and a little update about Iris

With all this new baby business...a little update about Iris is needed!

She has found her love for carousels!  We have been going to the zoo about a zillion times and finally this spring I made her sit on a horse on the carousel (we would usually ride on the bench) and she finally started to love it!  Now we have to ride on one everywhere we go!  

Including the fair we went to this week!  She loves it!!!

She loves all things pink including the GIANT pink dolphin she won at the fair!

She rides this thing all over the house!!

She will always have a "lovey" with her every where she goes. Lately it's a momma and baby panda but I swear she has every stuffed animal type made and she loves them all!!!

And she loves her "cutters" nana got for her!  She loves to practice cutting paper and has fun doing it!

She is also starting gymnastics on August 25th.  This will be so much fun to watch.  I think she's going to have a blast!!!

Other things she likes to do are to sing and dance.  She has moves like her father....poor thing!!!

She loves playing with her friends and we are very lucky to have lots of friends with children her age around town!

She's busy busy busy and oh so silly and doesn't. stop. talking. ever!

She has the best personality!!! 

We love her so!!

18 weeks and it's a....

On July 30th we are 18 weeks!!!  We had our anatomy scan and OSU Maternal Fetal Medicine where baby got a head to toe check-up and everything looked great!  

We also found out the sex of the baby and it's a....

It's a boy!!!!!

We are very excited!  

We didn't care either way but having one of each will be fun!

Iris seems happy as well even though she says she wants a baby sister or sometimes wants a baby elephant!

Ha!!!

We are growing a 9 oz cute bundle of joy!!!

cute little profile

boy parts!  

I noticed them before she even announced it haha

baby always has his feet crossed at the ankles.  

Rests just like his father =)

here is a picture of his nose and mouth!

(Sorry the pictures are sideways...not sure why they uploaded that way!)

17 weeks!

17 week belly picture with my little love!!!

And...something else to share!

Along with the last post, we have been super busy...busy growing a new baby!!!

On vacation in June, we were 12 weeks!!

We were super excited and surprised!  We had been trying for a few months with no success and then we stopped "trying" to get out of having a baby in the winter months, and bam...we got pregnant the very next month!  Ha!  

We are due New Year's Eve!  

Tax baby!!! oh yeah!

We had our 1st trimester screening and were able to get some really cute shots of baby "B" #2

All relaxed and stretched out with legs crossed and hand by it's face!  So sweet!  

And here we go with some weekly belly shots...

14 weeks!  Don't mind the morning pj shot =)

15 weeks!

No 16 week shot...oops!

We are entering 17 weeks today!  Hopefully I will get a picture before we get to 18 weeks!

We had our OB appointment today and the baby's heart beat sounded strong.  about 140 bpm!  Iris has been going to all our appointments (except for the first obviously!  Don't want to scar her with an internal ultrasound already).  She gets so excited to hear the heart beat and really enjoyed seeing the ultrasound at 13 weeks!  She's going to be an amazing big sister!

She's been a big help with me having lots of fun "all day" sickness and fatigue.  It's definitely not as bad as with Iris (didn't lose 12 lbs but have only gained 1 lb so far in this pregnancy.) but still very frustrating to feel like crap for weeks on end!  It's definitely improving but still there some days!  This time around, it's been hard because I can't just lay on the couch and sulk.  I have a 3 year old to keep up with so we push through and try to plan at least a weekly playdate on my days off work if we can so we get out of the house!

Other than that, internally, the websites say the baby is about 5 inches long and forming more solid bone!  Pretty neat!  I have been feeling little "flutters" the past 2 weeks so that's been fun!  Can't wait for Doug and Iris to feel them on the outside!

We have swapped bedrooms this past weekend with Iris so she can have our bigger room to share with the baby and we are now in her room.  It was bitter sweet to have her nursery gone but the new room will be perfect for them!!!  

Next week...gender reveal and big anatomy scan on July 30th!!!  

Yay!!!

It's been awhile...

Well, I see the last time I posted ANYTHING is from december!  So sad!  ha!  Well, we have been busy bees with Iris keeping up with her!  She's a busy 3 year old you know! =)

We had a vacation to Folly Beach, South Carolina and had a blast!  Iris loves the beach as much as we do!

This year we went went nana and papa

One of our favorite factions to date!