Two posts in one day? What is this world coming to?? I wanted to talk about this next thing in a separate post so that Sawyer would not have his birthday post overshadowed by our other news...I got my birthday present about 2 months early this year. After years of trying, we are going to have another baby!! I'm 15 weeks along and due January 28th. It feels both very close and very far away at the same time. Once school starts in a few weeks I know the time is just gonna fly. I cannot begin to tell you the mix of emotions that we are having right now. We are scared, excited, nervous, overwhelmed, surprised, happy, blessed, and generally in disbelief over the prospect of another little one. I guess we've done something right with Sawyer, so Heavenly Father decided to let us have another one of his special spirits. So far, this pregnancy has been totally different, but not as bad as others that I know, so I can't complain too much. Plus, when we have tried for so long to get pregnant, it doesn't feel like I have the right to complain. I just try to remember what my mom says, "As long as your still feeling sick, that means that you are still pregnant. Just be grateful."

This ultrasound is from our 10 week appointment. We won't find out if it's a boy or girl until Sept. 20th.
I think the neatest thing about this baby is what Sawyer told us before we even found out that we were pregnant. The story goes like this...Scott and I were reading this article about celebrity baby names. We were laughing and joking when Sawyer, who was sitting on the floor playing, chimed in, "We're gonna have a baby. It's a girl. Her name is Aalynn." (Not sure how we would spell it if we use it.) We had never even heard that name before, so we looked it up, and sure enough, it is a real name. It still took us a couple of weeks to build up the nerve to take a pregnancy test. When you have taken so many, it is no longer fun. When we got the +, it was unbelievable...no really...I went back into the bathroom an hour later and took another test. We are still a little in shock, it has been a long wait.

Everyone in the family thinks it is a girl (probably because of Sawyer's prediction)...I will update as soon as we know.

He's 3! He is smart, funny, polite, and very tall for his age (he is in the 98th percentile for his height.) It still amazes me that I am allowed to be a mama to this special person. For his birthday we had cupcakes a couple of times. The first time was a few days before his birthday at a house that Scott's Aunt Kathy was house-sitting. We had gold doubloon cupcakes and other pirate treasures. He had a hard time blowing out the candles, he blows through his teeth, it was cute to watch though. Plus, I accidentally got magic candles, so they would relight when he would finally get them blown out. Now before you say, "Yeah, right, you 'accidentally' got magic candles, sure Rachel..." it really was an accident. Let me explain... We went to the party store to get the plates and decorations and I let Sawyer pick out which candles he wanted. The first package he handed to me had "MAGIC Candles" written really big across the top. I told him that we should pick another package because those ones were "tricky candles." He put them back and we looked a few rows down and found another package that had similar candle colors and decided to get those. It wasn't until the candles started relighting that I realized they were ALSO "tricky candles." I was so mad! When we got home, I looked at the package and sure enough, up in the top corner, in small lettering, were the words "magic candles." It didn't even dawn on me to look closely since the other package had the word MAGIC written in large lettering across the top of the package, where the package that we ended up buying had CANDLES written in the same place. OK...OK...I'm done venting...calming down now...breathe... Needless to say that next time I will be looking VERY carefully at the entire package. Here are some pics of the fun...




The next time was on his actual birthday and Grananna brought him a cupcake. We decided to do the candle thing again. He still had a hard time, if you watch the candles somehow relight (I promise, they weren't "tricky candles" this time,) but he eventually got them out. I was relieved because I thought he was going to hyperventilate!


Then he got to dig in. He said to us today, "I'm tired of being little, I want to be big." It was so cute, but also made me a little sad. I want him to be able to be a kid for as long as he can. I want for him to enjoy every minute, because it goes by way too fast, for all of us. He is amazing and I'm so grateful to have him in my life and to be able to call him mine. We love our Soybean and can't wait to see him grow and learn this next year.