We are Pregnant!!

So we have officially announced that we are expecting. It's been a little hard for me to hold it in for so long, but Derrick and I agreed that we'd try to get to the 16 week mark before telling everyone. And we made it! Yeah!

I am due February 1 so it'll be an interesting time for us to have a baby. Derrick graduates in December and the plan (if it so happens this way) is to find a job out of state and move Christmas Break. This will be WAY fun to do with a one year old and eight months pregnant ha ha. (sarcasm DEFINITELY implied) We will see how everything works out when it comes.

This is my 16 week ultrasound. Baby is COMPLETELY on its head. Actually looks quite uncomfortable...

It really is funny just how different I've treated this pregnancy than I did with Aaron. I was so careful and tracked and read every week and knew exactly how far along I was at every moment. This pregnancy... not even close. The weeks have actually been sneaking up on me since I've more just been living life normally. I have been severely blessed so far. I never did get sick. I would sometimes gag when I tried to do the dishes, but it was never nausea. I just simply would do them later or my sweet, sweet husband would do them when he was home from work. I've been tired, but that's more I think because I have a little guy who never sleeps. He is starting to sleep only 8 hours at night, and I am still on the schedule of staying up a few hours after he's down to get some time to myself. I think I would be just fine if I gave that up and went to bed when Aaron did... which is hard to do... grrr.

Up in the black circle are baby's feet! So cute! (Sorry it's hard to see through a scanner...)

Aaron is so sweet to any other kid, so I am VERY excited to see him with a little sibling. Hopefully his hitting will be over with by then or we may have many problems there. But usually he is very kind, helpful, and sharing of every toy he has to any child that visits.

The other day, Aaron walked right up to my belly (I was laying down on the couch watching him), looked at it, lifted up my shirt, and smiled while still staring at my tummy! Then he looked at me, giggled, and looked back at my stomach, just grinning from ear to ear. He gently put my shirt back down and went off to play. It was a very tender moment and just testifies to me of how close to the veil and spirit little children are. I am so blessed to have Aaron's sweet, strong spirit around me all the time.

Derrick and I have been debating (ok, just me debating) on whether to find out the gender or not. Derrick wants to wait until birth, and wanted to do so with Aaron but I didn't even give it a chance. I've really wrestled with this on this baby because I want to wait because it's what Derrick wants, but it may just make me go a little (or lot) crazy. I have gone back and forth since we found out we were pregnant and I'm probably already driving Derrick nuts. Well, when we went into our 16 week appointment, the doc asked if we wanted to find out. I hesitated in answering and said we weren't sure. She said, "Oh. You want to find out and he doesn't?" She knew what it was right away. Derrick immediately said, " She's going to go crazy if we don't, so we might as well do it now." I felt guilty for getting my way yet again, but it also was a relief. But then, of course, baby's legs were crossed and we still didn't find out a definite gender. But it's looking like we will know in four weeks instead of 24 weeks!

I wanted to add a recent picture of Aaron, but when I looked through my computer I don't have any since our vacation in JUNE! I guess it's time to bust out the camera and snap a few smiles, especially since Aaron has two top teeth currently that are not next to each other so his "creepy" smile looks quite vampire-ish. Gotta get that before more teeth come in! I promise to post Aaron next time!