25 Weeks!

How Far Along:  25 weeks - Due date is March 12th, 2014

Size of Baby:  13 1/2 inches and about 1 1/2 pounds, about the size of a rutabaga.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: About 8 pounds

Heartbeat:  150ish at my appointment on Nov. 18th

Maternity Clothes:  YES! And I'm starting to feel like a whale! The holidays are not going to help, because I know I'll be stuffing myself!

Gender:  We are having a BOY!!

Movement:  Starting to feel a lot more lately. Still can't feel anything on the outside, any day though!!

Sleep:  Sleep is great!

What I Miss: My energy!

Cravings:  Nothing really, but I have been craving beer! NA is just not cutting it.

Symptoms: My hands and feet are starting to swell. I can see my sock lines and my fingers feel like sausages most days.

Best Moment This Week:  Finding out I'm going to have a new Niece!!

Looking Forward To: Thanksgiving and all the great food. I have so much to be thankful for and I'm so happy to be spending it with my family!

24 Weeks

How Far Along:  24 weeks - Due date is March 12th, 2014

Size of Baby:  1 1/3 pound, he's about the size of an ear of corn.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: as of my last appointment this past Monday, I was up about 8 pounds.

Heartbeat:  150ish at my appointment on Nov. 18th

Maternity Clothes:  YES! I feel like I popped out a lot sooner than I did with Cooper. I did not have to buy any new clothes since I'll be having this baby around the same time as Cooper.

Gender:  We are having a BOY!!

Movement:  Starting to feel a lot more lately. Ready to be able to have Tom and Cooper feel them. He had the  hiccups the other night!

Sleep:  Sleep is good, but once I get up to go to the bathroom, if I think about anything it will take me at least an hour to get back to sleep, so I try not to think about anything, which is hard sometimes but I try.

What I Miss: Being about to Jazzercise at high impact! I can really tell when I'm overdoing it, so I have to tell myself to calm down and just get through the class. I'm trying to make it to my December 16th Glucose test! I do not want Gestational Diabetes and I'm hoping exercising will help.

Cravings:  No cravings - I really like my ice cream though and Cooper is loving that I love it too!

Symptoms: Nothing, just getting big and not being able to move as much.

Best Moment This Week:  Starting to get the big boy room started, we moved toys in there, that's as far as we got and boy does our living room look a lot bigger. Also getting to hear the baby's heartbeat!

Looking Forward To: Feeling more kicks and hiccups.

I hate the way I look in these pictures but, it's not about me, its about the baby and how my belly is growing! Boy, do I look tired or what??

Lots of things happening...

Can you believe we are almost a week away from Thanksgiving?? I sure can't! We have had lots going on and I thought I'd share a few things.

Micayla moved into a house down the road with her friend, Megan, which means we have a room for the new baby! Actually her room is going to be Cooper's room, we've decided to keep the nursery a nursery so when we redo Micayla's room, we'll call it the big room, we will just put a full/queen size bed in there. I'm hoping to nurse the new baby like I did with Cooper and he slept with me until he was bout 4 months, until he outgrew the bassinet, so by that time, Cooper will be about 2 1/2 so we'll transition him then. However, we started this weekend, we took off the front rail of Cooper baby bed and put a safety shield so he can get used to crawling in and out of bed. He loves it and he slept just as good last night, we'll see how the next few nights go.

Cooper loves climbing in and playing in his bed.

And here he's sound asleep.

The last two nights have been good, I don't think he realizes that he can get out when he wakes up, he just sits in there and waits until someone comes and gets him and all this blankets.

Anther big thing we got this weekend was a new potty. We bought a 3-n-1 so he has a step stool as well as a potty. We were going to just go with a seat to put on the toilet but then thought he's going to need something to step up onto the toilet and I thought this would just be best. He loves to step on it to turn out the light, his new favorite thing, and he sat on it once, cloths on, but that's as far as we got. I"m not going to push it too hard yet, heck he's only 20 months (today) and I don't want my baby growing up just yet!
 

So that's what we do with the "potty" right now! I may need to move my towels because they are ending up on the floor every time he tries to "lite" (turn out the light, his new favorite thing).

And I got an early Christmas present

LOVE IT!! Tom's first text was "spoiled brat" LOL Love you honey! Now I just have to figure it out, any helpful hints, please share! Us Cellular finally got them in and it was perfect timing because my line was up for an upgrade, not that I needed it, but come on, why not??