26 Weeks!

How Far along: 26 weeks, 4 days

Baby size: According to my ticker, she weighs about 2 pounds.

Total weight gain: +11 pounds.

Maternity clothes: Yep.  

Sleep: Mmmm, sleep. I've been sleeping more restlessly the last week or so. Not so nice.


Best Moment this week: It was all decent. No moments particularly stand out. We did go to a birthday party for my coworker's little girl who is just a couple weeks younger than J, so that was fun.

Movement: Yep :-) All.The.Time.

Gender: GIRL!

Labor signs: N/A.

Belly button: The top is still working it's way out. It's totally freaky.

Cravings: Chinese food.I also got to try deep fried lotus root. OMG. It was amazing. I wish I could just have a bucket of it. That's not really so healthy though...

What I miss: Bending over, being able to use my abs/sit up from reclining easily. Feeling like a normal person. Being able to reach things in cabinets/the sink without my belly getting in the way.

Stretch Marks: Same ones.

What is different this time around: Pretty much everything still. Weight gain is different this time, too...

What I am looking forward to this week: My birthday is on Saturday! Also, I enter the 3rd trimester on Thursday. Crazy.

No yoga since last week...we just had too much going on so that by the time the evening rolled around I would just go to bed instead of doing my yoga. :-/

Dancing Robot?

How Not to Take a Nap

You will need: one 3 year old boy, one comfy bed, and about an hour of time.
You will imagine that your son will snuggle with you like he did as a baby, and that you will both have a very nice nap together.
What will actually happen is that the boy will lay down very sweetly for about 10 seconds. He will then decide he wants to hide in the covers, and request that you lift them up so that he can do so. Once hidden, he will rapidly wiggle back to the pillow and lay down again. Since you are still trying to sleep, you will tell him that he needs to lay down and have quiet time so you can sleep. He'll respond by telling you that you need to open your mouth, and demonstrate by making snoring noises. If you don't open your mouth, he'll stick his fingers in it and make you open your mouth. Then he'll move on to your eyes, and get really, really close to your face. He'll poke you in the eye so you will look at him, and then he'll laugh and tell you that his eyes are blue and that you have eyebrows and he has eyebrows. Then he'll decide to hide again, and once again wiggle back up to the pillow. At this point he'll tell you he needs a toy to take a nap, and he'll go to the living room and get two tiny Dimetrodon (sp?) dinosaurs that he got for his birthday. This will take him just long enough that you will start to doze. You will soon be awakened by a small dinosaur tail in your nose. At about this point your dog will start scratching on the door of your bedroom, and your son will let him in while he goes on another trip to the living room. You will remember that your dog is an ideal napping partner, as he just curls up by your feet and goes to sleep. Soon your son will return again, and this time he will have a hamburger that he made special for you. This will be given to you in that he will throw it at your (not) sleeping face and tell you that the hamburger came apart, and can Mommy please fix it? Shortly after this point, you will realize that your attempt at a nap was completely futile, and you will give up.

25 Weeks!

How Far along: 25 weeks, 4 days

Baby size: According to my ticker, she weighs about 1.8 pounds.

Total weight gain: +8 pounds.

Maternity clothes: Yep.  

Sleep: Mmmm, sleep. I still need a pillow between my knees. I like sleep. I'd like to go take a nap now.


Best Moment this week: James' birthday party was pretty fun, he had a great time. I've got to say though, my favorite moment was sitting with him in our recliner and watching Toy Story. It was just wonderful to get to cuddle my boy for a bit.

Movement: Yep :-) Lots of it.

Gender: GIRL!

Labor signs: N/A.

Belly button: In but shallow and tiny, and the top is starting to poke out. It's totally freaky.

Cravings: Fritos. Donuts. It seems that Lilah is remembering how much she likes fried stuff.

What I miss: Bending over, being able to use my abs/sit up from reclining without looking like a stranded turtle (not to mention the triangle belly...thanks, muscle separation). Lack of near constant pain in my hips and back when I am not sitting down.

Stretch Marks: Same ones that sometimes are visible at an angle, and my old ones.

What is different this time around: Pretty much everything. This child is very different than James!

What I am looking forward to this week: Payday? Does that make me lame?

