Last Week...

By -
...we had another ultrasound for the new baby. The doc said her heart looks great and since everything is going so perfect, we won't have another ultrasound until March. Although I'll miss watching her bounce around in my belly, I can now feel her and see her tiny movements underneath my skin, so the fact that she's perfectly healthy and doesn't need any monitoring is a plus in my book.

I did get a pretty good profile picture of her this time. I think she looks a lot like Grace! Here's a comparison:

BABY #2:


GRACE:


I know you're probably thinking that most ultrasound pictures look alike, but I've got tons of friends that are pregnant right now or just had babies, and you can definitely tell the difference. These babies have the same nose, chin, and mouth. I may be biased, but I think Grace is the cutest little girl I've ever seen, so I'm really hoping that this new baby looks exactly like her!

...Noah came over to play and he and Grace rocked out on her horse and elephant:



...we got our annual Hallmark Christmas ornament:


This one is extra special because you can record a saying on it, and it plays whenever you press the button. We got Gracie talking even though she didn't say much. I can't wait to listen to it next year when she's a talking pro!

I got us this one last year, and decided it should be an annual tradition:


I'm hoping that fifty years from now, my tree is covered in nothing but family portrait ornaments...one from each year.

Wouldn't that be awesome?!

...Grace hung out at Grammy and Grandpa's and even rode their reindeer and checked out their elves:




...we celebrated Uncle Zacarias' birthday:



Since he's been spending Friday's with Grace, we got him a box of diapers:


Just kidding, it was actually a box full of ammo:


...we went to Claim Jumper for dinner where Gracie enjoyed an 'I Declair':


...Grace tried to stay warm early in the morning as we headed to Grandma Espejo's for the day:


...we delivered Christmas treats to our neighbors and celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

...we got tons of Christmas cards in the mail and hung them all up to enjoy:


...Grace wore her I Love Santa jammies:


See ya next week :)

Popular posts from this blog

Last Week...

By -
Image
...Char was sleeping so peacefully Monday morning that I didn't want to wake her up. ...she made me a pretty picture at school with chalk. ...she continued her obsession with the easel and colored (and watched Toy Story ) while waiting for Daddy to get home from work. Hooray for panties! ...it got cold and windy again, but we played outside anyways. Isaac played catch with the neighbor boys, while JJ flew the kite and Char strutted her stuff. ...the girls danced around the living room. There is an iTunes Radio station called 'Frozen Radio' that the girls are crazy about. They play random Disney songs, and we listen to it all.the.time. (After watching this a few times, I realized that Char was trying to sing "friend in" as in "You've Got a Friend In Me".) ...Grace put Charley to bed by tickling her face. ...the girls got cake pops. Yep, for breakfast. ...we got to school a few minute...
Read more

Smarty Pants

By -
Image
Can you believe Grace is nineteen months old? Time flies so much faster when you have a baby! This month she got to go see Dr. Vu for a check-up and didn't even have to get any shots. She was super excited hanging out in the waiting room and even learned how to say "cars": At nineteen months, Grace weighs in at 26 pounds, 4 ounces. This puts her in the seventy-fifth percentile for weight. We absolutely love that she's so squishy. It's makes it much more fun to smother her cheeks with kisses. She is also 31 inches tall. This is in the sixtieth percentile. Baby must have gone through a growth spurt since her last check up, because she was only in the thirtieth percentile back then. This month Grace learned a lot of new words. My favorite is when we say her bedtime prayers and at the end she says, "aaaamennn". It's so precious! She's now obsessed with Elmo and says "Ah Ehmo?" for "Where's Elmo?". She's also go...
Read more

Charley turns FIVE!

By -
Image
Char Char, the five year old. That doesn't even seem real. This girl has grown and changed so much over the past couple of months. She's lost her toddler look and is total big girl status these days. (She does still have her chipmunk voice, so at least I can hang on to that.) Charley will be starting Kindergarten soon, and we have her orientation this upcoming weekend. I'm not ready for that. With Grace, I was so excited. Charley still feels like a baby to me. She, on the other hand, cannot wait to join her big sis and the Sebastian boys at school every day. Charley recently had a doctor's appointment where they told her she didn't need any shots, and she was so happy after anticipating them all day. She weighed in at forty pounds and stands forty-four inches tall. She's in the fiftieth percentile for weight and the seventy-fifth for height. She is in size five in almost everything and is wearing a size ten in shoes. Char loves her dresses a...
Read more