Help Me Please!

This is what I'm hoping for...

This what I'm afraid I'll get...

Ok, so here's the deal. We're now only a few months away from the arrival of our new tiny bundle and I have a BIG predicament. Chase is extremely jealous of other children when either Kyle or I are giving any sort of attention to an unknown child. Normally Chase loves looking at other babies, he's very interested in them and really likes them. We just didn't realize that he only likes them when their own parents are holding them and not HIS parents. When we were in Colorado visiting my family in January, I could only hold my little 6 month old neice Brinley when Chase was napping or playing in a different room. If he happened to catch either Kyle or I holding my sweet little neice, he would cry hysterically and grab at my pants or shirt or anything he could until I would give her back to my sister and hold him. We had another situation like this last week in church. Kyle went to drop Chase off in nursery and there were no nursery leaders in there just other parents who were dropping off their children. Somehow we both got roped into helping out in nursery. Well the nursery coordinator was running back and forth in between the two rooms the whole time with her little maybe 5 month old baby and she left her in our room for a little while. Well, as soon as the little baby girl realized her mom was not around she started crying. I picked her up to console her and Chase immediately FREAKED OUT! That's when I thought to myself, "this is very very not good."


So, Monday I reserved some story books at the library that are meant to warm toddlers up to the idea of having a new baby around. I need more ideas though! I know many of you have already gone through this and some of you haven't, and I really don't care who the help comes from as long as I get it before I end up requiring some mental help! So bring on the tips and tricks!!!

Out numbered three to one!

*DiScLaImEr* these pictures were taken about a month before we closed on the house. I'll explain...

The house prior to front yard landscaping being complete and the garage being painted

Chase opening the door in his bathroom

The master bathroom before carpet installation

The front hallway and kitchen off to the left (not pictured) The cabinets they first installed weren't the right size so picture those cabinets but about a foot longer.

The kitchen sink and floor

I know what many of you are thinking right now. It's about time! I feel very guilty lately about not updating for almost two months! Time really has not been on my side for the past couple months but finally things are starting to slow down a bit to where I feel like I have a little more control over my life. So I thought I'd get my rear in gear and give you guys a little update!

We went in for our mid pregnancy ultrasound on December 3oth and the baby looks great and appears to be very heathy and doing well BUT was very uncooperative as far as gender prediction goes. Legs were crossed and there was a loop of umbilical cord right smack in between the legs, which makes for very difficult determining. When we left the ultrasound we were pretty disappointed that we weren't able to find out what we were having. The ultrasound tech said that she was leaning one way but she didn't want to disclose any information in case she was wrong. So our next ultrasound was scheduled for January 19th. We went in and thought the same thing was going to happen because she started the ultrasound stating the same thing, "legs crossed, loop of umbilical cord in between the legs." In the end though after much poking and prodding and twisting and turning she was able to make a pretty positive guess as to what we will be expecting come end of May beginning of June. Drum roll please.......It's A Boy! We're having another baby boy for those of you who didn't know already or didn't catch that from the title of this post. We're pretty sure they'll do yet another ultrasound sometime before his arrival but they're pretty sure that's what we can bet on. We are so excited for another little boy! We were hoping that we would have another boy this time because Chase and he will be so close in age and also for financial aspects. We won't have to buy anything new really, just recycle Chase's stuff!

So, that's the first update for our little family the second is that we are proud home owners!!! We absolutely LOVE our new house, it's made me a totally new person to finally own a beautiful home of my own. It's perfect for our little growing family and we just adore it. Kyle thinks I've fallen off my rocker with how much I clean everyday, but honestly I love cleaning my own house. I love it when the appliances sparkle and when the floors glow and when I see carpet lines from vaccuming and sparkling windows and mirrors. I love coming home to the smell of lemon and lavender scented cleaners throughout the house. I don't think it's weird but Kyle seems to think so. My family (especially my mom) would think that my behavior is not only perfectly normal but necessary. You be the judge. I know you guys have been waiting for pictures but I don't know where the hookup for our camera is to download some pics. I'll see what we have on here already and post those, but I'm afraid updated ones will have to wait. I will also try to be more consistent with updating now that I really don't have an excuse to not be more consistent, at least for 3 1/2 more months or so!