march and easter 2012

first of all, i guess i should mention this...

baby #2 is well in his way. yep, his. definitely a boy. obviously this isn't new, i'm just terrible at blogging. we found out while we were on our trip to georgia in october. we told our families right away, but waited til thanksgiving to tell everyone else.

 this is his profile at 20 weeks. he will be here in the next few weeks. a lot of changes are coming our way. we are super excited, but nervous for 2 kids. sophie knows she is going to have a baby brother, but i don't think she really understands how her life is going to change. i'm a little nervous for the both of us. we are in a really good stage right now and i love how sophie can do things for herself. it's going to be a little bit hard to go back to all the baby stuff. i'm sure we'll get used to it, but it's weirds me out to think about having another baby. sophie is getting so big and independent. she is such a good helper lately. i hope she'll still want to be a good helper when the baby gets here!

i just had an ultrasound today to check the size of this baby since sophie was so small. they said i was a lot more likely to have a small baby again. turns out there is nothing small about this baby. the doctor said he is measuring about a week ahead. so, he is measuring about 37 weeks at 36 weeks. and, they estimated his weight to be 6 lbs 14 oz. already. that scares me. how much bigger is he going to get in the next 4 weeks? hopefully he'll come a little bit early and not be too big. yikes!

 here i am at about 26 weeks. i guess i need to take a more recent one.

sophie and i have been having lots of fun doing things before the baby comes. we are going on lots of outings and doing lots of fun stuff. here's what we've been up to.

we had a super warm day in march so we tested out the new water table. she loved it! she was soaked by the time we went inside.

she is totally and completely obsessed with ballerinas. she loves watching angelina ballerina, wearing tutus, and dancing around. here she is in her ballerina outfit.

she also loves to sing while she's dancing around. she sings at the top of her lungs, as loud as she can, and usually you can't understand the words because she just makes them up. she does love to sing rapunzel songs, and you can definitely understand the "and at last i see the light" part. oh, and she is obsessed with rapunzel, too. anything princess, really.

easter 2012

the easter bunny made a stop by our house. good thing we left some carrots outside for him. sophie was so excited to leave carrots for him. she talked about it for days. i forgot about it and put her in bed, so i had to go get her up to put the carrots out, oops!

 he left us some paw prints. sophie thought that was super cool.

 soph with her easter basket. she was lucky and got some cool stuff. a new book, golf clubs, dora jellies, a jump rope, and some treats.

soph in her easter dress. she looked so darling. her toenails and fingernails even matched.

this is kind of picture overload, but i love them all. she's so cute.

 with the cousins. i did really awesome getting a good one of all 3, huh?

grandma's easter egg hunt. sophie kept calling in an easter egg "hunk".

me and baby. about 31 weeks.

soph and daddy checking out the goods. soph was totally spoiled. no wonder she loves grandma and grandpa so much!

the fam.

we had a lovely easter with family and reflecting on the life and resurrection of our Savior. we are especially grateful for the things we have been given: our family, friends, blessings, plan of salvation, the atonement, and the love of our Father in Heaven.