Week 21 & 22: Babymoon!

Week 21: 

Honestly, nothing much to update here.  We are hard at work in the baby nursery, it's coming together and loving how it's looking.  Only thing left to install is the chandelier, which should be coming soon.  Rest of the work is just details, all other major things are done in the room, yippee!

Week 22 and BABYMOON! 

This week we went on our babymoon and celebrated our 4 year anniversary in Chicago.  Great weekend, lots and lots of shopping.  So much shopping I literally shopped until I dropped.  6-7 straight hours a day.  We started at the outlet in Aurora.  I have surprisingly held off on buying baby clothes until this week.  We started at Baby Gap and love love love Gap's baby clothes!  Aaron was awesome, helping me pick out clothes and find sizes, it was fun!  By the time we got to the 5th baby store though, Aaron had lost interest, it came to him following behind me, while I held up things for his approval and I got the nod most of the time, not as helpful as he was at the first store, but I get it, he's a male and doesn't have the attention span for picking out baby clothes as I do.

I'm picky when it comes to what my baby girl is going to be wearing.  I don't want a bunch of animals and crazy colors, I want our baby girl to look like a young adult.  Animals are okay on pjs, that's it though.  I don't want smiling bears, unicorns, rainbows or sparkles.  Nor dinosaurs or stuff that says "I love my mommy"  or "daddy" on it.  Or words that say "too cute" on it either.  Nor do I like colored pant suits.  Plaid, patterns, pea coats, woven boots, button up shirts, tunics, jeggings/leggings are all good though.  Basically anything at Baby Gap I love.  Or just think of it this way, would I wear that?  If the answer is no that I would look like an idiot as an adult wearing that outfit, then my baby doesn't want to wear it either.  Maybe I'll loosen up in this area but right now I'm pretty particular and Aaron is on the same page as me and agrees 100%.    

We then headed to our favorite comedy club Second City and after stood in line at our favorite pizza place, Gino's East.  Gino's East always has a huge line, out the door and goes down the alley, but standing outside in line for 45 minutes in the freezing cold was well worth the wait.

We stayed at the Hyatt Regency right off of Michigan Ave.  I've stayed at this hotel before and it's pretty darn nice and would recommend it.  The only complaint I had was at 3:30 in the morning, there were some girls giggling in the hallway that woke me up.  Okay, so I haven't been sleeping too well in general at all so that really annoyed me to hear giggling girls in the hallway.  I get it, it's 3:30 am, the bars are just closing and I've been that giggling girl before too.  But I really wanted to open the door and say "GIRLS!" and give them a dirty look but I didn't.  They were only out there for about 5 minutes so instead of showing my age, I just let it go and remembered that I was a 21 yr old giggling girl leaving the bars at 3:30 am at one time in my life too.  Boy that moment made me feel old!

The next day we hit Michigan Ave hard.  I was very disappointed in the lack of maternity clothes options.  Macy's and Nordstorms didn't have a maternity department, that shocked me.  I went to Pea in the Pod and loved that store, walked away with a few items but not much since it was pretty pricey.  Aaron wanted to hit a suit shop he had read about in his GQ Magazine.  I ended up sitting in a suit shop for 2 hours waiting for him, and I did it without saying a peep about how I was ready to go and bored to tears because my husband is a trooper when it comes to shopping with me so I had to suck it up and let him have his moment.

That night, we celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Harry Carry's with some yummy Italian food.

The next day we hit another Outlet mall and IKEA and headed home.  Great Babymoon/Anniversary trip.  We love visiting Chicago.   Here are some pictures from our weekend.

Can't hide the bump anymore! 

View looking out our hotel room window

So I have a new camera and am clueless on settings but found the proper setting I should have used after this picture was taken, darn! 

Hanging out at the hotel bar so Aaron can have a beer and watch his beloved Cowboys football team

Pregnancy Journal: Week 19 - 20

Week 19:

Still not feeling a darn thing!  It's making me real anxious to get into my appt in a few weeks just to ensure everything is okay.  Just want to hear that heartbeat and be reassured everything looks good.  

Not sure if I've mentioned this before but we do have a full name picked out.  In fact, we've had our kiddos names picked out for a long time, before we were married in fact and we still like them today so there is no discussions to be had about names, it's already figured out!  But it is top secret, sorry!  I can tell you that her first name is a very common name but you don't hear of it often any more.  Her middle name is more unique, I don't know anyone who has the middle name she has!  We call her by her name a lot so we have to be careful that we don't slip when talking to others and share her name accidentally.  Mainly keeping it to ourselves because we really don't need other people's opinions on her name that would sway us to change our minds, we are confident in her name but just to be on the safe side, we are keeping it to ourselves. 

I tried a prenatal yoga class this week, won't be going back!  It was just a little "too much" for me.  The class started out with a video of a gentle c-section.  Okay, I've seen many birthing/c-section videos on TV, watching the video didn't bother me at all but I guess I didn't understand what was so gentle about it, didn't look any different than any c-section I've seen on TV.  Then we got into the yoga part.  We were in this weird squat move and the instructor said the dreaded words "this move is great if you are experiencing hemorrhoids."  WHAT?!?!  I lost all focus.  She said the biggest fear of mine.  Sorry I even have to go here on this subject matter but I am about to... Most people fear pooping on the bed during labor, not me, in fact I'd be real surprised if I don't poop the bed.  My fear is definitely hemorrhoids from trying to hard and long of pushing that baby out.  I've read about it.  Sounds like it's very possible to get them from pushing too much.  Freaks me out.  I am going to make it real clear to my doctor that is one of my number one fears.  Gross.  Then the yoga instructor talked about how some women eat their own placentas after having their baby.  Okay I've heard about this, totally gross.  She talked about how she turned her own placenta into capsules and it really helped out with her baby blues.  Okay, I could maybe eat my own placenta if it was encapsulated but that all just seems too hippie to me.  Like I said, the class was just a little too much.  I was surrounded with pregnant women all rubbing their bellies, talking about eating their own placentas and doing moves to relieve their hemorrhoids.  Not exactly my type of crowd... I may try a different prenatal yoga class or just find a video to do at home.  

Week 20: 

Whoo hooo!!  Made it to the half way point!  The first trimester went slow but now things are moving along and looking back, the first half went pretty quick.  Which means, the last half probably will too especially throwing the holidays in there as well.  

I think I am feeling the baby kick!  I wasn't sure at first but I'm now convinced I'm feeling our little bambino moving around and kicking in there.  I guess I was expecting something more distinct, like a sucker punch to the stomach but rather it feels more like a muscle twitch in the middle of my stomach.  I guess she's just a little thing and doesn't have much force behind those kicks so a muscle twitch rather than a sucker punch makes more sense.  I thought the kicks would freak me out but they don't at all, they are kinda fun and tend to be real still and wait for the next one because they do seem to come on in intervals. 

Had my 20 week appointment and Baby Girl looks great!  Everything checked out and she is already 13 ounces and approximately 6 inches from head to rump.  So reassuring to hear the heartbeat and just see her moving around and doing well.  I don't know why I was freaking myself out thinking something may be wrong but was so at ease to know that wasn't the case.  Feeling her kicks a few days before the appt really helped to ease me too, I think I was just anxious to start feeling something and I sure am now!