18 Months

Can you believe it? Our little girl is a year and a half! I could be in a little bit of denial. After all, she's suppose to be my baby, and stay my little baby forever. But she's by no means a little baby anymore, but a full grown toddler!! 

I'm so in love with this age!! She has always been a talker. Sometimes we can't get this girl to shut up. haha! She has started putting 2-4 words together.  Which I LOVE! We can actually have a decent sized conversation together. Sometimes I don't know what she's saying so I ask her to repeat it and she does, but I'm still not sure what she's trying to say, which I feel so bad about cause you know it's VERY important lol ;o) 

Some new words: Pretty, cool, cold, cheese, Papa, potty, poop, caillou(her favorite show), Up(her favorite movie), turtle, bird, flower, fish, go, bubbles, apple, crying and many, many more.

She knows some letters of the alphabet. Thanks to reading books to her, Sesame Street, playing with letters in the bath tub and the leap frog fridge phonics. 

She had her 18 month check up on the 11th, on her 18 month birthday. She's as perfect as perfect can be. She was 32 1/4 inches tall and 24.6 pounds. She had to get some shots, but now she won't have to get any until she's 4, if I remember right. Soon after her appointment she started to get sick. I figured it was because of the shots, but the days went by and she was still feeling yucky. We went back to the doctor and she had a pretty crappy ear infection, runny nose/congested and this horrible cough that would make her throw up just about everyday. We gave her some antibiotics and it all finally went away about week and a half to 2 weeks later. I was VERY happy to have my baby girl back to her normal ole self. The poor girl was miserable! :o(

She has been much more addicted to the TV. But since it's getting nicer outside we have started to cut it back and play outside more. She loves Sesame Street("Moe, Moe" Elmo), Caillou(obsessed!), Sid the Science Kid, Word World, Super Why! and her favorite movie is Up(obsessed!). 

I'm so incredibly excited to see her with her little sister! She's going to be such a great big sister and a great helper for Mommy and Daddy.  

She's my perfect little girl!! I'm so in love with her. Yes, she may frustrate me on occasion, But when I look into those beautiful blues, it melts all that frustration away! She's truly my guardian angel sent to me from God! She has made my life a beautiful place!  

20 Weeks/ It's A....

We've made it to the half way point in this pregnancy! And you all know what that means....The BIG ultrasound!  We had our ultrasound yesterday. We got to see our very active and adorable baby.

As you may know, Seth was being a big meany and was telling everyone that he will be the only one to know the gender of this baby. He says he didn't want to find out with Samantha and since he was "forced" into knowing, he was going to be the only to know the gender this time around and no one else will know(make sense, no, not really!).  It was really pissing me off, as you can imagine. I HAD to know. First off, if it was a boy we had to buy a whole new wardrobe and start working on the other bedroom. And if it was a girl, we really didn't have to do much of anything. Since we have everything from Samantha.

So Seth met us(Samantha, me and Grandma) at the ultrasound place.  We still weren't sure on what was going to happen in that room. If Seth was going to let us find out, if we were going to have this big argument in front of the poor tech. He was still going strong on the fact that we were not going to find out.  But I had a feeling that once we got into that room, he would change his mind.

We got to see our little baby going crazy, very hyper little baby. The baby was chewing on its arm, playing peek a boo, we got to see its adorable face, fingers, toes and..................... The tech asked the million dollar question, would you like to find out the gender? Right away, I said yes. Seth didn't say a word, although, I know he was pissed! But oh well! :oD

Samantha will be a big sister to a little......

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SISTER!

Yep, it's another girl folks. A lot of people were in complete shock. Like Seth and his Mom. but I KNEW it was going to be another girl. I KNEW it! I wanted it to be a little boy for Seth, cause he wants a boy so so so so BAD! But poor guy is stuck with 3 girls in his life ;o) He's already talking about #3. I just laugh at him and say NO WAY! lol

I think it's great Samantha will have a little sister to play dolls with and tell her little secrets to. I just really hope that they will be very close.

The tech took her sweet time. Which was great! We had about an hour and a half worth of viewing our newest little girl. We got TONS of pictures and videos of her! Although I can't get the photos right now, but here are a couple of videos of her. :o)

Take A Guess

We did this baby pool thing with Samantha, and it was a blast to see everyone's prediction. So we figured we would do it again with this one.
Go ahead! Take a guess!
Will Samantha have a little brother or sister?

16 Weeks/Updates

I'm 16 weeks 6 days along. I'll be 17 weeks tomorrow. Everything is going great. On Monday(March 21th) we got to see the baby. The baby was all over the place. He/she was VERY hyper. Samantha looked amazed watching her little brother or sister. Baby was sucking it's thumb and baby waved Hi to Samantha and Samantha waved and said Hi back! :o) Grandma tried to find out the gender, but that was a no go. But we were able to get a couple of good pictures. On Tuesday, I had my 16 week OB appointment. Quickest appointment I've ever had. Heard the heartbeat, which was 148bpm. And we got the okay to schedule our 20 week ultrasound!! The big day is, April 18th!!!!!!!! We are all so so excited! Especially Seth! He can't wait to see that thing in between "his" legs. LOL. We will see. I just hope he won't be too disappointed when he finds out it's a girl. :D
Around 12-13 weeks, I swear I felt the baby move. It felt like little twitches.  Then it stopped, until last week. Last week this baby has really started kicking and moving around. They are just little, adorable kicks. But I love it!!!!!! Seth has been trying to feel it, but he said he can't yet. Hopefully he'll be able to feel it soon. He loves the feeling just as much as I do. :o) I love the 2nd trimester!

