Belly Evolution: Week 29

On the baby front, everything has been going great!!! She is a very active little girl. Always rolling around. She gets these fits where you can see my stomach just moving around all over the place. She has also started doing this "thing" where she will push her foot up but instead of going into my lungs, she goes on TOP of my ribs...like, towards the outside! It hurts the daylights out of me. She is almost kicking me in the boob she is going up so high. The only thing I can do is start rubbing her foot and gentle push down while doing so to get her to go back into the tummy region and out from the front of my ribs. . The house is coming along nicely. We have some more painting to do this weekend. We started unpacking some boxes (bathroom stuff mostly) and moving all of our storage stuff (Christmas decorations, camping gear, etc) into the basement where it will live with the spiders. Please note: Bug bombs just toy with the spiders in my basement... the only way to kill these spiders is with a shoe, a priest, and some holy water. . We have another Doc. appt on the 10th. I've been trying to eat better these 3 weeks and so far, I haven't gained any weight (but OH NO!!! It's a Holiday weekend! I'm doomed). We have gone from 4 weeks to 3 weeks between visits. That makes me excited!!! I'm so ready for Jamie to be here. Time is really flying now. Daryl said it would once we started getting the house ready and he was right! It is so hard to believe that we are just one week away from being in the 30's! I will try to remember to take pictures of the progress Jamie's room has made. I keep taking the camera, it is the whole "taking it out of the purse" that is getting me.

Belly Evolution: Week 28

Sorry for the delay in the post. We worked on the house last night so I didn't have time to post. We are really making progress with the house. Thanks to our Parents & David for helping us paint last weekend! And thanks to Deeshia for feeding us last night so we could work! We will work some more this weekend and I'm going to try to remember to take a camera so I can show the progress Jamie's room is making. I'm really happy with the colors we have picked for the entire house and will post those too once we finish everything.

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Jamie's Furniture came in! We might go pick it up this weekend and just leave it down stairs until we get the carpets cleaned. We also still have to put the Crown moulding and chair rail in her room... whew. Lots to do!

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Jamie is moving around a ton. She only does the good kicks every now and then but she is quite the rolly polly. It is so much fun watching her move. I can't eat as much at night anymore. If I eat too much...let's just say I have a flash back to the 1st trimester.

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The last doc appointment went good. My glucose test came back fine. Supposed to be under 140 and it was 114. My blood pressure is going up some.... it was 120/86 which is pretty high for me. I've also gained too much weight... 22 lbs. The doctor was so funny though. You could tell that he has had to tell many a woman to try and slow down the growth spurt and that many a woman has burst into hysterics. I say this because he had the same look in his eyes as I get when I see someone with a pit bull walking down the street. And he kept saying "But you look GREAT!" haha. I know I've gained too much, so I was expecting it, so I just wanted to laugh at how scared he was to tell me. But he said just 1 lb a week from here on out...We'll see how that goes. :-)

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Okay, so I think lightening just hit something near by and alarms are going off so I'm going to get off the computer now.... gotta love summer storms!!!! Made the temp go from 96 to 74 in 10 minutes!!!

Belly Evolution: Week 27

(1st off, I don't know why I'm standing like that) Sorry for the delayed post. We spent last night painting at the new house. Daryl is priming Jamie's room since it was painted a blue that will NOT go away. He is on the 2nd coat of primer and you can still see the blue. sheesh! I worked on trimming out the guest bedroom and sweeping the basement (I preferred the later because it was 97 degrees upstairs and 75 in the basement!) .

We are one week away from month 8! It is getting closer to the day we get to meet little Jamie and we can't wait!!!! She is always moving around and stuff and it is the coolest thing ever. I'm starting to feel mighty big.

. We had family come into town last week. Daryl's Uncle Levi and Aunt Joann came to visit from St. Louis. It was nice to see them again.

Belly Evolution: Week 25 and 6 Days

My Friend Carol had a great idea, Show how much Jamie and I have grown to date. We started taking pictures at 11 weeks, 6 days and here we are at 25 weeks, 6 Days. A lot changes in 14 weeks!

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Another reason we are posting tonight instead of tomorrow is because we get the keys to the new house tomorrow night!!! Woo Hoo! I can't wait to start moving in.

