21 Weeks and Spring Break

That 20 week picture I was planning on turned into 21 weeks.  Such is my life.  I'm feeling good, this is the point in pregnancy that's good.  No more nausea and I haven't been quite as sore as I was.  I'll enjoy it while it lasts!  And the debate continues in our family over a name for this baby girl.  Reese has no suggestions, I have lots of suggestions, Lane doesn't care, and Estelle things we should name her Hazel or Abigail (two of her cousins names).  We usually don't know for sure about a name until near the end anyway so why even bother :)

 It's Lane's spring break this week.  We had two really nice days, sunny and in the 40's.  So yesterday we went on a little hike on the Near Island trail.  The kids had fun and it was a perfect distance for Estelle to walk.  She always come dressed for the occasion, notice the beautiful dress and pink rubber boots.

 My little man Lane, flannel shirt and travel mug of hot chocolate in hand.  He cracks me up.

Snow Days

We have finally gotten a good bit of snow in the last month or so!  And snow means snow ice cream!  Lane's job is to go collect a bowl full of fresh snow.  Then I mix in one can of sweetened condensed milk and about 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla.  Mix it up and enjoy. It keeps in the freezer pretty well too.

Estelle loves the "No Ice cream"

 She got a little more sledding in too!

Lane and the neighbor boy Sage love to make forts etc in our neighborhood.  This time they got to make a snow fort!

 Nothing like hot tubbing in the snow!  Lane can't seem to make a normal face for pictures these days...

It's A.....

GIRL!!!!  We did a silly string gender reveal on Saturday with the kids.  We had the 20 week ultrasound on Friday and waited until Saturday to find out.  My friend Kaysia came over and took pictures of the whole thing.  So I had cans of blue and pink silly string waiting in the house.  We all went outside and Kaysia stayed in and looked in the envelope from the ultrasound and took the appropriate cans of silly string to the kids (with no lids so we still couldn't see the color).  The kids sprayed us and we all found out when the pink silly string landed on us that it's a girl! 

 It was a little chilly.  While we were waiting, Lane tried to keep Estelle warm.

 This was the first shot of the silly string coming out.

 

Another girl!  That was our reaction.  A lot of excitement and a little bit of "oh my, what did we get ourselves into."  Estelle is a little over the top, dramatic, bossy, etc.  So that's been our experience with a girl... need I say more.

 Oh look, here's a great example of the drama.  Reese sprayed her with silly string.  Oh my... end of the world!

 Lane wanted another brother, but he will be a great big brother to two little sisters!

 Some family shots afterward.  Estelle's still a little unhappy about everything.  This will be fun, a little sister for Estelle to play with. And as challenging as Estelle has been, I have so loved having a little girl and watching her do all the girly things.  I am excited that she will have a sister too, because I know from experience that sisters are pretty awesome!

Hockey and Sledding

 We talked Lane into playing hockey this year.  They have a really cool, kinda laid back program here so it was a good environment for him to learn in.  He started in December and has really improved.  At first it was hard for me to watch everyone falling down all the time, but as the season has progressed it's much easier to watch.  In the picture below Lane is the one in the middle with the yellow socks and yellow jersey.

 A picture of Lane setting up to shoot a goal.  He made 3 goals that game and in yesterday's game he made 4 goals!  I am glad we talked him into playing and I think he's glad too.  He will be able to play the next couple years while we are here.

 We haven't had much snow this year but a couple weeks ago we got a good covering and it stuck around for over a week.  Estelle loves to sled down the driveway.  So we get some exercise going up and down the driveway.  We live in a very quiet cul de sac so there is almost no traffic.  Perfect for sledding into the road :)  Estelle has been quite entertaining lately.  She likes to use words like genius, ridiculous, gross, yuck, amazing.  And she is the bad word monitor around our house.  It only took a couple times of me washing her mouth out with soap for her to realize that she too could yell at everyone if they say bad words.  So if you come to our house and say, shut up, stupid, dumb (or a variety of other words...) you can expect to be reprimanded!

16 weeks

Well I am almost 18 weeks along. Oh my how time flies especially when you're running after other kiddos!  With Estelle I posted a belly picture about every 4 weeks (starting at 12 weeks).  Well I missed the 12 week mark, but here is the 16 week.  The pregnancy with Estelle is on the left and current pregnancy on the right.  It's nice to be able to compare the two pictures for me.  Mostly because I weigh quite a bit more this time around but I don't feel like I look like I weigh a lot more in the picture, so that makes me feel better.  Whatever works...

I just started feeling this little one moving around.  I felt it for the first time in my 16th week.  Today I have totally been feeling it pushing out on my right side.  I was on the treadmill this morning and I don't think it liked it cause I kept feeling it pushing out.  I may have an active one on my hands again.  Case was SO active inside, then he came out and was as calm as could be.  I am getting more and more excited to have a little baby again.  It's taken a little time, because I wasn't sure I'd be able to handle one more.  But I know I can do it. :)

Kids Rooms

We've lived in this house for a year now.  Guess it's about time I post pictures of the kids bedrooms.  Lane really wanted a Seahawks bedroom when we moved last year  So we painted the one wall a navy blue and then the rest of the walls are gray.  I finally took some pictures of it after we did a major purge a few weeks ago.  He's getting to the age where he doesn't play with toys much so we took out many of his old toys. It's much less cluttered now!

 Soon after we moved, Estelle moved to a big girl bed.  I wish I wouldn't have switched her so soon because she really became a horrible sleeper after that!  The crib for the new baby will probably go in this room with Estelle.  We have a fourth bedroom but it's down stairs.  So that will remain a playroom.

 Estelle's bed skirt was a gift from my friend Katie.  I think she found it at a flea market or sale of some kind in Missouri.  It is the cutest vintage bedskirt.  I planned Estelle's big girl room around it :)

In between the kids rooms there is this built in bookshelf.  On the other side of that it is open to the down stairs.  I love this bookshelf for all the kids book and having it so close to their rooms too.  Next hopefully I will post a picture of our room.  As soon as I get all the old toys that we took out of Lane's room out of there :)

He gives and takes away...

I just got home yesterday from a quick trip to WA by myself.  My Grandma Dorothy who was 93 years old, passed away a little over a week ago.  I know she was ready to go, she said so herself many times. Her death has left a hole in lots of peoples lives though and she will be very missed.  I have many great memories of her, especially from my childhood.  Her farm was a great place to spend time and play with all my cousins.  There were 13 of us all pretty close in age.  Her house was such a fun and comfortable place to be.

I got to see my siblings and my dad lots while I was there!  The trips there and back were long.  My flight landed on 2:00 am on Thursday morning and then I drove to my dads and got there about 4:30 am.  My flight left at 6:00 am on Sunday morning out of Seattle but I didn't get home until 25 hours later!  Weather in Kodiak always makes for an interesting trip home.  And yes that is a baby bump you see in the picture above.  We are expecting a baby at the end of July!  Very exciting. Overwhelming, but exciting.

 I've been feeling pretty yucky, but I have started to feel a little better in the last week or so.  There has been a lot of thought put into this pregnancy, it was a hard decision.  But I truly believe that God decided to bless us with this little one.  It will be fun to have another baby in the house!