Vacation and Anticipation

Hello, everyone!

Jeff, Taylor, and I got back from a wonderful trip to Hawaii to visit Alisha, Will, and their little one! :) We stuffed ourselves silly, not just on Thanksgiving day, and Taylor enjoyed every immobile minute of it. :9 Yum!

Some new developments - little Taylor doesn't like the high-pitched ringing of the hotel morning call; she woke up immediately when the morning call came and started kicking frantically all over the place! She calmed down after about ten minutes, but it definitely made me jump out of bed! I also had my first major leg cramp that woke me up in the middle of the night - I yelped and woke up Jeff, too!

I'm sure everyone will be amused to know that little Taylor is growing now so rapidly that my belly button is progressively getting smaller and preparing to become an outie...please don't become an outie, please don't become an outie...but I think it will become an outie. Oh well, at least right now it's a cute little TINY belly button...

As I enter my third trimester, I am worried about how much bigger I'm going to get, but I am also very excited that we're one trimester closer to meeting our little baby! Jeff still asks when Taylor is going to come out and play, and luckily it will be very soon! :) The time is just flying by and I don't know what it'll be like when little Taylor is no longer a part of me...it already makes me sad to think of it! I'm so excited that she'll soon be a part of our lives, though...SO EXCITED!!!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and expect an interesting post next week after we get our 3D ultrasound!!!!! WE CAN'T WAIT!

24/25-Week Appointment

Little Taylor must have been excited about her visit this morning because she was kicking up a storm when we went in to see the doc. Today's appointment consisted mainly of the doctor checking on how I was doing, checked the height of the uterus, explained our lab results (all great!) and checked the wellness of the baby.

We got to see little Taylor again on the sonagram today. She's definitely putting on some weight because this time you could see that she had put some fat on her little bones! Her heart rate is also holding steady at a rapid 150 beats per minute (although, it was really hard to get because she kept kicking the mic). :) All in all, the appointment went very well. We picked up my "fit to fly" memorandum because we're flying to a mini-vacation with the Shoemates in Hawaii for Thanksgiving. Yay!

Until next time...Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Getting Stronger...

Little Taylor must be growing stronger in there because her kicks are getting much harder! Today, she gave me two strong kick right under the belly button that made me jump. She'd better watch out where she kicks because I'll be pretty upset with her if she kicks my belly button out into an outie from an innie. Yes, yes, I know it will probably come out eventually when she grows much larger in there, but she doesn't need to be kicking it along faster than she needs to...:)

I am finding that I have a lot of energy through the day until mid-afternoon and then I feel a strong urge for a nap. Of course, when I'm at work, I can't just go take a nap, but on the weekends, I'm like a little cat that naps pretty much all day, on and off. Insomnia hasn't been too much of a problem for me yet, so I am thankful. She's pretty cooperative at night, too, so she'll tumble around in the belly for a bit as I get settled in to sleep, but she'll sleep through the night pretty soundly without any kicking. Maybe that's a good sign...:)

Jeff keeps talking to the belly and asks her every day to come out and play. I keep telling him she can't come out yet because she's not big enough, but he wants to see her so badly. :) It's adorable. I know he's going to pinch me for writing that, too...hehe...

Anyhow, will let you know of any updates after our next doc appointment next week. it'll be my 25-week check-up. Wheeee!

Baby Registry

We're in the midst of working through our baby registry, so we've got one started, finally. We registed through BabiesRUs.com and I've included the link on our site's "Favorite Links" tab.

Also, just so everyone isn't too set on the name we have picked for our little girl, please understand that we're still not 100% sure on the sex of the baby, and nor are we 100% set on the full name. I hope you don't feel that we are acting prematurely by naming the baby on the site and adddressing her as such...:) We love the name so far, so it may stick, but we'll let everyone know for certain closer to the birth of the baby.

We finally got a 3D ultrasound scheduled on 5 December! We're extremely excited because we should be able to get a definitive answer on whether or not our little one is really a girl and we should also be able to see her facial features for the first time with some definition. :) How EXCITING! I'll post again once I have my next doctor's appointment (before the ultrasound), but just wanted to let everyone know about our baby registry and some thoughts on our minds.

That's all for now...:)