34 weeks

How Far Along: 34 weeks

Maternity Clothes: yes!

Best Moment This Week: "Sleeping in" on Sunday

Weight Gain/Loss: +9 (lost a pound)

Gender: BOY...Hunter (still working on it) Milton

Movement: All the time.

Food Craving: spicy hamburgers and milkshakes

What I miss: a glass of wine at a party

Sleep: what is sleep?

What I am looking Forward to: all the Christmas parties we have on the books.

Symptoms: huge belly, fatigue, sore back, swollen feet, major pregnancy brain

Same/Different: pregnancy insomnia isn't as easy with a toddler. I am so thankful Zack is pretty flexible. I wish he hadn't decided that he now wakes up before 6 am and naps are now an hour.

Tummy Shot:

Why I needed to rake the leaves after Adam and Zack raked the leaves

It all started out innocent...

 yes...Zack is raking with a broom...

And then the Zack came out...

Adam showed him how much fun it was to jump in the pile...

 He decided not to let Zack have all the fun...

the leaves would have been left like this if we didn't have a showing on Tuesday.

Advent Activities

I decided to do the Advent Activity calendar to count down to Christmas because I didn't want the holiday season to pass us by without taking time to enjoy it.  The activities are mainly for Zack and I but I made sure to add some extra special activities for weekends.  I decided not to do one activity a day or pre-plan what was going to happen when.  Some of the activities were based on parties and playdates we were already invited to but most of them can be done several times and can be done at a moments notice.  At 33 weeks pregnant with insomnia and a toddler who all of a sudden decided to wake up before 6:00 am every morning I didn't want to feel forced to do something I wasn't up to, I still have to take care of little H.  It's more of a Christmas bucket list...we may not get tp all the activities and that's OK.  If Zack keeps taking shorter naps and waking up earlier we may do a Christmas movie in PJ's several times.  The whole point was to do something special with my little boy to celebrate Christmas...because Christmas doesn't just happen on December 25th.

Showering Hunter

My sweet friends threw me a baby shower.  I was so excited...even though I had a shower when we got back from China, taking your 5 month old to their own baby shower isn't the same, plus I needed a day to focus on little Hunter.

The food was Amazing

The decorations were adorable

The presents were lots of fun

Apparently my dad picked this out...mom didn't put her name on this one.

Now I need to find Zack something super cute to wear while little H is wearing this.

The company was awesome

And I went home with a cute book (and I am a sucker for Children's books) signed with messages for my boy.

Week 33

How Far Along: 33 weeks

Maternity Clothes: yes!

Best Moment This Week: Showering baby H and a visit from my college friend

Weight Gain/Loss: +10

Gender: BOY...Hunter (still working on it) Milton

Movement: All the time.

Food Craving: spicy hamburgers and milkshakes

What I miss: feeling human

Sleep: not so great

What I am looking Forward to: Adams company party!

Symptoms: huge belly, fatigue, sore back, swollen feet (after a day at the park)

Same/Different: pregnancy insomnia is beginning. With Zack it started full force at 35 weeks and in no time I was sleeping only an hour a day/night. Now I am sleeping several hours at night but not enough and I feel like a zombie during the day...thankfully teaching elementary school left me with the skills to put on a good face no matter how sleepy I am.

Tummy Shot:

Week 31-32

How Far Along: 32 Weeks...8 to go!

Maternity Clothes: yes!  and thanks to some wonderful friends who have lent me some cute ones.

Best Moment This Week: Pregnancy massage...best birthday gift ever!

Weight Gain/Loss: +7

Gender: BOY...Hunter (still working on it) Milton

Movement: All the time.  His down times are getting to be few and far between.  

Food Craving: spicy hamburgers and milkshakes 

What I miss: liking food

Sleep: not so great

What I am looking Forward to: My shower next week.  We had a shower when we got back from China (Zack was five months old) but this will be my first real shower...and I'll get some quality time with the ladies in my life to focus 100% on the new little guy.

Symptoms: huge belly, fatigue, sore back, swollen feet (after a day at the park)

Same/different: I had some major snoring issues with Zack and none so far with Hunter...when I was pregnant with Zack I would wake myself up I was so loud!

Tummy Shot:

Thanksgiving

This year was super special!  We were able to spend the Holiday with both our families without doing double meals.  Adam's parents were nice enough to invite my parents and grandma so I wouldn't have to ride in a car to Charlotte (avoiding swollen legs and back pain), and so Adam wouldn't have to deal with a cranky wife who was in pain and not sleeping well or a toddler who doesn't sleep well in other places.  It also kept me from taking 3 days to prepare for an overnight stay and 3 days to settle back (I mean really...how does one night in Charlotte take time to recover).
Adam and I are really blessed not only that we have families that get along with each other but that enjoy each others company.  I grew up with both grandparents at every holiday event and I loved it, how special for a kid to see all their grandparents...the spoiling is unreal when 2 sets of grandparents/great grandparents compete.
We ate a lot!

Guess who was super excited to graduate to the kids table...and no it isn't my mother in law...although she does seem to be enjoying herself.

Adam's sister, her husband and his father

Adam's cousin, her husband, his aunt, his grandma, my mom, my grandma and my dad.

4 pies, cobbler, and ice cream

The kids played...

Zack loves playing on grammy's piano

almost as much as he loved being included in the big kid games (speeding down the hill in a wagon). 

The ladies looked at Black Friday Ads...

I did so well on Black Friday!

The men...well...

I was actually there...and I am so happy that I actually remembered to take pictures this year!