Simply Selby: Catching Up

Well, well, well....man have I taken a vacation...a looonnggg vacation from this blog. And boy has a lot changed since then. As most of you know, our biggest news is that Baby Selby #2 will be making his or her appearance in June! It has been a long journey for sure and we are so grateful. Some don't know but we weren't able to get pregnant for three years. We didn't really share that information with others and I'm not sure why but we didn't. The doctor I was seeing kept putting things on the back burner and eventually sent us to a fertility specialist in Springfield. After several ultrasounds, they raised the question of "Where are your ovaries?" They couldn't find my ovaries. After many tests, they eventually found the left but couldn't find the right. After finding a mass on my right Fallopian tube, they suggested surgery. In which things didn't really go as planned and not only could they not find my ovary but they also had to remove my right Fallopian tube and noticed my left was very damaged from scar tissue. So hope was VERY slim of getting pregnant. We were to start clomid and low and behold...after three years of trying....we got pregnant. So even though we had been trying for so many years, when it "accidentally" happened-it took me awhile to grasp the reality of it all. I had it in my head that a second child wasn't in our store for us. So that's the journey of our second baby....Mallory is beyond excited. She is so sweet with everything. She will ask every day how baby is doing. I have once again been super sick, like I was with Mallory and she will come and check on me and make sure I'm okay. She will bring me an ice pack without even asking her to, just to make sure my back is doing okay. She is awesome and LOVE seeing her so anxious.
With that...Mallory is 5!!! She has grown so much..super tall and skinny. Some of her favorites are Barbies, Shopkins, watching YouTube Kid videos, Maureen Morris, Kelsea Ballerini, Moana, all things art and acting like a goofball. She is attending Pre-K at Salem Lutheran and loves it although the drama between some of the girls in her class are full force. She has been with some of her classmates since birth at her old daycare and think that their relationships have become more of a sibling relationship than friend. They love each other yet argue like sisters. ;) Her faith has grown by being at Salem and my favorite part of my day by far is bedtime. I will lay down with her and we talk about her day. It's where she confides in me and tells all...I hope this doesn't ever go away or that she always wants to tell me how she feels. And of course we say our prayers....and I love listening to what she has to pray about that night. LOVE!
On a side note: Some funny things that Mallory has said lately:
Mom, you know Donald Trump doesn't rule the world. Only God does!
Mom, you are my Magical Dream Team!
She calls Taco Bell...Taco Ring Ring.
The song "To Kill A Word" ...she thought that it said, "If I could only, kill a WORM!"
She told me she was going to buy we all these animals and bring them home. So she would say:
Mom, I'm going to buy you a giraffe. I would say, You can't buy me a giraffe, it's too big.
Mom, I'm going to buy you a monkey. I would say, You can't buy me a monkey, it sticks.
So she finally says, "Mom, I'm going to get you a bunny. I said, "Perfect!"