*** Info on Lil Peanut at 18 weeks and some on Eli too ***

I went to my new Dr down here in Georgia, her name is Dr Moeling (pronounced like D Mailing ha.) I was nevous to go to my appointment with her just because I wanted it to go oh so good but I was nervous for no reason! She is an excellent Dr and after 5 minutes I could tell I loved her already and that she was gunna be great :] Eli was suuuuch a good boy during my appointment too! There were posters of babies everywhere and he hollared and kept saying baby. It was sooo cute and makes me oh so excited because he loves babys so much and when we ask him where the baby is- he looks right at me and pats my belly :] What a cute lil man :]

Everything went splendid at my appointment! Baby is doing great and we got to hear the heart beat and everything sounded great!!! We also found out that we will find out what Lil Peanut is on May 19th at 10:00am!!! I AM SO EXCITED and Noah is beyond excited too!!! Seeing the way Eli is with Jasmine and the way he reacts to any other baby makes me oh so excited too for Lil Peanut to be here. I knew he would do good anyway- but seeing the way he reacts is such a cute and great feeling!!! Baby is moving now too and this Mama can feel it eeeek :] Some nights I am up late trying to sleep but so happy because what is keeping me up is Lil Peanut moving :]

We will be posting what we are having, and of course the names are already out there on what we chose :] Two things we decided we want to try and accomplish before baby is here is 1- move Eli to a toddler bed with a bed rail the length of the bed! He is really a bed hog if I must say so myself and he gets mad at his crib bars sometimes so we feel he needs his freedom of a toddler bed soon, which works out perfect since baby will use his crib in Oct :] We don't plan to move him to toddler bed for a few more months or so- but something we have discussed and want to do for our lil man. I am hoping it all goes over good for him! I'm thinkin he will be a lot more comfy though!

2- we are going to attempt to start potty training Eli mid August. It sounds insane to me he is already going to be old enough to potty train!!! He just is getting so big so fast! We want to try and see how far we go with this before Lil Peanut is here. My Dr told me a great time to start if we want is 18-19 mo. Dr says the younger you start- the better and easier. I told Noah I do not want to make Eli a bigger boy than he already is ha- but before Lil Peanut was even on the way we had discussed to try to potty train in Aug sometime anyway. We will see how that goes! Any suggestions or feedback on this? I feel it is right for him- and some of my friends that did potty train at 18-19 months said it was the best time to do it!

Lil Peanut is going to fit in our family just PERFECT! I can't wait to meet him/her! The pregnancy has gone pretty good so far which is a plus for me. KNOCK ON WOOD but I am able to enjoy just as much time with Eli as I was before, and also family time with Daddy too! I am sure the end of the third trimester will be harder- but it's better than the whole pregnancy! I have been very very blessed with 2 sweet kiddos already- and wouldn't change a thing in theeee world for it! Motherhood is so so so so special to me!!!!!

My 18 weeks preggo pic is below!!! Eli was all about "patting" the baby today and I absolutely LOVE this pic!!!