Sunday, July 11, 2010

Pregnancy: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

The Good:
There is a miracle growing into of me. What gets any better than that?
The Movement. I love feeling Laney move around inside of me. It makes me smile every time.
Knowing that Brooks is going to have a little sister. He's going to be a great big brother.

The Bad:
Throwing-Up.
Heartburn.
Peeing every 30 minutes.

The Ugly:
Dry-heaving.
Water retention.
Wearing a two piece.

Here I am at 19 weeks the night I found it I was carrying Laney!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Our Family

Our Family started out with just the two of us. Team Hoffman was est. July 13, 2002. Almost 8 years of marriage and still so in love.

We grew a little bit when we adopted Kansas in October 2004.

We grew a lot when God blessed us with Brooks Bryan Hoffman on June 23, 2008.

God has been faithful to us and continues to shower us with blessings. I am overwhelmed on a daily basis by His grace and the love that He shows us.
And now God continues to bless us - but this time...with a little girl!
Delaney Ann Hoffman will be joining our family soon (but not too soon).

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Rain, Rain - Go Away!

Well - the rain came down HARD today but it didn't keep us from having fun.
First, Brooks read to Kansas:

Brooks LOVES Kansas:

We played with some playdough:

And what better way to get that playdough out from under Brooks' nails than to play with the water table:

And for dinner Brooks and I made a pizza together:

Like I said...the rain didn't stop us from having fun.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yesterday was my birthday and it was a wonderful day! It started out with Brooks bringing me a card and saying, "Happy Easter Mommy!" (He continues to say "Happy Easter" instead of "Happy Birthday" - I don't know.) He gave me a sweet card from him and the baby. He was so excited. He kept pointing to the kitchen though and kind of crying saying, "Happy Easter Mommy" like he was wondering when I was going to blow out my candles. Remember this is all fresh in his head since he just had his birthday. I spent the morning with my friend, Stefanie, and her little girl, Lilly. I absolutely LOVE hanging out with her. We have so much in common and our kids get along so well. We took the kids swimming and then Stefanie treated me to lunch. My favorite part was when she asked if I wanted to get a milkshake. Brooks and I said goodbye to Stefanie and Lilly and went home to take naps. After nap time Chad and I took Brooks over to Ms. Kelly's house (Brooks' teacher) for her to babysit while we went out. Chad said he had a plan so I was just following his lead. We stopped into Jamba Juice because he said we had about 30 minutes to kill. I assumed that meant we were waiting for a show time at the movie theater next door. He gave me a sweet card and at the bottom it said, "Enjoy your massage." Now, we are going on a mini-vaca next week so I thought he meant a massage at the resort, but he had actually booked an hour long prenatal massage for last night. I was completely surprised and super excited. The massage was WONDERFUL. The only slight downer was that I had to pee so bad about half-way through. I thought I might actually pee on the table. We grabbed a bite to eat and headed home. Brooks and Chad put a candle in my blue bell and sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Brooks kept blowing out my candle. I think he thought we were singing to him again.

It was truly a wonderful day. Between all the calls, text messages, facebook posts, and cards - I was completely overwhelmed and was reminded how blessed I am to have so many wonderful people in my life. Here's to year 29!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Brooks' Prediction



I've asked him about 10 times today and every time I get the same answer even if I switch up the question a bit. Chad tried asking him a couple of times as well and every time he says: "Sister!". Our sonogram is next week...I guess we'll see if Brooks' prediction is correct!

Monday, June 28, 2010

The Little Gym

Since I'm home all summer I've tried to do some research and find some fun things for Brooks and I to do together...turns out you can go to one free class at The Little Gym. I knew they were going to try and get me to sign up, but really...I was just there for the free class. Brooks wasn't really into sitting still and singing songs on the mat, but he was really into the bars. At the beginning of the class he couldn't swing at all but he kept trying. By the end of the class he was leaning forward off of a block and swinging by himself. He was so proud!

Brooks and His Imagination

Brooks has started to really use his imagination to play with his stuffed animals. The other day he told me that Nemo had to go potty. So he went and put Nemo on the little potty and sat and watched him while making a "sssssss" sound (you know, like Nemo was really going potty). After Nemo finished Brooks looked at me with such excitement and said, "Nemo go teetee, Mama!" He was so proud of Nemo! Yesterday I caught him feeding Mickey and snapped a couple of pictures. First he just sat Mickey in the chair, and then we sat with Mickey to help him eat. It's super cute watching Brooks play with his toys!