Spring Time

Spring is finally springing around the Crawford household. The grass is turning green and our first of two babies has arrived. Yesterday, on a cold and windy day, our Momma cow "Red" gave birth to a little bull. Brayden says we should name him "Sonny". Brandon and I both wonder if this is due to the calf being born on a rainy day. We are still undecided on the name, but he sure is cute and spunky.


While preparing a few final things for our second impending arrival, I had let the cat in the room. I walked out and went to eat dinner and a while later went back in the room, thinking to myself "hmmm, I know the cat was in here, I just heard her." As I got to looking I noticed there were socks all over the floor and the bedding was messed up. After I saw the bedding, I knew where I would find Bella. You see, she has this obsession with socks (she empties Brandon's laundry basket every night and brings his dirty socks to our bedroom) and she is obsessed with sleeping under the covers. Sometimes we wonder if she is a cat or some other possessed creature. Thus, knowing our friskey feline's habits, I looked under the covers (after grabbing the camera) and this is what I found...

Good thing her daddy wasn't home or he would have hung her by her tail. He doesn't like it when she is in the nursery. He is very worried she will hurt our little Matney.


Here are a few shots of the baby calf from the day he was born and today once he was all cleaned up. I love spring time and babies!!!

Great memories

Above are just a few shots of what the last several weeks have entailed in the Crawford household. We have had a wonderful time at baby showers and Matney has received more than we could have ever imagined.

Last weekend I was lucky enough to spend the day with Mom and Abby being pampered with a pedicure and lunch. We had a wonderful time being together! Mom even learned what you mean when you tell the coffee shop that you want a non fat skinny half caf vanilla latte! She wrote it down so she would know what to bring to the hospital when Abby has Baby No Name Biggers. :)

We are down to about two weeks until baby Matney makes her arrival (unless she chooses to just stay in and continue baking)! We are so excited and counting the days!

21 days and counting...

I never thought I would be 3 weeks out from having my first child. As a young girl and young woman I dreamed of one day being a mother, but now that it is time for this experience in my life, I am full of more anticipation, excitement, and anxiety than I ever knew possible. My husband is too!

We are both to the point that we want to meet our little girl so much that we aren't sure what to do every night. We can often be found opening the door to her room to peek in or making plans for when she arrives. In the last few days Brandon has taken to talking to my belly or rubbing my belly and saying "Baby Matney come out, I want to meet you." I never thought that my husband who is very much a mans man could be so cute and loveable when it comes to a little baby that he hasn't even met yet. He even made the comment tonight that if I wanted to go and do something out of town after Matney arrives, that he could watch the her while I was gone. He hasn't even changed a diaper, so we will see if that promise lasts!

I am on my weekly appointments now and continue to see how much wonderful weight I have gained (Brandon says I have a lot of work to do once she gets here...). Today, the LNP took my vitals and told me I could wait if I wanted to see the doctor who was gone to a delivery. I am so excited to have little Matney and would love to just go in to labor that I just told the nurse I would leave and be back next week. I didn't want really want the disappointment of finding out nothing was happening. Heck, if something is happening and I don't know it, won't Daddy be excited when I wake him up in the middle of the night?

As a pre-birth treat to myself, I am going for a spa pedicure tomorrow with my Mom and sister. My little piggies have to be in good shape and pretty for our hospital stay :) Abby has pointed out that any mother should have a pedicure before birth as you will have lots of shots of your toes while in labor! (I am still not sure who is supposed to be holding this camera to get these "shots" but I doubt it will be me) I guess she should know however since she is on her third baby; so we are following her advice and getting pampered. Yippy for a girls day!

PS: This blog update is brought to you in part by my big sister who keeps telling me my blog is out of date! Once we have internet again at our house I will update more and update with photos of all of Matney's goodies she has gotten at all of our showers. Boy do we have some wonderful friends and family--little Matney is set for a long time with lots of wonderful and beautiful things.