My Baby, Baby Boy

The verdict is in:

We're having a boy!

Luke is going to have a little brother!

Here are some shots from the sonogram. He measured average in pretty much every category which is what we want. He moved around quite a bit, and I do think this little guy is more of a mover and shaker than Luke was. Luke would find a spot and just sit, but this one I feel a lot more consistently and more often.

For the most part, this has been a pretty good pregnancy. I really can't complain. And the best news is, I'm over half way through! I do feel more ready not to be pregnant anymore than last time. It's going so fast, so I know it'll be over and he'll be here before I know it!

This is actually the confirmation of pregnancy sonogram. This shows you just how far he's come!

This was our confirmation that it's another boy.

The best profile we got of this little guy. He's a mover and a shaker and wouldn't stay still to get anything better.

Another profile, but I don't think it's quite as good as the other.

You can see his leg and hang really good here.

This is a foot, or at least that's what the technician said. Looks like an awkward foot if you ask me.

 So.. now we can let the planning begin! I won't need to get much new because their both boys and born in the same season. It is kind of nice to know we won't have to spend a lot.
Now, if we'd ever sell our house, I could actually start planning a nursery....

State Fair of Texas

We took Luke to the State Fair for the first time this year!

I think he had a blast! 

What more could he want: animals, shovels, cars, trucks, pizza, lemonade, and funnel cake!

In the children's barn- you think he was intently watching the animals, but he probably had his eye on a shovel.

Yep, little man ran up to every shovel he saw.

Close encounter with a sheep!

Such a big boy here!

Cars!! He loves Jeeps :)

He has a few years to fit into this one.

We were making people wait to get in the Corvette while we took pictures of our 18 month old. Luckily, they were patient people.

Big Tex used to be right here. RIP Big Tex, but thanks for giving us a nice view of the Cotton Bowl!

Can you tell it's very hard these days to get him to look at the camera?

After dinner, we let Luke run off his pizza in the grass near the Children's Aquarium.

We considered our trip a huge success. Not too crowded, good food (Trey and I also enjoyed a corny dog and a bananarito), and a happy baby! What more could you want?

18 months old!

Someone is a year and a half old! It's weird to think that we're on our way to two!

• Luke has finally made his back into the 25th %iles in both height and weight. It only took a year....  He was 22 lbs 7 oz and 30 3/4 inches. We're back to where we started!
• This child now runs everywhere which led to his first scraped head. He tripped on the sidewalk and laid himself out on the sidewalk. His head hit and he got a scrape and a bruise which, now, due to the magical healing powers of being a toddler, is mostly gone. He also, later that day, cut his mouth somehow. So we got first bleeding mouth and scraped head all done in one day. Not too shabby.
• He talks alot! It's true- 18 months is some weird age where all the stars and the moon align just perfectly, and they really do start saying a new word pretty much every day. Granted, we haven't gotten the random word we never use- it's pretty much the stuff we've said to him a bazillion times up until now, he's just choosing to actually say it. The big break throughs have been truck, push, bus, trash, and kitty cat (not just cat) a few more that I can't remember.
• Luke is still a pretty good baby. I had a lady tell me at the car dealership the other day that he was zen-like. I guess I have myself a zen-like child- how nice :)
• He continues to LOVE cars, trucks, trains, boats. Pretty much any mode of transportation. Completely something he's just decided he likes. Again, yet another reason why boys and girls are very different. He fills baby strollers with rocks and cars- loves to push those bad boys around but could care less about the actual baby. There truly is a hard wiring difference.
• We bought him a cozy coupe for his 18th month birthday. Not really, but it just happened to work. We don't buy him a lot of big toys or really any toys. But since he's so into cars, we decided we would go ahead and do the cozy coupe and wait for other things (like a play kitchen) for Christmas. He loves it. In fact, he's sitting in it right now while I write this. He can't use his feet to go forward, but he can go backwards. Don't start to push him around in it unless you want to devote the next hour of your life to it, but he will love you for it!
• He still eats pretty well. He doesn't like things mixed up very much, so I still have trouble just feeding him what we're eating. I'm cooking him only one thing, though, and if he doesn't eat it, that's it. He does get a lot of chicken nuggets, grilled cheese and things like that, though. Which isn't a huge deal because they take all of 30 seconds to fix.
• We moved up to size 4 diapers. Go Luke! Such a big boy :) And he's wearing 18-24 month clothes but can still easily fit into 12 month pants.
• He goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 and sleeps until somewhere between 6 and 7. He naps around noon until 1:30 or if I'm lucky, 2 or 2:30.

That's about it! We're having fun!

To try and get this up, no pics right now, but I'll add some this week. He looks about the same as the post before :)