We have baby news!!!!! We are pregnant! yes, I know, I haven't blogged in a long, long, long while, but that's only because for one I have been very, very sick with my first trimester having morning sickness. It has been a long, long, long three months of having been sick and then a very long, long, long, extended summer of nothing but horrid heat. So, you can imagine I have not been in the mood to do much blogging, but, here I am, blogging in the somewhat heat, basically trying to beat the heat by not moving around if I can help it.
The summer is almost over and thank God for October! Just one more weekend of heat, hopefully. We have enjoyed most of our summer hitting the beach every single opportunity we could get, not that it helped much, we would just end up back home still sitting in the heat with the fans running but the majority of the day was solved by spending our time in the ocean water. We love being at the ocean as often as we can but then there are some days we could just skip it because it really is that hot outside. It may seem great to head out to the beach on hot day when the sun is glaring, but in all reality the white sand just gets even hotter and acts as a reflector causing the heat to hit your feet and your face from both the bottom and the top with the sun just beating down from above. If your looking to get the perfect tan these days would not be the most perfect days to head out for a long day stay at the beach.
Throughout the start of fall and the end of winter, Garret and I have made it our little habit to head to the beach even while it is getting cooler for long nights walks on the beach or date nights in Coronado. If we are lucky we might find a date night when the whole world is not at Hotel Del. When there are big events on the beach, that too can be an exciting night to see all the big wedding events on the beach or the fancy proposals on the beach. It can be an elegant date night on the beach admiring all the many people who have come to visit this Historical site in California. It is fun to watch and admire. I'm sure we will back in Coronado for several visits as Fall begins to settle in preparing it's self for winter, after all I am beginning to miss my chunk of Homemade Chocolate fudge block when we visit for date nights. It has been since last fall that we have had this kind of a date night. Our last date night there was fairly rushed because I was still in my first trimester and unable to really enjoy a full night out for date night.
Date nights became relaxing nights in. We would just have a cozy time here at the house with a good movie, something that would help me to laugh through the seasons of continually being sick. It was a joy just to have some us time with more frequently sleep time for myself. Sleep time has become my number one best friend. I have really enjoyed my sleep when I can get it. If I am not sleeping, I am up thinking about food, what my next meal will be and making sure to accomplish something productive. For the most part, I am trying to stay balanced between the heat and the amount of movement I can do in the heat without getting a nice little headache. We have been so busy running around and getting stuff done while also making to every doctors appointment with my midwife. We have had the chance to meet several very wonderful midwives but have yet to actually make a choice on who it will be that help me deliver this baby. Between the heat and long laundry list of things we have had to do and accomplish together we have been pretty beat. We are all looking forward to the joy of having the ocean breeze back, the way we are used to it being! Southern Cali is officially done with the heat. We cannot cope with the heat and have a ton of things to do. We need our joy and ocean breeze back.
Looks like by next week we can start to wave good-bye to this heat, at least, I am hoping. Did I tell you, we have a name for our baby! yup, and it's a BOY!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited! I will be having me a little man! He will be mommy's little protector! We are really looking forward to meeting him! Garret is really excited to have a little guy joining the team in the family of men! Today's little update is that we got to see Hunter Issac Roberts move inside my tummy!!! That was the coolest thing in the whole wide world! it almost made me want to cry because it just became that much more real to me. I just couldn't believe it, it was almost so surreal to me! I just could not believe being able to see my tummy move! it was so cool and so amazing and so special to me! I mean wow! it was a wow! moment for me. Every day Garret and I discover something new.
This last week we learned that Hunter will move if I sit in a rocking chair or if I move a lot or I say something, he responds to the sound of my voice. It really is the neatest thing in the world to have the chance to experience. I am really glad I get to experience this blessing of experiencing Baby Roberts. I can tell you that after feeling him move within me, I am beginning to have a strong feeling of great connection with him. We are becoming closer now every day that I feel him move. It is a very special gift to be given. I don't think I could ask for anything more. This is a comforting and satisfying feeling. Something you could only experience within yourself. When you feel this love moving inside you it's totally unlike anything else in the world you could ever think or image but it's all together beautiful and an amazing feeling.
I am really looking forward to falling head over heels in love with Hunter throughout the Fall as I continue to experience him within myself throughout the Fall and Winter days to come. Can I tell you, the first trimester for me was just not at all fun. Almost everything I loved went right out the window for a long while there. Before we knew I was pregnant though, I was eating greens like they were the most yummy treat in the whole wide world and eating fish because that was what I loved. As soon as we discovered that I was indeed pregnant oh man! nothing was appealing at all!
I am just now catching up! At last I am craving all the old usual things I liked before. Accept, the one major craving that I do have! is.....WATER!!! I love it like I cannot explain! I just love it so very much! I am always drinking water and am so glad because I have not always been a fan of it. God is good! He has helped me to stay on top of it and drink plenty of water. I did after all pray that God would just really help me to crave most what I needed to feed the baby. Everything here has been going great in the baby corner! Baby has had all his health check ups all his bones are where they need to be and are now fully formed! He moves and can hear mommy and daddy's voice through my tummy! He is for sure a very happy baby! because his parents are happy and excited to meet him when God brings him into the world to meet us.
We know Baby Hunter will only be with us for several long seasons of his life and into his young adult life and we know that he is ultimately going to follow in the steps of his Heavenly Father but we will love him until the day the Lord God says it is time for him to leave home and go wherever God should lead him. We are glad to give him a home full of love and forever our unchanging, unconditional love for him, no matter what we will love him for a life time and forever that will never change. Even though God is giving us a son we are giving God the joy and the blessing of bringing this child up to desire after God's heart with joy. We know that we are not the most perfect parents in the world to be and that we are fully flawed in everyway possible but we trust that God's love will out do anything we cannot give him in what he needs most. We hope to guide him back to the path of who really created his little life we were just blessed to love this little life to it's first breath. It's an exciting adventure we know that we have a life long adventure of making mistakes and totally messing things up but that's okay we will be learning that it's okay to say, "Sorry," every once in a while and admit that even we have short comings too. We don't want little Hunter growing up with a performance based relationship with us. We want him to know that parents need God too and that is why if Mommy and Daddy are wrong you can always tell us that we were wrong or talk to God and tell him we missed something that we might not have noticed because we're human we can't help but make mistakes along the way. Parenting is done perfectly it's done with God and with his grace constantly extended in the chance that when we do end up making the perfect mistakes and blunders God is there to catch us when we fall short of grace.
Parenting will be a life long adventure, a learning journey that will last us the rest of our lives but no matter what we are faced with we are looking forward to each surprise that crosses our path as we follow it along the way.
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