I need to stop watching Criminal Minds

It's one of those shows that sucks you in...most of them are disturbing, but you can't help but watch anyways. Kinda like a fat person on a bike. You don't want to look, but you just have to look! Anyways, last night's episode kept me awake for quite some time. The episode was about an adorable little blonde curly haired girl who was abducted by a man, kept in captivity for 7 years before she finally committed suicide when she found out she was pregnant with this man's baby at age 15. I know, really super uplifting. Regardless, I watched it anyways and now wished I wouldn't have. I laid awake thinking about how we will now be having some adorable blonde little girl and then I stated thinking...I couldn't imagine anything like that ever happening...and so on and so forth. Anyways, that got me to thinking about how Joe and I need to take ourselves out of the phone book so we're unlisted. And how once our little girl comes, I should probably stop doing this blog thing because anyone can read this. Literally anyone....which I never really thought about before. At least with my Facebook page, I have it totally private and secured. So as my mind is spinning out of control, and my little girl was kicking the crap out of me like she always enjoys doing at night now, I thought...settle down...you have MANY years ahead of you to be a worrier about your kids...no sense in aging myself with panic before she even gets here....

On a happier note: Christmas is coming!!!!!!!! It is my most favorite time of the year because I LOOOOOVE buying and giving gifts. Joe makes fun of me when he sees how pumped I get when I go into my word document and cross someone off of my list. I love starting early and am proud to say I have 6 of 14 people completely done and I have ideas for most of the others already!!!!!!! woo hooo. I'm a dork. I even have a couple wrapped already:

We also finished getting our Christmas lights up on our house too. We turned them on tonight and brought Ryder into the sitting room and looked out at the lights before bed. He totally was going crazy over them, it was so cute! He was pointing and going, "ooooh". Whenever we'd be in the living room and then say, "Do you want to go look at the Christmas lights??" he would be off like a flash of light back to check them out. It's so fun to see him get into it. But it does make me a little nervous for when we put up our tree....that might be hard to keep him away from!!

5 month belly pic comparison

Although these pictures might look fairly even, I think it's the angle the picture was taken at this time that makes it look that way because I am definitely bigger now than I was at this point last time. Either way, I said I would keep people posted on belly pictures. The first picture is of me pregnant with Ryder and the second picture is of me this time with our little girl!

We also wasted no time (and by "we" I really actually mean me...) on getting the bedding. I picked up the bedding today, picked out the furniture last night online that will most likely be ordered after I post this, and I've been in contact with the same girls who did Ryder's nursery. They said I just need to pick out the bedding and the furniture and they will take care of the rest. I'm so excited I could tinkle in my pants because they did such a good job on Ryder's room, I can't wait to see what they have in store for this nursery :)

And we found out we're having a.....

GIRL!!!!

She was very shy and we almost weren't able to see the sex today, but she finally gave up when I flipped on my side and moved her around a little bit. She also hid her face the whole time as well, so we couldn't get a good look at her face either. She is shy I guess! Obviously it would have been wonderful to have another boy, but we are soooo excited to be having a little girl!! Our little Haskins family is complete :) I'm also happy to report that everything else looked great at the ultrasound: she has all four limbs and the heart, kidneys, and spine all look normal. I'm measuring right on my due date. Things are good!!

I know many people have already seen these Halloween pictures on my facebook page, but for those of you who aren't on facebook that check out my blog here is Ryder as a State Trooper. I have concluded that seeing a little person in an adult/man outfit is pretty much the funniest thing in the whole world :) See for youself:

He loved when the door bell would ring when trick or treaters came to the door. He'd get up from whatever he was playing with and run over to see who was there. He wouldn't get too close, of course, but he just had to see what was going on! Our neighbors came over with their little girl who is three months younger than Ryder. She is one serious spitfire! She was bouncing off the walls and running around, throwing her body all over the place...all the while Ryder just stared at her with the biggest eyes in awe. She loves giving kisses and hugs and she kept coming over to Ryder and trying to get him to sit still so she could smother him with some lovin'. At first Ryder was NOT having it, but as he warmed up to her, he ended up liking it. In fact, she cornered him at one point and they were hugging and she was trying to plant a big fat kiss on him and after she ran away Ryder turned to Joe and me with a big goofy grin on his face and did the sign language sign for "more". Seriously the funniest thing ever. Total boy, all the way!

Well, I better get going so I can go check out girl bedding!!!!!!!!!!!