27 Weeks!

This week, your baby weighs almost 2 pounds (like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14 1/2 inches long with her legs extended. She's sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing her eyes, and perhaps even sucking her fingers. With more brain tissue developing, your baby's brain is very active now. While her lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning — with a lot of medical help — if she were to be born now. Chalk up any tiny rhythmic movements you may be feeling to a case of baby hiccups, which may be common from now on. Each episode usually lasts only a few moments, and they don't bother her, so just relax and enjoy the tickle.

27 weeks! Some consider this to be the start of third trimester while others say it's next week. Either way, we're only 90ish days out from when Sprout's due date is!

I apologize for the lack of updates. My kids caught gastroenteritis (what some call the stomach flu) the week before spring break. Try as I might, I could not avoid it. I came down with it and was on the couch for 2-3 days, moaning from the most horrific stomach pain I have ever experienced. I got a bit dehydrated there, but I made sure to drink, drink, drink despite my body say, "NO, NO, NO!" I thought I was over it after those 3 or so days, but my body reminded me quickly I was not. Yeah, really fun! Eeks. This along with the kids being ill and hubby feeling a touch of it meant our beach vacation was off. Darn it.

So, I am good now. But the nesting has taken over more than ever before. I don't think I've been this crazy with the nesting during any of my other pregnancies. It's been fun, just time consuming. Just last week I was walking down a hall in our house and thought, "The closet needs cleaned.." and instead of returning to whatever I was doing previously, I grabbed stuff out of the closet, plopped on the floor and began going through it. I found some storage baskets on clearance, so I put them to use. I'm so pleased with the closet! I still want to work on our linen closet (I really hate linen closets, by the way).

I went and bought a chest freezer! It will hold the breast milk I'll be pumping for Sprout. Between that and picking up some pump supplies, it feels like this is all happening really quickly. I'm excited, but I am trying to enjoy this last bit of the pregnancy as well! Still, I'll be no longer pregnant and pumping OFTEN very very soon! Eeeks! :D

Between the kids activities, nesting, and so on, I feel like life has been kind of crazy but in a good way. We're all healthy again, and spring is trying to start (I think, I hope!). I can't wait to get outside more, it'll also be nice to clean out the garage with hubby when it's not as cold. I'm excited! A good time to be having a baby as well, I say.

Sprout seems to be doing quite well. He's definitely getting bigger. I no longer feel a suddenly jab or kick out of nowhere, it seems to be something I can tell is coming now. I attribute this to him being bigger, because he can't pull his arms or legs back to suddenly punch or kick and scare me, ha. I laid in bed this morning, watching him move around. It's always interesting to see your belly doing these weird maneuvers.

Here is my latest belly shot from last week (26 weeks). I'm going to be doing them every two weeks now until the last 4-5 weeks, I guess? Then it'll be weekly.