Baby Brother

These pictures are from a few weeks ago (July 6, 2011).  I had my second anatomy scan of baby brother and since Brett was unable to join, I had Yoselin (Sadie's sitter) bring Sadie so she could see what this "baby in mommy's tummy" business was all about.  Sadie sat still for the first few minutes of the ultrasound and our favorite ultrasound tech was nice enough to flip into 3D various times to help Sadie understand what she was seeing on the screen.  I think Yoselin enjoyed it more than Sadie, it being her first ultrasound experience.  Seriously, having a baby really is just an amazing thing and to see the feisty little guy moving all around inside of me with ten tiny fingers and ten tiny toes and a beating heart and a mouth that moves as if he is trying to tell us something - it's just all so miraculous.  Every time I am in an ultrasound I turn to Brett and say, "That's so crazy, can you believe it?"  I think I'll say that every time, because the miracle of it all will never cease to amaze me.  Anyway, I digress.  Yoselin and Sadie ended up leaving the room halfway through when Sadie decided that the goldfish crackers in her stroller were more interesting than baby brother.  But, when I came out, Sadie said, "Where's baby brother?"  I proceeded to show her the 15 images we got to take home with us to which Sadie responded, "No, I want to hold baby brother."  I laughed and said, "Me too Sadie.  More than you know.  But we both have to wait another 20 weeks!"

We decided to walk home and stopped to celebrate a healthy baby brother (and a thus-far complication free pregnancy since we found out that though the doctor was worried about placenta previa, all is well now).  How did we celebrate?  With Sadie's favorite - pancakes from a diner!  She loves going out to get pancakes.  She'll walk right in the door and before they even seat us, say to the host, "I would like some pancakes please!"  "Coming right up" is always their response :)  We were lucky enough to time it right so we could meet daddy and walk home together.  As you can tell, Sadie was so excited to show Daddy her baby brother - already a proud big sister!

Yesterday, I had a full day.  So I told Sadie that unlike most days that I work, when I come home around 5:45, I wouldn't see her until the next morning.  I explained that I had a few things that night, including a doctor's appointment with the doctor that checks on baby brother.  She ran across the room and said, "Mommy, I go see a movie of baby brother?!?!"  :)