Bean 2 is a......

GIRL! Yup, went in to have a sonogram yesterday and according to the pictures Ella is going to have a little sister come October. All looks well in there; she's right on target. I have to admit I was a little taken aback when the gender was announced since I was so sure we were going to have a boy, but now that I've had a chance to mull it over and visualize little sisters together, it's sinking in and makes me smile :)

Trip to Houston

Ella and I made a somewhat unexpected trip to Houston for the weekend. My stepmother's mom passed away and so I wanted to be there for her since she did the same for me 12 years ago in her position :) Since much of the time she was tied up with out of town family and her father, we had some time to do some visiting in between family functions. We stopped by our friend Jack's 1st birthday party on Saturday and Sunday hung out with cousins Gus and Ethan, Uncle David and Uncle Trey. We took a long walk through the U of Houston campus and let the kids feed the squirrels and explore. Monday night we went over and had dinner at Auntie Deanna, Uncle Jason and Elyse's house. Ella was pretty interested in Elyse's toys and really wanted to give her things to play with. We headed home on Tuesday morning after the flooding subsided in Houston.

Out of the Mouths of Babes...

After scooping Ella up, we headed straight from the school to pick up the pizza (yes, still being a lazy prego!). When she realized that I was passing our street she asked "are we not going to Ella's house?", I told her no, we were going to get the pizza and then we were going to meet Auntie Sarah at home so she could have dinner with us. She then said, "oh, we're not going to Target?" Hmmmm.... Later that evening as we were sitting a the table eating Sarah asked Ella what she wanted to be when she grew up. After Sarah named a few choices, you know the usual, doctor, teacher, firefighter, etc. we waited for Ella to answer. After a few seconds she replies "I want to drink wine". Hmmmm.... So I go to Target a lot and drink wine quite frequently. Should I be at all alarmed by these responses? Do I need to have a period of intense self and parenting reflection? Again, hmmmm..... Oh well, I'm too lazy to think right now. But here she is in her mostest favoritest possession of the moment, the Dora the Explorer "dressing gown", as she calls it, that Granny gave her for Easter :)

Birthday Party Weekend!

Saturday we had our friend Mason's 1st birthday at Gymboree. Ella had a great time running around and, once again, eating more sugar! Later on in the evening we sat outside in the front yard and blew bubbles with our cool new bubble blower. Sunday was Eva's 2nd birthday party at her neighborhood's park. Ella missed most of it since all she really wanted to do was swing, so she and Papa took off not to return for a really long time. Once she decided to join us again, she took an interest in all of Eva's new digs, so much so that we were the parents that left with a not wanting to leave, grumpy little girl...

Mama's Day Off

I had a holiday today, but Miss Ella went to school. I got a whole bunch done and felt so accomplished! Grocery shopping, working out, planting all the veggies in the garden and then a trip to the doctor to check on bean #2. In the afternoon I picked Ella up and we headed over to Auntie Brandy's to visit her and the twins, Matthew and Lillian, and Auntie Dana, Noah and Vivian. The kiddos had fun running after each other and eating cookies Dana had baked. It's so fun to think about when we all met 7 years ago and talked about the day when we would be having play dates and watching our kids grow up together and now look at us :) Starting to pop at 13 weeks! They weren't kidding when they say that #2 shows A LOT earlier! Our newly planted veggie garden... YAY!

Easter Weekend

Thursday we headed to San Antonio to hang out with Granny and Popo and the whole Fleming fam. The Easter bunny came a little early to Granny's house so we hunted eggs on Saturday morning before Easter lunch. Ella was much more interested this year, mostly in what was inside of the eggs since the Easter bunny stuffs eggs at Granny's house with candy and coins :) Sunday we were invited to a picnic with Auntie Sarah at her friend, Ian's, parents' house. It was the neatest spring party! For the 29th year in row they had a big potluck lunch and a huge egg hunt for all the kids. It's even separated into a hunt for the little ones and another for the not so little kids. She had such a blast eating all kinds of goodies and breaking cascarones all over the place! It was a great sunny weekend!

Just Hangin' Around

Uncle Trey came in town for a few days and was very good spirited about the activites he was asked to participate in! Shouldn't everyone work like this??