35 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

 

(Oh my gosh, this picture is HORRIBLE, I look gigantic!!)

How Far Along: 35 weeks and 1 day

Size of Baby: Probably a little over 6lbs now and 18 inches long

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 20lbs....which I know isn't a lot, but it's scary when you've never seen the scale get that high!!!

Maternity Clothes: All pants and shorts are maternity, but sometimes I can wear regular shirts if they are long enough and some of my dresses are regular. I was in a bit of a dilemma because I really only had cold-weather maternity clothes but the weather sure has been warming up here and on the weekends, I literally had NOTHING to wear!! Thank God for good friends! A friend from work brought me all her shorts and tank tops and I was so excited!!!

Gender: Still a surprise! From the looks of the poll on my blog, it seems as though most everyone thinks it's a boy. Honestly, deep down, I'm kinda thinking boy too! :)

Movements: Funny story...last night Nick and I were sitting on the couch watching House and the baby was going ca-razy!!! Nick was watching and he got so weirded out, knowing that there is a live human being in there, that he stood up and kinda did a funny shake/dance-type thing because apparently it gave him the willies and said, "how can you not be weirded out by that, or even sleep for that matter?". Um Nick....this is not something new, we've been through this before!! Silly goose!!

Sleep: Usually sleeping pretty good, just having bizarre dreams! Last night, I dreamed I played basketball for the Baylor Womens team, ha!

What I Miss: Bending over more gracefully....if you are standing behind me and I have to bend over, watch out!!! It's not pretty! Also, still missing ice cream!

Cravings: Besides ice cream, nothing really

Symptoms: Ok, this is the mom coming out in me to all those teenage girls wanting to get their belly buttons pierced. DON'T DO IT!!! I had mine pierced the first part of college but took it out when I started rowing b/c it kept getting infected. As most girls, I still have a slight scar from the piercing. When I was pregnant with Cole, at the very end of the pregnancy, I started getting 2 itty bitty stretch marks coming off my scar. However, this pregnancy.....those 2 itty bitty stretch marks have gotten bigger and bigger, not pretty!!! What sucks even more, is that it's right in the middle of my tummy where you can't hide them. Sucks! So, I'm blaming my piercing scar on this one!

Best Moment of the Week: I started to get a few things packed in my hospital bag and that made me realize how close it is. With not knowing the gender, it is kind of hard packing stuff for the baby because I don't want to do the typical green/yellow gender neutral outfits. So....I decided that I will pack some for each gender. Obviously I have boy newborn clothes but when I was at the consignment sale last week, I decided to buy one set of girl newborn clothes. They looked almost brand new and I think I paid $3 for them and if I end up not needing them, I can always hand them over to someone else. Then yesterday, I was going through all my crafty stuff and saw that I had ribbon that would match the outfits I got so I even went as far as to make a matching bow. Ok, it took me like 3 minutes to make the bow, so it's not like I slaved over it for hours. And again, if not needed...then someone else can have fun with the cute outfit and bow!!

Ok, yes, I realize I totally contradicted myself, saying how I didn't want to do the whole yellow/green gender-neutral stuff but look at the colors I picked out for a girl outfit...oops! :)

Update: So I wrote this post yesterday but didn't post it yet. Since then things have gotten a little interesting. I've said recently that I've been having lots of pressure but last night it was so bad that I literally couldn't even walk. I hardly slept because it hurt to move any part of my body. So this morning I had to go to the hospital to be monitored for awhile. I'm not dilated at all (which is GOOD) but he said the head is so extremely low that I need to take it very easy the next few weeks. He said I need to pretty much be on bedrest, but without technically putting me on bedrest. Make sense?? Well, it doesn't to me. Not really sure how to do that with teaching high schoolers and then coming home to a 2 year old. Guess we'll have to figure that one out soon! :)

My so-called "nesting" weekend

Friday recap:

Destroyed house, had many good intentions of organizing only to realize I couldn't do most of what I had wanted, sooo, left the mess for Nick to clean up. Poor Nick, I think he stayed up till midnight moving furniture, toys and boxes around while I peacefully was asleep in our comfortable bed. :)

Saturday:

