31 weels

How far along?  31 weeks Kaysleigh is the size of pineapple

Total weight gain/loss: 23+ lbs

Maternity clothes? Yes.

Best moment this week: Going to the beach this weekend for our babymoon.  I will post lots of pictures later on this week.

Movement: Kaysleigh moves all the time.  I think she is head down because I can feel her kicking my ribs. She has hiccups a lot too.

Symptoms: I've been feeling nauseous again and can't eat very much.  I also feel huge and extremely tired.

Food cravings: nothing

Food aversions: onions if they are raw and meat

Gender: girl

Labor Signs: none I've had some Braxton hicks contractions though

Belly Button in or out? In but it's getting pretty flat

Stretch Marks? Not on my belly and my midwife told me my skin was looking really good.

Wedding Ring? off I'm wearing them on a necklace now

What I miss: Sleeping on my stomach and just being comfortable

What I am looking forward to: this Friday is my last day of work

Milestones: All 5 of Kaysleigh's senses are fully developed

 

30 weeks/ Baby shower

How far along?  30 weeks Kaysleigh is the size of cucumber

Total weight gain/loss: 23 lbs

Maternity clothes?  Yes, for the most part. I have a few dresses and 2 pairs of shorts that are normal clothes that I can still wear.

Best moment this week: My baby shower and going to my friends baby shower

Movement: Kaysleigh moves all the time.  I think she is head down because I can feel her kicking my ribs. 

Symptoms: I've been feeling nauseous again and can't eat very much.  I also feel huge.

Food cravings: nothing particular this week

Food aversions: onions if they are raw and meat

Gender: girl

Labor Signs: none I've had some Braxton hicks contractions though

Belly Button in or out? In 

Stretch Marks? Not on my belly and my midwife told me my skin was looking really good.

Wedding Ring? off and on If it's a really hot day I'll leave it off.

What I miss: My back not hurting every day and being able to sleep comfortably.

What I am looking forward to: Eric and I are going to the beach this weekend

Milestones: Kaysleigh has the ability to grasp on to a finger now

Last weekend I went to Kingsport.  It was a very busy weekend Saturday was my little brothers 5th birthday party after that was my baby shower and Sunday was my friends shower.  My shower went really great.  I can't believe how generous all my family and friends are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My friend Charley and I she is due 2 days before me

 

 

 

 

 On Monday I had a doctors appointment.  Everything is going great with Kaysleigh.  I found out that next week I have to go in for a 3hr glucose test.  I was borderline on the normal test but since I have a family history of diabetes they have to make sure.  In the 3hr test they draw your blood 4 times.  I'm not looking forward to it.  Hopefully the test turns out normal.

I was nominated for an award

 

 

I was nominated for the Liebester Award by Brittany from With Love check out her great blog.

The Liebster Blog Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. “Liebster” is German for “favorite”. This award is the “favorite blog award”. You have to nominate 5-11 bloggers with less than 200 readers.

To accept the nomination, I have to complete the tasks below:
Link back to the blog that nominated you, Nominate 5-11 blogs with fewer than 200 followers, Answer the questions posted for you by your nominator, Share 11 random facts about yourself,
Create 11 questions for your nominees, and Contact your nominees and let them know you nominated them.

Nominees
1) Baby Boettcher
2) City Girl Meets Country Boy
3) Jason Me and Baby T
4) Life and Other Beautiful Things
5) Your Love is Home



Questions posted by my nominator

1.) What is your favorite clothing store?
 While pregnant probably old navy normally I really like Express

2.) What is your guilty pleasure?
The Kardashians I'm obsessed

3.) What is your favorite food?
Pasta

4.) What is your greatest fear?
Being alone

5.) What is your silliest fear?
Feet

6.) What one material thing can you not live without?
My phone

7.) What is your first (or one of your first) childhood memory?
Probably in kindergarten when I got the chicken pox.

