Another Doctor's Appointment

Back to South Carolina and back to the Doctor! I am 28 weeks today and went in for my scheduled appointment. It was pretty routine and everything looked great. I have to say I did catch up a little on the weight gain after the holidays and coming straight off of two Thanksgiving dinners and a full weekend of leftovers! I am still "in the zone" as my doctor put it so no worries there. We heard a nice strong heartbeat and I measured perfectly. While the doctor was measuring the baby showed off some of his acrobatics and was pushing my stomach all around!

At 28 weeks I am now in my third trimester. It is hard to believe that I only have 12 weeks left! Time sure does fly. The pregnancy has been really enjoyable since the morning sickness stopped. I have been trying to savor these last weeks since I feel good and am still not too big! At 28 weeks he is about 2.25-2.5 pounds and 14.5 in from head to heel. I can definitely tell he is getting bigger. I can really feel him moving around now and it is very obvious, many times even through my clothes, when he is working out in there. My stomach just bounces all over the place. As a matter of fact I think he knew it was his first Thanksgiving because from the moment I woke up he was excitedly bouncing around in there.

Getting Ready!

I have great news! I got a new camera! Thanks to an early early morning and some Black Friday shopping I got a new camera and can now update the blog much more often.

I arrived back from my holiday travels to South Carolina last night and have been going through and sorting everything I brought back from my shower. I wasn't the only one who got lots of stuff over the past week... My friend here Kendall had a big shipment of baby hand-me-downs sent to her from her sister-in-law and happened to get two crib mattresses so she let me borrow one!


I have been so anxious to get the bedding put together so it will look more like a crib so I went home and put it all together. I think it looks pretty good except for the fact that we don't have a crib skirt yet. I am still working on that one. Anyone know where to get a plain white crib skirt?


Here is it all put together. Note the cute little cloud sheets I got at the shower. They go so well with airplane bedding! So far so good!

Baby Shower- Texas Style!

I had a wonderful time visiting Texas this past week. Some of my dear friends, Natalie, Brooke, and Jenny threw me an incredible baby shower! Everything was perfect. I feel so blessed to have had so many friends and family come from near and far to celebrate this baby. We got so many wonderful gifts and are much closer to being prepared for his arrival now.

Me before the shower with my 27 wk baby bump

Everything was perfectly themed in Airplanes... Daddy would approve!

And Natalie made this AMAZING cake herself! WOW!!!

All of my wonderful friends and family

My Mom hand made a beautiful quilt for the baby to match his bedding

All the food and goodies... Everything was DELICIOUS!


Me with the wonderful hostesses.

Brooke, Natalie, Me, Jenny

26 Week Belly pics!

Here are a couple of pics my mom got while Ihave been visiting inTexas. My tummy is definitly getting bigger as the little guy grows! He is about 2 lbs now so he is slowly taking over my stomach area. The funniest thing is when you feel your stomach growl but it is o longer growling where it should be... it has been temporarily relocated to much higher!

23 week Ultrasound... a little late.

So here I am almost 26 weeks and just now getting the pics posted from my ultrasound at 23 weeks. I have lots of excuses but the best one is that our scanner is REALLY hard to use and so I dread it and put it off as long as I can usually. The ultrasound went really well. I am still on track and the baby is looking happy and healthy in there. The sad news is that as long as everything stays looking good, there will be no more peeks at Baby M until his birthday.

Halloween Fun!

Happy Halloween!!! I got to go to a fun Halloween party Friday night with a bunch of the girls. Unfortunately I had to make a costume on the fly since Delta lost my bag with almost ALL of my maternity clothes other than the work clothes I was wearing inside. I went through an inventory of what I had left and came up with a pair of white maternity pants. Pair it with a white maternity shirt add a halo and you have one pregnant angel!

I started out the evening with a fun group of girls, Candice, Kara, and Branda. We went to dinner at Sumter's finest restaurant Hampton's dressed as you see above... one angel (minus the halo I hadn't picked up yet), one cowgirl, and two lady tigers. I think Hampton's was very happy when our uniquely dressed group left!

Kara, Randee, Kimber, Larissa, Charlotte, and Candice representing the 79th!

My good friend Sarah (next to me) announced her great news at the Halloween party dressed as a pregnant lady with her shirt that said "Baby makes my belly go round!" Kate (next to Sarah) made a fantastic red neck and her and her husband Kevin won best costume... Yay Croftons! Missy (at the end) just announced that she is expecting also! She is about 16 weeks along and looking great! I couldn't be happier for these two! The baby boom continues!