Spring at the Hanks house

We've been busy around our house. Our tasks have included preparing for the arrival of little girl by decorating her room and turning Jacob's room into a new big boy room with his own big boy bed including slide. I've had fun dreaming up designs and decorations for both their rooms and now we are finally almost done. Isabelle's clothes have all been washed and put away and Jacob now has a new closet organizer allowing for maximum play space. Mike has also been busy and ended up installing chair rail in Isabelle's room and painting the entire thing. He and my father also ended up moving a side of our fence so that our backyard is bigger and gives us more time to lounge in the sun. I love the spring and summer and I can't wait to be outside playing with my little man and watching my sweet girl grow.

My silly boy in his room
Isabelle's room

Spring around our house

The freshly moved fence! So much more room.

It's been some time!

Isabelle at 21 weeks

It's amazing how time gets away from you! I can't believe summer is here and I'm only 1 month from meeting my baby girl. Every moment I have has been poured into either preparing for her, cherishing the moments with Jacob, and spending time with my family. These past few months have been packed full but I am determined to keep up this blog if only to be able to look back on it and remember. I so appreciate being able to look back on the beginning of Jacob's little life and read about all his milestones and I want to be able to do that for Isabelle as well. Here are a few belly shots as sweet baby girl has been growing steadily until the big day arrives in July.

My sister-in-law Dana and I. 2 weeks apart.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!

We are so excited to find out that my little bun is a little girl. We just had our 19 week ultrasound and were told that the little one growing inside me is our first daughter. It explains a lot about this pregnancy too being that I've been so much sicker this time than i was with Jacob. She also is much more active than I remember Jacob being at this point of my pregnancy and even during the ultrasound she was constantly turning and punching with her little arms. At night and in the morning I'm always feeling her move. I'm a little nervous about what that means later on in the pregnancy when her movements won't be so small. I'm so excited to go shopping for pink, ruffles and lace. She already has received her first few outfits from her Nana. Now to get down to business coming up with what her name is.

My sweet little niece Jadyn Alaina

My sister Jaclyn just had her first baby on February 1st. A sweet little girl named Jadyn Alaina who was 6lbs 12oz and 21 inches long. She is so much fun to hold and cuddle with and her and mommy are completely healthy and doing great.

Daddy and Jadyn meeting for the first time

Sweet love!

My baby bump

This is my little baby at 18 weeks.

My creative boy

It's been awhile since I posted anything on here so I'll do some picture catch up. Jacob is loving every minute of life and turning into more and more of a little boy and less of a toddler every day. He is talking A LOT more and gets all crazy sometimes running around the house yelling and trying to tackle daddy. He LOVES every minute of spending time with his daddy and even prefers to hold his daddy's hand on the weekends over mommy's hand. I have been upset by this occasionally but am glad that Jacob's relationship is so strong with Mike as it should be. Also even though daddy is #1 on the weekends and in the evening I get all his kisses and love throughout the week days and am eating up every minute of them especially since I know my time is going to be harder to give him after this new little one is born. He's my favorite little boy in the entire world!

Playing with his race track

Serious work

My budding artist

wearing his painting smock

Fun in the tub!

Reading while he gets his hair brushed

Jacob's spa

Our bun in the oven

By the way...Mike and I are going to have another baby. We are very excited and look forward to watching our family grow. We are also very interested to see how Jacob reacts to the changes of having a new baby brother/sister around. I am about 12 weeks along right now and almost out of the 1st trimester (thank the Lord!). Our new little bundle of joy will be due around July 9th.