Clearly I have completely abandoned any hope of posting here in a timely manner every month. *Insert lame excuse as to why here*

January certainly felt like a very long month, but February sprinted by.

January

I can’t say we really did much in January either. We had every intention, but the weather finally got cold and wintery and my energy levels have been on the low end.

We did start off the new year trying to be active and took the dogs to the Greenway for the first time. Got a good few miles in and wore everyone out.

We celebrated the Mister’s birthday at the beginning of the month and had another baby appointment.

Baby Waid didn’t want to give a sneak peek at gender this month, but was very active and had a nice strong heartbeat of 156.

It took me nearly the whole month to take down our Christmas decor and get my living room back in order. Not being able to bend over properly and lift heavy stuff makes for slow going.

Miss Indie had also been on a destructive rampage with her new stuffed toys so every time we finished cleaning, she made one explode and we’d be right back to square one.

We started our house hunt since it appears we will be here until the Mister retires from the Army. We spent a lot of time looking at options within our budget and compiled a list of what we’re looking for in our first house.

The housing market around here is booming. We have missed out on several places to look at because offers are in within hours of it hitting the MLS.

It’s been frustrating, but our moving timeline is a major factor too. We are essentially locked into our lease until it ends at the end of June. If we break the lease early, we still have to pay monthly rent until the house is a) filled or b) the original lease ends. To make it even more challenging, Baby Waid is due mid June. So I can’t really buy nursery furniture or nest until we know our new place’s dimensions.

Luckily, we’re not too worried yet. With PCS season right around the corner, more places are likely to pop up and like I said, this housing market is insane.

In other news, I’ve added to my ever growing Bombshell collection. Two preorders arrived and they are stunning.

Other than that, we spent most of the month stocking up on baby deals when we came across them. We don’t have much stockpiled, but we have a start. For as long as January felt, we truly didn’t do much.

February

This month was a whirlwind. Just not in the adventuring department.

We had a beautiful 65° day one weekend and took the doggos to the park for some play time. I haven’t seen these two that happy in weeks! They were so glad it stopped raining and they could run.

The following week, it rained and was super cold, but we had the most exciting time.

We got to see more details of Baby Waid at our ultrasound appointment. I’m also starting to really feel the movement which is exciting!

We also found out Baby is a boy! The Mister and I are so thrilled. We would have been happy with either but a boy is awesome. I grew up with all girls so this is definitely going to be a learning experience all around.

We are almost into the third trimester. Can’t believe how fast this pregnancy is going. I’m finally feeling him kick, so I feel like I can relax a little now. We really need to find a new place because I am SO ready to nest/meet him.

Later that week we celebrated Indie’s first birthday. I can’t believe our youngest pack member is already a year old. She’s such a sweet girl but man is she a handful at times.

We also had our fair share of hiccups this month.

My car had a bushing break on the shifter and got stuck in reverse. Turns out there was a recall for this exact problem. Luckily, the Mister had a few days off and was able to get that issue fixed. We had to switch vehicles for a few days but it wasn’t so terrible. Then I couldn’t get it started on the Monday after we fixed the recall. The Mister drove it a couple days and it seems to be functional…Now we have to find some time to get his car’s recalls fixed…

In other doggo news, Audie had to go under the knife again for a couple of growth removals. He’d been growing some sort of black spot on his nose for a few months and had another that kept growing/shrinking in his cheek. Poor boy has had a rough go in the surgery department, but he’s such a trooper. Poor guy looked like Frankenstein when we picked him up.

Originally I went to pick him up at the clinic and as we were getting ready to leave, he shook his head and blood went everywhere! So doc had to put more sutures in and he had to spend the night. This mama had a hard night. And miss Indie drove me crazy looking for him.

Thankfully, he was fine. His histopath did show some upsetting news. He had a grade 2 mast cell tumor. Luckily the doc got it all and didn’t think a referral to an oncologist was necessary yet. Still, we’ll keep an eye on it and hope for the best. Definitely not ready to think about the alternative.

He left his sutures alone the whole time he had them in. The night we had them taken out, he reopened his cheek. So back into surgery he went…after my car wouldn’t start again to take him.

This mama can’t take any more bad luck!

Until then,

Cheers!

-A. xoxo