30 Weeks - We're in the Home Stretch!

"Peace" ;)

BABY BOO IS 30 WEEKS ALONG, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A PUMPKIN

HE IS RESPONDING TO LIGHT. ALMOST ALL MAJOR ORGANS ARE FUNCTIONING.

It's so exciting to be at 30 weeks!  Only 10 more weeks to go... wow!  We have a lot planned for the summer, so hopefully the time will fly by til we get to meet our little Boo!  It is so cool how much more he has been interacting with me.  I can find his feet now (or it might be his hands... not sure).  They feel like little knobs that fit under only two of my finger tips.  When I find them he'll move them away or kick back at me.  I love it!

Coming up this month we have a lot going on.  My cousin is getting married on June 15th, so we'll be heading to Albany NY for that and then will spend a week at Lake George with my family for our annual vacation.  I am really looking forward to that!  I just wanna lay out by the water and do a whole lotta nothing!  After a week at the lake we'll head back to Albany for a family baby shower my Mom will be hosting.  So we've got a busy month ahead with one long, awesome vacation ahead of us.  ComFest is also coming up at the end of the month which is always a good time.  It will be interesting to go while pregnant!  Maybe I'll get my belly painted lol...

26 Weeks - Movin' and Shakin'

BABY BOO IS 26 WEEKS OLD, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A CABBAGE

HE MAY BE ABLE TO HEAR AND RECOGNIZE OUR VOICES

Well I'm a day late with this post but that's OK.  We had a busy weekend!  The Kentucky Derby was on Saturday so we went down to Louisville for our friend's annual Derby Party.  We've been doing this for several years now and while the hosts have changed over the years, the tradition remains the same.  Tim and I used to go to Louisville all the time for shows, parties, etc (oh, to be back in our 20's!) but now we're lucky to see our southern friends once a year for the Derby.  It's a sad change but that's what happens when everyone starts getting married and having babies.  Which is, in fact, not sad at all  :)

It has been the COOLEST thing seeing Boo move from the outside of my belly!  I can't get enough!  When I feel him move, I love to just watch my belly for those little pulses and quivers.  But whenever I tell Tim to come over and take a look, Boo stops his little dance routine!  He always gets stage fright for Daddy, which is so weird.  I hope Tim get's a chance to see some of the big movements I have.  He has only seen little twitches so far.  But when my whole belly moves and shakes it is AWESOME.  A couple of the girls at work have had a chance to see and feel him kick which was so much fun to show them.  I, and my boss Amanda who is pregnant now as well, are the first on the team to have kids so the whole thing is mostly new to everyone else.  I hope to capture the movement on video one of these days.

24 Weeks - Boo is Super Active!

BABY BOO IS 24 WEEKS OLD, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A CAULIFLOWER

HE IS USING HIS HANDS TO EXPLORE A NEW WORLD OF TACTILE SENSATIONS

It's really amazing how Boo is responding to my movements now.  If I'm sitting back in my chair and then lean forward, he punches and kicks up a storm haha!  Same thing happens if I roll over in bed.  I am loving this stage so much.  It's amazing to feel him move and respond.  Proves there's a little person in there with his own mind and his own feelings.   And to SEE him move is even more amazing!!  I could play games with him for hours :)  He'll kick, I'll push back, and he'll kick my hand again.  I even think I felt his head at one point, and every time I put my hand over it he'd start kicking and punching a TON.  I think it wasn't comfortable for him haha!  So I only did that a couple times.  After a while I couldn't feel his head in that spot anymore.  I think it was his head - it was a domed round spot, slightly firmer than any other spot on my belly.  And then it wasn't there anymore, like he moved.  Tim is in Cincinnati for a few days this week to do some training for work, so I'm sorry he wasn't here to play along with us.  

This past weekend I got a big help from my friend Kristin - she lent me a bunch of her maternity clothes!  Her little guy, Adler, was born last summer so she had tons of stuff I could borrow.  I am so grateful for it!  These things add up and it's saving me a lot of money.  She had the most adorable maxi dress which I intend to get a lot of use out of, as well as many nicer tops that she used for work but that I could use for going out to dinner and such.  The outfit I'm wearing in the photo above is more normal for me at work, we don't dress up at all.  She also had a pretty bridesmaids dress she wore when she was 36 weeks in her friend's wedding and she's letting me borrow it for my cousin's wedding this summer!  I'm not in the wedding, but I needed something dressy and her dress is perfect.

21 Weeks - Happy Easter!

BOO IS 21 WEEKS OLD AND ABOUT THE SIZE OF A BUTTERNUT SQUASH

DREAMING AND REGULAR SLEEP CYCLES ARE ESTABLISHED

Tim, me, and Boo's Aunt Emily (Tim's sister)

This past week has been very eventful!  We went down to KY to visit family for Easter.  Tim's family has a big get-together each year.  Everyone brings lots of food and we have an Easter Egg Hunt for the kiddos.  However this year something unexpected happened... about 7 or 8 of us got soooo sick!  On Monday evening a bunch of us (me included) came down with either a horrible virus or food poisoning, no one is really sure what.  But oh my lord, I have never been so sick!  I was up all night, as was everyone else.  And a similar virus has been going around here in Columbus.  My assistant at work came down with the same thing Monday night as well, so who knows where it originated.  I'm taking it extra easy given that I'm pregnant, but Boo seems to be doing OK.  He's been kicking up a storm over the last couple days.  And because of that, we hit another milestone in this pregnancy - I felt Boo kick from the outside!  I was lying in bed this morning with my hand on my belly, because he has been doing a little dance in there all morning, and THUMP.  I felt him with my hand!  It was so cool!  I can't wait for Tim to get the chance to feel him kick too.