Yes, I actually let Nick sleep in....well, just little bit. We had lots to get done!! We had to take his car in to get maintenance, so while we were out we stopped at Ikea to look at some shelves for our office to hold all the toys and also a shelf for in Cole's room. Let me start off by saying, I haven't been to Ikea is several years and holy cow I love that store!!! We found so many things we wanted to get and the prices are SO right! We do have to wait till next weekend to get our shelves though because we didn't set aside that money in our budget till then, and if anyone knows me, when I want to get something, I pretty much want it NOW!! So, this is kind of torture for me, but Dave Ramsey says we have to stick to our budget so I guess I can wait :) The rest of the day consisted of cleaning up our office. I don't want to post pictures yet till we get all the shelves and toys put away because right now it still kinda looks scary but we had to do a little rearranging and purging and we threw away LOTS of stuff!! I love throwing things away!! Don't ever have to worry about me being on that hoarding show!!!

Sunday:

After we went to church, I tackled our closet. Ok, I'm just realizing that none of these projects have anything to do with organizing baby stuff....hmmm, maybe I should start thinking about that sometime soon. Anyway, I said earlier that our closet looked like it threw up and it was a complete disaster so I spent quite awhile working on that today. We have a spare bedroom set so we brought in the chest of drawers and found the perfect spot for it. This just gives us a little more storage room.

Our top shelf had things just pouring over the edges, purses, bags, shoes, you name it! Now it looks a little better and we can actually see what's up there. And again...threw lots of stuff away, yay!!

Another thing I'm excited about is that we got most of Cole's toys out of our family room. His toy collection used to be in the corner where his little table is now and again, our room looked like it threw up toys. So after we (I mean Nick) got all the toys in the office, we moved his table to that spot and now we also have room for the upcoming baby swing. OH...does everyone see my new white couch pillows??? Yep, these pillows are so completely soft and fuzzy AND we got them at Pier One with a gift card that we got from our wedding.....5.5 years ago!!! How crazy is that??

This evening, Nick and I headed back up to church. I've been wanting to get Nick and I involved in a Life Group at church and tonight is when we formed the groups. We felt kind of awkward initially because it almost feels like speed-dating for Life groups, ha! BUT, once we met some great couples that we had a lot in common with it was a lot more fun. There are about 8 couples in our group, we all have young children or children on the way and we all live really close to eachother. We are meeting 2 Sundays a month and it's great because we are actually meeting at church so they have free childcare :) It works perfectly because Cole loves going and playing with all the kiddos. I'm just really excited about meeting some great couples from our church and building some good relationships with people that are going through the same things we are! Once we got home from that, it was bath time....but of course Cole had to do a little streaking first, what can I say, he's a boy!

Then Cole and dad had to have a little play time before bed time.

Airplane!!!!!! Cole's new favorite thing!

 Whew...what a crazy weekend, but with only a few weeks left till baby comes, I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff packed into our schedules because I know we'll be stuck at home for awhile come mid-May. It's kind of comical if you look at my calendar.....I seriously have something going on almost every day, every weekend...but then May is completely empty....ha!

I seriously have a problem

Call it nesting, call it your "typical Annie"....starting a million things and not finishing, call it whatever! However, I do kinda have a good excuse for not cleaning up all my disasters around my house lately. Yep, it's called being 8 months pregnant and not being able to move or carry anything heavy. So, I do all the destroying, and Nick gets to clean up after me. This works out great huh? :)
It started yesterday afternoon. I got the urge to take out all our winter clothes because our room/closet looked like it threw up clothes. I really do hate clutter, so I've been meaning to fix that problem. My plan was to go buy some giant bins and store our clothes in them. However, I realize that it's kinda hard to buy giant bins when you have a 2 year old taking up half the shopping cart.
So this is what Nick came home to last night......

And this isn't even what was all over our bed!! I even went as far as to take out all my maternity clothes. I know, I know...I still have a month left so I'll probably need those clothes right? Well, I just took out the things I know I'm not gonna wear and the things that are for colder weather. Trust me, the day I come home from the hospital, ALL the maternity clothes will be OUT OF HERE!!! Thank goodness my sister in law will be here so she can take a lot home since she's just starting that chapter in her pregnancy.

