Author: allycat143

How your baby’s growing:
Your baby’s skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now, and she’s around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.

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ohh sweat glands. fascinating. so i had my ultrasound on saturday at the peekabelly 3D place and it is a GIRL!! im insanely excited about that. i wanted a boy first and then two girls, and so far that is exactly what i got! (rethinking the third child now, tho). paul, lucas, mom, lauren, steph, and ross all came with my to the U/S to find out with me, it was really fun! im glad lauren talked me into doing it, it makes it more special to have everyone there. heartbeat is still at 155, and in two more weeks i’ll be going to the doc for another ultrasound and a full anatomy scan. *fingers crossed* that she doesn’t grow boy parts in the next two weeks, altho we all saw the triple lines so i dont think that will happen. i’ve found some gorgeous nurseries online. here is an example of one: glenna jean

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in other news, aunt nephie (as lucas calls her) and ross have just left to go back to Boston *sad face*. now i dont know what to do with myself, b/c ive gone from months of constant busyness and deadlines to having plenty of free time. girl scouts will be starting in two weeks, so that is a project to look forward to. other random updates: i got my tank cleaned up and filled last week. lucas says “uh oh ‘gator” combining “uh oh spaghettio” with “later alligator”. we went swimming in the pool a couple of times this past week and lucas LOVED it! on fri the 2nd, he actually started swimming! he figured out how to kick his legs behind him to propel himself fwd and go places. that was after only 4 pool trips total. he can also climb in and out the side of the pool on his own, and loves to jump from the side of the pool down to us. we also tried out both gymboree with lauren, jake, and ryan as well as a gymnastics class these past two weeks. i want to sign us up for both, but it will depend on money and my ability to handle him.

Get ready for a growth spurt. In the next few weeks, your baby will double his weight and add inches to his length . Right now, he’s about the size of an avocado: 4 1/2 inches long (head to rump) and 3 1/2 ounces. His legs are much more developed, his head is more erect than it has been, and his eyes have moved closer to the front of his head. His ears are close to their final position, too.
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so long as i take a zofran i dont get sick anymore, even if im doing a lot of physical stuff. ultrasound is this weekend!! i thought i felt a little movement a couple of nights ago, but i haven’t felt anything else since so i think i imagined it.

I was lying in bed reading to lucas, when i could faintly hear “it’s a small world” playing from somewhere. at first i thought matt and sarah left one of shelly’s toys here, then i thought lucas had turned on the baby swing in the nursery. i wandered out to find the sound, and realized it was coming from OUTSIDE. it immediately dawned on me what would be playing children’s music loudly through the streets — and ICE CREAM TRUCK! i ran out to the street looking for it, but it had moved on to the other side of the neighborhood. i ran inside, grabbed a fistful of cash and my kid, and ran out to the car to hunt down the truck. unfortunately, this story has a sad ending. after searching both my neighborhood and the one next to us, the truck was gone. determined to have ice cream now, i headed five minutes down the road to Hickory Flat, hoping to find a Brusters. I didn’t have any shoes on, so it had to be somewhere i could drive up to. Alas, I didn’t see the Brusters either, so we had to settle for McDonalds sundaes.

Busy day! After breakfast, Mom and I took Lucas to the beach. He had been last year, but last year he wouldn’t go into the water, so this was his first time in the ocean. He LOVED it! He loved playing in the wet sand (and flinging it) and he really loved playing in the waves. We went out as deep as his knees, and I taught him to jump when the white crest of the waves came in to where we stood. We went out where it was about to my waist for a minute and I held him up in the water, but he was heavy and it was hard to hold him and jump the waves at the same time. We stayed out for an hour before I got hungry and was worried about burning. We’re going to go back again tomorrow.

After a quick hot dog lunch at the beach snack bar, we headed back to the beach house for naps all around. Now I know how Paul feels when I’m able to just say Im going to go take a nap anytime I get tired and he is stuck staying up with Lucas, b/c Mom got to go right to bed and Lucas stayed up another hour until his usual naptime before we got to sleep.

