17 weeks pregnant

I am 17 weeks pregnant (tomorrow). I am so excited.
Our BIG ultrasound is on Tuesday. I cannot wait to find out if baby is a boy or girl. I've thought baby was a boy from the beginning but lately I find myself leaning towards girl.
This baby has me totally confused on gender. I find I crave sweets (like I did with my daughter) but also french fries and salads (like with my son). I'm also able to eat meat this time around (Couldn't eat meat with either of my other babies).
Ready to see how much baby has changed from our last official ultrasound. I leave you with a 12week ultrasound photo.

Any gender guesses for me? :)

News :)

So I totally realize that I have been slacking in posting. So sorry about that but that's what happens when you have terrible morning sickness.
That's right. I'm pregnant with baby #3. We are 12w3d today. Had my NT scan today and everything looks great. Baby has a nice strong HB of 150. The placenta is also posterior ( I am really excited about this because it should make feeling the baby so much easier). Speaking of feeling the baby, I think I've felt a flutter or 2 but isn't it too early?
Oh I am so excited for this new baby and thankful to God for this beautiful blessing.
5 weeks until we find out if baby is a boy or girl.

catching up

Life has been a whirlwind lately.
Cecilia is almost 7 months now and trying to crawl. She's teething but we've yet to see teeth....hopefully they pop through soon. Bryce is in the terrible 2's. We started speech therapy today which I don't see the benefit of.
We've been taking walks every evening lately. Its so pleasant outside. The kids really enjoy it.

What's been happening...

The kids have been keeping me busy.

Ceci.lia is 5 months old now. She's in the throes of teething and is pretty miserable. Tylen.ol and Hyla.nd's Teet.hing Ge.l seem to help some. She's more miserable than Bryce ever was though. Any other suggestions for relief? I'm open to most anything. We do have S.ophie for her to teethe on and Ceci.lia loves her.

Cecil.ia has gotten so big. She can roll over both ways, scoots around in circles on her gym and can scoot forward. She really loves sitting up and can sit up unassisted for a few seconds.

She gets bored very easily though. I constantly have to move her from one toy to the next. Of course, her favorite thing to do is stare at my face and smile up a storm *insert heart melting here*

Cecil.ia has been sleeping through the night for a couple of weeks now. It's been great! :) She goes down between 7:15-7:45pm and sleeps straight through until 7-8am. Naps haven't been great though. She only wants to nap in the swing and most of the time doesn't end up napping. I'll put her in the swing and she'll stay content for about 5 minutes for she starts crying. I can only assume it is her teething that is upsetting her nap schedule. I'm lucky if she takes 1 one hour nap.

Bry.ce is such a ham. He's really starting to talk more. He also recognizes letters, colors, and animals. We have a speech appt. on August 9th to see if he needs therapy. Please pray that he is advanced enough so we don't have to return to speech.

Bry.ce is definitely in the middle of the terrible 2's. He's very good most of the time but can throw the mother of all tantrums. Thankfully, time outs appear to work well for him.

Baby Signing Time and other things

Have you ever used the Baby Signing Time dvds? Or anything similar?

We bought a Potty Time app on the ipad for Bry.ce which led us to Rachel and the Baby Signing Time dvds. Bry.ce has been behind on his speech so we thought learning some sign language couldn't hurt.

The videos are better than I could have ever imagined. Within a couple of days, Bryc.e's vocabulary has increased. He's started saying grow, go, help and doing the signs associated with them.

I am SO proud of my sweet boy!

Are there any other dvds you can recommend for speech or general learning for toddlers? I would love suggestions.

In other news, Cec.ilia turned 4 months old yesterday :) She is growing so fast. She loves tummy time and is so good at it. She loves to sit up (assisted of course), talks constantly, smiles and giggles a lot. She melts my heart every day.

My heart is so full with my 2 precious loves.

Of course I have to include pictures of my babies.

Praise God

Praise God!! That is all I can say :)

Today was Bryc.e's appointment with the Urologist. I spent a lot of this past week and a half terrified that the Urologist wouldn't find Br.yce's testicle and would schedule surgery. Our pediatrician was adamant that she couldn't find his testicle descended like it should be or further up in the canal.

I was feeling a lot of Mommy guilt too because his surgery had been scheduled a year ago before our pediatrician said she found it. We called off the surgery based on that. All I could think about was how my poor little boy would have to be aware and suffer from a surgery.

THANK GOD that was not the case. Right away the pediatric Urologist found BOTH of Br.yce's testicles. I was trying so hard not to cry (happy tears). The doctor told us that he was glad we hadn't gone ahead with the surgery a year ago since it was definitely not necessary.

As for now, my sweet boy has a highly retractable testicle that should fix itself as he grows. We go back in a year just to make sure everything is still alright.

Again I just have to say, PRAISE GOD!! My sweet boy is ok and will not need surgery. Thank you Jesus!

New Phone

DH took me out yesterday and got me the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

I LOVE IT! The phone is so slim and the screen is huge. The picture quality is fantastic. I should know since I've taken a bunch of pictures of them today.

I'm still learning it and importing all of my contacts/apps/passwords. It's taken me a lot longer than I thought it would to make sure I don't forget anything.

It's not often I get something new. Usually the kids and DH get stuff before I do. Have I mentioned what a great DH I have? Now I'm hoping my old phone sells on craigslist so I can recoup some of the money of this new phone.

Such a wonderful day :D