22 weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 22 weeks

Size of baby: Almost 1 lb & 11 in or the size of a spaghetti squash

Total Weight Gain/Loss: don't feel much better then last week. Hopefully! ;)

Maternity Clothes: Only sweats for pants still fit, other wise mainly maternity pants. Almost all my shirts still fit

Gender: It's a GIRL!!!!

Movement: Feeling her and seeing her from the outside all the time. Still not when I am moving around, but I know it's coming soon! This is much sooner then w/ Hailey also

Sleep: Hailey is sleeping better and so am I. I start my day a lot earlier then I used to, but no biggy I'm expecting that will happens when #2 gets here anyways!

What I miss: Nothing, super excited to grow my sweet girl and meet her soon!!!

Cravings: ICE CREAM! ha. Sugar, anything un-healthy, fast food, luckily still salad and veggies in ranch

Symptoms:some heartburn lately of course that is probably from my diet, back is doing GREAT, feeling awesome!!!

Best Moment this week: Got baby girl's closet and clothes are ready (um can you say OCD??), more nesting/cleaning projects around the house, and just feeling her move and saying her name every once in awhile ;)

Hailey-isms

Some funny stories/things we hear from this VERY lively 2 year old. She drives me crazy one minute, but makes me laugh until I cry every day no matter what.

-today I was trying to find something in my mess of a pantry and Hailey was supposed to be eating lunch in her high chair. She looked at me very serious and said "hayhey (Hailey) sick, I take a bitamin (vitamin)". LOL where does she get this!!

-when we were in Michigan (post coming soon) she kept calling Sadie (3 weeks younger then her), Amy. The WHOLE 4 days. It was pretty funny and I would correct her every single time. She STILL asks to play w/ Amy, or if she sees a pic of Sadie she screams AMY! So funny!

-My BFF Megan flew out to Omaha for a couple days for my birthday weekend. The whole weekend she was here Hailey called her Crissi (Sadie/Amy's Mom). It was so funny. Frustrating for Meg but funny none the less.

-My other BFF Jess is in town from Chicago and came over today, she called her Megan the whole time she was here. Hilarious! She is just like her Daddy, never remembers anybody's name!!

-when she wants something REALLY bad she knows how to politely ask, hoping it will help her get her way. But the funniest part is how she finishes it, for example if she wants me to put her hair up in a bow she will say "please Momma put bow in hair. OK!" like because she said please and asked so nicely automatically it's an OK! from Momma or Daddy. Hilarious

-When Meg was here they were being super silly and giggly one night together. Megan's boyfriend is Chinese and they were looking at pics on her phone of Andrew. So Megan pulled Hailey's eyes to a slant and called her "Happy Asain!" it was hilarious. They did it over and over for like an hour. They were both in tears from laughing so hard. Megan even got it on video on her phone and sent it to her boyfriend who was laughing even harder then they were. It's been over 2 weeks since Meg went home but everyday Hailey pulls on her face and screams "Happy Asain" I usually about die laughing. Soooo funny. I wish I could show you the face she gets out of it......

-The girl is JUST like her Momma and is totally un-coordinated and falls/walks into stuff all the time. :*( Bless her heart. So we've been walking to the park behind our house a LOT lately (go me!) and almost every time the poor love falls and scrapes her knees. She had about 5 good scrapes on both legs last week. Well, yesterday she fell in the driveway and got yet ANOTHER scrape. So I decided to put some band-aids on them in hopes of healing it sooner. She has her own special princess band aids, which I let her have 2 of, but put a 3rd "Grown up" boring super sticky one on the new bleeding owie since she can't get them off and I wanted it on longer. Usually the princess ones stay on for maybe an hour or 2 and are then ripped off. I knew this owie needed to be covered longer to get better. Oh my did she lose it. She did NOT care for that band aid and let me know. She cried the ugly-snotty-face-I'm-gonna-die-2-year-old-tantrum cry for over an hour. An hour folks! Over a band aid! I kept my calm and tried to deal with her. NOTHING I did worked. We took all 3 band aids off and that made it worse. The only thing that made her better was to go BACK to the bathroom, let her pick out all the band aids she wanted and let HER put them on herself. What do you think she did?? Picked out 2 princess band aids, put them on exactly where she had the last 2, and picked out a super sticky grown up band aid. SERIOUSLY??? Oh my gorsh. I think I need therapy people.........

-I find myself saying super weird things to avoid naughty words I used to say sans kids. One of them is Bummer Man when upset, and if something bad happens I'll say "oh my goodness sakes" so now whenever something happens that displeases Hailey she says "oh my sakes" cracks me up! It's so precious

-Steve orders all of his holistic Chinese herb supplements online and they get shipped to us. So now whenever we get a package no matter what Hailey says "Daddy menicine (medicine)"

21 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 21 weeks

Size of baby: 3/4 of a lb & 10 1/2 in or the size of a large carrott

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I gained 3 lbs in a month. Considering we were on vacation for a week and it was my birthday I'm pretty happy with that number!

Maternity Clothes: Only sweats for pants still fit, other wise mainly maternity pants. Almost all my shirts still fit

Gender: It's a GIRL!!!! Sooooooooo excited to have "my Girls"

Movement: All the time when I'm sitting/laying. This child is not any more calm then her big sister was, we could be in for it X2

Sleep: Sleeping great when Hailey sleeps. Ha. Up to pee once a night and it's usually when Hailey needs help getting back to sleep so no big deal. I know the good sleep isn't going to last much longer so I'm trying to enjoy it while I can!

What I miss: Being able to go to the bar for my Birthday. But it's all good next year for the big 3-0 I will :)

Cravings: ICE CREAM! ha. Sugar, anything un-healthy, fast food, luckily still salad and veggies in ranch

Symptoms: nothing but a sore back. Still seeing the chiro and hoping it pays off :) I could have 9 babies if I always felt like I do in the 2nd trimester!

Best Moment this week: Choosing a first and middle name for our girl. I am soooooooo excited but only me and Steve will know until she is born. :) Also my BFF from Denver came for my Birthday weekend and we had SUCH an amazing time, it was great to share our good news from the u/s and that it's a girl with her in person!!

21 week belly shots. Feelin large but only half way there! Oy vey!

19/20 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 20 weeks

Size of baby: 10 1/2 oz. & 6 1/2 in or the size of a Banana

Total Weight Gain/Loss: no idea and I'm not sure I want to know. After being on vacation and eating out and lots of yummy desserts and snacks I am trying to be better at home with salad and fruit!

Maternity Clothes: Only sweats for pants still fit, other wise mainly maternity pants. Almost all my shirts still fit

Gender: It's a GIRL!!!! Sooooooooo excited to have "my Girls"

Movement: Almost always if I'm sitting and laying in bed. Sometimes when I'm standing. So happy that I feel her moving and knowing that she is OK and growing

Sleep: Sleeping great when Hailey sleeps. Ha. We took her crib side off so she is in a "big girl bed" and doing great!!!

What I miss: Nothing really, I'm half way there and know it will be over soon!!!

Cravings: ICE CREAM! ha. Sugar, anything un-healthy, fast food, luckily still salad and veggies in ranch

Symptoms: nothing but a sore back. Still seeing the chiro and hoping it pays off :)

Best Moment this week: Being on vacation in Michigan, Hailey sleeping better and in her big girl bed, and of course finding out our sweet girl is perfect and healthy and normal!!!