Gender Wives tales.

Old wives tales about pregnancy that have been past down from generation to generation. Some are down right hilarious, some seem possible and others are down right hazardous. How fast the babies heart beat is, Chinese prediction charts how low you are carrying and even using Drano (yeah that stuff that clears your drain of gunk) are just some of the many wives tales. All trying to achieve one common goal gender prediction. So what are these wives tales and do I believe them? I bet I can bust most of these myths.


#1 The Tell Tale Carry
Take a look in the mirror. Does your belly hang low or does it seem to meet your boobs. Carrying low is a tell tale sign that you are having a boy and carrying high is a sign that you are carrying a girl. I have a lot of stretch marks that could almost prove this to be true. All of them point that I carried my two boys low. However there have been many women who have carried low and gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. So because of those facts and if I would have to call fact or fiction I would have to go with fiction. BUSTED!!

#2 The Tell Tale Shape
This also requires a look in the mirror. This is more focused on the shape. Do you feel it looks like a watermelon=girl or a basketball=boy. This makes me laugh. When I was pregnant with a dear friend I believed she looked like she was carrying a watermelon and I looked like I was carrying a basketball. Guess what we were both pregnant with boys. BUSTED!!!

#3 The Tell Tale Heart
The babies heart beat that this. This is one I once believed could be plausible when I was pregnant with my first. My Dr. swore but and down that my baby had a fast heart beat. He'd joke all the time that this meant that I was having a girl. But also told me it was a fun wives tale. In this tale if your babies heart beat is 140+ you'd could painting your nursery in pink. Below 140 you could get out the blue. From the beginning I felt that the Dr. was wrong. I just knew I was going to have a boy. Well who do you think was right? The heart beat or me? ME!!! BUSTED!!!

#4 The Tell Tale Lunar
Chinese Lunar Calender is something a lot of pregnant women strongly believe in. Taken by the mothers age at conception and the month conceived in. Try it out here.... http://www.babygenderprediction.com/chinese-gender-chart.html
according to that since I conceived in June at the age of 25 I will be having a boy. Look at it again. I conceived Trace (my first son) In March when I was 20 it says girl. Lol that should prove this thing wrong right there. There is no doubt that my 4yr old is a boy. My 2nd son it was actually right. I conceived him in Jan at 21. The odds are still 50/50 here. We could ague this all day but in my opinion this wives tale is BUSTED!!!!

#5 The Tell Tale Craving
Sweet= Girl Salty/sour= Boy
Let me begin with telling you about my friend Harmony. When she was pregnant with her first her and I were out every weekend for fried ice cream. Guess what her first wasn't a girl but a handsome little boy. I think that this myth is safe to say BUSTED!!!!

#6 The Tell Tale Break Out.
Breaking out, feelings like you don't look your best, blame it on that girl you are carrying. "Girls take away their mothers beauty" I felt that I looked fabulous with my boys. Really, I thought I looked amazing no break outs or anything. Now I feel like one big zit needed to be popped. And for the first time I am gaining weight everywhere. These are two of my biggest complaints about this pregnancy and pretty much the biggest thing different then the other two. I am not sure if I could yet prove this theory wrong yet. But we shall see in just a few short weeks. But most myths are just that a myth.

#7 The Tell Tale Barf
Did you get green in the face in the first tri. Perhaps you are still fighting the sickness in this tri. . If so according to wives tales you are having a girl. If you are feeling fine chances are you are having a boy. I know many women who have felt wonderful when being pregnant with their sons. I on the other hand was not. I was so deathly sick with Trace I dropped 30lbs in the first tri. The after birth results where awesome but I would not recommend this being a fun way to loose weight. I am not alone on this. A friend of mine has had two little girls right in a roll then a boy (her last). She says with each of her pregnancies her morning sickness has gotten worse. With her boy she would throw up blood and have to get shots to help her with her nausea. Now that doesn't mean she wasn't sick with her girls she just wasn't as bad. So between her and I its safe to say this myth is BUSTED!!!

#8 The Tell Tale Drano
I don't know who in their right mind came up with this one. However I am a little curious about this one. This is the first time I have ever heard about this tale. (I am not endorsing this. If you are wanting to try it your on your own or does the manufactures). According to myth you add your urine to Drano. Then you watch it as it changes colors. I have heard that it will change many different colors but 3 colors seem to be the most constant. If you are going to have a girl the color of this homemade mix will turn green and for a boy it will change to a brown or a yellow. Many review on this subject have women swearing up and down. Some claimed this is how they used to predict gender before ultrasounds could. I have yet to see any actually studies on the topic. Thank goodness for technology right? Although I am not sure I believe this I am not willing to try it to find out.