Onto disaster #2....we've been meaning to do a little rearranging in our house. Putting the rocker/glider back in the baby's room, putting the pub table that is in our office back in the family room, buying shelves to put all the toys in, transferring all the toys into the office to make our office more of the playroom...whew, with me??
I got the bright idea to start on the office and making some adjustments. Well, I got as far tearing everything apart, "attempting" to move one of the filing cabinets only to realize my uterus did not like that. So this is where I stop....
Pub table in the entry way, pub chairs in the dining room

 

Everything that was on the floor is now in the desk and see, the one lonely filing cabinet I moved myself.

 

Alright....I realize I'll have to wait till Nick comes home to finish my projects, so I thought I'd move onto some kitchen cabinets. I took out all the bottles from the cabinet and have intentions of washing/sterilizing them, but this is what my kitchen has looked like for the last couple hours....

I mean, I can't even pick them up off the floor??? Do I really think Nick will clean up after this mess!!! Um, probably not! It's just, my dishwasher needs to be unloaded, dishes in the sink then need to be loaded, and then I can wash the bottles. However, I'm just not in a cleaning dishes kind of mood right now. So until Nick tells me to move my mess or Cole trips on them, they may stay there for a couple more hours.

Ok, so onto something where I actually WAS a little productive. Last night I went to a consignment sale that our town puts on twice a year. When I was pregnant with Cole I found some great stuff and I found great stuff this time too. However, it was kinda hard buying things for the new baby since we don't know boy or girl.
However, I did find this cute table and chair set for Cole. It's not the exact color we wanted but I figure if we get brave enough, we could sand and repaint it eventually. It does need a little TLC but for $20, I couldn't resist!

 

I also got Cole a few shirts and shorts but the things I really was hoping to find (outdoor play stuff) they didn't have any of that. Ah well!

A Baby Update

Well, I am now having weekly doctor appointments. I can't decide if this will make the time go faster or slower...hmmm. However, I do kinda like going in and seeing how the baby is progressing. I had another sonogram and here is what we discovered: The baby's head is so extremely low that she could hardly get measurements of it. She said that's not real common at 34 weeks but will be great come time to deliver! However, that also makes for one uncomfortable mama. The last few days I had been feeling LOTS of pressure, even in my lower back and now we know why. She also told me that as of now (and I know this can change), the baby is sunny-side up. I guess I wasn't surprised because Cole was the exact same way. Babies are supposed to come out looking down but my babies like to look up, thus, making it much harder to deliver. So let's just pray that this baby flips around in the next few weeks.

My fluid levels were fine, even a little low but not low enough to be concerned. She said there really was no fluid around the head, but I'm not really sure what that all means.

And for measurements, she said baby is about 5lb 13oz. Again, these sonograms aren't completely accurate but the baby is consistent with it's weight gain. She said the baby will gain about a pound every 2 weeks now, so do the math....we are looking at close to a 9lb-er, yikes!

They informed me that with the head being so low and having a big baby, this doesn't necessarily mean I'll deliver early BUT they said that this baby will probably come a lot quicker than the first baby. Since sometimes it takes awhile for the head to drop during labor, I won't have to worry about that part because I'm already there :)

This, however, does make me a little nervous because the beginning of May, pretty much everyone that I would need to be available if I did go into labor early WILL BE OUT OF TOWN!!! Yes, this includes my husband!!! I mean, I really don't mind if this baby comes early, but if it could just hold off till at least May 4th, that would be great! :)

I have my Non-Stress Test next week, and basically it monitors the movements of the baby and watches the heartrate to make sure it doesn't dip or spike and to make sure the placenta is doing what it's supposed to. Should be exciting :)

So all is good on the home-front......YAY!!!! :)

Our weekend

 Last Thursday, Casey, Lexie and Kaylee had to come into town so we got to spend some time together. Cole was BEYOND excited to see Lexie and they played and played and played for several hours. The weather has been great so they were able to play outside.

I had to bring out a little sleeper so that Kaylee could sleep a little bit without Casey having to hold her all afternoon. Of course I would love to hold her more but it is getting to be difficult to hold itty bitty babies. With a giant belly in the way, there isn't anywhere to put the baby, ha! So anyway, I got out this little sleeper and after Kaylee was done sleeping in it, Cole made his way into it and thought it was pretty funny that he could fit into it. He would pretend that he was going "night night" and pretend to snore. Ha! I didn't let him hang out in it for too long because I'm sure there is a weight limit and I'm sure he exceeds that!

