baby "B" part two!

If you don't know me in real life or don't follow me on social media, you may have missed the news:

Beau is going to be a BIG brother to a LITTLE brother!!!

Yep, we're expecting #2! I'm currently 15 weeks and fully plan on being a bit more active on the blog with baby updates. I chronicled my pregnancy with Beau and I've already looked back on it many times, even before I got pregnant, so I know I'll enjoy having the information on the second one. I am a second child and I want to make sure this little one gets just as much attention and love as Beau did!

I'm not quite ready for a bumpdate yet (I'm not showing at ALL, ugh!) but lots has happened! Let's see...we had the genetic testing done early like we did with Beau, which is how we found out we were having a boy. We are still waiting on the anatomy ultrasound at 20 weeks to really set that in stone but the testing is 99% accurate. Instead of doing a gender reveal like we did with Beau, we just found out the normal way which was via email to my email address! I found out on a Monday while Mark was at work and NOPE I didn't wait until he was home to open it! haha.

He knew I would be getting results eventually but didn't know I already had them so I told a white lie and said I didn't know yet. Beau and I rushed out and got 6 blue balloons and I wrote the boy name that we had decided on (nope, not telling) on a banner I have and strung it between two chairs. I tied the balloons on the chairs and put them so Mark would see it pretty much when he came in the door. He was feeling sick that day and when he walked in he almost had no reaction!!! I mean, he was basically stunned. If you know Mark, he's not really super emotional in any way so it wasn't too surprising, but the fact that he was sick didn't really help. He teared up (as he did at Beau's gender reveal) and was totally surprised. Yay! Mission accomplished. He is so happy to add another boy to the group (we both are)!

So since I had the balloons, I wanted to do a reveal with Beau holding the balloons. We hadn't told the public we were pregnant and were waiting for the gender to do so. However....Beau was not a fan of the balloons. At least not up close. So these were the photos I got after 30 minutes of trying! 

Instead, we just used the very first photo above (in his big bro shirt) for our reveal. 

So for the pregnancy, I was actually really bummed that I didn't start documenting last time until 16 weeks. There is so much that goes on in the beginning that I forgot about! I had TONS of cramping from about 4-6 weeks that almost concerned me but after lots of googling I realized it was normal. Also I felt completely normal until almost exactly 7 weeks along, which is when I started having food aversions and just feeling crummy. I didn't remember until I got to that point but that's about what it was like with Beau. From about 7-12 weeks I had the aversions and ate lots of PB&Honey sandwiches and felt crummy in the afternoon. It's pretty much gone, but my appetite wavers here and there. With Beau, I didn't want chicken (except in the form of Chick-fil-A nuggets) for my entire pregnancy and for a while after. I'm not feeling that this time. And now, I eat tons of little meals. I'll eat, feel full, and then an hour later my stomach is rumbling. It's tough to keep up with!

Also, I felt movement way earlier this time. My body is crazy and I'm super intuitive or SOMETHING, because I felt Beau at 13 weeks and this one I felt at 10w5d. Seriously! It seems WAYYYYY too soon and I didn't believe what I was feeling but once it happens day after day, in the same super low spot, you know it's not just gas. Last week I started feeling little kicks from the outside and yesterday Mark felt one too! It's a lot different than with Beau...he moves differently. Beau was a kicker and a jabber from the beginning. This one has been a roly poly. I just feel him rolling but not kicking much. Even when I've felt him on the outside, it is so light and I don't even feel the movement on the inside until a little later when he's rolling more. So weird. 

Further (this is going to be a novel of a post. I guess that's what happens when you don't blog for two months), we have to find a new house! Mark and I always had a 3-5 year plan for our little starter home but we are officially maxed out with 2 adults, one toddler, a dog, a cat, and a baby on the way in our 1200 square foot home. We actually have been 'browsing' the market since last May and even toyed with building a home in the fall but now we are officially looking. The housing market in north Texas is CRAZY, y'all. We thought it was bad 4 years ago when we bought our house and there were 5 offers on the day it was listed...it's now worth about 40% more than we paid in 2013 and houses are going quicker than ever. SO, we are hoping we find our perfect home in the perfect location for the perfect price sometime before this baby comes. Oh yeah, he's coming late July/early August. Forgot to mention that small detail! He and Beau will be 23 months apart!

So, I'm sure there's lots more I could ramble on about but I'll save that for another time. We've been busy and have had a lot on our minds, clearly! We are excited to become a family of four and I can't wait to share all of these big changes with you!