Tubing

For those who remember, last summer at 20 months old Brody rode the tube for the first time. He was not exactly thrilled about it! He didn't scream or cry...just whined and had this look on his face that he would rather be back in the boat:) well this year was a different story......he LOVED it!! We spent the day out on the lake with my parents and Parker and Lindsay. He loved watching everyone ski (except me of course who has to take the summer off) . He was so worried when anyone would fall... He would tell PopPop to "go back and get them!!" with the most worried little look on his face:) we waited until the very end of the day to let Brody tube. He of course rode it with Brian, and he loved every minute of it! He was waving and giving us 2 thumbs up almost the entire time. And he usually hates it when water gets on his face... But kept asking Brian over and over again to spray him in the face while they were riding it. He loved when the waves would come an the tube would bounce up and down too! He got in the boat and told us that he was skiing too:) what is so hard for me to believe is that I was 3 1/2 when I started skiing!! that is him, next year?! What!? That seems crazy for me to think of letting him ski behind the boat next summer! We shall see:)

24 weeks

This pregnancy is really flying by.....im feeling GREAT now! besides, the extremely hot weather that has been and will be coming our way over the summer! We still have not completely decided on a name for this sweet baby boy yet.....we are getting close though i think:) let me just say though, that this baby is SOOOO active! for being only 24 weeks, i feel him move ALL OF THE TIME! it sometimes borders on annoying....lol. Every doctor appointment that i have, the doctors make comments about how i have a wild one on my hands. we will see....hopefully this isnt a sign of things to come once hes outside my belly! i have finally cleaned everything out of the used-to-be guest room, and picked out paint colors. once brian gets back from europe, we will start on getting the room ready for the baby. im trying to do alot now, since im feeling so great! i want to be able to relax and just wait for the baby once im huge and miserable:)
AND, of course, i cant finish a blog post without commenting on my best little buddy....he seriously is the SWEETEST boy. i could go on and on about what a sweetheart he is. it is such a JOY to be his mommy! sometimes i feel alittle sad knowing that the days of just the us are coming to an end. He is my buddy and we have so much fun together. its been JUST US for so long now, that thinking about that changing is a little sad:( i cant wait to see what his little brother is going to be like, though. i know life is about to change drastically! its easy for me to grasp having another baby....but the hardest thing for me to wrap my mind around is Brody being a big brother (that sounds silly as i type it) but its so true! its just weird for me to think Brody is going to be the oldest and the big brother to the rest of our kids! i know hes going to be GREAT at it though!

Cant live without it....

something i became completely reliant on with brody, and now i cannot live without, is our video monitor. i seriously think brody may have a video monitor in his room until hes 6 years old! one reason, is probably the fact that his room is upstairs and our is downstairs. We went ahead and purchased another video monitor since baby boy #2 is on the way. This monitor has a split screen, so you can see up to 4 rooms AND it has 2 way voice. So, we can talk to brody too if we need to. This is really coming in handy because, hes at a stage where hes having more and more trouble falling asleep at night and hes always calling us to take him potty or cover him up. its nice being about to talk back to him! So hes thinks we are somehow INSIDE the monitor, and he loves carrying on conversations with us. The other morning he woke up yelling for his dad (who was already at work) that it was "too dark" in his room. he kept saying over and over again, "its too dark, dad! its too dark dad!". i just continued to ignore him hoping to get a few more minutes of sleep:) then all of a sudden his yelling got EXTREMELY loud and i looked over at the monitor and all i can see is his eyes, nose, and mouth on the monitor screen. i started laughing uncontrollably in my bed all by myself. He got up as close as he could to the monitor, looking in it to see if anyone was in there and was yelling at the top of his lungs! HAHAHAHAH

Its a BOY!!!!!

