Gender Reveal and end of spring

August 31, 2022

Spending some time on our new patio furniture, I love it!

We went to my friend Jackie/Andrew's house for dinner and they have 2 black labs. Branko LOVED playing fetch with them. I don't think I've ever heard him laugh so hard for so long before.

Another night, one of Pat's friends, Mike, were in town from LA and we had a dinner at his friend JP's. Branko seems to have a track record of vomiting when Patrick drive's through traffic on Grand Ave in Gurnee. PJ pants and no top it was, but Pat got some really cute pictures of our little man.

Hinting to me he wants to go outside..

While Mike was in town from LA, his sister in law threw them a baby sprinkle. Our kids are just a few weeks apart and his wife, Merrie, and I spent lots of sleepless nights texting away. Branko loved running through this pot hole in their drive way. Here I am making sure he doesn't completely fall over.

The best we could do getting a picture of Mike, JP, and our little guy. Here's Olive, Eddie, and the back of Branko's head.

Markers are still a no for us..

Tired Branko after the zoo..

I love that he's wearing his hat here. He finally is keeping it on, I think he's realized that there truly is a purpose for it!

Dad's shoes are so much more fun

The emptying out every single dresser drawer phase..

Group shot from JP's house. The older two girls are Pat's friend, Garrett's. They were so helpful playing with the little ones.

New way of riding in the car.

Getting muddy with Auntie Kelly and Nole.

Max/Branko!

We played outside after a rainstorm and Branko's pants were soaked.. hence the no pants.

Gender reveal day! I ended up doing the genetic screening this pregnancy, so we could've found out the gender as early as 12-13 weeks. I waited until Patrick's birthday to do a surprise gender reveal. He had NO idea, nor did he know that we could even find out the gender that soon. I was about 17 or 18 weeks pregnant at that point. I also did not know the gender. 2 days prior to Patrick's birthday, I handed an envelope over to the Pick n Save baker and said that I just wanted blue or pink frosting in the middle depending what it said in the envelope. We went over flavorings, but didn't discuss decor. I go to pick up the cake and it's a different person and she said, "I didn't know if you wanted pink on it or not.." I thought I misheard her, but she definitely gave it away. But I was still surprised it was a boy! Although that's what my gut was telling me!