34 weeks 3 days

How far along? 34 weeks 3 days

Total weight gain/loss? About 20 lbs gained.

Maternity clothes? Yes

Stretch marks? Nope.

Sleep? Still getting up every 2 or so hours to pee and waking up for good earlier each day.

Movement? Slowing down a bit. Most active in the evenings.

Food cravings? None.

Gender? Unknown.

Labor signs? None.

Belly button in/out? In. Shallower and flat on the bottom.

What I miss: Being able to bend over. Being comfortable.

What I am looking forward to: My baby shower is coming up!

Milestones: Less than 6 weeks to go! I don't know if it's considered a milestone, but baby is head down and ready!

30 weeks 3 days

I have seen these questionnaires before and figured I might as well fill them out for the last few weeks of this pregnancy. Hopefully I remember to do them weekly!

How far along? 31 weeks 3 days

Total weight gain/loss? I don't know. They only weighed me at my first appointment.

Maternity clothes? Oh yeah. Although I do have some non-maternity shirts that still fit.

Stretch marks? Nope.

Sleep? Much better now that I'm over my nasty cold. Now I only wake up 3-4 times a night to pee instead of that plus waking up every ten minutes because I couldn't breathe/swallow.

Movement? All the time. Usually in the morning and evening I feel it the most with some occasional kicks throughout the day.

Food cravings? None right now. I haven't had many strong cravings. Most of the things I do want though are only available in the US so I can't even have them.

Gender? Unknown.

Labor signs? None, just an occasional Braxton Hicks contraction.

Belly button in/out? In. Shallower and flat on the bottom.

What I miss: Not much. There really isn't anything that I did before that I can't do now. Except maybe bend over comfortably to shave my legs more often.

What I am looking forward to: My midwife appointment tomorrow. Another ultrasound in 2 1/2 weeks. My shower at the end of September. Being able to finish buying all the baby items.

Milestones: Finally making it to 30+ weeks. It seemed so far away at the beginning, but now it's here.



Don't mind the blurry picture, or the messy room. I was having a hard time getting it to come out clear.

Ultrasound Pictures

Below are some pictures from my 20 week and 24 week ultrasounds. The baby doesn't like to cooperate so they still haven't been able to see everything and I go back for another ultrasound in a few weeks.

Bairnsdale

The first week in July Paul had off of work so we went down to visit his mom. It was nice and relaxing being away for the week. I didn't take many pictures, but here are some of what I did take.








Paul tried to help Andrew up on this
rock but got told, "No Dad! I am a
man! I am a MAN!"










The lone Pelican we saw.

States visit May 2010

Because of my grandma's passing, Paul and I flew back to the States for her funeral. Even though it was an extremely sad occasion, I had a great time catching up with everyone. I miss everyone and even though I keep up with them on cam/facebook, it's not the same. Here are some of the pictures I took while home.


Trenton






Jocelyn


Lori, Mom, and Clarisa


William


Marisol




First thing I did when I got home was get a
haircut! It was the first one since before I
moved in June 2009!




Uncle Bob, Aunt Gaylene, and Uncle Jim






Dad and Trenton dancing!

Oh! The Preakness was going on while we were there and the horse I picked came in second! Woo hoo!

RIP Grandma

January 18, 1927 - May 9, 2010

Easter Surprise

This year for Easter we had a surprise for everyone. We are having a baby! I was 12 weeks on Easter Sunday (I'm now almost 27 weeks so you can see how much I've been slacking on this blog). It was super hard to hide because Paul's sister was living with us at the time. Somehow we managed though! Paul ended up calling his side of the family and telling them (they live about 4 hours away). Since I found out I was pregnant the first week of February, I knew how I wanted to tell my family. Paul and I both agreed to wait until I was 12 weeks before we told anyone and it just so happened to work out that Easter Sunday was 12 weeks. It worked out even better that my family was going to be at my parent's house to celebrate. We had planned to get on Skype together and I loved seeing their reaction. It was hard getting everyone in the same room and I thought our plan wouldn't work out. My aunt had to take her mother home so I asked her to wait and get everyone in the room because had a picture we wanted to show them. Finally everyone was there and I sent the picture via messenger. It took a few seconds for it to register with everyone what it was a picture of and then there was lots of screaming and crying and falling off couches! It was such a great feeling to be out and now have to keep the secret to ourselves anymore.





Due October 17, 2010, gender is a surprise!

Happy Birthday Andrew!

March 14th was Andrews 10th birthday! Since the kids birthdays are so close to each other (Chelsea's is March 7th) we spent the day at the zoo. It was my first time at the Melbourne Zoo. We were all slightly disappointed because a lot of the exhibits had no animals in them. Oh well. We had a great time seeing what we could.