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