It's a Girl!!!

We found out on July 18th that our second little bundle of joy will be a girl. We are excited to add another sweet girl to our family. The only bummer for me is if it was a boy I was looking forward to having to buy more clothes. During our ultra sound they focused a lot on all the important body parts and kind of skimmed past the girl parts. She asked us if we wanted to know and we said yes and so she got a picture of the legs and said "looks like a girl" and then moved on to some other body part. So it wasn't as exciting to find out and I wasn't totally convinced so I asked her again at the end if she thought it was a girl for sure and she said "yep looks like a girl". Anyway they had to have a dr come in because they couldn't get great pictures of the heart. He still couldn't get them so they said I needed to come back in about two weeks. When I went back I asked them to double check if it was a girl cause I wasn't really convinced by the other sonographer. She showed me and said yes it is a girl. I was finally convinced.

19 Weeks

I'm now 19 weeks pregnant. I haven't been great at documenting this pregnancy for a couple reasons. One is that it is going pretty quickly as I chase a little toddler around so I don't pay attention to the weeks as much. Another is I just feel really fat and don't really feel pregnant. I'm just barely starting to notice some movements inside. So for the second reason I haven't taken any pictures either. Part of the reason I don't really feel pregnant and I just feel fat though is that it has been a pretty easy pregnancy. I only threw up a couple times and have really been feeling fine other than being tired. I am getting pretty excited to see what this little one looks like. It seems like a lot of people around me are having babies right now and it makes me anxious to meet this little one. We will find out the gender of the baby in 3 days so we are excited for that. Maybe that will make it feel a little more real.

Our friends Barry and Megan Schenk are having a baby boy (their 2nd) just a few days before us. Well I guess we never know when either of us will have the babies, but I think our first babies both came on their due dates. They are due December 3rd and we are due the 6th. Our friends Steve and Lindsay Tingey are going to be induced this Thursday the 18th with their second baby. Their first is a girl and this one is a boy. We are pretty excited for them.

Sleeping is beginning to be a bit uncomfortable since I can't really sleep on my back anymore and I'm waking up multiple times a night to go to the bathroom. So far my record is 4 times in 6 hours.

I think those are all the updates for now. So until Thursday when we have our ultra sound.

Ready or Not Here Comes Baby #2

It has been about three weeks since we found out we were pregnant again. We weren't really trying to have another but we weren't stopping it either, we figured we wouldn't prevent it and it would happen when it was right. It just so happens it happened a lot faster than we thought. So it was the beginning of April when I started thinking that I was pregnant. I was going to wait a little bit to take a test, but I'm not very good at waiting so April 2nd I went to the gym and on the way home I texted Greg to see if I should get a home pregnancy test. He said it was up to me, therefore I got one. I took the test waiting on the bed with Alivia and then Greg went into the bathroom to see the results. He sounded really calm and then said "what is it supposed to say?" and I told him either "pregnant" or "not pregnant" and he so calmly said "it says pregnant." I didn't know whether to believe him or not. I was having mixed emotions this whole time. Part of me was getting excited because I was feeling baby hungry for awhile. The other part of me was scared to death of raising two kids and I also felt bad that Alivia wouldn't get all our attention anymore, but then I know I'd be kind of heartbroken if it was negative. So I went into the bathroom to see for myself and he wasn't lying it said "pregnant" the first words that came out of my mouth were "holy crap!" I know not the best words to say but I had so many different feelings going on inside. I was excited, yet scared. I actually kind of struggled with the idea of having another baby for a few days. I was just sad that in 8 months or so Alivia would have to share her attention and time and I wouldn't be able to give all my focus and attention to her, but I know it will be good and I'm getting more excited as the days go on. 

The sad thing is just about a month before all this Ney and Lynn told us they were expecting and would be due the end of October. So this would make our babies about 6 weeks apart or so, but just a few days after us finding out we were pregnant they found out that Ney miscarried. We felt bad for them because of how hard that would be to be so excited to welcome a baby and then have it just go away like that. I can't imagine how hard that would be to go through. We were also sad because we were excited to have babies so close together. I hope that they can get pregnant again soon.

Just last week we went to lunch with Barry and Megan Schenk and they told us that they are expecting and they are due end of November or beginning of December. We are excited for them, they have been trying for some time. This will be their second baby. I was excited that we were due about the same time, but we haven't told anyone yet and we wanted that moment to be theirs. 

Anyway so that is how we found out. It's weird because I don't feel pregnant at all, I didn't really with Alivia either. Which is nice but it's also scary to me cause I feel more paranoid that I'll miscarry.