Wild Ride

Nathan riding in his truck around the house while singing "Old McDonald".

Ultrasound and Name

We went to the doctor today for our ultrasound. We got a video of the whole thing and I am anxious for you all to see it. Our little one is quite a wiggle worm. At the ultrasound with the high-risk doctors two weeks ago, she was quite an active little thing, and she still was today. Both nurses got a good laugh out of how she kept moving. Look closely at the video and you will she her moving her mouth and sticking out her tongue. She also was practicing her sucking action. The nurse said she was a cute little girl. She is also very healthy. From the measurements they took, she weighs 13 ounces and is around 6 inches long.

We also have picked out a name. Thanks to all who voted. The poll didn't work out quite like we hoped, but in the end we decided to go with the compromise, which was Natalee. So you can now officially call Miss N by Natalee Allyson Webb.

When you watch the video, be sure to pause the background music located at the bottom of the page. You can hear her heartbeat. I apologize for the "Evaluation Copy" showing across the screen. I found a free trial version to convert the disc with and unless we pay $30, that will show up. I hope you are able to see despite that.

Best Friend

I just walked into the living room and Nathan came running up to me. He grabbed me around my legs and said "Best Friend". At first I wasn't sure I heard right what he said so I asked him to repeat it. He said again "best friend". It made me feel so good to have him say that to me, his Momma. I have always heard that parents shouldn't be friends with their children. They should be an authority figure only....but I like to think you can be both. I want Nathan and Miss N to respect what Tripp and I have to say to them, but I also want them to be able to feel like they can come and tell us anything without feeling like we will judge them or make them feel like a failure. That's the kind of Momma I want to be.

Snowmen and Personalities

When Nathan saw the snow last night on the way home from AWANA, he was so excited! All he talked about was getting to build a BIG snowman when the sun came up. I felt so bad this morning to see him get up this morning, look out the window and say "Oh No!" The pretty blanket of snow we had last night was almost gone. He ran to his room, grabbed a pair of sweatpants, his gloves and tobaggan and ran to the door to go out into the snow. We managed to throw a few snowballs and make four little snowmen: Daddy, Momma, Nathan and Baby Adalie (how Nathan pronounced Miss N's name).

Last night, Nathan and I were chatting online with my sister. Nathan kept wanting to type also. Nathan is bad about when he sits next to me, he sits right on top of me. Everytime he does this, Miss N lets her personality show. She kicks and kicks till the person making her uncomfortable quits. She does this quite frequently to me every night when I lay down. If she doesn't like the position I'm laying in, she lets me know for sure. Last week, my sister and I went to a concert and one of the bands that played was awful (at least for us - the teens loved it). Well, I don't this Miss N liked it much either. She kicked me none stop till they quite playing. It's so funny to see her personality showing through a bit.

Baby Names

Tripp and I have come up names for Junebug, but we can't quite agree to the spelling of the girl's name. I just can't get him to see my way! hahaha! So we decided to poll you all to see what you think. PLEASE take our poll to the right and let us know which you like. For the boy, we like Daniel James. The girl's middle name we like is Allyson. Thanks!

Test of Faith

This pregnancy has really been hard for me. At 5 weeks, I started having morning sickness 24 hours a day. After dealing with that for 10 weeks, I had lost 13 pounds and was very weak. Also during this time, I found out that my pap smear came back with abnormal results for the second time in 3 years. The abnormality was so significant this time that Dr. Radpour wanted to do a biopsy to check for cervical cancer. At 15 weeks, I went in and had a small microscope ran up through my cervix. My cervix was infected quite a bit. Unfortunately, I started bleeding so no biopsy was performed. After Junebug is born, we will try for a biopsy to see for sure if I have cancer or if it is just an infection, which right now Dr. Radpour thinks is all that it is. Well, to make matters worse, I had a quad screen done the same day as the cervix test. Our family does not know this until they read it right now, but I got a call 2 weeks later personally from Dr. Radpour saying my blood work for that came back abnormal. There was a risk of Junebug having Down Syndrome. January 7th, 2008, we went to see a high-risk doctor and geneticist to see is if Junebug may have Downs. After an ultrasound, the doctor said Junebug measured okay but he couldn't say whether the baby had Downs unless we took another test. Even though I had planned not to have one, we did agree to have an amniocentesis performed because if we knew if we didn't we would worry for the next 5 months about Junebug. We were assured it was safer for us now than in the past. We were told we would know the results in 7 to 10 business days.

Through all this, I kept wondering Why? Why is all this happening? Everything that can go wrong, is going wrong. After crying quite a while after Dr. Radpour’s call, Jesus reminded me of something. He reminded me of Job. Job was a man who tried to live like God wants us all to live. The devil knew this and he was so confident that he could make Job turn away from God by causing all kinds of trouble for him. It got me thinking…..the devil is certainly mad at us. This year has been such a wonderful year! My family is happy at our new church. I am working in AWANA again, which is where I feel God wants me to be, and I am singing and playing for the choir. Nathan is so excited about church. He constantly talks and sings about Jesus and can’t wait to go to church and Cubbies and learn more about Jesus and the Bible, and Tripp was baptized.

So I have come to the conclusion that Satan is mad and he is trying to do everything he can to make me upset. But he is NOT going to win! I will continue to do as our Sunday School lesson taught us the Sunday after I got the phone call from Psalms 145. I will continue to praise and love God no matter what comes…….and I will never stop telling my children about His love and forgiveness. If the devil wants to get mad, so be it. He WILL NOT WIN! God will and always will have the victory!

Well, just a few minutes ago we got the results. Junebug DOES NOT HAVE DOWN SYNDROME!!!! Also, one other thing we did find out when we went for the ultrasound with the high-risk doctors and was confirmed with the aminocietesis is the gender of our baby. From now on, our Junebug will be known as N (Natalie, Natalee or Natalyee) Allyson Webb. :o)


We are still scheduled to have an ultrasound on the 24th, as I mentioned in a previous post. The thing exciting about this one is we will get a video of Miss N to keep. I am going to try to figure out how to convert it to a file where I can post it on here for you to see. You will get to see in person what a wiggly-worm she is!

Thank goodness all is okay! I have one more test to do that is a biggy! I keep laughing in my mind that I will probably fail it too, but in the end it will all be okay. I just know it will no matter the outcome.

Check out the pics below from the ultrasound with the high-risk doctors.

Nathan's Baby

Back around Thanksgiving, we started packing two shoeboxes to take to church for Samartian's Purse. We decided to do one for a boy and one for a girl. While looking for toys, we came across a small baby doll. I thought this would be perfect for the girl's box. When Nathan saw her, he had to hold her. He said it was like the baby in my stomach. From then on, Nathan would carry this baby around the house saying it was Momma's baby. I wasn't sure how I was going to sneak her away from him so I could put her in the girl's shoebox. Well, one day I happened to walk in on Nathan cradling the baby in his arms and he was stroking her face and kissing her. He had no idea I had saw him. I decided then that I just couldn't take that baby away from him. So, that baby has been Nathan's constant companion at night. I came upon him sleeping with her and just couldn't resist taking this picture of him. This will probably be good blackmail one day.....but right now it is so precious to see him thinking that baby is like his future baby brother or sister.

Fun at the Museum

Monday, some friends of ours had their grandson from Georgia up to visit and they gave us a call to see if we would all like to go to the museum with them. Austin and Nathan are only a couple of months apart, so they really had a great time together playing.