32 Weeks!!

Photo courtesy of Jake Summers :)

 

I had a doctor's appointment today and everything looks good!!  Anderson's heart rate was 135, my BP was good, and that's all there is to really report.  I go back in 2 weeks and then start going weekly thereafter!

 

I'll tell y'all what about my baby boy- he is my most active baby yet in my belly.  People can literally look at my belly and see him rollover and kicking, and my belly is constantly quivering.  The boys love to feel their brother kick- especially Jake.  It is so sweet!  I wonder if this means he'll be my busy boy (aka non-sleeper) since both Jake and Walker were pretty chill in my belly and pretty chill as babies.  We'll see!  7 weeks or less! 

 

I CAN'T WAIT to meet this little boy!! I can't wait to see who he looks like- especially if he is going to favor one of his brothers.  I haven't had any of those dreams on what he looks like, but I'm thinking he's not going to have hair (maybe blond peach fuzz like Walker) since I really don't have heartburn and I think he's going to have brown eyes.  Other than that, I really have no idea.  I'm so excited to meet my newest man!!  :)  Come on September 9th!! 

Daytona

Tyson had to speak at the Florida High School Coaches' Clinic in Daytona this past Thursday and Friday, so the boys and I tagged along.  They put Tyson up in a nice hotel, The Plaza Resort and Spa, which was right on the beach.  The boys and I just camped out on the beach or in the pool the whole time, and the boys enjoyed playing cornhole and ping pong, which were both right off the pool.  Tyson also got to hang out with us a good bit when he wasn't "working" (as the boys called it). 

This is Tyson's last weekend of vacation and he heads back to work Monday.  We've got a weekend full of birthday parties, so I'm sure it's going to fly by.  I really need time to slow down because I'm not ready to lose him to football season just yet.  :(

Free Bowling

 The Summers boys + Ryan Wensyel

 Mr. Competitive is so serious about bowling...see next to last pic.

 Mr. Not-competitive-at all patiently waits for his ball to hit the pins.

One of the local bowling alleys offers free bowling for the kids during the weekday during the summer.  We usually go about once a week, and the boys LOVE it!!  The boys always call it "free bowling."  For example, when we saw our friends on the way to the bowling alley today, Jake said, "we're going to free bowling!"  Hahaha!  Anyways, this is just a little taste of how we pass the time during the summer. :)

Anderson's Sprinkle

 31 weeks!!

Some of my besties here-

Lisa, Lori, Jocelyn, and Kenza in the front row

Jeanne, me, Carol, Cindy, and Angie in the back row

 

Some of my girlfriends here threw me a little shower today to welcome Baby Anderson.  I'll be honest, I'm not a shower person- I just hate asking people to come to something and give me a gift.  These girls WOULD not let me out of it, though, and I'm so glad they didn't...we had so much fun!!! 

 

Since I haven't done a baby update in a while, I guess now is as good of time as ever.  I went to the doctor this past Tuesday (and my awesome hubby got to come, too) and will now start going every 2 weeks.  Everything looks good with Anderson.  He is measuring right on according to the # of weeks I am, which neither of my boys did as they always measured several weeks ahead, but the doctor seems to think he is transverse (lying sideways) and is already pretty low.  I asked the doctor if maybe that is why I'm having such bad back pain this go-round, and her only answer was "each pregnancy gets harder and harder."  Great.  I'm definitely done!  Ha!

 

Let's see, since I've updated last, I passed my 3 hour glucose test with flying colors.  I had to take the 3 hour test because I failed the 1 hour test by 4 points.  Apparently that cookie that I ate in the waiting room while waiting on my test put me over.  Ha!  I felt like such a dummy- here I am, a nurse on my 3rd kid, and I completely forgot that I was supposed to be fasting and ate one of Walker's cookies that the receptionist gave him.  Oops!  Oh well, I had a fun time hanging out in the doctor's office for those 3 hours.  ;)

 

Other than that, I've been working hard trying to get ready for baby boy.  Tyson took the boys this weekend to see his mom and I stayed home and started cleaning and washing clothes, bottles, and other paraphernalia.  Good lord, I had forgotten how much junk babies need!  Luckily, I have a good bit of stuff from the other two, but several of the staples didn't survive my other two children and/or the move- the bouncy seat melted, the car seat melted, bouncy seat #2 got stolen by the maid (I think), the stroller broke, the swing got eaten by a rat (I think), the high chair was just a mess after Walker, and the baby monitor got fried as well.  Sigh.

 

8 weeks or less to go!!          

The 4th of July!!

 Jake and Ellie

 Gracie and Emma

 This picture is hilarious to me.  Tyson was telling a story (and was obviously pretty animated), Jake was thieving some peanuts, and Amy and Ashley were dieing laughing about something.  Fun times.

 Baby pool at the beach= best idea ever!  The kids had a blast in this thing!!

 Sweet cousins!

 When in doubt with what to do with kids on the beach, build a big hole.  Every time.

 Summers and Howells in the pool!!

 Jake LOVES his "Gracie Bo"

 My sis, Amy, with Jace, Gracie, and Courtney

 Y'all know these people by now. ;)  And yes, I did swallow a whole watermelon on the 4th of July.

 The boys!!

