Merry Christmas!

16.5 Weeks Pregnant

Baby Backpack

Family Photo

Christmas Eve

We had a great Christmas. I can't believe its already over, and Hadley can't either. We drove down to NOVA and spent Christmas Eve in Vienna with the Brown's and then drove out to Ashburn after gifts Christmas morning to spend the rest of Christmas with the Bookers. Hadley was VERY into presents this year and loved everything. I think her favorites were the baby doll backpack, the riding luggage (Trunki), the pink castle from Gami and then the purse that Aunt Joanie got her with a fake wallet. She takes the money out over and over again. She loved everything but these are the things she seems to be playing with the most. She is NOW into her ZuZu pet that Pop Pop got her but it took a few days of being terrorized by it first. Now she will actually touch it and not run and jump into your arms. Truth is she has been playing with most everything and it has definitely kept her occupied having all the new stuff around. I have posted a few pictures from our festivities and my 16.5 week prego belly. MUCH bigger this time around.

Happy Holidays.

So we found out this week that Baby#2 is going to be a boy! We are very excited about this news. We have another sonogram at 20 weeks to verify, but it was pretty clear! Now we will try to enjoy this last Christmas as a family of 3 and look forward to the ones to come. Here is a video of Hadley singing.

Busy Busy

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New Baby Booker Due June 8th (12 weeks)

THese are always crazy!

Hadley outside Santa's house on Boardwalk

Hadley and Will in Rehoboth

Hadley's forced smile

The first ornament

Before an oyster roast

THe Brown clan Thanksgiving

The whole crew Thanksgiving

Our family has been VERY busy lately with lots of exciting, and not exciting stuff going on. THe NOT exciting stuff is my current job situation. Found out that we did not get some funding for my position so I will be leaving Hopkins as of Dec. 31st unless something else comes up. I have been interviewing all over the place as well as consulting. I have currently set up 2 good consulting contracts and working on the 3rd now. I love doing that but it doesn't give us health insurance which for us is a big deal. Especially now since we are expecting Baby #2 .Timing between the kids will be great, but timing job wise is not. We will figure it all out. I am 15 weeks pregnant this week. We have a sonogram next week and they said they might be able to tell us what we are having.

We had a great Thanksgiving and hosted family at our house. Had a nice big group. December is flying by. We got our tree the first weekend and Hadley loved decorating the tree. Last weekend we went to Rehoboth with The Riebesehl's and their new baby Will to cheer on Mark in the Rehoboth Marathon. He did great! It was a chilly weekend though. We took Hadley and Will to see Santa on the boardwalk on Sunday. Will was fine (as he would be at 8 weeks old) Hadley not so much. She was saying, No Santa, No Santa and I had to sit with her for the photo shoot. Overall its been a good busy month. Just keep your fingers crossed that I land the perfect job in the next few weeks.