Weekly Update: Week 19

Week: 19

MONTH: 4

TRIMESTER: 2

GENDER: GIRL!!!!!

THIS WEEK THE BABY IS: Baby girl your sensory development is exploding! Your brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that you may be able to hear mommy and daddy's voice now, so those song we have been singing to you and the conversations we share with you, you can probably hear it now! Baby girl you weigh about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom —about the size of a tomato Your arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of your body now. Your kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on your scalp is sprouting whoo-hoo (for all those cute bows momma bought you!). A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on your skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.

THE BABY SIZE:

WEIGHT GAIN: 14 lbs! whew!

SYMPTOMS: None! I am definitely feeling the effects of the weight gain and my hands and feet swell up really easily.

CURRENT MOOD: Good mood! I get irritable easily thanks to baby girls extra estrogen! boo

CURRENT CRAVING: I would say that I am eating Gold Fishes very consistently! Does that count?!

CURRENT WORRY: The weight gain! I am walking 4 days a week and gained 2.5 lbs this week!!! I talked to the doctor about it and he says and that I am right on target with my weight gain and that they will tell me when to worry! So I will!

BELLY PHOTO HERE:

If you look closely you can see my belly button has popped out, not all the way but it is obvious when I wear t-shirts!

A bit of sunshine

As my puppy gets bigger and older he is bringing me lots of joy! It helps for when he whines at 6am to be let out to go potty!

I just wanted to share a little bit of my sunshine!



Don't you just love it?! For those dog lovers out there you understand how awesome it is too see your pets love each other!

Invasion!

Aside from taking Sherman potty every 30 minutes to insure he is properly potty trained and well behaved before Baby G gets here my life has been consumed by fruit flies. Ya, you heard me right! Gross huh?! I am fighting off an insane invasion of fruit flies. Not only are they extremely annoying and always around! They basically ruin everything! My dinner, my drink, my snack, flying in my face! Ugh! With these hormones if I thought it would affect them and make them go away, I would personally curse out every single one of them! They have taken up residence in our nice lake side condo specifically the kitchen, for about a week and half. I WILL win this battle!

So, after I threw away all the fruit and food in the house that I thought would attract the flies. I decided to researched how to remove the fruit flies. This is what I came up with! You get a clear bowl, pour vinegar in the bowl and cover it with saran wrap, poke a few holes in the saran wrap and this is the end results!

How gross is this!!!

I have not won this battle yet! I won't lie when I say that I stand in the kitchen for a long time killing them with spray and my fast hands!!!

Wish me luck people! I need it!

10 things...

So you never know how long an adventure is so I have decided to make a bucket list of sorts for my stay in North Carolina because it is just so much fun and amazing here! HA! However long or short may stay may be these are things in this small town that I want try or attend!

1. Go to the local rodeo!

2. Attend the Hog Races. I hear they are really fun!

3. Make a friend my age :)

4. Visit a historical sight in the area.

5. Go to Charleston

6. Go the the towns baseball game, they also say that is fun. (It is neither minor or majors for those who may be curious)

7. Water ski ( Yes, post baby!)

8. Find out why only one side of the street has watering wells.

9. Go to the beach (its a 3 hours away)

10. Go to the drive in!

I know this is not the most exciting list or the most fun things to do ever, but it will be something fun to check off as time goes on! If anyone has any other ideas or better ones than I said let me know!

Weekly Update: Week 18

Week: 18

MONTH: 4

TRIMESTER: 2

GENDER: GIRL!!!!!

THIS WEEK THE BABY IS: Baby girl your about 5 1/2 inches long weigh almost 7 ounces!! You are busy flexing your arm and legs — movements that I have start noticing more and more as the weeks go on. Lil girl your blood vessels are visible through your thin skin, and your ears are now in their final position, although they're still standing out from your precious lil head a bit. A protective covering of myelin is beginning to form around your nerves, a process that will continue for a year after your born. Baby girl your uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place so when your grown and married you are prepared to have babies of your own!

THE BABY SIZE:

WEIGHT GAIN: 11 lbs!

SYMPTOMS: None! I am definitely feeling the effects of the weight gain and I am starting to get winded a little more easily. From what I hear it gets worse! whoo hoo!

CURRENT MOOD: Elated! I am over the moon excited to have little girl, princess, diva, mini me! I love feeling my little baby girl moving and grooving in my belly and boy are they getting stronger and stronger!

CURRENT CRAVING: No cravings :( My appetite I feel is pretty normal. I excepted it to be way more.

CURRENT WORRY: Not exercising regularly and not drinking enough water! I hate water and it is so hard to get myself to drink any during the day! Forcing myself late at night to drink all the water I missed just makes me get up in the middle of the night! ugh! I also worry that Mr. G will really go buy a gun like he promised to keep the boys away!

BELLY PHOTO HERE:

Meet Sherman!

* There are 2 new posts today...so keep reading after this one :)

Ladies and Gentleman please meet the newest member of the G family!!!

Sherman!

ISN'T

HE

THE

CUTEST

THING

EVER?!

MY TWO BOYS CUDDLING!!!!

WALL PAPER, PAINT, and FUMES Oh My!

Last week my wonderful in-laws came to town to come check out the new town we lived in and to come hang out with us! But oh boy did we have big plans for them! Since Mr. G couldn't be around to help I desperately needed my in-laws help to paint and decorate the place so that my new home can actually feel like a home!

So to start off Mr. G and I decided to do some prep work to help out!!

This is what the whole place looked like, covered in wall paper and to the right of it half of it peeled off that we were doing! It took us about a week to remove all the wall paper we had patience for! We still have a bathroom and kitchen to do! (We will see if it gets done or not!)

This a photo of the baby room after we removed the wall paper but before we painted it!

This was our living room before our furniture got here and us stealing the neighbors Internet!

This is Rick working on my purple bathroom!!

Did you notice his fancy shoe covers?! Leave it to Rick to be crafty! Check them out!

Our newly painted and decorating living room!

Of course not everything is completed! As of now our fireplace is our TV stand!

This is a after photo of the baby room! The wall paper was so old in this room that Rick had to use a special prepping paint but the name of it has escaped my pregnant brain! But anyways, it was so strong and fuming Bobby's mom and I had to leave the house. When we got back it was still so bad I had to wear a mask for 2-3 days after!!! Gotta watch out for Baby G you know?!

So, now I just need to learn the gender so I cans start to decorate! (Side note: I wrote this before I found out the gender! And now I know and can officially get to work! Yay!)

Aside from the baby room this is my favorite room!

The view from our kitchen!