24 weeks and FINALLY showing :)

Now I look pregnant, don't you think??? This week has gone really fast. I'm loving my prego swim class. The instructors really work us, which I love. My class is so small, there are only 3 - 4 of us each night. I'm feeling very stretchy these days, more crowded and finding more things that are harder to do, i.e. bending over. I try to bend at the waist and bun usually kicks me, like "hey there, quit squishing me!" So now I'm only able to bend at the knees or "around" my belly. Bun is busy, busy, busy. I think it sleeps between 9am and 11 ish, then again mid afternoon for an hour or two, and that's it! This kid never chills out. It seriously feels so weird when it moves around in there, but I'm loving it, I really just love the reminder that it's there and doing good :) The book says that it's about 1 1/2 pounds and 8 1/2 inches long...finally outgrown the fruit references.

23 weeks with a circus :)

I popped out this week a little. Now that there is a 2 week spread between the pics it looks like I'm a little bigger :) I wish you all could watch my shirt move! The baby kicks so much and so often. This morning I just sat in bed and watched it kick! My shirt actually moves! It feels so funny, I love it! My book says that you can learn their sleep and awake patterns now because you feel them move...well my bun never sleeps...maybe for an hour and then there goes the circus again. I feel it move some about every 2 hours and it's always in a different place...on the right, in the middle, over to the left, down low...it is seriously doing back flips and somersaults in there! It's an early riser, 2:30am or so, very active in the morning when I actually get up at 5:30 or 6, and then it sort of chills out around mid morning and lunchtime, then the party's back on at about 3pm on :)

I started a mom's in motion swim class this week. It's 3 nights a week for an hour and I love it. Baby loves it too, during the class which the instructor tries to not wake the baby in, baby's party kicks it up a notch. I fear my child might be related to a wild cheetah or something as active as it is :)

22 weeks and MOVING!

I wont have a picture this week...sorry...we have been so busy weaning calves, chopping silage, and shipping grass calves, we just haven't had the energy left over to snap a picture. I know, that's sad. But I did want to share with you all that I FINALLY felt the baby moving in there. I felt the first movement at 20 weeks, then another couple of small movements at 21 weeks, but this week bun has been having a party in there. Pretty much every few hours I get a couple good wallops from it. Scott was so surprised when he felt it...he was expecting a little subtle tap and bun gave him a huge kick, it made him jump :)
The book says that our little bun is about a pound this week (ours might be a little ahead of that...last week at the ultrasound it was already 15 oz). It says that bun can hear things going on outside now and is grabbing the umbilical cord, practicing it's grip.
Really sweet story...we've been chopping silage these last 2 weeks and I'm the one in the office weighing trucks...usually alone and bored :) Scott spends the whole day in the chopper. Well the other day we were done for the day, baby hadn't really moved all the much that day, little bits here and there, but not a whole lot. At the end of the day Scott was talking with our hired guys, standing pretty close to me and the baby went crazy kicking when it heard Scott's voice. Scott just beamed when I told him :)

21 week ultrasound

Here are the pictures from Wednesday's ultrasound. Our little bun has some seriously long legs and arms and is flexible like it's mom :) The second picture is it's little (or big) foot, and the one next to it, it has it's leg up by it's head :) It was cruising all around in there while we were looking at it, kicking and hiding it's little face...it was so cute...the technician would try and get a picture of it's face and it kept turning away or put it's hand up in front of it, as if to tell us to quit messing with it :)
They measured the baby's spine, heart, femur bone, skull, brain, belly, the placenta, and the fluid around the baby. Everything looked great! It was amazing to see the 4 chambers of it's little heart, it was so cool you could see the chambers opening and closing. They took it's heartbeat again, measured the pattern and it was 145 BPM.
Scott's on permanent pout though because I wouldn't let him find out the sex...he even tried to bribe me with a new car, but I just really want to wait so I didn't budge. We were the talk of the whole office...all the nurses and our doctor told Scott that they'd take the new car :)

21 weeks!

Somehow my kid has gone from a cantaloupe to a large banana this week, 7 inches long, round to long and skinny :) We have our second ultrasound tomorrow which we are both so excited for. It will be fun to compare the pictures from our 13 week ultrasound against these new ones. We are going to be surprised on the sex of the little tyke, so the bets are still on.

Still no cravings that are abnormal, I just snack all the time now. About every 2-3 hours I get a rumble that bun needs a little something. Fruit is still so yummy to me, mostly the nectarines. I've added peaches, pears and berries to the mix, and I can't get enough garden fresh tomatoes from my neighbor, yummy! Avocados taste fantastic too. I've been able to add hamburgers back in with no issues, but still no steak yet.

Halfway there!

20 weeks and counting! I can't believe that I'm already halfway there. After I stopped puking the time has really flown.

I'm not even going to comment on if I'm showing or not...

Our little spawn is now the size of a cantaloupe. So this is what I'd look like if I swallowed a cantaloupe whole :)

This last week we finally got our baby furniture :) I found it on craig's list and got a screamin' deal. I went and picked it up on Thursday, and Friday Scott and I set it up in our nursery. Now bun's room is on it's way to being ready.