Spilling the Beans

So, I haven't made many posts recently until this week. The reason is I've had a secret...a big secret. One I wasn't ready to share, and then I couldn't think of anything else to share. Now the secret is out. Ready for it?




Micah is going to be a big brother! We are very excited. I waited to share until we had our first doctor appointment, which was today. I am exactly 9 weeks along today. We had an ultrasound and were able to get our first "picture" of the baby. I am just as amazed as I was the last go round. God is so good! It's a baby! It has a head, arms, hands, legs, feet....and a heartbeat. An amazingly fast heart beat...176 beats per minute! The baby even waved to us :) So far so good to this point. I have been nauseous and had some major hearburn, but, otherwise, this has been uneventful. I'll keep everyone posted as we have more appointments. Keep us in your prayers!

Daddy's Little Buddy

Micah is a daddy's boy. When I come around, he hugs me and he loves me. But when Daddy walks through the door, it's "DADDY!!!" and a full run to greet him. He really only wants me above Daddy when he's hurt. Joe has been doing some yardwork lately from your normal mowing to full blown landscaping. Micah loves to help him. I caught a couple of cute photos over the last couple weeks and thought I would share.

I'll have to share some pictures of the completed landscaping that Joe did. He and Micah did a great job! :)

Family Time

After Martha and Tim's visit, Joe's mom (Nana), sister (Aunt Susan), and our nephew (Aidan) visited the following weekend. We were disappointed that Paw was unable to make it but had fun anyway! Of course I have hardly any pictures, but Nana and Susan should be sending me some soon. I'll post then. They arrived on Friday afternoon. Micah was so excited to see his Nana. She is the only other person he recognizes in a photo besides Mommy and Daddy. He doesn't even recognize himself! If we show him a photo of himself, he says, "Aidan!" In fact, we have a family photo hanging in our bedroom. He walks over to it and says, "Daddy, Mommy, Aidan!" Too cute! Anyway, Micah was just as excited to see Aidan. Aidan is 2 and 1/2 and Micah thought everything he did was hilarious. Aidan loved to make Micah laugh. Needless to say, they were a couple of wild children during this visit, but it was wonderful to have them together since we don't see each other very often anymore.

Saturday was a beautiful day so we decided to take the boys to the zoo in Memphis. Joe and I bought a membership a while back. After 3 visits, it's really paid for itself. This was our second visit in about a month. Anyway, the boys had a wonderful time, especially Aidan. Micah at least noticed the animals this time, but Aidan was really into it. He likes to pretend that he's a tiger so he really enjoyed all the big cats. Of course Nana bought them souvenirs...an elephant for Aidan and a lion for Micah. Aidan wanted a HUGE zebra, but it was $33!! It was funny watching him carry it around the gift shop. By the end of the day, both boys were exhausted. This picture was taken on our way out of the zoo.

The rest of the visit was really spent relaxing and shopping. Joe did some work in the yard while the ladies tended the children. Nana and Susan were supposed to leave on Tuesday morning, but the weather forecast was calling for snow all day Tuesday through the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Since they would have to drive right through that, they decided to stay one extra day. It didn't take much persuasion to convince Nana to stay :) I think she was a little glad for the snow to give her an excuse to see Micah a little longer. She hadn't seen him since January, and I know it was very difficult to wait as long as she did between visits.

I'm glad to have had a weekend to ourselves without visitors for Easter since we've had company two weekends in a row, but I really missed them after they left. It was nice for Micah to have someone to play with, and, I can honestly say, I love Joe's family just as much as my own. I am a very family oriented person so being far away where we can't go see them whenever we like has been difficult. So I was thankful for a long visit, and we'll be traveling to North Carolina the first weekend in May. See you again soon Nana!