Baby #3

The title says it all!  We will have another little baby Prentice blessing our family later this summer.  We found out we were expecting the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday!).  Even though we very much planned for this baby, it was still such a shock to see the two lines on the pregnancy test.  Such a miracle!

November 28th, 2014 (Chad went in to check it and came out and told me I needed to come in.  I think I screamed when I saw the second line.)

November 29th, 2014

December 2nd, 2014

December 4, 2014

On January 5th, I had my first OB appointment and saw the baby on the ultrasound machine screen.  The doctor and nurse were surprised that the baby was moving around so much at such a tiny size.  We kept the news to ourselves until I hit 15 weeks, which corresponded with Luke's birthday party.  We really wanted to tell our family in person at the same time, which didn't happen with Luke or Meredith's news.  We knew the Grandparents and Uncle Derek would be coming for Luke's birthday, so we thought that would be the perfect time.  We bought Luke a "big brother" t-shirt and had it be the last gift he opened.  I think people were excited, but not necessarily super surprised.  We texted a few friends with the news, then posted it on Facebook.

We were going to use this picture as our announcement since he was smiling so well, but it was hard to read the shirt :)

Ironically, the baby's due date is 8-8-15, which is my Dad's 60th birthday.  It would be so neat to deliver on that day, but due to another c-section, I would imagine the delivery date will be late July or very early August.

We are so thankful to God for this blessing.  Though it would be neat to keep the gender a surprise for D-Day, I don't think we can wait that long again.  Plus, we don't have a set baby name (like we did for Luke), so it would be nice to not have to struggle with coming up with two names.  We can't wait for the gender ultrasound on March 13th!

Luke is TWO!

As of Monday, we now have a 2 year old little boy running through our house.  Unbelievable!  I thought I would get used to the idea since his big sister already hit this age, but no, I'm still in denial my "baby" is two!

This is how our newest 2 year old likes to watch cartoons :)

We had a nice little party for him on Saturday (Valentine's Day) at our home with both sets of Grandparents and Uncle Derek in attendance.  When he woke up from his nap and saw all the decorations and food out, he was extremely excited even through his tired eyes.  I tried to have most of his favorites for his birthday - strawberries (made them chocolate covered in honor of Valentine's Day) and orange/banana salad.  He is not a fan of sweets at all (just the opposite of Meredith), I still made jello cake cupcakes with blue frosting, sherbert punch,  and had some birthday cake-flavored ice cream.  Low and behold, he gobbled up the cupcake and ice cream!

Enjoying lunch before the party.

He's awake from nappy time!

2!

Paw Patrol themed cupcakes.  He loves Paw Patrol!

He loved the balloons!

Sissy had to help him blow out his candle.

Digging right in.

He doesn't like to be messy!

Best picture I could get with him in his new STL hat from Mommy and Daddy (well, mainly Daddy) :)

We are so proud of our little Luke and blessed each day of the past two years we have had him in our family.  He is such a funny little guy.  He started saying lots of words around 20 months and in the past few weeks, he has begun forming phrases.  Some of my favorites are "nigh nigh mama" (night night, mama) and "mama peas" (mama, please).  He says "bapa" for Grandpa and "mamoo" for Grandma.  He has said "sissy" for Meredith as long as we can remember.  You will always find him holding something in one of his hands; Nowadays it is always a marker.  I can't wait to see what the future holds for this little guy.

Luke on 2-16-15: Mr. Birthday Boy

Love this one - He's so ticklish!