I wanted to show you this super secret project I've been working on.
Surprise! Baby #2! I'm 16 weeks and the ETA is late March 2013.
We are excited! And nervous and curious and worried... all the normal stuff. We are planning to find out the gender later this month, and maybe then it will start to seem real. Because so far, I've been feeling kind of... distracted? Maybe that's just the way it is after the first time.
After weeks of feeling icky and useless, I'm finally in the high-energy phase, and I'm taking full advantage! Is it too early for the nesting to have kicked in? I'm cleaning, organizing and DIYing with reckless abandon.
If everything stays on schedule, Elise will be one month shy of four years old when this baby is born. I never imagined us waiting this long between kids, but, despite being a sweetheart, Elise was the the opposite of an easy baby.
Neither she nor I slept through the night for her first 14 months. Despite a number of attempts to remedy the situation, she didn't sleep until she started walking and tiring herself out. It took a long, long time for the memory of that to wear off.
Cross your fingers for a good sleeper for me. (Especially because this one gave up her naps long ago.)
