Getting ready for Sarah Grace

Hannah Cate dear, it's getting to be time.

It's getting to be time that you give up the only child title.

Not that anyone else will ever take it.

But Sarah Grace is coming on Friday.

It's time to prepare for Big Sisterhood.

Let's Prepare! 

The Basics

Car seat. Being so careful with the baby.

Buckling her in tight.

Safe and Sound. Sarah Grace is in good hands.

Next, play time.

Getting her buckled in

Wrapping her in a nice warm blanket.

Hannah, you're going to be such a good big sister!

Here's to hoping we have more smiles than screams!

A babymoon and a birthday

This might have happened a few months ago BUT it can NOT be over looked. It was my birthday and it was nothing short of AWESOME!!!

Stephen took me to Atlanta for an amazing dinner and a baseball game.

We went to Fogo de Chao. If you ever have an opportunity to go TAKE IT.

It's a Brazilian steak house. All you can eat (music to a pregnant woman's ears)

The "gaucho" chefs come to your table offering you their grilled meat.

AMAZING!!! That's all I can say.... Amazing!

When we came in, they wished me Happy Birthday.

I thought that was odd, we had just walked in. How did they know?

My Stephen, my wonderful and amazing Stephen had called them before to tell them it was my birthday and requested the best table.

 Who does that???

 THE most thoughtful man in the world!

Stephen McKay NeSmith Jr.

I also scored this amazing HUGE cheesecake. Delicious!

So after a wonderful evening at dinner, we went to our hotel.

Guess what I found?

A cake.... for me

I HAVE THE BEST HUSBAND EVER!!!

He called the hotel and told them it was my birthday.

What a sweet heart!

The next morning, unfortunately, he had to go to immigration court. So we weren't able to sleep in. Poor guy! But it didn't take long though.

After hitting up Waffle House, we went to the Braves game.

It rained off and on but it was a great game!

There were a ton of hits and lots of action.

Like foul balls.

This is ours.

 We were sitting RIGHT by the ball boy and when we were walking in Stephen said something  like "Hey my wife is pregnant. She'd love to get a ball."

So who got the first foul ball.... Sweet little Sarah Grace.

What an awesome daddy!!!

What an awesome day!!!

Just for the record I married the best man ever!

Thanks Stephen for making ever day full of wonderful memories!

The Next Big Thing in Hair

This is Hannah's new trial run for her hair product. She didn't have anyone to test her new product on so naturally she resorted to testing it out on herself. 

It's called Salty Play dough. It's a great name. Her creative juices were flowing when she came up with that name.

Unfortuanatly, it didn't have quite the effect that Hannah had in mind. It didn't thicken her hair or make it grow and did not make it super soft. She'll go back to the drawing board, I'm sure.

If by chance she convinced you to try some, the way to get it out is to take a bath and comb your hair while your is soaking wet.

Hannah Climbing as a babe

The End is NEAR!!!

What a little sweetheart!!! We had an ultrasound this past week. I didn't realize that I got another one until my previous appointment. At this point with Hannah, I had ultrasounds every week for quite awhile due to my health problems. Hannah was a mover and wiggly in the womb but not like this little one. She gave us quite a show at the doctor's office. It was so sweet and awesome. You can see her mouth open in the picture below. She was kicking and putting her hands up but my favorite thing she did was play with her toes. ADORABLE!!!   

This has been a very different pregnancy than Hannah. At this point with Hannah, I had looked like I had swallowed the Marshmallow man and my ankles were the size tree trunks. This little sweet was a little more tender to her mommies feelings and let her keep her "girlish" figure. (I have gained plenty of weight but I just appreciate the fact that when you look at my legs you can still tell that they are legs) But I actually kinda feel like this has been a more difficult pregnancy. It's probably the fact that I have been chasing a one year old around. Well, maybe it's the fact that I am within a month of delivery and just feeling the pain.

I'm so excited for her to come into our family. Everyone is. Hannah is so cute with her. I'll ask her where baby sister is and she'll pat my belly. On occasion she'll lift up her shirt and pat her stomach. When I ask her if she wants to give the baby a kiss, she'll put her cheek on my stomach and hug my stomach. Hannah also plays with her by blowing raspberries on my stomach. That cracks me up every time. Stephen has started to see my stomach move with her kicks and general rolling around. At our last appointment she measured at 6 lbs 1 oz. She will more than likely me delivered on the 15th of June. I wouldn't mind if she came earlier. And "she" will likely be Sarah Grace. We have had such a dilemma with picking a name. Lists lists and more lists coupled with adding up points. We are so excited to make her entrance into the world!    

The perfect door

This is just too cute to not post. This is from weeks ago when I went to go visit my Mom. She loves the dog. In fact, she said "Ginger" (the dog's name) before she said Mama.

The tails of Peter Cottontail

So this has been a long time coming. Easter was so much fun for us. We had a blast. But we forgot a thing or two. You know like, the Easter basket thing. Correction, we didn't forget, we just didn't do it. Stephen had a tradition growing up that the Easter baskets were hidden. That's great! I love carrying on traditions for our family. However, between getting ready for church (sorry no pictures of the Easter duds), going to church, lunch, nap time, dinner and Easter dessert with some friends the time never came. Little Hannah Cate never got an opportunity to seek out her basket. (It was on top of the dryer. It has continued to sit there.) I thought I could fool everyone into thinking I was a good parent and take pictures of her finding it another day and pretend it was Easter. Yesterday, I finally cracked and got the coloring book out of the basket so I could try and have some "me" time. (Didn't work. Apparently, magenta, yellow-green and red taste great in crayon form. We'll have to work on coloring another day.) So here are the pictures of the big Easter Egg hunt at church.

Let me just gloat a second. I made her shirt and it's adorable.

Here is a little video. We would practice in the backyard. She has a little basket and a ton of golf balls that she goes around picking up and putting in her basket. She's so cute!