Waving Hi!!!

So yesterday, Colton and I got to go see the new baby on an Ultrasound Machine and it was so great!! Colton was not very happy to be sharing the attention of the nice midwife and was super mad at me. He was babbling something about still being the cutest baby in the world and how we didn't need a new baby...

The ultrasound put us at least a week ahead of where we were thinking that we were, and bumped up our due date by 5 days. But they're thinking that we might actually be farther ahead than that... They were only able to date the pregnancy when the baby was scrunched over and at that they put us at 13 weeks 2 days.


The good news is that would put us into the second trimester TODAY!!!! (at least, lol)

I'll go back for another ultrasound next month, and it will be a more in-depth ultrasound so we'll be able to know more. I'll be at least 17 weeks, so it's an absolute possibility that we'll be able to find out the gender before Christmas instead of after Christmas like we were thinking!!!

The baby was sooo cute and when looking at the screen, really looked like a baby!! It was crazy. I still forget that I'm pregnant, and then I saw this little one dancing around in my tummy and it was so great. The baby (I keep saying She and having to correct myself.. so we shall see...) was waving frantically as if to let me know that s/he was really there. And the heart was beating great and everything was perfect.

Here is a picture from the u/s. It's kinda hard to make it out because this is a picture of a picture, but the head is the big thing.. and this child is NOT shy.. completely spread eagle... The dot to the left of the screen is the hand that kept waving at me. You can see the leg on the right really clearly and make out the thigh and the calf!!


So we are officially a third of the way done now!!! Yay!! And more importantly, I'm starting to get some energy back...

I didn't gain any weight at all in the first trimester. I actually lost weight, which I'm happy about. From here on out, I should be putting on about one pound a month... I'm trying really hard to not get huge this time. It should help to not be on steriods for the last couple of weeks, lol...

So everything has been going great with this pregnancy, but our house has been a sick house for about 6 weeks now... Colton and I have been passing one thing after another back to each other and it's been no fun...

We ended up in the ER on Saturday because Colton had a fever of 105.6 and was breathing very fast (52 breaths per minute) and just lethargic. Obviously, the second that we got there, little Mr. Flirt bounced out of it and wanted to run around and just flirt with everyone. He loves the hospital. He got hugs... He got waves... and more importantly... He got Popsicles...

His temp dropped down to 102.4 by the time that they were doing triage and we were told that it's just something Viral and we'll have to wait it out... Poor guy, he's loving getting Popsicles and all of the extra cuddle time...

We were having some difficulty with Colton actually going down for his second nap of the day. It was impossible for about a week. Then I put him down one day with his head on Lambie and I gave him a silk cuddle blanket and the stinker was OUT!!!!! I love it because Lambie is my old stuffed animal and is very loved. It's so great seeing things from my childhood getting loved by Colton.

Here are some pictures from the park the other day.






Playing Ball with Jarro:





And then just for fun.. Here is a cute picture that I found recently....

Happy Halloween!!!

So Here is the house aka The Perpetual Tag Sale house in it's Halloween finery... Yes, I promise, this is the actual house. I didn't photoshop the picture at all... lol, it's a site. That's for sure...
We drove by last night, and they had a smoke machine going full blast... It was really insane... Make sure that you tilt the screen so that you can see the spider on the roof...



Here is the side of the PYS House...






And now on the the important things in life... Colton.

Colton wore the costume that Aunt Steen made 10 years ago for Mackey to wear... It has gone through all of the kids, and it was so neat to see it on my child. It was so much more meaningful and special than anything that we could have bought for him. He looked adorable and Christine really did an amazing job when she made this costume, it's amazing.

Here is Colton working on his Cheetah pose:


"Mommy, this is sooo cool!!!!!"


"Check out these claws!!!!!!!!!!!"


Here is Colton trick'r'treating with his little friend Jackie. They had an absolute ball!


They have such great conversations...


Just hanging out holding hands...


"Yummy!!! Your antenna tastes delicious!!!"


"I am a cheetah, and if you take one more picture of me, I will kill you..."


Here's the Pimp-mobile...


Our Family...





and here are some pictures from dinner tonight...

"I destroyed those Spagetti-O's... I owned them.... Total domination.... I won..."


Fun in the tub after the war with Spagetti-O's