Baby Bump and Our Sleeping Beauty

I thought I would give everyone the update on the growth of the baby bump. I am almost 12 weeks, YAY for the 2nd trimester!!! I am already getting a little more energy, which I am VERY grateful for, and so is Ryan:-) The first picture is me at 6 weeks. The next one is 12 weeks, and yes I realize I am practically in the same outfit, but it has been a month!:-) Because of high blood count and also my very quickly expanding belly the Dr initially thought I was having twins. But alas, just one is in there. Hard to believe when you look at the belly!

6 weeks

12 weeks, I seriously don't think I was this big at 30 weeks with Lorilyn! Ahhh scary!

I had to add this picture cuz I just thought it was so adorable. What you can't see is she is cuddled with her blanky at the top of the crib. For a while she would stand and play with it and then drop it and scream bloody murder until someone came to pick it up cuz she could never think of sleeping with out it! So daddy got a little tired of that and tied it to her crib. So now she just cuddles up at the top to make sure she is with it:-) Gotta love these precious moments.

Birthday Party #2 and Grandma Bird's Gifts

One week after LJ's Birthday we were excited to have another party with the family that is close by. I so wish I would have thought to take a picture of the everyone here, but I forgot, so you just get the cake and Lorilyn's wonderful reaction! Thank you so much Steve, Kori and the kids for coming to our house and celebrating with us! We love you!

The cheesy cake I made, as you can see, I am no professional! But at least its yellow!:-)

Lorilyn was a little (understatement of the century) scared at the crowd of people singing to her. I had to capture the moment so I can show her one day how much she loved her first birthday!

I know it is odd, but truly our daughter loves to play with anything that is not a kid toy. One of her favorite things to do is pull down the dish towels from the oven and walk around with them, we call them her flags. I had told Grandma Bird about this so she sent more dishtowels for her birthday, and she sure loves them!

Grandma also bought her a camelbak water bottle that she absolutely loves. Really it is always close to her and she is always drinking it. She can down over 16oz of water a day. Thanks so much Grandma!

I love my Camelbak and I REALLY love my Grandma and Grandpa Bird!!

Introducing....

Baby #2! Just had blood work and an ultra sound and everything looks great. I am almost 10 weeks along, and miserable as I guess I should be for the 1st trimester. Hopefully the next couple weeks moving into the second trimester will bring better things for me!:-) Well here is our little little one, think its a boy or a girl? Oh due date was first given to me by the Dr as Sept 10th but the ultra sound lady says Sept 15th, so we'll just have to see I guess!

I'm 1 Year Old!

Lorilyn's 1 year birthday weekend was so much fun! Grandma and Grandpa Stoianowski got to come from Michigan and we spent the weekend playing, eating and watching the Super Bowl so you can't ask for much else! Here are a few pics showing the good time we all had:-)

Lorilyn playin shy right after Grandma and Grandpa arrived

Look at all those presents. Thank you EVERYONE!

Grandma took time and made an adorable teddy bear cake. Unfortunately it scared little one and she didn't want anything to do with it, silly girl!

Is this bear going to eat me mommy?!

However, later Grandma was eating a piece of cake and Lorilyn just couldn't get enough, so we let her dig into it for her birthday:-)

She LOVED the frosting, must be Mommy's girl!

She (and Mommy) also loved all of the sports equipment we got!

Yummy softball! We'll work on the correct use for it...

Yay for lots of books! We LOVE to read!

We spent LOTS of time reading the Big Hungry Bear with Grandpa.

Oh its good to be 1!

Waiting Patiently

I thought I would share our girl waiting patiently for Grandma and Grandpa to arrive the next day. It was so funny cuz we told her they were coming and she literally sat down and waited on the couch for at least 20 min like this. Unfortunately for her she had to sleep that night before they would get here, but it was so cute:-)

Say Please and then Strike a Pose!

Lorilyn brings so much joy and laughter to our lives we thought we might share a bit with you. She is such a ham and LOVES to perform. We have taught her how to say please though and now she says it all the time for everything, it is so hard to ever turn it down!