#9 The Tell Tale Feet
Cold feet...no I am not talking about getting scared and running off. You really can't do that when you are pregnant. Your in it for the whole 9m. I am talking about temperature of your feet. If they are colder now then before you where prego or are the same. I would say my feet aren't any colder than they used to be. According to that myth that means girl. Do I believe in it No! But I can't prove other wise either since I did not pay attention to the temperature of my feet during my last pregnancies.

#10 The Tell Tale Melons
The best part about being prego for me this pregnancy is having boobs back. After having two nursing kids I have felt like an operation may be needed to restore them to their formal glory. This particular tale believes if you had dramatic changes in your breast expect a baby girl. Little to no changes expect a boy. I guess we will see in 4 1/2 wks. Still unsure I believe it.

#11 The Tell Tale Intuition
Mothers intuitions, the last of the wives tales I will go over. It happens to be the only tale I can say 100% without a doubt I believe in. Others may argue it but for me, I have always been right. I have felt both of my kids where going to be boys. I feel blessed that they are and blessed that they are such great friends. The ultrasound will prove me right or wrong in 41/2 wks. although I am confident in my intuition.

So there you have it just for fun gender prediction wives tales. Another way to play around with these is to take a gender prediction test online. I have several times all predicting a girl. Also try the Chinese lunar calender I mentioned before. Like I said with that one it says I am having a boy. They are a lot of fun but please remember they are meant just for that entertainment. Along with all the wives tales I mentioned above. I believe most tales are strictly that tales but still fun to read.

Family Up Date July 2011

Your eyes aren't deceiving you that is a + pregnancy test. We are expecting a new addition to our family March 14 2012.
No one is more excited than Trace who has been praying that this would be happen. As soon as I told him I might have a baby in my belly his eyes got bright and wide his smile bigger than I have seen the threw his arms around me for the biggest hug ever. He is already touching my belly to see if he can feel the baby (he claims he can but try to explain it is too early) and he tries talking to the little blueberry.
Trezdon has seemed to have grown up fast with the news. I don't know why it is. He no longer sucks his two middle fingers which to me is bitter sweet. I wasn't sure how I would ever get him to stop but he also doesn't like to be as cuddled as much. He used to tell everyone he was a baby but now he says he is a big boy. He tells people the baby is now in my belly. Again bitter sweet. I still want to enjoy my skinny little thing and cuddled up with him. The best thing that would come out of this would be if the little man would be willing to start potty training. Crossing my fingers that he will.
It is funny that things happen when they do. I wanted a baby off and on for a year. Tim really didn't want one when I did but was still allowing me to get my way. A few months ago he decided he was ready to have another. Once that happened it didn't take long before I was wondering why things were smelling stronger, why I was drinking all the water I could find, why I was tired and why I have to have a whooper. I think God knew we both had to be on board with expanding our family. Kids are a big step a marriage and now we are going to have 3. It is differently going to be a well worth it challenge.
I decided to tell Tim the day I got found out I was pregnant. I took one of his old shirts and got out my fabric paint. I decided to make foot prints from my own hands one pink one blue then printed daddy of 3 coming soon march 2012 . Once he got home I threw the shirt to him and asked him what he wanted to do with it. He smiled after reading it and gave me a big hug. A few days later we had a reunion and he was dying to show off his new shirt. I really wasn't ready to tell anyone but gave in. It was so fun waiting to see how long it would take family members to catch on. Me I am super excited about this 3rd baby. I am still fearful that I will miscarry again but I just have to have faith that won't happen. Even though I dry heave a lot, feel like i have the flu, am light headed, have fatigue, am peeing like crazy and sore breast i know they are all good signs that things are going well. (Even though it sucks living day after day like that.) I am calling to make my first appointment tomorrow. I will be 8 weeks Wednesday.
This is are update. Small yes but it is late (for a very tired prego women at least). I hope to become better at writing. Until next time hope you enjoyed getting the gossip of our private lives.

Family Up date!

