Baby #2

I am now 22 weeks along and things are going great with the new baby! I have to remind myself that I'm pregnant sometimes, thanks mostly to the fact that I stopped puking around 15 weeks and the nausea stopped for the most part around 17 weeks. I am showing enough now to start wearing some of my old maternity clothes, and I get a strange look from Amelia when dressing and undressing-haha;) I can feel the baby move all the time now, especially after I eat;) We're still not finding out the sex of the baby-but I am VERY curious! For the most part I feel good, but as all of you mothers know, "good" in pregnant terms does not count constantly feeling tired, body aches, the absolute inability to get comfortable in bed, and the rediculous indigestion/heartburn! All of these things are nothing compared to the joy of bringing another member into the family;) Here are a few pics of the work in progress:

Doesn't he/she look cozy! I love those lips;)

sucking his/her thumbs

I'm sure this one looks crazy to most of you, but to the nurse in me it's absolutely beautiful. I love that you can see all of the body parts and the facial features, and I even love the umbilical cord (but be careful baby and don't get too crazy flipping around in there!)

Stay comfy in there baby and grow-we can't wait to meet you!

Happy Birthday to ME!

March 24 was my **th birthday (ok really I don't care-it was my 27th, and no that's not old, but it sounds older to me). After ruining the surprise that Chris had planned for that weekend for me by offering to work for a friend, he offered to take me to eat with our friends and family at Turoni's-one of my favorite pizza places! It turned out to be 30 of our closest friends and family (nothing Chris does is small)!! We ate and visited, kids played, celebrating was done. I think 27 is gonna be a good year!

Check out Miss Amelia's adorable piggies!!

A VERY Belated Blog Post!!

This is Amelia's hilarious "cheese" smile, and she's carrying her own "make-ups" bag full of old makeup and lotions that I didn't want-she just had to have her own!

At cousin Brooke's 3rd birthday party

Reorganizing the refrigerator-in style of course with her tutu;)

Sunglasses make every cupcake taste better-right?

And our new favorite thing to do since our first Pump It Up adventure: BOUNCING!

Yes I just noticed that my last blog post was about Christmas, and even though that was in January...that is a very long time! It definitely doesn't mean that nothing has happened, only that everyday life has become very busy, leading to less time on the computer! Amelia just turned 22 months old and is changing every day! She is such a funny girl, very stubborn, and down right sassy at times;) Of course I love everything about my precious baby girl-here are some of my favorite things:

when she "mothers" her baby doll-kissing her night-night, pushing her in her stroller, feeding her...

how much she loves to dress up, always putting on her tutu, hats, and sunglasses-even out in public!

how she rubs her belly and legs when we change her clothes like she loves to feel her soft skin;)

how much she LOVES her "Daddaay"-she asks where he is all day long, runs to meet him at the door, and will easily give him hugs and kisses before anyone else!

It sounds bad but I love watching Amelia's "sorry" face-when she's in trouble there is a whole dramatic procedure of 1) processing the events that have taken place, 2) heart breaking-this involves hanging her head, sticking her lip out, and breathing very heavily raising her shoulders up and down, 3) about 30 seconds into this she starts to cry and finally says "soo-yyy", at which point I melt and there's lots of hugs-WHEW DRAMA!

how easily she plays with other children-at the babysitters, library, playground-she's my little social butterfly;)

...however her new occasional bouts of bashfulness don't lack in the sweetness department either;)

how she can eat everything in sight of her and still ask for more;

when she wants me to feed her (which she can do herself) or wants me to carry her down the stairs and so on, she yells "HEEELP" in the most pitiful way!

when she says "pease" and "tanks", "welc" (you're welcome), and "cuse" (excuse me) :)

Of course there are several moments everyday when I laugh out loud and my heart breaks because of how she amazes me! I am so anxious to see how she is going to react to a new baby being around-especially taking her mommy's attention!

Merry Christmas!

Now that we're finally catching up from the holidays and new year, I'm finally updating the blog to show you a few highlights from Christmas. This year was a little different than before, one, because even though I was pregnant during Christmas with Amelia too, I was just past the dreadful first trimester sickness. However, this year the timing was not quite as convenient, so I hope my frequent runaways didn't damper anyone's holiday spirit-or appetite-LOL! Second, Amelia just happened to be sick the whole week before Christmas too, but thankfully felt better just in time for Christmas Eve and day! And third, I had to work Christmas Eve so we weren't able to go to my family's for Christmas Eve dinner;( All things considered though, we had a great Christmas with our families, with so much to be thankful for-me and Chris got to celebrate our 5th Christmas together since we were married, having the joy of seeing Amelia experience Christmas for the second year, and being so blessed to have another baby on the way, to name a few!

