32 Weeks!

By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds (pick up a large jicama) and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You're gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, she'll gain a third to half of her birth weight during the next 7 weeks as she fattens up for survival outside the womb. She now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). Her skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth.

32 weeks! Not much has been going on in the past few days. One of my children decided to practice that whole sharing thing that I taught them (why did I teach them such a thing? I forget). He shared his cold, which isn't just a cold for me apparently. My immune system is just not up for this lately it seems. Ah well. So I've been a wee bit under the weather. I became semi-frustrated with this last night and said to heck with it. I went to Target and slowly walked around the store. It was nice. I just needed out to save my sanity!

And I of course bought a few things including a few items I'll need for my hospital bag. I've been aching to pack that as much as I can! I ventured into the baby stuff to look at clothes, and found this adorable onesie for Sprout. (Sprout's daddies, pretend you didn't read that part) I was checking out later on and the cashier asked if it was for my baby while motioning to my belly. I just said, "Um, yeah." I didn't feel like explaining, I just wanted to go and sit in my van and head home, haha. Poor lady was probably wondering why I had to think about it. There are just some times that explaining this is more work than it's worth. That may sound terrible, but regardless of how chatty I am typically, I am not always wanting to chat with strangers. Call me rude, but there it is.

So, hospital bag is started somewhat! I'd like to start on my freezer meals very soon, but that will wait until I am feeling better and can go grocery shopping. I need to start those soon, because I can't spend 8 hours in the kitchen, I need to do this over the course of a few days (or weeks). I just feel this need to be prepared, because I know I won't feel like cooking during the first two weeks postpartum at least. And while my husband is a good cook (better than me, I think), I hate him having to take that on every single day. This is my way of helping out later on, I guess.

Like I said, not much going on. Hopefully this cold gets out of my system soon, though! We've been having some decent weather finally, and it's going to be in the mid-80s this weekend. Eeeks! Thankfully sitting in my big lounge chair while the kids ride bikes, scooters, etc. is pretty easy on me. I'm lazy as of late, haha.

Sprout is .. being himself. This child is continously stretching and making it known that he has his space and I have mine. I don't dare rest on my belly or pull my legs against my belly, he pushes back. It's comical, and then it becomes painful. ;)

I tried getting a couple of videos this week, but I swear this child knows when I pull out the camera. He's learning early that when a camera comes out, you stop what you're doing. I sort of picked up some kicking last night, so here is that video.




Happy Mother's Day to all moms this weekend! :)