It's all blue for me

That's right, on Sept. 16th, we had our big ultrasound and found out that we are having another boy! He is measuring right on time, and the u/s tech said that he looked great! We got to see him open and close his mouth (I joked with Bobby that he was already talking). We also saw him cross his feet, just like Tanner does. Now onto the fun stuff of decorating his nursery! We are going to keep Tanner in his room, and make the office the nursery. Bobby and I painted the office (years ago) in dark blue and light blue, so I think we will go with those colors for baby boy number 2. I am now looking around at how to accent them, and deciding on a theme. With Tanner, we did brown and green for the colors and monkey as the theme. I am still drawn to the monkey/jungle theme, but I want to do something totally different for this baby. Luckily, I have plenty of time to decide!! You'll notice that I keep saying "baby" and not a name for him. We do not have a name yet. We had (and have had since being preggers with Tanner) a girl name-Bailey Elizabeth. Bailey is Bobby's middle name and Elizabeth was my Vovo's name. We talked about using Bailey for a boy, but I just picture it for a girl. Plus IF (big if here) we decided to try for a third, and we have a girl, I would want to use Bailey for her. I'm kicking around a few ideas of names, but none that I'm sold on. Bobby has only put out names like "Frodo" or Star Wars names, so he has been of no help yet! When we decide, I'm sure I'll blog it!! :)

Onto other events in our lives. We traveled up to Durham this weekend for our nephew, Brady's, 3 rd birthday party. It was nice to see my SIL and fam, but it seemed to go by so fast that I wish we could have spent more time with them. Plus, once you have a toddler that you are chasing after, you don't really get to just sit around and chat like you used to! :) Tanner was shy, like always, at first. But then he warmed up and loved playing with any kind of ball he could find!

Tanner is staying with my parents-in-law for a few days this week. We all stayed over there on Sat. night. Then on Sun. after Tanner went down for his nap, we left to head back toward Charlotte for the Tom Petty concert. The concert was great, we met up with Jac, Tony, and Curtie B and sat on the lawn for the show! This was the first concert I have been to while being preggers. Don't worry, the doc said it's OK to go!! Mon and Tues mornings, I actually got to sleep in!  Ahhhhhh.....it was nice!!!  Wed, we are going to Asheville with Marc and Kas to see my fav. band in the whole world-Jimmy Eat World!!!  I am super excited to see them!!  Then on Thurs, we pick up our sweetie!  It has been nice to have some me time, but I sure do miss my Tanner Boo Boo!!

To blog or not to blog

I have debated about "going public" with my blog for a while. One the one hand, if I did, my people close to me would get to keep up with things in my life. But on the other, I would have to do a much better job at keeping my blog up to date! Ok, I'll stop being lazy and do a better job at blogging in the future!



So what's been going on...well, LOTS!!



*Tanner turned the big 1 on June 26th! We had his birthday party at Bobby's parents house. A lot of my family came and a few of our friends came too! Tanner enjoyed eating his cake. Which got all over him-inside of his ears, hair, neck, etc!!! Bobby's sister and fam surprised us by coming later in the evening! It was great to have everyone around!! :)
*Tanner started walking about a month ago! One Fri. night, we were at Jac and Tony's and Bobby was tricking him into taking 7-8 steps at a time (before, he would do a few, but once he realized he was not holding on to anything, he would immediately fall down). Then on Sat, with Bobby's parents, brother, and our nephew here, Tanner took off! And he has not stopped since!!! :-)

*The weather has finally cooled off enough for us to get outside more and Tanner is loving it!!! He is quite the little explorer. He loves picking up rocks and leaves. He walks all around the yard and driveway. He loves being outside so much that he cries when we come in (no matter how long we have been out). I think he's gonna be a nature lover just like Daddy!

*Tanner's talking is coming along. He still understands way more words than he says, but he now says "Mom, mom" for me! (Still "Dada" for Bobby) He repeats words like "done, down," and says "yeah" when we ask him things. Ex-"Do you want to go outside? Yeah!"

*Tanner melts Mommy's heart when he kisses me. No longer with his mouth open, now he says "mmmm" when he kisses and when we hug! He also kisses his stuffed animals when picking them up! What a sweetie!!!

*He still loves to read books. He will bring us books to read, then sit on our laps as we read them. He loves to play with any kind of ball (total boy, here)!! He can roll the ball to us, and is starting to get the concept of kicking the ball. He has also learned to crawl up the stairs, and likes to practice this as much as we will let him. Hello baby gate!!! :)



Now for some updates about Bobby and I:



*This Sunday, I will be 19 weeks along with baby 2. We will find out the sex on Sept 16th! At first, Bobby didn't want to know, but I have to know!!! Soooooo...we are finding out!! I'll post more after our appointment!!!!

*Bobby and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on August 8th. We went out to dinner (just the 2 of us) and watched our wedding DVD. It was nice to think back to our wedding day and to see how far our love has brought us. One baby here, one on the way, our nice home, etc.

*Speaking of weddings, my best friend, Jacqui, got married this summer! We left Tanner with Bobby's parents for 5 nights and went to Cape Cod for the wedding. This was my first time leaving him, and it was hard, but it was also nice to just be "Shaunda" instead of "Mommy" for a while. Bobby and I were both in the wedding, so we went up early to help tie up any loose ends. I was with Jac and Bobby was with Tony for most of the week. Jac, her mother, and I went shopping, put together gift bags, and hung out with family. It was so fun!! The wedding (which was on Tanner's first birthday-I'll always remember their anniversary) was absolutely beautiful! Jacqui looked gorgeous in her gown. I was one of the matron's of honor, so, I gave a speech. Eeeek...I hate talking in front of lots of people, but it turned out Ok. The food was delish, and I even got Bobby to dance with me to the last song!! When we saw Tanner at the airport, I cried and he kept touching my face. I think he was thinking "Are you really here?" It was precious!

*Traveling-We have been traveling quite a bit this summer! We went to Maryland for Bobby's cousin's wedding. It was so sweet to share that moment with them!! Then we went to Penn. and saw all of Bobby's aunts and uncles on his mom's side! We ended that trip by going to Baltimore to the aquarium. Tanner's first time at an aquarium and he did great!!! We also traveled to Asheville for a couple of nights and stayed with my friend from college, Amanda. She has a dog and Tanner was in heaven playing with the dog! Then we headed down the mountain to Hickory to see Vovo! We stayed with her for a few nights, while Bobby worked in Orlando. We went to Pepe's house and Tanner showed off his walking skills. Plus, he seemed to be coming out of his shell more (not being so shy and clingy to me)!!

Well, I'm sure I missed something that has happened this summer, but oh well. More incentive to keep this blog up to date!!