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For over a week now I have been having an increased heart rate. I called my doc on Tues and I am now hooked up to a Halter Monitor to monitor my heart rate over the next 24 hrs. However, I have not been feeling well. Last night I came home and laid down for 2 hrs and my heart rate only decreased to 110. My heart rate while up and about is ranging from 122-146 and I get clammy and SOB. Good news is that I did see our family doc and he did an EKG and I am in a normal rhythem and during the rest while I was lying flat and holding my breath was 80. He asked if I was stressed. HMM. I told him that I am an expert in worry. I can't imagine that this would be the reason for it but I am no doctor. So, please pray for me and the little tyke trying to grow inside. He did say that the baby was probably fine.

Sleeping Beauties

We let the girls sleep together over the holidays and this is how I found them one night. I always go and check on them before I go to bed. Neither of them woke up when I took Kaylee out from under her sister. I was worried she might suffocate. It was hilarious.

Goat Show

Kaylee was invited to be in a livestock show and she showed one of our friend's goats. SHe woke up that morning and said it was the best day of her life. I asked her if it was better than the day Reese was born and she repeated that this was the best day of her life. She was so excited and did a great job. She got a little bashful when the judge came and asked her a question. She was beaming at the end and recieved a ribbon for honorable mention that is hanging on her bulletin board. She plans to go to the Lay's house so that she can practice for next year even thought she cannot compete until she is 9. FFA is definately in her future.

Star Wars

This is how I found Reese and her Daddy last Sunday after napping. Reese wakes up in the morning and begins requesting Star Wars. As soon as we come home from any where she asks for Star Wars. She knows almost all of their names and talks about them all the time. She is obsessed and Kaylee was too at that age. It is really weird. Phillip says that if this next one is a boy, he will probably hate Star Wars. I doubt it, although it is hard for me to find the excitement in it. Oh, I shot the TV so I could remember what they were watching and I think that it is so sweet that Daddy sets her up with her doll too.

My children

This doesn't actually have anything to do with things my kids do although they are absolutly precious. Before Phillip and I went to Brazil I wrote letters to Kaylee for all the important events that happen in every little girl's life: when she accepts Chirst, first day of kindergarten, middle school, wedding, going to college, becoming a "woman", getting a car...you get the picture. I realize that I need to also do the same for Reese. Phillip thinks I am a little silly but at the same time he wrote each of the girls letters and me as well when he went to Sudan. (He gave the letters to his BF Craig and Craig came by a little later and he looked like he had lost his best friend and now I know why.)I just know that we are never guaranteed tomorrow and I want my children to know that I am thinking about these special moments even now. My mom was the one that always told me how proud she was of me and ever since she has been gone, there is such a void and I don't want my children to ever forget how blessed I am by them and how proud I am to be privelaged to be there Mommy. It is an awesome thing to be a mommy and I love every moment of it.

PS Sorry no pics yet. I have got some goodies.

Facebook

I have joined facebook. Why? I really do not know. It is crazy and kinda freaky. All the networking that it does and how do people find me? It is nuts. I am still not sure what I am going to do with it. It is cool to see people that you haven't seen in 12 years though. I still think blogging is more fun and I know I really need to post more pictures. I will maybe tomorrow. Right now I am going to bed.

Baby names and more

Aren't kids the cutest things ever. Our girls keep us in stitches. Reese has gotten to say things in voices. Don't know where they came from and it is usually random. She also has developed some pretty hilarious walks. The other day I asked Reese if she had gotten a brownie. She looked up with puppy dog eyes and says, "Not yet". She is getting so big. Kaylee has been taking an active role in picking out baby names. She wants to name a boy, "Jim Craig" (from Man from Snowy River) and a girl, "Hannah Montana". So far we have vetoed both. But honestly Phillip has not been much better. For the boy, it is going to be Sterling Phillip Thomas. The girl has not been so easy. It is usually our easy name. I give him all sorts of names, "Claire, Leah, Lauren, Carrie, Darby, Bethany, Becca..." and Phillip says, "How about Rhonda?" "Rhonda??", I ask. And he responds," Well that's how I feel about all of those other names". It boils down to that he can't know anybody by the name that we choose. So after going through 500 names we settle on Paige. So nobody say anything negative about the name. I need to get through the next 6 months without him realizing that Paige Patterson shares that name and he is not someone Phillip admires. After that, alls fair. Hopefully we won't have to worry about it and the baby will be a boy. The Ancient Chinese calendar says that there is an 83% probability that it is a boy. It was right on the girls. But honestly, I don't really believe in that stuff.