Life right now...

I can't believe I have a 3 year old. To me, Corey is still my 'wittle wittle baby'. When we look back at pictures, I tell him 'Corey, thats you as a 'wittle, wittle baby!'. It's cute when he repeats it. He is so smart. I am not being biased. I have had a lot of people be surprised at how much he knows. He can spell out words when looking at the back of a cereal box or driving in a car. He will look up a signs and spell out 'W-A-L...'. He is inquisitive and loves to teach and always telling me about numbers and letters and colors. He LOVES to sing. He is always singing songs that are on the radio and jingles from commercials and from his favorite cartoons. I am amazed everyday.  He's always asking questions. Being 3, comes with the WHY? questions. They can be a little exhausting but I know I have to be patient and teach him the 'why's' of the world. It makes me so happy he wants to learn and that he is a happy little man. And he makes me laugh all the time. He has been in the 'repeat everything I hear' phase for a year now. He used to cuss a lot until we started watching ourselves and now he is even telling people, 'Don't say that word!'. And he scolds us when anyone else says it. He's turning out to be a great kid. And I know he is going to be a great big brother soon.

Our little girl is coming closer and closer. I'm 23 weeks and 4 days along. I am feeling great for being 6 months along. I love my belly and everything that comes with pregnancy. I am very uncomfortable but I tell myself as long as I feel her kicking, I know she's ok in there. We had an ultrasound with a really good ultrasound tech that looked and measured every single body part. She took about 10 pictures and everything looks great. It was a huge surprise to not see a 'boy part'. With Corey, I saw it right away. So, I kept looking for it and finally I said, 'I don't see a boy part, do you?' The tech replied 'No, because its a girl!' She is an absolute surprise because I was all for another boy. She was 99.99% sure. Well, hoping she was sure because we have been shopping a lot for her.

It didn't hit me for a while that we were having a girl. It took me awhile to like the pink stuff but I went shopping with my mom one day and she was excited for all the pink and she picked a few things out for her room. Now I am finally excited for her to come. I even bought some headbands and hats in all different colors and starting on tutu's for her.  I'm on pinterest.com everyday to learn how to make bows for her hair because I know she will have a lot. Chris is excited too. He picked out two outfits for her this past weekend and looked at all the clothes for girls and ooo-ed and aww-ed over the Carter's line at Kohl's. He wanted to buy a lot for her but at the end, only bought 2 outfits and said he will buy her more when he knows what size she will be when she comes out. He is an excited daddy!

Right now, we are decorating her room. Looking for the right shade of pink and brown. And the right shade of gray for our room so we can finally get carpet for all the upstairs rooms this spring. I can't wait for my gray, white and yellow room! I love decorating. It kind of feels like scrapbooking to me. I am also helping plan my cousin's wedding in July so I am really busy right now. It seems like I don't have enough hours in the day sometimes but it makes the time go by so much faster when I have all this stuff to do. It's crazy how we only have 17 weeks left, yay!!