Nursery pictures!!!

We absolutely LOVE the nursery. The girls did such a good job; it looks like it came straight out of a magazine!! The pictures don't even do it justice, so you will all have to come down to see it for yourself in person :) Happy New Year!

Picture of when you first walk in the door of the nursery

Ryder's Crib

Crib and toy shelf

Another Crib shot with the circle rug

Rocker chair (the cushions aren't on yet, but they'll be recovered in an off-white fabric)

Changing table/dresser and picture shelves (and the rocker cow in bottom L corner!)

27 weeks

Hi all! 27 weeks and officially in the THIRD trimester this week. Crazy talk! I'm feeling like I'm stretching in every direction at an alarmingly fast pace. Scary. Fun fact from our baby book: right now Ryder has the most taste buds he will ever have in his life and he can taste things well through the amniotic fluid. Hope he liked the meatloaf I made tonight :) Also sometime between this week and next week his eye lids, which have been fused together since conception, should be opening up! Not much to see in there I'm sure.

Tomorrow the girls are coming to decorate/paint the nursery. I'll post some pictures by Thursday or Friday this week. Next week: look forward to the 7th month baby bump shot!

Less than 100 days!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas, everyone :)

6 1/2 months (26 weeks)

6 1/2 months has arrived. I know I say it all the time, but I feel like time is flying and this pregnancy is going so fast. (ask me this again in the last month...I may not feel the same!).

This week our pregnancy books said that hearing is fully developed and I will probably be able to feel Ryder jump/startle if there are any sudden loud noises. So to test this, Joe and I are going to take pots and pans and bang them near my belly and see if we can scare the crap out of him. (I'm totally kidding). He continues to move more and more everyday. He's almost 2lbs now and getting bigger by the day. Literally. Just look at my expanding gut and you'll know. This past weekend I got together with some of my girlfriends and they decided that my belly button and old belly buttom piercing looks like a star fish. Lovely.

Anyways, here are just a couple beach shots of my prego belly for those of you who wanted to see them:

Week 25

After finally getting home at almost 2am from the airport last night, I woke up bright and early for my 8am drs appointment for round two testing for gestational diabetes--the dreaded THREE HOUR test that I had to sit in the waiting room the whole time! Luckily I have the best mom ever and she came down for almost two hours to sit with me in the waiting room so I'd have company :) As for the test, I passed with flying colors..no gestational diabetes! So to celebrate...I went and ate Taco Bell afterwards!!

Our vacation was fun, I rocked the bikini...I didn't care what people thought. Although it was funny...one older lady on the beach one day said, "you must be pregnant! ...Or just really chubby." yes, yes that is what she said. Nice manners, huh? She's lucky I am pregnant otherwise I might have had to beat up a lady on the beach...haha. I also noticed this past week while lying on the beach (I had to add that in there...) that now when he kicks, he's gotten strong enough and big enough where we can actually SEE my belly move. Pretty cool!

This week is week 25. The books say that Ryder is about 13 inches long and weighs just over 1 1/2 pounds. My uterus is the size of a soccer ball now!! (and growing). Fun fact: up until now, Ryder's nostrils have been "plugged" shut and this week they are open and he will start to do some "practice breaths" through those little nostrils :)

Baby bump-6 months

I had my 6 month appointment today where I did my glucose testing. Unfortunately I missed the mark by 5 points and I have to go back next Thursday and do the THREE HOUR glucose test. The dr said I shouldn't worry too much. I barely missed the cutoff point and it's just standard protocol that I have to come back to do it. I am bummed, but hopefully it works out okay. The Dr. said that only 5-7% of all pregnant women actually get gestational diabetes. So I'm hoping I'm not in that small percentage!

Tonight we're just finishing packing. We are leaving for the Cayman Islands tomorrow. We get up at 4am and our flight leaves at 7am. We're staying till next wednesday. It will be Ryder's first trip out of the country :) Don't expect too many pictures of my big belly walking down the beach...

6 months!

This week we hit 6 months now. I can't believe how fast it's gone. Ryder is moving like crazy, infact, I think he might have even switched positions. I feel him kicking in a completely different area than I used to feel him. Joe and I read in our baby books that the area in the inner ear that senses balance is developed and the baby can tell if they are upside down etc. He was facing down at our 5 month ultrasound, so maybe he turned because he was tired of hanging upside down!?!?!! Or it could be that he's just getting bigger I suppose. He is about the length of a ruler now and weighs about 1 1/4 lbs.

I have my 6 month appointment on Thursday, and I'll do the glucose testing to check for gestational diabetes. They apparently make me drink this super sugary/nasty drink and then check my blood sugar an hour later or something. I'll keep you updated on how that goes. I really hope I'm don't have gestational diabetes because then I would have to change my eating habits (like not eating three sugar cookies after dinner tonight...)

And also, you can look forward to the six month baby bump shot!! Coming soon....