PREGNANT!!!! YIPEE!

Bryan and I are officially announcing that we are pregnant! I am past my first trimester already, and am currently 13 1/2 weeks pregnant!

We couldn't be more thrilled. I think everyone in the universe knows that I wanted another baby, but Bryan wasn't quite on board. He said I have the month of February to "try" and if it didn't happen than it wasn't meant to be. Well, lucky for me, I know my body pretty well, and we were able to get pregnant!

I am feeling great! A little bit of morning sickness, but that is pretty much over now, so that is good. Baby is doing great. Growing and fast and seems really happy.

Please continue to keep me and the baby in your thoughts and prayers if you think about us. I am a type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetic, so I am labelled as a "high risk" pregnancy. I am trying really hard to keep my bloodsugars under control, which is the key to a successful pregnancy, but sometimes they get all out of whack.

Belle ALWAYS has F-U-N!

Annabelle LOVES to be outside and play, play, play. She cracks me up with the cute things she says and does. Here are some random pictures of her in our backyard (which will not be our backyard for long...more to come on us buying a house. Yea!)

Swinging!

My very first Ponytail!!!! Yea!!!

Goofy...she loves to play peek-a-boo when I have the camera out!

The Bennett cousins. We ADORE them. They have more fun together!!!

Monkey see, Monkey do! (Annabelle is the monkey)

Am I in trouble for putting on your moisturizer????

No...O.K....well then, isn't this funny????

You make me smile!

I am EXTREMELY blessed to have such a happy child. Annabelle shares her smiles and her laughter to anyone that will look her way. She has such a funny little personality. I can get her to crack up at almost anything.

As my mom says, "Annabelle is a good time waiting to happen". I couldn't agree more. You can't help but smile when you are around her.

I love you more than anything in the world, Annabelle. I have enjoyed you so much. I

can't seem to spend enough time with you. Even

when you are sleeping, I am so anxious for you to get up so we can start playing together.

Thank you for all the joy you have shown me. You make everyone's lives better, because you have touched them with such joy!

Foot Models?????

I got a call one day from Northstar Surgical Center asking if Annabelle would like to be in a photo shoot in their new mail out pamphlet. Of course, I said "sure". I knew that she would have a picture made with a doctor, and possibly one made of her feet. So I guess, Annabelle and I are officially foot models. Hee. Hee.

I had to go to work after the photo shoot, so I had my work clothes on, and in the back of my mind, I was thinking, "surely I won't have to be in the photo...surely!" Of course, Annabelle wouldn't leave momma, so that is why I am in the photos too. So glad that I had a pedicure the weekend before, because the feet next to Annabelle's are mine.

Belle also got to have her picture made with Dr. Scioli, who is such a sweet person. He was the doctor that did Bryan's foot surgery in 2007.

Anyways, sorry the pictures are bad. I obviously just took a picture of the pamphlet.

Belle and her "Brothers"

Thought this was a cute picture of Annabelle being Belle from the Disney movie Beauty and The Beast.

She has her high heels on too!

Since Belle is an only child, she calls Casey and Spencer (aka Spen-ter) her brothers. As you can see from the pictures below, they really are like family. The boys did such a good job posing for the picture, but Annabelle was obviously mid drink, then when she is ready, they run. Annabelle's position is like she is saying, "geez!". Too cute. We love our brothers.

Like Chicken Nuggets?

A few days ago, I was telling Annabelle about when she was a baby. I told her how I would hold her all day long and kiss her so many times, that Daddy and I would try to guess how many hundreds of times she was kissed that day.

Anyways, I ended up asking Annabelle, "did you know that before you were born, you were in mommy's tummy?" She gave me the strangest look and said, "like a chicken nugget, mommy?" I laughed and said "yeah, kind of". She thought that over for a minute then said, "mommy, why did you eat me?" Bryan and I busted out laughing. What a cute little thought. I guess it makes sense. She says the funniest things.

Daddy's Girl

I just wanted to do a little post about Annabelle's Daddy, Bryan. She absolutely ADORES him, and he adores her even more. This little pair is hilarious.

Bryan is so cute with her. He does ANYTHING that she wants him to do. The other night, Annabelle wanted to be a cowboy, so she dashed into her playroom and grabbed us all "cowboy hats". Obviously these don't resemble cowboy hats at all, but Bryan gladly put his hat on and smiled for the camera. Bryan got the most girly of the hats, but he was thrilled to be included.

Bryan always participates in the soccer playing, tea parties, cooking lessons, train playing, doll playing or anything else Princess Annabelle wants him to do. This is a GREAT Daddy! Thanks so much, Bryan! We love you!