 

We also had our friends The Bell's come into town this weekend. They had a wedding to attend Saturday night but we were able to spend some fun times together. Reagan is about 17 months and she loved playing with all of Cole's toys. Cole was so sweet to her and never got jealous of her playing with his stuff. Again, the weather was awesome this weekend and with us finally getting a new patio set, we were able to spend some relaxing time out on the patio.

Ahhh...Cole giving sweet hugs

Miss Reagan has the sweetest face

The kiddos trying to get Nick to play with them :)

Little Reagan brought me this book to read to her and then Cole walked into the room and he wanted in on the action. Not really sure how they both fit on my lap, especially with my belly taking up most of the room. Whew....it was a tight fit!

Sunday afternoon, Nick parents came up and picked up Cole for his first ever "date". Cole has been absolutely obsessed with Toy Story lately and when Toy Story on Ice came to Dallas, Nick's parents asked if they could take him. At first I didn't know if he was old enough or if he would sit still long enough but the evening ended up being a huge success! Of course Granddad and Gigi showered him with lots of toys, hats, shirts and programs so he came home with lots of goodies! I'll definitely have to take pictures of him with all his toys sometime soon.

This is a picture that Tracy sent us from when they first arrived. They got him a Woody doll and they said he wouldn't put it down the entire show.

 Tracy also sent this picture of Cole in his new shirt. It's a little big on him so hopefully he still likes Toy Story in a year or so...haha!!

 

They said the first half of the show, he just sat in amazement and was just soaking everything in. The second half he got more into it, clapping and yelling. It would have been so fun to be there just to watch him but I know the grandparents really enjoyed a night alone with him!

Nick and I were also able to go out on a little date while the grandparents were with Cole. There is a yummy restaurant that we have been wanting to try called Seasons 52. It's a very fresh food restaurant and they change their menu all the time. We invited Blake and Emily to come along with us since we don't get to spend a lot of time with them without little ones around. We had a great time and really enjoyed a relaxing dinner. I'm also excited because I get to go back to this restaurant in a couple weeks for a Mom's Night Out with my mom's group. Can't wait!

It sure was a great weekend and we love spending time with great friends and family. I was totally exhausted Sunday but that's probably just due to pregnancy stuff. I've been super uncomfortable lately, if I was further along, I would say that I could go into labor at any time! I feel like everytime I stand up, my water is going to break. However, I do have 5 weeks left so I'm just gonna have to grin and bear it. I also realized this weekend that all but a few of my shirts no longer fit me! Yikes!!! Also, I have no warm-weather tops so the next 5 weeks will be interesting finding clothes that will fit me. I feel as though this baby gained a pound over night because I swear I woke up Saturday morning and just all of a sudden none of my tops were long enough anymore. So if you see me wearing the same shirt over and over....don't judge! ha! :) I have another doctors appointment tomorrow, do you think if I tell him none of my shirts are fitting me anymore, that will be a good enough reason to deliver this baby early?? Yeah, I'm guessing he won't go for that. :)

We have a pretty crazy hectic schedule the next few weeks and Nick keeps saying we are too busy, but I HATE having down-time, especially just sitting around waiting for this baby to come, I'd rather be doing things to keep me busy. So....bring on the hectic-ness! :)

33 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 33 Weeks

Size of Baby: About 17 inches long and almost 5lbs.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 17lbs. Last week at my doc appointment, they said I gained 5 lbs in 2 weeks (a total of 20lbs)!!! Yikes! This morning when I weighed myself I had gone down a bit. Not sure why I went down maybe because the last couple days I've just been feeling a bit blah. Is it possible to have a little of the 1st trimester yuckies return the last part of the pregnancy?? Ok, it's not THAT bad, but just not feeling 100%.

Maternity Clothes: All pants and dresses are maternity now. Still wearing some regular shirts if they are long enough.

Gender: Still a surprise!!!! I go back and forth all the time on this. Some days I feel boy and some days I feel girl. Can't wait to find out!

