32 Weeks

Only (but still not soon enough) 8ish weeks to go! I am still feeling good, just achy all over but that comes with the territory. I think Christmas prep has been distracting me from nesting and baby prep. Now that shopping is done though, I am starting to panic...we are not ready at all for this baby to come so it better not come early! 

26 Weeks

I have been horrible with getting things done on time. This pic is 26 weeks but I am actually now 27 weeks, officially 3rd trimester! 

Baby has been moving around a TON! We had another ultra sound last week to get a clearer picture of the baby's heart. All looks great! The heart rate was 144 this time which is a lot lower than it has been. We've been talking a lot about names lately and think we have settled on a girl name but we just cannot come up with a boy name we love yet. 

Lots has been going on with Rowan too. We just celebrated his 2 year birthday party. It was so much fun and he was really into opening presents. This makes me very excited for Christmas. 

24 Weeks

We've got lots of movement going on. At our last appointment the baby's heartbeat was 163. This says girl which is really what I have been feeling. We'll see in three months! :) 

Kicks

Nick finally felt some kicks tonight! I'm glad I can share them with him now. It might be one of his favorite things. :) Now I'm getting ready for the dreaded hiccups to start! 

Half Way!

Here we are at 20 weeks!

 I'm feeling great, just about the same as I did the first time. We went for our 20 week ultra sound this week. We stuck to our guns and didn't find out the sex. I can't wait for the surprise. I do have a strong intuition that it is a girl, however. 

I am feeling TONS of movement, Nick, on the other hand, hasn't been so lucky. I'm sure he could if he was a little more patient but he's not. :) It seems the baby likes to play games with him. 

Rowan still doesn't understand the concept, and probably won't until suddenly there is another being around here taking up his space. It is cute though that every time I tell him there is a baby in my belly he always lifts up my shirt to look. The other day he lifted his shirt and said "baby in there!" 

16 Weeks

This is the first bump pic for baby #2...I'm already slacking!! I never wanted to be that mom that slacked after the first one, but it's tough staying on top of things with a toddler to chase after. 

I've decided that if this baby is a boy I will be SHOCKED! All signs are pointing to girl. The Chinese Gender Chart says so, my intuition says so, EVERYONE else thinks so, and I can't seem to find any boy names I love. We'll see if we're all right...in only 24 more weeks (hopefully)! 

Feeling Different

Even though my pregnancies have so far been the same physically, things seem to be much different emotionally. As soon as we found out we were pregnant with baby #1 I felt an instant connection. I really think because it took us so long to get pregnant and because I didn't have anything else to focus on. This time, I still don't feel like it's hit me. I have to convince myself that there really is a baby growing in there and I'm not just getting chubby. It's not until after each visit to the doctor that I'm convinced...but even that only lasts a day or two. I think both because we didn't try at all for this one and were blessed with a miracle and because I am so busy with Rowan that I don't even have time to think about being pregnant. I wonder when it will actually hit me?