I am thankful for...

Now that the (first) holiday rush is over (and I've fulfilled my stomach's pie quota), I can sit, relax and think about what I am thankful for. I'm thankful for a lot of things, but of course, I've managed to boil my list down to the most obvious...

I'm thankful for this boy:

I'm constantly amazed at how proud I can be of my son. I can hardly look at him without being thoroughly tickled that he's mine.
We spent some time outside after it snowed. There wasn't a ton of snow, but I took the opportunity to dress him up in his new snowsuit, coat and boots and managed to add the words: boots, cold and snow to his vocabulary.
He didn't seem completely thrilled by the experience....


In the last month Buddy has become enamored of the alphabet and more specifically the letter "o". My mom came by to visit the other day and while we were chatting he not only managed to gain access to my laptop, but he also managed to open a Google search. What did he search for? The letter "o" of course.


I'm thankful for this handsome guy:

D takes care of us, he comforts us and he brings so much laughter into our home. I love him every day.

Finally, I'm thankful for this baby:

So, this isn't the best photo of me, but will you look at that belly! I'm so grateful for a healthy and relatively easy pregnancy. Here's hoping that the next 17ish weeks will continue to go smoothly.

and a little later than promised...

If you aren't on Facebook, my favorite message boards or, you know, a member of my family, I imagine that you haven't heard my news. So, for those of you who are still in the dark:
About 16 weeks ago I found out that we are expecting our second baby. About a week ago we found out that our new little one is...

A Girl!

We are so excited to be expecting a little girl! I would be lying if I said that I haven't already purchased a few little girl things and that I have my eye on a few little dresses that may soon make their way into my collection. I'm going to have to try and restrain myself...

The Golden Days of Fall

Fall is by no means over (despite some snow fall last week), but I haven't posted in a while, so it's time to display some of my backlogged photos of Buddy.

We spent some time out in the leaves, enjoying the Fall weather and looking at some Fall color.
















Buddy is in a full-blown learning mode lately. He has started learning words and copying sounds at a surprising rate lately. He seems to do this in spurts. I decided to document his current list of words. At 16 months he can say the following:
no ("nah, nah, nah"), tree ("twee"), chair ("chee"), cracker, banana ("nana"), shoes ("shoos"), clock, moo, Vroom Vroom, quack (interchangeable for duck), Mama, Dada, door, go, circle ("kurkle"), goat, car, cookie, Cuckoo (his teddy bear), uh-oh, show (as in "watch a tv show"), what's that ("wassat"), outside ("side"), peach, fry and baby ("be be").

Cute rocket ship jammies:















And finally, Halloween! Poor kid was sick on the actual day, but he was able to show off his costume the day before for some pre-Halloween festivities at D's work and the neighborhood trunk or treat. Then the day after, he got to do a private fashion show up at Grandma and Grandpa B's house.

The Dread Pirate Robert!














And he made a cute sailor too:













Stay tuned, we may have an announcement to post in the next day or so. :)