It's a ..............

BOY!!!!!!!

That's right! We just had our ultrasound today and confirmed that our second child is a boy. It's still exciting to think about having one of each. I thought it would be great to have another girl so I could reuse all the clothes I have for Leah, but I guess I'll just have to start over again. And then I'll have stuff for both when we have our third (but we're not even thinking about that now). We found out that the baby is healthy and right on track for our due date right around Thanksgiving (Nov. 28). I was so relieved to see this little miracle growing inside me. I'm feeling great and feeling more movement in my stomach.

Now we have to move on to figuring out some cute boy names. We have so many boys in my family that we'll have to look extra hard to find a good one. Let me know if you have any good ones you would like to share.

Fourth of July Slide Show

Last week for the Fourth of July we flew to Denver to see my family. My parents, my brother Drew, his wife Lindsey (whose parents live in Denver), and their kids met us there from Texas to celebrate last weekend. We all stayed at Lindsey's house. As you will see from the slide show, we had a wonderful time. We had great weather and ate great food. Logan even got to ride go-carts, and we went to a July 4th parade. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Updates on Leah

We've had two interesting weeks with Leah including a croupy cough, a mad spreading cold sore, and a mild fever. The cough was first and made us worry after it didn't go away in a week. We had to make sure and give her an inhaler to help with her breathing. She had to use it the last time she had a bad cough. The inhaler has bears on the side so she liked it as a toy but when we made her use it, she hated us holding her down and making her breathe it in.

And then as soon as the cough was going away, she got a small cold sore. We just put the same cold sore cream on it that I use when I get cold sores. But with all the slobber that comes out of her mouth especially when she has her binkie in at night made the cold sore grow and grow. Every time we went to look at it, it seemed like she had another blister popping up. We had one doctor say she got a strep infection on a small cute so we used an antibiotic ointment on it to stop the infection. Then we had another doctor say that it was a cold sore that got out of hand. So we finally got some oral medicine to treat the cold sore and the sore dried up and scabbed.

Along with the cold sore, she had a low grade fever and was cranky all last week. The doctor said that her gums was red and swollen as well. But now she is finally back to her old self. She is the happy Leah that we remembered before the cough and the cold sore. The scabs on her face are looking better, and I'm sure it will clear up soon.

I guess she has the curse of cold sores now for the rest of her life just like me. But the next time she gets one, we will be better prepared and be able to treat it better.

Our latest news

It's been a while since I have last blogged so I have a lot to catch up on. The first order of business would be to announce our latest news. We have told our family already and some friends but now the whole blogging world will know. Drum roll, please...

We're expecting another baby, and I'm due on November 28 right around Thanksgiving.

Every thing is going well so far. We have our ultrasound scheduled for my next appointment in four weeks when I will be 21 weeks along. I can't wait to find out. I don't really have a feeling if it's a boy or girl so I want our readers to guess what they think the baby will be - girl or boy.

At our last appointment we listened to the baby's heartbeat, and Leah has been imitating the sound of the heartbeat ever since. When we ask her what sound mama's belly makes, she makes the sound and then giggles immediately after. She knows what she is doing makes everyone laugh. I hope she will slowly understand in the next five months that she will be having a little baby in the house.

Monkeys all around me

A couple of days ago I found some cute clothes for Leah at Kid-to-Kid, a store that sells used children's clothing and toys. One of items I bought was a Curious George shirt that was just her size (I actually looked for sizes 3T and 4T because her 2T and 24 month clothes are getting a little small). She loved it from the minute I showed it to her. She always points to it and makes her little monkey sound. I think she's worn it two days in a row now so I'll have to hide it in the dirty clothes hamper.

(I also found this skirt from the same store, and she loves it almost as much as the shirt).

Plus when she woke up from her nap today, she made the monkey noise too. She remembered that the Curious George cartoon comes on TV when she wakes up from her nap, and I will usually let her watch it since it's only 3o minutes long. Leah also found a monkey book at the library the other day that she loves to have me read to her at bedtime.

And if that's not enough monkey references for you, I'll just add another one. Earlier this month, I went to the Utah Valley Women's Expo and enter lots of drawings to win free stuff. Last year I didn't really win anything except for some discounts on laser hair removal, which I never really planned on using. This year I won a free baby sling from Hugamonkey.com so I ordered one right away. All I had to pay was the tax on it, and it even came with free shipping. I only used a Baby Bjorn with Leah and really didn't use it as much as I should have. So I'm excited to use it with our next baby.