Today is my 16 week appointment. I can't believe in one short month, we'll be able to know the gender. Gosh. We are so excited! I'm even more excited with how at peace we are with it being either way. If it's a girl, then great. Emma will have a close sister all her life. If it's a boy, then that's wonderful because Adam needs a boy!! :-) He and Hans are always grappling and rough housing. The man needs a boy!

Emma has been quite a hoot lately. She is less cranky this week so that has made life ten times easier. She's going through a growth spurt. It is hilarious to watch her eat. For Adam's birthday we went out to The Original Pancake House. Emma had an entire banana, mounds of cheerios and more than one pancake and would cry out if her mouth wasn't stuffed with the next bite. Goodness little girl. Chew! Swallow!

My mom offered to watch Emma last night so we went to go see X-Men. Probably my favorite one so far. I love the guy who uses super sonic sound waves to fly.

Yesterday, we also took advantage by test driving three minivans: Nissan, Toyota and Honda. Gosh, they've all got great pros and cons. Nissan is very pretty inside and spacious but it's kind of large and intrusive looking from the outside. The driver and passenger doors are massive and so are the side mirrors. It's just odd looking but I know they're just trying to be less cookie-cutter. I like that the Honda has the middle seat in the second row. It sure was nice sidling up next to Emma and to feel safe doing so with a seat belt. I think that seat will be very necessary on trips. The Toyota has a seat there, but it is lower down. Kind of odd. The Honda has the best display radio area and big screen for a back up camera. All three had back up cameras but the Honda's screen was the biggest. The Toyota, I thought, was the prettiest inside and had the nicest and more organized radio, a/c control area in the front. I felt like I knew what buttons I was pushing so that I knew Emma was getting air in the back. Oh, oh, the Nissan seats do not fold down into the floor. So that's a negative for Hans having to jump that high into the van.

We also test drove a Chrysler Town and Country several weeks back without Emma. It was definitely nice because the second and third row seats fold alllll the way down into the floor. It is a massive amount of room in there. (You wouldn't have to worry about taking a seat out and having to have somewhere to put in in your garage. You're just good to go. BUT the second row seats were reeeally uncomfortable probably because of this. And the guy said that these seats were more comfortable than their last model. Yikes!!

We are also in the process of redoing our bedroom. We have narrowed it down to three bedroom sets: Havertys King Arthur set, Basset Louis Phillipe set (square bed, not the four poster) and Basset Covington set (partial sleigh bed). I really like the covington set but Adam loves the King Arthur set which I'm totally fine with too. It's very beautiful. We're going to paint the room and get rid of the popcorn ceiling. We're going to get new carpet in there which we had the guys come quote us for our bedroom, the front two bedroom kid rooms and Hans' room which would then become a play area/dining area and Hans would move else where. We are also getting new blinds and curtains which I'm probably most excited about. I haaaaate the plastic ones we have now. So ugly!

I think I've updated you plenty!

Enjoy!