Brody is going to have a little brother!! We are SO excited! i know Brody is going to be such a great big brother:) He is already very excited about it.....whenever you ask him what the baby is, he will throw his arms up in the air and yell " IT'S BOY!!!!!!" If the ultrasound is any indication of what kind of child this baby boy is going to be, then we are in for it! Baby boy was moving around like crazy...the ultrasound tech could hardly get the measurements she needed. she told us that this baby was definitely her challenge for the day! She was worried she wouldnt have any good pictures for us to bring home, because they were all blurry from the movement. She eventually got some good ones though...thankfully:) I could have told her he was a mover though....ive been feeling him move since 15 weeks. At 16 weeks i could even feel some little kicks on the outside of my belly with my hand.
Not only is he extremely active, but hes already measuring a week ahead...so looks like i will have another big boy on our hands! As long as i can remember (probably high school) i have always wanted a family full of boys:) its funny how the Lord does that! But i remember in highschool, me and my mom were talking about families and i told her that i would love to have boys:) Looks like thats whats happening!

Funny Brody sayings

Brody is seriously cracking me up these days. He is talking so much now...i really dont think there is anything he cant say. Today on the way to church (Easter Sunday) we asked him if he remembered why we have Easter. He said " cause Jesus is Alive!!...and blue jellybeans!" i seriously could not stop laughing.
While eating lunch today i offered to share some of my salad with him. he said "Thanks Mama! Brody proud of you!" so obviously we tell him we are proud of him when he shares:)

New News:)

So i will try to update our most exciting news over the past 4 months:) For those who haven't heard...we are expecting baby #2 in September! We couldnt be more excited! Brody and his little brother or sister will be 2 years and around 10 months apart. We find out in 2 weeks whether it is a boy or girl....i cant wait!! I have been so much sicker this time that i was with brody. I THOUGHT i was pretty sick with brody, but i had no clue what sick was until i got to this pregnancy. i started having "morning sickness" (which we all know is not just in the morning:) around 5 weeks and im still sick. thankfully its gotten a little bit better in the past week. I have been the sickest at night...pretty much throwing up every night before i go to bed...no fun! BUT i know its for a good reason and seriously could not be more thankful to be sick!

People keep asking me...or assuming...i want a girl. But honestly i dont care AT ALL! there are so many reasons i would LOVE another boy! ive always pictured myself with boys in my little family. BUT....of course a girl would different and very exciting! SOOOo all that to say...if someone let me somehow choose what i would have, i honestly dont think i could choose! So i will leave that to the Lord...and i cant wait to see what he has chosen!

Brody has said some really cute things about the baby....i feel like he understands as well as a 2 year old can:) The first time we talked to him about us having another baby, brian asked him if he wanted me to have another baby. Brody acted like we were going to trade him in!! he said.."NO! Have Brody!" we of course explained to him that we would be keeping him too:)
He also asked me one day when he could hold the baby and i told him it was going to be a while before the baby would come out of mommy's belly. He bent down real close to my belly (talking to the baby) and said "come out now, baby!"


I have had so many ultrasounds this pregnancy...its been so nice! I love how my doctors keep such a close eye on me since i had a miscarriage before brody. This particular picture was taken at the Pregnancy support services of wake forest. Our church is very involved in supporting this organization, so I volunteered to have an ultrasound done because they needed to train their staff. It was seriously amazing! i got to sit and watch the baby moving around for 45 minutes while they were training! at the doctors office they look at the baby for maybe 1 minute to make sure everything looks ok. so this was definitely a treat! i was AMAZED at a 11 week old baby moving around like crazy and showing his arms, legs, and fingers! its crazy to me that at 11 weeks some people dont really even know they are pregnant but there is a fully developed baby living inside of them! i was again reminded of how precious these little lives are, and alot of the women that come into this facility are contemplating abortion when they are way farther along that just 11 weeks! and look at how precious that picture is! i just cant imagine! . All that to say, watching my baby move around for 45 min was amazing! i was so thankful for that opportunity!

Well i will be sure to blog when we find out what we are having!

Knock Knock

Brody makes me laugh with the things he says. Hes forming alot of sentences and can just about say anything he wants to. Now that hes conversing so well, we can really see whats going on inside that little head of his. One thing recently hes been saying...and i have NO clue where he got it from...is Knock Knock. No, not when hes knocking on a door and needs to come in. When he wants to get our attention and we arent paying attention to him! LOL. We can be having a conversation and when he wants to interrrupt he will yell "Knock Knock"...and sometimes even "knock" on our leg...then he will proceed to tell us what he wants once he gets our attention:) It makes me laugh everytime he does it!