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Jamie started doing this rolly polly thing last night that continued on through today... I can see and feel her doing all kinds of crazy rolling around. She is an active one! Other than that, not much to add for this week other than this 100 degree whether has GOT to go! We have been going down to the pool almost every night. It's the only exercise that doesn't make me want to cry because of this HEAT! So, STAY COOL out there!

AGD's Girl Day

I'm delayed in posting these only because Daryl and I just realized there is a memory card reader built into my laptop so I don't have to go and dig out a portable reader (I don't feel so bad since Daryl didn't notice either). . Before Amanda & I met up with the other ladies, we went to the mall. We were sitting next to a fountain, and Davis proceeded to toss his pacifier into the NASTY fountain. Amanda was like "Where are we going to find another pibby???" Aunt Lori knew where to buy one.... SPENCER'S!!!

Check out D and the vampire Pibby!!!

One thing's for sure, Davis is always ready to smile for the camera! SO CUTE!!

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So here are the pictures for our AGD Day where we took the kids to the Jump Jungle and got to reconnect.

The Preggo Sisters!

I had to steal this one from Bethany's Blog because my camera's batteries died... . How adorable are their kids??? Jamie will definitely need to be trained on the art of being photogenic to hang with this crowd!

This picture cracks me up. While Preggo me and Amanda watched Baby Zach, Bethany took Davis up on the slide... he is not hurt in this picture... He would smile the entire way down the slide and then bust into tears the SECOND they stopped. He was SOOOO mad that the ride was over. He would cry half way up the stairs and then start smiling again when he realized it was about to happen again. That kid cracks me up! I hope Jamie is as cute as he is!!!

Belly Evolution: Week 25

Please do not think that I think that this is a cute look.... I just wanted to preface the next few months pictures with that. I know this outfit is looking pret-ty bad but I feel that the best way to show how things are getting bigger is to wear the same outfit. That being said, laughing is completely allowed, and expected. :-)

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Since I've posted so much this week, I really don't have anything new to share today. I want to thank you all for the encouraging words! We are so excited about the new changes that are coming up for us!

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Let's see, as to Jamie, she is still kicking like crazy. I can see her move a lot now. It's so neat to see her kick. She is definitely getting stronger. It feels like she is trying to move into my lung cavity. I have a pain under the left pectoral muscle in front of my ribs that hurts when I sit hunched over or I bend over.... it's not so much a "hurt" as it starts feeling weird... like that area is going to sleep or something. Anyone had that? I think it is just because Jamie is so high that it is pinching on a vein or something. If it keeps up, I'll ask the doctor at our next visit. I've also noticed that I'm starting to lose my balance some. I'll lean too far and have to work at not falling. I'll also open doors and hit my belly because I'm not used to it being all out there.

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Congrats to my sorority Big-Sis, Stephanie. She is expecting her first baby at the end of August. She is having a little girl too! YAY!!! Hopefully she will start blogging too (hint hint) as I directed her here and she read all of the AGD blogs.

We Have a House!

We closed on our new home yesterday!! I can't wait to get out of our "temporary housing" and into our new home so I can start nesting! For those of you unaware, we sold our first home and moved into a rental town home so we could look for our next home leisurely and not HAVE to buy the first thing we sort of liked. We didn't think we would have a timeline really....well, who knew that at the closing of our first house, we were 2 weeks pregnant! So Jamie pretty much gave us a timeline of "HAVE to buy by September" and we did good since we closed on the last day of July. .

One nice thing about living in a rental, is you have to give a 60 day notice, so that means we can move slowly... we have plenty of time to paint, have professional cleaners and carpet cleaners come through and then move the things we can manage over a few weeks and then only need the expensive movers for a few hours, as opposed to all day.

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Just thought I would share in this exciting news for us!!! .

And in case you didn't think a new baby and new house was stressful enough for my hubby, Daryl, he went and got a new job!!! He starts in September and is SOOOO excited! It really is a great opportunity for him and I'm so proud of him. He will be doing consultant work for Atlanta based companies (so no travel, YAY!) and maybe even get to work from home some if the client is okay with it. .

And here is my hubby with the tools of the trade for his REAL job! :-)