Update!

So, I haven't blogged in nearly two months. Whoops. I will be 20 weeks pregnant on Tuesday. 1/2 way there! I have been hospitalized again since my last post. It was a couple of weeks ago-I had to go in again for more fluids. I'm still battling with Hypermesis Gravidium (sp?) and it has been such a nightmare. Today I ended up sitting on the floor in the ISS room throwing up for about 4 minutes straight. It was horrible and pretty much the norm of my life right now. I try not to complain much but the throwing up thing is out of control and it takes a lot of self discipline to try and keep myself healthy right now. The children are so thrilled about the new baby and ask a lot of questions. They both know that they baby makes me really sick and they are both pretty sensitive to that. We have an appointment on Wednesday and Thursday of the week coming up. We have already picked out names and are just waiting to find out the gender. I've been trying to work out at least 3x a week and we are fitting that in by walking Bailey in a stroller at soccer practice and hitting the gym.

18 weeks in both pics, I think the first pic was my last time to wear regular pants...until February. 

We are starting to prepare for this new arrival--we have almost all of our diapers (the most exciting thing to purchase) and we have swaddling blankets, and the co-sleeper. The kids get so excited looking at newborn things and Bailey is excited because she gets to feed the baby (at the baby sitters). We got rid of all of our baby stuff with the idea that if we ever had another we would just start over. :) 

We have already tried it out in my car and my sedan will happily fit three car seats. Which is great! I don't want anything big right now

Benjamin has started soccer and Bailey has started her first year in dance! She is really enjoying her tap shoes! Benjamin is doing very well in kinder so far, he loves his teacher. She is a 2nd year teacher that I picked out for him. He actually asked for her first and I thought it would be a good match. She is very upbeat and kind. We just love her. Benjamin already knows all of his sight words for the first unit of the year and he has been practicing reading books on his level.


Chad and I are also pretty excited because we have booked a trip to Vegas. I have a few things I actually need to do there and we thought it would be the perfect time for us to go and enjoy some time together. My mom had planned on coming out some time in October, so we just thought she would enjoy keeping the kids for us while we went. We will also get to celebrate Chad's 30th birthday out there AND one of my favorite friends will also be there at the same time we are! How awesome is that?

We also have some pretty fun plans already set in place for Mother's Day weekend and Father's Day weekend. :) We are looking forward to all the fun stuff scheduled with our family of 5! :)