Our nursery/crib

That's our crib! Isnt it pretty?!
And here's the nursery:

I know its looks awesome, right? We have gotten so much done!

I mean I have 7 more weeks until Im full term, no need to have anything done, right?!

Lord, give me strength.

30 Weeks!!

That's me @ 30 weeks! Saying that Im 30 weeks doesnt sound that bad. Until you look to the right and see that ticker on how many days are left. I cant tell you because I stopped looking. It kind of induces a panic attack~!
Still feeling good & doing the usual - walking about 3 miles per day. I think I really need to start doing some arm exercises too though - sausage arms freak me out!
The scale & I had a serious breakup! Im up 17 lbs now - I really would like to stick to the 25 lb weight gain total, but we shall see. I can definately tell you where the pounds came from though because I AM HUNGRY ALL THE TIME!! I mean seriously HUNGRY ALL THE TIME. Im not sure if you catch my drift, but I cant go more than 2 hours without eating & it's not like a little snack will hold me over. I need like 6 MEALS a day. I am eating well though and not eating junk, so should I really be gaining that much weight?! Who knows. I want a sundae.
I've also started bi-weekly appointments with my midwife, so I guess that means we are getting close!
My belly button is still pretty freaky although it hasnt totally popped yet. Here's a hot belly pic shot!

28 Weeks!!

This is funny... on the left is me @ 18 weeks & the right is me this morning @ 28 weeks in the same exact outfit.

I was just a little impressed I could still button those regular jeans and that top is one of those extra long tank tops, which is now a hot belly shirt on me.
Oh & this is me from the front today:

Please dont freak out...I didnt wear this outfit in public. I changed before leaving the house.

Welcome to the BIG show!!

Hello 3rd Trimester! Hello big ol' belly!


Me @ 27 weeks, 2 days:

Lord help me...I think my belly is bigger today.

How far along? 27 weeks (beginning of 7 th month & 3rd trimester!!!)
Total weight gain? 12 lbs (gulp) - as of monday. I havent weighed myself since getting back from FL. Im more than a little frightened to since my belly looks even bigger. Although I ate really well and didnt even go to Sonic or Steak 'n Shake or Krispy Kreme. It was pure torture really.
Maternity clothes? If me wearing the same thing in every picture isnt a tip off, then I dont know what is.
Stretch marks? not yet
Sleep? Getting worse. Some nights are really bad & I think I wake up with a bigger belly. I have to wake up in order to roll over plus the peeing = me waking up atleast 4-5 times per night.
Food Craving? ice cream, milkshakes
Labor signs? nope. still not liking the Braxton Hicks though
Belly Button? Getting creepier by the day. I would recommend not seeing me because I totally show my creepy belly button to people. Its like half flipped out.
What I miss? being able to bend over
What I'm looking forward to? i dont now. all i see ahead right now is getting fatter, which really isnt something to look forward to!
Weekly Wisdom: Never sit next to the fat guy on a plane
Milestones: Last trimester!!

Staring at Countdown ticker in Bewilderment....

Uhmm....can you see that?!?! Does that say 98 days left?!?! I feel like Im having a slight panic attack - shouldnt I be nesting or have a nursery ready or Something?! Oh crap. Im usually quite prepared & organized, I swear. I feel like I need a week vacation of laying on a deserted beach because Im way too drained to actually acoomplish anything. My excuse is that the crib wont be in for another month, so why not wait til then to get stuff done?
I really need to schedule a hospital tour too so I can feel more comfortable with all the nonsense that they might impose on me. Ive been keeping up with my reading & our childbirth class is going well, although the teacher is a bit on the long-winded side.
I started my research on vaccinations and found out some utter ridiculousness that left me fuming. Apparently you have no choice in what the doctors want to inject into your child because the school district REQUIRES your child has these vaccinations in order to go to school. And Ill be damned if Im going to pay a ridiculous amount in school taxes and not send my kids to public school. Im still quite pissed & looking into this. Supposedly there is a way around this if I "affiliate" myself with a random religious group that is against vaccinations - so screw you CB school district. Im looking more into this as well. Im okay with some vaccinations, although would prefer if they were more spread out. But some things are just ridiculous - like Hep B - please explain to me why an infant only hours old needs to be vaccinated for this. I have never been vaccinated for Hep B & I tested negative. HEP B is a freakin' STD and the only other risk is from blood transfusions which is minuscule even if she needed a transfusion, which the chance of that is minuscule. So once again please tell me why this is necessary & required to go to school. Its completely eff'd up in my opinion. I am still scarred for life from my infant chicken pox vaccination and don't want to scar my kid & I still got chicken pox (yes vaccines arent really all that effective now, are they?!). Ive also never gotten a flu vaccine in my life & Im still alive and kicking. Needless to say that doctors don't really explain to you that its not just a vaccine they're injecting in your baby, but also aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, etc that are in there to "help" make the vaccine work better. Ohh but I ramble on....
I forgot to take my picture today, so you will have to wait.
Other than that, Im super hungry. Like all the time. I could really eat a cupcake right now...or 9.
I promise to not rant as much tomorrow....

