Week 13

Pregnancy Highlights:

Size of Baby: Baby H is now about the size of a medium size shrimp and is almost 3 inches long and weighs

 nearly an ounce.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: As of my last appointment over a week ago I was +3 and I haven't stepped on a scales since.

Maternity Clothes: Sometimes! They are just so much more comfortable than my regular clothes. I don't have to wear maternity pants yet but I have just because I hate when my buttons dig into my belly with my regular pants and it's so uncomfortable. The work pants I have have the big belly band, or whatever it's called, so I just pull them up just over my belly and it's comfy. LOL And tops, I'm not really comfy in anything else. If I'm at home I can wear some bigger t-shirts and that's OK but when I'm out and about I like the maternity shirts, especially the T-shirt material ones. I found a couple of really cute shirts at Kohl's but they only have to colors, I was wishing for more but oh well.

Gender: We will be finding out on November 25th or 26th at our Gender Reveal Party!

Movement: Nothing really, I did feel a flutter the other day after eating lunch but I don't know if it was the baby or gas, but I'm saying it was the baby.

Sleep: I've been sleeping great! Last night I got up to go to the bathroom around my usual time of around 2:30 and I couldn't get back to sleep and it was driving me crazy. I think I was just thinking about things. I hate when I do this.

What I Miss: I can't think of anything right now, my energy is coming back. I have been staying up past 9:00 so that's a plus!

Cravings: Again, I haven't really had any cravings. Every once in a while I'll want something sweet but that's about it.

Symptoms: I don't if this is really a symptom but seeing and feeling my belly getting bigger and harder. I will lay in bed and just rub it and I can feel the difference. I can't "suck" in my gut anymore but some day's I do try. 

Best Moment This Week: Tom and I tried going for a walk but ended up at the neighbors. There are 4 of us in our neighborhood that are all expecting babies around the same time. The first one due, Kathy, is due around the end of the year. Joie, she's due a month before me, March 7th, then there's me due April 4th and Angie, she's due, I think the end of April. She wasn't out the other night but the 3 of us girls were talking and we've decided to all get together some night in October and go out for dinner and get to know each other. I've been living there for 2 years and I hardly know my neighbors and if we all have small children around, what better way then to get to know each other. I'm really looking forward to it, we are all around the same age and we were also discussing about ways to communicate with each other just in case we need a break or something and for me, since this is my first and Tom works 3rd shift they said to definitely call them if I need anything. I have good feelings about all this and I can't wait to get to know them.

I'm also so excited to almost be out of my first trimester! It's such a great feeling knowing everything is going great so far.

In other news, tonight I get my hair done! I've been needing this for the past couple of weeks. My hair is getting long and super dry. I'm hoping that my hair dresser can help me out with this. Saturday I'm heading to Schaumburg (suburb of Chicago) for a Jazzercise district meeting. We have decided to spend the night instead of driving home after the meeting. We got a hotel room at The Hilton and 5 of us are staying in one room! This should be interesting. LOL Linda is bringing an air mattress so someone, not me, will be sleeping on it. I'm hoping to get to a maternity shop, since we don't really have anything here in DBQ and of course, I want to hit Home Goods, Crate and Barrel and William-Sonoma, these are my favorites stores. Stores we don't have in DBQ so it's always nice to browse through them. I'm sure we'll hit a few other stores but that's my goal.

Oh and this picture taking sure is difficult, I think we took around 10 pictures and this is the best one I could come up with, this was taking with Tom's camera. I still haven't found a place to put my hands. I want you to be able to see my belly but they seem to hide it. Oh well, I have 27 more weeks to figure it out.