Lillian Grace update

Everything is going great with the pregnancy these days! I feel great most of the time, other than some minor back aches which I probably wouldn't have if I would stay on my sides when I sleep!

I still have not gained a lot of weight, but slowly I am inching upwards. I guess, the less I gain now, the less I have to loose afterward! As long as Lilly is growing like she should be it is all good!

I promise that one day I will remember to take a photo of my growing belly. We were so good about doing that when I was pregnant with Brayden. That is what happens when you have another child(ren) to chase after all the time!

We go back in about 2.5 weeks for another ultrasound so I will try to post new photos of Lilly then :)

March of Dimes

This morning, my parents and Matt's parents joined us for the March of Dimes walk. We have walked for the past 3 years in memory of Taylor (Team TBE). This year our team was much smaller than last year, but we still had a great time & raised a good bit of money for a wonderful cause!

Here are a few photos from the morning:

Brayden getting ready to drive his car in the walk

Just getting started

At the end of the walk

One day, I will learn never to stand beside my FIL in a photo!
Do you see the rabbit ears he is giving me? Ha Ha!

Afterward, we all went to lunch and then to the farmers market! Brayden ate lots of fresh strawberries and we came home with local honey, lots of strawberries, and fresh asparagus (my favorite)!

We had a great day and I can't wait for next year's walk!

It's a....

We had our big ultrasound last Wednesday and found out that we are having a....

GIRL!!!!
Her name will be Lillian Grace (Lilly).

I am totally trusting the U/S tech on the sex...I really can't tell much of anything myself. The good news is that we get to have another ultrasound this Wednesday, so hopefully, we can better see everything! This girl would NOT cooperate for the tech to get all of the photos that were required for a Level 2 ultrasound, so we get more photos done!! Let's just hope that she will cooperate a bit more this time around :)

Here are a few of Lilly's first photos.

I think this one looks a lot like Brayden at his 18week ultrasound.

She was waving at us (and poking me the entire time!)

All of Lilly's measurements were exactly on track for where they were supposed to be. I was 17 weeks 6 days when the ultrasound was done & she measured right at 18 weeks!

In Brayden news, he has started potty training and is doing OK. I don't know that he really '"gets" it, but maybe he does & he just doesn't care one way or another. The other big change in Brayden's life is that he suddenly (almost 2 weeks ago) decided on his own that he wanted to sleep in his big boy room. It was a Wednesday night & I figured it couldn't hurt, so I moved his radio, "friends", and humidifier to his new room and put him in bed figuring he would be out in a few minutes. Nope...he slept all night like a rock! He has been sleeping in his bed ever since & has only gotten out of bed once during naptime (that we know of) and made a mess!

Some of our friends were looking at the ultrasound photos the other night at small group. Brayden saw the photos & immediately ran over and said "that's my baby"! Someone asked him what his baby was going to be & he said "baby sistah" with a big grin on his face! I really don't think he understands the difference yet about sister & brother, but he is happy either way at this point! It is so cute!!