Pumpkin Carving and the Renaissance Festival

Last weekend was completely full. On Friday we went to Kevin and Sara's house and carved pumpkins. Kevin always carves the pumpkins with the kids names and Sara and I carved cool designs. It was a lot of fun! On Saturday we drove an hour and a half to the Texas Renaissance Festival, which was out in the middle of nowhere. They had an entire village of shops and theaters that sold everything from pottery to clothes and tacos to fish and chips. We enjoyed a juggling/comedy show that was really funny. We ate funnel cake and ended up buying a really cute wooden sunflower paper towel holder that you hang on the wall. It was a really nice weekend getting to spend some quality time with Chris!

27 Weeks, end of 2nd trimester!

This is the last official week of the second trimester, next week will begin the last 3 months of the pregnancy! I'm so anxious/excited for Baby Cauds to be here! I had a Dr. appt. yesterday. Measuring 27 cm for 27 weeks which is exactly what it should be. I'm not measuring big which has my hopes up that I will break the huge baby cycle. The child will probably be long though.....look at the father! The heart rate was 150bpm, so nice and strong and I didn't gain any weight in 2 weeks, that is a first! I did my glucose test which consisted of drinking a bottle of what amounted to flat orange soda and waiting an hour to have my blood drawn. The test checks for gestational diabetes and anemia. I'll let everyone know if I pass, so please keep your fingers crossed that my body processes sugar well! I was hoping for an ultrasound this time since we haven't had any pictures of the baby since Aug., but no such luck. That's all for now!

25 week update

Just a regular checkup today, nothing fancy and no new pictures. I'm continually gaining weight which is mildly traumatizing. The baby's heart rate is at a healthy 150bpm and it sure was squirmy this morning. It took the doctor 5 min to catch the heart beat. As a note to myself, do not eat sugary breakfast cereal before visiting the doctor because you will test positive for sugar, which you are not supposed to, awesome. My next visit is in 2 weeks, and all my visits will be two weeks apart from now on until we get closer to Jan 19th. At my next visit I get to drink some really nasty drink and have blood drawn to test for gestational diabetes and anemia, woo hoo! A new development in baby's movement. On special occasion you can see what I can only describe as a growth appear magically on one side of my stomach which I have decided is the baby's head poking out when it shifts positions, it's pretty cool to see! Oh and we finally registered for baby stuff at Babies R Us, we ended up with 55 items and the lady next to me had like 180 on her registry. I have no idea how you can possibly pick out 180 things. I think we got most of our bases covered, but apparently I'm mistaken and missing 125 things? I really have no idea. I mean we didn't register for any diaper stuff, because we are choosing to go the cloth route, and we already have some big items, thanks to Mommy and Daddy, and we didn't register for clothes because we don't know the sex, so maybe that's what I'm missing? Who knows really. And one last thing, this week apparently the baby finally has a hair color.....so everyone cross their fingers it's red!

24 Weeks!

Picture update....bigger? I think so.

Baby Update

I went to the doctor yesterday after they got power back on and had my checkup. I'm still gaining weight, which I know is good, but good lord people I'm a hefty load now! Anyway, the baby's heart rate is between 150bpm-160bpm which is completely normal. I have been having this groin pain lately and the doctor said it's just round ligament pain from my uterus growing, good, but it makes it increasingly difficult to put pants on because it hurts to stand on one leg! I'm going back to the doctor on Oct. 7th for another checkup so I'll have another update then.

Our first hurricane

There aren't that many pictures because my camera ran out of battery, but I wanted to post some pictures from the first hurricane for me and the baby. Chris went through one when he was a few months old so it was kind of his first hurricane too. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the aftermath, just the calm before the storm. We survived with little damage. Our living room got some water in it and we are drying out the carpet. Our huge tree in our front yard lost a lot of big limbs which now line the front of our yard and we lost a few shingles that Chris can replace. Thankfully our water never went off, although I'm not sure we were supposed to be using it, but our electricity went out about 6pm on Friday and we have yet to get it back, hopefully soon! It's been cool enough lately to be very comfortable without A/C and hopefully it will stay this way. I have never experienced anything like this before it's like living in some alternate universe but at least we are okay!

Halfway

So in honor of being halfway done with the pregnancy I thought I would post a picture of the belly for all to look at in awe. It's not even close to being huge yet, but I'm making progress in the growth department. Enjoy!