(Our attempt to get a family picture is useless with Kids lol. Plus this is blurry. Getting some taken Spring 2011 )

Tim:
We don't see much of Tim lately. He has been so busy between work and school.
I am happy to say he is doing really well in school. He has straight A's. It has really helped that he is loving what he is doing. He has many people tell him he is ready to go into the field already and he isn't even a senior yet. For those of you who don't know he is attending UCMT. He is an outstanding student. He hardly has time to study working 4 10s and on the road an hour to work and an hour back. Things have come real easy for him. I have been so impressed. I would have to study for hours and still struggle on things like antamony.

Tesha:
My goodness.....I am sitting here trying to find something new in my life. I can't think of anything. My life is Tim and the kids. The life of a mom I guess. I am however thinking about going back to school. I just need to decide if I want to go for my 4yr in something or just a trade school. I have a little time to decide. I would really like to go back to work when the kids are in school. I will keep you updated.

Trace:
My wise little man. He has progressed in this first year of preschool. Not only did colors finally click in his head (I thought he was color blind at one point he would regconized one object was the same as another but the names confused him) but he has made friends. He brings a lot of art projects home which seems to be is favorite. I love the things he made then tells he made them for me. His teacher really focused on the ABC's he would bring a puppet home for each letter. He also made a blinket for the children hospital with his school mates. They have learned about all the holiday seasons as they come up. This whole time he has worked on writing his name. It is still a little bit of a challenge but I am so proud of him. He keeps trying and that is all I ask for.

Trezdon:
My little tease is becoming more and more like his dad everyday. Our skinny little kid is going to be a bully in school. He doesn't let anyone push him around and he teases and picks on kids and even adults. But when he snuggles up with you rubs your face with his tiny hands and says "hi mama" I melt.
This little moster has going really good at his abcs and goes around counting 1,2,1,2. I got to get him onto 3 lol. He has "Child of God" memorized and sings it ALOT! When he sings it Trace joins along and you can feel the spirit these two little angels bring to our family.

Well that has been my every short up date. Hope you enjoyed reading a little about our family's accomplishments and plans.

Winter Fun

Winter is a fun time of year for myself and my little family. Here is a quick update on everything that has happened.....

Dec 2 Trace turned 4yrs old. WOW!!! I can't believe how much time has flew by. I really hated him to turn 4. I kept telling him it's going to break Mommy's heart if you turn 4 can't you stay 3 forever? He said don't worry I will. If only that were something that can actually happen. As his birthday day came he said mom please let me be 4! It was so funny and I said okay you can be 4. He had a great birthday. We had family and a few close friends over for soup, cake and ice cream and had two activities a pinata ( I didn't make this one like the last one) and we went on a hay rid through the lights. Kind of a tradition for his birthday. And he loved every min. of it.

Before I knew it Christmas and New Years had came and went. We got a lot of nice things for Christmas but the best part of it all was the whole 10 days we had just to spend together. Tim didn't have school and he took off 3days (giving him 10days off). It was so wonderful. The kids really loved having there daddy home. It was really hard to send him back to work school and guard the week after new years. The kids seemed to enjoy everything they got for Christmas. Between Santa and Grandparents they had a ton of things. They are sure lucky that they are loved.

The most recent thing just happened Monday. It was our 5th anny. Tim look the day off which was nice but we didn't get to spend it together alone. We had a few guest come by and he had school that night. I was bugged a little but not nearly as much as I would have been if we didn't celebrate on the Friday before thinking Tim couldn't get off before. We went and had a massage love getting massages. The first time I have ever had one in on our honey moon so kind of fitting I guess :). We went to teypinkais which is also every fun to have a dinner and the show. I think we have had better chiefs before but Tim seemed to like him. Then we ended the night with one of my fav. things to do shopping. I got the sweater I have been wanting to get. Love IT!!! It has been an amazing 5yrs of marriage 7yrs of being together and 11yrs of knowing and being friends with the love of my life. It hasn't always been easy but it has always been worth it. I don't think I would trade our life together for anything in the world and I am looking forward for the years to come.

