GREAT NEWS! WE'RE....

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Hello everyone! I can't believe it's been so long since I've written. I have some incredible news! John and I are going to have another baby!!! I found out April 12th - the day before Songkran (I'll write about Songkran later - city wide water fight!) I went to the doctor last week and I am officially 6 weeks along! John and I are praying for a girl - if it's a boy then that's fine - we would just like to have our girl this time. (Yes, we're having the baby here)

I never had any morning sickness when I was pregnant with Josiah but with this pregnancy I'm feeling nauseated a lot. I have definite food aversion…which is going to cause some problems. Every time I think about eating Thai food right now - I get a little nauseated - so all I have been able to eat is Western Food - which is expensive and hard to get to sometimes. I'm going to be doing a lot of cooking at home I can tell already. The biggest thing that I've had so far is that I'm extremely tired - extremely!! I'm constantly interrupted by yawns…hehehe. ~YAWN~ I'm really excited though! I'm very blessed that I'm not throwing up and suffering from morning sickness.
Curry, Dawn, Christel, Becky and Elisha are here now visiting. We've been really busy the past 3 days taking them around Hat Yai. Our living room furniture was delivered yesterday and it is wonderful. For those of you who don't know…a while back someone called us and told us that God had put it on their heart to buy us living room furniture, which was a big time answer to prayer. So we went to a local shop that makes wicker furniture (really inexpensive here-a whole set for about $200) and picked out a couch, 2 chairs, table, pompasan chair, and a stand for the TV (when we get one) and a while later they are delivered. So now when people come over they don't have to sit on the floor.

Speaking of sitting on the floor - Josiah's birthday was April 16th and we threw him a birthday party. There were about 20 people who came (including Curry, Dawn, Christel, Becky and Elisha) and we all sat on the floor - we had some pads for people to sit on so it wasn't so bad. Josiah had a wonderful birthday party!!! We are so blessed! I was really concerned but everything went wonderfully! I have lots of pictures to put up and I will. I'm at work right now and I can't but when I get home I will. Josiah seems to have grown just since he turned 3! I know it sounds crazy but he's just changed over night…all the sudden he's talking sooo much more and he is even behaving and listening better. I haven't had to get onto him for 3 days now! It's amazing!

I have so much to tell you about last week but for now - I'm just going to leave you with the good news that I'm pregnant and I'll write later about Songkran later - I have tons of pictures and I can't wait to tell you about the city wide water fight! I am sorry if I have not responded to some of your e-mails! I am going to catch up this week. Talk to you soon!

Steph