precious moments with my newly 4(!!) year old

Steve's putting Ethan to bed and Ethan came in very seriously to tell me something. He told me that he was really sorry for running away from me after church this morning, and for disobeying on the way home. I thanked him for his apology and told him that I forgive him and went to give him a hug. "And here's some trash for you" he interrupted my hug to give me a sticker that wasn't sticking to his face anymore. I thanked him for the trash. "And I wanted to tell you a joke. How do you catch a butterfly?" I don't know, how? "You act like a tree."

Such precious little fun moments with my kiddo. He's getting so big :)

I have birthday pics and videos to post. It came and went so quickly and now he's four!

31 weeks and starting to thaw

We played outside today!! Ethan was out for 2 hours right before dinner. He had a blast climbing the mountain of icy snow in our front yard. 

I've only got just over 8 weeks until my due date. Mainly just feeling tired, sore and so excited to meet baby girl. 

28 weeks

I'm 2/3 done! 

And I'm also surviving my first cold/sickness while pregnant. Pretty lucky to go the first and 2/3 of the 2nd before catching a bug. 

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!