Prego Pics

Rita took some pregnancy pictures of us at about 38 weeks pregnant. I think they turned out GREAT!! Here are a few of our favorites...

This Weekend

Hi everyone,
Here's a video of this past weekend. First we were cutting down trees in Tim's yard, then we went to Athens for Twilight. Hopefully I can get this video on here.

29 Week Picture

Here's our 29 week picture!! I've gotten really lax about having a picture every week... I guess now I'm down to every month!!

A Recent Dream...

I had a great dream the other night... I dreamt that I had my baby!! After the strain and toil of labor, I looked down to take my baby into my arms for the first time. As I caught my first glimpse of my baby I realized that s/he was -  a mosquito. All sorts of thoughts ran through my mind - a mosquito?! I birthed a mosquito?! Is this my baby?? Why did that HURT so bad if all I pushed out was THIS little thing?? - however I pulled my new baby to my chest anyhow and held him/her there very confused. After a minute I realized that this was my baby and I needed to care for him/her (I never found out how exactly to determine the sex of my new mosquito). I did what I always thought I would do and immediately tried to start breastfeeding my new child. I looked away for a minute out at my family who was standing around, and when I looked back I realized that I had CRUSHED my baby!! My poor little mosquito was in 4 pieces!! I spent the remainder of the dream frantically attempting to piece my mosquito-child back together...

...ahhhh, pregnancy...

Realizations

I'm awful - we're now 26 weeks and I haven't taken a picture since the snow one!! Perhaps one will happen this week. I'm much bigger than I was then! My muscles in my lower belly have been very sore this week, and I think it's because I've actually started growing!!

Here's the GREAT news!! David has a second interview with Rayonier!! That is REALLY exciting! Rayonier has two jobs available - one in Dublin, GA and one in Hastings, FL. We'll take EITHER! I'll let y'all know how the second interview goes. It hasn't been scheduled yet, but will be within the next couple weeks.

I looked at a few friends' blogs today (Amanda and Mollyanne) who have recently had babies, and I realized that I am going to have one of those soon. I know this seems like a strange realization, but their babies move and talk and do cute things... on the outside. My baby does amazingly cute things on the inside, but as I can't see him/her, in a way the baby is still a part of my imagination rather than a real baby. Sounds crazy, I know. I am going to have a real live baby, folks!! And it's gonna do cute stuff!! And it's gonna cry! And sometimes I'm going to be really frustrated and really in love at the same time!
Weird. :)

Week 22 Pic!

It's been a while since we've taken our weekly picture... we've had a busy month. My great grandfather died in the end of January, so we went to Alabama for a week, and since then it's been one thing after another!
I've had some CRAZY heartburn lately! It's not even worth changing my diet, though, because I get heartburn from WATER!! I did some research and found that women who fight lots of heartburn during pregnancy tend to have babies with full heads of hair!! NO SURPRISE with my genetics!! The reason for this is women who have more heartburn tend to have slightly higher levels of estrogen and progesterone in their systems, which relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter. Coincidentally these hormones are also responsible for fetal hair growth!!
So we're expecting a baby with a head full of hair!!

Here is our 22 week picture in the SNOW!!

18 Weeks!!

I have felt this baby move SO much lately!! I felt him/her for the first time on Christmas Eve, but have just felt a few jabs a day sinced then. Sunday night we were watching the TV stream of The Call while they were worshiping, and this kid did flip after flip after flip!! I'd be surprised if s/he wasn't dizzy! In fact, David got to feel the baby move for the first time on Sunday evening! It was so exciting - he got the biggest grin ever!!


Here are the week 18 photos!!