little floater

As I've mentioned before, our 23 month old thoroughly enjoys being in the water. We've wondered for a while if we should put her in some swimming classes because she doesn't hesitate one bit to jump into a body of water when she sees one. It's crazy I tell you!

Well the other day while Daddy was outside watching her "swim" in her pool while I hid inside from the heat he taught her how to float on her back. He called me outside to check out her new skill and I was so shocked that such a little person would even be interested in such an activity. He said she was trying to do it on her own at first so he just taught her how and she wouldn't stop after that. She was so very proud of herself, as were we! We got it on video of course and then I took quite a few pics of the wonderful event :-). Excuse the fact that she doesn't have ANY clothes on. I blurred out what was necessary.













Isn't she so scrumptious! I might be biased....but it's okay....all mother's are :-)!

13 weeks

This week I feel like this comparison misrepresents the size of my child...not that I know anything about it but last week it was a nice plump lime and this week it's a measly little shrimp? I'm sure it's probably closer to this size realistically than the lime but whatever.

I'm feeling pretty good. Of course, still tired, but it doesn't help that I can hardly get one full nights sleep in a week. Something is always waking me up. Either AK fell off the bed, hubby is just coming home from work or I have to potty. I know these are the days of "preparation" but I still have like 6 months do not get any sleep. So why start now! I did actually get a full nights sleep Friday night and AK even felt gracious enough to stay in bed until 10 AM! It was amazing! I thought for sure I wouldn't need a nap on Saturday but I did :-). I just can't get enough sleep.

I haven't had any inklings about whether this baby is a boy or a girl until recently. For some reason, in thoughts and conversation, it comes out as a she. I could be wrong and I've been hesitant to even think about it because I don't "want to have a preference" and I don't, but it would definitely be easier on the financial side to have another girl. But if it's a boy, that's okay too. Honestly, I was at Chick-fil-A the other day with AK and there were ALLL boys there and I thought to myself, "oh my, could I handle a boy?!" They were SO LOUD and rambunctious and not careful about my tiny tot being there. I guess if I am having a boy I'd be sure to teach them playground etiquette. And I surely wouldn't leave them to bombard a very small playground with absolutely no supervision other than what can be seen from the table.

ANYWAYS, I think we've officially agreed on a boy name AND a girl name. Which is huge. I won't say anything yet, JUST IN CASE, but again, it's definitely a big deal that we've agreed on something :-) Praise Jesus.

Well, that's all the updating I have for you today on "fig".

OH! oh! I thought of something else. I DO NOT remember having cravings with AK like I'm having with this kid. With AK it was one thing that was inconvenient and mostly everything else we had in the house. Noooo, this baby wants restaurant mexican food, chinese food (which I HATE), queso and chips and this mornings craving-Bush's mashed potatos! AHHHH! My hubby has been fairly wonderful with these cravings. Last week or so he took me 30 minutes away to the only Taco Bueno around and tonight we're going to this Chinese restaurant to get some sesame seed chicken and fried rice! YUM! My MIL says that my preference for dinner tonight will probably change before we even go and I sure hope not because I've been wanting this off and on for a while and I need to have it so it'll go away, right?!

Okay, now, that's all :-).

a little comparison

I have always stood by the theory that AK looks like her Daddy most when she's being serious and me most when she's being goofy and smiling. I find this funny because Sean's humor tends to be more dry and his personality more serious and mine tends to be more laughable and silly. So, I guess it works out that she looks like him in her most serious of forms and me otherwise. Here, I'll prove it.

Sean & AK

Tia & AK

Um, yeah, excuse my rolls. I was definitely a chubber!

Anyways, isn't that interesting?? It even stands solid now as we are adults. She looks like him when straight faced and me when smiling. It cracks me up.

