18 weeks!

We are 18 weeks and 2 days! Baby is already half a foot and half a pound! Wow! Time flies when you're having fun and really busy! I like pregnancy #2! If I feel this great in my future pregnancies I wouldn't mind having 5 more! I'm so excited to get to China and find a doctor. By that time we'll only have a little over 4 months till the baby comes.
Every day I wonder how Ali is going to handle another baby coming into the family. She is the center of our universe and we like it that way. But I plan on having the two kids be our universe in a few months... I'm just not sure Ali will know what to think about having to share the center of the universe! Luckily she LOVES kids and I'm hoping she'll enjoy having a little playmate. Plus I really hope we meet some fun people in China that she can play with.
I'm so happy that we're having another baby in January! I get so excited thinking about all my children and about them growing up together and the fun things we can do! I'm working on a quiet book right now and I love thinking back on the quiet book that my mom made for us and how much we loved it. It's been fun looking through her quiet book patterns and remembering all those Sundays sitting at church and enjoying all the different pages! I also love dreaming about the holidays and birthdays with my children! I can't wait to see their little faces when they wake up and come down to the Christmas tree to see if Santa ate his cookies and drank his milk! I love the "magical ages"- the ages when children still believe in magic! So cute! Then of course there is the first day of school- and just as fun, the last day of school... soccer practice, piano recitals, etc. (There aren't any whiny or fighting kids when I'm dreaming...that's what dreams are for!)

Welcome to the NEW Ballyhoo!

I'm 17 weeks and 1 day and the news is finally out.... it's a good thing because it's becoming impossible to deny.... most of the "baby belly" is really "cookie belly" for now, but it is beginning to pop! Oh fun!! Can't wait till January!

16 weeks....

I'm 16 weeks already?!! Amazing to think that I'm almost halfway there. The update is that I feel GREAT! I haven't been sick at all which is such a blessing! There was one week when I was really tired and if I didn't get to sleep I felt sick, but that happens even when I'm not pregnant so it's no big deal. I missed the opportunity to do a DNA test during the 1st trimester to find out the gender so we'll have to wait and see. We are moving to China before my doctor plans on doing the 20 week ultrasound so we might not get to know the gender until January 14th-ish when this little sweetie is born. It's illegal in China to find out the gender of your baby. I'm hoping that our doctor will be nice and do the ultrasound early. I'm guessing it's a boy, and I'm basing this guess entirely on the fact that I wasn't nauseous this time.
We broke the news to the Newton grandparents a couple weeks ago when we were in Utah and this week to the Hrncirik grandparents; my mom came into town and then we skyped my dad with the news.
Today I had my first stanger ask if I was pregnant. It was gutsy of her but I liked it! It's good to know that I'm starting to look pregnant, it means that we're progressing! I can't wait to see this little one and squeeze its little baby goodness!