We are having a boy and could not be more excited! My doctor was kind enough to take a quick peek during my monthly appointment, however, our little babe was not very cooperative and the machine is on the office is not the normal ultrasound machine they use for 20 week checks, so the quality is not great. It's basically just to see the little heartbeat. However, with the peek that he got his guess was a boy. His guess what driving me crazy. I didn't want to spend the next 5 weeks thinking it was a boy and it actually be a girl. We would have been just as thrilled, but it's hard to have something in your head and not to start planning to find out it's not what you were expecting.
After a couple days of complicating I decided to go get it done. Taylor thought it was a waste of money and said we just needed to be patient. Luckily I have made a little bit of money of my motherhood blog and decided that an early ultrasound was how I wanted to spend it! During nap one day I called around and found a place. They had a 3:30 apt and it was already 2:30, they said if I could start drinking water right away the apt was mine and that it was the last one they had of the day. I quickly downed 32 oz of water and found someone to watch my girls. Taylor luckily got off at 3:00 so I texted him the address of the place and told him to meet me there at 3:30.
Although, he thinks I am impatient and I am... he was happy to find out as well. The tech was confident that it is a boy, although gave a disclaimer that it is never 100% and that she has seen a girl look like a little boy because of swelling due to hormones. However, what we saw was not swelling... we're having a boy! Taylor keeps talking about "his boy"... if he only knew that "his boy" is going to be a mama's boy!
Harper of course has no idea what is going on and was just happy to get a blue lollipop. Sage has been saying for the last couple months in regards to whether she wants a brother or sister, "we just have to wait and see what Heavenly Father gives us." However, when we told her she was going to have a little brother she told us that she likes girls and wants another sister! That lasted about 30 seconds and then she was excited to have a brother.
We do not have a name for our little mister yet, which is driving me crazy because we knew our girls names right away. I feel like he should have a name... we sure love this nameless boy already!
Friday, May 30, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Goldman Sachs
A couple months ago Taylor received a message from a recruiter asking if he would be interested in interviewing for Goldman Sachs. We quickly jumped on the opportunity and after a phone interview, 2 in person interviews and another phone interview, he was offered a job in their operations department! According to Fortune Magazine Goldman Sachs is ranked one of the best companies to work for. It is also very difficult to get a job there. In a recent article statistics showed thatess than 3% of 97,600 applicants for analyst and associate roles won a seat at the firm last year, making it twice as hard to get into as Harvard.We are so proud of him and grateful for his hard work and devotion to provide for our family.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Just an update
So, I take a ton of photos on my phone and post most of them to instragram mainly for the fact that I can easily upload them to the photobook publishing site Mixbook that I use. However, I cannot figure out an easy way to get them off instagram to blogger. So with that said, that is the reason I have not been posting much. Well, that and let's be honest I am just starting to get out of this first trimester funk of exhaustion and survival mode! I do love blogging and am frustrated I can't upload the pictures here, but my whole purpose of blogging is to keep our family history and I am still doing that... just less on blogger.
Harper is as sweet as they come! She can say "mama", "dada" and is starting to say "hi" and "papa". She also continues to learn new signs every day. She blows kisses from her bed when we put her to sleep. And she is still an amazing sleeper. She has been fighting the morning nap, but how can I complain when she sleeps 12 hours at night and takes a good afternoon nap? She survived Hand, Food and Mouth, which she had a really bad case of. Her poor skin is already so sensitive as it is, so it was rough. We actually have an appointment set with the dermatologist next month. Her hair is crazy and curly. We always get comments on her hair. Her favorite thing to do is look at books. She sits on the rocking chair with books and gibber jabbers to herself. She also likes playing with the little people and with baby dolls of course. She wants to color and play play dough, climb, do everything her big sister does. She loves her blankie.
Sage is a handful these days. She tests my patience and pushes my buttons just about every minute of the day, but we sure do love her. She keeps things exciting around here! She is full of energy and is always on the go. She requires a lot of attention and needs to be seen and heard. She has a very determined and outgoing personality. She is so helpful and is also so cuddly and loving. She tells me dozens of times a day how much she loves me-always to the moon and back! She is inquisitive and eager to learn. She is so proud that she can spell her name- S-A-G-E, SA-G-E. She says it over and over again. She has mastered climbing the ladders at the park and feels a huge sense of accomplishment. She is also taking gymnastics and can do a pretty impressive summersault. She is working on cartwheels and headstands. Baby dolls are still her favorite to play with, but she also loves her doll house and playing in the kitchen. She loves playing make believe and has the greatest imagination!
We love our girls and are so excited for this next little baby to join us. I'm 13ish weeks and just starting to come alive again. I seriously have been playing major catch up the last couple months because I seem to always be behind on laundry, meal planning or grocery shopping, dust that I usually never let settle has graced our bookshelf and my usual clean mirrors and windows have gone weeks with streaks. At the end of the day I know those things don't matter, but I am constantly reminding myself that. I should also mention that Taylor is amazing as always. He lets me sleep in just about every day, has fixed countless meals, given just about every bath to the girls this last little bit, gone grocery shopping for me and has done way more share of his laundry folding, which is both of our least favorite chore. He.is.amazing.
I'm kinda in love with this little family that I get to call mine!
Harper is as sweet as they come! She can say "mama", "dada" and is starting to say "hi" and "papa". She also continues to learn new signs every day. She blows kisses from her bed when we put her to sleep. And she is still an amazing sleeper. She has been fighting the morning nap, but how can I complain when she sleeps 12 hours at night and takes a good afternoon nap? She survived Hand, Food and Mouth, which she had a really bad case of. Her poor skin is already so sensitive as it is, so it was rough. We actually have an appointment set with the dermatologist next month. Her hair is crazy and curly. We always get comments on her hair. Her favorite thing to do is look at books. She sits on the rocking chair with books and gibber jabbers to herself. She also likes playing with the little people and with baby dolls of course. She wants to color and play play dough, climb, do everything her big sister does. She loves her blankie.
Sage is a handful these days. She tests my patience and pushes my buttons just about every minute of the day, but we sure do love her. She keeps things exciting around here! She is full of energy and is always on the go. She requires a lot of attention and needs to be seen and heard. She has a very determined and outgoing personality. She is so helpful and is also so cuddly and loving. She tells me dozens of times a day how much she loves me-always to the moon and back! She is inquisitive and eager to learn. She is so proud that she can spell her name- S-A-G-E, SA-G-E. She says it over and over again. She has mastered climbing the ladders at the park and feels a huge sense of accomplishment. She is also taking gymnastics and can do a pretty impressive summersault. She is working on cartwheels and headstands. Baby dolls are still her favorite to play with, but she also loves her doll house and playing in the kitchen. She loves playing make believe and has the greatest imagination!
We love our girls and are so excited for this next little baby to join us. I'm 13ish weeks and just starting to come alive again. I seriously have been playing major catch up the last couple months because I seem to always be behind on laundry, meal planning or grocery shopping, dust that I usually never let settle has graced our bookshelf and my usual clean mirrors and windows have gone weeks with streaks. At the end of the day I know those things don't matter, but I am constantly reminding myself that. I should also mention that Taylor is amazing as always. He lets me sleep in just about every day, has fixed countless meals, given just about every bath to the girls this last little bit, gone grocery shopping for me and has done way more share of his laundry folding, which is both of our least favorite chore. He.is.amazing.
I'm kinda in love with this little family that I get to call mine!
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