23 weeks!

23 weeks! 17 more to go!  So even though October seems far away, I look at my calendars and realize it’s going to fly by.  Especially since my next two months seem to be booked solid already.  

Aria is continuing to grow.  Her face is fully formed now – she just needs a little extra fat to fill it out.  She will stay within the same range of expected growth for the next couple of weeks.  Anywhere from 10.5-11.8 inches long and 12.7-20.8 ounces in weight.  According to the website I use, she is about the size of a grapefruit.  Except I don’t know of any grapefruits that are 10.5 inches so that doesn’t seem right.  I can definitely tell she is growing in there because the bump is getting bigger.

This week, we nailed down the nursery furniture and have decided on this set:

 

Christian gets all the credit for finding this one.  What an exciting big step!  Furniture is picked out… except… it’s on back-order until August. Boo!! I am not very patient so having to wait is not going to be so much fun.  The good things is we do have time so it’s ok.  Meanwhile I am clearing out her room in our house to get ready for paint. 

Clearing out a room doesn’t sound fun at all does it?  Well, it’s not. Lol.  The room we are going to use for Aria is currently a baking supply storage room, craft room, guest room, and the ‘throw your junk in here because you can’t find another place for it’ room.  This means I actually have to organize and rearrange other parts of my house to accommodate for these items.  I am SO excited for the day I can say I completed that project.  Hmm… maybe I should reward myself with extra food that day!  Food is a good motivator right now.

I am trying really hard to not go overboard eating or eating too unhealthy.  No, I am not being one of those nuts about weight gain and I do allow myself to indulge, but I am trying to avoid going crazy with eating.  The past couple weeks, I am guilty of not doing such a good job.  I feel like I want chocolate all day, every day and I have given in probably more than I should.  Egg rolls also seem to be the new love for me.  I have always liked them, but it’s just a little enhanced right now.  I may or may not have dreams about them.

Speaking of dreams… let’s talk sleep.  I love it, if I could list it on my resume as a skill, I would.  Lately, I have been going to bed pretty early.  I sleep like a baby… literally! I wake up every few hours, stay awake for just a bit and then fall back asleep.  I really can’t complain though because I fall back into a coma like sleep.  So can someone tell me why I am so gosh darn tired all day long anyway?  I get it, there is a human growing in me, but I thought 2^nd trimester meant energy, energy and more energy.  Maybe I had expectations of not feeling like a zombie throughout the day and shouldn’t have.  Usually, I try to hide it since I don’t want to be the whiney pregnant lady, but people are catching on. “How are you?  You look tired!”  “Everything ok?  You look a little exhausted” or my favorite “You look tired!” (I appreciate when people are blunt).  But then it’s awkward… what do I say to that?  “Thanks!  I sleep great at night but I wish I were a bear so I can get even more.”?  Even my makeup can’t help me… I just have the tired eyes.  Perhaps I should get those awesome glasses with the eyes on the front of them so that I can secretly take naps throughout the day to cure me of this. Hmm… that’s actually a great idea.  Let me add that to the registry. lol

 

OH! So…. Christian’s cousin Kristy gets an award this week!  She sent me the coolest gift.  It’s a shirt that say “I can grow a human, what’s your super power?”  It’s so cute and awesome!  Not only that, I got the MOST compliments on that shirt ever!  Even the teenage checker guy at the grocery store loved it!  By the end of the day, I was feeling pretty dang good about myself. I mean who doesn’t like a compliment?  J It’s my new favorite and I might wear it everywhere.  (It’s actually the white shirt in the top picture but I forgot to take a pic of the front… I will get it next time). 

Alright last thing, Christian is officially not the only one that has felt the baby kick!  My co-worker, Jazmine, got to feel a little bump and was so excited she had to rub it in a bit to some of the others. Haha!  They will get their chance though because she is an active little one.

So next week is my 24 week appointment and I will give you an update on what he tells me.  I am secretly hoping he wants to play with his ultrasound machine… but I am not counting on it.