25 Weeks!

PREGNANCY HIGHLIGHTS:

WEEKS: 25 weeks

BABY'S SIZE: 13 inches, 1.5 lbs, the baby is the size of a small bag of sugar!

TOTAL WEIGHT GAIN:  12 lbs now... 

SLEEP: Sleeping good and hard with just one visit to the bathroom.  I am working at 5:00 a.m this week and last week so along with earlier bedtimes a one hour nap has been needed before I run to pick up Riley man.  

MOVEMENT: I am feeling kicks all the time and loving it.  She made it very difficult to keep sleeping in on Sunday morning so I finally just got up at 8:00 and of course she calmed down.

SYMPTOMS: TIRED! I am exhausted everyday but am still forcing myself to keep up with the house and such otherwise I feel like such a miserable, no good mommy/wife so I rally through and catch up on sleep when I can thanks to my WONDERFUL husband! 

WHAT I MISS: Nothing.

CRAVINGS: Halloween candy.

MATERNITY CLOTHES: I wore my first pair of maternity jeans on Saturday and am going to start shopping around for some new maternity clothes this weekend.  

WHAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO: I would say my B-day on Friday but I will be 28 this year and that makes me feel old so I will go with the all the fun Halloween weekend is going to bring!  

We dropped Riley off with Auntie Katie on Saturday so we could do some vehicle shopping after we finally realized a pick up truck with only 2.5 doors just isn't going to cut it with 2 car seats.  We snuck in a quick lunch at our favorite PF Changs and then headed to Bella Angel Imaging for a 4D ultrasound of our little lady.  It was the most comfortable, relaxing and fun U/S yet!  We have now seen her at 9, 13, 20 and 25 weeks and it still hasn't really dawned on us that we will be bringing home a new babe soon.  She is beautiful and looks just like Riley.

She has perfectly shaped lips and a little button nose.  In most of the pics she gave us the okay sign and the video we have is precious!  It was quite the experience!  We rounded out the day with the 'Light up the Night Parade' in downtown Anoka with Katie and Ben and Riley loved dressing up (he choose the rooster/chicken costume all by himself) and he giggled in the mirror at the sight of himself.  He is really into the costumes this year and had a blast at the parade.  His favorite float was the Doody/Buzz float and the loud police and fire station vehicles.  That costume kept him so cozy and warm that he had sweat marks on his head when we got home!

Sunday was the shower for my cousins Ryan and Molly who are having a little boy the end of January.  She is super cute with her tiny belly and they are so excited about the new addition!  The food was delish and the 2 hour nap afterwards was delightful!  Riley is such a lucky boy to get to see family all the time!  Papa watched him on Friday because Nana was at a conference, Katie and him had a blast on Saturday, and Papa, Great Uncle Gregg and Ryan played ping pong and kept him entertained during the shower on Sunday plus he got to run around with Owen a bit.  

Funny story from Saturday-we brought Riley's potty chair over to Katie's so she could put it on her toilet and keep him falling in but we didn't realize her oblong toilet wouldn't hold the potty seat so after a few minutes the poor little dude was in the toilet anyways.  Katie couldn't stop laughing and as we read the text we couldn't either.  They tried one more bathroom and he nearly fell in again so no potty dances at Katie's house!  Poor kid!  At least they gave it a good try!  

Here we go again with a new week that will undoubtedly fly by!