iphone video dump

She's so tiny in this one!

 hilarious!!!

 pouty girl

iphone picture dump

I should have been keeping up with this but here are some of my favorite pictures and video over the last many months since Shawn got his iphone.

 Black eye baby

 3 sets of footprints

 Shawn's beautiful sculpture in the Benton Harbor art district. Love it!

 Blue eyed girl

 Mae and her BFF

 "I love this best friend forever bracelet aunt megan got me!"

 falling!

 bathing suit model

Official 18 month post (11 days late)

This is what my sweet girl looks like after 4 shots! I think that's the most she's ever gotten. The nurse was so rough too. She jabbed it in her leg all four times. I took Mae to Wendys after for lunch and that was a bad idea. She semi-cried the whole time. Luckily she loved the fig newtons I bought her for the way home. 

Stats:

Weight- 21.8 lbs (14%)

Height- 31.5 (42%)

Head- 47cm (62%)

She's gained 1 pound and hasn't grown in height or head size in the last 3 months. She's just a petite little girl. I'm not shocked that she's small because she doesn't eat much and is very active. Well it's hard to tell how much she eats because she snacks all day. Right now she's drinking her favorite drink, banana milk. (a banana and milk mixed in the magic bullet....gourmet, I know)

Prepare yourself for this next picture. It's absolutely hilarious and Mae will hate me one day for posting it on the internet.

She likes to use the potty now. Well not actually pee or poo on the potty but it's fun to sit on it. She usually lets us know if her diaper is dirty by saying eww and pointing to her butt. Today at the dr office I was texting Megan and I looked up and Mae had thrown her diaper in the trash. I said No because I just changed her but I checked and she had peed. Now if only she'd put a clean one back on.... or just go in the potty.

For record keeping's sake, Mae can say the following words... tractor, car, all the family members names and some friends, milk, water, and now that I'm writing this I realize she can say most words we ask her to so I'm not going to list them cause it would take forever. 

Her favorite places are the library and church. She LOVES seeing all her friends at both places. Well, at the library she doesn't know anyone but they are all friends.

Our sweet girl is very sensitive. Mae gets her feelings hurt very easily. Last night, Jude hit her a few times, not very hard, but she gets upset that her friend would hit her. She cried for quite awhile. She's just a very tender  hearted girl.

What else? 

She loves Jake and she loves riding on my dad's tractor. Last night she looked at him and said "Tractor? Tractor? Please...... poppy..... please." So cute. 

We love her so much and I can't wait to see her as a big sister. I think she'll be a good helper girl. 

I'll end this post with a cute picture of Mae and Jude.

Happy 1/2 Birthday Mae!

How can my sweet girl be so old?

She loves her new twin baby dolls that Gigi bought for her.

What a good momma!

Yah, she's still working on her motherly instincts.....

 I think her hair gets crazier every day!! Love it so much!

I'll write a longer update about these 18 months after I take her to the dr to get weighed and everything.

There's actually a baby in there!!

Yesterday I had my first ultrasound. I hated waiting so long for it. It doesn't feel 100% real until you see the baby, at least for me. The doctor had me at 11 weeks exactly yesterday with a due date of February 4th. My ticker thing below is set for February 3rd which I'm going to keep it at because I think they have the wrong day. The baby was measuring at 12 weeks but the dr didn't want to change my due date. This is fine with me because I don't think I could deal with a January due date since Mae's birthday is the 19th and our anniversary is the 31st. Due dates don't matter anyway. The baby is gonna come when it's gonna come.... unless I get induced again haha. Alright enough of that boring nonsense, here is a picture of our little one. You should be able to see a perfect little profile there and a hand and a leg at the bottom. It's just so hard to believe that the baby just bounces around in there for the next 6 months. It's weird that I can't feel all the movement. It looked like the baby was doing somersaults in there which must come from Shawn's side because I can't do somersaults to save my life! : )

My ultrasound was part of a NT scan to see if the baby is at risk for birth defects. I didn't do this with Mae and I didn't really want to do it with this baby but it wasn't really an option at my dr's office. I guess it's mandatory for everyone there. I had a doctor do the scan and she wasn't very nice. I feel like they should be telling you what they're looking for and measuring but she was quiet almost the whole time. I tried to make small talk but she just wasn't having it. I don't love this practice that I'm going to yet but hopefully I feel better about it as time goes on. I had to ask her at the end if everything looked good. They should tell you that right away!!! haha Anyways she said things looked good. I have a cyst on my left ovary just like last time. I wasn't shocked about that though since I've had funny pains there. She said it wasn't anything to worry about.  Shawn and my mom came so it was nice to have them see the baby. 

Here is my first belly pic. 

I was totally expecting to have gained several pounds when I went to the dr's office yesterday because I'm taking "eating for two" to heart and I've been SO bloated. I was surprised to see I weighed less than a month ago and with a full bladder. I started this pregnancy 10lbs less than my last one but I seriously think a lot of that was muscle loss. I haven't really worked out in like 2 years. Wow, that sounds nuts. Anyways I'm enjoying this pregnancy and feel very relaxed about everything which is nice. I'm not in any huge hurry for the baby to come but I'm excited to have another baby to love. Please pray for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. 

What's your gender guess? I can honestly 100% say that I have no feeling one way or the other. Probably because I have no strong desire one way or the other. 

Boone Trip

Last week, my parents, mae and I took a short trip up to Boone. More family was supposed to come but that didn't pan out. It was fine with me because I got to put Mae in a separate room instead of sleeping in my room. I've become such a light sleeper that every move she makes startles me awake. Mae was a pretty good girl. She got to go with poppy the two mornings we were there to chick fil a to play in the playground which she loved. I'm glad we got to go even though the weather was pretty crappy. It was kind of nice to have a taste of fall in the middle of the summer though!

It was so cloudy you couldn't see the beautiful view.

 Love this picture so much!!

 She would run so fast down this hill.

 Rummikub! I kicked their butts..... well I could have if I wanted to. 

New Tickers

At the bottom of this post you'll see my updated ticker thingys. Baby #2 is no longer left out. Maybe I'll have the courage to do a belly post soon. : )

Ultrasound on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!