Slippy

"Slippy" is Julia's word for "slippery". We find it so endearing every time she gets out of the bath and walks overly slow on the tile because it's "slippy". Anyway, that brings us to her new toy: a Slip n Slide! Jarret wanted to buy one for her upcoming family birthday party, but we did a trial run last night to get her used to it.






And here's a video of all the fun!

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Some of our favorite things about this video:
- For whatever reason, how a little kid answers "Yeah" and "Kay" is very funny to us.
- Her amnesia. How does a child go from giggling and having fun, but then 10 seconds later acts scared and passionately shakes her head "no" when it's suggested that she do it again? Luckily, as is her normal process, the initial hesitancy eventually wore off and by the end was saying, "I do gin!" = "I want to do it again!"
- How she does a little hop when she wants to emphasize something she says. We see her do this little hop several times a day for us. E.g., the part in the video where she says she wants to see daddy do it again (so that she doesn't have to do it).

School's Out!

It's Julia's last day of Mother's Day Out, and I wanted to document her first day photo and last day photo. We will miss you Mother's Day Out!!!

First Day:






Last Day:

It's a...

BOY!!!!

At the sonogram appointment... We ensured the sonogram technician didn't tell us the gender during our appointment:


The three of us went to breakfast at OHOP, where we opened up the envelope of sonogram pictures that revealed it was a boy! The photos had "BOY" written on them, but it was very obvious from the photos that it was a boy. I cried from overwhelming excitement, which surprised me. I really thought I'd be excited either way, but my reaction was so strong and I realized how thrilled I was that we were having a boy. I knew J was leaning towards wanting a boy, so I'm so happy for him that he got his desire.

Oh, and the other great news is that the baby is (currently) not breech! Not during any of Julia's 5 sonograms did we hear that she was head down, so this was a first. At least we know now that my uterus isn't abnormally shaped in a way that would force the baby to be breech.

We told our family over dinner by having them open gender-neutral gift bags that contained "It's a Boy" cookies inside. Some were in the shape of baby carriages and others in the shape of onesies.









The cousins had blast together running up and down the sidewalk, playing in the car, and dancing like maniacs when we got back to our house. I have a 5 minute video of them all dancing and acting like fools, but it's too big to post. We're so thankful Julia has her cousins in town to play with. She (and we) absolutely adores them!!

Baby #2

I forget that not everyone is on Facebook, where I posted the news that we are pregnant with Baby #2 along with his/her first photo!!! We are due October 8th, according to the measurements taken from the sonogram. That means we're currently right around Week 13. I don't even think I'd started to wear maternity jeans by this point in my pregnancy with Julia, but for this pregnancy I've already been in maternity jeans for several weeks now! I've been blessed to not struggle with nausea except for in brief instances, but the fatigue has been overwhelming. Luckily, I feel like I'm slowly starting to come out of the fog since I've had a couple days this week in which I've had more energy.

Here are some pictures from the day we found out we were going to become a family of four:




And here's our little one's first photograph!

Thank you Lord for a healthy pregnancy and for trusting us to lovingly raise another precious child of yours!

Go Fly a Kite

What do you do when you have a $4 item in your Amazon.com shopping cart and need an extra $21 to qualify for free shipping? You begin researching kites, since your hubby has repeatedly mentioned that he thinks flying a kite with Julia would be super fun.

The kite came in on Friday, which just happened to be a super windy day. Amazingly, we didn't need a park or a wide open space. We were able to test it out in our front yard, and just as hubby expected, it was super fun for Julia to do with her daddy.