Oh Brother!

As most of you know, John and I are expecting baby #2 in June. We found out last week that it’s a boy! Let me tell you, this little guy is a busy kid. I’ve been feeling him move around for about 3 weeks, much earlier than I felt Sean. And he’s up all.the.time.!! ::GASP:: We better get our sleep now. I think Sean is going to be a wonderful big brother and am looking forward to the two of them being good buddies. They’ll be almost exactly 2 years apart which should be fun (read –-->; exhausting). Here are his most recent pics:

Baby weighed in at 8 ounces so I guess that doesn’t get me off the hook for the few pounds I’ve gained already! Here is a comparison of me at 18 weeks with Sean and this little guy. Aside from the fact that I just appear a little more tired and rundown, they look a little different to me. We’ll see if that continues to be the trend as the journey continues.

Baby #2 at 18 weeks (left); Sean at 18 weeks (right)

Snow in Charlotte!

It’s not often that we get a few inches of snow and it stays cold enough for two snow days in a row, but that’s just what we have this week! How exciting to start a Monday off with a snow day. Well, for now I guess it’s exciting… when Sean has to start making up his snow days by going to school on holidays (which is the plan here) then maybe that won’t be so fun.
Since there’s not a sled to be found in the state (not to mention anything at the grocery stores) John had to get creative and make a sled out of Polly’s old dog crate (what a good dad!). In typical Sean fashion, he wasn’t too impressed (or didn’t let on that he was) with the whole thing but I think deep down inside he had fun. John even took him down our neighbor’s hill… he said Sean cracked a smile for a split second :)

Unfortunately, it’s a bit hard to fully enjoy snow days with technology because we’re expected to work from home regardless of conditions outside. Normally that would be fine but working with a 17 month old wandering around the house isn’t that easy! Sean liked to say ‘Hello’ over and over when I was on calls today and one time he came over and said ‘Pew Pew’ (meaning he had a poop in the panties) while I was in the middle of talking. It’s hard not to laugh at times like that :)

New Years 2011

We enjoyed a quiet New Year’s Eve here at home. I’m proud to say that I was able to stay up past midnight! Since Sean is horrified of noise makers (the kind you blow in and the paper rolls out… what are those called?) we made sure not to celebrate with those this year :) We were lucky to have some time to hang out at home after New Years before work started again in January. We played with all of Sean’s Christmas presents, put the Christmas decorations away and I slept pretty much every time Sean took a nap. How fabulous!

Christmas 2010

We had another wonderful Christmas this year. It was fun because Sean understood things much more and had fun opening his presents (which there were a lot of… I guess that’s what you get being the first grand kid on both sides!). He especially liked pulling tissue paper out of bags. He got clothes and PJs, cars and trucks (he loves playing with anything automobile these days), a tambourine and a frog and snowman that sing and dance! Sean’s Grandma Leigh and Grandaddy came down before Christmas (and to also stay with Sean while John and I were out of town for work – thank you!) and then we traveled up to Annapolis for a few days to see GG and Pop Pop for Christmas. Sean had his own little Christmas tree with ornaments he could play with and not get in trouble. What fun!

Updates to Come!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to wish you a late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We got a new computer for Christmas and I've been waiting to use it to update the blog but we all know that getting a new computer setup isn't the fastest thing in the world. So I promise holiday pics and videos will be coming soon (and probably from the old computer - haha)!

ACC Championship - Go HOKIES!

What an adventure we had this past weekend! The Virginia Tech Hokies played (and won, might I add) in the ACC Championship game on Saturday against FSU at the Panthers stadium in Charlotte. Sean and his Grandma Leigh hung out at home (they turned out to be the smart ones) while the rest of us took our chances with the weather and headed uptown to tailgate and watch the game. Pretty much as soon as we got there it started raining with some sleet so we found ourselves packed in the carwhich was actually pretty warm and a ended up being a pretty nice setup of cheese and crackers :) The weather just got crazier after that, with freak hail storms on and off. I honestly haven't been that cold in I can't remember how long, and had on so many clothes by the end of the night I couldn't even turn my head. All in the name of football (and so we can tell tall tales as we get older)!

I think this was before the hail storms. Everyone still looks pretty dry!

Check out the awesome gloves!

Hanging out in the car to get out of the rain and hail:
Check out the cool Hokie Bird thingy (I swear it has a name but I can't remember). I almost tripped the poor thing trying to get my picture with him!

This is what happens to your16-month old child after a weekend with his grandparents and all of his aunts and uncles :)

Happy Thanksgiving

We were lucky this year and took off Thanksgiving week. We headed up to Richmond and then Chesapeake to celebrate and visit John's family. We spent a few days with Grandma and Grandaddy - John and Gus had fun golfing and shooting while Leigh, Sean and I took a few trips to the park for some swinging and wagon rides. Then it was off for Thanksgiving dinner in Chesapeake... the food was so good and of course, we all ate too much!

Visit from Pop Pop and GG

Sean's Pop Pop and GG came to visit last weekend. They hadn't seen Sean since his birthday (GASP!) so he kept them busy showing off all of his new tricks (walking, talking, throwing his cup on the floor all.the.time!). We took a boat ride, went out to dinner and played outside. We had a great time!!