Say Hello To Baby Boy Hanley!!!

Okay, so apparently I just needed really big news in order to get around to updating the blog! Not that finding out I am pregnant was not big news, but really-there's no good pics to go along with that news!
So I am 20 weeks along and feeling pretty good. I developed the same side pain that I had when I was pregnant with Ella. It picks and chooses when it hurts and there are some days where I am fine and others when I can barely stand to sit at my desk for more than three or four minutes at a time. It's really frustrating sometimes, but not much I can do about it.
Mostly though I have just found that I much more tired this time around. Of course, lots of things are different. I'm chasing a two year old around and I'm not exercising as much as I did the first time--which Peter never hesitates to remind be about!
This ultrasound was a little bit more fun than Ella's. Ella hardly moved, to the point that the tech was unable to get a picture that she needed to get. This time, the little guy wouldn't stay still and so the tech (who actually turned out to be the same lady who did Ella's (!), was having trouble getting a non-blurry shot! It was so cool though to see him moving around so much. We did get to see him kind of stretch for a second, but mostly he stayed curled up and just kind of scooted around. I have an appointment next week with my doctor (the same one I had with Ella) so we can go over the results from the photos taken.
Sadly, we have not taken any belly shots of me yet. I will do it this week though and will try to better about getting them on a regular basis so I can put them up when I update this thing. Now that I have given up on trying to upload pics from my phone it shouldn't be such a hassle.

For those of you who don't know, the raccoons eventually moved out on their own. Just like everyone told us they would. But they were there for a good three months!

The newest pests to invade out house are mice. Discovered about 2 weeks ago, the little buggers are wiley, but we have set up traps and have caught one. We are hoping that there is only one more and are strategically setting up traps in order to get it. I never thought I would be as freaked out by them as I am. I can't stand to walk around bare foot anymore and am constantly eyeing along the floorboards to see if I see anything! When Peter would let Koa out at night, sometimes he would just leave the door open and go back to sleep. This is how we think they got in. So now that he has stopped doing that, we have sealed up the dog food and tried to rid the counters of any food stuffs.
This of course has just exacerbated my nesting tendencies and I have made a list of each room in the house and listed out how I am going to go about deep cleaning each one!

So here are the pics that I had on my camera from the last few months. Or a few of them at least.

In August we travelled to Virginia for Peter's family reunion. It was a lot of fun to meet so many members of the family and to relax and take in the beautiful scenery and historic attractions. These ducks were right outside Kathy's room so we got some bread crumbs and went out to feed them.

This was after dinner one night where we saw a slideshow and learned the history of Kathy's side of the family. It was way cool. They had made a family tree with the most recent generation listed--Blake, Ella, Colin, and Ciara!

We took a trip to Busch Gardens while we were out there. They have a Sesame Street park with kiddie rides. So of course we couldn't pass up the photo ops!

Ella walked right on up to Miss Zoe! I was so proud of her. I had to call her name a couple of times to get her to turn around for this picture. She was so in awe, she just kept staring at her and trying to hold her hand. So cute!!

We have started working on potty training. While she has really only peed on the potty once for me, she does really well with Jenna (her new day care provider). Some days she will go the whole day without wetting her diaper. She will tell me all the time that she has to go potty, but then she just sits on the potty, asks for toilet paper, throws it in and says, "I'm done!" The pediatrician's nurse said that there's really no need to push it at this point. She says that at this age they want to feel like they have control over something so this is something that Ella can kind of control. I agree with her and figure she'll come around eventually. (Look at how long her hair is getting!!!)

This past weekend we went to Nick's Farmer's Market and bought pumpkins.

Then we had people over to for a carving party! Everybody except Peter carved one but Andrew did his old school with a Sharpie and a carving knife. The rest of us tackled the complicated patterns.

This is mine. For some reason none of us could get a clear picture of this one. Anyway, it's a wolf in case you can't tell!

Heather chose to one of the more difficult ones! But it was worth it--pretty awesome looking, eh?

This is Elizabeth's creepy screamer. I really like the way this one turned out.

And here is Blake's bat. He had the biggest pumpkin and one of the more difficult patterns.

We all had a lot of fun and there will for sure be a 2nd Annual Hanley Halloween Pumpkin Carving Party! Save the date!

Well, with another little one on the way there are sure to be some big changes headed our way. I will post as things come along and keep everyone updated on the Hanley Clan's newest journey!