Announcing...

I've been leaving some very important details out of my posts lately. Most of our close family and friends already know but I think it's time for us to officially announce the upcoming arrival of baby #2! My official due date is April 10, 2010. We've known for about a month and a half now but decided this time around to take our time in letting people know. There was something special about enjoying the news ourselves first. Plus, call me superstitious, I wanted to hear those magic words from the doctor "everything looks great" before I announced it to the world. I think I am more aware of everything this time around, which is a blessing and a curse. The picture you see up above is from my first ultrasound on Friday. You can make out the head and a leg. He or she was moving around quite a bit and had a nice strong heartbeat!

We have told Katherine that a baby brother or sister is on the way. Right now she really doesn't get the concept. She'll mention to me that there's a baby in my tummy and it's really small right now but she's also argued adamantly with me that she's going to be the little sister. Sooner or later she'll figure things out.

So, what have you missed lately? The beginnings of the Great Room Rearrangement. You may say that we have plenty of time but I know that April will be here before we know it and I also know that I will have no desire to move furniture when I'm eight or nine months pregnant. So here's what's happening in a nut shell: our TV room will become the new guest room. The desk will stay in that room, it is big enough for us to have a nice office area in the corner and a very comfortable guest room on the other side (yes, we'll miss the TV room but with guests here just about every month, we need a room for them. Plus, we never use our living room). The TV will move downstairs into the living room. Our former guest room (or Papas and Grams' Room as K. calls it) will become K's Big Girl Room. We'll set up K's current room again as a nursery (and I'm telling you, it feels like we just put that crib/toddler bed up in the attic).

My dad was gracious enough to paint the TV room in August in preparation for The Move. I've spent last weekend and this one cleaning out our guest room closest (yes folks, my scrapbooking hole has been relegated to a tote bag and one of those little rolling carts). I've realized that we'll probably need to organize and part with some things through this process. With no basement (yes, Northerners, you read that right, houses down here DO NOT have basements. I know, I know!), we are limited on the storage space. Our only choice is to put stuff in the attic, which is large but only partially floored at this point. Our next step is to move the TV down to the living room and move the TV room couch into the garage in preparation for its leaving our home (which btw, is the last vestiges of Ted's bachelorhood...moment of silence...thank you). This should be a fairly quick and easy thing but I don't think I should be assisting Ted in bringing bulky furniture down the stairs so this will wait a few weeks until Ted's parents are in town for the night (Hey there!). Then we can slowly move the guest room in and prep K's big girl room for painting.

Phew! See what I mean about wanting to start now????

So, now that the cat is out of the bag, I expect to be more frequent about my posts. Its easier now because I don't have to censure myself. I've already realized that the second time around is going to be entirely different but no less amazing that the first time.

More soon!