Girly Things....

So, I am still on cloud 9 about having a little girl of my very own! I just can't believe it! I know I was SO excited when we found out that Palmer was a boy but knowing that I get to experience one of each I have just been over the moon these past couple of days!

I am not in my opinion a real girly girl but seeing all of these pink clothes and thinking about bows and tights and girly things is just getting me SO excited!

So, we have officially come up with a name. Some people may love it or hate it but after much consideration Tex and I decide that we love it and that is all that matters. I am proud to announce that we will be calling our daughter

ANN MASON TEMPLETON

and yes we plan on calling her "Ann Mason" not Ann or Mason but the full "Ann Mason" this my friends is throwing a lot of people off! I remember the days that people would ask me what we were calling Palmer and when I would tell them they would give me that weird look like I was crazy but now that he is here, there is no other name that Suits him so I am hoping that Miss Ann Mason will be the same way!

So this having a girl thing is kind of bad though cause I "accidentally" keep on finding and buying her just the cutest little things :) I think it is appropriate that her monogram will be ATM! haha I get a kick out of that every time! Here are a few things that we have ordered so far....

Ann Mason's bedding! We are going to paint the walls a grass green instead of pink!


The quilt that matches Ann Mason's bedding!



So, I went a little Crazy in Michael's and attempted to dabble in some painting. I bought quite a few bare wood items that I decided to paint. Alas, I am NOT the painted I aspire to be but these were made from the heart. I have decided to focus my talents elsewhere and paint the remainder of the items a plain white but at least she will have a few homemade items from Mommy!

Here is the frame that I painted to match her bedding....


And this is the stool that I painted to go in her room.



Here are the cute letters for her room, they haven't
been painted white yet but once I paint them I will hang them'
with a hot pink and white polka dot ribbon.



I am cutting down on the buying! Thanks to Aunt Tricia we have a beautiful white crib and armoire so we have a lot of things set as far as the room goes, so that is good. Now I can just concentrate on the clothes and accessories! heehee!

It's A .......

GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL........

So, today ranks up there as at least one of the TOP 5 days of our lives!!! What a miracle these babies are! Yes, that is right we are having a precious baby girl!!!! I think I am still in shock because I was SO convinced it was a boy! She is absolutley precious and was moving around like crazy! It was the coolest thing ever when Kathy, our ultrasound tech, told us it's a little GIRL! I just started bawling like a baby and Tex's face turned 3 sheets of white! His world is going to be rocked!!!!

Please keep baby girl Templeton in your prayers as she is measuring quite small. We are going to see a high risk specialist for an ultrasound in 2 weeks. They don't know why I have trouble growing babies but they are going to try and find out. I have the upmost confidence in my dr and I am so glad she already has a good handle on the situation. Just say a little prayer for her!

I am rushing off to pick up Palmer to let him know he is going to be a big Bubby to his little Sissy!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!

The Perfectionist!

So today there is a little chain email that is floating around that tells your zodiac signs and if you don't send it to so many people you will have bad luck for the rest of your life type thing :) So to avoid any more potential bad luck I forwarded it against my better judgement (I hate these type of emails) but the point I am trying to get at is my zodiac sign is not very flattering, it reads:

VIRGO - The Perfectionist (Aug 23 - Sept 22) - Dominant In relationships. Conservative. Always wants the last word. Argumentative. Worries. Very smart. Dislikes noise and chaos. Eager. Hardworking. Loyal. Beautiful.. Easy to talk to. Hard to please. Harsh. Practical and very fussy. Often shy. Pessimistic. 7 years of bad luck if you do not forward

Wow! I mean I know that sometimes I am hard to please and I worry a lot but fussy and pessimistic just plain hurt :) I feel like all of the other signs read more like :Fun, Fun, Easy to get along with, more fun and just plain fun! And mine was terrible! I must work on some of these traits that I admittedly have asap!

Not included in these traits was IMPATIENT! I called my Dr.'s office today and told a little white lie! I know lie's are NOT good but I just couldn't help it. I kind of told them I may be out of town on Monday for work and was trying to see if I could push my ultrasound up to today or tomorrow? Pretty please with a cherry on top! She said oh this is your gender ultrasound? All suspicious like she knew what kind of shenanigans I was trying to pull. She said there was nothing open but if there was a cancellation she would keep me updated. I don't see how people wait their entire pregnancy! I just can't handle the suspense!

A Few Things to Celebrate

* Ok hold on to your seats.... Palmer has slept in his crib for 2 whole nights on his own!!! Both nights from 8p-8a!!!! I think we may be over the traumatic sleeping experience and well on our way to some more peaceful nights!

**Thanks to tylenol for Palmer and a whopping dose of antibiotics for mommy both Palmer and I are in great working order and back in action!!

*** I find out in less than a week what baby T #2 is going to be!!! I am not emailing or calling anyone I am demanding everyone check the blog for the big reveal on Monday!

Today is a good day! Sometimes I only talk about the bad days, so shame on me! Palmer and I had a GREAT morning watching cartoons and taking a walk and just hanging out. He is my favorite person in the world!

Staff Infections, Tonsillitis, and Baby Showers

I seriously could not make this stuff up if you paid me :) The Templeton's spent another Saturday at the ER at Baptist Hospital East! I tell you what... it seems like we are pro's at this hospital thing by now!

