It's a GIRL!!!!!!!
If you know me at all you know that I am BESIDE myself with excitement- and that is a bit of an understatement.

Sister or Brother...

We find out officially tomorrow if our little one is a boy or a girl! Up until now I've been having fun reading all the old wives tales and taking online quizzes to see which way my pregnancy symptoms are pointing. Here are the old wives tales and their predictions: 

• If you have morning sickness you're having a girl- check!
• If you're craving sweets or citrus it's a girl, salty or meats it's a boy-  I've been craving cereal and sandwiches.
• If you're skin breaks out you're having a girl- it hasn't been too bad this time! 
• If you feel more graceful it's girl, more clumsy it's a boy- neither
• If you gain weight in your face it's a girl- nope :) 
• If you prefer sleeping on your left side it's a boy, right side it's a girl- I would prefer my right side. 
• If the maternal grandmother doesn't have grey hair it's a girl- she's a natural brunette, not a grey hair yet!
• If the heartrate is above 140, it's a girl- it's been around 150 or so.
• If your feet are colder, it's a boy- this is stupid, it is HOT in Texas...
• Mayan Tale- add your age at conception to the year of conception- my number is 43, so odd means boy!
• Justmommies.com- 75% chance of girl
• Childbirth.org- 83% chance of girl
• Chinese Gender Predictor calendar- age at conception and due date = girl

Count:  Girl- 7         
              Boy- 3



Neither Kyle or I have any feelings about what the baby is so who knows!  We'll let you know tomorrow! 

-Stacie

The 2nd time is so different...

I am already neglecting our next child. I haven't been taking belly pictures like I did with Knox or even really remembering that I am pregnant- except for it being hard to button my pants now (I still can though- whew!).  Good thing the baby is starting to kick, that is helping me remember they are in there! I am at 19 weeks now and find out a week from Monday if Knox will have a baby brother or baby sister.  I would be lying if I said I didn't have a preference (girl).  However, I honestly will be thrilled either way.  I already love this little guy so much it won't make a bit of difference if they are a boy or a girl.  They will be my sweet little baby and that is more than enough!

Here is a pic of the growing belly:

So far, I have been blessed with an awesome pregnancy. I felt yucky for about a month and had a few weeks of an upper respiratory infection that I couldn't shake due to my immune system being down with the pregnancy.  But all in all I am feeling so good that I seriously don't even remember that I am pregnant half the time.  I am definitely in the second trimester honeymoon phase right now!

-Stacie

Bulter Park

Since Knox was little we have been meeting up every week with two of my friends and their kiddos for a play group.  These three kiddos have become like the 'Three Musketeers' now that they are officially toddlers and it is so cute to watch them play and explore their world together.  Today we went downtown to Bulter Park to let them play in fountains and run around the park.  Here are some pics from their adventure:

They climbed the hill and didn't even look back to see if we were coming...ha! 

Knox & Blythe LOVE to hold hands- so cute!

This kid loves water 

Avery in the fountains 

Knox's buddy Blythe

Holding hands again :) 

My sweet little man

It is so nice that it is not 100 degrees out yet and we can still play outside! We're trying to make the most of it while we still can.

-Stacie

Halloween 2012

If you know me very well at all, you know that I LOVE Halloween.  Not the ugly witches, Freddy Krueger, chainsaws Halloween.  But the 'Charlie Brown & the Great Pumpkin', candy corn, little kids in cute costumes Halloween.  Any holiday that revolves around candy is going to be number one in my book.   So, what is better than Halloween?  Having a child with a birthday in October.  Why you ask? Because then every year we have the excuse to have Halloween themed birthday parties with trips to the pumpkin patch and hayrides and tons and tons of candy and little kids in costumes.

I mean tell me this kid isn't cute in his costume?! 

Really, I am not sure why no one else gets as excited about this as I do?  Anyway.  When we found out Knox's due date was November 2nd I spent a lot of time praying that he would come early and I would get my October baby.  Alas, he came late.  But now I have a second chance. Drumroll please...that is right, I am pregnant again and this time the due date is October 27th!  I may get my October baby yet!

Halloween 2012 may be the best Halloween yet!

-Stacie

Knox's 1st Easter Egg Hunt

Knox went to his first Easter egg hunt this past weekend.  Our neighborhood hosts and annual egg hunt every year and we decided to take Knox and see how he did. I didn't have high hopes for him actually "getting it" but I was pleasantly surprised.  I will admit that he mostly just tried to put the eggs in his mouth, but he did go in search of them and put them in his basket so I consider that a success! 

The start of the hunt

There were about 175 people at the egg hunt and they had it roped off by different age groups.  I was very impressed by the level of organization, this was a serious egg hunt!

Egg in the mouth

Eating our egg contents

Holding hands with his buddy Blythe

This is after we discovered what is inside the eggs...

Walking around with Daddy looking for eggs

Hopefully the egg hunt will become an annual tradition!

-Stacie

Visitors!

This past week, Kyle's family came to visit- his mom, sister and her two children Marek & McKenna. It was so fun to have them all here again (they hadn't all been here since right after Knox was born) and for all the little cousins to get to be together again.  They hadn't seen each other since Christmas, so it was really fun to get to have a few days to all hang out.

With three little ones, we spent a lot of time at the house just playing with toys and making sure everyone was fed and had their allotted naps for the day.  But we did manage to get out and do some fun Austiny things while they were here too! We walked around Town Lake, ate dinner at Ski Shores, visited the Children's Museum and enjoyed some 'Kids Eat Free' time at Central Market.  It really was a wonderful visit and we were sad to see them go.  Knox can say "Marek" and he calls McKenna "baby".  When I showed him pictures from the weekend he would point them out and he looked for them when he woke up on Wednesday morning and they were gone.  So cute for us to see him growing up and loving his family!

Here are a few pictures I got from our time together:

Sweet McKenna

Marek had fun at the playground with Knox! 

Playing with water in the driveway

Knox is obsessed with "wa-wa"