2 years old!!

In such a short little while, our tiny baby has become a little boy...

Happy birthday to our little Weston boy who turned two on September 7th!!

I love this little boy like I never thought I could.  I don't even remember life without him. He is an absolute joy to have around and keeps us laughing everyday by his great personality. Life is so full with him as a part of our family.

Here are some cute little things I don't want to forget about my little man 

"I wuv you mommy"

"Mom mom mom, kisses?"

"Help me mom, help-a me mom help-a me"

He has NO trouble meeting new friends, will talk to anyone his size

"chocolate milk pleeeeeease"

"I want more, I want more"

"mmmmm Mom that is gooood"

"bye bye bye, wuv you bye"

Loves playing with his cousins

Has a very special bond with Grandma Williams, when she is around he doesn't want me or Robby 

Loves his little sister and always wants to give her kisses when she is sad 

LOVES Toy Story! 

I honestly lack the words of how to express how much I love him.  I feel so blessed to have this little man in my life and I know Robby feels the exact same way. 

Happy 2nd Birthday little man! We LOVE YOU!!!

Here are some of his 2 year pics. 

Brightyn Elise Welling

Introducing Miss Brightyn Elise Welling!!! My labor story was really quick and simple this time around! Baby number 2 is cake! On August 7th we went in at 7 a.m. for my induction.  I had a nurse that was in training so the questions and the paper signing at the beginning that should only take about 30 min took about an hour and half because she kept messing up but she was so sweet! It was about 9 o'clock when they started my IV and started the pitocin.  I felt very mild contractions and the nurse came in to ask me if I wanted my epidural now (9:30) or in about and hour and half when the Dr. came out of a c-section.  I decided to get it later because I wanted painful contractions so I wasn't so nervous about the epidural.  Well the nurse came in one last time and checked me and I was at a 3 and said are you sure you want to wait for that epidural.  Robby said to just get it and so I agreed to just get it.  I am so THANKFUL I did or else I would have had this baby natural probably.  At 11 the nurse came into check me and I was at a 4. At 12 the nurse came in to check me at I was at a 8..moving right along.  At 12:15 the nurse came back in to adjust the heart monitors because it was not reading, so she decided to have me move side and when I went to move she was said "you ready to have a baby because she is right here."  Just then my Dr. just happened to walk in to check on me and so they got everything ready and with 1 push this little princess came into the world at 12:23! 

Life with 2 kids has been a bit of an adjustment for all of us but we are chugging right along. Wes has been doing pretty good just a little more emotional about things..He has started to cuddle me again and I don't mind that at all.  He loves his sister and when she cries he says "Mom, kisses" and will give her kisses on the head.  He does like to test his limits when I am holding her because he knows I am occupied but he is adjusting better than I thought.  We are a happy family of 4!!! 

Lately

 Its been a busy spring/summer so far! I thought I would update this journal on events that have been happening around the Welling house!  When we found out this little baby was a girl I wanted to make the nursery both boy and girl since they will be sharing.  I thought I would stay with blues/greens for the boy feel but have girly looking fabric etc. I started looking on Etsy to find some custom baby crib bedding but everything was over 300 dollars and I just couldn't do it.  So I thought I would ask my mom to help me make some bedding because she used to sew all of our clothes when we were little. She agreed to help me and she did a wonderful job!! Picking fabric was stressful for me, I went through 4 different sets of fabric before my mother finally took this fabric and washed it so I couldn't return it anymore but I am so pleased with it. My mom did a wonderful job on the bumpers and crib skirt. I am going to find be a light blue sheet and decorate a pillow to put in the crib.  Thank you mom!!

p.s. my dr said he will take me on August 7th if I don't go into labor. That is less than 8 weeks! We are almost done here folks! 

