First things first...

Meet our new niece and nephew!

Bryce Neil (3 lbs. 13 oz.) and Paige Elizabeth (3 lbs. 2 oz.) were born at 6:39 and 6:40pm, respectively, on Wednesday, August 24. We still cannot believe they are here and doing so well. David and I left early Thursday morning to drive to Ohio to be with his family. We were able to spend most of the day Thursday with Beth and Jayme, meet our new family members, then hang out at his grandparents' house for the night. We stopped by the hospital again on our way home Friday, and everyone was doing so well after a good night of sleep. Beth is home now, and they are beginning the adjustment of having babies in the hospital. Keep praying for the Johnsons!

PS- I took a zillion pictures, and I'll share them as soon as I have permission from Beth. These two were from Jayme's cell phone, and they are the best shots of their sweet faces!

Secondly, whew. What a week we've had! Between two birthdays (well, four technically!), a trip to Ohio, a wedding at the lake and a visit from Ash & Chase, we're worn out. Lots to blog about! Plus, Mr. Crawford is a whopping 16 weeks grown today, and he's doing splendidly and still making me puke a bunch. A full update to come...

prayers and birthday

1. Please pray for Beth right now. Her water broke Tuesday night, and she has been in the hospital having contractions ever since. They have been trying to get the contractions to stop, and they have slowed down, but haven't stopped completely. There is a chance they will deliver these sweet babies today (at 32 weeks). Please join us in praying fervently for Beth, Jayme, Brianna and our new niece and nephew, Paige and Bryce.

2. This is so much less significant now, but we celebrated David's birthday at Ichiban last night with the Bryants:

weeks 14 & 15

Week 14

Week 15

Finally, some growth! As of this morning, I have gained 4 pounds, and I've never been so happy to gain weight! My pants are getting a little tight, but the maternity pants I have (thanks, Beth!) are still too big. I think I'll be busting out the tummy sleeve before too long.

Fortunately, my nausea has subsided. Unfortunately, I'm still throwing up pretty regularly. It's totally random and intermittent, but I can feel it coming and usually get to an ok place to take care of business. Hey, it's an improvement.

The newest turn of events is my new bff, the chiropractor. Well, he's not really my bff yet, but I'm banking on it in the future. When I saw Dr. B last week and told him about my tailbone pain (that had already been going on for a month at that point), he was kind of surprised. He said the fact that it had already begun this early in my pregnancy was probably a sign that something else wasn't quite right. He referred me to a chiropractor who specializes in pregnancy, and I'm glad he did. Turns out, my pelvis is totally twisted thereby causing my pain. I'm seeing him 3x a week for a few weeks, and hopefully we'll get it straightened out by then. In the mean time, my tailbone pain has pretty much gotten worse because of all the stretching and adjusting. He assures me that I'll feel some relief after 6-8 visits. I'm holding him to that. For now, I'm spending every evening doing ridiculous stretches and icing my back and tailbone, which is turning into a time consuming regiment. Considering that I'm going to bed by about 9 every night, I'm not very useful these days.

A fun note for this week... today is David's birthday! He's the big 2-6. He's pretty hard to celebrate for special occasions (he prefers that no money be spent), but I tried really hard to utilize his love language. When his alarm went off this morning (which I usually don't even hear), I got up and told him to keep sleeping. I walked the dog, emptied the dishwasher and took out the trash (seriously, a labor of love for this pregnant lady). Nothing much, but I usually sleep through all of these morning activities, so I hope it was nice for the tables to be turned for once. David is the most selfless husband, and I could not be more thankful that he was born 26 years ago today!

gg

My baby brother (whom, my kids will call "Uncle GG"... I just decided) was visiting the great state of Georgia for a brief time over the weekend, and that was just too close not to see each other. He lives in Boston, so our visits are too few and far-between. Greg and the 'rents drove half way (thanks meetways.com!) and we met at Applebees for a 3-hour-lunch-and-visit time. It was wonderful (though we missed Ash!).

Uncle GG

the kids + Molls; our boys-in-blue, as usual

By the way, check Greg out! After a director saw him perform in Oklahoma, she cast him (as "Greg", no less) in A Chorus Line! He's a rock star.

blue, blue, blue!

I wanted to recap our gender reveal party a bit more because we had so much fun. We totally realize that we could have found out the gender at the doctor's office, sent out a big text message and called our families (and there's nothing wrong with that!!), but we're glad we took advantage of an opportunity to celebrate and hang out with our friends. And that we did! It was soo cool that most of our closest Chattanooga friends were all there. There were 24 adults and 6 kids/babies, so we were thankful that the weather was nice enough to allow some overflow onto the porch. Our little house has a hard time with crowds, but I think we made it all work just fine. Jodi's love language is gifts, and she insisted on making all the food for the party. I talked her into letting us order pizzas and I made the cupcakes, but she out did herself on everything else. There was tons of food, and everyone ate and visited for a while.

Around 7:30 we realized it was getting late and it was go time. We called my sister and my parents (they had requested to be on speakerphone. too bad we don't have face time :( ), and opened our present. Back up: when we went to the doctor on Monday we asked him to help us pull off our surprise. I had embroidered a boy and a girl onesie with each of our chosen names, and he selected the correct one and put it loose in this box. He taped it up so we wouldn't peek, and we took it home to wrap it. It worked out perfectly, and we weren't tempted at all to cheat! I was shocked!

So, David pulled out the blue onesie (as you can see in this video that Wendi took! I LOVE it!) and we were so excited. SHOCKED. But so, so excited. I think I would have been super shocked either way. Honestly, I'm having a weird time wrapping my mind around this whole we're-having-a-baby thing. It still doesn't feel real because I don't feel pregnant yet, and for the baby to have an identity now makes it feel very strange! I'm obviously so pumped and excited, I'm just expressing it more slowly (which is surprising). David, on the other hand, is totally comfortable and ready for Crawford to arrive tomorrow. It's adorable. He constantly talks about "our son" and "Crawford", and he has been telling Harley all about his brother on the way. It warms the cockles of my heart to see his excitement for our little family. He is going to be the BEST dad ever. Hands down.

February 14, 2012... hurry up and get here!!

A bunch of pictures HERE.

it's a...

BOY!!

Crawford David Geyer

baby day

Well, we went to the doctor yesterday and he was successfully able to identify the gender of our little peanut. I went in confident that it wasn't going to work out for us to know the gender this early (14 weeks), but Dr. B proved me wrong. It's still very surreal to me since (other than being sick... still) I don't really feel or look pregnant. I've gained a whopping two pounds, but I'm sure that will start picking up now that I'm pretty much only throwing up once a day- and only on week days (I don't get sick if I can sleep in and take it easy in the mornings). I'm surprisingly not anxious to know the gender, but I know it will be really fun to find out tonight.

So yeah, tonight! We're having a big party (like, 30 people... yikes!) to hang out with our friends and reveal the gender of this little one. Dr. Brody helped with our reveal plan, the house is clean and in party-mode, and we're ready to go. Well, except that a realtor just called and wants to show our house to an out-of-town client this morning... Oh well.

So guess away! What do you think baby Geyer is? Boy or Girl? (Oh, and we'll reveal his/her name tonight too! I'm probably most excited about that part :) )

I'll be wearing pink tonight- my guess is girl!