Like Mother, Like Son

The below photo is from the start of my 25th week....with Aiden popping out! It's a little difficult to take the picture and show the month count on both hands....not quite as graceful as holding up just one hand in the back. Oh, the things we do for kiddos. (ha! I know, there are real sacrifices to be made in the coming months, really, I do.)

I've noticed that Aiden takes after his mom in a few ways. He's a night owl (he doesn't keep me awake at night....just likes to start moving when I lay down to go to bed.) I won't complain if he likes the night hours...just as long as he isn't a fan of the morning hours. (People say that all babies are morning babies. Is it too wishful of thinking to hope I get the one baby that isn't?) I guess it's a good thing Ryan's a morning guy, if it turns out that Aiden likes all hours of the day. Another fun finding was last week when we were setting up the Christmas tree and jamming out to the Christmas tunes - Aiden was hopping along to the beat. I sure hope he loves Christmas as much as I do!

It's crazy to think that there are less than three weeks to the start of the third trimester. I can't believe how quickly the first two have passed.

I've been meaning to post a picture and congrats to the new Mr & Mrs Collin Ruth! Married now for four fabulous weeks. Cheers to a beautiful future together.

I don't know if I'll post again before Christmas so if I don't, merriest of Christmases to you and yours!

Surprise!

Surprise! has been the theme of my last week. It started last Friday when my Schweizer family threw me a surprise baby shower! It was a fabulous shower, and I didn't expect it at all. The shower was at Charlotte's Tea Room in Warwick, NY, and everything about it was adorably themed. Jillian made me a 'Mad Hatter', we drank 'Mother's Tea', and the favors were tea pot shaped timers. Seriously, so fabulous. (We also got Yankees gear galore, which delighted Ryan.)

The shower was a reminder of how blessed we are by the people in our lives. I was so surprised and overwhelmed by gratefulness when I first walked in to the shower that I almost started to cry. Thanks Schweizer fam, for a wonderful, wonderful shower.

We returned home from NY to a gift from my sis, that she hadn't been able to ship to NY in time for the shower.....the MOST wonderful, awesome, amazing diaper bag EVER. (seriously, who thought I would ever say that about a diaper bag. oh but it's true....) I don't have any pics with it yet...I'll take one soon!

The next surprise came....oh about Monday or Tuesday of this week, when Aiden decided it was time for my bump to make a grand appearance. These last few weeks people have been telling me you can just see my bump, but when I showed up at work on Tuesday my bump was commentably bigger. I'll post a 6 month pic next week....you'll see.

Finally, I was surprised to find out that Aiden is the #1 name for boys in 2011, based on the MSN list that came out today . The one thing I wanted to not pick was a top ten name....and then we gave him the most popular name in the book. Oh well. It's definitely his and I couldn't imagine calling him anything else.