20 Weeks there! 20 weeks away!

 :) I think with my first pregnancy I watched my weeks like clock work. This time around I haven't, simply because my life is too busy to watch the weekly prego chart, and its gone sooo fast. Half way there already.

Not to mention

IT'S A GIRL!

I was NOT prepared for the u/s tech to say "girl parts" I was basically just wacthing vigorously to see "boy parts". Because I realllly thought it was a boy. Nope. I got like 100% sure from the u/s tech. And I am quite happy with that :)

These pictures are 19.5 week pictures and hopefully Ill be setting up for weekly pictures beginning this week. I jsut have to finish my first baby project :) eek!!!!!

Life as a mom

Its Almost 1:20 on  a regular weekday and I am jsut sitting down to eat my lunch. I left the house this morning just after 10 to run errands. With one child its hard enough to make a  trip to the post office and grocery store a 2 hour long trip. How on earth am I going to make it with!?
And 2 hours is far too long as it is!  By the time I get home Ellee is ready for a nap but its lunch time so she needs to eat first, and I am hungry too, and theres all the groceries. By the time I actually plop myself down to eat, I kind of want to take a nap!
And naps, might I add, this second pregnancy not only has been a polar opposite of the first, I can not explain to you the exhaustion I have. The I could take a nap every day for possibly close to 3 hours exhaustion. EVEN if I get up a decent time. And I can sometimes take a nap. But prior to pregnancy it would usually top out at 1 hour. Never push 3!!!!
People might say I have Ellee too and she adds to the exhaustion, but I worked through my entire pregnancy with ellee and I did not come even close to this.

On the brightside,
TODAY IS THE DAY!!!
Its Baby gender day!!!!!!

I was not nearly this excited to find out Ellee's gender but that may have been because I wasnt planning on finding out. In fact in the ultrasound I closed my eyes while the technician showed my husband the sex, and he showed me the picture later on.
This time I have been planning and waiting for it. I planning and waiting to her and see BOY that is. Not because thats what I want but because I feel that its more likely to be a boy. Either or though, I'll be excited :)

Now if only Matt could get realistic about names. Hes basically been giving boogus suggestions and I am hoping will get more realistic once we are gender defined :)

The birthday girl!

In all her chubby adorable happiness. She'll get her first taste of thai food at her dinner out tonight!

Its obviously past July 1st but had to share her Canada day outfit. What a a cute little Canadian stink she is!
It was her FIRST Canada day too!!!! 

One year already...

A whole year already?
Its absolutely crazy that time could pass so fast. But I am so happy God blessed us with a such a wonderful beautiful little girl and look forward to everything she may become!

Long over due...

Its been a million years since I have posted. That's either due to my laziness or the non-stop never-ending flow of in-out-go-here-go-there-people-here-people-there lifestyle our little family has taken on!
But its time for things to slow down. From now till the end of July, is my intention.
Matt is heading out to Belgium for work the end of July into mid-august. And we HOPE that I can venture with him, but lets see if time, money, and children make any of that possible!  Children because we don't intend to bring Ellee, and baby Dudge #2 will be 25 weeks along, eek!
In the meantime, there are still many festivities occurring till then but the time will pass too quickly I am sure, and then our summer will be over :( Oh and I'll be as big as a house.

Next weekend is Ellee's first birthday party. Were having a few friends and family coming from Canada and Wisconsin to help us celebrate. I have to find some creative idea for her cake :) Matt informed me cupcakes were just not cool so I will be whipping up some sort of pink, white, black, polka dot and stripe cake. I am excited to do it non-the-less since you only turn one once :)

 

Last week her first present made an appearance on our doorstep. My sister lives in Saskatchewan with her husband and since they wont be making the several day long journey to get here it was super sweet of them to get her a present and have it shipped. Need less to say, she loves it, but it will definitely take some time for her to figure out the workings of the slide!

The painted piano!

It looks great, we love it! Only problem is it.has this sticky issue...what do I do...

Living room Redo

I had my sister in law staying with me for a week this past week and I decided to take advantage of the extra set of hands and her personal painting skills. Finally, I was able to start the redo on our living and dining room. Its one giant room off to the left of our house and its basically the first room you see once you walk into the foyer. And boy, was it horrendous. White walls, old looking piano, futon from college, paper blinds, and a decent dining room table but just extremely off coloured. (it was free, I have nothing to complain about :) )
Things are really coming together now! The walls are painted in a soft light grey. Its very light, bright, and airy. We've got one set of curtains up, they're in a dusty purple colour.

Well, the piano got a royal sanding down to the bare bones, and then layered with several lovely coats of a dark granite gray. Can you say gorgeous? Not to mention slightly retro-eclectic. It turned out awesome. Now I have got to get some decor to put on top to spice it up. Also, the bench has yet to be tackled. I am thinking the same gray colour although, I could go for yellow.

The dining room table is also waiting for its redo. I have yet to start it. I am hoping to do the table in a soft yellow, actually called lemon drop, and then I'd like to also paint the chairs yellow, but then hope to cover the chairs only in the same gray as the piano and maybe sand some edges down to pull the yellow through :) We'll have to see how this turns out.

On another note,
ELLEE SCARLETT HAS FIGURED OUT TO MOVE IN A FORWARD DIRECTION!! AKA. CRAWL IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS.

The child finally has realized she can propel herself forward. Its been a long time coming. She'd be on her belly and she'd push herself backward mostly in frustration. But then one day, she just figured out how to go forward. Its definitely not a crawl, its more of a squirmy belly wiggle. After calling matt to tell him the AWESOME news, his response, "Was it forward?" "Yes! like 5 feet!" "But forwards?" Hahaha.
I understood his disbelief. It made absolute sense to me, after watching our daughter grunt in frustration and cry when a toy was a measly 3 inches out of reach; success. Finally!