Movement: Lots and lots!! Now it's not just kicks and pokes, but more RUMBLING! When I went in for my last appointment I had a sonogram and it's so funny because this baby and baby Cole are in the exact same position! Last time I was saying how it's so uncomfortable to sleep on my left side, and the lady told me that's because all the arms and legs are on the one side. Makes sense. It's just funny that both babies lay in there the same way.

Sleep: The first part of the night I sleep like a baby but then around 2:00am I'll typically be awake for an hour or so.

What I miss: I think about 4 times I week I'll say to Nick, "Know what I could really go for?" and he replies "A milkshake". He knows me too well....and someone better have a milkshake for me at the hospital after the baby is born!! Preferably a banana pudding shake from Chick Fil A!!

Cravings: Milkshakes, ice cream....sweets...everything I can't have :)

Symptoms: Mostly feeling pretty good, by 7:00 at night, I'm pretty exhausted though. Other than being tired and a little blah this week, I've been feeling great!

Best Moment of the week: Looking at our calendar and realizing we only have 5 weekends left! I cannot wait and hope the next 6 weeks fly by! I'm ready to not be pregnant anymore :)

I am now having to go to the doctor every week now. Every other week they will do a sonogram and then the in-between weeks they will do Non-Stress tests. It's just something they do with women who have high glucose levels. They just hook me up to monitors and I have to press a button every time I feel the baby move. Simple enough!

My last sonogram was great. My fluid levels are right where they should be, baby is in the 78% and she said that at this rate, baby will definitely be over 8lbs but under 9lbs.

I am starting to get a bit nervous about the delivery. Cole's labor/delivery were a piece of cake and I feel like "that can't happen twice, can it"? I never once felt any contractions till I got to the hospital with Cole so I keep wondering if I'll go into labor on my own, will the baby come early, late?? My family made some flight reservations to come down when the baby is born, so I hope they get down here in time. My parents, along with Rachel and Cameron are making the trip down and will probably stay about a week. I'm excited for them to be here and luckily we have a great friend that can change thier flights around if the baby comes early or late.

I sure hope the next 6 weeks go by fast!! :)

Can I complain? Just for a minute??

Ok, obviously I love my family more than anything, but if I could kick them out, just for a night....I would!! That includes the dogs!!!

Let me take you back to last night. Nick went to a concert with some buddies in downtown Dallas, so I was home alone with Cole and the dogs. No big deal! After I got Cole to bed I had plans to sit and read my book because I have book club on Thursday and still have 100 pages to read! Yikes! Well, Benson starts pacing around the house and I knew he was up to something. Next thing I know, he's in the hallway throwing up. Now let me tell you, Benson JUST ate dinner about 2 minutes prior to this, so you can image what the consistency of this throw up was like. To make it worse, he did it right in the corner of the hallway so it got between the wall and carpet (yes, that is possible) and I'm having to dig it out with my fingers. Now, I know you all know how throw up is one of my biggest fears so you can imagine how I felt about this. I even contemplated leaving it for Nick to deal with when he got home!

Alright...got the carpet all cleaned up and I go to bed around 10:00, read my book awhile longer but can't fall asleep till about 11:00.

I knew Nick would be home late, but when I woke up at 1:30 and Nick was still not home, I start to worry and can't go back to sleep. He finally gets home, gets into bed and minutes later, I cannot ignore all the snoring going on underneath our bed (Roxy). My husband may or may not have also been a part of all that noise making, but I'm a good wife and would never tell on my husband like that! :)

So I get the idea to go in and sleep with Cole. Since we just moved him to a queen bed AND that matress is the most comfortable in the house, I thought, why not!?! I go lay down and after laying there awhile I realize it smells like pee. I feel over on Cole's side of the bed and it's soaked, he's soaked, everything is soaked! (note to self, no more juice before bed). This is about 3:00am and I decide to carefully take off Cole's pj's, change his diaper and then take him into our bed. He stayed asleep until I layed him down in our bed, now he's awake! So the next 2 hours consist of me getting kicked, Cole practically laying on top of me, crawling all over, wanting more juice and playing with my hair. At that point, he wanted off the bed and wanted to watch Toy Story. Again, this is about 5:00am at this point. We went out to the family room, put Toy Story on and he layed on his chair and finally fell asleep.....

