boy! We are expecting a little boy come the end of March, and he was not shy about letting us see he is a boy! My ultrasound went great today, the tech was wonderful and spent an hour getting all the pictures so we got to see a lot of newbie. We did decide to find out, and are thrilled to have another little boy! We would have been just as thrilled about a little girl too, but boy it is! Newbie is measuring 13 ounces and looks perfect, no issues at all.

Now the tough part starts coming up with a good name for newbie. We have been fairly stuck on coming up with a boy’s name that seems right, we were having better luck with girl’s names, but oh well, I am sure he will have a wonderful name by the time he is born in 20 weeks give or take a week.

I know I haven’t updated in the past month or so. It has been pretty busy and I apparently just haven’t been in the mood. Anyways as for updates, my big ultrasound for newbie is on Thursday I’ll be 20 weeks 1 day then, it is weird to think I am halfway through this pregnancy already, I am feeling newbie kicking fairly often these days which is nice. Dan and I still haven’t decided if we are going to find out gender or not. We have about 7 boy’s names on our top list and about 6 girl’s names. We still aren’t really certain on any of the boy’s name but we do still have 20 weeks. I’ll let everyone know Thursday or Friday if we decided to find out gender. Knowing me we probably will, just because 20 more weeks is a long time to wait, and I’m impatient like that, but who knows maybe I will hold out.

Desmond and Eloise are doing great. Eloise is off milk again, she was having issues on it and though she is upset because she likes cheese, she is doing much better when she doesn’t have any. It does make meal planning a bit of a pain since we have a lot of things with cheese in them here. So she tends to get alternative dinners 2 to 3 times a week. Desmond is enjoying preschool, and has made some friends which is good. They are both having fun together and have recently really started playing together which is neat. They really like to sword fight with straws and glow sticks, which is really cute.

Eloise and I had fun in Atlanta for Laura’s baby shower. We had fun with everyone there, so my Mom, Laura, Nancy, Clare, Sandra, and Rona. We also enjoyed our Monday out with my Mom and Nancy before we headed to the airport that evening. Desmond had fun at home with Dan and my in-laws on Monday. We are looking forward to see everyone again in a few weeks at Thanksgiving.

Other then that it has been fairly quiet here. We celebrated Devali on Friday at my in-law’s and Desmond enjoyed the sparklers. Eloise enjoyed her glow stick. Other then that it has been fairly quiet here which is nice, it was nice to have a down weekend after a fairly busy summer and early fall.

I actually have pumpkin carving pictures, but I haven’t edited them yet, and looking at my recent history for posting, I figured I would just skip them and post the pictures from Halloween instead. Desmond was Buzz Lightyear and Eloise was a Bumble Bee. They both had a fun time, Eloise made it about 5 houses before she was done, but since she got some lollipops from one of the houses she was happy. Desmond was out for an hour and a half and according to Dan they went down 3 or 4 streets and he filled his pumpkin. He had a great time. So here is Buzz and Bumble Bee!

Getting ready to head out, you can sort of see Eloise’s pumpkin at least in these pictures.

Here is Eloise after we came back.

And here is Desmond after he and Dan got back.

And here he is out of his costume looking at his loot.

As I mentioned in the previous post there was also a straw maze at the farm. They had a toddler maze, where Eloise spent most of her time and a bigger maze. Desmond quickly decided the toddler maze was boring and moved on to the big maze with Dan. Which made sense because the toddler maze was very low key and not really mazelike. Desmond had a ton of fun wandering the big maze though I think he went through 5 times or so. Eloise went through once, she was not impressed and liked the toddler maze a lot better.

Here the two of them are in the big maze

And here are some pictures from the toddler maze.

Desmond found it fun to jump off the bales of hay onto the ground in the toddler maze.

So the weekend before Halloween we went to the pumpkin patch. We were also planning on going apple picking, but apparently the harvest was rather picked over so the orchid was closed that Sunday. We did visit the straw maze though which Desmond loved. We all had a good time, and both Desmond and Eloise picked their own pumpkins which was fun.

I’ll do the straw maze pictures in another post.