Landon's Room - A Work In Progress

We started decorating Landon's room the last weekend in February  I painted an accent wall a light shade of blue and Jennifer even created a neat painted wall design. It just so happened that our wall decals that Jennifer ordered off Etsy arrived on my birthday. After we finished my birthday celebration and Brinley went to bed we went up to Landon's room and started to put up the decals. It was kinda funny how it worked out that we could do them on my birthday because last year on Jennifer's birthday we actually put up the wall decals in Brinley's room. 

Landon's room and his bedding. His room is decorated with safari animals.

Tape that Jennifer laid out in order to paint a design.

Painted blue and the tape removed. Jennifer is super crafty.

Jennifer adding the leaves to the tree.

The tree is almost finished.

A couple of safari animals that I hope Landon enjoys.

The complete view of Landon's wall decorations.

Here is a picture of Brinley's room for comparison.

We still have a lot of stuff to do in Landon's room, but it seems to be a little bit more difficult to work on his room because we spend the entire day playing with Brinley. So, we try and take advantage of any nap time and Jennifer works on her craft projects every night that she isn't working. Brinley keeps us super busy all by herself, so I can only imagine what our lives are going to be like with both little ones running around the house. All I can say is that it is going to be interesting around the Heflin household. Thanks for reading and God Bless!

It's official...IT"S A BOY!

Today is my 28th birthday and we had our 20 week anatomy scan scheduled for this morning. However, from my last post you know that we couldn't wait to find out so we went at 16 weeks to find out that we were having a little boy. We decided to wait until we had a second conformation that it was a boy before we would officially name our son. We were scheduled for an 8 am ultrasound so when we left the house at 7:30 in the morning Brinley was still sleeping. Thankfully Grandma and Grandpa Heflin were visiting and could watch her while we went to the appointment. Leaving Brinley is still such a rare occurrence for us that it still feels really weird to not have her with us.

The 20 week ultrasound is the halfway point in the pregnancy and is when they do an extensive ultrasound to look for any abnormalities. Thankfully nothing significant was noted during the ultrasound that was a cause for concern. The placenta was close to the cervix, which is something that will just need to be monitored. If it was too close to the opening then there would not be enough room for the baby to come out, which would mean that a c-section would be required.

The only profile that I was able to capture.

The ultrasound consisted of looking at all the major organs and measuring the lengths of different things like the head, belly, arms and legs. After all the measurements were taken the lady asked us if we wanted to know the sex of our baby. We were then given the confirmation that I have been waiting weeks to hear. That we are in fact having a little BOY! Thankfully this was the case because just this week I started painting his nursery a shade of blue. Jennifer and I are extremely excited that we will each have our own little "mini me's" running around the house. It just so happens that in more ways than one the males and females in our house will be able to relate because Jennifer and Brinley were both first born. While my son and I are both the second child with an older sister.

IT'S A BOY!

If any of you have been following my blog from the start or remember any conversation that we had prior to knowing that Brinley was a girl, you would know that we had a name picked out for a boy. So, I guess in essence you could say that we have known our son's name since before Brinley was even born. It was the first and only boy's name that we came up with and Jennifer and I both really liked it. So, this July we will welcome into our home a baby boy named Landon Michael Heflin. 

Brinley is happy to announce her little brothers name!

The L tasted great!

Would you be impressed if Brinley had stacked these herself? Brinley was quick to knock  them down as soon as I put them up.

 Only jokingly had I mentioned to Jennifer about naming him Jordan Jr., but she quickly turned down that suggestion. We originally decided on the name Landon and when trying to figure out a middle name I just always kept going back to my own middle name and it just seemed to flow well together and Jennifer agreed. So, passing on my middle name will be good enough, which just so happens to be the first name of my father.

Jennifer and I have been so blessed with the opportunity to be parents to a amazing little girl in Brinley and we are super excited, and a little nervous, about our son Landon. Our lives will be hectic and crazy at times with two children that will be 14 months apart, but I know that God would not put anything on our plates that he didn't think that we could handle. I am sure that we will have plenty of good stories over the next few years. Thanks for reading and God Bless!