My biggest wish...

for New Years is that my brother comes home safely from Iraq. We miss you, Kevin, and can't wait for you to get home!!!!!!!

For real this time, it's a....

BOY!!!!!!!!!!!! We're thrilled and beyond excited that Colin's going to have a little brother and new best friend in just 4.5 short months from now. Christmas morning, Scott sent me on a scavenger hunt through the house to find the final present, which was a little blue bathrobe he picked out for our new little man. I was in tears before I even opened the present because of how much thought he put into it all.

Anyways... I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!! Here's some pics of Colin's 1st haircut and some fun Christmas pictures. Enjoy!

You're going to do what to my hair???

I guess this isn't so bad...

And the final result....

Colin loved his new tent he got for Christmas and even enjoyed visitors in it:

Christmas Eve he loved passing out presents at his Grandma and Grandpa's house:

Christmas morning he had fun vaccuming our house:

But still took a break to smile with Mommy:

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...

Fun Pictures

I know I promised pics of Colin's new haircut, but I still haven't uploaded them! Since I'm bored here at work (and mentally I'm already on Christmas vacation), I figured I'd post some cute pics of my little man taken over the past week or 2. For some reason he has a need to wear his winter hat while he's inside our house. And the Santa hat was a lucky shot - he's not a fan of wearing that one too often. Enjoy!!!

It's a.......

SURPRISE (for now, anyways)!!!! Scott knows the baby's gender and I don't. It was literally up to the last minute on if we were going to find out or not. With Colin, we did not find out and it was so much fun. I absolutely loved the moment when Colin was born and the Dr's and nurses had Scott make the big annoucement to me. I wasn't sure if I was willing to sacrifice that moment this time around. But in the same respect, I'm so sure that this baby's another boy that I didn't think it really mattered when I found out, and only one person said to leave it a surprise.

What made our decision was the fact that Scott has no gift for me to open Christmas morning, and he felt bad. He already had given me my gift (a digital camera) because I wanted to use it before Christmas, which meant no gift to give me Christmas morning. So as we're driving to the Dr appt, he mentions that he feels bad that I have no gift and that after our appt we have to go shopping so he could pick something out. So we decided that he could find out the gender of the baby and then give me a gender specific gift to tell me what we're having on Christmas morning. This is the most anticipated Christmas morning for me in a looooong time, that's for sure!

Other than finding out the gender, the ultrasound went really well. The baby was weighing in at 10oz and everything looked perfect. The first thing we saw was the baby's face and it was moving non-stop, which of course made me think it was a girl because it wouldn't stop talking LOL But as we kept looking more and more, the more I felt it was a boy. Just like I did when I had the ultrasound with Colin. When the tech went to look at gender, she told me to look away, but just before I turned my head I thought I saw something in between the legs. Scott's face gave away nothing. So in the end, my mind is made up that this is a boy.

As we were driving home from the appt, I called my Mom. I told her I suspected it was a boy and that I was actually pretty positive it was a boy ;) We shall see...

In Colin news, he got his first haircut yesterday! I was in denial that he needed one, but I guess it was time. He did GREAT! I had heard a trick about giving them a sucker while having it done, so we did that and sure enough all he cared about was the sucker LOL Not surprising considering he's only ever had a taste of a sucker twice in his life. He looks so cute with his haircut though. I'll make sure to post a picture as soon as I get the chance :-)

Oh What a Night...

Nothing is better than having your phone ring at 1:45am. It rings, your adrenaline starts going because in your mind, something horrible has happened to a family member. But instead, it's your husband's work calling with some major computer outage. LOVELY. So here I sit at work, with wet hair pulled back, barely able to function because the phone ringing at that time managed to keep me awake until almost 3:30am. I think I managed to hit snooze 5 times this morning and I swear it wasn't really 10min between each time it went off like it's supposed to.

Now I should probably mention that being awake at that hour wasn't all bad. Baby was loving every minute of me being awake and took full advantage by dancing around my belly the entire time. I'm not exaggerating at all either - Baby was all over the place. I felt him/her on one side, then the other, then back to the other side. At one point, I could feel Baby kicking in a complete circle. Now that was nuts! Colin was never this active when I was pregnant with him and he's a SUPER hyper child. I can only imagine what this means for the future for us... OY! But I love feeling the kicking so much! Since this will most likely be my last pregnancy, I'm enjoying every moment I can - well, scratch the puking in the beginning. There is nothing fun about praying to the porcelain God all night - I did enough of that in college ;)

Not much else to report in pregnancy news here at 18w. I'm feeling pretty good now, but I do get tired pretty quickly. Thank goodness Colin takes pretty decent naps because I need that downtime desperately!

Speaking of Colin, have I mentioned how cute he is in pink??? Long story, but in the end we had no option but to put him in this pink shirt. Daddy didn't like it so much.... judge for yourself!

But trust me, this kid is all boy - as this next picture proves:

He climbs on everything - including the shelves in the refridgerator. Yes, we have our hands full and love every second of it!

Weekend Adventures

This past weekend was absolutely exhausting. Saturday was spent shopping - the entire day. Well, we did manage to go out to breakfast first and then the shopping began. I went with Scott & Colin, came home and then while Colin was down for his afternoon nap, I went out and did some more shopping on my own. Once Scott left for his work Christmas party (spouses were not invited), Colin and I met my Mom at the mall for some more shopping. It was an exhausting day! By the end of the shopping trip, I could barely walk. I had been out and about since 10am and we didn't finish up shopping until about 7:30pm. By the time I got Colin into his PJ's, into bed, and I took a shower, it was about 8:30pm. Not a day meant for a pregnant girl with a toddler! I crawled right into bed and slept until Colin woke me up at 7am the next morning. You would think all of that sleep would cure the exhaustion from Saturday, but nope! I was still tired...

Sunday morning we took Colin for Christmas pictures (which turned out super cute by the way) and then I layed on the couch at my inlaws for the rest of the day. Sunday night we decided to have dinner at Out.back Steakhouse with his parents. As usual, it was as yummy as ever. Baby REALLY seemed to like it. I felt more movement in the couple hours after dinner than I have felt so far this entire pregnancy. I'm guessing he/she is taking right after it's Mommy & Daddy and loving those cheese fries and prime rib LOL

Colin is starting to get into the phase were we're actually nervous to take him anywhere. You just never know what's going to put him into meltdown mode. At the restaurant on Sunday, he didn't want the highchair, so we put him into a booster seat. Apparently that wasn't what he wanted either. So our dinner was spent trying to keep him occupied and get him to eat some food, while we all ate really fast and could leave. Then yesterday I took him grocery shopping. Again, you just never know what he'll do. He didn't want out of the car, so I had to divert his attention by telling him we'd see Santa in the store so I could get him out of the car. We get in and sure enough, high on the display is an inflatable Santa, which he LOVED. He loved it so much, he wanted to be able to touch "Danta". Obviously this wasn't an option because of how high the display was, so I kept pushing the cart. Here comes the meltdown. He starts screaming LOUDLY, "Danta, up, Danta up", while trying to stand up in the cart to reach Santa. Have I mentioned how loud he was screaming? Of course people were looking and watching me try to calm him down and get him to sit in his seat. So finally I told him we'd find a Santa book for him to read. And wouldn't you know it - the grocery store doesn't have any Christmas books. Fortunately I found one with some interesting buttons for him to mess around with. Meltdown over.

Needless to say, I'm taking a break from taking Colin shopping with me for awhile...OY!