20 week check up

Well, my 20 week check up happened at 18 weeks 6 days. The baby is measuring at 19 weeks 4 days (or at least that is what the measurements were a week ago) and all seems to be going well.

The anatomy sonogram took about 45 minutes and then my ob appointment went much faster.

The results of the gender examination shows that we are going to have a BOY!!!!

We are so excited about the arrival of our newest addition. They have said that my due date will probably be moved up to April 17th which is just 4 days earlier than what I was originally told.

We go back later this month for another sonogram and my 24 month check up.

November pictures and Thanksgiving

Here are some great pictures of Loryn from November. These include the USF game, school carnival and thanksgiving.

Loryn at her fall festival at school.
Loryn at the USF game. Aunt Ann made her this beautiful blanket for her birthday.
Loryn and Daddy at the game
Loryn and Uncle Brian at the game
Loryn with Aunt Jan and Uncle Rick when they came for a visit
Loryn playing with her cousin Bailey.
Loryn and Bailey playing at Grandma and Grandpa's house
Loryn and her cousin Gabriel open Hanukkah presents early
Yay presents
Lucky girl got more early hanukkah presents from great grandpa and great grandma
Loryn wearing her turkey hat that she made at school.
First night of Hanukkah and Loryn got to open 2 presents.
Starting to open our first present. It was a super fun placemat from Uncle Eric and Aunt Jaime
Loryn kept telling us "yay Hanukkah"
Loryn opening her second present from Uncle Eric and Aunt Jaime. Loryn had so much fun playing with her new game

Loryn's Halloween 2010

Better late than never...

Here are some pictures of Loryn before we started trick-or-treating with her cousin Gabriel. She had such a great time for the hour that we were out. She kept telling the neighbors "treat treat".

Trip to Pittsburgh

At the end of October, we took a trip to Pittsburgh to visit family and go to a wedding. Our trip was certainly an adventure as it was the first time we have been on a plane with Loryn. It wasn't the smoothest trip ever, but I know it could have definitely been worse. We had terrible luck with flights on both legs of the trip. Our flight to Pittsburgh was delayed due to a connection that was running late. The flight was delayed over an hour, which meant we were at the airport for about 3 hours, and then got into Pittsburgh at 11pm. Our flight home was delayed 3 hours, which meant that I couldn't do laundry or grocery shop for the week before I had to send Loryn back to her babysitters. Luckily I still had a little bit of food in the house.

On our trip, we made several trips to Squirrel Hill, went to the Monroeville Mall to get Eric a shirt, Men's Warehouse to get Eric a belt, Target to get Loryn a sweatshirt and sweatpants, and the grocery store for some food items. Besides those generic errands, we had so much fun spending time with my family. My cousins came in from Ohio and DC, my Aunt and Uncle came in from Ohio, and of course my other Aunt and Uncle were already located in Pittsburgh.

Here are some fun pictures from our trip:

Loryn has never seen the leaves change colors. She had so much fun playing in the leaves

It was a bit chilly the first day we were there.

Mineo's pizza for lunch

Loryn Loves pizza

Loryn was goofing off in Aunt Barbara's car. The 2nd day was the coldest day of our entire trip. It moved back up to the 70's the next day. Here we are getting our rental car.
One of Eric's favorite meals of our trip. He really enjoyed his Primanti's sandwich.
Loryn and Eric outside of Primanti's. We were told we had to come here for lunch. And we were happy we did. It was very good, and probably had several thousand calories in each plate.

Loryn and Violet playing during the dinner party that Aunt Barbara had for us. There were 16 people at her house. Loryn loved playing with Violet while we were there.

Loryn found mommy's sunglasses in the hotel room

My sorority big sister Cat and her husband Steve with Eric and I outside of Heinz Chapel after the wedding.
The view from the LeMont. It was beautiful.
Heinz Chapel. It was absolutely beautiful from the inside.

Smallman's for brunch before everyone went home. We also went to Pamela's the day before (which was awesome) but forgot to take a picture

Almost everyone was in the picture. Aunt Barbara was at a different table with Ronnie's cousins Jack and Marshall. And Uncle Rick is half hidden in the back of this picture.

16 Week Check up

Yesterday was my 16 week check up. Everything is going well.

The baby is very active and the heart rate is around the 150's. We find out the gender at the end of the month.

The doctor told me I need to watch the amount of stress in my life, and hopefully the sickness that I am still experiencing will ease up.

Pictures to come with the sonogram at the end of the month...

Loryn's 2nd Birthday

Here are some of our favorite pictures from Loryn's 2nd birthday party. She had so much fun. I was so surprised that she lasted 4 hours. Loryn loved playing with all of her friends and spending the afternoon at the park with good friends and family.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Happy Birthday lunch at Chili's. Lots and lots of cake and ice cream this weekend.

Loryn now needs cabinets for her kitchen to store all the pots, pans, and groceries

Opening Aunt Jen's present. She loves her baby

The princess before the party

Loryn and Grammy Sue on the swings.

Loryn and her boyfriend Jaxson

Loryn and Gabriel on the slide

Loryn loves her cousin Gabriel.

Loryn picked out her own cake this year.

Yummy Cake. If you can believe it, she ate all the cake and left the icing.

Loryn opened tickle me elmo from her grandpa Steve and Grammy Sue

Lots and lots of presents from all of Loryn's friends and family

This picture was taken at dinner. For Loryn's birthday they put her on a saddle and gave her an ice cream sundae.

Party of 4...

It is official, Eric, Loryn and I are expecting a new addition to our family. We are very excited to turn our family of 3 into a family of 4.

This past week, we decided to tell Loryn she is going to be a big sister. She is very very excited as you can see by her pictures.

Below is the first sonogram picture taken of baby #2. 7 weeks 5 days. The due date is April 21, 2011. The baby is currently measuring a day ahead. We will see how it goes as time goes on.
So far at just shy of 8 weeks, my weight gain is -1 pound.