Second Trimester

This second pregnancy has really flown by. It probably has a lot to do with taking care of my 13 month old. I literally feel like we just found out yesterday. Just a quick little re cap since we found out #2 was a boy!

The anatomy ultrasound came back normal and everything seems to be growing right on track. That's the most important thing to me throughout being pregnant. Also, it's fun to compare this pregnancy with Maci's. Brady has been measuring ahead a little over a week for a while now. Maci was always measuring right on the dot. The only symptom I had with this one is the morning sickness in the first trimester. I didn't really have that with Maci or anything actually. Everything else is pretty much the same. They both kick like crazy!  The common symptom for both pregnancies would have to be heartburn, but that's it. Its only for a little while around night time. It's crazy how fast it's all going. With that being said, Chris & I are officially starting B's room this week end. We have the decor, paint, bedding etc. We just need to actually start putting it together. We are giving ourselves a deadline... right before Thanksgiving. I want to be able to enjoy the rest of the holidays before baby brother makes his arrival, be stress free, and take in the holdays with Maci as an only child forever! After all, Brady has been measuring ahead a little over a week for quite some time now. So my scheduled due date could move up to...New Years Eve!  What a fun birthday to have. My mother in law's birthday is actually on New Years Eve as well. What an awesome birthday gift that would be for Grandma Stulak to have..her first grandson!

Talk about perfect timing on catching up on my little blog. I better go get my little rascal. Seems she has woken up from her afternoon nap. 

Till next time, here are some recent bump pictures of the ever so growing Brady!

Excuse the dirty mirror in this picture. 

Maci loves to look at her self  lol

** 14 weeks left to go***

Thirteen Months!

The months can't seem to slow down! They just keep going by faster and faster! 

Our Maci turned 13 months old on September 13th. 

She is so much fun these days and she always makes us laugh EVERY single day!

You are an expert walker now and pretty much want to be walking/running everywhere! You keep me on my toes which is why I am forever grateful when daddy walks through that door at 5pm! Six months pregnant and chasing around a toddler can drain mommy out!  When we go run errands or shopping at stores you clearly want out of the stroller or shopping cart 9 times out of 10.

Yup, I'm that mom whose kid loves to run through the racks of clothes and thinks it time to play hide and go seek with giggles so loud everyone in the store know where we are.  I secretly love it though.  My mom said I was like this as a toddler so I can see where she gets it from.

Speaking of where she gets it from. Just last week Maci decided she likes to take off her diaper off...anytime/anywhere. My mom and dad told me I totally did this at her age lol. I woke up to seeing Maci on the monitor with her tushie up in the air with no diaper. Yup, sure enough she took it off God knows when and threw it outside of her crib. Luckily she didn't wet the bed so it must have just happened before I saw it. Maybe she is ready to start potty training! How nice would it be to have my oldest under 2 potty trained before her baby brother comes this new year? Less diapers! Wishful thinking on my end, but hey a girl can dream can't she? 

In other news, Maci is speaking up a storm and clearly loves the sound of her own voice. Her annunciation of words is amazing. She will literally watch our mouths as we are sounding out words to her and she will copy us. Some of her favorite words are daddy, momma, stay (mostly to dogs), nana (bannana), maaa (more),daw (dog) hi, bye, wadder(water) baybee (baby.) She will come up to my belly all on her own and touch it very carefully. Already a great big sister I tell ya.

You sleep so well. I hope your brother takes after you girl! You go to bed every night around 8:30 and sleep through the whole night. You wake up anywhere from 8:30 to 9:00 in the morning. We start our day with some MMCH and breakfast (waffles are your favorite) and typically go run some sort of errand for the day. We get out of the house once a day whether it's story time at the library, lunch dates with friends/family, play dates, shopping, grocery shopping, oil changes etc. You take your one nap a day which is generally around 2-4. Then daddy comes home and we have dinner and go for a family walk since the weather is starting to be somewhat decent. Hurry up Fall weather!

We celebrated daddy's birthday this month. You and some of 

your cousins where there to help him blow out his 

candles to have a fabulous 28th birthday!

Playing the piano with cousin Jack.

