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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! Hope everyone out there has a fabulous, enjoyable, and extremely memorable mother's day, whether it's your 1st, 2nd, or 45th!!
Fine Dining
We enthusiastically celebrated our 1st evening of spring break at Friday's, where we enjoyed some wonderful food, as you can see from Clara's wonderful one-of-a-kind chocolate goat-tee!
Egg-stra Egg-citing Egg Dying and Decorating
We thought it'd be egg-stra fun to dye eggs this year for several reasons. This is a tradition that I always loved as a child, and now that Clara is egg-stremely curious about discovering every aspect of the world around her, we knew she would find this awesome activity egg-xilarating,
memorable, fun, and quite creative! Last but not least, we figured that
dedicating these fun festive artistic eggs to each member of our family
including baby #2 was a perfectly cute way to celebrate our family and to work on a cute Holiday craft together! Here is the
wonderful footage we've gathered of our Fabulous Easter Eggies!!
A wonderful afternoon with Jon's family, including an awesome Easter Egg Hunt and meeting a new adorably precious family member was a fabulous way to spend our Saturday before Easter! Jon’s parents have a beautiful home in Bethlehem PA, so of course I took advantage of the opportunity to hide eggs everywhere, which was enjoyable!! It was also extremely fun to see Clara attempting to play monkey in the middle with her cousins who are at least twice as tall as her, but she didn’t notice, or mind for that matter, just kept at it, running around the room, focused, arms above her head trying to catch the ball. That’s my girl! (Jenn, we missed you guys, & just wanted to give you a quick shout out!)
It was absolutely fabulous meeting little John Spurlock! What a cuuutie!!!!! So adorable!
On Easter Sunday, We enjoyed Easter Brunch at Bogey's with Mom-mom and Pop-pop...and a gigantic fluffy fun-loving, but mysterious rabbit, who Clara was OBSESSED with!
Anatomy Scan
Also, several weeks ago, Jon and I received some egg-citing news! Ok, I’ll say goodbye to the “Egg-puns”, or at least put them away till next year. On to the exciting news : Baby #2 is a…BOY and will carry on the “Botbyl” name, and I would love to say that Clara is excited, which she seems to be, but honestly adding a gender to the mix has been extremely confusing for her. It’s taken about a month for her to routinely point to my belly and say “Bay”, meaning “Baby”, but attempting to explain to her that there’s a little boy in there completely throws her for a loop, to which she responds by staring at me, blankly and baffled, which is absolutely ok for now, because I know I’ll have tons of explaining to do when she actually meets this little guy and slowly comes to terms with the fact that our world now revolves around 2, not just her – a frightening realization for any toddler I imagine! This passed Friday, she just started announcing "BABY!" and is so proud that she can pronounce the word so well, along with a few other 2-syllable words. As for now, Jon and I are stretching out our time with just her for as long as we possibly can, and just yesterday, made mention of the fact that this will be her last and technically only summer without a sibling, which is unbelievable to me…how exceedingly fast time flies by! I feel like I was literally just pregnant with Clara, and she’s almost 16 months old – where has the time gone?! Well, all we can do is cherish every moment we have and try to live our lives to the fullest! Here are a couple of photos of Clara in training, as well as Me & the precious little guy!! (these were taken about a month ago, so little baby boy has grown since then, and is a tad bigger than in the picture...so has momma, and is attempting to keep these pounds off which is a post for another day!)
Back to Baby Boy Botbyl, Jon and I are both extremely excited to be having one of each. The only aspect of having a boy that overwhelms me big time is clothing! We have barely any boy clothes although I do have a couple of neutral outfits that should definitely do the trick! I’m gonna hafta examine what I have and make the most of whatever I can, while sadly organizing and boxing up all Clara’s adorable little outfits, and I’ve been uber emotional lately, so I’m sure I’ll literally be sobbing while doing so. As far as our large items are concerned, we were practical enough, when pregnant with Clara, to aim to purchase (or put on Clara’s baby registry) neutral stuff from the beginning, so that if we were ever to have a boy, it would be an extremely smooth transition, in terms of car seat/stroller, highchair, and even our vintage antique style nursery, which baby boy should easily be able to move right in to. For those items, I’m extremely thankful – We’ll be using EVERYTHING again! Also people have been gracious and amazing with lending/giving us items that have been awesomely useful and wonderful, and we’re truly grateful for that as well.
Now, on to the name choosing, something that Jon and I always butt heads on! He claims that he needs to literally see the baby and the perfect name will pop into his head! Right…after several hours of labor (not that he’ll be in labor…but it will definitely be laborious for both parties involved) the baby name fairy will just show up and plant the perfect name in his head! Really Jon?? I think we can plan a little more wisely than that! I will keep working on him with names throughout the summer and we’ll see if we can agree on something besides the 100 names that he already vetoed without so much as a second mentioning.
It’s all part of this amazing journey! We are over-the-moon thankful for such wonderful and incredible blessings, and witness God working in our lives every single day, giving us such tremendous gifts! Thank you so much for stopping by, and God Bless! Have a terrific week!
Now, on to the name choosing, something that Jon and I always butt heads on! He claims that he needs to literally see the baby and the perfect name will pop into his head! Right…after several hours of labor (not that he’ll be in labor…but it will definitely be laborious for both parties involved) the baby name fairy will just show up and plant the perfect name in his head! Really Jon?? I think we can plan a little more wisely than that! I will keep working on him with names throughout the summer and we’ll see if we can agree on something besides the 100 names that he already vetoed without so much as a second mentioning.
It’s all part of this amazing journey! We are over-the-moon thankful for such wonderful and incredible blessings, and witness God working in our lives every single day, giving us such tremendous gifts! Thank you so much for stopping by, and God Bless! Have a terrific week!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!
