I'm a terrible blogger...and a pregnancy update!

Oh wow. I haven't blogged since I was 27 weeks pregnant. I am now 36 weeks, and counting down the days until we meet our Baby Girl!!!

Warning: This is a very long post.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 28 Weeks! Welcome 3^rd Trimester!!!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 2.5 lbs and 15-16 inches or so. Every website says something different, so who knows. Apparently, that is about the size of a Chinese cabbage.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 20 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She hasn’t been quite as active this week, except on Saturday. I think she moved the entire day!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I’m beginning to think that Chick-fil-a is my pregnancy craving. I never get tired of it!

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Tanner suprising me by putting the crib together before I got home from work one day!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 29 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 2.75 or 3 lbs and 15-16 inches or so. Every website says something different, so who knows. One website says that she is about the length of a loaf of bread and the weight of a Macbook Air.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 21 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still active!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I’m beginning to think that Chick-fil-a is my pregnancy craving. I never get tired of it!

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Having my 1^st baby shower!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 30 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 3 lbs and 15.5 inches or so. Every website says something different, so who knows.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 22-23 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still active!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I’m beginning to think that Chick-fil-a is my pregnancy craving. I never get tired of it!

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Including Baby Girl in our Christmas celebrations!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 31 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 3.5 lbs and 16 inches or so. Every website says something different, so who knows.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 24 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still active!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I still don’t get tired of Chick-fil-a.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Celebrating the New Year and realizing how excited I am for this year!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 32 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 3.75 - 4 lbs and 16-17 inches or so. Every website says something different, so who knows.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 25 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still active!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I still don’t get tired of Chick-fil-a.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Going to the Passion Conference with our college kids and having her kick the entire time music was playing.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 33 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 4.5 lbs and 17.5 inches or so. Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 26 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few (but very few) regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still super active!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I still don’t get tired of Chick-fil-a.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Having my church baby shower! We are super blessed and thankful for all of the love and prayers for this baby girl!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 34 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 4.75 lbs and 17.75 inches or so. Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 28 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few (but very few) regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still super active!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I still don’t get tired of Chick-fil-a.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Continuing to get her nursery ready and seeing the progress that is being made!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 35 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 5-5.5 lbs and 18 inches or so. Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 29 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few (but very few) regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still super active! For the last few weeks the movements have felt very different. Previously, it felt like little punches or kicks. Now, it feels like she is stretching or pushing some part of her up against me and moving it around or rolling. You can also watch my stomach move pretty frequently.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I still don’t get tired of Chick-fil-a.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Tanner putting his hand on my belly almost every night to feel her move and play with her.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 36 Weeks!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 5.75 - 6 lbs and 18.5 inches or so.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 30 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few (but very few) regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She’s still super active! For the last few weeks the movements have felt very different. Previously, it felt like little punches or kicks. Now, it feels like she is stretching or pushing some part of her up against me and moving it around or rolling. You can also watch my stomach move pretty frequently.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it.

What I miss: I really don’t miss much. I love being pregnant! However, as I was baking cookies the other day, I did realize how much I miss being able to eat cookie dough.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I still don’t get tired of Chick-fil-a.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Finishing the nursery and installing the car seat in the car! I absolutely love the nursery! I’m sure I will think of something else that needs to be done, but for now I think I’m finished. Installing the car seat just made it all seem so close!!!

Another update: 24-27 Weeks!

Here's how Baby Girl and I have been progressing in the last few weeks.

Pregnancy Highlights:

(Please ignore my crazy hair in this picture. I'm not sure what that was all about).

How Far Along: 24 Weeks!

Size of baby: The size of an ear of corn.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 15 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: Her movements are definitely getting more and more noticeable. I can watch my belly move when she kicks now!

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then.

Best Moment this week: Watching my belly move when she kicks hard enough!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 25 Weeks!

Size of baby: The length of a recorder that you played in elementary school…or a rutabaga (but I have no idea how big those are).

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 16 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: I absolutely love feeling her kick me. I don’t think I’ve noticed her doing somersaults or anything crazy, but maybe I have and didn’t know.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Painting the nursery, and having another good doctor’s appointment! I haven’t heard anything negative about my glucose test…so hopefully I passed!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 26 Weeks!

Size of baby: The length of a burp cloth…or the length of an English cucumber.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 17 lbs – I thought for sure I would have gained 5 lbs last week because of Thanksgiving, but I didn’t. I am still on the 1 lb per week track, which is where I am supposed to be. Yay!

