Well technically halfway. I am not expecting him to hang out in there past when Jake was born, so we are considering this pregnancy more than halfway over. That is slightly scary! We have to wait until after Christmas to start working on the nursery, but hopefully that will get done quickly since all we need to do is get rid of furniture and paint in there.
How far along? 20 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +4 lbs...well there we go
Maternity clothes? Maternity everything unless I am just hanging out at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Still sleeping well
Best moment this week: Getting all of our Christmas decorations up
Movement: Lots...kid is going to move just like his big brother!
Food cravings: Ramen noodles
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, I enjoy being pregnant so I really don't miss much
What I am looking forward to: Picking out bedding and figuring what all we are going to need for Owen!
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Feeling like someone kicked me in the crotch syndrome has hit much earlier this time
Milestones: officially halfway!
How far along? 19 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +3 lb according to the dr's scale (+2 lbs on ours)
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Sleeping well unless monkey boy comes into our bed in the middle of the night and starts kicking or hitting me in the face
Best moment this week: Finding out Tiny's name!
Movement: Lots
Food cravings: Nothing
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, I enjoy being pregnant so I really don't miss much
What I am looking forward to: Family pictures this weekend
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Still needing to eat pretty regularly or I either feel sick or lightheaded
Milestones: Finding out what baby Tiny is!
Picture tomorrow. We were busy decorating today!
Umm or a week later. Oops. We took this last week I just never got around to posting it.
This is a story about Jake, as told by Jake at our dinner table last night.
"Once upon a time....there was a Jake...and he was eating dinner...and was just eating the cheese...and he was playing with his sweet potato...and he spilled his milk."
How far along? 18 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +1 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Sleeping better, less waking up in general and any time I did wake up this week I fell back asleep pretty quickly
Best moment this week: Hmmm...not much happened this week pregnancy related.
Movement: Tiny moves a lot. And moving all the time now
Food cravings: Nothing
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, I enjoy being pregnant so I really don't miss much
What I am looking forward to: Thanksgiving
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I am still really sensitive to smells and will gag at random smells
Milestones: Feeling like my energy is back to normal!
How far along? 17 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +1 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I sometimes have a hard time going back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night (or am woken up by some cute kid coming into our room in the middle of the night) and I have a harder time laying directly on my belly
Best moment this week: Josh and Jake feeling Tiny kick on the outside
Movement: A lot more movement
Food cravings: Nothing
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, it has been a pretty uneventful (pregnancy related) week
What I am looking forward to: Next u/s in a few weeks
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I think my belly is smaller this time
Milestones: Josh and Jake feeling Tiny kick on the outside
Jake got his first really big boo boo today. He was playing in the child care at the gym and fell into the corner of the window and hit his head. They came running to get me and he had a nasty gash on his head, but they had gotten the bleeding under control at least. But dang there was blood everywhere. Poor kid couldn't figure out why his hands were covered in blood but didn't hurt. After we got him all cleaned up I looked at it again and it was pretty small, but wide. I figured we would just put a bandaid on it for a while and it would be good in a week or so. But when we got home and I cleaned it again it started bleeding again, so Josh and I decided I should at least call the dr's office and get their opinion. The nurse said since it was wide to go ahead and bring him in to let the dr look at it and at least put some glue on it. So we headed to the dr to get it checked out. They got us in with the first available person who happened to be the nurse practitioner. She checked it out and was trying to decide if glue would hold it or it would need a stitch. I begged for the glue since I didn't want Jake to have to go through the trauma of getting stitched for one stitch. So she grabbed our normal pedi who looked at it and said, yep let's get some glue on there. I was thrilled with that and I love our pedi!
So 10 minutes later he was all glued up and ready to go. Of course this happened just a few days before we have family pictures taken. I guess this year they will truly capture our life at the time, gash and purple glue on his forehead!
How far along? 16 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: 0 lb according to my scale....2lbs according to the dr's scale
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I sometimes have a hard time going back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night (or am woken up by some cute kid coming into our room in the middle of the night)
Best moment this week: Hearing Tiny's heartbeat at the dr. It is always reassuring.
Movement: Feeling movement usually in the afternoons or evenings
Food cravings: Nothing really
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Not having to take 9-11 pills for random things everyday
What I am looking forward to: Next u/s in a few weeks
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I have had frequent headaches this time
Milestones: Feeling Tiny kick on the outside. It was just one quick tap but I happened to have my hand there and felt it on my hand too. I am slightly scared of how much this one is going to move once I can feel everything!
I LOVE the holidays right now. I mean, I have always loved holidays, but they are just getting better and better now that Jake gets them and the anticipation and he has so much fun!
Last night we headed out around 6, we were going to go down to the end of our street where they had a bounce house set up, but it took us a little bit to get ready so we just skipped that part. We stopped at some of our friends house to see when they were leaving to go Trick or Treating. We ended up hanging out with them and going Trick or Treating with them. Jake and I were out from about 6:45-8 then headed home and Josh took him out for another 20 minutes. We hit a ton of houses and got so much candy that I had to empty Jake's bucket twice while we were out then again when we got home so he could go with Josh. But he just loved it. He was so excited to be Buzz Lightyear and told everyone he was Buzz Lightyear and did his "To infinity and beyond!" He got so many compliments on how cute he was.
Of course, our evening was not complete without a moment of panic for me. We were about halfway between our house and our friends houses (we had dropped them off there and worked our way home) when Jake announced to the man that opened the door of the house we were at that he had to go potty. No trick or treat, just "I have to go potty!" His costume was one a one piece with his wings over that and we were just too far to run in either direction and I didn't know if it was I have to go now or I kinda feel like I might need to go soon. So this very nice man, while laughing, asked if we wanted to use his bathroom. It was so awkward! But what other choice did I have at that point?! So inside some strangers house we went and got the costume off as quick as we could. We made it just fine, but dang that made for an interesting few minutes. And a good story that we can laugh about.
Jake has been so proud of all of his "treats" that he has told everyone about them.