2011 Goals

So it has been the new year for a few weeks now but bare with me. It has already been a very busy year and with no Internet at home I don't get to get on and use my spare time blogging, facebooking or looking up projects like I used to be able to.
Tim and I are looking into a few things we are thinking about getting the Internet on our cells and have them act as a hot spot for our house. The only problem we have ran into is the phones we want are $400 a piece. So we thought maybe switching providers but we would have to pay $400 each line to end our contract early. So we decided the best thing to do is wait until we can get upgrades in March. Our cells will be under $200 each then. So we looked at other options like clear Internet. Which I have heard works great but to get a good price we need to be in a contract. Well we really want the Internet on our cells so we are just waiting. So that means no Internet unless I come to my moms. I have to admit how bitter sweet it has been not to have the Internet. I was so addicted to fb it was unbelievable. I hardly got anything done on the house and my poor kids where neglected a little. It is probably the mom in me worried that I am a bad mom. So hear is a quick up date on my new years goals and how I am going to reach them. lol

Goal #1 Beach Body. I want to loose 20lbs before summer. I have always said that I was going to do this and never did. I have the lowest selfsteem but have never done anything about it. The longer I wait the harder this is going to be to get into shape. I am just going to get older and heavier. This is the time I wish I could have a baby. lol I know strange to hear but when I have babies I loose weight. I was down to 125 with Trezy. I would love to do that again and keep it off. But this time I am actually working on getting that skinny again with diet and exercising. Not only will this help me loose weight but help me have a healthily life style. I actually began doing this before new years (at least exercising) and after the new years day i gave up on Dr. Pepper yet again. lol this time I am not going to drink vitamin water that made me gain 10lbs. Stay away from that stuff. Water and Crystal lite for me please. Water 0 cal of course and Crystal lite 5 cal per serving yey!! I will allow myself a dr. pepper once in a while. But hopefully after a while I won't even want it. Once in a while I will get cravings for it but just walk away. So proud of myself.

Goal #2 Spend more time teaching my kiddos. Family home evening must be in forced for this one. It is hard to have it when Tim is gone Monday - Thursday 4 am to 11 pm so family home evening will happen on the weekends for us. I am thinking of maybe on Friday afternoons. So grateful Tim has Friday off from school and work. I also want to sit down with the kids for an hour each and teach them other things. Like abcs 123 colors for Trezy and help trace write his name etc

Goal#3 actually decorate my house. my house has always been so bare. I have always had so many ideas but I have never had the wall space or the funds. But there are so many things I can make for cheap and I am so excited to try them out. In fact tonight I am cutting out some wood to do something a friend showed me. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_SuZDtw4rhwA/TQvN_EEz7nI/AAAAAAAAMzI/-hQHTXnsEvU/s1600-h/IMG_0042%5B4%5D.jpg
check it out here. As for the lack of wall space see goal under 4

Goal #4 DE-JUNK. I have always held on to so much junk. And I realized how hard that is to do in a small house. So Tim and I have started to de-junk most people do this in the Spring for spring cleaning but we are getting a head start. We got rid of a tv we didn't need and our hug entertainment stand. I have a whole new wall that was opened up to me and it already has deco up. the front room is starting to look like I have always wanted it to starting to get more decorations for it and it looks so cute. I can't wait to finish it with curtains and ivy. The rest of the house needs the same work next place to de-junk and is the kitchen. lol can't wait. You would not believe the feeling in the front room just by de-junking not only the entertainment stand but other odds and ends. It feels roomer and I am actually starting to feel like I can stand being home while before I just wanted to get out.

#5 Now non of these goals are put in order to importance. I would love to do them all and they are all really at the top of my list. This one more than the others is to actively go to church and pay tithing. We go to church but not as often as we should and we always have money spent on bills and food before we can pay tithing. This needs to change. Tim and I decided to pay a years worth of tithing once tax return came. I think life will go a little better for us by doing this and giving the lord what is his. And we are going to start trying to go to church every Sunday. It seemed like Trace was out of Sunbeams before I knew it and that is probably because we didn't go. I feel like my kids are missing out from learning things and gaining a testimony. This is the time where they either learn to love going or hate going. It will effect if they choose to go when they are older and I want them to want to go when they are older. So we are starting NOW!!! Actually I guess I started this goal last week. Even when Tim had guard I went because it is important. And Trace actually likes going. And hopefully I can get Trezy to like it enough that I don't have to be in nursery with him. This is all is also the solution to number #6

#6 GO TO THE TEMPLE!!! We haven't been as a couple in so long. And I think it would be fun to be able to go with friends too.

These are a few of my goals do I think they are unrealistic?...... NO! In fact there is no reason why I can reach each one. Wish me luck!

:) Fall Madness!

Their is so much to catch up on....
Fall of course began out with Trezdons Birthday. His favorite song now is Happy Birthday. He loved everyone singing to him. You can tell he felt special. I worked my butt off on a homemade pintia that everyone loved. Now all the kids in the family want them at their Birthday parties.

