Flying Away...: 2013

Monday, March 11, 2013

Austin's Birthday Party

Here are just a few shots from the birthday bash! Austin had so much fun at his "Imagination Movers" party. He really enjoyed all the attention and wearing his Mover costume that I made for him. Now we are in the home stretch to Baby #2!

Ceci and Buzzy

Mommy and Daddy

Grammy and Dips

The table...he had a guitar cake per his request

Nanan and Peyton

"The prom shot"...guess we'll consider this my week 34 belly pic!

My silly husband!

Blowing out the candles

"CHEESE"

YAY!!

Presents!!

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Time is flying by...

So, it seems that time has been flying by. I will hit the 31 week mark this Saturday, and I turned 31 on Monday! I can't believe how soon we will be a family of 4.

Austin is just surprising us every day. He is just changing before our eyes. He talks so much more now, and he is into everything - of course. We just started going to a bounce house that is close by. For $3 he can jump all he wants. We usually only stay about 2 hours and he is almost comatose on the way home! It is the one thing I have found that really wears him out quickly. Jumping has now become his choice form of transportation as well. Everywhere he goes he likes to jump. He is also really into Imagination Movers, which will be the theme for his upcoming 2nd birthday party! He sings all of their songs and walks around the house playing guitar and dancing and jumping (of course) as he plays. I think he's definitely inclined to be some kind of musician.

Baby #2 is measuring right on track. We are suspecting it is a boy, but time will tell. An older man stopped me in the bookstore the other day to tell me that he felt that I was going to be having a baby brother for Austin. It was so funny! Then you have others who tell me that I'm either carrying "low" so it must be a girl. The funny thing about those "old wives' tales" is it seems that they vary depending on who you talk to. I know another girl who is pregnant, and she is having a girl. Someone told her they knew she was having a girl because she's carrying "high"...hmmm so which is it? Anyway, I think we will find out when baby #2 decides to make his/her grand entrance into the world.

Here are some pics...

30 weeks

28 weeks

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Christmas

Merry Christmas! A few weeks late...

We had a great visit in New Orleans the week before Christmas, then back home for Santa's arrival. Austin was a good boy this year, and he got a lego table and a play kitchen. He loves to cook with me all the time, and he has been a real chef since getting his new play kitchen. He also LOVES his lego blocks. He also got a guitar, and he now wanders around the house rocking out singing songs from his current favorite show, Imagination Movers. OH and we had a WHITE Christmas here as well.

Austin's a very busy boy. We finally got a nice day last week, and I took him to the park. He was climbing up the ladders like he was an old pro. He will be a maniac in the Spring I'm sure.

Meanwhile, I had a checkup on Baby H #2, and my stats at 25 weeks were bp 100/60, weight gained to date 12 lbs, and baby's heartrate 160bpm. I went and looked back at my journal for the same appointment for Austin at 25 weeks - my bp was 130/70 (high for me), weight gained to date was 12.5lbs, and baby (Austin's) heartbeat was 160bpm. Interesting... I haven't taken belly pics in a few weeks because we've been so busy.

We ended up making a trip back to New Orleans the week after Christmas to mourn the passing of Kristopher's grandfather. His grandma passed away at the beginning of December last year, but I know the family has all enjoyed the last year they have been able to spend with PawPaw and he will be missed. We were also blessed to have been able to celebrate Christmas with him while we were down there in December. Here's a picture of him opening his gifts...