But I'm back. With a slew of pictures and a few updates to share.
Big News #1
For starters, BIG news in my family's little world. Newbie is going to be a big brother, and I get giddy every time I think about it! ...Which is a lot because I'm tired a lot and slightly nauseous if I don't keep up on a steady stream of goldfish crackers or popsicles. I'm so looking forward to this pregnancy and really feel good most of the time. With Newbie the morning sickness didn't really kick-in until week 8 on our Caribbean cruise, (I still want to cry about that...a whole week with a 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet floating on the gorgeous Caribbean Sea, and I couldn't even stand to walk to that side of the ship!) so I'm wondering if the yucky stuff is just lurking and waiting to knock me off my feet in the next week or so. But I've been told each pregnancy can be so different from the next that I'm thinking maybe this one won't be a repeat of the 8 weeks of constant nausea I had with Newbie. Keeping my fingers crossed. =)
As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I spilled the beans to the Hubs by putting the positive pregnancy test in his cereal bowl for breakfast. What I lacked in creativity I made up for in happiness. I was just bursting with the need to share my exciting secret, and all I could think to do was toss that sucker in his cereal bowl while I made his breakfast. Ha! I set up a candid camera and caught it all on film. Not exactly what he was expecting instead of Cheerios that morning, but he was thrilled, and Newbie seemed to catch on because he was giggly and smiley and wired the rest of the morning. We are so excited to be growing into a family of four!
At that time, Aunt Corndog and Uncle J were down in DisneyWorld, and desperate to spread our news outside of our four walls, we called them and told them. I should mention we called at seven in the morning and woke them up, but they were good sports about it and were excited for us. Never let anybody tell you those two aren't troopers, because they were. They squealed and cheered for us despite the fact that we woke them three hours before Mickey was planning on making any kind of appearance.
The Hubs' parents were out of town, and we really wanted to tell them in person, so we decided to wait until they got home, and we headed out to G-Mama and Grandad's house with Newbie dressed up in his Big Brother tee. We found G-Mama first, and let Newbie run up to her on the driveway. She just burst into tears, and then when Grandad got home from work, he read the shirt and hit the floor. Newbie knocked him right off his feet. =)
Before I tell you how the other half of the clan found out about Baby #2, I have to share some more BIG news in my family's little world: the Hubs accepted a job offer within the same company at a different branch, and we. are. so. excited!!! This news came just before we found out we were pregnant with Baby #2, and we can't believe the amount of blessing the Lord poured out on us all in one week!
We are thrilled because he'll be working closer to where we hope to move. We had a lot of family and friends praying for this job opportunity, and when we found out the Hubs was offered the position, I pulled together a little surprise party to celebrate his new job and to thank our family and friends for supporting us through the process. We had hot dogs and ice cream and watermelon, and we definitely surprised the socks off of the Hubs when he got home last Tuesday evening!
Ever since we found out and shared the news, we've just been thanking the Lord for the opportunity to step further into parenthood as parents of two littles. We are having such a blast raising Newbie, we can't wait to double the fun!
Newbie's Latest and Greatest
In the wake of our big news, Newbie has been loving this summer. We've stayed busy eating popsicles and going to the beach and preparing for our family vacation. He's been growing by leaps and bounds the past month. He likes to "mow the yard" with his lawn mower in the living room, and he's started filling it up with the little plastic gas can which is just an absolute riot because he is so precise and careful about the way he "fills the tank", and sometimes he gets the pretend mustard bottle and the gas can mixed up. But it turns out his lawn mower runs just as well on mustard as it does on gasoline, so no harm, no foul there.
Over the course of the last two weeks, he has mastered the "stiff leg". If we try to put him in his car seat when he doesn't want to go, he will take a deep breath and with all his might, he sticks out and straightens both legs, making it almost impossible to get his little self into his car seat. Drat. I could really do without that trick! It always takes a little pep talk and diversion to get him strapped in, but by golly, we get there. I wish he could understand his mama is only putting him in that hot car seat to get him to the splash pad!
His new obsession: books and Lightening McQueen. We read book after book after book every day. He goes to his little rain gutter bookshelves and brings me each book one by one and we read one before he goes back for another and another. It. is. adorable. And the Lightening fetish. Oh, the Lightening fetish! I'm finding myself scooping up all kinds of Lightening McQueen propaganda because I just can't go for the regular mac and cheese when my little man will do the happy dance if I hand him the box with Lightening McQueen on the front. We're talking bouncing in place-feet kicking-squealing happy dance in the grocery aisle, folks. So I'm a sucker for Lightening now. Newbie has a Lightening McQueen car at his Grandad's house that must have started the whole thing. Now we've got Lightening sippy cups, a Lightening beach ball waiting in our to-pack pile for vacation and Aunt Corndog and Uncle Jake came home from Disney with a stuffed Lightening that Newbie is crazy about. Newbie loves his Lightening McQueen stash like his mama likes her Oreo Blizzards. Borderline dangerous.
Festival
Wowza. If this isn't a purge it all hodge podge post then I don't know what is. Last but not least, I've got to tell y'all that we went to the festival last week. The Festival takes up a few streets and the city makes a lotta hoopla about it and there are lots of live bands and tons of meat on a stick. Seriously. When people described the festival before we went they said, "Yeah, there's a lot of meat on a stick." And you know what? They were right.
We went with Uncle J and Aunt Corndog because why not? We're squeezing the life outta this summer, and it just didn't seem right to skip out on the festival. I'm not going to tell you it was my favorite. It wasn't. Mostly because 80 degree weather and lots of people and meat on a stick just isn't really my best game, but Newbie enjoyed sharing shaved ice with each of us and hollering for an encore when the bands finished each song. Mercy. He was a loud one. But we had a good time, despite the heat. I like to think it was the good company and the shaved ice that trumped the heat and massive amounts of sweaty people pushing and prodding through the streets.
(Aunt Corndog equally as unimpressed with "meat on a stick" as I was, though her meat was in a bun. Not on a stick.)
(Newbie thinks Daddy-O is SO funny!)
All caught up on the blog just in time for another fun-filled summer weekend. I'll try to stay on top of things this time, and maybe my next post won't be 17 posts long. =)
Have a fabulous Friday!
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