25 Weeks

I promised myself I wouldn't post this more than 6 days late... oh well!

I love seeing everyone else's pictures when they are pregnant but I really dislike seeing my own, haha and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way. After all it's a struggle to see picture proof that you are in fact gaining weight and beginning to look chubby. The other thing that I am jealous of is the ladies who seem to have that perfectly round belly. Mine takes way to long to be round, like right now as soon as I put on those maternity pants it makes my tummy suck in a little (you can see that in the first picture) which makes it look lopsided or something. 

I think the biggest difference between this stage last time and now is I do feel like I am hungry ALL the time, it's killing me! I am still trying my best to not just gain un-necasarry weight but that really makes it tricky. I try to drink lots of water to help off-set that hungry feeling and junior (that is the nickname I use it is a little boy-ish but that is what my parents called me too) HATES it. Every time I  take a drink of anything cold I can feel baby wiggling all around, I don't' remember Colin doing or reacting to anything I ate other than giving me heartburn, especially that immediately. Oh and junior loves to kick my insides around until I get David to put his hand on my belly. No joke, I have started having him do it whenever baby gets a little too busy in there and it works like a charm. Then baby is a perfect angel, it's the only thing that has me thinking that junior might be a junior miss. Either way I like to think that David already has a calming touch when it comes to our baby, it melts my heart.

Isn't' this THE Cutest little froggy blanket ever! My fellow Young Women's leader made this and one for the other leader (she is only 2 weeks behind me). I LOVE it and it's perfect for a boy or girl. All I did was mention how cute the material was at our quilting activity the week before and at our meeting the next week she had two all done! What an awesome lady :) Another thing I think is exciting is as of 25 weeks if something had happened our baby would have had a 50/50 chance of making it. It's a scary thought but it's also an achievement, and as of this week the odds are closer to 80%. Knowing that you have reached a point of success makes the whole experience seem more real. 

I have managed to switch doctors, which was an adventure. It was also really scary because we had to be sure our insurance was good, obviously if we have it (and have paid for it) we need to go some where it would give us the biggest bang for our buck. My friends and ladies in the ward told me the doctors they were using and after searching our insurance website for what seemed like hours I found a couple that matched and narrowed it down from there. After my first appointment I wasn't automatically impressed but after thinking about the discussion we had I decided our new doctor will do great. The main thing I have noticed about him is that he seems to have the same policy about all this baby stuff I do. And that policy is a laid back, take it as it comes kind of approach. The other place I was at just seemed like they had ways of doing things and they wanted me to do what they wanted. I'm sorry but I was not about to fight (that's a strong word but the best to describe my issue) or argue my way to get what I felt like I want/ need, IF the things I want are reasonable. 

Lastly, after David's parents visit this weekend we now have some outside storage that we can use to relieve the second bedroom of STUFF. So that means I will be doing my best to get a picture of our nursery on here sooner. Although there may not be a crib in the room for 2 more months, we do have all of the accumulated baby things in the room put away nicely. Oh and David's parents left this for baby, I think we will open some this year and let baby open some next year. I think they are a little excited :)