Falllllll 2014

Oh how I wish it felt like Fall already. I am pretending it does on the inside! The house is starting to take on decoration and candles that fill the house with such wonderfulness! Love me some fall time.
This year I want to do a lot of fun things with Emma now that she is a tad older, so tad-da! A bucket list for fall.

 

Watch LOTS of football this season

Make a wreath for the front door

Hang string lights on the patio

Go to the Zoo

Take Emma trick-or-treating

Go to a pumpkin patch + pick pumpkins

Carve said pumpkins

Bake a pie

Decorate the nursery

Visit a haunted house

Pull out the winter clothes

Drink hot chocolate milk

Go on at least 3 dates

Make pumkpin shaped cookies

 

 

 

 

 

And now the house...because I just couldnt wait till Octoberrrrrr and I will slowly add things over the next month :)

 

Front entry

 

Downstairs Bathroom

Baby 2 // Week 17

{via babycenter}

Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.

 

 

{16 weeks}

 

 



How far along: 17 weeks

Gender: 8 days till we know!!

Weight: as of last week -9 pounds

Size of Baby: Orange

Belly button in or out: in
 

Sleep: going pretty well still :) enjoying it while I can

Best moment of the week: scheduling the gender scan appointment :)

Worst moment of the week: I would say this week there wasnt any

Miss anything: eating normal...these food aversions are driving me and my poor husband nuts

Difference between pregnancies: EVERYTHING. Not one thing is the same as with Emma

Movement: I think i felt a first few flutters this week...but who know it was a gas LOL

Cravings: Sonic Ice!

Queasy or sick: all of the above! I started taking Unisom and B6 and it has been great

Looking forward to: finding out the gender next week!!

Corn Festival 2014

This weekend, my parents wanted to take Emma up north to this Corn Fest...uhhh Mom! I wanna go!! So we all went up for the day to check it out! 80 degrees, yes please!

I was a little hesitant because last year we took Emma to the pumpkin patch and her activites were limited. However,

she was able to do lots of things here! We started at the bounce house slide, Mimi was a champ through this LOL. Then all Emma talked about was how she was going to 'pet the animals', so we went to the petting zoo next..she hated the animals and ran away. Funny how they are less intimidating in books!!

Then she saw a slide and went down this 10 times before we convinced her to see the pigs. She loved them! Because all they did was lay there haha. Next I wanted to go on the hay ride! This was my favorite part. They drove us around the farm and then we stopped at the sweet corn fields and got to run through them and pick our own corn!

We picked it and ate it right there. Emma even wanted to pick her own. She so badly wanted to see pumpkins, but they are mostly green since its only August. But we were able to find out and she just hung out. So cute.

When we got back, it was time to eat. Emma had zero interest, so we found this little duck racing area. You put the duck on the ramp and pump the water to push it down. Great arm work out haha.

We saw some kids with face paintings and let Emma pick hers out, she picked a Dolphin and requested her arm. LOVE her.

She was so good and still while getting painted. More still than I have ever seen.

She begged to ride the horses. So Pop-pop volunteered! Thanks Dad! Since I was not jumping up there haha. It lasted 5 seconds. They made a tiny u-turn and she was freaking out. Well she tried! Ill give her that.

Then they had this inapropriate bounce house. It was a cow with utters inside. Kids dont know any difference, but I was cracking up watching the kids grab each utter. We could not get Emma out of there! Had to send Mimi in to get her. It was her favorite thing all day. Last, they had a pit of dried corn to play in. Great activity.

 

This was such a cute little fest they had. My parents got a bacon wrapped roasted corn...YUM!! I think it will be something fun to take the kids to next year..more for Emma lol but overall, it was so nice to get away from the heat for a few hours and Emma had such a blast. I think we will go again for the pumpkins come October!!