After 11 months Marcus has completed year one of Dental School! I couldn't be more proud and he couldn't be more relieved for a break!!! He did well and has felt good about the year! I am grateful he loves it as much as he does. He is excited however for his 5 weeks of NO studying! Then back at it! We are so so excited to head home to Idaho for a bit! I love my Idaho and we love more than anything being with our families. It is ideal!
We have come up to 23 Weeks! Baby Girl is active active active! She never (I mean never) stops moving! This week she has used her movement to remind me that she is in charge and brought me back to the nauseas stage ;) Her movement is wonderful and such a blessing! Just never ending :) Which we love! Marcus can feel her by resting his hand on my stomach and she just kick kick kicks him. He loves it! Reina also likes to sleep on my belly and can't figure out what is moving beneath her head...she has yet to figure it out!
We received her crib and dresser this week, we were so thrilled! Marcus had the crib set up within about 1/2 hr of it getting to the house, excited much? We absolutely love it, it is gorgeous!
We are very blessed to have Sherry who is willing to make some bedding for us! We didn't love anything in the stores and thought it would be more special to have it made anyway! So we went out looking for colors for the nursery. We ended up finding some adorable fabrics (very light pinks, mint greens / light teals / and yellows). We were happy with our findings! Then we went to Hobby Lobby and Marcus (yes MARCUS) made some good finds! We have a long ways to go but we found a few things and got excited for what was to come! We did also, change out the handles on the closet which helped, they were nasty gold.
So I swore up and down that I wouldn't go crazy pink with baby girls nursery. If we did any I wanted it to be light pinks and a less in more sort of thing. Well....Marcus and Holly convinced me otherwise. I'm still not SOLD on it, but we wanted to do cream stripes and somehow we came home with a soft pink for the stripes instead! I do love it, don't get me wrong, I am just always paranoid about home resale and also I really didn't want a lot of pink! But....its growing on me! :) Also, its only one wall and it will be mostly all thats pink besides a little in the bedding! :)
Like I said, we are at 23 weeks. Ive been up to two stomach injections a day to keep my blood nice and thin... for a few weeks now. Ive gotten more used to it; the mornings are fine but some nights I really really don't want to do it but Marcus distracts me and gets me talking and then BAM stabs me...that always helps! My stomach is getting a lot harder so bruising makes it look gross haha but we are grateful that we are being so blessed!!
How Far Along Are You? 23 Weeks
Any Morning Sickness? This week yes, she has been quite the jumping bean and its made me a bit sick, but I wouldn't have it any other way!!!
Total Weight Gain? Lost 14 at the beginning, I have gained back 5 now.
Are You Sleeping Well? I have one good day for every bad day! If I don't sleep at all the night before I sleep like a baby the next night! I have been able to nap a couple times a week which is crazy unheard of for a weissenbuehler. I have never been able to nap! But luckily I am able to :)
Feeling Movement? All the time!! She loves to punch and kick her daddy whenever he wants and I feel her quite literally all the time! Its the best!
Any Food Cravings? Lemonade and watermelon ;)
Something New This week? Ive read that now she can feel me dance; that she now has the senses to experience movement! I can tell this when I am at the gym, she is extra active when I am working out or when I am swimming.
Do You Have a Name/Know Gender? Its a Girl!!! We have three names and a for sure middle name. But we will probably wait til we see her to pick from the 3.
How's the Daddy-to-Be? Excited about his baby girl. I am so so blessed! He is already so in love with her and gets to excited about each piece of this journey. Also...LESS STRESSED! School is out!!!
