Week 25

No big news this week. I am now in my third trimester. We have a doctors appointment on Tuesday morning. It will be our first appointment since the ultrasound. I am excited to hear the babies heartbeat again. I am going through withdrawl.

We bought the paint for the nursery yesterday. It is called sunglow and is a very nice shade of yellow. We also bought our new closet stuff so we are hoping to get the nursery started next weekend. We are falling a little behind schedule but we aren't stressing.

No luck on finding my car or Lexi a new home yet. I was thinking about looking into pit bull rescues for Delia. We will see what happens.

6 Months

It is hard to believe that I am in my sixth month. Next week I am considered to be in my third trimester. Time has gone quickly and very slowly. It is hard to believe that I was pregnant at Thanksgiving and Christmas and I am still pregnant. August doesn't seem to be coming quick enough. But when you actually put a number, like six months, in the equation it seems like the time has just flown by. When I think of all the changes that will happen once the baby arrives I want all the time I can have before the baby is here. I am also anxious to find out who this little human inside of my tummy is.

Nick has finals this week and then it is go time on all the household projects. I have been doing some work on organizing the closet/baby nursery. I have some color samples for paint. We are going with yellow but we aren't sure which shade yet. We are also putting in a new closet organizer for our cloths to free up some space for baby furniture. I hope to have the nursery done by the shower Lisa is having for me. It is at our house so I am sure people will want to see the nursery.

Other than that not much is going on. We will be heading to Arizona at the beginning of May for Ashley's wedding and we are looking forward to our prebaby "honeymoon".

Week 23

Not much news for this week. The baby is pretty active but it is still hard at times for Nick to feel it moving. I am finding it harder and harder to do daily activities. Cleaning the house makes my back hurt very badly. I have started grunting when I bend over. Everyone at work laughs at me. I have been wearing the pair of Crocs that I bought continuously. If I drop something at home and Nick is around I don't even attempt to pick it up. I lay on the couch and think about how I should start doing my pregnancy yoga DVD's so I am a little more limber. I do have more energy than I did at the beginning of the pregnancy so this is a good thing.

I keep having dreams about the baby being here. I am so excited to see what our baby looks like. I am also excited to find out if it is a boy or a girl. I'm so ready to do baths, diaper changing, cuddling, and smelling. I know that sounds weird but babies smell so good.

We are slowly getting ourselves and the house ready for the addition. We have my car, the Grand Prix, up for sale. We have gotten a couple of calls. Hopefully it sells. We are also still trying to find a home for Lexi. Delia and her got into a fight last weekend so they are not allowed to be together period! We had to take Lexi to the vet because Delia bit her ankle and it was bruised and she was limping. She is walking fine on it now. We are also doing some modifications to the nursery/walk-in closet upstairs. Elyse has offered to paint once we have it ready.

Week 22

The big news this week is that Nick finally felt the baby move!!! He felt it a couple of times on Monday because it was kicking very hard. He didn't feel it again until Saturday morning. I think he/she was doing aerobics or something because Nick could feel it moving all around. He was very excited. I woke him up early this morning (Sunday) by bribing him with reading a book to the baby. Who could refuse that? He was tired but was happy to do it and made both mom and baby laugh.

We also spent all weekend shopping for maternity cloths. I am not joking when I say all weekend. It was quite the adventure and very tiring. Luckily, Sonya and Nick went with me and got me to try on a lot of things I would have never tried on by myself. I ended up buying the cutest dress that I poopooed and Sonya had me try on. I, of course, feel guilty for spending so much money on myself but Nick reassures me that I deserve some pampering (Sonya agreed and tried to get me to buy even more.)

As of now we are going to sell our Grand Prix and buy Sonya and Don's minivan. We need more space and they have been trying to sell their minivan. Nick doesn't really want a minivan but we decided an SUV would be too much of a gas guzzler and the minivan gets about the same gas mileage as the Grand Prix. Nick's parents are going to drive it here next weekend for a visit so we can check it out. I am excited about the DVD player, the sliding doors on each side, and the captain seats in the middle. So, if anyone is interested in a Grand Prix with slightly, and I mean slightly, over 100,000 miles on it let us know.