The Big News!!

So today was the big day of the ulTraSouND...and the news is we are having
AnOTheR GirL!!! We are very excited, although David says he is starting to feel outnumbered. But he sure loves "his girls!!" It is always so fun and amazing to see the little baby moving around in there...so tiny, yet already so alive. She is an active one!! At first it was hard to get a good picture of things because she was moving around so much. Financially, having another girl is best...I don't NEED to shop for anything right?? Then why do I feel this STRONG urge to hit the mall today for some cute, ruffly, pink stuff?? This baby surely needs some of her very OWN clothes too right?
In other news, I took Maia back to the eye doctor today to have them check things out with her eye (Brown's Syndrome in her left eye, in case you missed the earlier posting about this!) Everything looks really good...he is not concerned about it at all and we will just follow up in another year. He said that by then they would be able to test her vision and see if it was affecting that....he said they use pictures to test the vision of toddlers and he didn't think that she was old enough to recognize and say what she saw. I told him I was pretty sure that she would do just fine with it, so he said he'd give it a try. He was so amazed when she could call out everything she saw "cake, tree, house, horse, duck, hand, car!" and with so much enthusiam. He said all the two year old's he's seen just sit there and don't say a word, so I had a pround mama moment! And better yet, her vision is really good. So all of that was really positive news for us!!
And lastly, some cute pictures of our latest excursion...The Great Pumpkin Farm!! I love going to this place, it is so much fun! They have this little thing called the "Boo Barn" which is like a very, very mild haunted house. We took Maia in there thinking she would love it, seeing how she is obsessed with "Halloween Stuff" (as she likes to call it!). But I guess it was a little too much for her, so we ended up taking the "scaredy cat exit," but we got some good pictures of her beforehand!! Another mean parent moment on our part...she is scared and saying "I don't like it!!" and we are laughing because she is so funny about it and usually LOVES that stuff. Okay, I'll stop rambling and let you enjoy the cute pictures!

Doesn't this face just say it all??
Yep, definitely time to leave the Boo Barn....kinda cute though!
Maia, all grown up...
Just for fun I had to throw in a couple of pictures we took exactly a year ago at the pumpkin farm...look how much she has changed in just a year!! I didn't remember her being THAT bald! Now she has a full-grown MULLET (Rachel if you are reading this...we need a little bit of advice in this area!!)

The family picture...
And Maia with her good buddy Lucas. She has her arm around him, which she did by herself, not prompting from any of us--it was pretty cute!