I tell people a lot that I feel like I've been pregnant for 6 months already. We started thinking about having baby #2 sometime in May. I decided to quit taking birth control that month, even though we knew we wanted to wait until July or August to officially "try". We really wanted Max to be able to celebrate his 2nd birthday before the baby was born, so we figured August would be a good month to start. And August was all it took! Apparently God was in agreement that Max needs a sibling sooner rather than later! :)
Now we're 12, almost 13 weeks along, and time seems to be dragging. I'm hoping with the holidays coming up then having to start making room in the house for baby after Christmas, the rest of the time will go by fast. We will definitely find out whether it's a boy or a girl - I think it will be December 16th when we have the ultrasound. I'm feeling pretty good...I was pretty nauseus at first, but that seems to be fading. Mostly I have a lot of food aversions, and MAJOR smell aversions. I'm hoping those also fade pretty soon. I think Matt is tired of having to change all the dirty diapers!!
Max is growing and changing every day. His favorite thing to do right now is play in the leaves outside. It's getting cold really quickly here, so I hope we get to have some fall time for him to enjoy before the super cold winter starts. He's adding to his vocabulary every day...Ms. Wanda tells us he says a lot of words for her, but he seems to forget them when he gets home. The video below shows some of his words. I still feel like one day he'll just start talking in full sentences...I'm pretty sure he already believes he IS talking in full sentences...we just can't always understand them!
The last 6 weeks or so have been super busy! Aunt Em came to visit for about 10 days at the beginning of October to keep Max while Ms. Wanda was on vacation. She wasn't wrapped around Max's little finger AT ALL by the time she left. :)
While Aunt Em was here, we got to go visit Mariah, Maddie, and Rivers in Louisville. Unfortunately Mike had to work, but we were so glad to get to spend some time with the rest of them. Max enjoyed having other little ones to play with, but we learned that he definitely will need to learn to share his toys once his little brother or sister gets here!
We tried to get a picture of them all sitting on the couch, looking at the camera. This was as close as we got...at least they were all looking the same way, whether or not it was at the camera!
A few weeks ago we visited the local pumpkin patch. Max had a great time picking up every pumpkin, throwing a few down, and going on a hayride to see the cows.
A couple of weeks ago we went to Vardaman for my 10-year reunion. Max got to try out his new tricycle. We're pretty sure Jiggs has had some practice on it himself.....
While we were in Vardaman, we took the opportunity to have Max's fall pictures made out at the Edmondson's cabin. Once we get the rights to share those pictures, I'll add them here. Here are a couple we took before the official photo session began.
Finally, here are a couple of Max doing his favorite - playing in the leaves. He'll be so disappointed once they've all fallen and there are no more to play in!
So that's been our fall so far! Hope you're all having a great one as well! Love, the Greers...all FOUR of us!
