mary hazel lucy.

we finally decided for sure about the baby's name: mary hazel lucy. we will still call her hayes. we were trying to decide between mary hayes and mary hazel. i wish grandma hazel were still here to meet her namesake, but i know she already knows her. so now we'll have our sweet sarah named after trey's gma and our sweet hazel named after mine. all 4 of our girl's names (sarah katherine and mary hazel) are family names and i like that!

so, her bedding came in today!!!! i love it more in person than in the internet picture. i held the sheet against our new blue 1/2 bath walls and it is a perfect match. so that's great! we'll paint the bead board white and then the blue on the walls. we are grateful that sk's grandoug is coming back this weekend to help trey put the bead board up and install crown molding in our 1/2 bath. so so sweet of him to work around our schedule and to come back after they just left here monday morning from their wonderful weekend stay with us. can't wait to get back from folkston on sunday night and see it!

hayes already has a best friend! alden, who is sarah kate's best friend, became a big sister yesterday! the murrell family chose for this baby to be a surprise and i'm so excited that it is a GIRL!! not that hayes couldn't be besties with a little boy, but i think it's so sweet that alden and sk will have little sisters together. i saw baby ames tonight at the hospital. she's darling. and tiny...i mean, she was 7 pounds 12 ounces which is a perfectly nice sized baby i know, but holy moly i forget how tiny newborns are compared to my growing toddler!
i didn't get a pic of ames...i was too busy holding her;) but i did get a pic of my 2 favorite peeps leaving the hospital. sk and alden played hard in the waiting area while i was in the room with amy. they were so excited to see each other.

i meant to do a belly pic at 20 weeks but i forgot so trey took one tonight. i'm 21 weeks....will be 22 weeks on friday. i put a pic from both pregnancies on here:


this is me at 20 weeks with sarah kate....

and then this is me at 21 weeks with hayes. i put on the same clothes for the pic so i could compare;)

we will get to see baby hayes again! i only got to see sk at the 8 week appointment and the 20 week anatomy scan but we'll see hayes again in 6 weeks to check on my placenta. i have a marginal placenta previa which means that it's closer to my cervix than it should be. the tech, nurse and dr. all assured us that it will go to where it's supposed to be, but they need to take another peek at 27 weeks just to be sure. the pics of her should be really good by then and they'll take more 3d and 4d pics again so i'm excited to see her even if it's because i have a misbehaving placenta;)

some iphone pics...
sk and trey reading the 'sisters' book that lala and dougie brought her...

spring is beginning to spring...

our azaleas on the left are in full bloom and the right azaleas are starting to bloom. uneven every year. don't know if it's because we don't know how to care for azaleas or if it is the positioning of our house in regards to sunlight. after the lion (aka march) leaves then we'll get fresh pinestraw laid. i love fresh pinestraw!
can you tell from this pic that our house has shutters? no? well me either! why the heck did the builder of this house put grey shutters on a grey house? and why the heck doesn't the current owner get a ladder and a bucket of black paint and paint those darn things? trey wants to get real black functioning hurricane shutters. great...that will actually look beautiful i completely agree, but since that won't be happening anytime soon then perhaps the ladder and bucket of black paint idea would work for now. all that being said, i am really grateful to have a house to live in. ;) and i can't wait to have 4 *human* lucys living inside!