25 Weeks!!

Here's Me:

How far along? 25 weeks

Total weight gain? 10 lbs (gulp) - hitting double digits wasnt quite as bad as I thought....although it still pretty much sucks.

Maternity clothes? Can you tell from the 5 whole outfits I rotate weekly? I can still barely get away with regular tops (like the one in this pic), but they're quickly getting too short. And I'd hate to be that WT girl with her belly hanging out the bottom of her shirt. That is pretty hot though, right?

Stretch marks? not yet

Sleep? Okay. I wake up ALOT during the night. And I feel really tired most of the day.

Movement? Feeling her everyday now but she is relatively calm compared to how much she moved the weekend in Nashville - must've been all that loud music.

Food Craving? ice cream & cheese (apparently she needs more calcium right about now)

Labor signs? the Braxton Hicks contractions started about a week or so ago. They totally freaked me out at first because I didnt know what it was. They're quite creepy imo.

Belly Button? still stretched open & shallower

What I miss? Being able to get out of bed quickly

What I'm looking forward to? Is it bad I cant think of anything right now?

Weekly Wisdom: If your husband never did his homework in school, he probably isnt going to do his childbirth class homework either....

Milestones: We started our bradley childbirth classes.

p.s. Im hungry!

Pregnancy makes you stupid

I never really knew this before. Who tells you these things & why the heck would you believe them?

This may or may not be caused by either your brain shrinking during pregnancy (i have no idea why your brain shrinks, but apparently it takes 6 months after birth to return to its normal size) or the weird influx of hormones. I found research that also suggested hormones during pregnancy sometimes mimic the effects of alzheimers. And yes, I researched this because Im a nerd & I didnt really believe this was a side effect.

So I try to keep it together - I make my lists & write everything down so I dont sound like a total idiot. I may have sometimes put the peanut butter in the fridge with the jelly after making my pb&j and dumb things like that. I sometimes completely forget what I was doing or what I was going to say - but ehh it comes back eventually & only results in a few extra trips to the grocery store.

The most annoying things has been burning myself in the kitchen. Not sure if its the stupidness or Im just really hungry, but the other day resulted in my second bad, blistering burn to the hand. I was just trying to make a new recipe for S'more bars (yummy, right?):

These are super easy to make, but include bringing chocolate and a few other ingrediants to a boil on the stove & then pouring the hot chocolate mixture over golden grahams in a bowl. So as I began to pour the boiling hot chocolate over the golden grahams - I think to myself 'hmm I should spread these out in the bowl to get better chocolate coverage'. So I reach my hand into the bowl to move the golden grahams WHILE the other hand continues to pour the chocolate. In my head, Im pretty sure I told my other hand to stop pouring the chocolate. But alas, I pour burning hot chocolate on my fingers! OWWWW. So then I calmly have to set the hot pot down and run to the sink to get the chocolate off my hand. Yahh that really freakin hurt. Then I had to quickly return to pouring the chocolate before it cooled because I couldnt possibly ruin my bars. I am a dedicated baker. Then I had to mix in the marshmallows all while my hand is pulsating & burning. But I got those bars done & proceeded to be in pain for the next day. Here's a shot of one of the burn blisters 2 days later:

Yea that hurt, but the s'mores bars were yummy. Ryan had the nerve to tell me there should be more marshmallows in them. Which truly there should be, but had my fingers not been burning like hell, I might've added more.