Pigtail Love

I am loving doing Savannah's hair.  She probably doesn't share that love but hopefully she will :)  Here's the sassypants before we left the house this morning!

Here she's saying treat, treat! Because she was dividing out the cat treats to the boysies and is very thoughtful on who gets which treats.  after I put them on the ground she scrounges really fast to pick them up before they can eat any so she can divy them out!

Baby 2 Backstory

This is long so feel free to skip if you aren't interested! I have pictures below!  So it all started the weekend in March that we went to Garvan Gardens and the races.  When we were coming home that night, I just did not feel right and was extremely carsick on the way down and the way back.  Birc and I both joked that maybe I was pregnant.  But then the next morning (St. Patrick's Day, Anna and Aaron's anniversary!) we decided we better take a test so we would know.  I honestly had no inkling or thought that I was pregnant but Birc convinced me to take a test so we did and low and behold it said "Pregnant" Oh my! Surprise surprise!! So after getting on google and figuring out how far along I might be (what did people do before the internet??) we decided we would wait a bit to tell people.  Then Savannah got sick sick sick.  And Birc caught it.  And then I caught it.  And it went into my ears and my throat and my chest and you might remember me getting really sick and missing 3 days of work at the end of March??  Well I called my doctors and they all said, sorry you can't take anything, then all of a sudden my ears started screaming at me with extreme pain one Friday night and I called my God-sent brother-in-law and asked him to look in my ears.  So he did and sure enough, I had an ear infection and he asked what antibiotics I had taken recently and then I said "I can't take any antibiotics! I'm pregnant!" and Anna was there too (Birc was out of town) and she squealed and Aaron's jaw dropped. They were both thrilled! :) Continuing on (he got me some numbing drops and I held hot pads and hot wash cloths on my ear until it unstopped and the pain subsided) they kept the secret, and then Easter was around the corner. Birc and I had already planned to host a family lunch (3rd annual!) for both families and that is when we told them about Savannah a few years back, so we thought it was only right that we tell them about the next grandbaby on Easter again!

You probably can't see my apron but it has a picture of a bun in the oven and it says "There's a bun in the oven! Cook about nine months, will be ready mid-November!" I just came out in it and let everyone slowly read and figure it out. :) Grandad was first to see!

Here are some weekly pics we've been taking...

So I was wanting a "big sis" shirt for Savannah,so I searched on etsy but they are so pricey and I knew I could make one myself so I did.  Here are the ones I modeled it after:

And here's Savannah shirt made by yours truly! I loved it and she looks so cute it in (more pics below!) It cost me a whopping $6 for the shirt and all the letter fabric I had laying around from other projects as well as the buttons and the fusible iron stuff.  Then I put a decorative stitch all around the letters.  

Here we are this morning taking a family pic!

I took Savannah to her class today in this and that is how I told her teachers I was pregnant! It was fun

Savannah, a baby is coming! Can you share your toys???

No??? With a foot-stomping-tantrum and everything?? Oh my...

Yes you were just stomping those feet.

But I meant to stomp them over there Mama.

and I'm NOT sharing my toys!

After begging and begging for a smile, I was running too late to push anymore so we took a selfie and I said, 'say cheese and show me your smile!' and this is what she did. :) Fake smile all the way! But I'll take it over any of the above pictures! Hah!

I think that brings everybody up to speed!

All of These Things Can Only Mean One Thing:

I'll give you ONE guess!

That's right! We are expecting Baby #2 around November 19! We are of course super excited and I have been waiting to tell extended family and friends for about 6 weeks now! I am 12 weeks along today and we heard a strong heartbeat at the doctor yesterday.  I'll recap more about it tomorrow and the next day but wanted to share the news today!  Here's his/her first picture around 8 weeks:

Sunday Funday

We had a great weekend and I of course wish I had taken more pictures but I will learn one of these days.  Today was my first Sunday to not have my kids choir that I volunteer as director for so we had such a nice long fun 'second day of the weekend' day!  Here's my pretty girl in a dress I wore when I was around her size.  (I don't know what the rest of you are getting as far as weather is concerned, but Mother Nature is on something special in Arkansas. Last week, Savannah wore a spaghetti strap dress one day, tank top and shorts another, and a sweatshirt with leggings under a pair of jeans another day.  With a coat on.  It is just crazy!  Hopefully this week things will start leveling out and acting like spring/summer that it's supposed to be.)  We've got a busy week ahead so I will try to document it all!

after her nap, I was working on some craft things I'm doing and so I sat her up with some colors and a snack and she was thrilled. :)

Coloring is hard work so she had to stop for a second. :) Check out that bed head.  

What are you looking at, Mama?

Happy Monday!

Sleepyhead

Just a few shots of my sweetie when she's not moving 97 miles an hour!

At her class they are transitioning from cribs to mats on the floor (before cots) and sometimes I walk by just to see that adorable booty in the air!

Right when Savannah wakes up we get right back in my bed since Birc's either getting ready or already gone.  We eat breakfast in bed every day and snuggle and usually watch some babytv channel.

She has to bring her Flopsy, her bee bee (blanket, I have no idea where she got the name) and her paci when we get in my bed.  

I love my snuggle puppy girl! (She loves Snuggle Puppy the book, do you have it? We sing the little ditty all the time to her :))

Ahh-Tide!

This child wants to be outside (Ahh-tide) Every Day.  I'm talking, begs to go, banging on the windows and doors saying ahh-tide over and over and over and over. Luckily her daddy picks her up each day from daycare and they come home and go straight outside! Except when it is raining which is Savannah's worst nightmare I think.

I picked her one flower and asked her to smell it.

She was so excited to have one!

So she pulled about 10 more.  Hah!

Daddy, what did you find?!?!?

A BUNNY?!?! (we found a baby tiny bunny in the flower bed.  Can you see him in the middle of this pic?)

Cheese :)

getting close to the bunny. (yes those are dying weeds.  Don't judge us. we're (birc is) working on it)

My loves! Such a sweet pic!

Our Weekend

Our weekend was mostly spent recouping from Savannah being so sick but we managed to sneak in a few fun things.  We met some friends for dinner on Friday night and Savannah and her friend Caroline charmed all the people at the restaurant we were in. Savannah has started, when she's seeing people in public, saying "hiii..." and waving like RIGHT in their face. It's adorable but I don't know if all the strangers she does it to think the same.  We also went to Disney on Ice Saturday night! We thought Savannah (well, I did) would make it to intermission before getting to sleepy/twitchy to get up because she has started being able to watch a tv show for a short amount of time and since this was live and loud I thought she would be so into it! But after two great songs of bouncing on my lap, clapping, and laughing out loud, the villian's song for the Princess and the Frog movie came on and the lights went down and green strobe lights went everywhere, and it scared her to death.  We had to leave the arena and and go into the concession area just to get her to calm down.  After the song ended we tried to go back in about 100 times but finally left at intermission because she just couldn't stand to go back in.  She did find something that she loved though, and that was the popcorn! Just like her mama!  She loved seeing Mickey and Minnie at the big opening number and kept yelling Mimmie! Mimmie! (she calls them both Mimmie, no matter which one she sees).  Anyway, she got in free so I don't feel too terrible about it and seeing her so excited at the beginning was worth it to both Birc and me.  Then we had a big busy day at church all day Sunday and now the work week is already underway!

Everyone else was going in their princess dresses but Savannah has none of those yet so she just put on some play bracelets and necklaces and a tutu.  :)

She would be super picky and select one piece of popcorn at a time and browse over the bucket forever!

Mimmie! Mimmie!

And those are all the pics we took all weekend! We were enjoying each other too much to get out the phone/camera.