Amelia's New Role

Anna is 15 weeks along now. We've been trying to get Amelia somewhat familiar with the idea that mama has a baby inside her and that she is going to be a big sister. Amelia is only 14 months old, so we know she doesn't understand exactly what's going on. But we are trying to talk to her every day about babies. When we are out in public we point out babies to her and have her say baby. Amelia repeats us and it sounds more like "ba ba" when she says it. Anna has also been patting her belly and saying baby. Amelia will pat Anna's belly and say "ba ba" and then Amelia pats herself and says "ba ba". Amelia also brings us her dolls and says "ba ba". Just today we received a package from Uncle, Aunt and Cousins Aglar that included a pink t-shirt that says Big Sister and a book titled I'm A Big Sister by Joanna Cole. These are great new ways for us to keep introducing the topic to Amelia. Also, a couple of people we know have just had new babies, so I hope to get Amelia around them soon. Besides getting her used to the concepts of babies and being a big sister, I'm getting more and more excited about the amazing big sister Amelia is going to be. She is so sweet and loving and loves being around other kids. I think she is going to really enjoy showing her little brother... or sister :) how to play! And as you can tell from the pictures, she's already figured out that being a big sister is going to require lots of Starbucks to get the job done! She's a smart cookie AND her daddy's girl!!

Today, Anna is feeling better than she has all week. It was an especially hard week for Anna. We think she had a touch of the stomach bug that's been going around on top of the general icky-sicky pregnancy stuff. This is the third time Anna has gotten some other kind of sickness on top of the pregnancy since it started. Hopefully, now that we are in the second trimester, things will start to smooth out and Anna will feel better and more energized. She is such a trooper though!!

That's all for now! We have an OB appointment tomorrow, so I'll post again with updates from the doctor's visit in a couple of days.