Week 35!

Total weight gain/loss: Lots of weight gained

Maternity clothes? Yes wearing dresses mostly now as they are more comfortable.

Stretch marks? Not that I have seen

Sleep: Still getting up a few times per night.

Best moment this week: Not having to go to the doctor next week.

Movement: Tons, I love feeling him kick and move.

Food cravings: Almond pastry from Malik's bakery - I really need to stop this craving!

Symptoms: Hip pain, waddeling, fatigue...

Gender: male

Labor Signs: none yet!

Belly Button in or out? I have no belly button

What I miss: Having the energy to play with Evelyn.

What I am looking forward to:

Weekly Wisdom: Don't move while you are pregnant it just adds too much stress!

Milestones: We are at 35 weeks which means only 35 days left.

Week 34!

Total weight gain/loss: still high :P

Maternity clothes? I hate maternity pants, they don't seem to want to stay where I want them too.

Stretch marks? Nope.

Sleep: Waking once or twice a night doing ok.

Best moment this week:

Movement: Regular and strong!

Food cravings: Yogert covered raisins and cranberries, Ice cream.

Symptoms: Fatigue, Hip pain, waddeling, difficulty standing up from sitting.

Gender: no change there

Labor Signs: None yet but it is early.

Belly Button in or out? what belly button

What I miss: My energy.

What I am looking forward to: Being pain free, being a better mother to my little girl and little guy.

Weekly Wisdom: Don't cross your legs it is a really bad habbit.

Milestones:

Paint

Jason started to paint the new house yesterday so I need to have all of the colors chosen for the room. I have teh room with the fireplace picked out the nursery and our bedroom. I sitll need colors for Evelyn's room, the living room and the hallway. I would love to do a ragging or another texture for the hallway but that would just take too long. I am goign to decide tonight and Jason is going to pick out the final colors of the flooring tonight so that he can get it ordered. He said he wanted to do all one color upstairs though with the difference in lighting in the rooms that may not be the best idea. I told him to put the samples in the rooms too see how they looked though they will not be painted the proper color yet. I hope he will have everything painted by this weekend (providing I have the colors picked out tonight and he orders them...

So do I do Evelyn's room Purple or Yellow?

The Rock Garden

Every day after daycare for a while Evelyn would get excited to pick up a rock from their landscaping. After I would get her to my car I would get the rock from her and put it somewhere in my car to return at a later date. Some of the rocks I actually kept separately because they made good worry stones due to the shape and texture. This was a great plan unfortunately I didn't always remember to return the rocks to their proper owner. Jason after fixing my breaks yesterday picked up evelyn and remembered to return all of the rocks (Okay there are two left on the floor on the passenger side). I kind of miss the rock garden but am also glad that it is out of my car again. Having rocks rattling around really isn't that safe.

I'm sure Evelyn will rebuild the garden again unless I get better at returning them.

I knew it was a bad idea.

I knew it was a bad idea to bring the kitten home and yet I did. He is a very good kitten and has done so well with Evelyn I don't want to give it up - even though I know I have to. The harder I try to find him a good home the harder it is for me to imagine giving him up, maybe the hormones are to blame. I hope we find a good home quickly or I will be very upset when he goes. Likley this will already be a problem.

Week 33!

The Kicker is now a honeydew with 7 weeks left! His senses are continuing to improve -- when light peeks in through your (extremely) stretched belly, those tiny eyelids and irises blink and dilate. And, baby can now recognize and react to simple songs… time to start practicing your lullabies! Growth (at least inside your womb) is starting to slow, and you may notice baby descend into your pelvis at the end of this month.

Total weight gain/loss: Lots.

Maternity clothes? Yes and the pants are mostly driving me nuts.

Stretch marks? Not that I have noticed lately.

Sleep: Getting harder and harder. I routinley wake up two too three times in the night already.

Best moment this week:

Movement: Strong and regular. :)

Food cravings: anything sweet but especilly almond danish from Maliki's Bakery in 12 corners.

Symptoms: Hip pain, mood swings - again. Some fatigue due to waking up a few times in the middle of the night.

Gender: Still a boy.

Labor Signs: None yet

Belly Button in or out? What belly button?

What I miss: Not having to worry about what I do and it's effect on the baby. I really need to live in a bubble.

What I am looking forward to: I don't know.

Weekly Wisdom: Don't move while pregnant talk about stress!

Milestones: Another biweekly appointment done though I'm glad we are not doing internals yet!

Mowing the lawn.

When you use a reel mower you need to keep up with the mowing. When you wait too long between mow jobs it just does not work well. I definitely waited too long and added to that I think the blades need to be sharpened. Unfortunately neither of us has the time to sharpen them at the moment. The back yard didn't look too bad however I ended up doing the front twice because it looked that bad, and It still looks like it needs to be mowed. Sigh maybe one of the neighbors will take piety on us and mow for us...