Pictures

I love that Rach trusts me to take all of the big benchmark pictures of Ruby, over the last month or so I got to do their second baby announcement pictures and her second birthday pictures. She was so cooperative for the baby announcement, but not so cooperative for her birthday pictures. We did our best. Her sweet face and funny facial expressions kill me. I sure love this niece of mine!

These are some of my favorites-

I am SO grateful our sweet girl will have older cousin Ruby and a new little cousin just 12 weeks younger to play with! I hope these cousins are the best of friends! 

Life Lately

I cannot believe we are at 29 weeks already! How in the world did that happen? This week the baby is about 2 1/2 pounds and is 15 inches long. She moves so much. We had a little scare last week, so the doctor had me track all of her movements for a few days, on average she will move around for 10-15 minutes every 45-70 minutes, twice a day she doesn't move for about 2 hours, but after that, she moves around for about an hour to an hour a half without stopping! This awake time is usually in the morning from 6-8 and at night from 9-11. I love feeling her move all day long! It is one of my favorite parts about being pregnant! I have been told by other moms, pregnant friends, and the doctor that she is quite active, so I am starting to mentally and emotionally prepare for a child that does not sleep much! Haha!

We are finishing up the semester and the burn out is strong. This semester has been one of the hardest on both of us since we were married. With Mikey working full time and going to school, and me working 30 hours and my intense school schedule, we never see each other or get enough sleep. During the week, we get about 30-45 minutes to eat dinner and talk at 8:15 when Mikey gets home before we both have to get to homework. Its nice to spend time together on the weekends, even if its just running errands, cleaning the house, and doing homework because we are never together.  I miss my husband. We leave for Hawaii in a few weeks and we are SO ready and excited for a break from reality!

Things have been going great! We have all of the big baby things, the nursery is 95% done, we have all of the big gear. Now all we need is the day to day stuff like clothes, diapers, soaps, lotions, etc. We still need to get a baby monitor and a baby carrier for hiking too but that's all!

We had a wonderful Easter last weekend, we got to spend Saturday with Mike's family and Sunday with mine. I forgot my phone at home so I didn't get any pictures of our new Easter outfits. But, it was actually really nice to enjoy my day with our family without any distractions!

27 weeks

We are 27 weeks! Baby girl is 14.5 inches and 2 pounds now. We are in the third trimester. How did that happen??!

I took my glucose test this week. Everyone warned me about the test being bad, but it wasn't too bad for me. I am grateful it wasn't a super bad experience and very grateful that my results were negative!

I haven't done a pregnancy update in a while! I haven't had any super strong cravings or aversions for a while. Salads are still not my favorite thing to eat, but I can stomach one if I have to. I'll have random cravings too like yesterday I wanted a jolly rancher... I am pretty confident I haven't eaten a jolly rancher in 10 years haha!

Baby girl is still so so active and I love it! I love watching my belly move throughout the day!

My sleep is getting a little rough at night. My belly feels heavy and its so hard to re position during the night. I wake up a lot because I am uncomfortable or I have to pee, again! I make myself a nest of pillows every night and that helps. Sometimes I use mike as a full body pillow too. So I can have one on each side, haha! Last night baby girl was kicking him in the back hard enough that he could feel it and it was so funny. This child is going to be sassy, I am sure!

We have really begun getting things ready over the last few weeks. So far we have the crib, mattress, sheets, and the quilt. The nursery is almost totally decorated, we just have a few more things to finish up, it is my favorite room in our little home! We also have a baby bath, thermometer, bassinet, blessing dress and lots of random little things.  We have ordered the stroller and car seat yesterday so those are coming.  We still need a baby monitor, a baby carrier so we can go hiking, and all of the soaps, lotions, creams, diapers, lots more clothes, etc. But we are pretty prepared considering we still have 13 weeks!

My Sister opened her mission call recently. We are so excited she is going to be serving in the Baltimore Maryland mission! She is going to be a fabulous missionary and I know she is going to have so many wonderful experiences! She leaves on July 12. My family will all be out of town for 10 days until July 5, our due date is July 7, her farewell will be July 9, and then she leaves on July 12. HAHA! It is going to be crazy town over the course of that week. I am really hoping that the baby is healthy and ready whenever she comes, but it would be most convenient if she came anytime between the evening of the 5th through the 9th, I am probably going to jinx it because I am saying that! But I want to be able to go with the family to drop her off at the MTC. And I would love it if the baby came before she leaves so she can have a few days to snuggle her! But, more than anything I just want our girl to be healthy. So I will be happy with whatever is supposed to happen.

Here's a little video I made of Bry's mission call opening.

Lots of love,
Brookeydee