Another Ultrasound Picture

I had another ultrasound this week and here is one of the pictures. The rest were a bit blurry but I thought this was a good profile shot.

The doctor said that everything looked really good. He said baby weighed 2 lbs 2 oz. right now and was measuring at about the 65th percentile for size and weight. Its amazing what they can tell from the ultrasound.

Only 3 months to go!!!

Complaining about blogs...(Don't read if you don't like hearing complaining!)

Sorry, I don't like to use my blog as a personal soapbox...but here it goes...

I realized today why I post so infrequently, I just dread creating a new post. I always end up just so frustrated with the whole process. Maybe I am just dumb and blog illiterate...or maybe everyone else feels this way...

I feel like it takes sooooo long for the pictures to download and once they do they are all out of order. Then it takes so long to put them all back in order. Then pictures mysteriously don't download or get deleted after they have been downloaded. And the worst of all...the spacing. Even after you spend 10 minutes spacing everything out to your liking, once you post, it just reverts back to however it wants to space it. I went back four times to edit the spacing on my post today and each time it just changed to something I didn't want after I posted it.

Random

Ants on a Log and Puzzle Time:

Swimming (she goes swimming out back almost every day now that its so hot):

Her New Dora Sunglasses:



With her Friend Lily (who has sinced moved away, we miss you Lily and Jen!!!!!):




Snuggle Time with Mom:

Memorial Day Rock Band Fun (Aliyah LOVED singing!):

Easter

Easter was fun this year with Aliyah. She got really excited about and actually understood most of fun Easter traditions like eggs and baskets, etc.

Dying Easter Eggs:

Easter Baskets:

Easter Egg Hunt:

Cheking out the Basket:

Picture with Cousin Minnette (the only one where they are both looking at the camera!!):

Aliyah in her Pretty Purple Dress:

The Easter Pinata, Let me explain...

My sister, Amber, was leaving for BYU-I the next day. We had a "going-away" party for her the night before but ran out of time to do the pinata. So we just did it the next day, Easter, since we were all at my parents house again. Aliyah had fun and talked about "hitting the bird" for a couple weeks (pinatas aren't great teaching tools for toddlers). Bill took the final swing and knocked the bird in half!

Its a boy!

We finally found out what we are having...its a boy!!! We are very excited about it. My doctor scheduled me for a second ultrasound, because there were a few things, besides the gender, that they weren't able to see because of the baby's position. However, that ultrasound isn't until my next appointment in a month, so we went to a baby ultrasound place and just had a gender check ultrasound--we couldn't wait a whole month to find out. The ultrasound technician said she is 100% sure its a boy and sent us home with the pictures to prove it. I won't post those, but will post some of the 3D ultrasound pictures we got. He was hiding his little face most of the time, but there are still a few cute shots.

All snuggled up

He's not even born and he's already showing off his biceps

Having a Baby

I am sure some of you already know that we are expecting our second child, but if not, you do now! We are really excited, especially since I am just over 20 weeks and am mostly past the yuckiness of the first trimester (the reason for the long delay in blogging), and not quite into the uncomfortable third trimester.

We were supposed to find out the gender of the baby last week, but the baby was in a very inconvenient position for the ultrasound. The ultrasound technician says that she is 70% sure it is a boy. But when painting and decorating a room and the possible purchase of boy clothes and accesories hinges on this one fact, 70% is just about as good as 50%. So we are going to try to do another ultrasound and find out for sure.

We'll keep you all updated on what we find out.

Pictures from March

Yet another silly face in her favorite picture spot.



St. Patrick's Day
(On occasion I take pictures of Aliyah and I by setting the timer. I never really like taking pictures of myself, but it would be sad to look back and never have pics of the two of us together.)

These next pictures are from our little day-trip to Seven Springs. We thought it was like a 30-45 minute drive. It was 1.5 hours, with half of it on a dirt road. Although it wasn't quite worth the drive, we still had some family fun time during Bill's vacation after "busy season" was over. It was especially fun becuase lately Aliyah has been really into rivers. (We don't know how or why.) But she was so excited about playing by the "river". She still talks about it.

A few other silly pictures. (It is very hard to capture a sincerely cute picture, we have to be very sneaky with the camera, and she catches us most of the time)