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23 & 24 weeks 

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - Posted by Danielle at 3:13 PM
These couple weeks I've been feeling very, very...pregnant!  I feel like I've gone beyond the cute little pregnant belly and now I'm just big!  He's been moving SO much more...such an answer to prayer.  While I knew in my head everything was ok, movement has just been so drastically different from how active Adie was that it's a relief to feel him move so much.

The weight gain is really getting to me this time around.  With Adie I was really great at embracing at all...but I've not been doing so well with that this time.  I worked really hard after Adie to get the baby weight off and actually ended up 10 lbs lighter than when I found out I was pregnant with her.  For me to take up running....yea....I was motivated to get the weight off!!  Here I am this time around though finding that I'm not quite so accepting of the weight gain just because I know how hard I had worked to get to where I was after her.  I know it's just a season though and with motivation I will get back to my "normal" but it's just been a hard thing to adjust to.

We had our 24 week appointment and that went really well.  We got to hear the heartbeat and Adie keyed into it this time which was special too.  The midwife asked Adie if baby brother had a name yet and while we do, Adie preceded to tell her, "well, I want to name the baby Jaffy!!" and she responded "honey maybe you can just call him that for fun :)"  When we left that appointment we scheduled for our next 3; crazy....we've got another appointment 5 week from then and then we are on to 2 week appointments.  While it feels like we're getting so close and 25 weeks seems like so long...it's still a ways away.  In the meantime I'm truly trying to cherish the great moments we have just the three of us!

 Oops...missed 23 week picture...

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22 Weeks 

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - Posted by Danielle at 11:24 AM
I feel like there hasn't been a ton of changes going on this week so not a whole lot to update on!  The biggest thing we've tackled over the past week is starting the re-do's of rooms in the house.  While most people get ONE room ready for a baby, we're transitioning FOUR.  Why not!?  The unfinished portion of the basement will be storage/salon area, the finished portion will be the craft room/office, the craft room/office will be the guest room and the guest room will be baby boy's room!  With that, over the past week, maybe a little more, we've tackled all of the basement.  The unfinished side is clean and organized and the finished side is looking beautiful as the new crafting space (pics to come...).  We've said over and over that the craft space project was one step forward, four steps back the entire way through.  That room was a pain.  But, it's done!  Next up is getting the rooms upstairs switched around and then it's time to start settling in on the nursery and getting a spot all ready for our baby boy.

I can't believe how fast time is going.  The fact that we're a few weeks beyond half way and that he will be here in just over 3 months...crazy! 


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21 Weeks...a big week! 

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - Posted by Danielle at 5:35 PM
Well this week has been about as eventful as last week was un-eventful!  First of all, nesting has kicked in in full force!!!  It doesn't help that I love a good project and we have a house full of them around here, but now that we've started, yikes.  I'm ready to tackle it all.  And as long as I don't sit down and take a break, my energy is keeping up.  If I sit down, I'm done for.  We currently have 4 rooms in transition.  The nursery is currently the spare bedroom which is going to move to the office/craft room.  The office/craft room is going to move to the finished part of the basement which is currently storage.  The storage is going to all move to the unfinished side along with the salon space.  This week so far I've thoroughly cleaned and organized the unfinished side and have gotten everything moved over from the finished side.  We have storage all in there now and the salon set up - for being unfinished, it looks SO much better than I had anticipated.  The finished side is cleaned and holes in the walls are filled.  Today carpet cleaners came and cleaned the basement, basement stairs, both living rooms and the dining room- that feels great!  Next step is painting the basement.

The big news of the week is that baby boy FINALLY has a name!!!!  This is HUGE.  We have had beyond a terrible time finding a name for this little guy.  We have each gone through thousands of names and have spent hours laying in bed together going over names.  It didn't come this hard with Adilyn, but this one was tough.  While Mark liked the more traditional names, I liked the more unique names.  Mark came home the other day and said "throughout the day today I made a list of 10 names" and all I could say was "uh-oh" because I just knew how badly it had been going.  Well I had a maybe on one.  Then the next day he came home and said he had a change of heart on one of our top names that was my pick and that he liked it and it just felt right.  So, it's official - baby has a name!

Another thing happening this week is he's kicking so much more!  All of a sudden he's picked up the pace with it and I'm feeling it more often and stronger.  Such a relief.  It's so great to feel him moving and know he's just active and happy in there :)

This week has just been fun.  Between getting the projects going, finding a name, and definitely feeling pregnant and feeling kicks, this has been a week of it really sinking in.

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20 Weeks! 

Posted by Danielle at 5:22 PM
There's not a whole lot going on this week...almost to a concerning point.  I also know that there's a lot in my head given everything from our last appointment.  Honestly though, I feel like I'm doing really well with everything we heard; between faith and prayer and different things God has helped us stumble upon when reading and doing research, I truly feel like I'm doing good.  Not a day goes by that I don't think about it, but I certainly can say that I'm doing well with just surrendering it to God in faith knowing that He has his best in store for us.

It's also hard this time because pregnancy with Adie was SO different.  I've felt cruddy and tired much longer this time and this little guy is kicking so much less than she did.  I think she was kicking by 17 and Mark could feel it by 20 if I remember correctly.  This time, I'm able to slightly feel it on occasion but that's about it.  Mark tried one morning when they were stronger and thought maybe he felt a little something but not sure.

All in all things are good.  I can say now that the nausea has passed - hallelujah!  That was a long time of feeling cruddy.  The exhaustion however, has not.  Oh well...it will pass, I just hope it passes in time for me to be able to keep up with little guy when he arrives :)

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