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 :)

Our little ghoul

This past week week has been super hectic. Thanksgiving weekend meant lots of family visits - which was awesome but very exhausting for all of us. This week Harper has been teething and of course to add to that fun, I haven't been feeling well on top of everything. Nothing is worse than not feeling well and wanting to curl up in bed but having a grumpy baby who wants to nurse 100 times a day. Poor little monkey. 

This adorable outfit is from BabyGap - of course - and it is so darn cute. The hat just tops off the entire outfit. I'm excited for Harpers first Halloween, even though I didn't get the costume I initially wanted for her. She's going to be a flower - how boring. Haha. Either way, she looks adorable in anything so in the end it doesn't matter. We have started to make a play area in the basement for her so she has more room to crawl around. We just recently got a new t.v and are currently re-arranging furniture to make the most use of the space. I think I might make a post about her play area once it's complete.

I'm hoping these teeth don't take forever to come up, although today has been a lot better thus far. I hate when she doesn't feel well. 

On a happier note, miss Josie turns 3 today. She's so cute. She can be an absolute pain in my ass on a constant basis with her anxiety and barking BUT she is truly the sweetest dog ever. So happy birthday to our first baby :)

Such a beauty

Harper is growing into the most beautiful little girl, right before our eyes. When I look at her lately, she seems so grown up. She's crawling all over, almost walking and throwing tantrums! She makes Fraser and I laugh constantly with her random dancing and silly faces. She sleeps through the night and eats food with zero problems. Feels like it was just last month she was still sleeping in our bed, waking every couple of hours (yikes) and refusing to eat solids.

She loves books. Mind you, I can only keep her still enough to read one with me for maybe 3 minutes BUT she loves looking at the pictures and all of the funny voices I do when reading to her.

She absolutely loves any sort of organic puff or plain Cheerios. She feeds herself like a pro and zero gagging (YAY). This is great because she's a snacker like her mother, so these kinds of little snacks come in handy throughout the day. You do have to watch her very carefully though because she likes to see how many she can fit in her mouth at once ;)

It's so cute because she is so proud that she can finally properly crawl - no more pulling her self all over. It was exhausting to watch because it took so much more strength than crawling normally. 

Funny thing is, she's almost walking and it's only been the past week that she has been crawling normally. She stands up all by herself and will take a few steps before falling onto her bum (which she is not a big fan of to say the least). She gets very frustrated, very easily, another wonderful trait of her mothers ;) BUT she's almost always got a smile on her face just like her sweet daddy <3

Happy October 1st!!

October 1st marks the first day of Halloween celebrations for me. Even though Harper is only 10 and a half months and has no clue what Halloween is - I still plan to deck her all out in cute Halloween outfits and make memories she can look back on when she's older.

Harper is rocking her new Halloween outfit from Carters. I love these two piece tutu outfits they make. They seem super cozy but super cute at the same time. Her socks are from Oldnavy.

Cutest tutu bum ever!

We cuddled up with a cozy blanket and were reading her new books "Room on the Broom" and "Little Owls Night". She doesn't stay still for long, so we go through the whole book and look at all of the pictures. She gets really excited whenever we sit down with a book but very quickly wants to escape to get into whatever she can get her hands on.

She loves to sit and open the pages on her books, it's the sweetest thing ever. I highly recommend both of these books for the fall season.

After a few minutes of looking at the pictures she decided she wanted to shimmy her way onto the floor and just laid there smiling and looking up at me. She is so funny and SOO busy.

Super excited to go pick out this little monkeys costume for the end of the month. I haven't decided what I want her to be. But I have decided that I'm going to dress up like a witch. Now I have to convince Fraser to dress up. Haha.