Has anyone seen my toes? Anyone...?

22 weeks today! That's 5 1/2 months down. 2 weeks ago I could still see my toes and now when I look down they are gone! I can lean forward and see them, but that's cheating. It got me thinking how I am going to miss seeing them as the weather warms up. I always have them painted in a bright fun color and it usually coordinates with the flip flops I am wearing. I guess if I can't see my toes anymore, soon I won't be able to reach them either. And flip flops aren't very supportive for my rapidly changing shape. Alas dear toes, I bid you adieu!

Last night I uploaded another 'belly pic' and when I look at them in sequence it's surreal!
Here for your viewing pleasure is the progression of my baby's growth...an external view.



11/23 - 5wks . . . . . . 1/09 - 12wks


2/6 - 16wks . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/6 - 20wks

Today-> 3/20 - 22wks

I haven't looked at the scale in about 2 weeks because I was .4 lbs away from a number I never thought I would ever see when I looked down. I'll leave the weighing in to my doctor from now on. I'm just going to eat when I am hungry and try to make smart choices for my growing baby boy!

This just made my day!

ABSOLUTE BEST first dance @ a wedding I have ever seen!

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MD SCPA Walk for the Animals

Pack page of the Happy Yappers!

You can still make a donation to this great cause!

We had a lot of fun and raised almost $200 for the SPCA!
Check out the pix from the walk...

Tika

Skipper

Tyson

The Charm City Cakes crew judging the pet costumes.

Skipper doing the agility course.

Buy Buy Sanity!

You know all those people who say that being pregnant is "the best" thing to ever happen to them and how much they love it... they're nuts! Lol.

Expecting a baby is just as expensive and stressful as raising one!

Mike and I were treated to a trip down to Rockville to visit Buy Buy Baby. The store should be called Buy Buy Buy Buy and Buy some more Baby. Its HUGE and packed from the floor to ceiling with baby stuff. We went with Mike's brother, sis-in-law, and their 11 mo. old twin boys.

After a lunch stop at Baja Fresh we made our way to baby-gear hell. We had a few goals for the day...look at convertible car seats, umbrella strollers, and possibly gliders. There are so many different kinds of car seats it's unreal. Thankfully my sis-in-law passed down her copy of the Baby Bargains Book so we knew which brands were better than others. While Mike and I were feeling overwhelmed with the safety requirements of a newborn, the twins were amazingly calm in the chaos. We didn't make any decisions about a seat, but we did pick out the glider and fabric that we want to get and we decided on the umbrella stroller. Score!

As a bonus, the wonder-twins were generous in passing along bags and bags of clothing they have outgrown...woo hoo! Baby X is excited about the variety in wardrobe...that or he's just kicking because he wanted more pizza!

<---- Mike trying on one of the baby backpacks that I can only imagine you'd use if you decided to climb a mountain with your kid!

Very productive and exciting day!

Today was probably the best Saturday I have had in a long time. Partly because the weather is absolutely gorgeous!!! I got up early...really early...7:30ish. I wanted to wear a particular pair of pants today so that meant I had to dig them out of my closet within my closet. (Background- I have a big walk in closet that was built in front of an existing in-the-wall-closet). In the process I went through about 4 big bins of clothing that i have stored in there. A lot of it is stuff I will never wear again, either due to how old it is, how out of style it is, or the size it is. I ended up with about a bin and a half of stuff to get rid of. Then I put the rest of the clean laundry away before getting ready for our shopping excursion to IKEA.
After a quick breakfast at McD's (hubbys idea) we mapped out our game plan and went in! We got flooring, padding and molding for the nursery. Picked up the crib, under crib bin, teething rails, bookcase, and storage bins for the bookcase. We also got a new dresser-like cabinet for some of my crap in the bedroom. $775 later we went to try and shove it all in the back of my SUV. We only went on this crazy spree because this weekend is "tax-free" weekend at IKEA...actually it's better than tax free because they discount everything you buy by 6% (MD tax), thus making the actual item cheaper since you have to pay 6% on the total at the end. We saved over $45 buy getting everything now! Since it's all packed in flat boxes, we'll just store it (somewhere) until we're ready to put it together and get it in the baby's room.

We're doing pretty good so far! We already have the dressers, my mom is using the ones I grew up with and they are in great shape so we're putting them in the nursery when she gets new furniture. My mom bought us the crib bedding as a surprise last weekend and just about everything else is on the registry. There's still so much to do in preparation for the baby. We have some serious construction projects that need to be done in his room before I can even start decorating.
After dropping my SUV at home with all the IKEA stuff in it (I did help unload what I could...despite what my husband like to tell people), I headed of to Saturn for a few hours to get some work finished. Afterwards Mike and I went over my friend's house for some pasta, salad and garlic bread...YUM! We had all intentions of playing Apples to Apples and Pig Toss (i think that's what it's called) but we got distracted by WALL-E and ended up watching it.

All in all it was a great day and night!
Tomorrow we have plans to hang out with Mike's brother and sis-in-law. We're gonna do some baby window shopping down in Rockville.

Who am I? My life in pictures...

This is me...take it or leave it...

I'm a graduate. I have a B.S. in Psychology.

I'm in love.

I'm a sister (in-law-in-law).

I'm a Best Friend.

I'm a wife.

I'm an animal lover

And soon...

I'll be a mommy!

At the half way point now

I'm 20 weeks tomorrow...half way through my pregnancy. It's scary to think that in only 4 months I will have a little baby to care for. Another human that I am responsible for, for the next 18 years!
So far it's been a good pregnancy. No morning sickness or weird cravings. Lots of fatigue though. Some days I would come home from work and just sleep until the next day, and even then I wasn't rested. It's gotten better though. I still have to pee a lot, but not as much in the middle of the night. I have felt a few small kicks...or at least I think that's what they are. They could be muscle spasms so who knows. My belly's unhidable now and it's more obvious that I am pregnant and not just fat. Lol.
We're still trying to choose a name for our son. It's harder than I thought it would be. Names I like, he doesn't and names he likes I don't. He seems to shoot down all my ideas and is stuck on a few names that I thought we eliminated awhile ago. Ugh...it's such an important decision that seems so crazy to make. I mean we are deciding a lot for someone we haven't even met yet. There's so much to consider...nicknames, words that rhyme, things kids could make fun of, initials, phonetic sound, syllables, spelling.... and the list goes on!
On top of that we have to pick out all this stuff. Strollers, car seat, crib, nursery accessories, blankets, learning toys, feeding supplies, diapers. It's soooo much for someone so small!
On the plus side, we have great friends and family who have helped us find deals and are passing gently used items down to us. My mom bought us the crib bedding as a surprise and I am sooooo grateful for that! I had a feeling that it's not something we would have gotten at a shower. We have a lot of stuff on the registry already, but we haven't even added the feeding and changing stuff like bottles and diapers. It's overwhelming!
We have a plan though...one step at a time. We're going to buy the crib, a bookshelf, and the nursery flooring this weekend so that's exciting!