Laine Has Arrived!

Beautiful baby girl Lainey! June 9, 2011 8lbs 4 oz. 20 inches long

Happy and healthy! We are blessed!

She'll be here soon!

It's finally JUNE! Lainey be here soon! I went to the doctor today (38 1/2 weeks) and he told me I'm 2 cm dilated and 80% effaced. I hadn't made this much progress with Colston at this point, but you just never know. The Dr. said it could be tonight or she could still be late. We'll see. At least these Braxton Hicks contractions are actually doing something-- they are quite uncomfortable at night, especially. Stay tuned!

I Feel So Blessed

Here I sit, feeling baby Laine move and move inside me at 35 weeks pregnant. I just read a woman's heart wrenching blog a few minutes ago about her son, Isaac that was born at 29 weeks and 4 days weighing only 1 lb. 7oz. He passed away after being in their lives, hooked up to machines and fighting for his life for 4 weeks. With tears in my eyes, I have to remember never to take my blessings for granted. Why do some people have uneventful and smooth pregnancies and other people, people who have been trying to conceive for a long while, have such difficult ones? It doesn't make any sense and it's not fair. The faith this couple has is so admirable and the love they have for each other is unbreakable. The good news is, they just adopted a healthy baby boy, Gavin. They are so happy beyond words. He is perfect in every way and they are the perfect parents to this baby boy. I met Melissa and Zo through Sydney, Kyle's step sister. Melissa is Jason's sister and Jason is Sydney's new husband. Wonderful couple... I just had to write about them as sort of a tribute to them-- how strong they are!

7 Weeks to Go!

We had our 3D ultrasound today! I so enjoyed this when we did ours with Colston so I knew I wanted to do it again with this baby. She is beautiful already! I can't believe we only have 7 weeks to go. I know it will fly by! She looks like she's ready to come out and meet the world already. Kyle and I brought my parents who are babysitting for Libby while Erin and Josh are in Italy... poor babies. Haha! Libby and Colston came too and were so well behaved.

First Trip to Disney!

On March 3, Kyle and I took Colston to Disney World for the first time. We met my parents there and stayed altogether in their timeshare. We had a wonderful time and got to see many of the Disney characters. Colston enjoyed posing for pictures with Pooh Bear, Piglet, and Eeyore. We went on lots of rides including It's a Small World and the Pooh Bear ride. We also went to Animal Kingdom and took a safari ride-- Colston has seen lots of wild animals in books, but loved seeing them in person. My parents watched C Bird Saturday night and Kyle and I had date night at a yummy Cuban restaurant. The food was so good!

A good time was had by all!!

Colston is 14 Months/20 Weeks Pregnant

Colston continues to amaze us with how observant and sweet he is. He is getting so much better at playing with his toys for longer blocks of time without getting antsy and coming to find momma. He loves Izzy, Erin's dog. He will find her and snuggle up next to her and just lay there for 5 minutes, giving her the occasional kiss on the nose. He has two huge chompers in the top of his mouth and two at the bottom which gives him the tools he needs to bite the fish heads off his goldfish snacks and also enables him to bite his cousin, Libby. He goes in for a kiss and then at times it changes to a Love Bite..... we're working on that! He is so funny-- we laugh and laugh! He turns into a different child when he's naked about to get into the bathtub. He runs around and screams like a wild man! It's hysterical! We just pray he doesn't pee pee all over the place before getting into the water.

I am halfway through this pregnancy. We found out we are definitely having a girl this time. She looks so sweet already. We feel so incredibly blessed to be having a second healthy pregnancy and it's an added bonus to be having a girl-- one of each is what we were hoping for. Now we can be done if we want-- OR in 4 years or so we'll try for a third.

Everyone asks what we're naming her. We're keeping it quiet until she enters the world. The Grandies know and of course Erin and Josh.... but everyone else will find out on the day she is born. We want some element of surprise in there!

Preschool?

So I never would have thought I needed to start checking out preschools for my one year old. Then I got pregnant and realized Colston will be approaching two and will want to be active and out and about all the time. Watching momma nurse our new baby on the couch day after day while he has ants in his pants will make me sad for him. So, I've decided to enroll him in preschool beginning in September. I visited one yesterday and loved it! There are 2 teachers to every 9 babies. They seem very attentive and loving and the establishment appears clean which is very important to me. The children were all very interested in Colston an he loved the attention. They do an arts and crafts project daily (very brave) and even eat lunch. He will go 2 (or 3) days a week for about 4 hours. It's only 3 minutes from our home which makes it even more enticing. We're visiting another one today. This one is close as well so we'll see which one makes the cut.

On a pregnancy update, I'm feeling well and everything is still pretty uneventful which is exactly what we all hope for! I'm starting to feel squirming around which is wonderful!

Later that day: I visited the other preschool which is even closer than the one before and I LOVE it! I think we have our school!