                                        

 My sister in law saw this cute maxi skirt tutorial on elleapparel.blogspot.com and asked my mom if she would be willing to help me make some skirts. She agreed again and we made me, my sisters, and sister in law a couple of these skirts. I have a purple, blue and this striped one. I got my fabric on sell and made 2 skirts for about 18 dollars. Thanks again to my mom who really made all of these skirts. She made 4 of these skirts in 2 hours!  I have brought my mom back to her crafty days!!! I love DIY projects 

Here is Wes bald!!! haha! Robby says I am not allowed to cut his hair anymore! This picture was about a month ago and thank heaven his hair is finally growing back in nicely.  I decided I would try cutting his hair so I gave him the iPad and when to town. Till I messed up and had to shave it all.  I even shaved his calic (sp) right off and he had two bald bald spots which you can kind of see in the picture. Lets just say I will be paying 9 dollars to get his haircut from now on! 

A little update on our Wes is he LOVES to be outside even if he is just wondering around.  He is starting into his TERRIBLE two's I think.  Just in the last couple weeks he has gone from my sweet little boy to a stubborn/tantrum boy.  I hope this phase doesn't last too long!!

 Wes also loves being with his cousins! 

And what boy wouldn't love his Grandpa's tractor! Spoiled little boy! We sure do love him even thought he keeps us on our toes! 

Prego

So this pregnancy has been a little different than with Wes.  This pregnancy I was pretty sick for about 12 weeks, I felt like I had the flu all day long and just felt so extremely tired.  I also crave the weirdest things, I  LOVE pasta with PREGO sauce! Robby is probably sick of it by now for dinner but Weston still loves it! I have also loved nacho cheese, and anything SWEET! But I am now feeling good just still so tired, I will try to study or read and I just fall asleep within 5 min. But overall excited to meet this little girl! 

We decided on the name! It was either going to be Mallory Afton or Brightyn Elise and we (I) have chosen 

BRIGHTYN ELISE!! She has been Brightyn since I found out I was pregnant, kind of like how Weston was Weston right when we found out we were expecting! This little girl is already spoiled has tons of bows, dresses, rompers, leggings, etc! 

Here is little Brightyn at the 20 week ultrasound! Everything is healthy and growing!

Here I am at 23 weeks! I look and feel bigger this time around!

18 months old!

It's hard to believe that my little man is already a year and a half.  Time please come back because I miss my little baby...

however,  I do love this little hilarious, lovable toddler!!

If I could describe in one word my feelings toward this little dude would be OBSESSED!  I love his personality and naughty-ness!  Here are a few things I want to remember about him at this age.

-Still LOVES his binky (working on that)

-Loves to sleep (or wont sleep without) with this cuddle dog thing my friend Janee gave him at birth (thanks Janee)

-Anytime you try to kiss, hug or love him when he doesn't want it he will say "OUCH"

-Loves chocolate milk, pears, pasta, pizza, and cheese

-Still loves his bath

-Teething still, we went from 4 teeth to 8 teeth in a week 

-Loves to push anything that has wheels

-Loves to GO places. Anytime you say the word go he runs to the door and says "GO GO GO"

-Doesn't like any veggies (suggestions?) 

-Still continues to say Hello and Bye to everyone in the stores! 

-Loves the park and goes head first down the slides

-He says a couple sentences right now which are "Who is that? Where is that? Where are you going? Lets go.  1,2,3.  

-Loves to watch movies, but we limit them of course 

HE IS SUCH A BOY!!!!

Girls Girls Girls

So since we have found out that we are having a girl I have had a lot of thoughts that go through my head. 


I am a little stressed about a couple things...


- I CANT raise myself! Or anyone remotely close to the emotionally, whiney, crazy, dramatic child I was. I need to start thanking my mom daily for raising me!!
- Elementary: mean girls, insecurities, being left out and drama!
-Junior high:  everything mentioned above but only worse and cheerleading or dance try-outs
- High school: everything mentioned above only worse and with a car and a boyfriend (not if I have anything to do with it!)
- An older brother with friends... in the same house as his younger sister with friends (but unfortunately only 23 months apart!)... oh I am not so naive, don't even think I don't see the immediate danger in that!  
- WESTON is so much FUN!! I love having a little dude that is so happy and relaxed (for the most part).  Boys really are so fun and he does the funniest things all the time and girls well they come with DRAMA! haha 


