Baby boy is growing!

We are so excited to meet our little man in a few months! I'm currently 28 weeks pregnant, which means I am officially starting my third trimester! I'm 7 months along guys. It's getting real here. I'm starting to have my appointments every 2 weeks now. Crazy! I can't believe I'm already here but then I think about it and it's like yeah, I feel like I've been pregnant for a looong time. That first tri was pretty rough for me. Worse than with my girls. That should have been my clue that I was having a boy. :)

This was the first official picture of my belly I took, even though I was clearly showing...

15 weeks

This is how I announced to social media that I was expecting

17 weeks

(trying on my outfit for Eric and Emily's wedding)

 

18 weeks

 

 20 weeks

 Makes for a good pillow :)

 

22 weeks

 

Halloween, prego fighter pilot :)

 

23 weeks

 

24 weeks

 

 25 weeks

 

 27 weeks

 Ruby went to the doctor with me for my 27-week Rogam shot and glucose test. She was so impressed by how brave I was when I got stuck with 2 different needles. She asked me where my sticker was. The cute nurse pulled out a lollipop for her and let her choose a sticker to give to me for being so brave. So she picked a Dora sticker and plopped it right on my belly. :)

 

Comparing the pictures it looks like week 24 is when I really started to pop! It should be fun to see how big it gets in the coming months. It's probably going to look ridiculous. I'm carrying this guy just like I carried Ruby, straight out!

 

In church my calling is with the kids 18 months - 3 years old. A few weeks ago I was playing with the kids and one little boy came up to me, put his hands on my belly and said, "Ball?" I laughed and said, "That's not a ball, there's a baby in there." He kept looking at it and saying, "Ball?" He was certain I had a ball under my shirt. I kept saying, "nope no ball under there." And then he grabbed my shirt and lifted it up to make sure, ha ha! It was hilariously cute. His mom walked in to pick him up right after that and I was laughing so hard. I told her the story and she laughed and said they play that game at home all the time where they both will stick balls under their shirts like that. Too funny!

 

Okay I'm signing off for the night.

 

P.S. Why are boys names so hard to pick? We are having the hardest time finding names we like. Any suggestions? We know we want to stick with our tradition of doing family names for middle names so his middle name will more than likely be William. So we're just trying to fill in the blank, ______ William Banbury.

And then there was that one time...

...we bought a van!

Back in my youthful 20s I thought this day would never come. Now that I'm 30 (almost 31 ha!) and much wiser(ha!) and could care less of what other people think, I am all about it!

We hadn't planned on buying one until January or February, just before baby boy is due to come, because we didn't really NEED one until then. Yeah, there is no way we could fit 3 car seats across in our Subaru. Not happening folks. Anyway, back to the story. Trey's '96 Honda "Hollywood" (he so lovingly named her) decided to blow a huge hole in the muffler on his way home from work one day. It sounded AWFUL. We said if the next thing that goes wrong with her will cost us more than $100 to fix, we weren't even going to bother. Not worth it. Sure enough the gaping hole was placed in a spot that Trey just couldn't patch so he put her on Craigslist a few days later, sold her that day for $420, and we bid her farewell. She was a good little commuter, too bad she couldn't have lasted us just a few more months.

Then we were in need of a new set of wheels ASAP. I had no intention of driving Trey to work everyday at 6am. We had been researching and looking at local dealerships via the interwebs for months since we knew we would be in the market soon enough. We thought we would check out a Honda Odyssey since it sounded like it was the most reliable and easy to sell later if we wanted to. We went to a Honda dealer just going to test drive and check out a few, and we left with a black 2012 Honda Odyssey!

It all happened so fast but I guess it was just meant to be. We have not regretted our decision once. We love the space! Trey loves that he can haul wood and big stuff from Home Depot in there. I love the automatic doors. The girls love it too. :)