Life Lately

I have gone on a few trips and done a few things this summer that deserve their own full posts (don't worry those are coming) but I have also done some fun little stuff too! This is all the fun stuff that doesn't quite need its own post.

After she finished law school in May my sister moved back with my parents for a few months to study for and take The Bar. Since she is only an hour away and obviously she can't study all day every day she came up for a Brad Paisley concert in June. Obviously being pregnant I couldn't enjoy a nice cold beer so I settled for a nice cold ice cream taco instead.

At the end of June my husband and I went down to Southern California for my sister-in-laws baby shower and the hotel we stayed at has a pool. I have always been a water baby so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to swim even it it was only for about 45 minutes! I think the baby enjoyed the swim and there will be lots of swimming in her future.

My husband and I have two wedding anniversaries but we tend to celebrate the first one (in November) a little bit more than our Hawaii one but my husband know how much I like celebrating anything for any reason so while I was at breastfeeding class he went out and bought me flowers for our Hawaii anniversary.  Another reason I love him!

One day I decided I really wanted to make some our frozen berries that I picked last year into a milkshake so I went out and bought ice cream for just that purpose. It was soooo good!

I don't have a fully explainable theme for the baby's room but my plan is to put up a mix of Impressionist prints that I have collected from my travel over the years along with a few little Disney prints. One weekend I went through and got out all the possibilities so I could see which ones I wanted to use.  I didn't make all the final decisions but I did decide that as much as I love Van Gough I needed to limit the crazy I put up on her walls!

In years past I have ordered meal prep boxes fairly regularly but this year I have been pregnant all year and my sense of smell and stomach have been super sensitive so we haven't ordered many.  This zucchini and grain bowl is from one of the boxes we did order and we liked it so much I have made it more than once.

Last week my husband's office threw a little shower for us and two other couples in the office that are having babies this summer/fall.  It was our first shower and it was so fun! They gave us a few things off our registry and a gift card. They also made this adorable diaper cake! It was too cute to take apart so it is currently sitting in the baby's room but eventually I will take it apart so we can actually use the diapers (and the cute shoes) for the baby.

On a totally random way to end this random post: I saw this box of Legos at Costco the other day and I just had to take a picture of it to show my husband because the rainbow colors and because it made me so excited to get something like this for our daughter someday.  I know it like 5 years off before she is old enough to play with Legos but it is still something I am looking forward to doing with her (and any other kids we have) though I hear stepping on a Lego is very painful!

Second Half of the Second Trimester

I am solidly in my third trimester now but figured it was time to do a little recap of the second half of my second trimester.  

Right around week 20 I went in for my anatomy scan. Other than the first couple of appointments at this point I had gone to the prenatal appointments by myself but this one my husband came along.  We obviously already knew the gender but it was still so fun to get to see lots of different angles of our little girl and try to see if we could tell who she looked like. This was the first ultrasound that she actually looked like a baby!

Right after I hit 20 weeks I hopped on a plane and flew to the east coast to see one sister graduate from med school and then the other one graduate from law school.  They graduated 9 days apart in 2 different east coast states so I just stayed on the east coast rather than fly there and back twice. On the flights I just made sure I drank lots of water and got up to walk frequently but I really didn't have any problems with the flights.  More details on the whole trip in a later post!

After I got back from my trip I just kind of laid low for the next few weeks. I did lots of product research and worked on figuring out what to put on our baby registry. I was still sleeping pretty well at this point and only getting up once in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I was going to the gym 3 or 4 days a week but sometime around the end of May I stopped using the water rower and started using the strider instead. 

I had another doctor appointment at 24 weeks and again took my husband with me. He di dn't really need to be there for any reason other than I wanted him to meet my OBGYN since the appointments he had been to had all been at the IVF clinic instead of with my regular doctor. Everything was looking good and the baby and I were checked out all good. At this appointment the doctor put in the order for me to go and take my glucose test sometime before my 28 week appointment. I went that weekend to just get it over with.  It was still orange and nasty but this time it didn't make me feel horrible for the rest of the day so that was an improvement. I got the results a few days later and I passed with flying colors so no gestational diabetes for me.

Somewhere around 25 or 26 weeks my husband and I flew to New York City to attend a wedding in Brooklyn.  Due to all of our other travel commitments this summer we didn't really have time to go on a relaxing babymoon so we decided to kind of make this trip our babymoon. Again more on this trip in a separate post. We took a red-eye flight and again I made sure to get up and walk often and while I was definitely not comfortable I was okay on the flight.  The flight back was less fun because due to the heat and all the walking my feet were already kind of swollen so flying just made them even more swollen.  I wore compression socks but I don't know if they actually did any good.

Somewhere right around the end of the second trimester I started to worry about outgrowing some of my maternity clothes. Not in the belly but in the chest! I was up to either a 36G or 34H and I still had 2 or 3 months to go. I got some hand me down maternity clothes from someone at work and the main reason some of them didn't fit me was because of the chest. 

Near the end of the second trimester some nights I was still waking up once a night to go to the bathroom and others I would wake up twice. The most annoying part of that was if I woke up a second time it was always like an hour before I would have to get up anyway!

Overall I am definitely having a smooth pregnancy and I am very thankful for that!