. He was actually extremely busy then, so I was very happy.
We are leaving for San Antonio tomorrow and will be there to the end of this year, so I just want to wish you a beautiful and happy New Year. We don't have so much more to go before we will get to see our little angels... looking forward to talk to you after the New Year!!!

excited and hopeful - Tuesday, 23 December
Hi girls!! I just wanted to wish all of you a wonderful and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! Enjoy all the good food - we can now...

excited and hopeful - Tuesday, 23 December
I am right there with you about the stress from the shopping and all the things around ... I got so stressed from all the things that I cryied for no reason on Sunday... Greg was so worry about me and didn't know what's wrong... I felt so sad!!!
I was so happy to tell my mom today that everything is finally done and finished... no more shopping and no malls!!!! We try to relax on Christmas Eve and Day to remind us what the holidays are all about, but we, too are guilty the days before!!!

That is so nice you'll be with Craig's family and his relitives throughout the holidays!!! Enjoy, girl and no stress! But I know you'll be worried about your four legs friends... I think they will be fine... like you said they have each other!!

Little Joe had another guite day, although I am calmer now because he hit very hard several times when I went to bed last night, so I think he is all right - just resting.. :) I am glad your appointment went well and that little Garrett is well. I am so anxious to hear how much he grows when you have your U/S next time... I wonder if they will tell me that on the 3D U/S... I would love to know!! I think they had to grow guite well when their HB is already in 140's which means it's getting slower, and which means they are getting much bigger.
Have you read the page from 24? I love that... our babies are practicly finished human beings... they are just very little now and have to grow! I can not beleive we are really so far... I am so anxious to meat our little angel soon.
I will be praying for you that your placenta has moved from the cervix...!!! I really beleive it will... I wish you to have your nature birth. I heard that partly covered is usually fine and it moves in most cases!

Girl, I wish you a wonderful Christmas and all the holiday season and enjoy the time off, relax and have all your dreams come true!!! In the Czech we say "Christmas is holiday of love and peace"... so enjoy!!!

Talk to you soon!!!!

excited and hopeful - Monday, 22 December
Hi girl! I haven't got into a comp for a several days!!! We were so busy getting all the Christmas stuff all together... all the cookies, cleaning and buying the last minute gifts and all!!! Luckaly we are done and all should be fine... from now on we can start relaxing... I like to have everything prepare before the Christmas Eve and Day, so we can relax then. We will have 11 people over - all Greg's family... I am looking forward seeing them, it will be just a little bit big, so I am glad my mom is here, so she will help.

How was your doc appointment on Friday? How was little Garrett's HB? I bet you were so happy to hear that! I am always so happy to hear Joe's.
It's hard to beleive that the Christmas are here!!! I just can not beleive it!!! This year went by so fast.... with all the things that happened...

Have you done all the Christmas shopping? I will do just wrapping today... which is fun, I like it.
How do you feel? I felt a little sick today.. I still don't feel great.. I actually slept most of today... I woke up with upsat stomach and headache and feeling extremely tired.. I was so scared that I am getting sick or something... You know all those worries.. :), but it seems getting a little better now... I am still very weak and tired and my stomach is not perfect yet, but I guess, it's just part of the pregnancy and no illness... I hope... Of course little Joe is not cooperating today either and he is so guite and doesn't move much all today, so it gets me even more worries.. you know what I am talking about... :)

I hope you feel good... will you be home for Christmas Eve and day or do you plan to be with at your family place?

WendySue - Monday, 22 December
Okay new pictures are now up. I had some technical difficulties with my camera cooperating.

excited and hopeful - Thursday, 18 December
What a great idea to write a letter as your Madeline!!!! I love that! We might do that with Bob next year... I really love that! I wasn't even thinking about it.

excited and hopeful - Wednesday, 17 December
CONGRATULATIONS to you both!!!!! I knew you would do great, but it's always a big relief!!!!
Now you can relax... at least for a while..

We are done with Bob's bath!!!! Wow.. He was actually a good boy. I was proud of him... Since I am pregnant I don't want to do the main part, so I just assist... so my mom did it and I was proud of him..... he was a good boy.. a little scared and wild, but not as much as he is with Greg.... so he finally smells good!!!!

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Have you seen the pictures on our week 23!!! I am amazed how our boys are beautiful!!! I still have hard to accept the mirracle that happened to us....

. Can you beleive that our boys are already looking as a newborn baby??? WOW... what to say.. they just need to get bigger, otherwise they are already very human looking... I can not wait to meet our little guy... I am so in love with him..

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That is funny, Greg is also talking to our little Joe.. I also encourage him... I too, read that they can hear him and recognize his daddy... Greg is so funny, though, he is making a very deep voice when he talks to him... he thinks that he has to do it so Joe hears him.. I keep telling him to use normal voice that Joe can hear him, but he still does it.. I think it's just something he does authomaticly... it's funny though... :)

So, girl, I'll let you celebrate! I am proud of you and enjoy the nice feeling!

excited and hopeful - Wednesday, 17 December
HERE IS THE CHRISTMAS LETTER OF OURS! I AM PRETTY PROUD OF IT...

