Lansdowne Life

The super secret project I’ve been working on

by Erin Heaton

I wanted to show you this super secret project I’ve been working on.

Surprise! Baby #2! I’m 16 weeks and the ETA is late March 2013.

We are excited! And nervous and curious and worried… all the normal stuff. We are planning to find out the gender later this month, and maybe then it will start to seem real. Because so far, I’ve been feeling kind of… distracted? Maybe that’s just the way it is after the first time.

After weeks of feeling icky and useless, I’m finally in the high-energy phase, and I’m taking full advantage! Is it too early for the nesting to have kicked in? I’m cleaning, organizing and DIYing with reckless abandon.

If everything stays on schedule, Elise will be one month shy of four years old when this baby is born. I never imagined us waiting this long between kids, but, despite being a sweetheart, Elise was the the opposite of an easy baby.

Neither she nor I slept through the night for her first 14 months. Despite a number of attempts to remedy the situation, she didn’t sleep until she started walking and tiring herself out. It took a long, long time for the memory of that to wear off.

Cross your fingers for a good sleeper for me. (Especially because this one gave up her naps long ago.)

Comments

  1. Michele @ Moonfield Lane says

    I’m so excited for you, Erin!!! I’ll cross my fingers for you that this second baby is easier. Mine was, and I was quite nervous my whole pregnancy because the first one was a bit of a nightmare as an infant 🙂 Mine are 3 1/2 years apart and I wanted them closer in age as well. In retrospect, the age difference has been great, though, because the older one can really listen and follow directions and help out and you don’t have to keep such a close eye on two little ones as you would if they were closer. I wish you all the very best in the coming months. I’d love to know what you’re planning on to prepare Elise and the nursery plans and, well, everything!

    • Erin @ Lansdowne Life says

      Thank you! I think easy second babies should be mandatory.

      I haven’t thought much about the gap in ages to be an advantage, but you’re right that it would be so much harder to watch two little babies. Now maybe if this one would start listening… ahem.

      Elise’s initial reaction to the idea of a baby was a flat “NO!” and now we’re doing better than that. Progress! The nursery is another story, and I will probably cover that sometime soon!

  5. jodi says

    Well, you know my story with kid #2…..but then again, you also know my story with kid #1.

    Super excited for you guys! Can’t wait to find out what you are having!