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: Sometimes I think she likes messing with her Daddy. Sometimes when Tanner wants to feel her kick, she stops, even if she has been kicking like crazy. However, one night this week he had his arm around my belly and she immediately started kicking him repeatedly. Apparently, she was not a fan of his arm being there.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Thanksgiving and her being very active throughout this week!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 27 Weeks! Time is flying by!!!

Size of baby: She is probably close to 2 lbs and 15 inches or so. Apparently, that is about the size of a head of cauliflower.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 18 or 19 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: She is very active. Her most active times are mid-afternoon and at night when we are watching tv.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Occasionally, I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I’ve started feeling a little more uncomfortable every now and then, but nothing too bad.

Best Moment this week: Continuing to work on the nursery and continuing to feel my baby girl moving inside of me!

19-23 Weeks!!!

I know, I know... I haven't updated since I was 18 weeks pregnant, and I'm now over 23 weeks pregnant. Something about taking pictures off of the camera, and loading them onto the computer drives me crazy...lazy, I know. Anyway, I have at least been keeping up with the posts I said I would write, and we have taken pictures each week. So you should have plenty of reading material in this post. The biggest news is that we found out the gender of our baby! It's a girl!!! We are so excited! Tanner and I agreed when I got pregnant that neither of us would say what gender we thought the baby was. He was afraid that would somehow equal what gender we wanted the baby to be, and we really just wanted a healthy baby. I know, that sounds cliche, but it's true. Anyway, after my ultrasound where we found out that she's a girl, we both admitted to each other that we really thought that was the gender. There were a lot of reasons for this, but needless to say, it was fun for us to both be right! We have known the gender for about a month now, and we have been busy picking out items for our registry, planning her nursery, and buying cute little baby girl clothes! Can you tell we're excited???

Anyway, here are the weekly posts. Some of the answers are the same from week-to-week, because it doesn't always change:

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 19 Weeks

Size of baby: The size of an heirloom tomato

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 10 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear some regular shirts, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: We don’t know yet! 2 more days!

Movement: I’m pretty sure I’ve felt the baby move at this point, but I'm still not sure I can say for sure.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Sometimes I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I am not having too many symptoms right now.

Best Moment this week: Possibly feeling the baby move!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 20 Weeks – HALFWAY THERE!!!

Size of baby: The length of a banana

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 10 lbs according to my scale – but according to my doctor’s appointment last week it is a lot more than that. I blame it on the cowboy boots and several layers of tops that I was wearing.

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear some regular shirts, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!! We found out last Thursday (October 13, 2011). We are so excited! Neither of us told the other what we thought the gender was before we had the ultrasound. After the ultrasound, we both came out and said, “I knew it was a girl.”

Movement: Her movements are getting more noticeable.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Sometimes I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I am not having too many symptoms right now.

Best Moment this week: Finding out the gender and that Baby Girl is healthy!!!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 21 Weeks!

Size of baby: The length of a carrot

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 11 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear some regular shirts, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: Her movements are definitely noticeable now. Every time I eat Chick-fil-a she moves more. Tanner even got to feel her kick last weekend.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Sometimes I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings.

Symptoms: I am not having too many symptoms right now. Sometimes my belly feels sore (for lack of a better word).

Best Moment this week: Tanner getting to feel her kick!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 22 Weeks!

Size of baby: About the length of a spaghetti squash

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 12 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: Her movements are definitely noticeable now. She seems to be most active at night when we are watching tv.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Sometimes I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. Although, it was quite difficulty having so much Halloween candy in the house. I wanted to eat it all.

Symptoms: I am not having too many symptoms right now.

Best Moment this week: Picking out material for my mom to make her bedding and curtains!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 23 Weeks!

Size of baby: About the size of a large mango

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 14 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear maternity jeans and pants, but I can still wear a few regular shirts depending on how long they are, and I also have some maternity shirts. As the weather is getting colder, I am realizing that I don't have enough sweaters that fit.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

Movement: Her movements are definitely noticeable, but I still can’t tell what is a kick and what is a punch. She has kicked me hard enough a few times that my hand moves off of my stomach if I had it resting there.

Sleep: Every now and then I have a night where I have to get up to go to the bathroom, but that’s about it. Sometimes I have crazy dreams that wake me up.

What I miss: Nothing really.

Cravings: I'm just hungry - I don't have specific cravings. I am having a hard time not eating too many sweets because our house is full of them right now.

Symptoms: I am not having too many symptoms.

Best Moment this week: Starting our baby registry!