It's a BOY!

We found out today that our new baby will be a boy! We are really excited to have another little guy. Peter is stoked to have a camping buddy.

Now it's time for the name game! I picked Peter's name, so I told Sean that he gets to decide on this one's name. But if any of you have a really great suggestion, I'll send it his way!

18 weeks down, 22 weeks to go

This is the only recent picture I could find of myself. See my little baby pouch under my arm?

Yay! I'm almost halfway there! I can't believe it's gone by so fast, yet at the same time I can't believe there is twice this much left. I get more excited every day. Now that I am almost all the way out of the nausea-phase, I've been feeling a lot more energetic and happy. I honestly had a hard time being excited about this pregnancy at first because I was so sick and tired and didn't know how I would do it with a toddler and a newborn. But now I feel a lot better and I'm not nervous about having another one.

I think back to when I was 18 weeks pregnant with Peter and I always felt so scared about what pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood was going to be like. I was always afraid that I was going to mess something up or do something unintentionally to harm my child (like accidentally eat too much Tuna fish! oh no!) But now that I've had one (sorry Peter, you're the guinea pig child) I feel much more confident about this whole thing. Plus my good friend Miriam gave me loads of reassurance when she reminded me that newborns sleep a ton and don't need to be constantly entertained. I used to have day-mares that if I had two children, it would be like two toddlers running around and I would go crazy. Luckily babies come much smaller and quieter. But not cuter!

We've a bun in the oven

We are having another baby! His (or her) expected arrival date is May 13th, 2009. We are really excited and very thankful that God is willing to entrust us with his precious babies. We have loved being Peter's parents and we are really looking forward to having this next one join our family.

I had a hunch that I was pregnant around the beginning of September, so I took a test and totally surprised Sean with it one morning. He had no idea! It was funny to see how surprised and excited he was.

Peter will almost be 2 when the baby comes. He doesn't understand what babies are yet, but we've been trying to point them out when we see them and teach him how to be soft with the cat.

I felt really good/normal for the first 7 weeks. But ever since then, I've been feeling more nauseated and, well...pregnant (emotional, tired, forgetful, etc.). Lately I've felt pretty good during the day, but once the evening comes, I get really tired and sick feeling. Let me just say that I am SO thankful for modern medicine! Hopefully the nausea will subside in a couple weeks when I enter the 2nd trimester. Until then, I've been watching a LOT of movies (if anyone has any good recommendations, they would be greatly appreciated!)