Also, just to brag, I actually did my yoga this week! YAY! Well, okay, so I did it yesterday. It felt SO amazingly good. The way that our living room has been rearranged makes it easier, too, because I have more room. I'm in way less pain today than I was yesterday morning, so I think it helps. I'm going to try to do it again tonight. My goal is to do at least 30 minutes of my prenatal yoga every night.

"I'm Hiding, Daddy! It's My Secret Place."

Stalling

Here's the story of how James postponed bedtime tonight:

James: "Hey, Mommy, there's a spider on my ceiling."
Me: "Why yes, yes there is."
James: "It's a Mommy spider, where's the daddy spider?"
Me: "Honey, I think it's a Daddy spider. It hasn't met a Mommy spider yet."
James: "It's on my ceiling. When does it come down?"
Me: "Do you want it to come down?"
James, emphatically: "NO! I do not want it to come down."
Me: "Do you want it to stay up there? Or do you want Daddy to get it down?" (Given that I have some arachnophobia issues, I wasn't about to volunteer to get a chair and drag my pregnant butt up there to "rescue" a spider. Ick. *shudder*)
James: "Daddy get it down. Spider can go outside and eat bugs. Daddy's still taking a shower. The spider is on my ceiling eating bugs."
Me: "Yes, Daddy is in the shower. When he gets out we'll have him get the spider down so he can put it outside and it can eat bugs."
*Several minutes pass while Chris gets out of the shower, finds a jar and a piece of newspaper, and herds the spider off the ceiling and into the jar. It was a yucky brown spider. About an inch across, all told. Bleh*
James, following Daddy to the front door to put the jar outside: "Spider's going outside to eat bugs!"
Me: "Yep..."
James, heading back to his room: "Where's the Mommy spider? Where's the baby spiders? What about the boy spiders and the girl spiders?"
At this point I explained that the spider we released hadn't met the future mommy spider yet, kind of like Uncle Eddie. Not that I am comparing my brother to a spider, though James did start calling the spider the Eddie Spider. Erm...After about 5 more minutes of coaxing and explaining, James finally accepted that the spider was outside having fun eating bugs and would find a mommy spider later. He did ask about 3 times to go look at the spider again, although I mentioned that he could look in the morning, though it would probably be gone because it will have found a new house.
Finally, about 20 minutes after the first time I tucked him in, he went to bed. Then he decided he needed to sit on the potty. This is his "guaranteed to get another few minutes before bed" method, because he knows that even if he doesn't pee, he still gets to sit on the potty and hang out for a few minutes rather than go to bed.

24 Weeks!

How Far along: 24 weeks, 4 days

Baby size: According to my ticker, she weighs about a pound and a half and is just over a foot long head to toe.

Total weight gain: +8 pounds.

Maternity clothes: Yep.  

Sleep: Mmmm, sleep. I still need a pillow between my knees. I like sleep. I usually have very bizarre dreams, too, thanks to crazy pregnancy hormones. Including one where Chris was a Jesus T-Rex. Hmm.


Best Moment this week: PASSING THE 1 HOUR GLUCOSE TEST! Woot! No GD for me, yay!!! Also, of course, wiggles from my girl. James got to feel her this week, so now every time he places his hand on my belly he says his sister is kicking him. (He did also get kicked in the head the other night, which is what he gets for using my belly as a pillow.)We also had our annual Beerika party on Saturday, which was tremendously fun.

Movement: Yep :-) Lots of it. My midwife asked if I felt her at least 14 times a day, and I laughed and said it would be a nice break if she only moved 14 times a day.

Gender: GIRL!

Labor signs: N/A.

Belly button: In but shallow and tiny, and if I poke next to it I can make it look like a really freaky volcano.

Cravings: Meat. I still LOVE the smell of onions, too.

What I miss: Bending over, being able to use my abs/sit up from reclining without looking like a stranded turtle. Not being in pain whenever I stand up or walk.

Stretch Marks: Same 3 (or maybe 5 now...) that sometimes are visible at an angle, and my old ones.

What is different this time around: Pretty much everything. Especially how much pain I am in.

What I am looking forward to this week: Not having GD. Hee hee. Also, James's birthday party on Saturday.