A 25 Week Update - Better Late Than Never!

(Please ignore those splash marks on my dirty bathroom mirror and the quality of this picture!  I snapped it quickly before work the other day because I keep forgetting to take pictures!)

How far along?  I’m so bad at keeping up!  I’m technically almost 27 weeks, but this picture is from 25 weeks.  

Total weight gain: WAY too much!!  At least 25 pounds so far (so embarrassed to admit that!!) even though I feel like people keep telling me a look small.  …?

Maternity clothes? All the time!  I do still have a handful of shirts/sweaters from prepregnancy that I wear occasionally.  And until a couple weeks ago I was wearing prepregnancy pants with an extender for the button, but recently maternity pants are just so much more comfortable!

Stretch marks? Recently discovered two big ones right down the front of my belly. :(

Sleep: Depends on the night.  My hips have been killing me from sleeping on my side, and I toss and turn and wake up A LOT during the night.  And always have to get up at least once to pee.

Best moment this week: Spending time with family over Christmas! :)

Miss Anything? Most recently lunchmeat!  All I want is a darn turkey and cheese sandwich!

Movement: All the time!

Food cravings: chocolate milk, cheeseburgers, and I’ve really been wanting sweet potatoes lately - not sure if that one will stick!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing really makes me sick, but coffee is still pretty unappealing.

Gender: boyo!

Symptoms: Just this past week: SWOLLEN FEET.  I put my chuck taylors on the other day and couldn’t even walk in them.  Then, last night I was afraid to take my shoes off at my in-laws because I didn’t think I would be able to get them back on when we left.  I think it might be time to go shoe shopping!

Belly Button in or out? still in, but weird

Rings on or off? On, BUT I think I might have missed the boat to take it off.  Not just my feet are swollen, and now I couldn’t get them off if I tried.  Oops.

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy most of the time.  I have noticed that weird things have been making me want to cry recently though.  And I get annoyed a little more easily (especially when I’m hungry!!)

Looking forward to: My next ultrasound on the January 3rd!! 

Nursery Furniture!

I am SO excited because I finally bought our first piece of nursery furniture this week!! 

A dresser!!  And I got it for only $20!!  The paint needs touched up a bit, but other than that it's totally perfect!  And it's already painted the colors that we are doing the nursery in - how lucky is that?!

I got it through my work classifieds, and the same guy also has a white crib that he is planning to sell but hasn't listed yet.  I can't wait to check out the crib when we go to pick up the dresser next week!  We just might be able to get the crib and the dresser together for under $100, which would be amazing!!

Nursery Planning

As soon as we found out we were expecting, I began looking at things for a future nursery!  I love this kind of stuff, and could browse the internet for hours just looking at all the cute things!!  I was first inspired by this art I saw on pinterest:

Isn't is gorgeous!  I knew I wanted this to be the theme of our nursery, boy or girl.  And thankfully, I have a sister that is a very talented painter, that will hopefully be able to replicate something similar to this for me. :) 

I pictured this with gray walls and yellow/gray crib bedding.  Unfortunately, I had fallen in love with this set before we found out if we were expecting a boy or a girl:

But after we found out it was a boy, I knew that this set was just too girly.  And now that we know it's a boy, I would love to include light blue in our gray & yellow sunshine theme.  I'm hoping to find a used dresser/changing table on the cheapskies that we can refinish and paint blue.  And we added a blue glider to our registry:

Anyway, all this to say, do you know how hard it is to find yellow/gray crib bedding that isn't custom made and doesn't cost a fortune?!  Oh my goodness, I feel like I have looked everywhere imaginable, and I haven't found anything I've really loved.

This is what's on our registry (from Target) right now, and I like it, but it just isn't my favorite:

I like the giraffes, but I just wish it was more yellow than gray, especially if we are going to go with gray walls, I don't want it to be too much gray.  I have looked and looked, and the only things I can find that I like and that aren't too girly are on etsy and they cost an arm and a leg and a kidney.

So, has anyone seen any mostly yellow with gray and/or blue crib bedding anywhere??

I suppose if I really can't find anything, and I decide that the above set just won't do, we could paint the walls yellow and go with a mostly blue with yellow/gray bedding set just because it's so much easier to find!

Any advice??

Over That Hump

I think I have FINALLY (halfway into my second trimester) reached that awesome stage of pregnancy. I have been feeling (relatively) great except for some occasional bad heartburn. I actually look pregnant, and have some great fitting maternity clothes that I am loving. I'm not constantly tired anymore (though I do still love my naps). And I'm still pretty comfortable.

According to the stages of pregnancy on pregnantchicken, this stage lasts approximately 27 minutes. However, I've been feeling great for about the past week. Not going to take this time for granted, that's for sure!!

And I'm really thankful to be feeling good at this particular time of year!

Korey and I got together with my sister the other night to take our very first "family" picture to put in our Christmas cards! It was a lot of fun, and we ended up with some pretty good shots! here's my favorite at the moment:



I think this is probably the one we will actually put in our cards.

I have been feeling pretty GIGANTIC lately. Between my doctor saying that I'm gaining weight a little too fast, and a probably well-intentioned but still a little hurtful comment from my step-father-in-law's mom on Thanksgiving (that's a mouthful!), I've just felt like maybe I look like I'm further along than I actually am (my sister-in-law is also pregnant and about 6 weeks further along than I am, and she commented that I look bigger than she does, which is probably true, but still isn't awesome to hear). Plus it's just tough to watch your body grow and grow, even when it is for the best reason! And I am not a big fan of watching the number on the scale go UP. I've really been trying to watch what I eat a lot lately (even though all I crave are cheeseburgers and coke!!), and I even got my butt over to the gym last night and spent 40 minutes walking on the treadmill! I've only gained about a pound or two since my last appointment, which is GREAT and I'm really proud of myself. Hopefully I can keep the weight gain to a minimum before my next appointment which is in about 2 weeks.

AND today, one of my co-workers asked me how far along I was, and when I told her I was 23 weeks, she said, "Oh, but you are still so little!" Even if she was just saying that, it totally made my day!!