29 weeks (yesterday...oops!)

PREGNANCY HIGHLIGHTS:

WEEKS: 29 weeks

BABY'S SIZE: 15.5 inches, 2.5lbs, the baby is the size of a squash.

TOTAL WEIGHT GAIN: 20 lbs now...time to get back in the swing of working out especially with the Holidays around the corner! 

SLEEP: OUT LIKE A LIGHT EVERY NIGHT!!!

MOVEMENT: She has her favorite times of day to be a gymnast and she is especially busy right when I get out of bed which is great-I start the day with a hi to my baby girl and then I tell her I guess it must be that time to get up and at least we are doing it together ; ) 

SYMPTOMS: Eczema=gone with the help of a new handwash at work and triam cream! and I am seeing the Dr again today (Monday) because my face is driving me nutso! 

WHAT I MISS: Peeing and actually emptying my bladder...sorry TMI?  I will have just gone to the bathroom and not 10 minutes later be back in there as if going in the first place starting a chain reacion or something : )

CRAVINGS: There is little I won't eat but meat has been top on my list this week.  Thank you D for the Outback dinner that supressed my immediate hunger for red meat but it is far from gone. 

MATERNITY CLOTHES: I really need to do some shopping but haven't yet.  I walk around in scrubs all day and then get into pajama pants and wear them the rest of the evening and on weekends so really as long as I don't have to leave the house I am good to go for the next 11 weeks!  ; )  

WHAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO: Thanksgiving with the family in Gaylord.  We are packing the Tahoe full with Ben, Katie and Kyle and meeting my parents at my Aunt and Uncles house on Thursday.  We haven't been out there since before Riley so I am actually looking forward to the turkey farm smell (ya right!) and after dinner walks that we grew up with. 

 
Sunday Daddy painted the ceiling and walls in the new nursery and we love the color.  We used the newer Dutch Boy paint and it goes on like a dream with only one application needed!  I can't wait to see the finished room once it's all together!  Here is her carseat...just gorgeous!

Riley and I braved the ice storm and made it to church safe and sound but Sunday School was cancelled so we ended up coloring and watching Veggie Tales and then coming back home.  So much for getting out of the house and avoiding the paint fumes! (They really weren't bad with the Dutch Boy paint!)
Riley has been so caring lately especially to his puppies who he feeds, bottles (with the paint roller) and then covers with his lovie.  He made sure they were warm when we went to eat at my parents house last night and they were the first thing he checked on when we got home a few hours later.  He brought them to bed with him and covered them up first before we were allowed to cover him...what a sweetheart!  I think the nesting instinct has hit him!  D and I were laughing about calling the baby "Sister" so much and  sounding like the Berenstein Bears and I think we will start referring to her by name soon-so here's to hoping Riley doesn't ruin the surprise!  Riley tells everyone now that Mommy is having a dotter (daughter) and it's so funny!  She is now "Riwey's baby" as he points her out on the fridge and computer.  I think this Big Brother thing is pretty exciting to him as the following pictures might lead us to believe!  Let's hope the enthusiasm lasts once she comes home on the 'outside' of Mommy!  Happy Thanksgiving.  We are so thankful for our family, children, home, health and jobs.  I could go on but I will get too mushy : )

Yep, he looks ready and excited!  

 Well cared for puppies with a good dish (yum, mini sports balls) a bottle (paint roller!) and a blankie!



Mila Elaine Larson

I am pretty proud of these next pictures.  It was hard work but extremely fun and so relaxed this time around.  I had a great setting, a sleepy baby (after some coaxing) and a very laid back Mama.  Mila is a doll.  We brought pizza and the pictures to the proud parents last night and I could have sat holding her for hours (so could Riley Man!).  My heart is happy, full and anticipating an overload when we meet our Baby girl in 80 days (omigah!!!)  Riley talked about going to "Keeks house" all evening and when we finally got there he couldn't wait to run around with the dogs.  He was also very happy with the "nite nite baby Miya."  He held her, brought her toys, touched her ears and tiny nose, coughed on her (oops too much running around!) and wanted to hold her some more.  He is ready.  We are almost ready.  The other day he ran up to me with a huge smile and a hug with a casual "hi mommy" which was immediately followed up by a belly hug and a "hi baby."  She hears her brother, she responds with huge sommersaults and kicks and once again my heart is so full.  But I digress...onto the pictures of the adorable Mila. 