8.) If you could pack up your whole life and move tomorrow, where would you go?
Key West but I would want family and friends to come along

9.) Who knows you better than anyone?
My husband

10.) What time do you generally go to sleep at night?
In bed watching TV around 9:30

11.) If you could meet any one person in the world, dead or alive, who would it be?
Randy Pausch he wrote the last lecture.  It was a book about fulfilling your dreams that he wrote while he was dieing of cancer.  Look up the lecture it's on you tube.



11 random facts about myself

1) I was scared of dogs when I was little.

2) I live in a travel trailer.

3) I had never said I love you to a guy before I met my husband.

4) Sometimes I eat fast food and then hide it because I feel guilty.

5) I'm a procrastinator.

6) In 3rd grade I accidently ripped a page in my math and never told anyone because I was afraid I would get in trouble.

7) I love to cook.

8) I don't like to ride a bicycle.  I feel like it's just going to fall over and I will break every bone in my body.

9) I'm kinda scared of heights.

10) I'm a whitewater river guide.

11) I'm obsessed with the farmers market.


11 Questions for my nominees

1) What grade in school was your favorite?

2) Why?

3) Is there a story behind your name?

4) What is something about you most people find hard to believe?

5) What's your favorite hobby?

6) What's your favorite food?

7) Who would you most like to hang out with for a day?

8) What's your favorite memory from childhood?

9) What is a family tradition you've carried on from growing up?

10) What is your favorite blog post of yours? post a link

11) Why did you start blogging?

Mommy Moments, Pregnancy must haves

This is my list of pregnancy must haves so far.

1.  Stretch mark lotion-  I've been using palmers.  It seems to be working pretty well so far.

 

2.  Boppy pillow-  From early on I was pretty uncomfortable sleeping.  My hips would hurt really bad until I started using this pillow.  I got it at babies r us.  It wasn't that expensive either.  I've even seen Eric steal it a few times after I get up in the morning.

3.  Old navy jeans and shorts-  I have pairs from other places but the old navy ones are my favorite.  My shorts from there aren't even maternity.  At the beginning of the summer they had linen shorts with elastic waist band.  I got two pairs and they are definitely my favorite shorts.

 

4.  Scrunch side shirts-  It isn't so much a problem now but when I first started showing and just looked fat I felt like this style of shirts actually made me look pregnant.  I still like them now too because these shirts look like they actually fit not just huge.

 

5. Prenatal vitamins- I had to switch to gummy vitamins because the giant horse pills I started out taking would make me feel sick.  I still have to be careful and make sure I eat with them.

 

6.  Books-  I've read quite a few books.  My least favorite was The girl friends guide to pregnancy.  If you plan on having a natural child birth this is not the right book.  It basically says you are an idiot if you don't get an epidural.  Also the book says pregnant women shouldn't wear sleeveless.  Since I'm pregnant through the middle of summer I'm obviously not listening to that.  My favorite book has been Your pregnancy and birth.  This book was really good and went over a lot of information.

 

7. The business of being born- It's a great documentary to watch if you are even considering a natural child birth.  Some of it is a little extreme and pretty granola but I still really enjoyed it.

 

 

Bonus- It's also really great to have an awesome husband.  He doesn't really get how I'm feeling but he's doing his best to be supportive and I know he's there if I need him.

 









29 weeks

Sorry I never posted last weekend.  We were pretty busy.  Eric and I went to Hartford, Tn and went camping by the river.  We stayed at the same spot that we had our RV at last summer.  It was a lot of fun even though the weekend was pretty hot and it rained some.  We got to see a lot of friends and also went to a wedding by the river.  The dogs discovered they love mud puddles.  The last night instead of staying in the tent again we decided to drive 45 min to Eric's aunt house.  So we got to shower do some laundry and sleep in the AC which was nice.  It also had been awhile since we visited Nedra.