2008 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM GREG AND SARKA

Hello Everybody,

This year was certainly memorable for us: full of surprises, changes, grief, and happiness.

In March, I (Sarka) learned that the Dallas office of Maersk, my employer, would be closing. I got an offer to move to Houston to continue working for them, but we did not consider it. I had been thinking about leaving my job anyway, so the office closing worked out well. We had purchased air tickets to Prague for a long vacation beginning in late April, so I finished my work with Maersk at that time.

Shortly before our trip to Prague we felt very fortunate when Greg received a great job offer from a group of insurance companies in Dallas called The Republic Group. This was the type of job he had been seeking for a long time, so we were very excited. Greg�s job offer came at a good time, since I had just finished my job due to the office closing. Greg started working for The Republic Group in June, soon after our return from Prague. He manages the coverage litigation against the insurance companies.

Our happiness was replaced with worries shortly before our trip to Prague when we learned that my dad was feeling sick and had lost much weight. Just a few days after we arrived in Prague we learned that the pain in my dad�s abdomen was a cancerous tumor and that it had already spread to almost all of his internal organs. The doctors said they were unable to treat him and sent him home. We lost my dad a week after our arrival, which was terribly sad and shocking to all of us. He had been such a strong and healthy man all his life. He was only 62 when he passed away. Our vacation had changed from a happy time to a time of deep grief. Nevertheless, I am very thankful for being able to be with my dad during his final days and moments. He passed away peacefully with his family at home.

After my father�s death, we quickly decided to bring my mom to live with us here in Texas, since she was practically all alone in the Czech Republic. To be able to bring her here legally I needed to become a U.S. citizen. Thus, our first step after arriving back to Dallas was to apply for my citizenship. In October I passed the exam and in November I was sworn in as a U.S. citizen at a ceremony with 600 other new citizens. We were very pleased that it took less time than we expected. We immediately applied for my mom�s permanent residence in America. Now we hope for a fast decision about her.

Life is full of surprises. After the pain and grief of losing my dad, we learned in July that our long time prayers had been heard and we are expecting our first child. And even more amazing is that we will have a boy who is due in April on my dad�s Birthday. I like to think that my dad is an angel now who has sent us this precious little gift and that he is watching over us. Our boy will be called Josef, after my father.

Our baby brought a new light to all of us, especially my mom who is very excited to start her new life with us in Texas. She will visit us during this Christmas season for 7 weeks and will then return back to the Czech Republic to finish all her business and get ready to move here when her permanent residence is approved. We hope she can be here by the end of March 2009, before our little Joe is born.

Obviously, 2008 was a year full of changes for us��good as well as bad��but that is what life is all about.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and God bless you all in 2009!

excited and hopeful - Wednesday, 17 December
I am thinking about you today and wishing you a very good luck... you'll do great!!!
Let me know how things were going.

Glad you took a day off to have more time to study... you'll feel better about it. And especially when the roads are more dangerous since you got your fist snow!

When is your doc appointment? Friday?? Joe is quite today, too.. I knew it since he was so busy yesterday... he, too wears himself out..

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That is cute that we already know our babies patterns..

. He still doesn't let his daddy to feel him a lot.. Greg felt him a couple times, but not as much as he could.. Joe is still teasing us and stops most of the time when Greg puts his hand on the belly... he is a joker..!!!!

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We are going to wash our Bob today.. it's always too difficult.. he loves to swim in the pool, but he hates to be washed in the tubs... it always wears us out! But we need to.. Christmas is almost here and we cleaned all the floors and he is loosing his black hairs and of course they are everywhere... and since we are getting Greg's family visit very soon, I want to have the house nice and clean..

We will have 8 adults and 3 kids and one boy in my belly over during the holidays!!!! WOW!!!! It will be a huge party.

Yesterday I finaly sent all the Christmas letters out, so I am glad it's behind us.. that was a big job.. we were sending over 30 letters!!! I still have to go Christmas shopping (and of course Greg doesn't want to do it, so he delegated me..

)... I want to do it tomorrow or Friday latest... at least I know what to buy, so should be easier...

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So, girl, let me know how it went today and hope your rest of the day is great! Did you take off?

excited and hopeful - Tuesday, 16 December
Happy Tuesday! We have cold here... the night temperature was 19 which is very unusual... and now it's around freezing ... it's not fun especially because drivers here are not use to it and I get very scared about Greg when he drives to work.. yesterday he didn't get home from work until 9:30 pm!!!! Can you beleive it! His trip last about 2 and half hours... usually it's about half hour... many roads were closed and the rest were blocked by the traffic jam... I was so scared about him!!! Today morning he already left and now I am waiting for him to call me back if he got to work safely!

