Halfway through pregnancy #2!

We are officially over the halfway mark in pregnancy. It feels like it is going fast and slow at the same time. I feel like an eternity will pass before I get to meet my little misses but at the same time I know it will be here before I know it. I've been waiting and waiting to feel her move and now I finally starting to feel those first moves. Not flutters. I was waiting for the flutters and they never came. Just movement now. I thought since this is baby#2 I would start to feel her early, but nope. I didn't officially feel her until after 20 weeks.

Her 19 week sonogram is below. My mom swears she looks like Vince already. She has my "piggy" nose (as I call it). She's sweat as can be already.

I haven't really posted pictures of my personal progression at all... probably half because I felt like I got too big too fast and half because I am too busy to stop and document us. I feel like I "popped" the day after I found out I was pregnant. I say I'm just a good home :). But here's me at 21 weeks or about 5 months.

We are slowly getting ready for her arrival. Right now we are narrowing down names. There are several names in the hat right now... some are... Mia, Leah, Lia, Alina, Olivia, Carmen, Alexa, Brianna, Jordan, and Trinity... other names that were recently ruled out are Liana, Athena, and Camryn. Hopefully we'll narrow it down more in the next couple weeks. I would really like to settle on something, although I know I will never be absolutely sure we got the right name until I see her, just like I did with Vince.

Also, we are starting to get her room together and come up with a theme or color scheme. Part of getting her room together is moving Vince's crib to her room and transitioning him to a big boy bed. He now sleeps in a full bed with a twin bunk on top. He has a Thomas comforter and calls it his "Thomas House"... we are so thankful he likes it!

All this talk about babies has made Vince think he's a baby again. Anytime I call him my big boy he corrects me and tells me he's a baby, not a big boy. He also pretends to cry and will crawl around a little. I think he'll be fine once the baby comes. As far as me handling 2 kids... I told someone who asked me if I am scared to handle 2 that I'll deal with it when it comes and not a minute before. No need to worry over what's not happening right?

Anyways, this was a scattered post, but at least I can take blogging off my mental to do list. Now that our crazy time at work is over, I will try and post more often... maybe even weekly :).

Halloween Part 2 - Trick or Treat!!

We went to Grandma and Grandpa's neighborhood and house for Trick or Treating for Vince's 3rd Halloween. We gave Vince the choice of the Thomas or James costume and he chose Thomas. Maybe because Vince got tired of telling everyone he was James and not Thomas at my work!!

Here we (and Grandpa in the background) all are before he went on the candy hunt!

This next one is David's favorite picture... Vince is giving this dude the evil eye!

(check out V and Grandma last year here ... we need to get Grandma a new costume eh?)

Vince did so great ringing doorbells and saying Trick or Treat!

but daddy still escorted him to a few houses...

Check out how Thomas made out!!!

Halloween Part 1 - School & Work

Vince had such a fun time switching between two of his favorite train costumes a few days before Halloween. Thomas and James. He wore Thomas to school and James to my work.

At school Grandma and Grandpa helped me drop Vince off and we were able to see all his friends dressed up too! I brought treats for the kids, but being a mom that doesn't want my kid to swim in candy, I brought plato for everyone. I laughed to myself when I picked Vince up and found that all the other mommies in the class thought like me. He came home with all sorts of goodies... books, pencils, things that grow in water... but no candy from them! Ha!! We went straight to my work from school.....

At work Vince got a whole lot of what he wanted... candy!! Specifically lolipops!! A couple departments at my work really know how to put on a Halloween party! There were themes galore... we saw Nemo, the Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmations, Princess and the Frog, Mickey Mouse, and many many more. Vince and his friend Landon had so much fun running from candy spot to candy spot gathering it all up.

their mommies got in on the action too!!

Swim Videos

A couple quick videos from swim class since I finally brought the camera.... in the first one he is swimming about 9 feet from a little bench in the water to the wall, then he gets out by himself. In the second, they are teaching him to flip over on his back and float in the middle of swimming. My hope is he learns to do this on his own if he is ever needs t0. Enjoy!!

Time to Par-tay like a 3 yr old!!!

We had a fun Saturday making our way to two different 3 year old birthday parties that were scheduled at the same time! There was a bad storm going on when we arrived at our first birthday party so I forgot our camera in the car while running from the car to the house. But Vince had a blast at party #1. If you ask him what he did, he says, "eat cake"! And he wasn't kidding... the second they brought the cake out, he ran to it, and stuck his finger in it to taste the icing. Bad manners! You would think his mom would have taught him better... lol... but we did get mad of course but he still got to eat a piece.


We had to cut that party a little short after cake and presents to dash 20 miles to another party. We were just in time to hit the pinata. Well, Vince was, I sat and watched! After the pinata was... more cake! But I managed to stuff a hotdog in Vince's mouth before he got to eat cake #2.


Next was some fun activities... a potato sack race where David helped Vince be a great hopper... (but I got a good picture out of it)...

Then there was musical hula hoops, like musical chairs but you have to jump in the hula hoop when the music stops. Vince got the hang of it real quick.

Then he had fun just playing with the hoop!!

All in all it was a fun fun day. I can't believe our baby will be 3 soon too!!!

Vince - still the fish

Today at swim class, I was a good mom and made sure to bring my camera and video camera to try and capture Vince's progress. But I wasn't a great mom because I didn't think to check either for batteries :(. The video camera had no batteries... BUT, I did have a few minutes of battery to take some pictures before the camera went out too...

Vince is 33 months old next week. Today I realized he's been in swim classes about half his life... 16 months! It's the little extracurricular activity that's been a constant for us and doubles as learning a safety skill. Check out the First swim post I ever posted about his swim classes in January 2009, he was one year old...

Recently, Vince's teacher has been concentrating on letting him swim and then roll over on his back and float as well as jumping in and turning to grab on to the wall. Two things I would really love for him to learn. Here are some pictures of those activities.

Next class maybe I'll remember a charged video camera so I can finally post a video of him actually swimming!!

It's a girl!

I’ve been m.i.a. from this blog lately. Sometimes I look at some of my friends blogs, see they haven’t updated it either, then don’t feel so bad :)

A lot has happened recently. I am almost 4 months pregnant and we just found out Vince is going to have a little sister! I think he half way gets what’s going on. He knows there is a baby in my belly. At first he used to tell me there was one in his belly too, but I think he’s over that. Sometimes he wants to get in my belly and join the baby… he takes a head-dive to my belly and lifts my shirt before I can stop him.

Now that we know we are having a little girl, we are so excited to buy girlie things! We visited Baby’s R Us last night and it was so fun to see David excited over pink things. Everything is just so darn cute. I’ll admit, having a boy would have been a whole lot cheaper… we wouldn’t have to buy anything but disposable items…and we would of course been happy with a boy, two little boys running around, becoming best friends, sounded like a delight… but we wanted a girl and are blessed that we get to learn what the other sex is like really soon.

I feel a little bad I haven’t documented this pregnancy like I did Vince’s so I’m going to throw in posts here and there that are just about how this pregnancy is going along so I can have them for her.

I have no idea how to take care of a baby girl, but we’ll learn. Heck, when Vince was born I didn’t even know how to take care of a baby. At least we have some experience now. I know it will be hard being a working mom with 2 little ones, but I know it will make us all the more happy sharing our lives with one more soul. Right now we get a kick out of watching Vince grow up each and everyday… he says and does the darndest things while looking cute in the process… he gives us so much joy and I just can’t wait to have that joy times two. See you soon little mama.