You could follow him and his brother Connor all day long.

You love to hang with the big kids!

 We went to the Sugar Land Skeeters game with Jamie this month.
They made it to the beginning of the play offs this year. Go Skeeters!

You seriously love your Jamie!
Being silly as usual :)

You are in size 18 month clothes and some 24 months, depending on the brand. Size 5 shoes.

Size 4 diapers... size 5 at night. You love to put on your own sunglasses and take out your bows to put them back in yourself. You want to feed yourself most of the times with a spoon. All in all, I would say you are growing up to be a independent little lady.  I mean who wouldn't love a fun, loud, lovable, kissable, huggable, squishy, independent, blue eyed beauty?! 

Ill eat you up I love you so!

Happy Thirteen Months Maci Maureen :)

Shopping for the littles

Nothing makes you feel better than shopping! Well for me at least. When you're a mom, nothing makes you feel better than shopping for your littles. Today I did some shopping to get my mind off a couple things and I found the cutest fall finds for my growing girl. I had to grab baby brother some stuff too :)

***FYI Children's Place place is on top of fall attire for little ones right now...so you might want to make a trip soon!

Maci Fall2013

Baby Brady

It's a BOY for baby Stulak2

The time finally came for Chris & I to find out what our sweet second blessing would be! My very good friend, Jadie had a gender reveal party all planned out and we had it done to where NO ONE knew (not even Jadie) what baby Stulak 2 would be. Chris & I went to baby's anatomy scan in the afternoon this past Friday, which I had done at 19 weeks and everything went great! Baby's organs and parts all looked to be growing properly and that was such great news to hear. When it came to finding out the gender, which was done at the end, the ultrasound tech told us to turn our heads the other way and she turned the screen the opposite way just to be extra careful.  It was done so fast  which let me to believe it was a boy haha She then wrote down the gender and stuck the gender pictures in a separate envelope. Now let me you, the ONLY reason I was patient enough was because the gender reveal party was only going to be 5 hours away LOL. 

I met my friend at a local Party city right after my appointment where she made a box to be filled up with either pink or blue balloons. Party City has done this before and they were able to have the right balloons blown up and threw in the envelope in the box as well. My friend picked it up and brought it over to our house when it was time to get ready for the party. I still cant thank her enough for making such a great memory with family and friends. Thanks Jadie! WE LOVE YOU & JASON! We weren't able to do a gender reveal with Maci because we had some family out of town and I could never be able to wait a whole week for them to get back. I'm glad we were able to this time!  Ill let the pictures do most of the talking.

 

He wasn't shy at all!

 


When choosing the name we knew from the get go if it was a boy we wanted the middle name to be Christopher (just like his daddy). Maci has my middle name (which is Irish) so we did some brainstorming and came up with the perfect name that fit exactly what we were looking for. We wanted the first name to be Irish. My grandmother (my dad's mom) is from Ireland and so I am 1/2 Irish. It is something very important to me.  Lo and behold Brady Christopher it was!

Brady Christopher Stulak will be here January 5,2014 and we couldn't be happier! Even big sister is excited.  She now comes up to my belly and Chris & I point to it and say "baby." She touches my bump and says "baybeeeeeee." I know she is still so young but I feel like she is getting the idea in some sort of way. It's the cutest and I know she will be a great big sister! Brady, you are already so loved! You have no idea.

Maci Maureen turns ONE!!!!!

How did August 13, 2013 get here so fast?! Please tell me. Our baby is ONE! It's official, we survived the first year as parents.  I can't believe we are already here! I swear it really does seem like yesterday she was born and now my pregnant self is running around chasing my little toddler. Yup, that's right! She is walking. She actually started to take her first steps a week after her birthday and was a full force walker at exactly 2 1/2 week afters her birthday. August 27,2013 to be exact! Her birthday was such a blast and everyone had so much fun. She had her birthday photo shoot done a couple days before her 1st birthday {See here!} I feel like I shopped for weeks to buy all the little details for her big day and then WHAM it was here and gone too fast! Chris and I love our girl to pieces and couldn't have had a better time with our wee one, family, and friends. Get ready for picture overload of some birthday fun!