I also forgot to mention yesterday, that my doc told me that there will be still many times when we don't feel our babies, he said that we will start feeling them regulary in about a month a so, until then " not stress " he told me.. :) I just wanted to make you calm about your Garrett if you don't feel him sometimes... I have the same... although yesterday night when I went to bed, Joe was so busy!!! Gosh he kicked so hard that it was almost painfull.... LOL I was so happy for it and started laughing!!! I was such a proud momma and told him that he should enjoy the kicking now when he can... later when he is around 2 or 3 years old he will be punished for it...

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How are you doing? How is your studying going? I will be thinking about you tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed, but I know you'll be just fine!

I am proud of you girls about the excercise!!! I'll have to get better about it.. I am still lazy a lot and I know that it's not good for our JOe... I need some movements too, I better start walking regulary on our traidmill since I got it, right..

excited and hopeful - Sunday, 14 December
Hi girl! How was your weekend! I haven't even got here in Friday! I was so busy with all the preparation for the Christmas party and so. I am posting the pictures.. take a look... it was really fun!

I can not beleive we are in 23 week! Have you heard that they are saying that doctors have pretty good chance to save a baby if born in week 26? I feel so much safer with each week we pass!
I think I babies are feeling that something is touching the belly. I really do, because it doesn't seem like an accidant anymore... Greg and my mom get to feel him so little compare how much he's kicking only because he always stops when they put their hands on my belly. That little teaser!!!

I have a doctor appointment tomorrow. I am glad because I have this pain on my left side, right under my breast toward the center. It really hurts and especially when I try to sleep.. I don't know what it is.. I am kind of nervous, but maybe our little Joe just grew up and pushing on something... anyway.. it's good that I am going. Have you experience something like that?

I am very happy because today I finished our Christmas letter, it's all done and ready to be coppied and then sent... It has all our pictures and so.. and I also finished all our Christmas cards and my mom helped with labeling the envelopes, so everything is ready to go... I feel so reliefe!!! It was kind of night mare for me now, because we have to send it so soon... I can not beleive that it's Christmas so quickly!!!! Can you beleive!!!

Anyway I hope you had a great weekend! Ours was nice, but busy with all the Christmas preparation... which is nice, though. Talk to you later!

excited and hopeful - Thursday, 11 December
Oh, you have a new profile picture... !!! How sweet! I love that one with your doggies... they are so cute!

We, too still have do a lot of Christmas shopping, but luckaly we are kind of decided what to buy them. I have Greg's gifts already done and half of my mom's and Greg's dad and we know what to buy for his sisters with their husband, so actually we will have only hard time to buy for their kids, which we still don't know what to give them.. boys around 8 years who have everything are so dificult! They really have everything! But Greg will buy them some game or sport stuff, so I hope that we will be fine with them as well.
That is very nice that Craig will be home with your during the holidays! You'll have much more fun shopping.. I don't like shopping alone when I have no idea what to buy either... two brains have more ideas as we say in the Czech Republic..

Our Christmas cookies turned out very well.. you know when mom is involve it always turn out good.. not like last year when I have made them alone and they were so hard...

! I still don't know what I've done wrongly...

Yesterday I had a evening with my former colleagues..!!! It was so good to see them again. I took my mom with me. And guess what! They are going to through me a baby shower! How nice. I will have them all over and we will do it here in our house, so I don't have to carry all the stuff anywhere! My mom loved them... it was really a precious evening.
The only thing that bothered me was that we were sitting at a table close to the bar and many people were smoking at the bar and it was still a good distance, but still I smelled it and felt that I breath it.. I hope I haven't done any harm to our little Josifek... I felt guilty to sit there with the smoking people (even in distance), but I didn't want to leave my friends either.... and we couldn't sit anywhere else because we were a big group of girls and there was only this one big table... oh well, I hope he is ok... what do you think? Joe was very quite there, I wished he would start kicking so they could feel him, but he didn't, but then we came back home and I sat in the chair and he started! I guess what I saw him !! I really saw my belly to move! It was amazing... I called Greg and my mom and of course nothing! And they were disapointed and left and once they left he started again!... He is a joker!...

... So I was sad that they haven't got to see it, but I was happy that I did.

We are going to be busy this couple of days.. today Greg and I are going to a basketball game - Dallas Mawricks and tomorrow Greg's company is having a Christmas party. It will be fun, although I tell you that to choose an evening dress is a horor to me now!.. LOL My belly grew since last week... I am much bigger now... I think it grew just within the time my mom is here.. even she noticed that it's bigger now... luckaly the party theme is 1920 year, so the dress is kind of free and streigh around the belly, but still, I feel like a big apple! Like a big melon!! I will post some pictures later when I am dressed. The big boobs and the belly and really like an apple with legs and arms..

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I hope you are doing well and give Garrett a belly rub for me!