Then trick or treating it turned out to be an weekend event instead of one day. We had trick or treating on main in Springville on Friday. Then Saturday trick or treating on Main in SF, Trunk or Treating in Woodland Hills, Sis's Halloween party, then grandparents. On Sunday we stopped at my grandmas because we missed her the day before. It was crazy. The kids where super cute this year. Trace was the "Black Spider Man" and Trezy was a skeleton. It was Fun!

Family Up date

It is hard to believe how much time has flew by and I have not written a word about anything in months. So much has happen in our crazy lives it is hard to find a place to start. But I will sum up what has happened lately or going to happen starting from the oldest in our family to the smallest.


Tim what an amazing guy!! He is working so hard for us that we hardly see him anymore. Right now he is working a full time job and going to school full time. He leaves home around 4:30 AM and comes home at 11PM. By time he gets things ready for the next day he gets about 4 hrs of sleep. I am very impressed with the way he is balancing everything so far he has done amazing in school. He has passed all of his quizzes so far and is always on top of his homework. I am so proud of him. He is going to Utah of Message Therapy for two reasons. Number one if anything this is a great part time job for Tim if we need a little extra money. But the sweetest thing is he is doing it for me and all my problems. (scoliosis tendinitis). It is going to be a long long year but hopefully it goes by fast.
Tim is also turing a quarter or a century old next Sunday. I need to start planning his party. It won't be big just cake and ice cream so if you want to come let me know. lol he always feels so old on his birthday. lol I am a week younger than him and I still feel like a pup! 25 doesn't bug me. I am still young and I am going to enjoy that. I am going to try and convince Tim of that too.

Me-I am still an stay at home mom. But as soon as Tim is off school I am thinking about getting a part time job or going back to school myself. But I am enjoying getting to be with our boys during the day.
Just about a week and a half ago I suffered from a miscarrage. I wasn't very far along and I was surprised how hard it was. I think most of the shock has worn off. I still have time where I am sad but I know I am truly bless to have Trace and Trezdon. My little angels. I also learned who really cares about me. I am so lucky to have support from some of my friends family and the one and only person in my ward that knows. I seriously don't know what I would do with out all of them. Thank You Everyone. We are planning to try again although I want to make sure I am ready. Just in case something happened again. The Dr. told us if we are going to try that we should wait until after two periods. Part of me really wants to try and the other is scared to. So with time we will see what happens. I diff. feel for those who have had miscarriages. A lot of people have multiple miscarriages this scares me that I could be one of those people. I will make sure to keep everyone up dated when we do start trying again.

Trace- I was so excited to find him a preschool. I found on in Spanish Fork. A little pain to drive but it just felt right. We went to meet his teacher on Friday and look at his class room. I will never forget the look on his face. He was so excited but shy at the same time, he smile and there was something about the look in his eyes that was like I can't wait. I keep trying to tell him the four people that can pick him up is me, Tim and my parents if anyone else tries to say sorry your not my mom then run to his teacher. I hope it works. I am also pretty nervous that he is going to have a hard time not being around mom and me leaving him. But I realize in order for him to grow socially I need to do this. He is still young and could really wait until next year I feel like it is the best thing to do. Although the other day I did feel a little sad that maybe I am forcing him to grow up to fast. And I was going to miss not having him around during that 3 short hours. Lol I know funny right. But I am excited to know I won't be very far because my sister in law lives in the same area as his school and my mom in the same town so I won't be far during those times. I am really excited for him.

Trezdon holy cow my tazmainen devil. I really never understood parents who had a hard time with their kids getting into everything because Trace was so easy and never really cared. But now that Trezy knows how to open things he gets into trouble. He tries to go outside (scary bc of the road we live on) he opened a draw in my closet with my nail polish and opened and played in them. He is always in the fridge getting cheese. lol it is funny at times. I just think he is so smart! Do you want to know the best thing about him being this way......? He is potty training himself. Yeah you heard right. If anyone says bathroom or pee he is pulling down his paints, taking off his diaper throwing it away and peeing and pooping in his little potty. And he is talking like mad!! It was so cute when Trace was playing Mario Cart the other day one of the guys laughed and Trezy copied and said I ama gonna win! lol He is always going around telling everyone he is skinny, or he tries to say he is someone else. I can diff. see that having a big brother close to the same age helps. He is always trying to keep up with him.

Well that is our smallish update hope you enjoyed. As for me it is 11:42 I am headed to bed for the night. The long day starts up again tomorrow.