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.

15 weeks

Happy Halloween!

Excited to be dressing up as a dragon

Ready to be done with pictures and heading out to the candy

names

Ethan just told me that if the baby is a girl he thinks we should name her Helfin. If it's a boy then he would like to name him Peetin. I told him we'd keep those under consideration.

what I've been up to lately

Little heart beating away at 8 weeks

5 weeks

8 weeks

12 weeks

After 2.5 years of praying for another child, over 10 months of waiting on a list at an adoption agency, we were pretty excited to say the least. I've been super sick. Medicine is helping some, but it's been rough. Even so, we are so happy to be welcoming another little one into our family, due around May 5. And Ethan is also over the moon excited to be a big brother :) He talks to his baby brother or sister, kisses my tummy, and keeps track of what size fruit/veggie the chart we have says his little sibling is similar to.

corn maze

We broke out our winter gear, and headed to the nearby giant corn maze! We had a blast, and thankfully the nasty weather held off until we were ready to head home.