So a few weeks ago Chris and I found out that we are expecting Hughes Baby Number 2! Whoa! It is just starting to sink in and feel more real as my stomach is just beginning to pooch out at night. During the day, all is normal, but at night man do I look pregnant! I guess it's true the second time around things just stretch out faster! :) We have told Miss Katherine, but she is still pretty much clueless. The grandparents on the other hand are over the moon excited. :) I went in for my 10 week check up last week and I now have an official due date of July 16! Whoo hoo! This causes several problems in that my cousin's wedding is July 18...in Virginia...oy! And there will be lots of people vying for specific dates that the baby is born. For example, my Grandfather, Grandmother, Uncle Doug and Aunt Marty all have birthdays in July. And then there is the wedding of course of my cousin and my parents anniversary. So we have a pretty darn good chance of hitting someone's big day. :) I have a feeling that this little one is a girl, but then again, I thought Katherine was a boy, so I've given up on trusting my intuition. ;) We'll find out for sure around Katherine's second birthday in February. Well hopefully anyway...Katherine was rather stubborn and refused to show us whether she was a girl or boy until the day before she was BORN!
We are officially ready for Christmas with the exception of a few last minute items that are due to arrive in the mail today. :) Friday I spent three hours wrapping Christmas presents and getting them under the tree...yeah...Katherine woke up from her nap and immediately unwrapped the presents I had JUST finished. So we had to have a little "chat" about NOT opening the presents until Christmas. Luckily they weren't her presents, so she is still clueless as to what she is getting. Whew! Katherine and I are working today and then the rest of the week we are cleaning and baking for Christmas Day! Christmas is not complete without homemade Cinnamon Buns made from scratch (my grandma's recipe!). So I will be breaking out the flour, cinnamon, sugar and butter and making LOTS of cinnamon buns this week! :)
Katherine is still growing like a weed and her vocabulary is improving. Her favorite words now are NO! and Please...she has figured out that if she says Please she can get whatever she wants! :) It's just so darn cute! She has also mastered "SIT!" Which she repeats over and over and over again to Colby...he doesn't seem to understand because he has yet to obey, but it's not for lack of trying on Katherine's part! :) She is also becoming quite the daredevil. Last week Chris and I put her to bed and then went into our room to read. Well about 15 minutes after we put her down we hear this happy squealing sound. We think, what the heck is she doing?! So we march over to her room to check on her...I open the door and look in her crib to find her doing a HEADSTAND in her crib?! First of all, I have NO idea where the heck she learned to do that, but she was just happy as a clam standing on her head. I just shook my head and left her to her gymnastics. We heard squealing for the next 30 minutes before she FINALLY called it a night. She's also really big into climbing now. I was cleaning up in the kitchen the other night and looked over to find Katherine sitting in the middle of the desk...how she got up there I have NO idea, but she did!
Well I guess that about sums up the events around the Hughes Household lately! I'm sure we'll have lots of pictures to post later this week.
Merry Christmas!!!
