The biggest update for our family is that our family is growing! We are super excited for the little one growing in my tummy and expected to arrive sometime around January 25, 2014!!
We are 13 weeks today and this mommy is excited for the second trimester, which starts next week. I'm hoping that this extreme exhaustion will get better and that this nausea will also start to pass. Overall, I can't complain too much - I didn't get truly sick like I did the hand full of times with Cameron and I know it could always be a lot worse! I don't remember feeling this exhausted as I did with Cameron - I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that now I'm chasing around an 18 month old and also have a different job than I did during my first pregnancy (I was working in Otsego, 2 miles from our house vs. now commuting to Minneapolis and getting out the door every day at 6am!). So far no much food aversions, except for hamburger for a couple of weeks, and also no foods that I HAVE to have (although I will also have a sweet tooth and will always eat more sweets :)) We had our first ultrasound at my 6 week appointment to confirm the due date and then we got to hear the heartbeat at our 11 week appointment. The next appointment is on Aug. 12 and then on Sept. 9 we will find out the gender!
Other baby news for our greater family: Jill and Patrick had Anna Josephine on June 8 and Tom and Val had Blake Stephen on June 28. So much fun baby news for our growing Hubers family!
Our little stinker LOVES baby's - in fact, he loves pulling up my shirt and giving baby kisses. But beware, he thinks that EVERYONE has a baby in their tummy, so if he tries to pull up your shirt and is saying "baby", consider this your fair warning! He also loves saying "Baby Anna" and "Baby Bke" (he can't quite say Blake yet :)) One morning a couple weeks ago, I got him up for daycare and his first words that morning were "Baby Anna???". It was super cute :)
Cameron is growing leaps and bounds! We had his 18 month check up on July 3. He was 28 lbs 8 oz (55th percentile), 35 inches long (95th percentile) and his head circumference was in the 90th percentile!! His vocabulary is also growing immensely! Words these days include please, outside, no no, yeah, Manny (Manson), tk (truck aka: Ryan's semi). Total, I think he knows about 20 to 30 words. He's also getting really good at putting two words together: Daddy's tk, daddy/mommy go (when he wants to bring us somewhere or move us from some place), daddy/mommy car, and the other favorite: "no no Manny". He is such a riot and it's so much fun to start having a conversation with him these days. We're also getting better at giving him choices/options for things to get him better at using words and showing us what he wants.
I really think that part of how his vocabulary is growing so much is because of our switch from the daycare center to Ms. Bridget's in home daycare. At Bridget's, he's mixed with more age groups throughout the day and he's an absolute sponge to everything they say and do! Not that the center wasn't a good place for him, of course, but I think that having that age mix has been really good for him. He loves going to Ms. Bridget's house and rarely cries any more when I drop him off in the morning - which makes me feel really good because it was very common for him to even cry still when I dropped him off at the center, even though he loved it there, too! Ms. Bridget also thinks she will have a spot next spring for Baby #2, which I'm excited about!
This summer has been going fast- I can't believe it's already the end of July!! Ryan has been working quite a bit, but not as much as in summers past, which is okay with me!! He has been a tremendous help while I've been tired and sick with this pregnancy and Cameron absolutely LOVES his daddy :)) We've been able to spend lots of time with family (which is always a top priority for us!), enjoyed celebrating Ryan's 29th birthday on June 28 (which now he shares with Baby Blake!!!), spent the 4th of July swimming at Auntie Jill and Uncle Patrick's pool with our family, golfing in the annual CCS fundraiser, and going to Cameron's first parade in Elk River! We've also been trying to play outside as much as possible before the mosquitoes eat us alive (they've been terrible this year!!!)
Happy Birthday, Daddy!!
Meeting Baby Anna
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