Our celebrations started the weekend before Christmas, with the Wolsiefer family dinner-here's Amelia being silly when we got there. Too bad later that night was the start of a long week of sickness for our poor sweetie;( But we had a good night!
Christmas Eve we went to Chris' Aunt Michelle's house for dinner. After a long week of Amelia being pretty sick, it was a last minute decision to go, and I'm glad we did because she had a great time. I went to work from their house and Chris took Amelia home to tuck her in for Santa to come;) Luckily I got off work at 1am instead of 7am, so I was able to go home and get some sleep-which worked out great!!
With some much appreciated sleep, we all woke up for Christmas morning to see what Santa brought! Amelia loved her rocking horse, her table and chairs, Dora movie, blocks, puzzles, sippy cups, and potty chair-geeze Santa sure is good!After opening gifts at home we headed over to Chris' parents house to spend Christmas Day. Amelia helped make the scrambled eggs for breakfast before we opened gifts;)
After breakfast we opened gifts-Amelia got a baby stroller and doll that she opened first, and loved it so much she didn't want to open anything else, but after we hid that she was ok again-haha! She loved her gifts, and really loved Brookies' baby doll stuff that she got too!! Hope everyone else had a great Christmas too!

Who's Sweater You Callin' Ugly??

First Annual Wolsiefer Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

Every year since we've been married, Chris and I have a Christmas party to get together with all of our friends. This year I thought we'd change it up a little and have an Ugly Sweater party, and everyone came up with some good outfits!! We ate lots of food (well everyone else did atleast-the pregnancy is definitely hitting my stomach full force!!), visited, the kids played, and we had a Dirty Santa gift exchange again (and Santa was pretty nasty this year-LOL).

Oh my this gives me visions of the future!!
Busted-and they look thrilled-oh my!!

A Few Updates

Since my last post was Halloween, we have quite a bit of catching up to do!! I know that everyone has been super busy and understands the lack of blogging, so I'll try to fill you in on the last month or so:)

A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE FOR GRANDMA (HINT: NEW BABY!)
The weekend before Thanksgiving we had a whirlwind of birthday celebrations, two different 30th birthday parties, and Chris' mother's birthday dinner on Sunday. It just so happened that, as most of you should already know, we found out that Saturday that we are expecting a new baby! So we were so excited to be able to tell Grandma on her birthday that she's having a new little grandbaby to love!

Grandma and her soon-to-be expanded crew!

GIVING THANKS
We had a great Thanksgiving weekend again this year! We were blessed to be able to celebrate with Chris' family here in Evansville, and go to my family's dinner in Auburn. It was fun to be able to tell everyone about the new baby at Thanksgiving again this year, since we told them we were pregnant with Amelia on Thanksgiving two years ago;) I said we can just make it an every-other-year tradition, but Chris didn't think that was sounded so fun-LOL!

Preparing for what's to come with baby Addison?

Joining in the family tradition-watching Clamation Christmas!

ALLISON'S 4TH BIRTHDAY
It is so hard to believe that it has been 4 years since our first niece was born! Alli is obsessed with horses so of course she had a horse birthday party! All the kids had fun helping Alli open her presents, which Alli was so nice to do.

Alli was so excited about her new bike-and I think Amelia thought she should have one too!

Happy Halloween!

This past weekend was a whirlwind Halloween celebration! Not only was this the first year that Amelia could really trick or treat, but we took on yet another holiday festivity at our house as well! We had (the last time I counted) 26 adults and 19 kids at our house! We love being able to see our friends and family on the holidays so it was a blessing, and alot of work of course too! I made chili and vegetable soup and some treats, and people brought more food too, so we didn't even need the bags and bags of candy that the kids collected, but the more the better, right?? I unfortunately didn't think to get Amelia trick or treating on video, but we did get a play-by-play with pics that you can see in the slideshow:



After all the children finished trick or treating we heading back to our house and ate and visited until the children were too tired to go on, and we were in bed by 9:30! Thanks to everyone who made our Halloween special!