Baby Herschberger: Week 17

Another busy but fun week gone by. I can’t believe I am already 4 months pregnant! Feels like it’s flying by, but I also feel like right now I’m just waiting. Waiting for my belly to really pop. Waiting to feel tiny movements. Waiting to find out the gender.

Well, soon enough all of those things are going to happen! My belly is growing little by little, anytime in the next few weeks I’ll feel those little kicks, and in 25 days we find out if we’ve got a he or a she!

Speaking of a he or a she, I’m still working away getting ready for the gender reveal/Kyle’s birthday party at the end of August. Just today I finished the menu poster, mom made 2 sets of red, white and blue flag bunting, and I made a “guess the baby’s birthday” calendar. R.S.V.P.’s have been trickling in and we’ve got 49 people coming so far, it’s going to be so fun!

Alright, the run-down/highlights of the week:

• Going to the fair with Stacy and Dani! We had fun walking around, eating fair food, seeing the animals (Dani was mesmerized by the goat being milked) and riding rides (I rode one kiddie ride with Dani, then she made a friend her own size and they rode a couple together).

• Smagala beach day - on Monday a bunch of the Smagala clan (Kyle’s moms side of the family) met up at Silver Beach Pizza and then went to the beach, so fun! Mom (Ann), Lee, Dani and I rode up together, and after I took a picture of Dani she took a picture of me and daddy! Silver Peach Pizza was awesome, they give all the kids little things of pizza dough to play with, and the pizza was amazing. The beach was great that day, little waves that were fun for the kids to play in with boogie boards, and not at all too hot, in fact at one point I had to wrap up in a towel because the sun went behind a cloud and the breeze was cool!

• Wednesday was the 3-year anniversary of when we got engaged! In honor of that here’s some photos from around that time.

• My mom stayed with us for the weekend and will be here some more throughout the week! She got in late Friday and we were all exhausted so went to bed early and then galavanted around all over on Saturday! We went to the Fremont outlet mall first where I scored big at Gap Outlet thanks to a coupon I got a few weeks ago AND a coupon that one of Kyle’s coworkers gave us when we ran into her there. Then we had lunch at a yummy little place near the mall. Then we headed home, but stopped in Shipshewana on the way to look at furniture. I have been fretting over a glider/ottoman for the nursery because I think it’d be really nice to have one, but I hate the way all of them look, or so I thought! Turns out the amish make the most beautiful mission style gliders/ottomans. Now it will be the most expensive item in the nursery, but it’s a quality heirloom piece and Kyle and I both agree that it’s worth it. I am so excited to save up our pennies and get it!

Alright, the official update:

Weight gain: Still at pre-pregnancy weight. Which is fine, but I’ll actually be excited when I gain a little, ha!

What I’ve been eating: A little healthier! More fruits and some veggies. My appetite is a little more normal, but I still get full really fast, and I haven’t been starving at night like I was for a few weeks. Today and yesterday we (Kyle, mom and I) only had 2 real meals with a small snack as the third meal.

Baby/pregnancy purchases: I ordered two maternity shirts from Gap.com and didn’t know what size to get so I got mediums, well, those were a little snug so I’m exchanging them, but I LOVE the way they look on and the fabric is nice. I hope the larges fit nicely and don’t end up too baggy. At the outlet mall I got comfy, stretchy items that will work for awhile: 2 dresses, a cardigan, some long stretchy tank-tops and the most divine Gap Body sweatpants. The waist band on the sweatpants stays up on my belly and they are so-so comfy!

Babies growth and development status: Baby is the size of a turnip (or onion), about 5.1 inches long, and is beefing up and growing a stronger, thicker umbilical cord. Next week baby gets its fingerprints!

A few more pregnany randoms:

• Definitely having odd and vivid dreams - and lots of work dreams, even going back a couple years with some Cerulean restaurant dreams!

• My big accomplishment for the week has been getting way closer to being done with the baby registry! I have all the big pieces picked out (at Target and/or Babies “R” Us) and most of the smaller stuff picked out (tons of stuff at Target and cloth diapers/accessories on Amazon.com). I still have some stuff I want to register for in-person and after we know the gender, but I have a list of what’s left to take care of. It was fun researching different items and then finding one that was really well reviewed and in a color scheme I liked (lots of grey, black and turquoise).

• Kyle has been documenting my newfound love for ice cream, hehe :)

posted July 28, 2013