He's All Boy

As Many of you Know...

We'll be adding to our family this year! 

We are so excited to announce that we're expecting a baby! This pregnancy came as a bit of a surprise (in a good way!). We were planning on starting to try for a baby right away in 2014. We cheated just a little bit and stopped preventing around Christmas and I got a positive pregnancy test on January 7th--meaning we got pregnant insanely quickly. I had been really emotional and felt suddenly nauseous that day, so I took a test on a whim that night--Josh wasn't even home and I hadn't told him I was going to test. 

I'm currently 11 weeks along--almost out of the first trimester! I've been really sick this time around, and I wasn't with Rhett (perhaps a sign of a girl?). We've had a few doctor's appointments and we saw the baby on the ultrasound last week, which was amazing. I don't remember much about Rhett's first ultrasound, but the baby was stretching and moving it's little fingers and toes--I couldn't believe that he or she could look so humanoid so soon. 

I have not had strong feelings as to boy or girl (another difference from my first pregnancy! I was so certain Rhett was a boy). I've always pictured us with one boy, one girl but we'd be thrilled with a set of brothers. We're going to find out the sex this time (in just seven weeks!). 

We're also sharing names this time around! (I know, so many changes!) If it's a girl, we've decided on Sybil. I'm about 95% sure it'll stick. For a boy, we're...disagreeing. The frontrunners are August, Frederick and Cary. We probably won't put too much energy into choosing until we find out we're having a boy and we need to. 

I think Rhett will be a fantastic brother. He has become very nurturing lately. He likes to feed and comfort all his stuffed animals. At church, he feeds the dolls a bottle like he sees the mothers doing. We've told him we're having a baby and I try to always point them out whenever we see one. He's definitely becoming more interested in them. We have three month pictures of him hanging outside his room and he loves to be picked up so he can see them and say"BABY!".  He loves kids and I think he'll really enjoy having another one around. 

We're hoping the next seven months go smoothly! Right now, I'll settle for the morning sickness to let up!

Getting Outside

Sledding!

It's been a bit snowy this month in St. Louis. Rhett has discovered a major love for snow. He gets so excited when he sees that it's snowing outside. Mostly we just go a tromp around but we bought a sled so we took him out for his first sledding excursion! He unsurprisingly loved it. He exclaims "WHEEEEE" every time we go down and now whenever he sees the sled he proclaims "Whee!".

(He's crying because the sled stopped. TODDLERS)

Christmas 2013

We had a lovely Christmas 2013! I had to work so we were stuck in St. Louis for the holiday, but it was nice to celebrate quietly with just the three of us. This is the first year we've really had a "kid" for Christmas... Rhett certainly wasn't aware of what was going on last year! But he loved coming into the living room on Christmas day to see all the presents.

We decided to go to church on Christmas Eve at 3:00. But we all decided to take a nap around noon and by the time we woke up...it was 2:15! So we reallllly rushed to get ready for church! These photos were taken after.

After church, we got down to some stockings! We all got pajamas in our stocking and an edible treat. Alcohol for Josh and I and fruit snacks for Rhett! (his favorite)

Christmas morning was lovely. We set up Rhett's new tent from Aunt Emily so he could go check it out right away. He loved going in and out and storing as many treasures as he could find (presents, for sure!)

Everyone had a very Merry Christmas! It was quiet, but it was nice. We're looking forward to new and exciting things for our family in 2014!

All is Calm, All is Bright

Bathtime with our Waterbaby