First Sibling "Spat"

I had to post this before my pregnancy brain forgot and I'm sure I will neglect writing it down elsewhere! :)

Around 4:30 this morning, Andrew crawled into bed with us and assumed his "Mommy Snuggle Position". This usually includes burying his head into me and throwing an arm or a leg around me (we have an ongoing thing about keeping each other "safe" and from falling out of bed...I think subconsciously he is doing that while he's sleeping!) :) Anyhews...this morning, he chose to throw a firm arm around my neck and a right leg over my belly. Moments after his leg lay across my belly, the baby starting kicking or hitting his leg. Of course the baby is still not strong enough for it to bother Andrew but as a Mommy, I was amused by this early case of sibling spats :)

My colleagues assured me it was a sign of things to come...oh my!

Maryland Trip - June 2010

The week of June 4th-9th, we were able to take a quick vacation back to my home state of Maryland...I was in HEAVEN! I had my family, my brother and his family PLUS I had Ledo Pizza + Crabs... YUMMY. Even better...while it was 102 here in Texas - the weather was PERFECT there! I think 85 was the highest it got and there were Caribbean like breezes the whole time we were there... sigh...

Below are some of the pictures we took along the way...

Andrew and his cousin, David James playing with crabs they found at the beach. We spent most of Saturday hanging out on the bay. David James and Andrew are only about 3 weeks apart...I wish they were closer so the cousins could play together more!

This is 3 year old heaven...heck it's MY heaven! Ice cream IN the bathtub?!?! :)

Below is a pic of the 3 amigos riding in a water taxi in the Inner Harbor.

Andrew in front of the USS Constellation at the Inner Harbor

A picture of us ON the USS Constellation

Love this pic...our 3 year old going on 13... David and Andrew went to the Baltimore Aquarium while I ran to a few meetings I had scheduled in the area. Dave took this pic so I'm not sure if he intended to roll his eyes or not. Nonetheless... fun picture I thought.

Mommy being silly at the Discovery Museum in Baltimore...

Probably not the safest thing in the world being about 18 weeks pregnant... but I had to do it. It was like a souped-up tree house. It was an awesome 3 stories tall... too much fun!

Welp - that's it! I had lots of fun and wish we could have had more time there. But I guess that's just me being homesick :)

Belly Pics

I guess with having 1 child at home, it's easy to get sidetracked and not as "on top of things" with your 2nd child/pregnancy. With Andrew, I was fairly religious with the "belly shots" and documenting things throughout the pregnancy but poor baby #2 hasn't had much attention :( I know that will change once she/he arrives but I'll try to get better before then :)

15 Weeks

18.5 Weeks

Wow...almost 1/2 way there...still lots of growing to go! :)

Big Boy Bike

Recently, we discovered it was time for Andrew to graduate from a tricycle to a big boy bike with training wheels. We totally lucked out (thanks to Craiglist!) and found this awesome bike for $20! It had hardly been used and we were beyond thrilled with the condition of it!

Needless to say, Drew hopped on the bike and with little guidance, he took off like there was no tomorrow. Below he is enjoying a ride around the track at Pogue Park, looking like a little professional :)



Sigh...just another reminder of how quickly he is growing up! :(

Sign of the Times

For the past few months, Andrew has become more and more of an expert on loading and changing DVD's by himself. He has now mastered the DVD player in our bedroom as well as the family room.

To me it's just another reminder of the age we live in. Our son just turned 3 at the end of February and can load/unload DVD's AND work the mouse to a computer. We purchased him a "Hooked on Phonics" CD for the computer a few months back and he's an expert at moving the cursor using the mouse and Left/Right clicking.

I am frightened by how much smarter our kids will be than us!!!

New Bean Bag Chair

A few weeks ago, my good friend Debbie passed down her son's beanbag chair to Andrew. We are getting ready to give Big Brother Drew a newly decorated bedroom and she thought the baseball pattern would go great since we're doing a sports theme.

As you can tell... Andrew is happy as can be!!! Thanks Debbie & Harrison!! :)

Baby #2 Sonogram - Week 13, Day 4

On Tuesday, we had our checkup for Baby #2. Everything looked great and all the genetic testing we did came back perfect. The best part with doing the genetic testing was that we got an extra ultrasound that we didn't get with Drew...

Everything looked great and we had an excellent report. Even better, we got to see our kiddo kicking its legs and sucking its thumb (or picking its nose - we're not sure!) :)

Here you'll see some of our newest pics of the newest member of the family. Not too bad for the baby only being around 3" long! The baby has REALLY long legs (I wish we had a good shot of that!) and was dancing away in my belly ... and on my bladder of course! :) The sonographer said all looked healthy and measured perfectly.

In 5 weeks we'll get the official word on if it's a boy or girl. The sonographer made a strongly educated guess (and also said that she's never been wrong)...so we'll be excited to see if she was right!