Big News!

 

GUESS WHAT?!?

I’m going to be a BIG brother!!

I CAN’T WAIT!

What do you mean I have to SHARE Mom and Dad??  Noooooo…

That’s right…

 

Baby #2 is due September 1st (per the ultrasound) and September 3rd (per my calculations-haha)!  I’m currently 14 weeks along, and I believe the baby is the size of a lemon.  The heart rate on Friday (3/1) was 155, and the baby is already taking over my abdomen.  Hello maternity clothes! 

Owen is growing more excited, especially when he got to hear the heartbeat.  He loves to touch my stomach and say the baby is in there.  He has also already asked if he can try the “milk from your boobies” haha!

Here are some sonogram pictures from when I was 9 weeks in early February.  The baby looked like a little gummy bear wiggling its nubs all over the place!

 

 

We have decided to stay Team Green again, so the gender will remain a mystery!  We have switched doctors, so no fancy 3D ultrasounds this time, and we won’t have one again until 20 weeks.  Keep looking for more baby related posts to come.

Week in Review: 2/25- 3/3

Owen and I braved the cold to visit this cute park with a Japanese garden.  The daffodils were in full bloom, and it was really pretty!









Daily Tidbits from the Week:
- We were sitting at the table talking about Easter, and Owen told us that Mimi smelled like worms (then bugs, then flowers)!
- Owen hates his face getting wet in the tub.  The other day he poured water over his head, and after five minutes of being really upset he told us “It’s not so bad.”
-  While at the dollar store, Owen wanted to get an Easter bubble wand.  When we got home and were playing with it, he said that he would do bubbles in the basement with Papa (he actually remembered this from Christmas)!

Changes in Owen

- This kid is ridiculously observant!  Last month Owen went to the doctors with me for the first time.  Well we had to go back again this month.  As we’re sitting in the waiting room, he told me: “They moved the plants.  The plant by the door is gone.”  He was very insistent!   It turns out they HAD moved all the plants from the waiting room! 
- His memory is seriously scary.  He will tell me about things we did during the summer with no visual clues or anything.  He’ll be sitting there, staring into the distance, and then look at me and say, “Mimi has a beach with sand.  I play there in the summer.”
- Owen’s verbal skills seem to have significantly increased over the last two weeks.  He is speaking in full sentences… using articles, prepositions, etc !  He is also much more consistently using “I and me”.  Sometimes he sounds so serious and adult-like, you forget he’s still a toddler and doesn’t reason. haha
- He has also started singing along with songs.  His Kindermusik teacher pointed it out because he was actually singing along with her during class.  He has started asking us to put on specific songs so he can sing along and clap.  He also HATES when we sing with him!  :)  He says, “Mommy/Daddy can’t sing!”  

Snow Day!

Well Memphis Winterspring brought us our first snow!  None of it stuck, but it was still fun to play!  Owen and I sang “If all the Snowflakes were candybars and milkshakes, Oh what a snow it would be.  Standing outside with our mouths open wide, Ah-ah-ah- Ah  Ah-ah Ah Ah-ah Ah”  We caught some snowflakes on our tongues.  Owen and Dad played snow basketball!  Dexter got a little frosty too!












Then we went inside for hot apple cider!!




Owen loved using his big boy mug to drink the delicious cider!  We had some funny conversations too which I will post soon on the video page!