But in all seriousness I am excited to meet this little bean and girl shopping well lets be honest is a lot more fun because you can accessorize (bows, bracelets, etc)  I am excited to get my little girl so one day if I need to be taken care of she will take me in so I won't have to go to a nursing home haha.  (I only think of those things because of where I work) I know I will love her so much and Robby will be such a great father to a little girl!!   I am ready for the battle of "this doesn't match" or "I need the expensive jeans not the cheap ones" or "I wish we were rich like my friend ....." or "why can't I go to the movie with the boys, you don't even understand."  These are all these I have said to my mother a time or two. But one day she will love me!

It's a GIRL

We were finally able to find out the sex of this baby.  I knew it was a girl all along so it wasn't really a surprise to me more of a "I knew it". I have weird, cool, creepy, mothers intuition.  I am 2 for 2 now so maybe I really can feel when I need to have children and what they are.  With Wes we were not planning at all and didn't want a child but I kept thinking of my little boy, had spiritual experiences and when I found out I was prego I thought "this is my little guy" and I was right!! Before I got pregnant with this pregnancy I new it was time to have our little girl. So now that she is a girl, I must have good mothers intuition.  We got 3 different views of this baby is the ultrasound that it was a girl.  Right as we were ending the ultrasound she immediately closed her legs again, she is so modest already!! Robby always jokes and says he didn't want little girls and that he only made boys so when he called his mom to tell him the news she asked if he was okay and when we told one of his sisters she asked the same thing "is Robby okay with that?"  and YES he is excited, little does he know that when he holds his little nieces a soft, tender side comes out in him that I don't think he realizes. He will be a great dad to a little girl.  After we told Wes what were were having he looked at me and said "GIRL GIRL GIRL GIRL GIRL!" So I think he is excited although I bet he would have loved a brother.  The names we like are Brightyn and call her Bryn or Mallory.  It will probably be either one of those names. 

Baby #2...

Wednesday the 22 I wake up all excited to find out the gender of baby number 2!!! I workout, eat, drink some orange juice and off I go to the Doctors office!! The Dr comes it and is like lets take a look at what your having...Every position that this baby was in makes it impossible to tell the sex of the baby.  The baby was on its stomach, legs semi-crossed and the cord was in the way as well.  He gave it a pure guess and said Boy. So baby number two still remains a mystery!!! I have felt that it was a girl this entire time but if it is a Boy that would be fun too! They would be almost exactly two years apart so they would be in the same season clothes so that would make it nice on the wallet but a girl would be fun too! Robby still strongly believes he doesn't make girls but knows that he will have a girl one day..makes sense?? Better luck next time!!

Big Boy

My little baby is not a baby anymore! I can't believe he is almost 18 months! Feels like yesterday when he would cuddle me and not move, now to get a kiss from him I have to bribe him with fruit snacks! Wes has the funniest personality.  If he is being naughty and Robby tells him no or to stop he gets the biggest frown on his face and cries but if I tell him no he just makes this face at me!! What a little stink, I can't help but laugh sometimes! 

 On February 2nd I had to work and Robby was working so I dropped him off at a good friends so she could watch him and an hour later she brought him to my floor at the Hospital with a cut on his forehead. I cried not because he was cut or anything but because February is the month where we don't have any insurance because we are in between. Just our luck, so the nurses at my work were so kind and cleaned it for me and basically taped it together and let me take all these supplies home! It is healing nicely and there shouldn't be to big of a scar! 

 WESTON loves Tangled!! It is the funniest thing! I have tried to see if he will watch Cars, Lion King, or something more "manly" but he doesn't care for them at all! He loves this show.  He must have a crush on Repunzel and he will probably like blondes with long hair when he grows up! He will dance, clap, and cheer on Ryder! If I need to study and if Wes is being needy I will put this on and he starts to laugh and clap because he knows what I am doing. (I hope I am not stunting his development but there are times where I need to study) 

We find out the sex of BABY #2 this Wednesday so that should be fun!!