Tuesday, January 20, 2015

And we're having a...


Yep, we're having another sweet girl. We could not be more thrilled. I thought up until this point, that it was totally going to be a boy - since this pregnancy has been so different compared to my pregnancy with Harper. The second the receptionist told me the results over the phone, I was totally shocked, but excited. I mean Harper is so darn cute - so it will be so exciting to see what this little cutie is going to look like. 

Since we now know the sex of the baby, we picked out the paint colour for the nursery:

http://www.cil.ca/Colour/Paint-Colours/Reds/82RR_76-111

 I loved this colour, because it's a really really soft light pink - not your traditional BAM pink that a lot of people end up choosing for a little girls nursery. I wanted a soft colour also because this babies room is the smallest of our three bedrooms. I want the room light, bright and fresh.

Since I'm not the most traditional when it comes to decorating a nursery, I went to Pinterest for some inspiration and this is what I liked:


Top left corner walls in blue tints  Nusery-Rooms-01-adorable

I loved these nurseries because their different but still really adorable. SO excited to start decorating. We plan on getting the room painted this weekend, so I intend on taking some before and after pictures as we go along. 

Here's the baby at 19 weeks 5 days:


I still can't believe we're doing this again...so soon. But here we go :)

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Lots to Catch Up On..


It's been a while since I have blogged, and there's several reasons for that. The first and main one was that we found out I was pregnant again and I immediately started to feel super sick. I was nauseasous from the time I woke up until I went to bed - at around 7pm! And that on top of chasing around a 1 year old (who was teething my entire first trimester) was truly brutal. Whenever Harper napped, so did I - no more blogging for this girl!

Through all the nausea, I still had a one year old's birthday party to plan. I didn't want to let this pregnancy affect any of my planning, as I had been excited (and sad) for Harper's first birthday party.

We had a cake smash photoshoot and I am so thrilled with how the pictures turned out. Our photographer did such a wonderful job (as always). It took a lot of dancing and singing on Fraser and I's part to keep her smiling and not totally freaking out - but it was worth it :)

Now that I am 18 weeks (almost 19 weeks) pregnant, I am feeling pretty awesome - other than the occasional exhaustion. It still seems surreal to me that I am already going through this again..we found out I was pregnant again when Harper was only 10 months old..wwwwhhaat? I look at my baby and cannot believe that she is going to be a big sister! Regardless, she is still going to be my baby too. My biggest fear I had when we found out I was pregnant again, was "is Harper going to get all of the attention she deserves?!", especially since she will only be 18 months old when baby # 2 arrives!

An update on miss Harper: she is sleeping 12-14 hours straight, every night. So we consider ourselves very lucky. Up until about 3 weeks ago, she was still getting up once to nurse but she weaned herself off completely at night - which is fantastic! She nurses once to three times a day - depending on if its a weekday or weekend. During the week I work fulltime so she only gets a chance before bed to nurse, whereas on the weekends, she gets to nurse before her naps. I don't plan to wean her completely, until she is ready, UNLESS she is still nursing close to when I am due. No tandem nursing for this lady :)

Fraser and I are super excited to be having another baby - and are trying to enjoy this pregnancy as much as possible, as it will be our last. We are super super excited as we find out the sex of the baby in one week! I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is flying by which is another reason I need to try and enjoy it while it lasts. 

I've been feeling the baby move since early on - a lot earlier than with Harper - which is apparently very common. Often times they say with your first pregnancy, you can't really distinguish between gas bubbles and baby flutters; but that once you've been there done that, you know what feelings to be looking out for. So since about 14 weeks, I've felt little flutters and in the past week I've been feeling kicks and punches. I quickly remembered how amazing it is to feel a little human inside of you, wiggling around. This is the part of pregnancy I could never get sick of and I actually missed once Harper was born. Obviously I was over the moon once she was here and I could hold her - but having her apart of me was so amazing, that I missed feeling her spastic little self moving around all of the time. It makes me sad that this is going to be my last pregnancy BUT the idea of having more than two little babes, overwhelms me. I only have two arms!

Due date for baby # 2: June 4th, 2015

Here is our ultrasound picture at around 12 weeks:

Here was my last belly picture at 16 weeks 4 days:

I'm getting Fraser to take my updated belly picture tomorrow! I'm definitely bigger than I was with Harper - here is a little comparison:

Here I was 16 weeks pregnant with Harper (and a lot tanner :D ):

I'm excited to be blogging again, especially during this very exciting time. When we find out the sex of the baby, we will be able to start decorating the nursery. I plan on taking lots of before and after pictures to share with everyone :)