Eric and I at big creek

28 weeks

Chaco heart at the Wedding

How far along?  29 weeks Kaysleigh is the size of acorn squash

Total weight gain/loss: I'm gonna guess 22 lbs

Maternity clothes?  Yes, for the most part. I have a few dresses and 2 pairs of shorts that are normal clothes that I can still wear

Best moment this week: Having a long weekend and hanging out at the river

Movement: She moves a lot and kicks my ribs a lot.

Symptoms: By the end of the day my back and feet hurt. It was extremely hot this week and I was pretty uncomfortable in the warehouse with no ac.

Food cravings: nothing particular this week

Food aversions: onions if they are raw

Gender: girl

Labor Signs: none I've had some Braxton hicks contractions though

Belly Button in or out? In 

Stretch Marks? not on my belly

Wedding Ring? off and on If it's a really hot day I'll leave it off.

What I miss: Being able to bend over easily.  I also am starting to miss being skinny.  I feel huge

What I am looking forward to: Going to Kingsport for my brother's birthday and my baby shower.

Milestones:

Five on Friday

I found a new link up I wanted to do.  As far as I understand it you just make a list of five things.  I'm going to tell you about things I'm looking forward too.

1. Sleeping in tomorrow-  Last night the boss got beer (lemonade for me) and pizza for everyone after work.  So we wound up staying out pretty late and by that I mean 10 but lately I have been going to bed around 9.  This morning was hard to wake up and I'm looking forward to no alarm clock tomorrow.

2. Superman- I wanted to go see the new superman movie. Then this morning I won tickets on the radio for it in IMax.  I'm really hoping we make time to go this weekend.


3 & 4. Birthdays and Baby showers-  Next weekend I'm going to Kingsport for my little brothers 5th birthday party.  After that is my baby shower and the next day is my friends shower who is due a day before me.

5. Kaysleigh- of course what I'm looking forward to the most is meeting our little princess. It's just a little over 2 months away.

Friday's Letters

Dear Friday, I'm so glad you're here.  I hope you go by really fast so we can start our 4 day weekend at the river.   Dear weather, please dont rain to much this weekend.  We are camping and I dont want it to be miserable.  Also don't get to hot.  Sorry for being so needy Dear Husband, I love it when you have days off during the week.  You get stuff done at the house like laundry and then I dont have to do it. Dear Kaysleigh, mommy and daddy love you.  It would be great if you could chill a little on kicking my ribs.

Bored at work even though I have lots to do

27 weeks

I went to Kingsport this weekend for one of my friend's bridal shower.  We surprised her Friday afternoon and went to a pottery painting place.  It was a lot of fun but harder then you would think to be creative.  Here are some pictures from the weekend.

painting pottery

the bride to be

Nathan and Lucy

Kathleen and I at her shower

 

I had a checkup this morning.  My midwife said everything is looking good.  Kaysleigh's heart rate was in the 130s. This morning I had to drink that nasty glucose stuff.  It was the second time I did it.  I did it earlier in my pregnancy because of family history.  Hopefully I don't get a phone call.  No news is good news.

 

How far along?  27 weeks Kaysleigh is the size of a head of cauliflower

Total weight gain/loss: 20 lbs I don't know why I thought letting everyone know this was a good idea

Maternity clothes?  yes

Best moment this week: Getting to see friends in Kingsport

Movement: She moves all the time and has gotten hiccups a few times.  It feels so strange.

Symptoms: My back is starting to hurt and I'm getting tired a lot more often 

Food cravings: nothing particular this week

Food aversions: Onions

Gender: girl

Labor Signs: none I've had some Braxton hicks contractions though

Belly Button in or out? In 

Stretch Marks? nope

Wedding Ring? On but sometimes it's uncomfortably tight

What I miss: sleeping I wake up a lot and it's hard to fall back asleep

What I am looking forward to: going to the river this weekend

Milestones: Kaysleigh can taste the food that I eat