Week 28 and change : )

hello again! Well, I had an appointment with my doctor today. This was my last monthly appointment and we will now be visiting the doctor every 2 weeks...YIKES!!!! I now weigh 151 lbs. For those of you that are counting, I have officially gained 28 lbs so far. Justin keeps telling me to relax, but I am finding that a little difficult.

Well, the pain, in what I have affectionately termed, my "upper right ribular area" was my primary concern for this visit with the doctor. It has been hurting pretty badly for the past 2 weeks : ( Anywho, the doctor says it is either my gall bladder or it is pain resulting from my abdominal muscles pulling away from my ribs...nice huh??? He gave me a prescription and said to take the meds for a week...if the pain subsides then it is my gall bladder. If the pain does not subside, it is the muscle-rib thing and there is really nothing they can do : ( I am pretty bummed because other than that I feel pretty good, and I really don't want to spend the rest of this pregnancy in that kind of pain. I will keep you posted!

Things are slowly coming together here. I just got a job offer today that I am pretty excited about and I started classes this week. It is still pretty hot, ok VERY hot, here. As I was driving past a drug store today, the sign said it was 111 degrees. I will be soooooo happy once it dips back into the double digits. Justin is doing well...just working his butt off as usual! He loves the shop, and is working there 5 days a week and is working nights at a club 4 nights a week. He works too hard and sleeps too little, but I can't convince him to slow down.

I hope this finds you all well! Until next week...

End of week 27...another week down : )

...against my better judgement I am posting a pregnancy picture! I had no idea how big I was until I saw this. You know how in your mind's eye you think you look one way and then you see a picture or catch a reflection of yourself in a store window and you wonder..."Who is that?" I mean I knew I was getting bigger, but this is beginning to get humorous!

The baby is still refusing to let his Daddy feel him kick. He can be going to town, but as soon as Justin puts his hand on my belly the baby freezes. I think Justin is beginning to think this is all some big hoax and there is really no baby in there at all : ) He did see him move though. Yesterday we went up to Justin's shop and the baby was moving around. I told Justin to watch my belly and sure enough he moved positions and Justin was able to watch my belly move.

The back pains have officially kicked in. I am getting a weird cramp of sorts in my right middle back. It feels almost like a pulled muscle, but not. I am assuming that it's from my body and posture changing...but what do I know?????

Random note, but in our shopping for baby clothes Justin and I have begun to wonder where all the normal baby clothes are hiding? We went looking for little white socks for the baby and COULD NOT find them. We didn't think that this was a ridiculous request or pursuit, but alas we were confronted with fuzzy crazy colored socks in abundance and no normal socks in sight. And one last observation/irritation, do baby clothes makers assume that all little boys like sports and trucks????? Everything we find has trucks, cars, hammers, and various sporting equipment on it. I know he will only be an infant while wearing this gear, but this is really a lot of pressure to thrust upon such a small human ; ) Until next week...

It's a boy!!!

Okay, so I wanted to find a way to update friends and family on the progress of the pregnancy as well as the goings on of the family as a whole...so a blog it is : )

Well, as most of you know, we found out that we are having a little boy right before we left Kentucky. We are so excited and the clothes purchasing began immediately after we found out! Our little boy was about 22 weeks at the time that this ultrasound was done, and I just can't believe that this little person is growing in my belly. Clearly something is in there by the sheer enormity of the thing, but I just didn't expect that. I was so happy as that was the first appointment that Justin could attend. It just could not have been more perfect!

The day after our appointment we headed off to Las Vegas. The trip was long, miserable, and crazy, but we made it safe and sound. About a week and a half after we made it, the moving truck arrived. At this point we have unpacked pretty much everything, but we are still trying to get settled.

I had my first visit with the new doctor this week (my 26 week appointment). The new doctor is great and I am excited he will be delivering our baby. We are in the process of getting the nursery together...it is way more difficult than I ever imagined! We managed to pick out a bedding set...FINALLY so hopefully that will kickstart the process : )

That's all for now. I hope to post more pictures of the house, the nursery, and my ever expanding belly in the near future. My goal is to update this weekly...we shall see ; )