Oh...the past 12 months or so

Since I'm not a regular blogger by any means, I thought I would take this time to lay out these past 12 months of our lives.  Mostly everyone in our lives are aware of these events so basically I'm blogging this for my own selfish reasons.  So I can remember this when I'm 50.  :)

1.) Found out that we were pregnant again in Oct. 2012!
2.) Bought a new house in Dec 2012
3.) Sold our sweet Webster house in Feb 2013
4.) Moved into our new house in Des Peres in March 2013
5.) Luke turned 2 in April
6.) And we welcomed our new baby boy, Henry Stephen on June 13th, 2013!

So I'll go ahead and start off with June 13th, 2013.  It was a day we'll never forget.  :) 

My pregnancy with Henry was pretty great overall.  My symptoms were very similar as they were with Luke, except for the fact that I sprained my ankle at 12 weeks and had two rounds of the flu.  That wasn't fun.  I was carrying mostly out front - just like I did the last time.  We decided not to find out the gender once again.  It's just too great of a surprise and the gender didn't matter to us either way.  The whole time my gut feeling was "boy" and since Henry had the exact same kidney abnormality in the womb that Luke did, I was 75% sure it was another little guy.  His left kidney was dilated in repeat ultrasounds, which is common in boys.  So I was somewhat prepared for more blue in the house.  Henry's delivery was the POLAR opposite of Luke's.  My water broke 6 weeks early with Luke and 19 hours later we had our sweet boy.  With Henry we knew his birthday would be June 13th.  We scheduled the c-section at 20 weeks.  I was so incredibly nervous for the delivery.  I guess the unknown is less scary.  Anyway, we walked into the hospital at 7am knowing that we'd have our baby in less than 6 hours.  The whole morning was calm and cool just like our little Henry.  He arrived at 12:18pm.  7lbs 3oz and 20.5in.  He was perfect with a full head of dark hair.  We were surprised by his size as we thought he'd at least be in the 8lb range considering how much both Scott and I weighed at birth.  We named him Henry (after my Grandpa Walkenbach).  His middle name is Stephen which is after Scott's dad.  The whole experience was wonderful.  I was up moving around the next day and my recovery was much smoother than it was with Luke.  We didn't know how we would love another little guy as much as we love Luke, but as everyone always says, it happened immediately.  Here are some pictures!  He looks a lot like his big brother.