15 Weeks

Yesterday Chris, Avery, and I traveled to Wichita for my latest doctor's appointment. It was a pretty short one; I just got to hear the heartbeat and have a few questions answered, but it was great to see our doctor again.  We will go back again in 4 weeks, this time for both an appointment and a sonogram.  We plan on finding out whether Avery will have a brother or sister, so we should know in less than a month!  Here I am last night.  Yes, I'm wearing maternity clothes.  It's probably not an absolute necessity, but I'm a lot more comfortable, plus it makes it a little more obvious that I'm pregnant and not just overeating.

Avery and Chris stayed outside and played while I was in the appointment.  It ended up being a beautiful day!  Avery did such a good job riding too.  She slept the whole way there and looked through her books on the way home along with having some snacks.  Such a good girl!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our Big News!

Avery is going to be a .....



We found out our big news a few days before my birthday in December but decided to wait until we were further along to spread the news.  Our new baby has a due date of August 17; like Avery, however, this baby will also be born at 36 or 37 weeks.  So we will actually have the baby within the last couple weeks of July.  We are very excited for our new addition and look forward to the next few months of preparation.  In the meantime, we will be possibly beginning potty training with Avery and also transitioning her into a toddler bed.  Neither task to be taken lightly.  Avery has learned how to say baby and also will point to Mommy's tummy when you ask where the baby is.  She will also point to the tummy of any other female around so we are working on helping her learn that it's just Mommy's tummy that it applies to.  We like to think that she is very excited about her new role of being a big sister.

 

Here are several shots of her modeling off her new jacket from Uncle Zach. 

Serious runway stuff.

And here I am at roughly 12 1/2 weeks.  I don't get dressed up too often, so I made Chris take a picture.  I didn't do the weekly picture thing with Avery, so I'm going to do my best to document things better with this pregnancy.

Some Things Never Change

 We had a pretty big weekend.  Mommy went to KC all day Saturday so Chris and Avery spent the whole day together without me.  Very tough on me; Avery apparently did just fine.  Sunday we spent time getting food ready for the Super Bowl, but Avery had to take some time out for a nap with Daddy on the couch.

Here they are when Avery was about a week old.  Guess some things will never change!