But wait....as soon as he falls asleep, my alarm is going off for me to get up!!! Time to get ready for the day.

 

 This is how I left Cole this morning, at least Nick was nice enough to take him into Jennifer's for me so he could sleep awhile.

I'm pretty sure I will be napping right along with Cole this afternoon and going to bed at 8:00pm. Not a great way to start the week, but it's a good thing I think my family is cute because at 3:00am, I was ready to trade them all in :)

New bedroom and new paint

Like I said before, a few days ago we switched out the furniture between the kids rooms and I wanted to post some pictures of our progress.
Here is Cole's new (well not really new) BIG bed. His room is not that big to begin with, so putting a queen bed in the room definitely made things a bit squished! He also isn't liking going to bed like he did in his toddler bed. I mean, I still can't complain but instead of running to his bed and willingly getting in, he now fights a little bit and will cry for about 30 seconds :(
A lot of people ask my why we are putting him in such a big bed, but with my family visiting often and us having house guests, we needed to make sure we have a bed for visitors to sleep in. For some reason I can't imagine my tall brother and sister-in-law wanting to share a twin bed, ha!

Another view....

As I mentioned, my parents were busy painting the other bedroom while they were here last weekend. I know, we are mean and put them to work when they fly all the way down here to babysit, BUT, they did offer. It didn't take much to convince Nick since he hates painting more than anything and I'd kinda prefer to not be around all the paint fumes right now. I actually really like to paint but like I said, paint fumes plus climbing ladders....probably not the best idea right now! :)
Our house is pretty much all warm colors and I wanted to go with a cool color for once so that's why we decided on light blue. The blue will go with the bedding that we had for Cole and then if it's a girl we will pull in lots of pinks! :)
So sorry I can't give you a full-out new baby room tour but until the kid is born, we have no idea what to do with the room.

The past week and our last mini-vacation

I am on Spring Break right now and we are having great weather here so I couldn't ask for more! Last week we were getting ready for my mom and dad to come stay at our house so they could watch Cole while Nick and I enjoyed a mini-vacation.

But first, I have to share this picture that our sitter Ms. Jenn sent me last week while I was at school. This is a typical Cole move right here....she got out the shaving cream and let the kids make a big mess with their little pile. If you notice, Cole's pile is not even messed up or played with! He is totally his father's son! Nick did not like to be messy when he was little and I guess Cole is taking after him in that aspect. Jenn said that he took his little truck on and off the pile of shaving cream, but never got his hands dirty. What a goof!

Saturday morning, Nick and I headed down to San Antonio for 3 nights with our friends the Bell's. They are some great friends from college and we absolutely love spending time with them. We are so blessed to have great friends like them! The drive down there was kinda miserable because a typical 5-hour drive took us over 6 because traffic was terrible!
Once we got there we had a great time! We stayed right by the Alamo so we were walking distance to the Riverwalk. We did lots of walking (which I paid for by the end of the night) and ate at some wonderful restaurants. We did a river tour, went to a movie, shopped, walked, walked some more and also relaxed a little bit. Here are some pictures of our weekend....

This is Sharon next to a replica of the world's tallest man. We had to get a picture of Sharon with him because Sharon is a whole 5 ft tall so the contrast is pretty funny!

 

One of our favorite places to go to on the Riverwalk is Durty Nelly's. It's an Irish Pub and so fun with all the singing and crazy people. Of course Chris had to get a green beer since it was almost St. Patty's day!

 

One of the days we walked around the mall a little bit and Chris and Nick found some great shirts at Macy's for $5 each! Normally Nick would NEVER pick out a shirt like this but with some convincing from his wife and friends, he bit the bullet and purchased this crazy purple shirt. He got a lot of compliments on it and I think he looks like a stud in it! :)

While we were down south, my parents sent us a couple pictures of what they had been up to with Cole. One of the first things on the agenda was to get him a haircut. My mom gave him....probably haircut #54 and as usual, it turned out great!!
Here is a picture of the new haircut...they were on their way into church.