Well, that's my musing for the day.

ultrasound & doctor visit

Today I went for my 12 week check up and had the first screen done. We started out with getting the ultrasound. I had to drink 20 ounces of water before I went and let me tell you, that was rough. The baby was moving about when she first started the ultrasound and then out of nowhere it fell fast asleep...or was playing possum. It was kind of funny because it had it's back turned to us and was as still as could be and the woman needed the baby to be facing up. So, she told me to go empty SOME of my bladder to see if that would help wake up the baby. Do you know how hard it is to partially empty a bladder?! NOT easy, I'll tell you that. So, I pottied, jumped up and down a couple times and hopped back on the table. That seemed to do the trick. The baby rolled halfway over, enough for her to get what she was looking for, and made us ooh and ahh over the whole process. It was quite interesting.

After that, I saw the doctor. Nothing much went on there since it wasn't my actual doctor. He was out of town.

From there I went to get my finger pricked. Now that was interesting. The guy cleaned my finger with alcohol, pricked it, squeezed it, cleaned the first drop off and then when he went to squeeze to start the whole thing blood shot from my finger. It was nuts. I've never seen that happen before and neither had he. We were both laughing so hard. So, that was different.

Now, for the pics :-)

^^^How cute is that! I think the baby was saying hi! The baby was facing down so here you see it's back with the head on the left and arm and hand right above that.^^^


^^^Profile shot-head on the right^^^

^^^I really don't prefer this pic because I feel like my child isn't human BUT you can see the brain-which are the two dark spots on the left side of the pic. Then right under that you can see the eyes, nose and mouth. You can even see an arm extended going towards the bottom of the picture and the rest of the body going towards the right. Regardless of it looking like an alien I think it's amazing this can be seen.^^^

So there you have it folks, baby #2 at 12 weeks and 2 days!

our busy weekend and some

Our week in pictures...

AK enjoyed the rain one late afternoon last week. The first picture reminds me of a hippie for some reason. The second pic she is frozen still by thunder. It was kind of funny.

On Friday it felt sooo nice outside that we actually ventured to the park for a little while. It was such a nice and rare occasion around here for it to be tolerable outside. So I took advantage and she had lots of fun.















On Saturday morning we went to Waco. We were invited to a birthday party that afternoon at the Mayborn Museum. We were so excited to go and then Mommy forgot that the party started at 1 and not at 3! So, needless to say we were an hour and 40 minutes late to the party. It was such a bummer because we were really looking forward to going and seeing some friends. Even though we were late we got to enjoy the museum for a little while. AK loooved the fish.















After the party, at my mom's house, AK was CRACKING UP at my nephew. He would throw two balls up the stairs and let them roll down and hit them up there again and she thought it was the funniest thing.










































Sunday morning she enjoyed watching some Dora while her Grandma prepared breakfast.












Sunday late morning we went to the flea market for all of 30 minutes before we decided to bale out from the sun. It was crazy hot. Here is AK sporting her sunglasses. How cute is that!












After the flea market we went to this place called the Jumping Party. It's a big indoor inflatable play place. It was SO FUN and AK had a BLAST. We went and picked up my niece Kylee and my aunt met us up there with her daughter Abigayle. Abigayle is 7 weeks younger than AK and Kylee is 7 weeks younger than Abigayle. So nicely planned, eh?! :-) Anyways, they had a blast. We'll definitely go back.




















































After the Jumping Party we headed back home. We were all so tired! I took a two hour nap and AK didn't nap at all that day...or the day before.

Once we put AK to bed for the night Sean drove me 30 minutes to the closest Taco Bueno because I've been craving it for a couple of weeks. It was so exciting. How ridiculous is it that I get so excited over food! Oh well, it was delicious!!! I was freaking out because as we were turning onto the road it looked like they were closed! Seriously, I was like, "noooooooooooooooooooooooo!". It was 9pm so it was definitely possible for them to be closed but thankfully they weren't and we enjoyed some yummy and cheap mexican food! Hubby even got me an extra bean burrito to bring home and store for lunch today. Awww, so sweet! I can't wait to eat it ;-).

Well, that was our busy and fun packed weekend.