Our life in pictures over the past month or so

A beginning of the year trip to the Boonshoft

Linden pulling Olivia on her sled through icy Paw Paw Camp

Enjoying a walk on an unseasonably warm winter day

Gross but funny head-in-a-toilet-seat picture :)

Playing with homemade playdough

Taking a picture of her baby...naked. What can I say? She likes to be free. :)

Playing with bunnies at her friend Linden's house

Poor baby had a nasty cold and fell asleep in my arms

Speaking of tired, this picture is cute and sad all at the same time. After a
particularly difficult naptime in which we resorted to closing Olivia in her room,
she finally gave in and fell asleep like this.

Cutie patooties

I'm making dinner and I hear
"Look Mommy, I'm wearing a book!"

Homemade birdfeeders

Finally, after many days of checking to see if birds had come to our feeders with
no success, we found a pair of cardinals munching on them! So exciting!

Olivia playing ring-around-the-rosie with some
 big girls (3-year-olds)

Showing off some "oobleck" me made.
Very fun, albeit messy experiment!

Cutie pies at breakfast :)

Our Family is Growing by Two Feet!

In case the picture didn't give it away, we are expecting Baby #2 in August. We gave a framed copy of the picture above to our parents for Christmas. It was a fun way to share the news. Of course, they were excited!

The first trimester was fairly uneventful with the exception of being severely exhausted and feeling a little more "icky" than I remember feeling when I was pregnant with Olivia. As of today, I'm 16 weeks and feeling pretty good. I still haven't really popped out too much and can't really feel the baby moving yet, although sometimes I think I feel a little something here or there. The good thing about a second pregnancy is that you already have a child to focus your time, energy, and attention on and therefore, don't obsess about every aspect of your pregnancy. It also makes time go by faster.

This baby is already trying to get our attention. I've had two little issues with some bleeding, but the baby is fine and I've been told there's nothing to worry about. The upside to these two little episodes is that I've gotten to have ultrasounds and see our baby, an opportunity I wouldn't have otherwise had. I'm hoping the rest of the pregnancy remains uneventful. :)

Once I get the ultrasound picture scanned, I'll post that. Coming up on March 28th, we'll have our 20 week ultrasound and get to find out whether we're having a boy or a girl. I'm excited to find out and after we do, we can start painting/decorating the nursery and re-decorating Olivia's room as a big girl room.

It SNOWED!!!

It's been about two months now since I last blogged and there's A LOT to catch up on. First up...this draft I just discovered that I never published!

We were disappointed when didn't get any significant snowfall last year, so we were pretty excited when, the day after Christmas we got almost half a foot of snow. We went out and bought some sleds, bundled up, and sledded down my parent's driveway. Olivia was tentative at first about sledding, but decided to be brave and had a lot of fun. Their driveway is the perfect sized hill - steep enough to get a good ride, but not too steep to be scary and a short enough distance to not get exhausted running back to the top. Afterwards, Olivia enjoyed some hot cocoa prepared by Maga. :) Here are a few pictures of the fun.

Here are a few more pictures of the snow from a walk in the woods we took a few days later.