6 months

So I am now officially 6 months pregnant. This coming friday will be my 26th week of pregnancy. Last wednesday we had our ultrasound done at Rush hospital in downtown Chicago. We found out that we are having a baby boy. I'm going to try and see if I can get Mike to help me scan the ultrasound pictures into the computer so that I can show everyone. I'm not really good with the computer stuff. But we are definitely having another boy. I have proof!! The baby is growing as he should and is very healthy. The doctor said he weighed 1 pound and 11 ounces. So that is good. My OB wanted me to have this ultrasound done just incase. Because I have underactive thryroid. But I've been taking my medication and taking my prenatal vitamins, so baby looks good!

Lucas is also doing well. He's the best baby ever. He's always so happy. I wish he didn't have to grow up so fast. I don't want him to be a big boy yet. But with a little one on the way he's almost being forced to "grow up". I still want him to be my little baby that I can cuddle and rock to sleep. But right now he just wants to play. He never wants to be held. Soon I will have a little baby to cuddle and snuggle with but it's not the same as my little baby Lucas. It's funny, because when they're babies you just want them to grow up and get past the baby stage, especially with the first one. But now I just want lucas to be a baby again. I miss it so much. But I guess he'll always be my "baby" no matter how old he is.

Mike is doing really well. Besides from being tired all the time. He's been working alot! We just found out about a week ago that he got a promotion at work. So we're really excited about that!

Ryan James Wicklatz

Today we had our ultrasound and found out that we are having another boy! Lucas will have a little brother! We're so excited!! It will be great to see them grow up together especially being so close in age. And I'll get to re-use some of my boy stuff!!!

I broke my toe

So I had to go the emergency room because Mike thought I broke my toe. I was doing laundry and Lucas was in the laundry room with me and being that I'm pregnant and clumsy I stubbed my toe on the step. It hurt really bad. So Mike looked at it and it was swollen and kind of crooked so he thought I should go to the emergency room. Mike had to go to work so a friend came over to stay with Lucas while my sister Nicole took me to the emergency room. Luckily they got me in right away. Since I'm pregnant they didn't want to do an x-ray. After all it is just a toe. So I don't officially know if it's broken but they diagnosed it as a toe contusion. So they taped up my toe and I get to wear a funny looking shoe they gave me at the hospital to wear for a few days. Right now my toe is still numb from the swelling so I'm not feeling any pain, but if I do start to feel pain they told me to just take tylenol. Not much you can do for a toe injury, especially when you're pregnant!

New Lucas pics from the week of 4th of July

Baby #2 update

Pregnancy is going well so far. This coming Friday I will be 24 weeks. I feel good except for the aches in my feet and back. Carrying around a 24 pound child doesn't make any of the already pregnancy soreness any better that's for sure. But mostly feeling good. I've been having problems with the ciatic nerve that is what really bothers me. I had it a little with lucas but I have it all the time with this baby. I hate it!
My ultrasound appointment is Wednesday July 16th at 2:15 pm. We haven't made up our minds for sure yet if we're going to find out the sex of the baby. I think we're more likely to find out than to not find out though. We keep going back and forth about it.
My next OB appointment is July 23rd.
Otherwise I don't think that there is much new going on. I'll keep you posted about the ultrasound.

Lucas' new tricks

Lucas is 13 months old now. He's been walking since 12 months, and probably about the day after he started walking he just ran everywhere. So now he doesn't walk he RUNS. His newest word is hi. He was waving hi and bye but now he will actually say hi when he waves. We're still working on saying bye. He knows how to get himself up and down from the bed and the couch. Just the other day I went into the living room to check on him and he was sitting on the couch. I had no idea how he got up there but he did. He's completely off the bottle now. He only drinks from his sip cup and he hasn't been eating any baby food since he turned 12 months. Same with formula. As soon as he turned a year old we switched him to whole milk. He's doing really well. I'm really enjoying watching him learn new things.