Baby Boy #2 Update

I'm 24 weeks pregnant with baby boy #2 and thought I'd write some things down so that I can remember them in the future.

This pregnancy has been pretty different than with Ezra in some ways...With Ezra I only felt nauseous from week 8-16 really and even that was less severe than this time around.  This time I felt nauseous immediately until almost 5 month pregnant, and I still have evenings where I'm feeling a little nauseous.  With both pregnancies I craved fruit most of the time, desserts that I would typically like anyway (mostly chocolate things), & cinnamon.  There was a time at the beginning with both pregnancies that I craved potato chips also.  I think it's funny that my belly button has actually half popped out with this pregnancy but with Ezra it was just flat & so funny looking!  This baby's heartbeat has been a little slower (in the 150s) where Ezra's was in the 160s typically I believe.  I've had less caffeine this time that's for sure!  I still feel like I'm more tired this time around though overall.  I was even on my feet & working part time & then full time with Ezra until almost 6 weeks pregnant!  Ezra lets me get plenty of sleep at night so that is wonderful!  I think I'm tossing & turning to get comfortable more earlier on this time around though.  At my last appt. (almost 24 weeks), I was up about 18 lbs...yikes!  With Ezra I gained 42 so we'll see if I can gain a little less this time.  My doc said he wasn't concerned I had gained so much with Ezra since I was too thin to begin with since I started at 104 but funny that that's the weight I went back down to after losing weight from pregnancy!  Baby boy looks to have a similar nose & mouth to Ezra from recent sonos, but I initially thought his nose looked more like mine.  I think it's the same as E's though.  This boy kicks more often than Ezra did & I started feeling kicks the end of 14 weeks!  With Ezra I recall it being 18 weeks but I didn't really know what I was feeling for back then.

Today I told Ezra, while showing him a sono pic, that there's his baby brother in my tummy & he seemed to be taking it in but then wanted to look at his belly button since he had been pointing mine out too.  He already likes other babies so that's hopeful.  I have my glucose tolerance test next appt., so hopefully I'll pass like I did the 1st time!  :)

This pregnancy has definitely been going by faster than with Ezra, but I have more that I want to do around our new (to us) house too!

Here's a recent pic of us 4 (hehe) in San Antonio while we were visiting my brother, sis in law, & our nephews.

Baby #2!

This year we found out on my mom's birthday, so that was extra memorable!  We were just about to move into our bigger house, so the timing was pretty good except that I felt sick and tired right away this time, whereas I didn't feel that way until 8 weeks with Ezra.  Now we are moved in and I am 13 weeks pregnant and hoping to feel better soon.  I think the past week has been a little better so that's nice.  I think I started obviously showing at 10 weeks this time (pretty much at the end of each day though).

We got to see our sweet doctor 2 weeks ago who seemed happy to see us again.  Labor was very fast and easy with Ezra... haha.  :)  We also got to see the baby for a 2nd sonogram, and he/she's heart rate was 174bpm.  He/She looks healthy!  I know it's hard to tell but I already think the face looks different with this kid than Ezra's did at this sonogram.  We are excited to find out what we're having (of course) & might be able to do that next month so stay tuned!  :)  My guess is a girl just because the pregnancy has been pretty different than with Ezra, but we would be thrilled with another boy of course!

Oh it's only been over a year since I've blogged!

I will try to do better to record every day or every week events happening in our lives but we are just so busy (common excuse)!  Here's a picture of Ezra at 18 months old.  I haven't been good about getting pictures from my camera to my computer lately either...

Ezra is now almost 19 months old and a VERY busy little guy.  Super cute too...still need to get him a hair cut so people stop mistaking him for a girl.  His long dark eyelashes don't help that either though.  He is loving reading books right now...he will bring me a lot of books during the day and sit on my lap for me to read to him...so sweet!  He also loves to hug his stuffed animals right now.  He gets a big grin on his face when he hugs them.  Right now he's been carrying around his Valentine's bear, Easter bunny (both from grandma Peggy), and giraffe that plays Jesus loves me (from friend Edna).  He likes to sleep with his lovey that's a dog & blankets.  He's a big fan of running around outside but unfortunately it's hot here now so we don't do a lot of that right now.

He's still 5th or so percentile for weight and 50th for height which he's been for quite awhile now.  I'm somewhat surprised he's that tall but I'm sure he will appreciate that someday.  :)

He can say at least 14 words but understands more words than he says.  He's a lot of fun!  Lately he's been giving kisses...mostly with his tongue haha and makes a kissing sound too when giving long distance kisses.  :)