Baby Update!

We are officially down in the single digits counting down until our baby girl is here!

I haven't done an update for a bit because everything has kind of been the same so I'll kind of just throw in a couple quick things that have happened in the last month!

We hit the third trimester on October 12th! Only one left! We had an appointment on the 8th and when we got home we tried to listen to her heartbeat with our stethoscope since we had seen exactly where the heart beat was with the doppler..... and it was a success! We had tried several times before but were never able to find or hear it, but we did that night! So much fun!! And I've listened for it about every night since then! 😜 Sometimes I can find and hear it, sometimes I can't but it's still fun! Especially when you DO find it! And it's always fun because as soon as you put the stethoscope bell on my belly, she immediately kicks it! 💕

{28 Weeks}

About halfway through the second trimester, or maybe a little earlier, I got my appetite back and ate ALL the time! I was seriously SO hungry ALL the time!! And seriously ate about 6 meals a day! Haha that has since changed! I have reverted back to my first trimester days where I am nauseous (not as bad as 1st!) and don't have much of an appetite at all! NOTHING ever sounds good! 😝

I don't really have much to complain about though! This pregnancy has been pretty good to me! Something else that did occur in the second trimester also was I would cramp really super easy! Like just walking fast-I would start cramping... That has since gone away though! 🙏 But ya'll! Varicose veins are no joke!!! That's what took the place of cramping in the 3rd trimester, and luckily it is only one! Because OUCH!! 👎 I wear compression socks at work, but now I have to wear one on my left leg when I'm home too haha or that leg hurts so bad when I'm on it that I can't get anything done!

{30 Weeks}

Just trying to get the best angle of Baby!

Since hitting the 3rd trimester I feel like I have definitely popped more and am DEFINITELY getting uncomfortable! Sitting gets uncomfortable because my belly pushes into my ribs. Baby has gone as far up as she can (Yes she has!!) so the Doctor says she should be pushing outward now! At our last appointment Baby is head down and I'm pretty sure her little bum is on the left side of my belly because it gets really hard there and just feels like a little bum that I can cup my hand around 💗 And as for her feet they are sprawled over in the right side of my ribs! Always making that side of my ribs uncomfortable and sore haha sometimes I wake up and I feel like my ribs on that side are bruised! I have to sit with my right arm up over my head a lot of the time to stretch out those ribs haha And every once in a while she'll really get me and it feels like she wraps a toe around my rib and then pulls her foot out away from my rib snapping her toe off my rib! haha It does not feel good!

{32 Weeks}

So I mentioned in my last post that we had a little scare with Baby Girl a few weeks ago.... Little Stink!

It was actually the 25th of October, I worked all day, and through out the day the baby just wasn't very active.. I only remember feeling her move a handful of times during my 12 hour shift. And I was training a nurse that was basically doing everything herself, so it wasn't like I was busy and just didn't notice, in fact I was sitting the majority of the day. But she always gets more active at night, so I figured I would get home, settle on the couch and have some Netflix and baby kicks... but we didn't 😬 After getting home she still wasn't very active at all! And my belly was just flaccid, meaning just squishy, where it usually is pretty hard and formed. So that had me worried! And we got the stethoscope out because she always kicks it when we put in on my belly, so we tried that.... and nothing! We pushed and poked and prodded and she may have moved a couple times, but I felt like they were very weak little movements, and a definite change to her norm! And we had just had a doctors appointment a week earlier and the Doc said that her pattern of movement shouldn't be changing at this point and to come in if she wasn't moving or even if it had changed and she wasn't moving as much! So still in my scrubs, in to the ED we went. Which first of all.. first time mom here! 🙋 And second of all this baby is waaaaaaaaaaay to precious to risk anything! Any baby is! But this baby in particularly, to me!!

After blubbering out my name, birth date and "decreased fetal movement" to the receptionist, TWICE! Because she couldn't understand me 🙈, we got wheeled up to the L&D department and got checked in. The nurse told us that a lot of the time when the mom feels like the baby isn't moving very much and come in, that all they have to do is strap on the two monitors that go around your belly and the baby starts moving because they don't like that.... and sure enough!! Little stink!! As soon as she strapped on the monitors we could hear her strong heart beat and she started moving like normal! Kicking and rolling 😠 Haha just had to give Mama a little scare I guess! I felt silly of course but the nurse and Doc both of course said better safe than sorry, and I definitely slept better than I would have if we wouldn't have gone in! haha 

So that was our little scare we had, but thankfully nothing major! And everything was all right and turned out just fine! 💗

Skate Land, Pumpkin Carving, Birthday Parties, Snakes, Halloween.......... October!

This month was filled with a lot of fun things!!

The kids have been begging to go to Skate Land for ever so we finally were able to go! They have weird hours that we could never make work! But we finally were able to take them, and if we only would have known that it was superhero themed we could have worn our costumes and won a prize! But that's ok the prize wasn't that great anyways 😜 a Poindexters gift card haha! It's an old costume store downtown 
{10-12-19}

All the pictures I took didn't turn out very good because of the lighting 😬 

The motion didn't help either! Haha so don't mind the high quality pictures! 😜

Of course Dad and Bentley had to race!

In case you were wondering, the couple behind Kam were the ones who won the dress up contest.... So really.... we may not have been able to beat them even if we did dress up! 😜

Had to get a picture by Superman!

And of course we always have to get a picture together and then separate pictures haha

{10-16-19}
For Family Night we had a lesson on letting your light shine, carved Pumpkins and lit them up, (letting their light shine 😜), and had pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!

Look at those cuties!! Especially the one in the middle! 💗

I couldn't get a good smile out of Bentley, and the reeeeal reason was because there were a couple neighbor girls that had stopped by 😜 So of course he couldn't act like he was having a fun family night while they were watching him get his picture taken 😜

{10-22-19}
Our cousin Lexi turned 4 this month! So we went and celebrated with her at Gerties!

{10-26-19}
We went with Aunt Rachel and Lexi and Macy to Reptile Days! We got to see and hold a lot of cool reptiles! And when I say "we" I mean the kids and Kameron... haha I saw them but didn't touch any of them! 😜 Reptiles sick me out! haha

After Reptile Days we went to our subdivisions Halloween Party~ The Hometown Haunt! It was cold and windy, but we still had fun! We were in charge of a game and did Pin the Bone on the Skeleton... for as long as it lasted in the wind haha 

{10-30-19}
We took the kids to Tubbs Berry Farm for family night and then got dessert at Sips! It was a little bit chilly at the farm but we still had fun! We had a lot of fun in the hay maze! We each got a punch card and not only did we try and find our way out, but we tried to find all 5 hold punchers (which all ended up being in dead ends of the maze), so we could get free popcorn! Haha we did pretty dang good but only found four before it was getting to dark and cold to continue 😔 So we had to find our way out before we could find the last one danget!

{10-31-19}
We didn't have the kids this year for Halloween, but we were able to go to Bentley's Halloween Parade at the school and then they did come trick or treat with us for a little bit 😊

During the parade they were practically running so we didn't get any good pictures of him but were lucky enough to see him out in the hall waiting to go back in his class as we left!

And of course I made Kam dress up again with me on actual Halloween 😜

And somewhere in the mix of all that fun we had in October, I graduated with my Bachelor Degree in Nursing!

And if that wasn't enough of a fun filled month... you can read my next post with an update on Baby! 😊 And our first (and hopefully LAST!) little scare with her!