Planned?

The question I am getting asked a lot is if baby #2 was planned? The answer is YES!!!

Before Ben and I got married we always said we were going to wait about 3 years before having kids.  We wanted to travel, pay off some loans, save, etc.  Well about 4 months after being married I had baby fever!!! I went off of birth control on September 1, 2010 and we got pregnant with Brooklyn in February 2011.  It took about 6 months-a very long 6 months it was, with irregular periods, my body thinking I was pregnant so I was lactating and a few other weird things. 

(To make this post a little less boring I am adding in some random pictures of my big girl!)

Loves her new cup with a straw!! When did she get so big?

I always new I wanted my first two kids close.  I thought 2 years was about the perfect age! I have seen great relationships form with siblings that are close in age! I know that the first year of having 2 kids will be tough, but I also know that it is just a phase and the reward for it all will (hopefully) be two siblings who love each other and are very close!

Her favorite thing to do right now is stack cups! She can do it all on her own!! She gets so proud of herself!

In October of 2012 I went off birth control again to try and get my cycles regular before officially trying for baby #2.  It came with no surprise that my cycles were not regular, 45 days, 32 days and 21 days.  Crazy!! In December and January we started 'trying' and just playing a guessing game as to when the appropriate time was since we had no idea with my irregular cycles. 

This girl loves her baby and she goes everywhere with us!! It is so cute to see how mothering she is! Hopefully that is a sign she will be a good big sister...we just need to work on how to properly hold the baby without strangling it! Ha!

In January we found out Brooklyn would be a big sister!! (Story here and here)

So, to answer the big question about baby #2...YES it was PLANNED and we couldn't be HAPPIER!! I can't wait to be a family of FOUR!!

(Sorry if any of this was T.M.I. but I blog for my keepsakes and an easy way to look back on life-it is real life and I want to remember everything the best I can in the exact way it happened, so for me, blogging is the best way to do that!)

Little miss would NOT nap and was a mess, I finally gave in and went in her room and rocked her.  My back was killing me in her glider and I knew she would wake up if I tried to put her in crib, so I laid her on her bear pillow on the floor-she slept like this for 30 minutes! Better than no nap!