Twenty-Five Weeks: Cauliflower Baby

The time is flying by!  This week, NB is about thirteen and a half inches long and should weigh at least a pound and a half.  I swear he moves as much and as strong now as Harper did full term!  His favorite time to party is all night long.  We are excited to see what kind of personality this crazy wiggler has.

   

Twenty-five weeks with NB

    

Twenty-five weeks with Harper

Hoppy Easter 2018

Hoppy Easter 2018!  Harper had a fun Easter full of chocolate, candy, egg hunts, and egg painting.  Alex and I definitely dropped the ball on Easter treats, but we are very thankful for GiGi and Nanna for saving the day!  It was a lovely spring Easter!

     

So excited for her basket!

    

"Bunny chocolate!"

    

     

 This girl loves chocolate.

     

 Harper is also a big PEZ fan.

    

    

    

 She always loves little stuffed animals.

    

    

    

    

    

 It didn't take her long to spot the first hidden egg!

   

Unfortunately, she took a tumble on the way there. 

    

    

     

   

Harper had so much fun finding the eggs that we had to re-hide them at least ten times!

     

    

We painted eggs instead of dying them this year.

      

    

     

    

My egg looked similar to Wilson from Cast Away.

     

    

Our eggs!

   

Me and my girlie after I was finally finished with call.

     

Laugh for the Cure

Alex and I went to the Susan G. Komen Laugh for the Cure Event last night in uptown.  My practice sponsored our tickets.  The event is an annual fundraising silent auction for breast cancer research funds with an appetizer reception and comedy acts to follow.  The event was held at the McGlohon Theater at Spirit Square where Alex and I have been wanting to go for a long time!  We ate awesome food, laughed until we cried with the feature comedian, Greg Morton, and picked up a pretty sparkle ring for Harper girl.  Aunt Sarah was super kind to watch Harper so that we could have a night out.

    

Laugh for the Cure

  

So much pink!

   

 This is a terrible picture, but it is the only one of the two of us!

     

Twenty-Four Weeks: Cantaloupe Baby

We are twenty-four weeks along today!  NB is developing a sleep - wake cycle and can even yawn now.  He is working on gaining weight, which obviously has been no problem given the amount of food I am eating :)  I have been so much hungrier this time around!

  

We are starting to put together the nursery.  We decided against our first nursery theme of leafy green after the sheets we had ordered weren't what we were expecting.  Now we are going with a nautical theme (this week anyway).  

  

  Twenty-four weeks with NB

 
Twenty-four weeks with Harper

 

 Harper loves all the boxes that have come with the baby's furniture.

   

   
It is starting to look like a nursery.

   

   
We haven't figured out where the furniture will go.

Busy Being Lazy

We had a nice weekend busy with lazy activities.  We spent over two hours Friday evening at NoDa Brewery with Kate and Sean sampling their Girl Scout Cookie beers.  They were as awesome as they sound!  The brewery has a fenced in artificial grass play area (initially built for adult yard games) that was full of kids.  Harper made a few friends and spent the entire time running around.  We lounged in our chairs enjoying the spring sun while watching Harper have the time of her life.  

   

Saturday, we traveled out to Denver to celebrate Caden's first birthday party!  We were able to see Jennifer and Charlie, Ryan and his family, and Heidi and her husband in addition to Cari and Joe.  It was a fun reunion for a rainy day!

  

Sunday, we played around with different furniture arrangements in New Baby's room and hung the curtain rod.  I have yet to order any of the textiles for his room, but we are finally getting started!  We spent the afternoon watching basketball, of course.

    

Harper loved this space!

    

    

NoDa Brewery 

    

Caden's birthday cake!

    

    

He wasn't too sure about the cake.

    

    

Old roomies and our babies!

23 Weeks: Grapefruit Baby

Things have changed in neonatology since Harper was born so that now, a twenty-three week fetus is considered viable.  This week, New Baby is around eleven inches long and has probably reached a pound in size!  He is starting to make surfactant to help his lungs develop and is learning the sound of our voices.  He is VERY active and we could appreciate his movements a whole six to seven weeks before Harpers.  We are finally starting to make some decisions on his nursery so hopefully we can start putting that together soon!

     

 Twenty-three weeks