6 months - 24 weeks

I'm glad that the blogger's blog that I had last week is long gone.  We had a busy family weekend and chose her name, finally!  Bryan is now preparing to de-popcorn the ceiling in the nursery, which I'm sure he's super excited about.  I offered to start de-popcorning while he was at work since I am home by 11:30 but he told me not to worry about it.  So instead I'm on the couch watching last night's DVR'd shows: The Secret Life, Switched at Birth, and Design Star.  Oh, and blogging.  In a few minutes I'm going to fold my first load of tiny clothes!  Let me be excited about it now because I'm sure that when she's here I'm not going to be singing the same tune.  I hate folding laundry.  I think I have decided that laundry is the WORST household chore.  Not the doing of the laundry, but the folding and putting away of it.  Anyway, on with this week's statistics:


Time Left: 16 weeks or 112 days



Baby's Name: Harper Grace  :)


Size of Baby:  She is the size of corn on the cob (about a foot long - again, I have to ask is corn on the cob 12 inches? I guess it depends).  I still have no desire to eat corn on the cob even though it's one of my summertime favorites.  My baby ticker above says that she's the size of a papaya, which is a delicious alternative to corn.  She should be about 1.5 lbs at this point.  At least some of those pounds are going to her and not to my ass.  Her lungs are beginning to develop branches and she's still breathing in her own pee (ack).  She also still has very thin, see-through skin which should start to change soon.  


My Body: I know that you're sick of hearing this but... the boobs have got to go.  I thought that I was having trouble breathing because she is starting to grow up into my lung area but I was wrong.  I discovered this weekend that the weight of my boobs is crushing my chest therefore making it hard for me to breathe in certain positions.  Bryan wants me to weigh them on my scale.  I'm going to do it because I'm that damn curious.  I'll post my findings later on.  Other than that, nothing unusual is going on with me.  I go for a glucose test on the 15th to make sure that I don't have gestational diabetes.  When I asked about the test my nurse said that it was like drinking Jungle Juice.  I love the fact that everyone in my doctor's office is younger.  I'm sure that the glucose test cannot be as miserable as the Lactose Tolerance test that I had to take a few years ago.  Misery.


Total Weight Gain: Of course I forgot to weigh myself this morning.  I'm not going to do it now because I just ate lunch and had a glass of milk.  Don't plan on adding extra poundage to the count.  I'm going to guess that I'm up 19 lbs. bringing me to a grand total of 159lbs. with a starting weight of 140lbs.  Hopefully I'll remember to weigh myself tomorrow morning.
While on the subject of weight gain someone at work, who I don't know, asked when I was due today.  I guess you really CAN tell that I'm pregnant and not just a fatty.  She took me off guard by asking.  I kind of thought that I may have still been in the, "Is she pregnant or just fat?" stage.  I'm glad that I'm not.


Movement: All the time now.  Not to where she keeps me up at night or distracts me, but I definitely feel her a lot more.  Bryan finally felt her moving from the outside last night!  He was so excited!!  He then wanted to know what it was like to be pregnant.  I didn't really know what to say since I haven't had the stereotypical pregnancy.  I just told him what I've been saying all along.  I feel her moving, which is weird, I have gained a bunch of weight, my clothes don't fit, my boobs are huge, and I have trouble breathing sometimes.  Other than that, I feel completely like I always do.



Favorite Foods:

• Watermelon - I need to go get another one actually.
• Yoplait Whips (frozen)
• Pudding
• Ice cream 

Life in General:
I can't believe that she will be here in just 3 months.  Where the hell does the time go?  I guess it goes where it always does when you're a teacher in the summertime.  I seriously need to hit the beach more in August.  I have only gone a handful of times, but it's just been so damn hot!  It's so hot that the glue that holds the rubber seal around the trunk in Bryan's car is melting!  He's had that car for four years... nothing has ever melted.
Bryan has also started de-popcorning the ceiling in the nursery.  I know I mentioned that earlier in the post, but it's now actually started.  It's going to be nice when we get some furniture in there to start making it look more like a room.  I am being a major cheap-o and going to AC Moore every day this week to buy letters to make Harper's name on the wall.  I have a 50% off coupon but can only use it on one item.  I got the H today.  Such a loser, I know, but I'll be saving $6 in the end. 


Eh, I did a lot of blogging this week so I think it's okay to cut this shorter than normal.  I feel rambling coming on if I don't just end this.

**Both photo attempts came back with blurry results.  Will try again tomorrow**