We just wanted to thank everyone so much for both of the baby showers! They were wonderful and we appreciated them so much! I'll post pictures soon.

Our First Baby Purchases!

So up until now the only baby items we have were either bought for us or given to us. And thank you everyone for that! Yesterday, Chris and I bought our first baby items for the baby. We went into a kids/baby store in Sugar Land and were just browsing when all of a sudden Chris found a onesie he could not live without. It's cream colored and has a picture of a sunshine on it and the words read "you are my sunshine". It is so cute! I found a soft, fuzzy book about a monkey. I've been wanting to get one of these so that the baby can play with it when they are little. It's really cute! Below is a picture of the items we purchased.

Update

I went to the doctor this morning for another quick checkup. I measured 29 cm for 29 weeks and the heart rate was 150bpm, so all is good in that department. Also, I passed my glucose test which means I don't have gestational diabetes or anemia! The doctor said that it will just be normal two week checkups until about 35 weeks when I start going every week. I'm also very excited because today is election day! I voted this morning and it only took 30 min, which is good. I love watching the returns so tonight will be fun and hopefully with a good outcome, although my husband would disagree with me on what a good outcome entails! That's all for today, everyone go vote!

Third Trimester/Holy Cow I'm Huge

In honor of reaching the third trimester I have a new picture. I thought it would be fun to see the difference in size compared to the first picture I took at 10 weeks. I am huge and it's only going to get bigger although I don't see how that's physically possible. Only three months left!

10 weeks

28 weeks

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!