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.

12 weeks

Yesterday marked 12 weeks for me. I am so thankful to finally be at this point and glad to be entering my second trimester soon. It's amazing to see how it's gone from a poppy seed to this. What a cute little lime :).

This week, "the most dramatic development occurs" with reflexes. It squirms when poked or prodded but I shouldn't feel it for a couple more weeks atleast. And it actually LOOKS like a little human which is SO exciting!

I go to the doctor tomorrow, Tuesday, at 2 pm for the first screen. I'll get another sonogram and blood work done. I'm super excited about this because Sean AND AK are going to go with me. YAY! Daddy will finally get to see his 2nd baby and AK will get to see her little sib...even though she won't have a clue about what's going on. I can't wait for her to finally start understanding.

Speaking of AK and understanding, she has actually been playing with her baby dolls recently and it's so precious to watch. They have to have a blanket, just as she does with her "uh-vee", and she tries to feed them the little bottle and everything. ADORABLE. She even has this little mini graco stroller that is the perfect size for her and her babies. She stuffs them ALL in there and pushes them around the house. It's so cute. The other day, before she got the stroller, she was pushing them around in her shopping cart. HAHA! Gotta love the girl. I'm so glad for all this to be happening...instead of her pushing cars and trucks down the hallway walls. :-) I mean, I love that she loves cars but I wanted her to love baby dolls too .

Oh, about me, I've been feeling pretty good lately. Much better. I'm still tired, of course, but I feel like that's even getting better. I'm excited to have energy and a mood free day again. I've been doing a lot more with AK during the day, even though it's like deathly hot outside. I've just been trying to get out earlier in the day or in the evening OR indoors. This week she gets to go to the doctor with mom AND to see a movie. That's exciting! ANYWAYS, I'm feeling fine. Every little tummy pain makes me nervous but things are good.

a whoopsy in the poolsy

I sucked it up today and let AK play outside for a while. It was overcast so it wasn't TOO hot but it was way humid and I was still sweating like it was 104 out. Ugh. I hate it. I can't wait for fall...even though around here that doesn't mean that much except tempts under 100 degrees. I'll be so happy.

I finally got a picture of her smiling! My kid smiles ALL THE TIME and she is a super happy kid but she's so darn fast that I can never get her smiling. And it doesn't help that when she sees the camera she darts in the opposite direction and probably with the biggest grin on her face.




She finally got a new bathing suit. It was time. She was wearing one from last year when she turned one. It fit but not comfortably. I found this one on the Wal-Mart website for like $6 or $7 and the shipping was only $.97! I was super happy about that. My favorite part of the suit is the little stitched in flower on the side. See below.

How cute is that!



She had lots of fun jumping and splashing the water everywhere. She was just happy to be outside I think.




Then it happened, she pooped in her bathing suit! It was not nice and I was not happy. I mean, afterall, it's my fault because I didn't have a diaper on her but I figured since she was in her own pool that it wouldn't matter all that much. Well, it does matter, especially when they have to go #2 and you have to remove the bathing suit to see what you're working with. Good thing it wasn't like last time. And yes, I did say last time. This happened about a week ago and it was diarrhea. Yeah, you'd think I would've learn my lesson but I figured it couldn't happen to me twice in a row, right?! Good thing this time it was pretty manageable.




And here is my princess blowing some sweet sweet sugars. Mmm, I love 'em.




And this is just hilarious!