9.12.13

Holy cow, baby boy.  Its been a whole month since I wrote in your blog!  We have been doing so much work to the house & its been great.....but I guess I've found very little free time to sit down & write you.  I do talk to you all the time, though.  Do you hear me in there?  I especially like to talk when you're very bouncy!  I always ask you what's going on in there.  I have to believe that you can hear me even if you can't talk back yet;)  Stella looooooves watching my belly move & you are quite a wiggly little baby, so it works out well for us!  She is more excited for Christmas than ever this year because she knows that Christmastime carries one very extra special present with it this time around...........!

You have been treating me well, just as big sister did when she was in my belly.  I go potty more often...and my allergies seem to be worse than before.....but those are really my only 2 big complaints so far & they're not so much a big deal at all!  We are at 25 weeks & 1 day now........meaning that we've got less than 15 weeks to go til your Due Date! ! ! !   I can hardly believe that.  Dad & I have a TON of work to do before you get here;)  I have so many cute ideas for your nursery....but we've been working so hard on the 1st floor of our house that we haven't done too much upstairs yet.  But once Stella & Dada's big birthday party is over...and once we get back from vaca the week after that.....it'll be time to get to work on your room & Stella's big girl room!   I have already started to gather up cute things for them & I've got ideas on paint colors & that sort of thing.....so we are well on our way:)

I've also started to gather up some REALLY cute little clothes for you!  Some people told me that shopping for baby boys isn't as fun as shopping for baby girls....but I'm finding that its totally fun; just in a different sort of way!  I love stripes & soft, earthy colors for you and I'm picking little things up as I find them.  Its fun to know that you're a boy because its neat to just gather sweet things up as I find them in my travels....and you'll soon learn that your mama is a shopper..........so I'm usually traveling around somewhere or other....and very often inside of a store!  ;)

Its so funny that so many of my friends are having babies right around the time that you're going to be born.  You already have a built-in playgroup & you're still in the womb!  Whoever got so lucky?!  You are going to be one of the only boys...if not the only one...because so far, everybody else is being told that they're having a girl;)  So far its you + 3 little girls (due between September & January)!  But we've got Auntie Sarah too (due in November).....and she's waiting til baby's born to find out boy vs. girl.....and Auntie Jenni (due in March).....and one other great friend, who shall rename nameless for now, due in April.  How exciting is that?!!  Babies all around!

Well.........I'm going to go tend to big sister for awhile now (though she seems very entertained at the moment with one of the toys that she got for her birthday yesterday).....but I'll leave you with a few photos:)  I don't take them every week now but I might start to take them more often now that I'm getting further along in the pregnancy.  Its fun to see how my belly...and you inside of it...are growing!

Stay cozy in there & we will be seeing you soon!

Love you soooo much...

Your Mama

Dada & I with Darcel & Eric at our Gender Reveal party!  I was about 21 weeks along then.  Darcel is due with your baby girl cousin just 2 weeks after I am due with you :)

23 weeks, in my Foo Fighters shirt:)  

You'll learn alllll about rock & roll in this family!

Big sister Stella & I at......25 weeks, of course!

...xoxo...

8.14.13

Dear Baby,

This past week has been an exciting one for us!  We hit the 21-week mark yesterday.....so that means that we are more than halfway through this pregnancy!  In something like 19 more little bitty weeks, we will get to meet you:)))  It kind of seems crazy that we are already so far along.......but it definitely feels great at the same time!

Last Thursday, your Dad & I went to the hospital for our big ultrasound so that the doctor could check on you & see that you were growing as you should be.  Everything seemed to check out just right & they said that you look wonderful & healthy!  They also told us that you...are...a............BOY!!!  Your Mom-Mom was with us & she was very proud that she wore a special blue shirt to the ultrasound.  I think she had a special secret feeling that you were going to be a boy!  The funny thing was that Dad & I had blue on too.....totally coincidentally......but maybe we both secretly somehow knew it, too!

After the ultrasound, Dad & I went shopping for some cute baby boy clothes for you but we kept our news to ourselves so that we could have a little get-together with some friends over the weekend to reveal your gender in a special way to them!  Stella & I baked a cake and I made the layers of icing on the inside bright blue.....so that once we cut the cake, everyone would finally know if we were having a BOY or another little GIRL!  I didn't let Stella help with the icing part so that she could be surprised alongside of everyone else at the party.

These were the fun little "mustache" & "kissy lips" charms we had for everyone to choose from to declare publicly whether they thought you were a boy or a girl...

And this was what the cake looked like...

We had a lot of fun that night :)

Then the next morning, Stella, Dad & I took some fun pictures out in our backyard to announce to the rest of the world that you are going to be a bouncing baby BOY!  

I especially love this one of Stella "doing laundry" with some of the sweet clothes Dad & I picked out for you on our shopping spree last week.  She even wore a blue stripey dress for the occasion.  Perfect!

That little guy in the red overalls is your big sister Stella's favorite friend, "Mouse".  He goes everywhere with us & has for about as long as I can remember.  He was hiding in the laundry basket for the first shot & it didn't surprise me much when she decided to hang him on the line with your clothes and then proceed to laugh hysterically about it :)

Cool blue glitter, right?  Stella really liked this part!  It was actually leftover shiny blue sprinkles from the cake project :)  I thought it would look neat if Dad captured a photo of me blowing it into the sunlight.....and it sure does!  Looks kind of magical, huh?  

Anyhow, I hope you're nice & cozy in there.  Keep kicking me every now & then to keep my worrisome mind in check......and I'll write you again soon.  

