Bullfrogs and Butterflies Baby Contest

Oooh! I'm really excited to start getting ready for our baby girl. (We really need to decide on a name because I hate saying little girl or the baby all the time.) Maddie and I have already done some shopping and I have been looking around at site with baby stuff. I found a place that has super cute baby stuff, Bullfrogs and Butterflies Baby. They are actually having a contest right now to win a super cute mini layette baby bouquet.
The mini layette includes a bib, a hat, 3 pairs of socks, and silk flowers and greenery in a cute box.

They also have other really cute stuff too. My favorites are Little Ladies (mary janes) and Tillie the Turtle bath set. But I so love those shoes. I mean love but I have no idea what size I would buy so they would fit the baby at some point.

17 Weeks

The baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone. The umbilical cord is growing stronger and thicker. The baby weighs about 5 oz, about as much as a turnip and is around 5 inches long from head to bottom. (I also read that extended she would be about 9 inches long.) Fat tissue begins to from this week and continues for weeks to come. Her fallopian tubes are formed around this time.

We have know that we are having a little girl now for about two weeks..... however we have NOT choosen a name yet. People keep asking me and it's driving me nuts. We are still discussing it and will hopefully have a name soon. Maybe I'll share........;-)

Baby Girl

We had our 4-d ultrasound done on Wednesday night. We are having a girl. Maddie is thrilled about having a little sister. On Thursday we called my mom to tell her and Madison told her the baby's name was going to be Sophia Hole. LOL. We don't have a name picked out as of right now but we will soon.

Madison and I went shopping for some stuff for the little sister yesterday. Maddie picked out some cute stuff. We even found so horse stuff for the baby. Maddie says that her sister and her will move to Texas when they get older and be cowgirls. They are going to have a horse farm with lots of horses.

Sleepy Little Princess

It was a rough day for Maddie today and well yesterday. Daddy is all she wants and he is working. I let her lay down with me to get her to calm down. She fell asleep in just a few minutes and when I looked at her I seen my baby girl. I had a flash back to when she was a few months old, her baby face. It was there! Lately when I look at her I seen a big girl but tonight I seen my little baby. Calm, relaxed and peaceful.

The picture below is totally out of focus but for anyone who knew me when I was around this age, this picture could past for me. Sometimes I am amazed at how much Maddie looks like me. God is amazing like that, sometimes it throws me back on track. When you look at your kid and you think she is so beautiful and I am, well not. Then I see myself in her and think if she looks that much like me I must be beautiful too?