We are having a


LITTLE



BABY





GIRL!


As you can tell...Avery is already ecstatic about the news.

We are so grateful to be able to add to our little family.  And, I wasn't the least bit surprised when the ultrasound tech didn't see anything between our little girls legs.

Kris and I have a tradition to grab a bagel after every Dr's visit at Blue Sky Bagel downtown.  And, while we were eating I started tearing up telling him how lucky I am that I will have two best friends for the rest of my lift.  I immediately started thinking about when my girls are adults and we talk on the phone every day. They will call me to cry about bad times and they will call me to share their exciting news.  We will have traditions of going Christmas shopping together and have weekly lunches just so I can kiss their faces.  They will have my grandchildren some day and they will call me for advice.  When, at that point, I will remind them of what perfect little babies they were.  And, that they didn't cause us ANY grief what-so-ever. And, then I will chuckle.

Anyway, I could ramble on and on about it, but you get the idea.

I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family and we will just keep adding to it so long as we are able.  You can't have too many best friends!  (Oh, trust me....I know that this will be when their are older.  I am a parent for now.  Best Friend when they are adults)

Can't wait to meet you baby girl!

Guys.  I am not good at taking pictures.  I am making this picture small because the lighting obviously distorts my face.  Except the dark circles under my eyes.  Those are legit.

Can I blame it on my camera phone?  I will take another one tonight!  This is just ridiculous!

See how hard it is to get a good family picture?  There were at least 5 more taken that were immediately deleted.  What is it going to be like with 2 kids?!  Oh, dear.

Regardless, we had a great time at the Festival of Trees this year.  There are probably around 100 trees uniquely decorated and then bought for charity.  Avery loved looking at all the lights and toys on the trees.  Last year she got to see Santa and take a picture with him, but it was too busy this year and we ran out of time.  Santa is a busy dude!

I love Christmas time and this is such a fun way to kick off the season.

My phone was just NOT taking good pictures last night.  I don't know why.  And, as you can see, I had a crying baby hanging on me, so I didn't have much time to keep taking pictures.
 
Little Miss has been very clingy to me lately.  I must hold her every second of the day when I am with her.  Or, she must know where I am and be in the same room with me.  It sure makes me feel good sometimes, but it gets hard to do most things with a 1 year old on my hip.  (Like, use the restroom, cook dinner, take pictures of my belly.  You get the idea)

Anyway...19 weeks already!  Phew!  Has the time gone by as fast for you as it has for me?

I can't believe we are finding out what we are having next week.  The poll results are really all over the place.  About half the people I ask think its a boy and the other half a girl.  Maybe I should put up another poll on the side of the blog like I did with Avery? 

I must.  I must keep things equal between the two.  Can't be showing favorites!

So...cast your vote!  Boy or Girl?  I would tell you what I think, but I don't want to sway your vote.

I didn't really want to make my picture SO HUGE, but the alternative was pretty small. 

So...BAM!  There's my belly, in all it's glory.  18 weeks.

I am really going to try hard to take weekly pictures of #2.  I don't want this one to feel like already, in the womb, there are less pictures of them than our #1.

I am still feeling pretty good, actually.  I am starting to get uncomfortable while trying to sleep, but that could be due to the fact that we need a new mattress, terribly.  I feel little flutters and tinnnny kicks every once in a while, but nothing that Kris can feel yet.  It seems like he could feel Avery so much earlier than 18 weeks.

Maybe, just maybe.  God has blessed me with a less active baby?  God?  Maybe?  Please?  My ribs would be so grateful.  They are still trying to heal from the first baby foot.  I don't know if they can handle another?!

I wonder if we could ever get a decent family picture together?

Either Avery is crying, the lighting is horrible, or Kris has 4 eyes.

Regardless, I am happy to report that we are expecting our little surprise baby #2 at the end of April!!  WOOHOO!  We will find out what we are having on December 5th and we can't wait!

I am already horrible about taking pictures of our #2.  And, I promise to be better about the baby bump pictures.

I am happily in my second trimester (17 weeks this week) and feeling great!  I am getting my daily headaches and my sciatic nerve is giving me issues, but other then that I am feeling awesome!

We have two HUGE maple trees in our front yard.  And, if you know anything about maple trees, they have a ton of leaves.  I MEAN A TON.  And, they don't all drop at once.  So, this weekend we set out to pick up some of these said ton of leaves.

Saturday we did about half the yard and it took about 2 hours and 5 big trash bags.  My back was hurting terribly, and we had to get ready to go the BSU game so we called it quits for the day.

Sunday we finished the yard with the help of Butch.  Thankfully!!!  I don't know how much of a help I would have been without him. But, Avery was loving the big piles of leaves.  She was a huge help picking up each leaf one by one and putting it in the trash. 

She didn't even mind the few face plants she took while loosing her balance in the grass.  She is a tough girl, that's for sure.