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What I know NOW, that I didn't know THEN

    Everyone has that point & time in their lives where they catch themselves saying "I wish I would have done that differently." When you become a mother, it's more common than you realize. You always hear that you learn a lot from your first child, and tis' true. Even if you aren't planning on having another child, you will still learn so much! Motherhood within itself is a HUGE journey, for mother AND father. I have learnt so much through the journey of being pregnant, and I have become a much better person than what I used to be. Before Hasting, I never imagined myself baby wearing, making my own wipes, using cloth diapers, or studying in to HALF the things I'm now much more informed on. Hasting was planned, and actually so was baby A. Of course when you get pregnant it's always a surprise, but we had planned it perfectly to have them exactly 2 years apart (although we weren't quite so sure it would happen!) Now that I am almost 21 weeks

Gender Reveal Party for Baby #2!

This could { POSSIBLY } be the last baby Gray... Possibly. So we wanted to do something different, and something we never even thought of (our could have had the patience to do) with Hasting. I knew before I even got pregnant again that I wanted to do a gender reveal party. Nothing BIG , but just a fun celebration with closest family and friends.  We went to our gender scan on Tuesday, August 13th. I was so nervous sitting in the lobby. I'm not even sure why. I've been through it before, AND we weren't even finding out the sex! We decided to wait and find out the sex as the same time as everyone else in our family!  The whole time during the scan I kept thinking I was seeing little penises everywhere. BTW, chad thought  baby was female, and I thought baby was male. Our ultrasound tech was amazing, and got so many awesome photos for us to bring home with us! It's also always a plus when you can have a conversation with someone about natural birth, and the first thing to