New!

We have pretty much gotten everything unpacked in our new apartment, and there have been many new things for Mark. He got a new room and a new big boy bed! We have already begun to get things ready for Miss Alyssah, and his new bed was one adjustment. I'm not sure how he will like sharing his toys when she comes or his room, but hopefully he will be sweet about it all. I will be posting more pictures of the rest of the apartment, but this is a few of his room for now. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend :)



1st night in his big boy bed...He did great and slept through the whole night!



This is the room looking from the door; Alyssah's crib will be in the other corner.



Mark's side of the room :)

I thought it turned out cute :)

Can't wait to get started on my baby girl's side!

He is so proud of his new bed :)

19 1/2 weeks!

My belly is really starting to get big! I'm loving feeling her kick me. She has really started to get more active. It is my favorite part about being pregnant :)

August 21, 2010

August 21st is Christopher's birthday. It was a busy day. We started moving into our new place, and we had big plans to hang out for Christopher's birthday all day! It was great, except for dinner and the cake. I had a cake made at Columbus Corner Bakery (yummy), but it turned out all wrong. I wanted to do a poker cake. When I ordered it I told them I wanted it to be grass green like a poker table and instead they did actual grass icing! I was so disappointed! Dinner was awful. Christopher wanted to go to Cheddar's but the wait was ridiculous! We went to Chili's instead and had the worst waiter ever! We were all so mad when we left. Let's hope next year will be better :)

My belly bump at 18 weeks...my belly button is hilarious!

Revealing Party

August 4th we found out we are having a little girl! These are pictures from our Revealing party. We wanted a special way to tell our closest friends our big news. I found a few ideas online and came up with wearing a pink ribbon with her name on a card. All of them were in the living room and when it was time to tell I lifted my shirt to reveal the color of the gender. It was priceless, and I couldn't have been more excited to share the news with them!



Marky Mark enjoying Aunt Joo's salad.



Me in the middle of blinking and grinning from ear to ear :)



This is probabaly going to be one of my favorite pregnancy pictures!

Alyssah Elaine...It was so hard coming up with a name Christopher and I could agree on. When we were thinking of names when I was pregnant with Mark before we knew he was a boy, I liked the name Alyssa. We decided to add an "h" at the end so her name would be like mine. Beautiful and unique :) Elaine is after my grandmother. It's her middle name. Now both of our babies have special names!

At 15 1/2 weeks baby girl was the size of an apple!

Baby update!

I had my check-up this morning. I am 19 weeks, almost 20, and Alyssah is doing great! She has been moving a lot lately. I felt her all day yesterday and she did not want us to find her heartbeat this morning ;) She kept moving away from the nurse. haha She's already stubborn like her Mommy. Life should be interesting when this little princess enters our world! her heartbeat was 150 and my blood pressure was 117/61. I have gained 3 lbs since my last visit, which puts me at actually gaining 2lbs. I had lost a few lbs. during the first couple weeks due to morning sickness. I am completely out of my regular jeans. I wore the largest pair I have yesterday and they were uncomfortable by the end of the day. I would rather have on sweats than anything these days. Too bad I don't work at home ;)
We are recovering from our move this weekend. It was a little stressful, but we survived. Now I'm trying to get us unpacked and organized. We are still living amongst a few boxes and a lot of empty ones that need to be thrown away, but we are slowly getting there! I have a lot of pics to post and I'm going to try to do that tonight and relax... Hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday! The weekend is almost here, and I am super excited about some football! Enjoy! War Eagle :)

Busy, Busy

I have not forgotten about this blog and plan to update it very soon with baby news and others. We will begin to move our stuff into our new apartment this Sat. (21), and I have been busy getting things packed and ready for that among housework, etc. We are all very excited about our new place of residence, and I can't wait to post pictures for all of you to see. We have so many changes going on. It's going to be hard to keep up, but I wouldn't want it any other way.

Mark has begun potty training at school, although not much progress has been made yet. I know it doesn't happen overnight, but his teacher has promised to have him potty-trained by the time little Alyssah joins our family. I hope she's right ;) It would make things much easier for me and cheaper! I'll already be buying lots of diapers and eventually formula for her.

Stay tuned for more updates on our little family! I have got to take some more belly pics as well...one more thing to add to the to-do list! ;) It's never- ending!

IT'S A GIRL!!!

Alyssah Elaine Adams!!

Yesterday (8/4) we found out we are having a sweet little baby girl, and I couldn't be more thrilled. All of my friends kept saying that we were going to have a little girl, and even Mark knew. I wasn't sold on it until I saw her, but I did dream she was a girl. Her heart rate was 154 and she weighs 4 ounces. I was in tears when I heard her sweet little heart beating, and I just knew my life would forever be changed. I am now a mother to two precious little lives! My love for Mark is abundant, and I always thought it would be difficult to love another baby as much. There is no denying it though, I'm smitten with her already! It's amazing how much love we have to offer as mothers. I can't even describe it in words.
Now we have a lot of planning to do because I have nothing for a little girl. My mind has been on little boy things for the past couple of years, but it will be a fun change. I just love baby girl clothes and can't wait to start her, what I know will be huge, wardrobe :)
Thanks for all the prayers for us during this time, and appreciate many more please! Here are her pictures from the ultrasound. I will be posting about our Revealing party later with pictures. Happy Thursday everyone. Have a great weekend!