I Love You Three: 21 Weeks

Pregnancy Update February 15, 2014

How far along: 21 Weeks! Due June 28, 2014.

Size of baby: 10.5 inches, 12.7oz. A banana. If you look back to last week, that's quite the growth in length!! 4 inches! Big week for this guy!

What developed this past week: Baby 2 is now swallowing small amounts of amniotic fluid and practicing his digestive skills along with getting a small taste of the foods I'm eating (You're welcome, baby, for the food described in the next paragraph :) I wish I could say it was totally selfless and I did it all for you lol). He's also breathing in the fluid and getting his lungs ready for life on the outside. Speaking of - I saw this outfit online and was tempted to buy it lol!

Though I didn't get that one, THIS one I could not pass up! :) I tried getting it in both boy's sizes, but they were out of Bryson's size.

Weight Gain: 14.4 pounds. This was a rough week - in which my husband bought me not one, but TWO, boxes of nerds (he knows my love language)... and for himself (aka to share) a 3-lb bag of peanut m&ms. If that wasn't enough, my mom spoiled me with BK, Tim Hortons, or Co Fair breakfasts multiple times this week! And I knew better than allowing cases of soda in our house - we've been drinking them with lunch/dinner far too often on top of having Chipotle and Hibachi and a McD's Shamrock Shake. There - I admitted to all my sins. Next week I'll repent and do better. The truth will set me free? :)

Maternity clothes: My Old Navy/Gap order came this week, so today I'm wearing some new jeans (that actually fit) and a nice warm work-appropriate sweater. Got a couple turtlenecks that were on sale for $6 too! Score :) I think I should be more than set once my maternity leggings get here.

Gender: #truth
Boy A Noise With Dirt On It 8x10 Quote Print Modern by Tessyla, $20.00

Movement: Baby seems to be moving more recently. Not as sporadically as he used to, I think. Because of that, I was able to call my coworker in to feel him moving! She was the first one, other than Caleb, to feel him. He kicked her 5-10 times in a row within the span of a minute! I can feel him consistently moving now that he's big enough that he's often up against my skin where others can feel him too. I guess he did grow 4 inches! :)

I'm interested to see how Bryson reacts if I can get his little hand to feel his brother moving!! Now that my belly is getting bigger, and it's harder to hold B normally, I mention his brother to him more often... so it'll be interesting to see when it actually sinks in that there's a baby in there!

Sleep/Symptoms: As well as can be expected. I start waking up probably around 4-5am and turn over and fall back asleep. Again and again. Luckily, I can still fall back to sleep, but I'd really rather just stay asleep! The good news is that my belly isn't heavy enough to make it a production to roll over yet... and I can still sleep on my stomach (with my hips turned a little). I can't believe it!

Once the baby gets a little bigger (and higher), I'll have to break out the wedge to prop up my belly and eventually... the body pillow. I try to hold off as long as I can on that one - it seems to take up so much space! It's too much to have the equivalent of 3 people in a queen size bed!

As far as new symptoms go, I started getting cramps in my calves every once in awhile. Has only happened a couple times, but it is not fun! Especially if I wake up to that pain in the middle of the night. Talk about a rude awakening!

I got my blood count results back. Hemoglobin was 12.2 and hematocrit was 36.6 - I have no idea what those number mean (or what they should be), other than I am OK and the dizziness was not caused by low iron.

What I miss: The sun! But I'm remedying that next week!! YAYYY! :)

Cravings: I think I've eaten so much this week that I didn't even leave room for a craving to sneak up! haha ridiculous...

Best moment this week: Someone else feeling B2 moving! And booking a trip to Sarasota with my mom and grandma to visit my aunt & uncle!! We are THRILLED to get a break from the snow and cold! Unfortunately, Caleb can't come with us... but B and I will live it up in the pool for sure! A week in Florida? Don't mind if I do!

Bryson Update: This week we bought Bryson one of his favorite things in the world... a vacuum cleaner! LOL He seriously FREAKS OUT when I don't let him help me vacuum, or when I take it away from him when I do let him help... So I first remedied that situation by letting him sweep all our wood floors with our electric broom while I use the Dyson on the carpets. And though he does a fantastic job, and he really is sweeping, we decided we'd get him a toy vacuum that he can push around all day if he wants (while saying "vroom vroom") :) Happy Valentine's Day to him! ha!
He started by vacuuming the whole store! The workers trying to close the store were really happy for the help! :)

Then we went home, and though he was supposed to be putting his pajamas on, he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep without cleaning our carpets first... :)

And, because he's a manly man, he carried around his other favorite item while vacuuming:

Looks like we're doing something right so far! So well-rounded...He's going to make his wife VERY happy one day! haha

That covers two of his top 3 favorite things to do (vacuum & play ball)... his third favorite thing is to read! He gets books out all day long... While we were in the store, he pulled out a science experiment book and read up!