An Orange Seed - 8.12.13

Still so early in the pregnancy but I'm 4 weeks along. Don't have any pregnancy symptoms I don't think. Baby is the size of an orange seed.

Girls weekend was great! We had a small group (9 of us) and I drank odouls all weekend. Someone who's the party starter and not drinking will always raise some questions, so I informed my besties that I had in fact, taken a pregnancy test and that thing came up positive. What is funny is that 3 of our friends announced their pregnancy in the last 2 weeks and another friend announced over the weekend. We will have 2 new babies in our group come February, 2 in March and 1 (mine) in April. 5 pregnant friends!! What's even more funny is that the other 2 friends I was pregnant with when I was carrying Aubrey was Kory and Kristina and they are the 2 due in March! I informed the rest of our girls weekend crew via email but asked to keep it off of Facebook. Our parents don't even know!

Hope to come up with a fun way to tell them. I did go ahead and buy AG a "big sister" shirt. But it's a 3T. Lol. Gonna be a little large. Maybe she can wear it as a dress with a cute little belt!

Pictures...a few of my faves - 1 year, 8 months old

History Just May Be Repeating Itself - 8.1.13

Back in 2011, I had a trip planned to Charlotte to visit with friends and drinking was going to be involved. Steve and I had suffered a miscarriage the November prior and had been trying to get pregnant again for 3 months. I wasn't having any pregnancy symptoms and I wasn't "late" yet, but just to be safe, I decided to take a pregnancy test. I would have hated to have found out I was pregnant after a weekend of drinking. Well, long story short, the test result was positive. And now we have a beautiful baby girl who is almost 2!!

Fast forward to today. I leave tomorrow for my semi-annual girls weekend and of course there will be drinking involved. How many people take pregnancy tests revolved around drinking? Anyway, Steve and I weren't exactly careful the last month and so to be safe (again), I decided to take a test. Steve ran out to buy one, along with some ice cream and I took the test this morning. FULLY EXPECTING the test to come back negative, I peed on the stick. 

To my surprise, that darn thing starting displaying a cross sign for positive. Well I'll be damned. Monday will mark me officially being "late". I will refrain from alcohol this weekend with the girls. 

I'll call the doc next week for an appt in a month or so. Pretty exciting and crazy all at the same time! AG is gonna be a BIG SISTER!

Now...what's a fun way to tell the parents and then friends and family?

Some Recent Pictures

You're going to be 18 mo. tomorrow and I can hardly believe it! Here are some recent pics. 

  

The Cute Things You Say

Aubrey
You are just the cutest thing on this green earth. You are becoming quite vocal, babbling away in your toddler talk. I'm looking forward to the day I can decipher what you're trying to say. You have a good bit of words in your vocabulary so far.

Reese, Daaaa (Dog), Please, Amen, Dada, daddy, Mama, Mommy, Up, Down, ehlo (hello), hi, da do (thank you), byyyeee (while waving your hand), peese, twinkle twinkle, ashes, ashes, NO (while pointing your finger), shhhhh (when dog barks), beach, shells, nonna, bite...

I know I'm leaving out do many more but these are the most common. 

It's so fun watching how your mind works. You are so smart. We love you. 

Jace's 3rd Birthday Party

Painting on the Paint Wall

Crawling through the tubes

Swinging in the bear swing

Aubrey attended her first official birthday party on Sunday (not counting her own). It was held at an outdoor adventure park called Three Bears Acres. They had a lot of activities, mainly geared towards older children, but AG still had fun exploring and swinging in the super cute bear swing.

This could be a place she really enjoys when she gets older. They even have paddle boats!

Steve thought it would be fun to create a paint wall on the fence of our next home. Great idea!