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!

Snow

I know this is a little late, but i hadnt had a chance to post about Brody's adventures in the snow:). He absolutely LOVED it! It started snowing right before he went to bed, and he wanted to go outside in it so bad. we told him when he woke up he could play in it. The first thing out of his mouth the next morning when i went to get him out of bed was "Play snow now, Mama??" he definitely had not forgotten about the snow on the ground and wanted to go out right away to get in it! It wasnt the best day for playing in the snow, it was sleeting for most of the day and was freezing outside....but he did not care! We had to force him to come inside to get warm every once in awhile...hot chocolate was the bribery to get him to come inside:)

We have a mile long road outside our house that no one drives down but us....so that led to ALOT of fun for Brody and the adults:) We were without a sled, so brian hooked up a plastic trashcan lid behind his tractor and pulled Brody all over the place on it! i wasnt sure how he would do...all by his little 2 year old self....but he LOVED it. He fell of a couple of times and jumped right back up and got back on:)







The second day, Andy, Sara, and Logan came out to our house to help us both from going stir crazy i think:) Logan wasnt exactly thrilled with the snow, but he was a trooper!


Brian and Andy wanted some fun of their own, and went in search for something to hook up behind the truck that they could ride on up and down the road. They came back from the barns with a barrell....me and sara looked at each other and were pretty sure we would be taking one of then to the hospital for some kind of injury...lol. They rode that barrell "rodeo style" up and down our road, needless to say there were alot of falls...but they had a blast. Heres some proof...







Logan finally figured out a way to enjoy the snow by using our steps as a slide:) Brody and him had a great time sliding down the steps for quite awhile. Brody of course didnt want to come in, so i stood inside the door and watched him and let him stay outside sliding down the steps. I was cracking up watching this little 2 year old out there all by his little self just having the time of his life:)

Bedtime Prayers

Most nights, Brian and I put Brody to bed together and then Brian will spend a little extra time in the room with Brody rubbing his back and talking to him..and most recently saying bedtime prayers together. well brian had to go outside and get the horses ready for the snow last night, so i put brody to bed. I sat down next to his bed and he said "Mama Brody Pray".....MELT MY HEART!! So we thanked Jesus for all of our family, Riley, the horses, his stuffed animals, his pacis....at least 3 times each! LOL he kept naming people that we had already thanked Jesus for, but wouldnt go to sleep until we thanked Jesus for them AGAIN:) i went downstairs for a few minutes and when i came back upstairs, i heard him saying "Nonna and PopPop too, Lindsay and KaKa(Parker) too, Meme and Poppy too...." he was in there thanking Jesus all by himself. i cannot think of anything else i would rather hear!

Big Boy Bed

Brody finally made the transition to a big boy bed last night. It went way better than i thought it was going to! He was very excited when we were converting his crib to the toddler bed. He kept climbing in and out while brian was putting it together. He thought it was so neat that he could climb in all by himself! He went right to bed and didnt try to get out! I did wake up around 1 a.m. to check on him and found him asleep on the floor with his blanket. I picked him up and put him back in bed and i dont think he ever woke up.

When he woke up this morning we left him up there and watched him on the video monitor to see what he would do....and who would have thought, the child stayed in his bed for 30 minutes and didnt even try to get out until we came up there to get him!

I just laid him down for his nap and he didnt try to get out of his bed for naptime either! Sometime i think i dont give him enough credit:) i thought this was going to be a tough transition....well i guess i shouldnt speak to soon....i will let you know after a week:)