Thursday, February 28, 2013

Catching up

It's been a LONG time since my last post.  I've been WAY busy with my new job, but more on that in a minute.  As of today I am 26 weeks and 5 days pregnant.  I was sitting in the kitchen today and realized that my due date is 14 weeks away, which is about 3 months.  After having a minor mental breakdown, I went through everything that still needs to be done before the baby is born.


The nursery needs to be finished.  We have our base coat on the bottom of the walls and now all we have left is a little touch-up here and there and adding the stripes at the bottom.  Here's a picture of where we are at currently.


We also are looking into health insurance and life insurance that we'd like to have ready when the baby comes.  Now that I've got a paying job, we can afford luxuries like these.  We also have to finish registering for the baby shower.  We've done Target and now we've got Babies r Us and Walmart.  It's just been so hard to find a time to do it when we both are feeling decent and have the time.  I know there was more on that list of things to-do, but my mind is on my queasy tummy at the moment.

My 2nd trimester has flown by faster than I ever thought possible.  I've heard stories about how women have felt as if they'd be "pregnant for ever".  I don't think I'll have to worry about that!   This pregnancy has FLOWN by!  We had an ultrasound at 20 weeks that revealed a healthy baby.  I have LOVED showing off my ultrasound pictures and because of this, here they are!


We weren't planning on finding out the gender of the baby so right now we just use "he" or "she" interchangeably. The baby is kicking like crazy and loves to make itself known after meals and just before bedtime.  I always looked forward to feeling the baby move and have not been disappointed!  Unfortunately, this post is going to have to end before I want it to.  I'm afraid my first trimester symptoms (ie. nausea) are coming back.