AND . . .

Along with going through all the holidays,  surgery with Jilli, packing our entire house, moving across the country, unpacking and trying to organize every. single. one of our possessions in a new house, trying to figure out where to buy groceries, and go to the doctor, getting the kids settled into a new school, starting a new ward, starting a new ward again (more on that later) getting new callings (big ones for some of us . . . not me :), giving talks in sacrament meeting (yup, they got us already! The second Sunday we were there!) . . .

This is the other thing I have been busy doing since before Halloween . . .

Growing a baby!!!!
Just a guess, but this may have something to do with the frequent emotional meltdowns I have had for the last few months???

Baby Davis #6 is due to make HER debut JULY 4th!! I am half way through the pregnancy already 24 weeks actually!
Everything is going great! I have never been sick with any of my babies and this one is no different. The only thing I do is gain weight . . .don't get to barf any of it away! But I guess I would rather that then being sick for the first few months, especially considering what I was doing the first few months of this one!

When we went in for the ultrasound to find out what we were having, we also found out another little surprise, she will have two little clubbed feet, just like her big brother.

you can kind of see one of her little clubbed feet here (and that she has her mamas monkey toes). Of six pregnancies these ultrasound pictures where the worst! During the ultrasound there were some great shots, really clear, but the pictures that were printed, blah!

We are disappointed about her feet, but not for the reasons you would think. Club foot is SO fixable and really not something she is going to have to "deal with" in her life at all. It is however EXPENSIVE to fix which is a bummer! But you wanna know the biggest bummer?? She will be in casts starting at two weeks, which means, you know how they scrunch up for the first few weeks whenever you pick them up? I LOVE that, and she won't be able too!! I am being robbed of my tiny ball of baby starting at two weeks! No squishy ball of baby to cuddle! SO SAD!! She will get plenty of cuddles, we are all SOOOO excited, but cuddling cast leg baby just isn't the same.

I have gone back in forth about sharing details of our decision to add another baby to our family . . .Actually that isn't true, I will never and have never wanted share the details on this blog and don't love the fact that so many people know them already.
The fact is this baby was very planned and we are all SO excited she is coming. DOes that mean I don't have my moments when I think, "WHat were we thinking???" . . . . or have serious doubts? I do and I am nervous. Nervous about my ability to be a good mom to 6. I'm kind of crappy at it with 5 sometimes, actually more times then I would like.  What if she is colicky, or really terrible toddler, or I don't discipline well because now I'm old and tired or she is a really awful teenager?  These are all things I don't know and things I worry about. But what I do know is I LOVE being a mom! I LOVE raising these amazing kids I was blessed to have (even though I'm not very good at it sometimes).  I KNOW what I am doing in my home with my family has eternal consequences. I KNOW this baby will forever be a blessing to our family that we will not be able to exist without! I KNOW that no matter how scary or worried or overwhelming parenting is and no matter how much I don't know what to do in situations, I have a Heavenly Father who knows and loves these kids more then me . . .is that possible? And He knows EXACTLY what to do, and can take away my worry and overwhelmed feelings, all I have to do is ask and then work. And I do. A lot. And I know that He and Terry and I can raise 6 kids. And it's going to be awesome!!