25 weeks

Love how Ethan's making faces. 

New ride!

This is a horrible picture, but we bought a "new" (to us) mini van. We picked it up last night and tonight Ethan convinced us to go out in the snow, to the Lego store. It took quite a while to get there in rush hour and the snow on top of it, so the boys rode in the back seat and watched a DVD. Yes, I have always been against having a DVD player in the car so I tried to explain to my son, who was watching in awe and amazement, that DVDs are only for special occasions... That might have fallen on deaf ears. I'm really liking the power doors and remote locks. Luxury for us! 

24 weeks - nursery project!

Wow, I'm almost 25 weeks along now! "Baby sister" (as she's commonly being referred to in our house) seems to be doing great, and is still putting me through the ringer. Thanks to nausea meds, and taking it easy, I'm making it through pretty well though. The braxton hicks started early and were just a couple of times a week. Now they're up to several times a day. Nothing too hard to deal with but they're not comfortable :)  So strange, having never had them with Ethan until the very end when labor would have been alright with me.

I've started making purchases to transform the nursery from a bold boy's room to a soft girl's room. Ethan helped me pick out and put up these fun 3d flowers on the wall. I also bought some purple bedding, some purple butterflies and dragonflies to hang from the ceiling, and a curtains for the window. I think that should just about do it for the decorating, unless I find some artwork that catches my eye. And maybe a purple and lace frilly pillow for the glider.

My prenatal appointments are going to start getting interesting now. I have only 1 left before my 3rd trimester is here! Glucose testing, rhogam shot, all those fun things next time around. 

20 week ultrasound - it's a...

I had my 20 week ultrasound on Tuesday. We got to spend some time watching baby wiggle around and kick in there.

It very much reminded me of my ultrasound with Ethan. Baby was in the exact same spot, and we had a hard time getting some of the images that the ultrasound tech needed. Ethan never moved from that spot, requiring another follow up ultrasound to see some of his heart. So she had me go to the bathroom and move around a bit and baby moved too, and we finished up pretty quickly. The last thing she did was check the sex of the baby. Took a few minutes of pushing and prodding, baby was scrunched up and legs locked together. I made the comment that it was beginning to make me think it was a girl, with Ethan it was pretty easy for even me to tell he was a boy. She agreed with me, that she was starting to think it was a girl too. Then we finally got a good shot and confirmed that it looks like a girl!!

We're pretty surprised, and getting used to the idea of dresses, ruffles and bows invading our house :) Ethan's been saying that it was a girl all along, so I don't think he's as surprised as mommy and daddy. We're all pretty excited to know!

18 weeks

Ethan always has lots of hugs and kisses for baby. 

17 weeks

Feeling plenty of kicks and nudges. I'm really curious as to the gender of this little one. This pregnancy has been really different in many ways, so lots of people keep telling me it's probably a girl. Ethan wants it to be a girl. We hopefully will find out mid December. 

Christmas started a little early around here

This weekend we got out our Christmas tree! Ethan was so unbelievably excited to set it up. After the decorating work was done on Sunday, we popped open a bottle of sparkling cider and let him have a wine glass along with us to drink from. We all said "cheers"... a lot... we gave a few toasts, and he did as well. His toasts turned into prayers, which was really cute, telling God what a wonderful day it was, asking for health for me and baby, telling God how old each of us are, etc. Before bedtime we turned off all of the lights and sat in front of the tree with a snack. He was absolutely beaming all day long. What a fun time of year for little ones :)

Then today he pulled a dough ornament off the tree that we made together a few years ago, and asked if we could make more ornaments like that one. So we did, we made 6 ornaments this morning and then painted them after rest time. I told Steve that at this rate we will run out of Christmas activities long before Christmas gets here. Steve didn't think that would be a problem.