Birthday Party!

This weekend we had Jack's 2nd Birthday Party.  It was a John Deere Tractor party (of course).

Gramma Jean decorating the John Deere cake late into the night.

Check out the finished product - perfection!

We had a cool banner made for the party.

And since they apparently don't make a John Deere bounce house (this may be the only John Deere product left undiscovered) we had to settle for a monster truck.  Best part.....Jack called it a tractor all day!

Family Birthday Photo


"I love to jump!"

Jack opened his last Mom and Dad gift.

Kissing the bounce house he loved it so much!

Showing off his cool hat tricks.

He found out bouncing with Daddy is waaayyyy more fun!

This is what happened after he discovered that they took the bounce house away after only 6 hours!

It made it all better when he found the motorcycle that Mom and Dad got him for his birthday!

"What do you mean this belongs to Uncle Chris?"

Auntie TC got him a "Woody" doll (Hi everyone. This is Ryan. I feel compelled to clarify that it is a Woody action-figure and not a doll. Thanks.) from Toy Story!

"Hmmmm.....what should I wish for?  Maybe that motocycle."

He actually blew out all his candles with minimal spit!

"Being 2 is pretty cool!"

Playing with Gramps and Auntie TC

Gramps, Gramma Jean and Auntie TC are down for the week to help Jack celebrate turning 2.  Jack always has a great time!

This year Jack figured out how to kick Auntie TC out of her chair and drive it himself!

Jack's New Bed

Jack LOVES Valvoline!

For his birthday Ryan and I got Jack a big boy bed. In reality the bed is really for Ryan and I because we both always wanted a car bed:)

Lightning McQueen Bed!!!!!

"Cheese"

We saw a lot of upside down Jack!

Tippy Tractor

In the past, we've had to have conversations about Jack's tractors being "age appropriate" because he didn't know how to properly play with them. Little did we know we would have to have the same conversation with Graddaddy...

Nobody got hurt and even the tractor ended up unscathed (much to Jack's relief!).

Update for new baby (cont)

I completely forgot to mention that so far everything looks good with the baby. They obviously send us through these additional screens to watch and check for spina bifida. It is too early to rule anything out yet but so far the signs are good. They measure the back of the baby's spine thickness and we want to see under 3. We were at 1.8 so that was definitely positive. One more blood test at the end of the month and on 4/20 we use the lab results plus the second ultrasound we will do that day to attempt to rule it out for sure.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day (Spoiler Alert)

We had our first big 3D Ultrasound today with a specialist to see how things are going with the baby.  I was estimated to be at 12 weeks but my doctor felt the baby was a little bigger than that - probably closer to 13 weeks.  We have been waiting for this ultrasound to verify and our tech confirmed 13 weeks and 4 days so my due date has been moved up to September 17th.

 Of even more exciting news - she was EASILY able to determine the sex of the baby.  (Spoiler alert below...)

That's right - we are having another boy!  Jack is going to have a little brother... and I am going to be the only woman in the house!!!  Don't feel too bad for me though - I get to watch two little boys become friends and play trucks and dinosaurs and wrestle and that fun boy stuff.  So there goes my dreams of little frilly tutu skirts and a pink nursery but oh well.  I hear orange is the new pink anyway:) Now if only we could come up with a name. 

 Baby sitting up looking down on him.

 Look at that little foot:)