First Trip to the Orchard

Yesterday evening, we decided to make our first trip to the orchard for this season!  We were able to pick my FAVORITE apple ... Honey Crisp!  We usually aren't able to pick them because they are an early apple and we don't make it to the orchard until later in the season ... so anyway, I was excited!  Gabe enjoyed himself ... he must have eaten almost 2 whole apples!!  (or "bapples" as he would say)  We can't wait to go back for pumpkins, mums, and more apples!

Creek side

I took Gabe to a nearby park the other morning with my parents.  My dad took him down by the creek ... that boy could've stayed all day!!  He loves throwing rocks into water, so he was in heaven!  All the rocks he could ever want! We threw rocks for awhile, then played on the playground for a bit.  He is Go Go Go all the time!  So much fun!

Rock in flight ...

Watching it land!

So proud of himself!!

                                   

Waving "HI" to strangers on the bridge ... he is so friendly!

Looking up to Grumpy ... Gabe does anything he does

New Big Boy Room

It has been fun redesigning Gabe's room!  We ordered his toddler bed online, he isn't quite ready for it (well, maybe I'm not ready) ... but Adam put it together last weekend and it is so cute!  We bought him a new dresser and bookcase at Ikea, which really tie everything together!  The only other thing I need to find is a large bean bag to replace his rocker (which will go in the new nursery).  It makes me sad to move it out of his room because we still use it to read our books and say our prayers at night, but there is just no room for it :(  I'm excited to make his bedding!  We bought him a comforter from Ikea, so I'm going to make a duvet cover for it.  I'm also going to make a quilt for him and maybe some curtains.  

 I love the bench at the end of the bed, I know Gabe will love it!

We turned his bookcase on its side!  It looks great ... I'm going to find some canvas boxes to put some toys in and the other shelves are for his books.

 These are the fabrics we chose!  I can't wait to order them and get started!  I want to paint the wall that had his "G" a bright color, but I haven't decided which one :)

I'll post more pictures as the room comes together!  I have more ideas for artwork and accessories! 

No. 2

That's right ... we are expecting baby number 2!!  We are thrilled to be adding to our family and can't wait to see what the future has in store for us!  I am 15 weeks and 3 days today.  Our due date is January 24th.  This pregnancy has pretty much been the same as the first.  I felt nauseous all day everyday for the first 12 weeks and now I'm battling headaches, which will hopefully go away soon :)  We have our 20 week ultrasound on September 2nd ... I'm so anxious, I just want to know that she is healthy.  Oh, that's right, we kind of already know what we are having!  It's a GIRL!!!  My MD offered me a new, simple screening because my blood type is O negative.  I just had to have my blood drawn and that was it!  The screening detects fetal blood type in order to determine if rhogam will be needed.  A double bonus is that it detects gender from the DNA.  They still call the results "predictive", but they haven't been wrong yet : )  And, she has a positive blood type, which means lovely rhogam again for me ... yuck :(  Oh, well ... whatever it takes!!

So, that is our happy news!
I'll do more updates later with some pictures hopefully :)