And he shall be called.....

well I'm almost into the third trimester (only a few more days) yay!!!  I've been feeling great overall!  starting to feel a little tired again but nothing like the first trimester!  I've also started to have more back pain and difficulty getting comfortable.  Thank goodness for my wonderful husband who bought be a snoogle pillow from babies r us a couple months ago in anticipation of this time period.  It is like a body pillow but curved into a C shape so that it curves under my head and between my knees and it has been AMAZING!  If we go anywhere for the night....the snoogle goes too!  Thanks to this genius invention I have been able to actually get some good sleep!  Dearest hubby likes to make fun of me as I prepare my "nest" each night to get into bed....but hey, I'm sleeping like a rock so go ahead and tease away!  :)

Right now baby D is about the size of a head of cauliflower and weighs in at about 2 pounds....here's what he looks like according to baby center:

and here's what he looks like according to the baby....in my center....  :)

ya know what....who cares if my Dr. says I "don't have to eat anything else for the rest of my pregnancy"(based on my weight gain)  to me....this looks like all baby!  hope he isn't too much of a haus!

And now what you've been waiting for.....we have had a name for a while now and have been calling him by this name.  We've shared it with family and close friends who have also been calling him by name.  I thought we probably needed to think of some other options and make sure we really like this one best, but every attempt to think of new names.....we kept coming back to the same things and couldn't get past it.  So I guess we should just stick with what we know we like.  So.....sweet baby D shall be called.........

Cooper Ryan Dahmer

daddy is very excited that they will have the same initials and that he shares his middle name.

That's all for now....thanks for letting me share!

26 weeks and a little nursery preview

sorry it's been a while since I've posted....time has a way of slipping away from me these days!  The pregnancy is still going really well.....just growing as much as ever.   We go back to the Dr. this week so hopefully everything is still going well (and judging by the power of his kicks....I'd say he's doing JUST fine!)  I really hope that my increased water drinking and cutting out white bread and limiting my sweets (a little bit more ;))  have paid off this visit...we shall see!   next week will be the big glucose screening....I am NOT looking forward to that!  Here are some recent pictures of what's been going on....enjoy!

Ran into Amber and Adam while shopping for maternity clothes this weekend (she's due 5 days before me) and mom insisted that we needed to have our picture taken in the maternity section together

26 weeks and 3 days (got a little behind on taking the picture this week!)

A baby shower gift I made for a girl that my mom works with.  Bassinet made of diapers, a couple baby wash cloths inside, and a burp cloth over the canopy

A little nursery preview.....

Some of the nursery "crew"  :)  we still have a few more forest friends to find

The fabric for the nursery (or most of it anyway....)

Short post this time.....I'm exhausted!  :)  thanks for stopping by!

Baby Rutabaga

So apparently little man is about the size of a rutabaga now....but I don't know what that is!!!

there ya go....now we all know  :)  He also weighs about a pound and a half and is about 13.5 inches long....I think I can feel those 13.5 inches when he shifts positions at night!

Here's the 25 week bump watch.....

You know you're pregnant when.....

Over the course of the last 24 weeks I've come to learn a LOT about my body and have experienced a myriad of changes in it.  It's amazing to think that this tiny 1 pound, foot long, ear of corn sized little boy is causing all of these changes and is growing bigger and bigger inside of me every day!  So I thought I would compile a list of "you know you're pregnant when..." here goes!

You really know you're pregnant when....

• Your every waking thought revolves around food and what you're going to eat next.
• Every food that goes into your mouth is either AMAZINGLY delicious or so revolting that you'll "never do that again"....until the next time you're "starving" :)
• Eating those oh-so-scrumptious foods often gives you major heartburn, but it doesn't matter....it tasted SO good!
• You make a slight grunting noise when attempting to get off your ever so cushiony couch
• you begin resting your hands on top of your belly because it just seems like a natural resting place
• Questions like "how far along are you?" and "boy or girl?" become commonplace while grocery shopping (for that AMAZINGLY delicious food!)
• The Pampers commercial (you know the one....with all the babies and the whole premise being that pampers doesn't care how they enter the world, they all matter....) makes you teary eyed
• you can't remember ANYTHING unless it's written down....and even then, there's no guarantee
• you spend your free time perusing the web looking at various nursery design ideas (and pin them on your pintrest board so you don't forget that great idea tomorrow) and reading reviews of baby equipment
• A former student approaches you with her book bag on the front of her body and says "look!  we match!  I can't see my feet either!"  oh boy....

So there you have it.....just SOME of the ways that you really know you are indeed pregnant!  What about you....anything to add to that list?


And now for the bump watch.....I know I'm a little behind on these posts....I try to keep up, it's just so hard!  :) 



23 weeks




24 weeks and growing all the time!

 Can you tell that school has started back.....I think I look more tired and I've given up on fixing my hair.... pony tail it is....  :)

Thanks for stopping by!