Sink Bath

Love him sooooo much.

Making a Card for Daddy

Adrian and I made a Father's Day card for Nick the other day while he was at work. I had visions of little painted hand-prints and giggling with Adrian as he recklessly smeared paint everywhere. Turns out, he's pretty apathetic about paint. Which meant he was not at all reckless. Oh well.

Father's Day is Sunday and I'm sure Nick will love it :)

Adrian uses a fork!

Adrian has learned to use a big boy fork! Actually, he totally skipped over using the "little boy" fork. He loves it and is so so so proud of himself when he gets a bite on the fork and into his mouth.

Of course, we're proud too :)

I have found it easier to let him eat in a t-shirt instead of a shirt and a bib. It's less laundry to just let him get it on the shirt :) Obviously, he's really good at making a mess at meal time!

13 Weeks Pregnant!

Yay 2nd Trimester!

Here's what's going on:

- Can't sleep at night. Officially can't sleep on my belly and because the baby is on my right side, I feel like I'm squashing him/her when I sleep on my right side, and (s)he feels heavy in my stomach when I sleep on my left. Comes with the territory, but that's okay.

-I've been feeling the baby a lot. Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk with my knees to my chest and I could feel him/her kicking against my leg. I think (s)he was changing positions, which is why I could feel it so definitely...very awesome.

-Burst into tears Sunday night because I can't believe we get to have TWO precious blessings.

-More people are noticing my belly. I thought we'd told everyone...but I got a lot of "oh my...are you PREGNANT?" this week. That's kind of fun.

- TWO WEEKS until we hopefully find out the gender (if baby cooperates). We've been training Adrian to say the names we've picked - it's very cute. I think I found a fun way to announce either boy or girl on facebook.

- I've eaten approximately 456 popsickles this week. Soooo yummy. I got healthy ones so that makes it okay :)

-Still can't stand eggs or much of anything else.

Here's my belly at 13 weeks:

12 Weeks Pregnant!

According to different sources, this is either my last or second to last week in the 1st trimester! I feel relieved, blessed, excited. I confessed to Nick that I feel so overwhelmed to have been entrusted with Adrian, who is the most precious boy in the world, that I've had a hard time accepting that the Lord has blessed us in the same HUGE way once again. 

I've know about this little one for nine weeks now, but it has taken quite a while to sink in that another sweet person is going to be filling our hearts and home. 

I keep thinking, "we get to keep this baby". 

I'm just blessed. No other words to describe it.

I had a doctor's appointment since last update and it went well. I've been going to the same place that I went with Adrian, and this time around it seems that the nurses and midwives are more relaxed around me since I'm a return patient. That's been nice. My lack of morning sickness is not a concern, thankfully, and so I'm starting to take everyone's advice and consider myself lucky. I guess I "got used" to pregnancy being a certain way and it's been sooo very different!

I got to hear the heartbeat at the doctor's this time! The baby was very active - I could hear him/her doing flips and somersaults and the midwife said she was having a hard time catching him/her to hear the heartbeat. It was a strong 160.

I'm sure I felt the baby twice last night. That was exciting! Just little thumps like when I first felt Adrian. I'm so excited to be in this part of pregnancy - I love it!

12 weeks with Mini Ghees.

Calling all mothers to be.

I have found the answer.

....to our desire for slushy drinks at least :) It's sooo awesome and works great! Buy it!

11 Weeks!

I'm finally 11 weeks pregnant and the 1st trimester is almost over! YAY! I feel like I can finally begin to breathe again. This little baby has been very easy on me. Just this week I've started having major food aversions to almost everything - not really getting sick, but almost everything we have in the house that I think of eating ends up looking and tasting like squash (not literally, but I hate squash so it's about the same). Almost the only thing that even sounded good even a little bit was Wendy's chicken sandwhiches. And I never eat Wendy's! Silly baby!

I can tell that I'm carrying this baby higher than I carried Adrian. I've thanked the Lord for this often this week - hopefully the middle/end of this pregnancy will not be as painful as Adrian's was.  I'm looking forward to hopefully feeling the baby in the next week or two (I first felt Adrian at 13 weeks).  

I have my 2nd appointment this week on Thursday. I'm looking forward to hearing the baby again on the doppler and hearing that everything is still going okay.

2 more weeks until the 2nd trimester - yay!

A big day for Adrian!

This morning, my little man (14 months) came up to me while I was cleaning up breakfast. 

He signed "more" (which he's started using for everything - quickly replacing his previously favorite sign "please"), and said, "joosh" (juice)?

He has said this word before, mostly when I ask him if he wants some juice, he'll repeat the last word of the sentence. He doesn't get it often, but he's had a tough week with teething and so he's been able to have a little that's extremely watered down so he gets enough fluids. Adrian is good at signing and we rarely have to question what he needs or wants, but he's yet to ask for something verbally.

We were SO PROUD! I quickly filled up his cup with a little juice and gave it to him. He drank it happily while we stood over him glowing with pride :)

We love you, baby boy!