Only 4 1/2 months left?

It just hit me the other night. Im having another baby...in 4 1/2 months!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!! I feel like I have made no preparations so far...all I have done is buy a few onesies...and ask some friends who have boys for whatever they dont want anymore! I know some people might be thinking...4 1/2 months is a long time, then my friends who have kids are like, she better get to it! I know, right? So here is a list of what needs to be done before I will feel ready for little baby Ki!

• Make Audrie a toddler room. Get Audrie adjusted to sleeping in her new room and bed.
• Start potty training Audrie.
• Find somewhere for all her toys in the playroom which will soon be her new room or baby brothers room.
• Figure out who gets what room.
• Paint room.
• Buy Ki's bedding.
• Paint canvas's for Ki's nursery.
• Paint canvas's for Audries new room.
• Find somewhere for all my scrapbooking/painting/gift wrapping supplies.
• Buy new bedroom furniture so Audrie can have our furniture.
• Re-carpet or put down laminate wood flooring.
• Paint all baseboards.
• Get new playpen. I will need 2 since I will be bringing Ki to work and Audrie uses hers at the sitter.
• Get more NB/small cloth diapers. Learn how to do pre-folds.
• Research and purchase double stroller.
• Get boy clothes. 
• Get boy blankets, towels, etc..

Oh my, the list could go on. And on. Hope GT is ready to work!

Here is the bedding I have decided on for little Ki:

I Love this soooo much. I have been looking forever for a bright colored patterned bedding and here it is! I am very picky about bedding/room decor...so I am so excited to find something perfect!

GT isnt tooooo thrilled about it, but he knows how crazy I am! I promise him it will look good once its all said and done. I am trying to decide what color to paint the nursery? The bedding has ALOT of yellow in it so I dont think I will go that route. I LOVE the blue color in it. Not too baby...very modern blue. The red and green are too dark.

Lets take a poll: What color should I paint Ki's nursery? 

To see the bedding in more detail (because I am sure everyone does!ha!) you can go here.

I love feeling him move around. He is very active just like his sister...hope that doesnt mean he will be as wild as she is..I need a calm child next! :)

Oh, the joys of pregnancy. It is 3:30 am here. I just ate 2 twinkies and couldnt taste either of them...but kept eating them anyway.

I thought it was time for a preggo post. I typed out some stuff the other day, but now its all irrelevant.

We had a doc appt this week. We just talked about my lab work/sono...everything came back negative which is great. I was scared I would be anemic again and have to take iron pills...I HATE iron pills. Not that I really took the with Audrie, but I was supposed to.

I thought I would share some differences in my 2nd pregnancy vs. my first. Some of these might be gross to others out there so just dont read it.

Ligament pain. You know when your pregnant and you get those stretching pains. Well I have them all the time. Like when I sneeze, and when I get up too fast..when I am just sitting still. I had them the first time they are just way more frequent.

I pee on myself alot. When I sneeze, cough hard, laugh hard, you name it. Its just a little bit, but still so annoying.

I feel Ki move really low. Really low. The doc said this is because after your first everything kinda sinks down. Wonderful doc. Tell me something I dont know!

I wasnt near as nauseous with Ki, but I am not sure if its because it is my second time around or because he is a boy.

I have only gained 5 pounds so far, this was not the case with Audrie. Not sure how much I had gained at this point, but im sure it wasnt pretty.

I still love feeling the baby kicks. I thought this time wouldnt be as exciting, but it is. I lay in bed at night with my hand on my belly feeling him move. I am pretty sure he had the hiccups yesterday because the movements were rhythmic and in the same spot.

I have been sick twice. I dont get sick too often on a normal basis, but this time twice. With Audrie I got a sinus infection in the very beginning but it wasn too bad and then a stomach virus. This time two really bad sinus infections/cold.

Thats all I can really think of at this point. I feel like I look similar as far as how my belly is growing. It is a little lower but growing the same.

The doc said my uterus is the size of a basketball. But Ki is only about 10 oz.  He explained it like we have got to  to grow the house for the baby to grow in. That makes sense, I had never heard of it like that.

Having a boy is very exciting. I love that it is going to be somewhat new. Even though I have had a baby, this time its a boy! It is a little overwhelming at times thinking of all the new stuff we need. We will be making Audries room into a big girl room soon. With a big girl bed. And I might start introducing the big girl potty. Not so sure on that one yet. And for Ki, obviously clothes, bedding, etc...

The benedryl is kicking in now! Yay for sleep! :)

IT'S A BOY!

We had the gender sonogram on December 21. My parents and GT were there, we left Audrie at the sitter's house. The first thing the technichian (Evelyn) did was look at his private parts to tell us he was boy! Which of course is something I knew all along! :)

We are naming him Hezekiah Eugene Nehls. We are going to calling him Ki. Hezekiah is my grandfather's middle name, great grandfather's middle name and great great great grandfather's name. And Hezekiah was a great King in the Bible!

Eugene is GT's middle name as well as his dad's and grandfathers.

Right now, Ki is 8 ounces (so 1/2 pound)...and my due date is May 26th. It was so strange when the tech did the 4-D sono at times I thought he looked like Audrie. How in the world can a 8 ounce baby already look like Audrie? I dont know but he did, my dad even thought so!

My dad had a dream the night before about my sonogram. He wouldnt tell us what the gender was in his dream, until after, and it was boy! :)

16 weeks

I missed my last doctor's office posts. These holiday's keep me busy! :)

I went to the doctor on December 7th (I was 15 weeks). We listened to the heartbeat again, 162...made me doubt my boy prediction a little. Audrie was there this time and she had no clue what was going on of course. She was like, what are they doing to my mommy??? Then I had a test for Chlamydia and Gonherria (sp?), I think...I assured them I didnt have either, but of course, procedure...blah.

So to the fun stuff...well, maybe not too fun. I really started showing about 3 weeks ago (so 13 weeks). It was like one day I woke up and had a belly. I am back to the weight I started when I found out we were preggo. I need to start taking belly pics each week or so! I have fully turned in my normal clothes to maternity. Ugh. Well except a few shirts I can still wear, but I am in all maternity pants.

We have an ultrasound on December 21 to find out if its a boy or girl! I really think its a boy. Like, if she tells me its a girl, I might fall out. I would love to have either. I LOVE having a girl. I think it is so much fun! I have heard boys are fun too and easy. I cant believe we are going to have 2! Sometimes, I think we are NUTS! :)

I will try to post on the 21 when we find out!

Day 9: Pictures with Friends

Day 8: Travel

Favorite places I have traveled!

Well, I have only been out of the country twice. Once for a mission trip, second for our honeymoon.

My favorite memories of traveling was with Centri-Kid!

The first summer we went to:

San Marcos, TX
Pineville, LA
Marion, IN
Bolivar, MO
Pass Christian, MS
Clinton, MS
Leesburg, FL

And the second summer:

Campbellsville, KY
Flagstaff, AZ
Hannibal, MO
Newport, TN
Jackson, TN
Hattiesburg, MS
Maryville, TN
Bluefield, VA

Day 7 Movies

I already said this in my interesting facts, but my top 2 favorite movies of all time:



and...



Some close contenders:
Count of Monte Cristo
Any Tom Hanks Movie (Philadelphia, Splash, Joe vs the Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle, etc...)
Rent
Walk the Line
Harry Potter
SO many more...but those are some of my most favorites!