27 weeks

So Mom and Dad, Mike and Maren, Sarah and Chris and their families are all in town and with the rest of us living in the surrounding areas we’ve been able to have the whole family together! It’s been lots of fun. Monday night we had sandwiches with most of the siblings (mom and dad weren’t here yet and Josh had class that night and was in the process of moving) it was lots of fun to chat and everything. Last night we had the whole gang together had pizza, chatted and played with all the kiddos. Tonight we’re having a girl’s night to celebrate Maren and me being pregnant. (We’re both having girls!! So fun)

Today we had a doctor check up and everything looks great! Blood pressure looks good. I’ve only gain 6 pounds so far which our doctor said that’s not a lot of weight gain but she’s not concerned about it at all. The baby is getting everything she needs and is doing great. I had to do the glucose test. Where you drink this sugar filled drink then have your blood drawn an hour later to see how your body reacted to all the sugar. It’s to check to see if you have gestational diabetes. I think 1 in 4 pregnant women develop it. I’ll get the results back in about a week. I got the RhoGam shot done today as well… my bum is sore. I needed the RhoGam shot because I’m O- blood type. Our doctor said that I shouldn’t have to get my blood drawn, have any shots or be poked again until labor so that’s nice. That’s pretty much it!

Activity Days

I had my second activity days activity!! I think it went really well! We made journals. I should have taken a before picture. We got these notebook type things from DI and they were just really ugly but then we turned them in to these.

I think they turned out really cute! I made this one for Lexie because she’s out of town and Monte made hers. She seemed to have fun. So hopefully the activities will continue to go well! 

Pregnancy Update: I'm still doing great. Some nights I don't sleep as well but I think that's just to do with the sudden weather change so I get hot then cold all night long. I also have to use the little girls room sometimes up to 5 or 6 times a night. But besides not sleep well some nights there's really not a whole lot to report. My belly is getting bigger of course and I feel her move more. Chris has been able to feel her move more and see her move a lot too! That's pretty much it. 

  This is what my belly looked like today :)

Busy day

So today was a pretty busy and fun day. I went to a baby shower for Chris’s cousin’s wife, Shanna Mae in the morning. It was a lot of fun and I got to see Mark’s (Chris’s uncle) family! I haven’t seen them in about a year. Mark works for the FBI so they have lived all over, Chile, Africa, Utah (not so exciting) and now they’ll be moving to Israel. So it was lots of fun to see them. And then I had my first activity days activity today at 3 pm we made bread for the primary kids to give to their dad’s for Father’s Day! We only had one of the three girls there but she said that it was one of the funnest activity days she’s ever been to! So yay, I’m so glad she had fun!! Then I had a nap which was fabulous!

Oh my goodness do normal people get so excited over what they are going to make for dinner?!? I'm so excited for dinner tomorrow night!! We’re having my cousin Court and his wife Lisa over for dinner. I’ve not met her yet and I’ve only seen Court once since he’s been home from his mission (he got home about 2 years ago) So it’ll be lots of fun to visit with them. Also I’m planning on inviting her to my baby shower and felt weird inviting her without ever meeting her. But I’m way excited for what I’m making! Grilled chicken, grilled zucchini, apple slices with caramel sauce, and Court and Lisa are bringing a salad. And for dessert we have 3 different types of ice cream to choose from: mint chocolate chip, good ol’ chocolate, and cookies and cream OR they can have otter pops OR both. :) I am really excited for it!

25 Weeks

 Next month my best friend from home is going to be throwing me a baby shower in Porterville and she asked if we could take some cute pictures of my belly to put on the invitations. So I got all dolled up and Chris and I went to the park and took some pictures. I think he did a really good job! Here are some of my favorites.

  

Just my hands making the heart

Then this one is with both of our hands

 

And one of just the two of us :)

It was a fun way to spend the day. I'm hoping to have Chris's cousin take some professional ones when I'm about 7.5 or 8 months pregnant. I'll have a more impressive belly then. I'm 25 weeks today only 15 weeks left!! It's gone by sooo fast!

loopy

 I didn't sleep well last night, so I’ve been a bit loopy today. Chris and I sorted my buttons into like colors and about an hour later Chris found a button stuck to my leg. I laughed sooooo hard I had tears running down my face. Then it took everything in me to keep from crying … there wasn’t a reason to cry. But you know when you see pregnant woman on TV and they go from laughing to crying for no reason, I almost did that! It was hard to keep from crying! It was so weird! Today is also the first day I’ve worn a maternity top besides to try them on.

                                                              24 weeks 3 days

                  

 

I guess I look a bit loopy too lol (So much for trying to get a cute picture my eyes look crazy!)

6 months pregnant and hungry

Chris just learned the hard way not to touch a pregnant woman’s lunch. We had hamburgers the other night and I was making myself the last one from the leftovers. When I was putting away the hamburger fixings Chris took a bite of my hamburger! I got upset with him because I asked him before I even put it together if he cared if I had the last hamburger and he said no that was fine if I ate it. So I told him not to touch my food and make himself something to eat. He told me it was his daddy tax and then said and my husband tax and tried to take an other bite. That’s when I told him I was going to give him an eat-your-face-off tax if he ate anymore of my hamburger. I apologized before he left for work, that I was just hungry but I also told him not to mess with a hungry pregnant woman.

24 weeks

We had our 24 week appointment with our doctor (the last one was just an ultrasound appointment) We got to hear Penny's heartbeat and our doctor confirmed what the ultrasound tech had told us that the cyst has gone down a lot in size and that she has no reason not to believe Penny is perfectly health and that the pregnancy is going great! With that being said I took some belly pictures today, so you know what that means picture time!

Remember this picture I posted about a month ago

Take a look now

 

Lol this picture makes me laugh so hard!!! Can you barely see my toes poking out?

And since I usually cut my head out of the pictures (on purpose it's just easier to focus my attention on getting my belly in the picture :) ) Here's one with my head in it

100% girl

We had our follow-up ultrasound done yesterday the tech said that the cyst on baby’s brain is resolving itself and looks a lot smaller than it had before and that all of the organs and everything look great. We got a very clear look and she is definitely still a girl!

  Our tech kept saying how pretty Penny is and even said that her heart was pretty lol. We have some more pictures!! Yay! I think she is the cutest baby already! I seriously can’t get over how cute she is! I’ve been looking at the pictures a lot!

Here’s her profile picture at 23 weeks! (our tech had fun doing these first two pictures in pink)

Here she is snuggling up to mommy

Just look at how cute she is! Oh my goodness this is by far my favorite picture! I just love how much of her face you can see! Look at her full little lips and her cute nose! I’m so in love with our little girl!

Finally!

This last Saturday (the 28th of May) Chris was able to see Penny move, he saw her bump 3 times in a row and then on Sunday he saw her two completely separate times. Which was a lot of fun for him to be able to at lest see her move. We also had dinner with my cousin Jeff, his wife Irene and their 4 adorable kids. It was a lot of fun to visit with them and catch up. Neither of them had meet Chris yet so that was fun for them to get to know him and for him to met them. Lots of chatting and laughing :) And when we got home from dinner Chris finally felt baby girl move!! So fun! I was feeling her kick and we were laying on the bean bag together so I put his hand over the area with my hand on top of his and she kicked so hard that I felt it even through his hand! She kicked and moved several times for daddy! Yay! I’m happy he was able to feel her move. It was a special moment for me I couldn’t help but tear up a bit as his eyes got huge and he had a big smile on his face as he felt her for the first time!