After nap, we went to the diner for dinner (it was 5pm by now), and then to Shelter Cove shopping plaza to see the yachts (“biiig boats”) in the harbor. I got bit by mosquitoes 13 times, and lucas got one on his face (plus a couple of others), so that put a bit of a damper on the evening. Last stop was the grocery store for supplies, and now i’m just waiting for lucas to go to sleep. I’m looking forward to taking him back to see the ocean again tomorrow.

today has been awful. nothing bad happened, it was just soo stressful trying to get a kid and a dog ready to go to the beach. i didnt even get out of town until 330pm, which means we didnt make it to the beach house until 9pm and it was after ten by the time we got the car unloaded and the bed ready for lucas (and of course he hadnt napped in the car). by the time we got to the beach house, i was so exhausted and fed up i was about ready to cry.

We got the new house!! I went to Tenn with mom to visit grandma for moms bday the first week of Aug. The closing date was set for Aug 5, but we still didn’t have bank approval and it looked like a 3rd set closing date would pass us by. This would be esp bad b/c we would lose our lower APR. Then the evening before closing we got the bank to sign off on everything. So as of Fri the 5th, we own our first house! (we ran into a couple of snags thurs night and fri morning, but it ended up all coming together).

We got the utilities set for Mon, movers set for Thurs, And started packing like crazy. Btwn paul’s work shedule and me getting sick, we barely got the rest of the house packed in time. I was still packing up until about ten mins b4 he movers arrived thurs morning. Luckily mom was around to help a ton of we wouldnt have made it.

Last night was our first night in our new home. Lucas cried for a bit but did better than expected sleeping in a strange place. It prob helped him going to TN last week and being in a strange bed there. I however slept *horribly*. At 2am I woke up in major pain all over. Massive muscle soreness in my lower back and legs from moving boxes around so much, and the worst part is that being pregnant, I can’t take ibuprofen. I took a hot bath from 3-4am to relax the muscles a little and downstairs for a bit. Paul thinks my right thigh muscle I’d strained b/c it is a LOT worse than the rest. Like severe pain all the time. I’ve been lying in bed folding laundry with a heating pad and cat stacked on my legs.

Kristie came over today to help unpack. We got nearly all the kitchen done and one box of clothes hung before I had to go to bed b/c I kept getting sick on top of everything else. The kitchen was the most urgent and most daunting, so at least we got that done.

I’m so excited to be in the new house. I’m actually having to keep turning the AC units *up* b/c the house is so well insulated I keep getting COLD. And Lauren Jake and Ryan came over last night to bring us pizza after the move. So awesome having them nearby.

“How your baby’s growing: Fingerprints have formed on your baby’s tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. Your baby is almost 3 inches long and weighs nearly an ounce.”

Got a lot sicker this past week. Not as bad as with Lucas, but I’ve been throwing up and been nauseated like alllll the time, even when I take the zofran. Makes it really hard to do any packing or anything, because i get half a box to one box done and then hafta sit down b/c it makes me sick. Set up an appt for Sep 3rd (16 weeks) to go to the elective ultrasound with everyone and find out the gender!

im going to attach my keys to a leash attached to a belt loop. today i COULD NOT FIND the darn car keys. i had been carrying them around, grabbed a bunch of other stuff to put in the car, and could not figure out where i left them. so i finally gave up and used the spare. 3 hours later i found them in my pocket.

“How your baby’s growing: The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.”

Not much new to report other than that I’m losing my mind.

Sometimes coke is simply glorious.

I love chinese. I suppose 2x counts as cravings.

Pregnancy brain: I checked the key hook for the car keys, yep the ones I needed were there, got in the car, hmm where did I set the keys? Wait, I never actually picked them up. I just looked at them on the hook and walked off.