 All of the cousins...for now. ;)

(Gracie-20 months, Jace-4, Jake-5, and Walker-3)

My sister and her crew ended up joining for the last part of our week at the beach; it made for an awesome 4th!  We spent almost the whole day on the beach that day and had the best weather of the week!  We were a little too tired, though, to make it out for the fireworks, but the kids had fun regardless.  I hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July!!   

Cochran via St. Simons

 Jake and Walker with my Granddaddy

 The boys with my MaMa

 Playing with MaMa's walker

 COUSINS!!  Ryleigh Kate, Chase, Jake, and Walker

While we were in St. Simons, Tyson had to drive back to Orlando for a day for office duty, so the boys and I drove over to Cochran to see my grandparents.  I've mentioned it on here before about my grandmother's health, but I said that she had Alzheimer's.  We learned a few months ago that she actually has Parkinson's dementia, and after having a grandmother with both, I don't know which one is worse.  She knows who we are and understands what we're saying, but she doesn't talk anymore and has no way to communicate with us.  It's so sad.  I can't imagine how she feels.  For instance, I was talking to my granddaddy and my cousin about one of her recipes and how I can't find it, and she got up (with assistance), said "re re re," went to the kitchen, and pulled out the recipe book with the recipe in it.  Turns out she was trying to tell us "recipe."  It just breaks my heart to see her going downhill so quickly (she is falling constantly and just can't do anything for herself anymore) and for her to be trapped inside her body unable to communicate.  And it breaks my heart for my granddaddy to see him struggling to take care of her and knowing he has some tough decisions ahead.  Anyways, it was a sad trip but I'm glad we went.  At times like this, I sure wish we lived closer. :(   

Back From the Beach!

 Cornhole!

 "Ellie Bowers" (as the boys called her all week).

 

 Summers boys + Bowers girls

(Jake-5, Walker-3, Ellie-4, and Emma-2)

And Ashley is due August 21, so we'll add 2 more to the crew next year! 

We just got back from a week in St. Simons Island, Georgia.  Tyson had a 3 day camp on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week, so when he got done, his 3 week "vacation" officially began! :)  (And I say "vacation" very loosely because he still has to be in the office a few days of each week.  We'll take what we can get, though. ;)

We got to spend a good bit of time with Tyson's best friend, Worth, and his and his wife's families as they were also in St. Simons that week.  Beach time was kind of hit or miss for most of the first part of the week because of rain, but we played hard when we could.  We sure enjoy that time with the Bowers...even if it means we have to crash their family vacation. ;)

Ok, so I have a ton more pictures (as always).  Stay tuned for more!

Swim Meet #2!

It's a good thing I took a ton of pictures at the last swim meet because this picture is the only one I got from this one.  It was just way too crowded at this meet to even attempt to get any pictures,  but I had to take one of my swimmer with his ribbons.

Let me start by saying that even though Jake did awesome at the last swim meet and this one, he is not loving swim team. :(  He said he doesn't want to let his team or his coach down so he's not going to quit, but I don't think swimming is in Jake's future. :(  He's much more into contact sports.  It probably doesn't help that he's been going to these sports camps the last two weeks and is coming home absolutely exhausted; in fact, he started feeling bad last night as we got to the swim meet...I think being in the heat all day is just getting to him.  He still did really well and won first place in both of his events- the freestyle and the breast stroke.  Like I said before, this swim meet was really crowded and had a ton of swimmers, so given that and the fact Jake wasn't feeling well, we didn't stick around for the backstroke or the butterfly. 

Jake really improved his freestyle time from last week (29.89), and he did awesome for the first time doing the breast stroke (33.66).  He kind of forgot mid-lap what stroke he was supposed to be doing, so he ended up doing a combo of breast-freestyle-butterfly, but he got the win anyways.  He sure is a good little swimmer...I hate that he isn't loving it. :(

So I have to brag on my big boy a little bit more...the sports camp that he's been doing these weeks are run by Jake's elementary's PE teacher, Coach Bitton.  Coach Bitton has gone on and on about Jake and how well he throws the football, catches the football, how fast he can run for his age.  He even asked, "I mean, does your husband know how good he is?  He could be a quarterback or a linebacker or whatever he wants!"  Ha!  Coach Bitton also said Jake is very focused and so intense for his age...he's even used Jake as an example to the older kids.  :)  Considering how much everyone ooh's and ahh's over Walker and his cuteness, I'm so glad to hear Jake getting some much deserved attention!  I sure love my little athlete!!

Coach O'Leary's Beach House

 My  swimsuit model

 Tyson and Jake fishing.

 Rocco (whose dad was on staff with us at UAB) and Walker

The closest thing we have to a snow angel in Florida...a sand angel.

 

 

We made our annual trip to Coach O'Leary's beach house this weekend.  We all had so much fun!  Well, it was all fun and games until Walker looks at Coach O'Leary and says, "Coach O'weawy, your  face is red!"  Bahaha!  (His face was really red for the record, but I think it's always like that). ;)  And then not 10 minutes later, Mrs. O'Leary was talking about her hair being blond, and Jake immediately corrects her, "Your hair isn't blond...it's grey!"  I'm pretty sure we had worn out our welcome by that point, so we packed up and headed home.  Just kidding...the O'Leary's were awesome about it, but Tyson and I were so embarrassed!