 

After church they took Cole to the Original Pancake House and they said Cole LOVED the blueberry waffles they got him. :)

Nick and I drove back to DFW on Tuesday and we were definitely ready to get back to see our little guy. Luckily our drive back was much smoother than the way down so it didn't take us as long to get back. My dad had to fly back to Colorado the day before we got back but my mom was still around for the day when we returned. While we were gone, my parents painted the baby's room and it turned out great! I will post pictures when we get the room mostly set up. We knew that after that room got painted that we would have to switch the furniture so while my mom was still here, Nick and my mom switched Cole's furniture out and Cole is now officially in a queen-sized bed! ha!!! We laughed so hard the first night he slept in the bed because he was so itty bitty in that big bed!
Here is a picture of him on the monitor, can you see that tiny little body in that gigantic bed?

 

Here is another picture of him sleeping in the bed for the first night. He did great, as expected, and still has not gotten out of his bed till morning.

Wednesday morning, Cole and I took my mom to the airport and then we headed over to Pump it Up Jr. for a little playdate. I have a couple girlfriends that are involved in a mom's group here in our area and all the kids were born in 2009 so it's great to get involved in a group with the same aged kids!

Here are some pictures of Cole, he had a blast and I literally had to drag him out of the place :)

 

Like I said, I just joined this new mom's group and I'm so excited because it will give us a lot of things to do this summer. They also do mom's night out and last night they did a bunco night at a wine bar that is literally down the street from our house so it was nice to be so close to home for a change. It was so much fun and I got to meet some great girls! I even walked away with $50 because I got the most bunco's! Pretty good deal!

Today we are going to a St. Patty's Day playdate at a park nearby so we are definitely keeping busy during our spring break. This week is definitely going too fast, before I know it we'll be back at school....booo!! :)

30 Weeks

 

 I feel like my belly hasn't gotten much bigger in the last few weeks, guess that's ok, right!?! :)

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 30 Weeks

Size of Baby: Almost 16 inches long and a little over 3lbs.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 14lbs. Yay, haven't gained any weight in about 6 weeks.

Maternity Clothes: All pants and dresses are maternity now. Still wearing some regular shirts if they are long enough.

Gender: Still a surprise!!!! I go back and forth all the time on this. Some days I feel boy and some days I feel girl. Can't wait to find out!

Movement: Lots and lots!! There have been instances where I have to stand up and bend over to the side a bit because I constantly have either a foot or elbow digging into my left side. Sometimes very painful! I said last time that luckily I don't feel a lot of movement at night....yeah, not the case anymore. I've had a few sleepless nights because of the constant rumbling in my tummy. Everyone says you are supposed to sleep on your left side when you are pregnant, but literally it is SO uncomfortable to sleep on that side because of that constant jabbing on the left side.

Sleep: If I'm not kept awake from all the movements, I actually am sleeping great! Nick still uses the rolling pin on my legs every once in awhile and that helps a ton!!

What I miss: Being able to splurge and go have a milkshake or something. You know how when you can't have something, you want it even more!! I have always been a pretty healthy eater but would splurge and have yummy desserts or something every once in awhile so it's so hard to not fix that craving with a Shamrock milkshake or Banana Pudding milkshake.
Cravings: Shamrock milkshake, Banana Pudding milkshake or any ice cream for that matter.

Symptoms: Feeling good, starting to get a bit uncomfortable when I walk, literally I feel like my insides are going to break. I was the same way with Cole, but not till about 35 weeks or so...I have a long 2 months ahead of me! Also been having crazy dreams....let's see, last night it was that a cougar was chasing me, but I was faster so he never got me :) ha!

Best Moment of the week: My parents are coming into town on Thursday to watch Cole while Nick and I go to San Antonio with some friends. We are so excited because this will be the last time I can travel before baby comes. Can't wait to spend a weekend with the hubs and some great friends! Again, it would be SO much more fun if I was free to eat whatever I wanted...boohoo!! :)

Wow, can you tell food is on my mind lately?? haha! Usually food isn't a huge issue for me but like I said, when you can't have it, you want it that much more! Nick has been enjoying our diet lately because he gets lots of meat, something he didn't get to experience when I was pregnant with Cole (I hated meat while pregnant with him). I do need to start coming up with more recipe ideas because I'm getting sick of the typical chicken, rice/potatoes, vegetable dinner.