13w update

I went for my 13w appt. last week and forgot to update about it. Everything was great! I lost 2 lbs, which puts me at a net loss of 1 lb. YAY! Beat's beat was perfect and everything else checked out. I go back in 4 weeks and should be hearing from the high-risk dr. soon to schedule an appt.

I signed Erica up for dance class this year and she was so excited about her first day!
She had such a good time.




Here are some of my growing little man.
Modeling his sister's sunglasses.

Climbing on the picnic table. You can see my nephew Noah in the background climbing on the chair.

Graham's First Haircut

It was finally time. It was actually probably a bit past due. Graham's hair had grown into quite the poufy spectacle. Every time I took him anywhere I got comments on his crazy hair. So I figured it was time for a cut. I am certainly not brave enough to try to cut it myself, so I took him to a cheap little place in the mall.

Before: I think he had about 2-3" of extra height because of all that hair.





After: It's still wet and combed down in these pics, so it looks ok. But once it dried, it stuck straight up again. But at least it's just little short pieces now. lol




And bonus: Here's me at 12 weeks. :)

Happy 6th Birthday Natalie!

Six years ago today, I gave birth to my firstborn. We named her Natalie Elizabeth and were instantly in love. I can't believe it's been so long. She has grown up into such a beautiful little girl. She makes me so proud I could practically burst wide open!

Brand new Baby Natalie


1 year old


2 years old


3 years old


4 years old


5 years old


6 years old


I had planned on taking Natalie out this week to do a photo shoot for her bday, but the kids all were sick on Wednesday with fever, and Erica has stayed sick. I took her to the dr. today and so far looks like it's just a virus. I'll be bringing her back in on Monday if her fever is still present by then. Natalie and Graham both have check-ups scheduled for Monday anyway. Hopefully sometime next week I can get my oldest beauty out for a shoot!

Natalie's 6th Birthday Party

We had Natalie's birthday party on Saturday and she had a great time! Here is a copy of the invitations we sent out.

Here is the cake

Party Festivities



Natalie REALLY wanted a number 6 candle, so I bought her one at the store the day before the party when I bought all the food. Well, come party time, we couldn't find it. And I didn't have any regular candles in the house either. So we improvised with matches. She was really embarrassed to blow out her "candles" lol



I knew this would be her favorite present, so I saved it for last. She said she was going to keep her eyes closed while she opened it.

Success!

Her favorite gift: a Snuggie! :)

9 months

Ok, so a week after I said I'd have this up, here it is. Graham is .75 years old. LOL

At 9 months old, Graham:
drinks formula from a bottle
eats baby food and other table foods (yogurt, cheerios, small bites of "people food")
sleeps about 11 hours straight at night
takes 2 naps, usually totaling around 3-4 hours
is wearing mostly 18 months clothes
wears a size 4 diaper
wears size 12-18 mos Robeez (soft soled shoes)
has 4 teeth (love his buck teeth smile! - which I just realized I don't have a good pic of, so I'll definitely be trying to get one this week!)
crawls at lightning speed
pulls up on anything (moving or not)
can stand as long as he's holding onto something, even with as little as one finger
can say MAMA!!!
is still in desperate need of a haircut, but I'm not giving in just yet

Here are some misc. pics from the past few weeks. I haven't taken many pics, and I hadn't even looked at any of these until today. I wish I could say that I'll be better, but I have a feeling with the upcoming move, things are gonna get a lot busier before they settle down again. I'll do my best at keeping you all updated though!

My attempt at a mohawk on Graham. Looks ok from the side.


Not as great from the front. That boy has some CRAZY hair!


Noah pulls it off much better!


Can you see how pouffy his hair is in the back? This is what I had to work with! LOL




I loved this Cheerio yawn!


Erica as Snow White




Erica put this cardboard box on her leg and said she was a pirate! So cute! (and creative!)






I just love my little nephew Noah!


And yes we still have Natalie lol. She just didn't happen to make it into any of the pics this time. But not to worry, she'll have a whole post dedicated to her pretty soon for her 6th birthday! I simply can't believe my BABY GIRL is about to turn 6 years old!

And the pregnancy is continuing to go really well. I have had minimal morning sickness, but lots of fatigue. I'm hoping in a few weeks I'll get some energy back.

And make sure you don't miss the house post just below this one!

New House

It's almost ours! I dropped off the earnest money today and we'll sign the contract Saturday morning when Eric gets back in town (he's in Colorado for work this week). I cannot tell you how IN LOVE with this house I am. We looked at all the different builders in the part of town we wanted to live in, and we really liked a lot of the DR Horton floorplans. Once we saw this one in person, we knew it was perfect for us. There were 2 different neighborhoods we were looking in. In one, they only had 1 spec home (built by the builders to sell) in this floorplan, but we didn't like the location of it. So we would have to have one custom built, which would have taken a year since they hadn't opened up the next new section yet. In the other one, they had 2 spec homes in this floorplan, and we just fell in love with this one. It had a lot of upgrades that we probably wouldn't have sprung for, but that are so nice to have. It's 3224 sq. ft, 5 bedroom, 3 bath, with lots of space upstairs and down. It's in a beautiful master planned community, and in it's own little "no outlet" area, on the back street, so very little through traffic. I am not sure when the closing date is going to be, but I'd guess sometime in September. We are so excited to be getting pretty much our dream house! We plan on being in this one for a long long time.

Here's the front - they're not done with the landscaping yet


and here's the floorplan, though ours is a mirror image of this, and some things are different because of upgrades.

9 weeks

I had my 9 week checkup yesterday and Beat is still doing great! He's (no I don't know if it's a boy or girl, and I don't really have any feelings one way or the other, but I have found myself saying he/him all.the.time with this one and I've never done that before *shrug*) growing perfectly and my due date has been confirmed for Feb. 22 (though once I see the fetal medicine dr., they may decide I need to be induced at 38w again like with Graham, which would put him coming around Feb. 8). Up until about a week ago I was still feeling pretty good. I had a touch of nausea, but nothing too bad at all. I've been super tired though. Well in the past week, the nausea has been kicked up a notch and I've gotten sick a couple times, but this is still by far the easiest first trimester I've ever had *KNOCK ON WOOD*. I will go back for another check-up in 4 weeks and will probably be seeing my specialist around then, or soon after, as well. I am not *showing* per se yet, though the bloat and all that fun stuff has set in, so I'm sure it won't be long until I'm sticking out a little extra there. Although I joke that I think I'm still "showing" from Graham. LOL Stayed tuned tomorrow (hopefully) for Graham's 9 month update!