23 Weeks - and a future Soccer Player

This week Baby Bean reaches the 1 pound mark! He’s over 11 inches long now, and I can feel him dancing all the time. His favorite ‘dance floors’ are my bladder, and the nice fleshy parts just in front of my left hip. Brady & Gavin have also been able to feel him dancing, which has been pretty fun for me to share in the experience. Gavin also like to ‘hug’ the baby by wrapping his arms around my belly. It’s too cute and I know he is going to be a big helper!

In other baby news, we have finally started prepping for the baby’s arrival. I figure we have about 3 months left to go, and in that time frame, we have: a trip to Chicago, trip to Wisconsin, Halloween, Vegas, Thanksgiving, Alyssa & Evan’s birthdays, oh, and of course CHRISTMAS. Whew – I’m tired just thinking about it.

So Gavin and I went shopping on Tuesday and picked up some cute bedding, some accessories and paint. The colors are sage green, baby blue & chocolate brown, and of course I will post pictures when we are finished!

I also hauled out 4 years of baby stuff and washed it all. Wow, I didn’t realize how much stuff we had accumulated over the years! (as if the tower of boxes wasn’t my first clue) I emptied them into a pile on the basement floor, and we stared at “Mt. Baby”. 20+ loads of laundry later, it is all sorted by size, and will be placed into space bags today – and back into the closet – but at least I won’t have to sort or launder it when I need it!

I’m chomping at the bit to get back upstairs and paint…..but Gavin has taken a rare morning to sleep it, and I am weighing the pros and cons of an early start vs. as much quiet time as I can get this morning. I think I will let him sleep a little longer :)

21 Weeks already!

I'm feeling not-particularly inspired right now, so I thought I would steal a friend's idea about posting the weekly happenings inside my belly - from another site.

Ok, people - here's what Baby Bean is up to this week:

He now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. He is definitely practicing martial arts as his initial fluttering movements have turned into full-fledged kicks and nudges. In other developments, his eyebrows and lids are present now - yippee!!!

So far so good, I am feeling great. My belly isn't so big that it gets in the way of everything, but it's big enough now that I really do look preggers and not like I have the beer-gut from hell. Other than the occasional sleepless night (and the gross sweating thing), I have been blessed with a relatively easy second trimester so far!

So all we need now is a name, since that's the one thing we can't seem to agree on this time!