How far along? 25 weeks
Total weight gain: 13 pounds - Have woke up starving twice now in the middle of the night...so much that I had to get up and eat, which is something I have NEVER done before. So much for staying around 20 pounds this pregnancy...
Baby is the size of an: Eggplant
Maternity clothes? Slowly getting out more and more. Had to buy a new Husker shirt for the game this weekend because I have outgrown all of mine from last year.
Stretch marks? Nothing new
Sleep: I'm back to being able to sleep for a good 12 hours if time allows and a lot of days I feel like I need 12 hours. But that isn't to say that I don't have to get up 4 or 5 times to pee during that time.
Best moment this week: Having a 5 day "weekend" for Labor Day - on Thursday Daddy and I went back up to NE Furniture Mart and ordered our glider and brought home the dresser (I LOVE it!), went and looked at cameras (SO excited to make a purchase - the one I want is even on sale!), bought myself a couple large husker shirts so I'm ready for the season, enjoyed a Diet Pepsi (guilt-free), and went to dinner with Grandma Wert. Friday I baked husker/fall sugar cookies, an apple coffee cake, and Dan made an egg casserole for gameday morning and then we went to a party at a friends' house. Saturday was Husker gameday with Grandpa and Grandpa Matthes. On Sunday, I worked on my garage sale pile for next weekend and got everything labeled and then went and hung out with some of my very favorite girlfriends while Daddy had his annual fantasy football draft/golf/poker day with the guys. On Monday, I slept til noon-thirty while Daddy played in a golf tournament. It has been a crazy busy weekend, but I wouldn't change one bit of it!
Miss anything? Not really, things have been so crazy busy that I really haven't had time to think about it
Movement: Some, it seems like it's a little less lately (maybe I'm just too busy to notice). Still mostly on my left side.
Food cravings: Have been too busy to really notice
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope
Gender: Sweet baby GIRL!
Baby Name: It's pretty much decided...
Labor Signs: None
Symptoms: Still lots of indigestion, but surprisingly less fatigue than prior weeks. And speaking of feeling overheated all the time, sitting at that football game in the 98 degree heat about put me over the edge. I'm still trying to recover from that one!
Belly Button in or out? In...barely
Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy, of course
Looking forward to: COOLER WEATHER - I'm over this heat.
At Friday nights' party, there must have been 20 kids running around and at any one time half of them were probably screaming or crying. Someone asked if I was ready for that, and without thinking, my answer was "No, I'm not. I'm enjoying that I can just sit here" (and none of those are my problems to worry about). I got to thinking that that probably came out very wrong, because of course I am excited about having a child of my own and I love a couple of them there just as they were my own. But I did very much mean what I said. Truth be told, I am not ready for that because right now I am enjoying my last 3.5 months of my kid-free, quiet life. Our time will come, but right now I am loving that Dan and I can just pick up and go wherever we want whenever we want, and that we can enjoy evenings out without chasing around crying or screaming kids. I am loving our adults-only outings, and I am ok with admitting that. Come December, I will be ready and I will welcome that crying, screaming baby girl with open arms.
Sweet Baby Girl - Just as I had finished writing above that I had been feeling you move less than normal, I sat there for an hour watching you sommersault in my tummy as much as you ever have. It seems like it has been so long since I have had a morning where I can just sit and watch you move like that...I was starting to miss that. You really only move around like this when I am alone - I just wish you would do this on one of the mornings where Daddy can sit here and watch you with me. You always seem to go still when he puts his hand on my tummy - I think maybe he has the same calming effect on you that he does me. There is just something about Daddy's hands, Baby Girl, and I know you will be calmed by them just as much as I am...I think you are already.
Last night you were living up to your partyin' in the pm reputation, and kept me awake for a couple hours from about 3-5 am. I felt lots of kicks on both sides of my tummy at one time...you must be longer than I can even imagine you being because I didn't think that was possible. I am surprised to say that I wasn't even mad about the sleep that I wasn't getting, because it isn't very often that I get to feel you so much for so long!
Love and Prayers in Week 26!
