8 More Weeks!

Hi all! If everything goes as planned, I have about 8 weeks left, which makes me 32 weeks on Wednesday. New things:

1. I am a lot bigger, and definitely feeling it. I cannot wait to no longer be pregnant. Prior to being pregnant, I thought that wearing pants with elastic in the waste would be awesome, but I was totally wrong. Maternity pants suck. I don't think I would hate them so much if it wasn't so warm out. My problem is that they tend to wiggle their way down, which makes them hang long in the crotch area, creating sweat...not fun.

2. The baby is moving like crazy! I hate it when he is way up in my ribs. I literally sit there and try to push him down. Sometimes my stomach looks so weird when I can actually see a limb sticking out, or when my stomach moves when he moves. I wonder if anyone else notices that.

3. Pics:

Here is my new rocker recliner! I love it! Jake and I went shopping to look at glider rockers and realized that they are quite expensive. For not much more money we could have a lovely rocker recliner. Again, I love this chair. After I sat in it in the store, I could hardly think of anything else. Jake is also nice enough that if I even enter the room and he is in it, he just gives it up to me. I feel it was a very smart and useful purchase.

This is me 31 1/2 weeks prego.

Here is the crib all set up with the mattress and bedding. I had a very difficult time picking bedding. I didn't want anything too dark, and I didn't really want a theme at all. I just wanted colors and patterns. This is very hard to find in baby boy bedding. I really like the colors and I like turtles and frogs, so all is good. I also liked the polka dot pattern on the sheets!

Hopefully soon we will be able to do more with the baby room. We have the dresser, but it needs some touch ups on the paint because it got a little scratched up en route to Huron, but I'm very glad my mom brought it and came for a visit!

New Pics!

Hi everyone! Sorry I suck so bad at updating this. I think it's because I have such an aversion to getting my picture taken.

This is me at 29 weeks prego. I had a doctor's appointment today and everything seems to be going great. He usually has his patients coming in another 2 weeks to see him, but he's going to hold off for another week with me because things are going so well! I'm feeling pretty good, starting to get more tired again, and feeling huge, but I think that's normal. I had to retire some t-shirts I've been wearing. I wore one to work on Monday and felt like I was busting out of it, so I decided they're all done.

Jake and I are in a prenatal education class. I think Jake seems more interested in what the lady says than I do. The information is good, but I hate doing breathing exercises.

Here is a pic of the baby closet and all of the clothes we currently own. Mostly used from some friends of ours, but a lot new to thanks to my mom and sister-in-law! As many of you know, I love to bargain shop, but I have to deal with not being able to do that here. Unfortunately it's slim picking on shopping options in Huron so I need to plan my shopping trips for when I go somewhere else! I am hoping to expand on this quite a bit expecially since there are only a few newborn outfits there.

This is our newly assembled crib! Hopefully we get a mattress for this, otherwise it won't be very useful...again, one of those things that you need stores for. As you can see in the background, we also painted the room blue. I don't really like it yet, but I'm hoping once I get the baby bedding and other decor and furniture in there it won't seem quite so overwhelming. The room used to

be our office/Jake's hunting room and it was a very dark, hunter green color. It looked pretty good, but there isn't much natural light in there so I wanted a lighter color. Not sure if this was the best pick. The wood paneling on the bottom isn't my fav either, but it's actually good quality, and since we either removed it, or painted it in every other room, we thought we should leave this how it is. There are a lot of outdoorsy people in Huron that will appreciate it when we sell this house!

Sorry!

Okay, I'm sorry I haven't written in so long! There hasn't been too much to write about. This weekend when I have some more time I will try to upload some pictures. Updates right now...1) I feel huge. 2) My boobs are bigger than they've ever been and I feel they look completely disgusting, naked or fully clothed. 3) I have regular heartburn. It burns all the way up my esophagus and I feel as though I could breathe fire. 4) Mr. Baby is moving much more now and Jake has felt him move. 5) I discovered I can't jump.

That's all for now. I will try to have a better and more detailed update this weekend!

Bump Pics

People have been asking to see belly bump pics and I've been avoiding it. Here you go.

Pic 1: Me at 6 weeks, so practically pre-pregnancy.

Pic 2: Me at 18 weeks.

It's a...

It's a boy!! Jake and I had no preference of sex, but it's still exciting to finally find out! Now I can focus on doing more like picking stuff out for the nursery and names, etc. It was very cool seeing the ultrasound, but hard to concentrate because I had to pee so bad! They told me to come with a full bladder so I made a point of drinking a ton of water. When I first got there I told them I had to pee very bad and the lady asked me if I could "partially" empty my bladder. I was like "could you?" I mean, how many of you can stop start peeing and then stop and feel okay? So after I went to the bathroom they gave me a few cups of water, but being that we waited in the exam room for over an hour before the ultrasound it had plenty of time to fill up and make me feel like I was going to pee on the exam table.

It was so cool seeing the baby move around. He was very active, but I can't feel him move yet, so I'm still looking forward to that.

I also forgot to write last week about my new niece Avayah Rose being born! We got to see her last weekend and I wish I could be around her more often. I can only hope our baby comes out as perfect as her!

Okay...I honestly have nothing much to write this week. Nothing much has changed. It's now only 3 weeks until we can possibly find out the sex. I think I'm waiting for that until I start doing anything for preparation, but the truth is, that I probably won't start doing anything for a while. It's kind of hard when you don't have any stores to go shopping at.

Maybe in my next post I'll include some pictures. People are asking to see my bump, but I still don't have an obvious "bump." It just looks like I've gained some weight. I hate looking at my stomach so I avoid it at all costs. I know I should enjoy not being huge because from what I hear that has negative aspects too, but I would rather be noticeably pregnant, than questionably gaining weight. I'm loving the weather since I can go out and walk, but my lower back has really been acting up. I'm having some sciatic problems. I have to be more careful when I teach dance and not overdo it. That's all for now. Hopefully I'll have more to add next week.

14 weeks!

So I had my 2nd appointment today. I hate how I got so excited and then nothing really happens at the appointment. We got to hear the hearbeat again which is nice to hear, but other than that I got to sit on the exam table for a half an hour and wait for the doctor to come in and talk with us for 10 minutes. On the plus side, he said at our next appointment we get an ultrasound and can possibly find out the sex! Yea! Jake and I have not done anything to prepare for having a baby and we don't plan on it until after we know the sex. So no, we don't have any names picked out, and I cannot think of a single boy's name that I like anyways. I hope the next 4 weeks go by fast!

Ok I created this blog a while ago and decided that I wouldn't post anything until after my first doctor's appointment. Jake and I went today and we got to hear the heartbeat which was great. Jake also got probably an unwanted education on what a pap smear entailed. I thought the doctor would have him move, but he was practically front and center! Oh well! So I have no other news except that we heard the heartbeat.

I am anxiously waiting to start feeling better and getting some of my energy back. Today at the doctor he described it as my body is "climbing a mountain everyday." That sounds so much better than "feeling like crap and laying on my couch as much as possible." That's all I have for now. I'm getting tired and should go to bed so I can climb another mountain tomorrow. :)

Yea!

Yea! I created my first blog! You can come and read about my, Jake, and baby Heuston's journey. Come back for updates!