Love you so much already.......

HUGS & KISSES,

Your Mama

8.7.13

AHHHH......20 weeks!  

I can hardly believe we're halfway there:)))

TheBump says baby is a banana right now...lol...and Stella still says I'm having twins!  Haha.

Our big ultrasound is scheduled for tomorrow morning.......

Less than 12 hours from right now.

Eeeeeee!

I can't wait to see you, little one!

Xoxo

8.3.13

Dear Baby,

How are you doing in there?  I've been feeling you wiggle around once in awhile, which is such a fantastic thing to finally be able to feel:))))  Your Dad has even felt you a time or 2 already, which was really exciting & special for him.  I'm so upset with myself that I haven't been writing here more but life is busy with your big sister & I guess all of the fun we are always having sometimes gets in the way of finding the time to write.  The good news is that everything seems to be going great for us:)  I'm approaching the 20-week mark of our pregnancy......which means that we are already almost at the halfway mark!  This coming Tuesday will officially be the day I am able to say that we are at 20 weeks and Thursday will be the greatest day in the history of ever because Dada & I will finally get to see youuuuuu!  We have our anatomy scan ultrasound appointment scheduled at the hospital for 10am & I'm kind of already counting down the minutes til that moment arrives:)  We both kind of seem to think that you might be a boy...but we're not sure why.   It seems that most people I talk to think that you're a girl, though!  Luckily, we don't have much longer to wait til we find out......

Love you so much, little one.  Can't wait to see you next week!!!

xo
Your Mama

P.S.  Here's us at 19 weeks.......

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7.22.13

18 weeks tomorrow!  How fabulous/amazing/crazy is that?!!

I honestly cannot believe how time is suddenly flying past, when in the beginning it felt like it was barely moving at all.

I'm still feeling really good & I'm so grateful for that.  I see the doctor again tomorrow morning & I'll bring Stella with me to listen to the heartbeat for the first time, so that should be fun:)   Its a real bummer that the hospital won't allow any kids under 7 into the perinatal testing center because she was reaaally excited to come with us for my 20 week ultrasound.  So, I figured, bringing her to this was at least a little bit like a consolation prize;)   I won't be seeing Dr. Heinzel tomorrow, as they wanted me to meet the new doctor at the practice since I never have...so hopefully I'll like her just (or almost) as much.

I've been feeling random flutters here & there the last week or 2 but there was one particular day last week, not long after I treated myself to a small Starbucks (non-decaf) iced coffee where (s)he went totally absolute bananas in there for a little while......lol. It was pretty hilarious & actually kind of awesome though because RJ was able to feel the movements too without much effort at all & that was a first for that this time around!  It wasn't until much later with Stella that he was able to feel her but they told me that was because my placenta was "anterior" with her so it kind of served as a big cushion between her & me throughout the pregnancy.  I'd have to check the other blog to be absolutely certain but I think I was about 23 weeks before we really felt her movements......so this, at 17 weeks, was kind of unexpected but totally awesome & welcome nevertheless:)

This was my 17-week photo.  My plan is to start to have RJ snap one of me every Tuesday, to document the start of a new week of the pregnancy.  I really should have started weeks ago.....but hey, better late than never, right?  Plus I do have a handful of ones in the earlier weeks that Stella shot for me or that I shot myself:)

7.12.13

Dear Baby,

Well, love.  Its official.  Your Dad & I saw you move today!  Both of us did.....for the first time!  Well, I actually thought I saw my belly wiggling around earlier today but I wasn't sure...but when Dad got home from work, I laid on the couch & we both stared for awhile &....sure enough, there you were:)

We go to the hospital for our 20-week ultrasound on August 8th, where they will check on you & print more pictures for us & tell us the answer to the most magical question of all right now...........BOY or GIRL !?  

{Anyone reading this.....

......if you have a feeling, please post as a comment:)

I kind of have a feeling of my own right now but I won't say anything yet, so as not to sway anyone.}

Anyhow, little one, thank you for making my time with you so great so far. Just like with your big sister, this pregnancy has been a joy.  Dad & I have been busy, busy working on the house.  I've been listening to Dave Matthews even more so than usual lately, so I think its safe to assume that you'll automatically be a fan, basically from your moment of birth, if you don't consider yourself one already;)  We went to see him at the end of June & he was wonderful, as he always is.  Hopefully you were able to hear some of it from in there:)  I can't get enough of cranberry juice right now & my belly is definitely bigger than it was at 16.5 weeks with Stell Bee!  My plan is to have Dad & Stella take some pictures this weekend; so I'll have to post a few once they do.

I hope you're comfy cozy in there.  I can't wait to see you on 8/8!  Dad took that day off from work, so we will probably leave the hospital after the ultrasound & go shopping for something cute for you:))))

Love you, little munchkin.

xoxo
Your Mama

7.1.13

Welp.....the proverbial cat's outta the bag for good now;)  I posted our news on FaceBook earlier tonight & it actually feels GREAT, like some kind of serious weight has been lifted off my shoulders.....lol.  I've gotten the chance to tell so many friends & family members in person but hitting 15 weeks (and realizing how my belly has clearly popped to the point of being pretttty obviously pregnant), I figured it was just time for the world to officially know.  And I love that now, the world pretty much does!  Thank you, magic of FB.  The positivity & love that everyone has been showering us with tonight on there has been so welcome & lovely.  I'll have to share this blog address on there soon, too.  Again...its been fun keeping it all mostly to myself so far.......but its definitely time to start sharing the fun with anyone who's interested in being a part of it along with us:) 

14 weeks + 6 days