...AND I THINK THE NEWS IS OUT BY NOW!

So the world knows now, Skyler made it "Facebook Official" before I had a chance to breathe, but we are having BABY NUMBER 2! We are due May 30th. We are excited, a little worried how two will be. However, Maddux is older and is understanding and is taking this all well.(At least until the baby comes home and he realizes the attention is not all funneled to him!) When I am feeling awful, which is ALL THE TIME, he will leave me alone and play with his toys, I love it! I feel like if he was any younger I'd have more whining and neediness to deal with. I was talking with a friend of mine and she has 2 boys that are the same distant apart as my kids will be and she made a good point. Next year Maddux will start school and I will have alone time with the baby that I wouldn't get otherwise. That will be great because I love that I have had these 3 years with Maddux all by himself and really got to know him. Really, when do parents ever get to give their children so much attention when others come along? This will never happen again, so I am so glad that I got to spend so much time with my CONSTANT companion. (I mean, he even had to go to my OB appt today!) Hopefully he, and I, will handle sharing me between THREE people!

So anyway, that is the latest around here! Well, Skyler's business is booming so I could talk about that, but that is not nearly as excited as a new baby!

NYC!

We went to NYC at the end of September! Just us, NO Maddux! Luckily I have a great friend who has 4 great boys that the monster just LOVES, along with a great mother that helped us so we could live it up in NYC! Of course, I forgot the real camera, but luckily Skyler had his phone and these are some of the shots we got! This was a real adventure for us! One of the days we got caught in a CRAZY HEAVY rain storm and our umbrella broke, so the two of us ran in the rain looking for a place to get a new one! We ended up having to go buy all new clothes because we happened to be staying in Staten Island that day and needed to get up to the Bronx for a Yankee/Red Socks game...which got rained out! At the end of our trip, Skyler had booked a dinner for us that was completely out of our comfort zone, but a zone I would not mind being in one day! He thought it was 5 courses for 2 for $115. Not so much. Try per person! Eek! But, it was fun! Totally did not bring the right shoes, so did NOT do all the shopping we wanted to do because we were so drained. But one day, after learning from this trip, we will go back!


We went to a small WTC memorial. These pictures were so overwhelming.


They had quotes like these everywhere. Took everything to hold back the tears for these people.


Outside the building, across from ground zero.


The new Yankee Stadium


The Famous Bull!


Pollock


We found some art work in the MOMA that Maddux did himself! Crazy! ;o)


Van Gogh


Gorgeous building- NYC Public Library


Took this just before some angry usher told us it was illegal and we'll get kicked out if we do it again!


We went here and to Ellis Island where Skyler found a ship manifest for one of his ancestors!


In Honor of Michael Scott!


We missed the OCCUPY Protests by a day! We were in the airport waiting for our flight when we heard that the protests started the night before!


We went to church in the Manhattan building. Totally cool and insane how the minute you walk in the city sounds are GONE!


Little Italy has an annual week-long street fair that takes up MANY blocks and streets. It was insane all the people and vendors there! (I guess it "used to be" run by the mafia...)


I DID NOT eat this. But Skyler LOVED it!


My yummy home-made/street-made gellato


Is anyone really surprised my husband wanted to eat here for lunch?


WE went to the Empire State Building at night and saw the city all the city lights. It was beautiful!


Where we could have been if we didn't go to our super nice, super expensive dinner!