can you just picture it?!!?!?

ohmygoodness!!!

PINK!!!

so this is what happens...

...when you have a second baby...you forget (?!!?!?) to post about the second baby because the first baby drains your brain of the mental capacity to do something as simple as post a few ultrasound pictures on the blog??? and you're so busy trying to post pictures of the baby you already have you completely ignore the one you don't have yet??? NEVER would have happened with baby #1...bad mommy.

this is LILLIE KATE or LILLIE GRACE at six weeks...okay, the name isn't official, but i don't want to refer to her as a pronoun until three weeks before her birth like we did with jackson...if you ask matt about "lillie", he'll have no idea who you're talking about.

here she is at 19 weeks...it IS a girl!!! didn't even ask God for a girl...didn't dare...but He knew. all the way to the ultrasound i was praying that i wouldn't be disappointed if it was a boy...whatever it was--healthy and whole--that's all i wanted...

after the ultrasound, they bumped my due date up by a week...december 5th. whatever. i'll be 23 weeks on wednesday...feeling good, but tired.

trying to figure out sleeping arrangements...matt thinks a laundry basket will do. yeah. a laundry basket. i've been looking on craigslist...found some cribs that match the one we already have...some even come with mattresses...but matt thinks that's gross...to buy a used bed and mattress from people we don't know...i think it's thrifty...something i thought he would appreciate.

the closet is slowly filling with PINK and PURPLE...found a crocheted hat on etsy today that she HAS to HAVE!!! HAS to HAVE!!! i'll post a picture...

almost one...

almost feeding himself...without utensils...

almost walking...

almost talking...

almost breaking his mama's heart with how fast he's growing...

at aunt mary and uncle glenn's...

more indiana...

dirtiest boy EVER...

made an unexpected trip to indiana...had a family dinner at a picnic pavillion...jackson wanted DOWN...and this is what happened...

they met us in st. louis...

we were able to spend a few days with cindy, jason, and the boys at the beginning of july...so glad we hustled our behinds and made it to st. louis before that chance passed...

the arch...hmmm...an experience in patience and terror...waited about THREE hours to get to the top...went to the top...SIX people...in a "pod" the size of a bathroom stall...don't think i want to do that again...

st. louis zoo..."free"...parking=$11...so not exactly "free". GREAT zoo...wanna go back when it's not so hot. jackson liked the monkeys...but was pretty miserable with the heat...


mario kart...the boys had so much fun playing...the giggles and screeches...jackson has a few more years before he can join the big boys...

took the boys to a huge chucky-cheese/dave and buster's type arcade...go-karts, bumper cars, bowling, mini-golf...lots of games...and really bad pizza. jackson REALLY thought he was "driving"...sat with daddy at this particular arcade game for a very long time.

so FUN to watch the boys all playing together...it will NOT take another THREE years to see this again...love you, miss you, other millers...