A little comparison

I found a picture where I am 14 weeks pregnant with Brodie and I wanted to show you all that picture compared to a current picture of me at 13 weeks 5 days.



Well, the left picture is with Brodie and the right picture is with this baby. Pretty crazy huh? haha :)

More Belly pics :)

Here are a few pictures I took today, two days shy of 14 weeks so 13 weeks and 5 days. I'm definitely showing more so now than I was with Brodie. I've been told that the second time around you start showing earlier.

Oh, and I forgot to say that on the sonogram in the last post, the above picture the baby is looking at you so you can kind of see it's little face :)

Baby #2, Sonogram #2

This is the sonogram from my last appointment on 2/15. In the top picture the baby is just sitting there and the bottom one the baby flipped!

I took a video as well for Daddy but it's too long to email myself to post. So I might have to show some of you individually.

Not exactly baby news, but...

We have some exciting news about our family! Ben is getting his own computer repair shop! We're all so excited! The owner of Americas Computers, John, is helping Ben get started, but this is going to be Ben's shop. The bills and everything will be in Ben's name! :)

We're business owners (well, Ben more so)! It's under the same franchise as where he worked before. They're still tying up loose ends for the new shop but they should have it open by next week!!

I am SO proud of Ben!! He's done so well with this company and current job that it was only a matter of time for him to get his own shop. He's excited, nervous, scared, etc. but who wouldn't be! haha

Here's a picture he sent to me last Friday of him in his new place. I went there after work and it's a pretty nice little place.



Congratulations Honey!! We're so proud of you!!! :)

Saturday (2/20/10) fun time!

Brodie is 10 months!! Both Ben and I can't believe he's already 10 months, two more months till he's a year old! Where did the time go?! My baby isn't so much a baby anymore :( haha

He's still not walking, but he's doing this funny crab walk now. He tries to walk like the animals I think, he gets on his hands and instead of his knees he gets on his feet. It's pretty funny. He's still pulling himself up on furniture/us and walking/standing with assistance. I try to get him to stand on his own, but he just leans back into me :)

Still as vocal as ever. Oh, and he's been throwing tantrums. Not horrible ones or anything like that, but only when he sees our phones and he wants them but we don't give in and we hide them. He just gets so upset. He fake cries, whines, if he's on the floor he'll kick his legs, throw his arms... It's pretty comical. Like I said, it's not horrible to where we can't handle it and he only does this when he wants our phones. We don't give in and let him play with them because they're expensive phones (iPhones). Instead, we just try to give him other toys or just talk to him to distract him. It usually works :)

We're going to start introducing milk into his diet. When we give him formula, we're going to add 1 oz of milk and the rest water & formula. That way, when he's a year old, it's easier for his body to digest the milk than just giving it to him all at once. Our daycare sitter suggested this and it makes sense.

Oh! We've been giving Brodie sippy cups a lot more during the days and he's taken to them soooo well! We'll only give him bottles when he naps and goes to bed. All the rest of the time during the day he has a sippy cup. He enjoys apple juice and water.

Here are a few pictures from over the weekend-Brodie playing in his activity center and playing with one of his favorite toys, a Ninja Turtle. :)

Brodie's first Valentine's

Sunday was not only Valentine's Day, but also the Chinese/Vietnamese Lunar New Year! It's the year of the Tiger! Tuyen had told me last week about the New Year and I feel that since Brodie's God-Mama is Buddhist, we should celebrate and teach him about her culture.

Anyway, I woke up Sunday morning, Brodie playing in his crib and Ben still sleeping. I went downstairs and got started on making breakfast for the boys. I made some delicious homemade hash browns! Then I fried up some bacon. I'm not really good at frying bacon because I always, always burn it. I ate the most burned pieces so Ben could have the better ones :)

I cut up the potatoes and put them in the pan with oil on the stove. The only spices I used were salt, pepper, seasoning salt, and garlic powder. Since I knew Brodie would be eating them too I didn't want to make them overwhelming for his little taste buds.

I was just getting ready to call up to Ben to bring Brodie down when they were already heading down the stairs. Ben and Brodie came to the kitchen to see what I was doing. Ben got Brodie all set up in his high chair and I served the three of us. Both my boys LOVED the potatoes!! Ben couldn't believe that I cut up the potatoes and made them from scratch. haha, But he did tell me that I've cursed myself. Now whenever we have breakfast with hash browns, I'll be the one making them. :)

We'd put some of the potatoes on Brodie's tray and he'd just keep putting them in his mouth. Then he'd look at us and stick his tongue out and we'd have to pull some of the potatoes out so he could eat what was in there before adding more. Ben also gave Brodie some bacon. He seemed to enjoy that as well.

After breakfast until about 3 in the afternoon, Brodie was just craaaaaanky! We had to go out and run a few errands. We just kept putting it off until Brodie wasn't crabby anymore, but that could've taken all day. So about 3-3:30, we loaded into the car and headed out. When we got to our destination, Brodie was sound asleep.

After doing a little shopping we went to our old neighbors and hung out with them for awhile. Their son Alex, Brodie loved watching him and playing with his toys. It was really fun seeing them again.

Then, we left and got some dinner at Chipotle. Brodie fell asleep on the car ride home and when we got home we put him to bed. It was a very, very nice day.

Oh, we got Brodie a new outfit and Ben got me some new pj pants :) Hope everyone else had a great Valentine's/New Year day! And may good luck bless you all for the rest of the year!!

Baby Gwinner # 2 Bump pictures :)

Here are a couple pictures I took yesterday (2/11) of the baby bump. Today I am 12 weeks! Finally starting to feel better. Still don't have that much energy, but enough to keep up with Brodie.

My next appointment, I thought was the 18th but they called last night and told me it was the 15th, so Monday. Ben won't be able to make it to the appointment, so I'm going to take a video of the sonogram for him :)

We have a Level 2 sonogram scheduled for March 23rd, this is a more detailed sonogram than what they do in the offices. They will also measure the baby and weigh it. And, we'll also find out what we're going to have!! :)

I've had one dream where we had a girl, but I feel like I'm carrying a boy. We'll see. Only the baby knows :)

Brodie having fun!!

Here are some pictures of Brodie having fun on his changing table, before I changed his diaper. He is SOOOO funny! I have a video I need to upload as well. We were going back and forth making these funny faces, tilting our heads back and showing off our teeth. He loved it!

The other picture is just of Brodie hanging out in the big brother shirt I made him. :)

KU day!

For all the KU games, the three of us try to get all KU'd out to support our favorite team!

The pictures of us and Brodie were taken when KU beat K-State and the pictures with Auntie Eden were when KU beat Nebraska (2/6). Auntie Eden also gave Brodie a nice little mohawk that day :)

Brodie playing with daddy's phone

Sorry I haven't updated the blog in awhile. I haven't really been feeling all that well. I try to post some pictures on my facebook account often, so if you're one of my friends on there you can see random updated pictures of Brodie :)

Here are some pictures of Brodie playing with Daddy's phone. Whenever you try to take the phone away, he gets so upset! haha It's not funny, but it is :)