Our Big Girl

How does time go by so fast? I ask myself this question often. Kamryn is quickly leaving the toddler days behind and turning into a little girl. She needs to slow down! Doesn’t she know she’s only 2!?! The “baby talk” is quickly turning into sentences and she’s learning so much each and every day. I don’t know how this happened. In just 16 short weeks Kamryn will no longer be our one and only but a big sister. Which in a weird way makes me a little sad.

For over 2 years Kamryn has been the center of our world and now we are adding another baby to the mix. I am confident that she will be a great big sister. Kamryn has never met someone who she didn’t like. She warms up to just about anyone and is so happy in just about every situation. Being a stay at home mom and having very few people in our life with kids the same age as Kamryn had me a little concerned about how she would interact with other kids. But Kamryn surprises me with every new kid she meets. She is very good at sharing, loves to play and enjoys when other kids around. She just adjusts so well to each and every situation. 

We’ve been having play dates every other week with my cousin Jenn and her daughter Olivia, who is 3 weeks older than Kam. After Olivia warms up (she’s not quite as out going as Kamryn) the girls have so much fun! It’s so cute watching them interact and listening to their little conversations. They are like two little old ladies when they get going. Jenn and I were very close growing up and still remain close. I hope Kamryn and Olivia will be life long friends just as Jenn and I are. 

Mike and I have been tossing around the idea of sending Kamryn to preschool in the Fall. Just 2 days a week and only 2.5 hours a day. We may go check out a school, here in Plymouth, this summer and then decide if we want to do it this year or next year. We are so torn! Part of us knows she would do great and it would be so wonderful for her to get out of the house and make some friends and the other part of us (the selfish/don’t want to let go part) thinks she’s still a little too young. 

We recently framed one of Logan’s ultrasound pictures and Kamryn always points to it and says “Mama! Look it! Logan!” She often talks about her “baby brudder”. It’s so sweet and melts my heart every time. I can’t wait to see her in action. She’s going to be great!

The personality on this kid absolutely kills me! (You can get a glimpse of it in these pictures) Her personality is really bigger than she is. She is so amazing and Mike and I couldn’t possibly be more proud! We are so blessed

Cozy Coupe

Yesterday was a gorgeous day so we decided to put together Kamryn’s Cozy Coupe that we got her for her birthday. She was really excited and had so much fun driving it. (with Dada’s help of course)

please forgive me, some of these pictures are out of focus…there is something wrong with our lens and we have to get a new one.

Daddy'sGirl

22 weeks

Okay..not quite but I will be 22 weeks on Friday.

I went to the doctors today and everything is going great with “Baby Boy Sass”. His heartbeat was nice and strong and I am measuring right on track. To be honest, I was happy to hear that because everyone seems to think I have popped out like crazy! So I am not huge I am normal! Believe it or not, I am exactly the same size as I was when I was pregnant with Kamryn at this point. I laughed because my doctor is just as shocked as I am that we are having a boy. She swore it would be another girl as well. She was flipping through the paper work and even double checked and read it again. HA! I love her!! At my last appointment I saw the nurse practitioner and I got my ultrasound done at the hospital so this is the first time I’ve seen her since the news. 

Mike and I have picked a name for “Baby Boy Sass”, he will be Logan Michael. I know I said I would keep it a secret until the end but we’ve already told so many people and we know our parents haven’t kept it a secret so might as well put it out in the open. We absolutely love his name and think it is extra special because our wedding reception was at Logan Airport. 

I am feeling much better in regards to “morning sickness”. However the nausea has not completely subsided. Every now and again I feel sick which isn’t a bad thing, I can deal with it, its just more annoying at this point. My sciatica has been acting up and I think that is due to Logan being so low. My doctor says he’s up where he should be but when he moves it’s pretty obvious, he’s definitely low. At this point I am just getting anxious and even though 4.5 months isn’t that long I am ready for it to be July so we can meet our little man and can start operating as a family of 4. (family of 6 if you count the dogs.)

the internet is a scary place...

When I first created my Facebook account it never even crossed my mind who would see my pictures. Even when I started this blog I didn’t even double think it for a second. I thought only my friends and family will stumble upon this blog because I told them about it. Couldn’t of been more wrong. Everyday I check my blog stats and people from all over read it, from states I’ve never been to and towns I’ve never heard of…even different countries. I am by no means a “popular blogger”. I am what I like to refer to as a “nobody blogger”. But still day after day people come here to read our blog. Which, of course, got me thinking..how did they find our blog?

Since finding out I was pregnant again I’ve googled baby name after baby name and every time thousands and thousands of pictures pop up of babies and children. Pictures from myspace, Facebook, twitter, personal blogs, photography blogs, etc. Pictures of our children are all over the internet! And sometimes on sites that we don’t even know about. Thankfully I have never found a picture of Kamryn where it didn’t belong but if you google “Kamryn”, there she is, linked up to my blog of course! So then I started thinking about all the people who have posted pictures of Kamryn on their personal Facebook pages (of course only because they love Kam)…friends, immediate family, extended family, close family friends and on and on… To be honest this scares the crap out of me! Mike and I know who our Facebook friends are but we have no idea who my parents friends are, who Mike’s parents friends are, who my friends friends are, extended families friends are. There are hundreds, potentially thousands, of people who we don’t know looking at pictures of our daughter. To say this makes me feel uneasy is an understatement. Now I know what your probably thinking…”My friends would never use Kamryn’s pictures as their own.” But lets be honest, I’m sure you have plenty of acquaintances on your page who you really don’t know all that well. It may sound crazy but trust me when I say this, this happens every.single.day. All it takes is a click of your picture that you forgot to make private and my baby girl is out there for the world to see on God knows what website. 

Mike and I have talked this over and decided that he and I (when I get back on Facebook) are going to cut down our Facebook friends list quite a bit. There are people I am “friends with” that I haven’t talked to since high school. People who don’t comment on my photos, who don’t write on my wall and there’s no need to have them looking at pictures of me and my family and seeing what we are up to. Mike and I will do anything in our power to protect Kamryn because there are some crazy people out there. Now that I am a mother (of almost 2) the internet scares the crap out of me. Mike and I want to ask all of you to please please not post any pictures of Kamryn on your page unless you check with us first. And if we approve please make sure your photo’s are completely private!! If you don’t know how to do this ask Mike or I and we will walk you trough it. We live in a different world then when we were growing up. This world is scary and a world that is so public in so many ways. I have decided to watermark my pictures on the blog from now on so no one can copy our pictures on here. This may sound extremely over protective but again we will do whatever it takes, drastic or not to make sure the pictures we post of Kamryn are our pictures and our pictures only!