BOY oh BOY!!

It's a.... BOY! I kept telling Derek this time I thought it was a boy but to actually go to the ultra sound and hear them say "It's a boy!!" was so exciting!! We feel so lucky that we will soon have a little boy and girl :) I think relief best sums up how Derek felt! As we sat down for the ultra sound Derek took a deep breath, lol! Not that he hasn't loved being a father to a girl, he just has been told by many people they think he is going to have all diva girls like Mads :)  Safe to say he was on cloud 9 when little baby W showed off his goods right away! For the record when we polled the family for votes on Madelyn, the majority by far was boy. This time when we polled the majority by far was girls, guess we know who not to count on for predications lol!

This weekend we are moving and last night was offically our last night sleeping in our old house. It is bitter sweet as we are so happy we sold but it is hard not to think of all the memories made in a home. All I keep saying is thank goodness we leave for Iowa on Friday, if I didn't have that excitement to keep me going I don't know how I would make it through this weekend/week! I think it is safe to say we will never move again at the holidays, with a toddler, while pregnant!  Thank you to Derek's dad Dale and brother in law Andy for helping with the movie and for his mother Mary Ann for sending some food our way to help during the move!

Last weekend we had breakfast with Santa. Madelyn loved the breakfast part but not so much the Santa part! Everyone needs a good screaming Santa picture, right?! LOL! Have to keep this a short post as I really should be packing! Here are a few pics/videos!

No twins!! Our vision was Madelyn would run in and open the box and lots of blue balloons would come out, clearly with a cranky 18 month old things never go as visioned haha!

With Mama at Breakfast with Santa, gotta love that new smile!

Priceless, haha!

Sitting with Daddy at church for a play one of my students was in,  someone was SO good!

Thanksgiving

It seems every year we have more to be thankful for. This year we are so thankful that we have been given the most amazing daughter. We can't imagine life without her and don't know how we got so blessed to have her! To top that off we are beyond thankful this year to be expecting another baby! We also are under contract on our house and so thankful for how everything has worked out with this.  The buyer requested a 30 day closing, so on top of holiday stress we are packing and trying to move. Since we don't have time to find a house we want due to the short close, we are renting a friends house who has had it on the market for awhile. It will be stressful because this of course will mean two moves instead of one, but it is worth it to make sure we find the right home and in the right area! Lastly, this process has reminded us how thankful we are for the amazing friends and family who have supported and helped us through this crazy transition!

For Thanksgiving this year we headed up to Virginia on Wednesday to spend it with Derek's family. As always we had such a great time with all the family. Madelyn absolutely loved being with her grandparents, Aunts and Uncles. She hasn't stopped saying their names since coming back to Charlotte. We had a great meal and hated it had to be such a short trip as we needed to get back to pack!

Madelyn has been a learning and talking machine lately! I wouldn't even know where to start to list all her new words. One big thing is she has started counting really well. We have worked on 1-6 and she does it all on her own. (minus often skipping 4 haha) She also will repeat all her ABC's and can do A through D on her own. Our favorite story from this week was she was busy playing and was counting to herself then we heard her say this:... "A,B,C,D, G,I, 8, 9, YEAH!" Apparently her mind is on overload of the abc's and counting, haha! 

This Thursday we find out if Madelyn is getting a BROTHER or SISTER :) We can't wait to find out!!!

Such a cutie on Thanksgiving

Blowing Kisses :)

Family picture over Thanksgiving

 Nanny and Poppy with Tate and Mads

Our new cheesing smile when we ask her to smile for a picture, haha!