Baby Scharlau #2

Here's the little peanut at 12 weeks. We had the ultrasound done today, just a first trimester screening. Everything looks great! (In case you can't tell on the picture, the head is on the right. There is a hand just above the nose. There is also a foot sticking up on the left side of the photo.) The baby sat very still while getting its picture taken, probably sleeping. Addy did not sit still for her 12 week ultrasound, she was a little jumping bean! The ultrasound tech measured that the baby is about 2 inches long from head to bottom right now, so right where he/she should be!
So everything is going very well. I feel like I am "popping" out much faster this time! I'll be in those maternity pants in no time!!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

News...

So Addison has been bugging me this week about posting...she's tired of keeping the secret in! She wants to let everyone know how excited she is to be a big sister!! Her new little sister or brother is due to arrive around June 7th next year. She loves babies and is very excited to have a real one of her own around the house! :) (we'll see how long that lasts!)
I am feeling pretty good now. I went through a few weeks of being completely exhausted and nauseated. Thank goodness the nausea is gone, now I am just tired from chasing Addison around all day, she's quite the handful.
What's new with Addison this week...? We've been working a lot lately on eating with a fork, and she is doing very well. Until she gets tired of it and just decides to throw all her food on the floor. She continues to impress us with her ever expanding vocabulary. We understand her a good portion of the time, but sometimes we just have to let her point to what she wants! With all the cold weather lately we have been confined to the indoors. Mostly because mom and dad don't want to stand out in the cold. We have bundled up and gone for a few walks though, its not so bad once you get your heart pumping! Its going to be a long winter stuck indoors with Addy, we're trying to clean up our basement a little so we can give her a place to run around and burn off some energy!
So that's it for this week, sorry, no new pics! Have a great week!

It's been way too long...

Helping mom rake the leaves.

Having fun sitting in the big pile that mom just raked!

Here, I picked this one just for you! Isn't it pretty?

Check out my little ponytail on the top of my head! :)

So the month of October blew by and here we are almost halfway through November! I'm sad to see the cold and rainy days of November here already. Although, I can't complain too much, just a week ago at this time it was 70 degrees and sunny. By the weekend it was 35 for a high!! Crazy Wisconsin weather!

October was a fairly uneventful month for us. We spent the nice weekends getting things done to the house to get ready for winter. Addy enjoyed playing outside in the leaves! She had fun picking up all the pretty ones!

Addison significantly added to her vocabulary this past month. Every day it seems she says something new. She loves to read books and point out all of the cats, dogs, cows, etc. This afternoon I think she sat by herself with her basket of books for a good 20 minutes 'reading'. Its very cute to watch her! It also gives me a break from keeping her out of the refridgerator, chasing her up the stairs, and just keeping her from tearing the house apart! :) She really is having fun discovering all the things that she is capable of now, which is exhausting for mom and dad!

Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just two weeks away, which means Addison will be 18 months old! How time has flown by!