18 Weeks

This pregnancy is flying by!! And also, I know that my belly wasn't this big at 18 weeks with Eliza...things sure do change the second time around!! 18 Weeks today! Which means, in exactly one week we will be having our ultrasound!! I am so excited!! I keep having dreams that I peak, and see the gender (since we are having a gender reveal party) and it is always a boy...so we will see!! I would be thrilled to have another sweet baby girl too, but I just keep thinking boy lately. Hmmm, we'll see how on target I am. Not alot to update here in the pregnancy dept., so I apologize that these pics and updates will probably be pretty uneventful...but I documented Eliza's pregnancy so horribly, and really regret not having those memories/pics to look back on and to compare to. So this is mostly for my benefit=) Feeling more/bigger movements, which is the best!! I am also really loving my belly band this go-round. I only used it a handful of times with Eliza, but managed to stay in regular jeans all the way through. But this time, by the end of the day, my regular jeans are really REALLY uncomfortable on the scar from my c-section. And also, lets face it, I def. have it going on in the love handle department, and so the belly band is great for allowing me to comfortably wear my regular jeans, while avoiding any un-wanted love-handleage... ;-)

ANDDD...you know you have preggo-mommy brain when you go to put away the dish towels...in the refrigerator!!! HA, atleast that's what I am blaming it on!!

As for an Eliza update: She is still cuter than should be legal! She now folds her arms AND bows her head when we say "time for prayers"...mmmm melt my heart!!! She is a little chatter box, although still not really saying much we can understand. She is becoming little miss independence, and is extremely fiesty and DRAMATIC!!! Oh boy!! Before she started walking, I heard a lot of "when she starts walking, Watch out...that is when the trouble starts", and similar comments...but, I honestly love that she can walk!! The world has completly opened up to her! She can occupy herself in a way she never could before, and I'm not sure if it's just that her mind has reached a new level of development, and how much has to do with her new found mode of transportation, but she seems to be in her own little, almost imaginary world sometimes! It is so fun to watch her toddle around and kind of chatter to herself, and play with her little dishes, and purses and animals. Motherhood is the BEST!!!

Pics of the week:

So happy to be using her big girl cup with a straw!!


She brought out her frying pan while I was cooking dinner :)

This lil guy was on our back porch the other morning

and Eliza spent a good 10 mins following it and trying to catch it!

that is a record for the amount of time something has kept her occupied!!

"Hey lizard, come here"

My beautiful "baby sis" graduated from HIGH SCHOOL last Saturday!!

I cannot believe it!! She is so sweet and talented,

I cant wait to see where life takes her next!!!

Way-to-go Steph!!!
We love you sooo much!! <3