Perfection. 

Gotta love and adore the baby back fat.

                                                                         10 Tiny Toes.

 Sweet baby cheeks and perfect pouty lips. 

Loving that peach fuzz hair all over her back and arms! 

So I start the day with less than normal sleep but am wide awake and happily awaiting whatever comes next.  D is almost done with the wallpaper border removal in 'her' room, 'her' sheets should be here by Saturday or at the latest Monday, I picked up a new carseat that is gorgeous, (same one I would have got if Riley was a girl-I am so happy they still have it!) and I am reflecting on Riley's day...Harvest Party at school and Operation Christmas Child shoebox drop-off today.  We shopped at Target last night for our Christmas Child (boy 5-9) and had so much fun filling the shoebox for the stranger whose life we will be touching soon.  Riley/Mommy filled out a form telling him a little more about us and soon we will be tracking our special package and finding out what country it will be going to.  I was so proud of my boy for picking out special toys and candy for a stranger.  He did really want a choo choo train but after some thorough discussion about how this was not for us and for someone else he seemed to let it go and excitedly filled up the box when we got home.  Yep, it's that time of year and I am hormonally hyped up-so once again my heart is happy, growing and excited about today and tomorrow and 80 days from now ; ) 

28 weeks!

PREGNANCY HIGHLIGHTS:

WEEKS: 28 weeks

BABY'S SIZE: 14.5 inches, 2.25 lbs, the baby is the size of a head of cauliflower!

TOTAL WEIGHT GAIN: 15 lbs now...

SLEEP: We have been in bed at the latest this week by 9:00 so sleep is coming easily except that my flu shot made it impossible to sleep on my left side for a few nights!  Why does that tiny shot make your arm so sore?!!!

MOVEMENT: She is a busy body and the movements are so fierce that they stop me in my tracks occasionally!

SYMPTOMS: Eczema=back with a vengence! and the Doc says I have a common pregnany rash/redness on my face so he prescribed some cream to help relieve me of that!  This girl is causing havoc with my skin! 

WHAT I MISS: Having Riley sit on my lap comfortably.  Now I am constantly re-arranging him to get both of my children comfortable and hopefully myself which is getting harder and harder. 

CRAVINGS: Salt, salty chips, salt bagels you would have thought the salt cravings came before the water cravings but not in this case!
MATERNITY CLOTHES: I really need to do some shopping but haven't yet.

WHAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO: Christmas!  Is it too early to say that?!  I am so excited about the gifts we are getting for Riley and it is going to be nearly impossible not to give them to him early!  I also can't wait to get the tree up and decorate and get our boy in his snowpants for some sledding. 

And because it just wouldn't be the same without the boy in the picture!  ; )

This is the boy who was tickling the baby yesterday and saying "hi baby" "hi mommy's baby" over and over again-pretty sure he loves her already also!  

Sunsets and smiles...

I took my boy to the river last night to get away from Daddy who is once again-yep you guessed it-sick.  He has been fighting off a virus/cold/sinus infection for like 5 weeks now.  Both Riley and D have been sharing it back and forth and I am bound to get sick one of these days so for now I am playing the avoidance game and getting away with it.  Riley had a blast exploring the last of what nature has to provide before the winter hits us.  He threw rocks into the river, picked up sticks, twigs and browned to perfection leaves.  He pointed out geese to Mommy and he looked right at me and said "Mommy, wook geese," as if he was talking in sentences his whole life!  We enjoyed the early (way too early!) sunset and headed back home for a later dinner with Daddy.  I caught some priceless expressions of joy and pure happiness in him and had a blast just watching him take it all in even if it was from behind the lens!  I really wish I would have brought more than just my prime lens but didn't so here is a few faves from last night.  He is seriously grow up before our eyes.  If he looked any older we would just die!  Wait till you see his school pic-OMG where has the last 2 years gone!!!