Here are the pictures of Baby Mize

His/her hand on his/her mouth

Sucking his/her thumb!

16 Week Belly

Samantha is amazing(as always!). I cannot believe she will be 18 months next month!
She has learned SO many new words. She has actually started saying little 2 word sentences. She has finally(kinda) got the idea that not every animal is a puppy. LOL. She's very much in love with puppies! She loves the word "no"!! Everything is no.  But that could be because Seth and I tell her "no" A LOT! I've never said "no" so much in my entire life then I have in the past couple months. lol. She loves "Moe, Moe"(Elmo)! She always gets excited when Elmo's World comes on, on Sesame Street.
Last week we decided it was time to take Samantha's binky away from her. Permanently! No more binky for this big girl! She didn't have it very much anyway. We only gave it to her during her nap time and bed time. I really wasn't too sure how it was going to go. But (as usual) she proves me wrong! She's doing amazing!!! I am so proud of her!
Seth is doing okay. He's still having his stomach issues. He's still on his bland diet(which he HATES). He hasn't been losing as much weight as he has been, which is good. He has been eating a bit better, but he's still feeling sick a lot. He was seeing a doctor about it, but he wasn't helping much. He said it was acid and he put Seth on some acid meds, but it didn't help. He hasn't had a decent nights sleep since this has been going on, so about 4 months now. I feel horrible for him. He needs to find a "stomach" doctor, or something, and hopefully someone can figure out what's going on with him so he can get some relief!
On a good note, Seth was in the Polar Plunge on Saturday. It's where you run into the freezing cold water for a good cause, which was the Special Olympics. He signed up through the Sheriff's Office, where he's a reserve for. I was so proud of him. It was absolutely freezing out.  It was 30 some degrees and super windy, which made it even more cold. The water was 37 degrees. He did it. I wasn't too sure if he would really do it or not. He did say that he would NEVER do it again! lol. I was very proud of him! :o)

2nd Trimester/12 Weeks!

We've finally made to the 2nd trimester in this pregnancy. Felt like it was never going to get here!!
We had our 12 week check up on Thursday. Seth met me and Samantha at the doctor's office.  This was the exciting appointment...We got to hear the baby's heartbeat!  The heartbeat was 156bpm. Which is perfect! :)  Everything is going great! I gained about 5 pounds since last appointment. I'm starting to feel a lot better. Still pretty tired though. I hope I get some more energy soon!
Our next appointment is March 22nd. I'll be 16 weeks along then. Which reminds me, if I remember right, I have an ultrasound that day too. So I may have to do some rescheduling. My sister in-law told me about this clinic in Cedar Rapids starting to do free ultrasounds for their clients and they needed some pregnant women to practice on. So of course, I volunteered to help them out! ;)  I'm totally excited!!

Here's my 12 week belly

10 Weeks

Today we have reached the double digits in pregnancy #2. Everything is going pretty good! Although, I still don't have a whole lot of energy. But day by day I seem to be getting a little bit more pep in my step. My back is KILLING me! I feel enormous!! The past couple of nights I haven't been able to sleep that great. I've been waking up 2-3 times a night, but I am able to fall back asleep pretty quick. I can't stop eating! I'm absolutely in love with subway right now, I can't get enough of that stuff. We had it 2 nights in a row last week. So yummy! I still get a little nauseous here and there, but it seems to be tampering off. *thumps up* I have gained some weight. Which is good....I guess...lol.
Well there are my "joys of pregnancy" lol
Oh, our appointment has changed to February 24th. I am TOTALLY excited to hear the baby's heartbeat!

Here's to a growing belly! :)

Snow Snow Snow

We had a HUGE snow storm come through our state last night. I believe we got about 12-14 inches of snow. We can't quite tell since it has been blowing all over the place. We've been under a blizzard warning since last night and it's still in effect until noon today. They have actually mentioned that it was a life threating blizzard. It was pretty scary stuff last night. I couldn't imagine being out in that crap!
Needless to say Seth, Samantha and I are snowed in for the day. We have about 3-4ft snow drifts in our drive way and our street hasn't even been plowed yet (when they do come plow, I'm for sure not going to be able to make it out of our drive way!) and, we have a 5ft snow drift in our back yard.
Here are some photos

During the storm around 4pm-ish

Our back door around 8ish

 Back door around 10pm-ish

 Around 11pm-ish

 Our HUGE snow drift in our back yard

 This morning around 9am

 Our vehicles! can't even get in my car