To make many long stories short Palmer woke up to our dismay on Saturday from his nap with a 104.5 fever. Mind you we had plans to go over to our friends house to watch the game for a few hours and then head to our supper club! Tex and I were so excited to get out and socialize and then bam Palmer turns up sick! We called our loving pediatrician and she was working an extra shift at Baptist ER so we toted Palmer down there and learned that he had tonsillitus. This was good news considering that the two main illness's going round the Louisville area were strep and chicken pox!

While we were there I told Palmers dr that I had gone to the Urgent Care myself the day before. I had what I referred to as a "zit" that has made my ear swell and hurt! The 90 year old dr at the urgent care told me that it was severely infected and sent me home with amoxicillan. Thank goodness Dr. Russell was nice enough to take a second look and immediately told me that it was no ear infection but rather a staff infection that was most likely MRSA!!! GREAT! So, she put me on a whopping dose of Augmenton and some ear drops!

So after a few hours at the ER we packed up the car and headed home dissapointed and slightly aggrevated that we can't seem to catch a break! What is the deal? I of course start racking my brain wondering if I did something to my poor child in the womb to cause him to be so sick all of the time? I feel like we just can't get ahead of these viruses! I am praying that baby T #2 comes out and is as healthy as a horse, because I don't know how many more hospital visits we can take! Palmer is such a trooper though! Even with a 104.5 fever he was still pushing around his Walmart shopping cart :) Nothing stops this boy!

On a better note Sunday was a GREAT day! Jamie, Erin and I hosted Lindsey and baby Will a baby shower! It was so fun to see everyone and FINALLY meet Ms. Riley for the fist time! I resisted holding her due to all of our ailments but she was absolutely precious and SO little! How easily you forget. I hope that I remeber how to have a baby that small again! Linds looked so great and I think everyone had a great time! Here are some pics....
The hostess and the mommy to be!

Erin and a mad Riley :)

The mommy to be looking GREAT!

Lindsey getting her awesome painting for Wills room!

A few minutes in the Brain of Blake!

I know two posts in one day, I am SO crazy :) This is definitely a random post!! Bear with me....

* Ok, so ever since I have been little I have always wanted to know EXACTLY when things were going to happen. I think it is my OCD and a little of my anxiety working in over time and I just like to be prepared for what I am going to be doing :) I was never just happy with the answer "we are going to the mall today" my response would be "Ok, well what time exactly are we going to the mall today" , you can see where this is going. I figure there is a lot of things in my life that are out of my control but at least I can try and manage my activities :)

Due to this little characteristic of mine I have stumbled across a GREAT website that I use daily! http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcount.html You can type in any date in the future or in the past and it will tell you exactly how many days, weeks, minutes, and seconds it is away!

So here are a few use-less pieces of information that I type in quite frequently!

1. I have now known for 95 days that I am pregnant with baby T# 2, is that possible?

2. I am now 144 days away from having Baby T #2! That doesn't sound like too many!

3. I am ONLY 11 DAYS AWAY from finding out what baby T #2 is!!

** Second random thought. I showed Tex the "boys" bedding last night that I had bought and he had the nerve to say it was girly? WHAT! How can brown and black be girly? He said the circles were girly? This coming from a guy who can't be peeled away from the new 90210 and one of his fav movies is my best friends wedding! Enough Said :)

***Third random thought! I have slacked on the Family of the Month. Ernie I need some family pics and I will award you and Jon shortly!

***** Fourth and last random thought. I have no "belly" pics I don't think they are required or as desired with the second pregnancy. Below is a pic of me, mom and Ashley from this weekend so that can be my "belly" pic :)

Bedtime Saga Cont.....

To my dismay the "big boy" bed set-up has failed us! The bedtime saga continues in the Templeton household! Mommy kind of put things on hold while Tex was in Cali and let Palmer sleep in bed with me every night. I enjoyed the company just as much as he did! :) So when Tex got home we talked about how something drastically needed to be done about this situation. Last night we stuck to our guns and put a night light in the hall to give P some light in his room and laid him in his bed and walked right out! He cried just for a minute before falling fast asleep! Tex and I both just looked at each other in amazement and fell fast asleep ourselves just the two of us in our very own bed! Throughout the night Palmer cried out a few times but put himself back to sleep, this was going great!....

Until that is Tex I and I heard a "Oh" sound and a thud about 2:45 and we listened for more but it was quiet until Tex screamed "Oh my Gosh!" and I turned and looked around and here comes P's little body moving 90 mph with his sheep and his blanket straight to our bed! How did this happen? He NEVER moves from that bed, in fact I was so completely convinced that he would NEVER try to get out of the bed. How naive was I?

So below are pictures of our family at 3:00 am! This is a typical scene right now. I don't think Tex was as amused by this whole situation and me taking my camera out at 3 in the morning :) I don't know where baby T #2 is going to fit in between Me, Tex, Palmer and Molly! :) Please help us I don't think I have slept since our hospital stay that brought about this whole sleeping nightmare :)

Back to the drawing boards my friends, I will let you know if we figure out what works!


Palmer Ecstatic that he is back where he belongs, in bed
with mommy and daddy!

Tex looking at Palmer like this kid is a mess!
Obviously Palmer thinks this is the greatest thing ever!

The Family! All ready to go back to sleep and dream sweet dreams!