Catching Up.....and....there's a Baby #2 coming!

Driving the "bulldoder" at the children's museum

Having a pretend picnic....Jay didn't get the memo about "pretend"

"A mango!"

"It's good coffee, mama!"

Captain Jay

New obsession: Corn!

New favorite activity: Baseball!

he is a natural.

Posing for his very own baseball card

He actually was very good at making contact with the ball and hit it surprising far....who would have thought this boy would be good and hitting the daylights out of a ball????

You know he's getting serious when the hat goes backwards

In mid-swing he decided it was time to play golf....

and he hit that just as hard

Kurt/Uncle Alan, how is his stance?

Playing in kitty's bed

Enjoying the lazy river with Daddy

At a youth retreat with our church, Wes and I were chaperons...Jay was entertainment

 Here is the first picture of Jay's little brother or sister!  This was taken at 10 1/2 weeks. Already squirming around....oh wow, what if I have another WILD child!?!?

Our little peanut! 

So I think most of you know but, obviously, we are pregnant again!  I am 11 weeks today, due around Dec 16th. We are excited, of course, but it has been so different from when I was pregnant with Jay. It took us a while to really get into it. Maybe that's because at the very instant that the test showed "pregnant" Jay was on the floor next to me pitching a screaming fit.....I thought, ok, I'm getting another one. Sigh!
Honestly, we are ready and although Jay completed us for a while we have both been feeling a void in our little family of three for a few months now. I was getting worried that we wouldn't ever be ready for another one when Jay was a baby because it seemed so perfect, just the three of us, and I would think, "how could another one fit in our little family?" Then, almost overnight, we (well mainly me, since Wes has been ready for longer), I realized that we are missing our fourth little member. And we are so excited about the Christmas gift that will fill that void! 

So, that is my excuse for not blogging lately, not that blogging is so exhausting, but that trying to find the camera AND getting Jay to cooperate for a good picture is a task I just haven't had the energy to attempt very often. I am almost at the end of the 1st trimester though so, hopefully, my energy will be back soon! 

As for Jay:  He loved looking at the ultrasound when we did it the other night. (Katie and her friend did the u/s on me Tues night). Jay watched it and said, "baby?". When he sees the picture now he still says, "baby!"  Notice he refuses to say "mama's baby"....jealous maybe?

Otherwise the pictures speak for themselves. It is more fun than I thought spending every day with him again (is that bad to say out loud??) and he doesn't seem to miss school much. Other than asking for his friend, "Cyrus? Where's Cyrus?" every few days. I just tell him Cyrus is at home and he is satisfied with that.
This weekend Wes is on call so we will be at the mercy of the crazies that manage to damage their eyes in the Columbia area....hopefully we will get to see him eventually. He was home for about an hour and Jay was all over him, as usual. Then he got a page so was off to work again. Jay was confused about why he was leaving and kept saying, "no daddy work...daddy come sit....no daddy go to work....read book daddy..." until Wes gave him a piece of candy. Then Jay put it in his mouth and said with a smile, "bye daddy!"  :)