Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Star..Oh wait, That's Me Every 20 Minutes!

So I am 7 months pregnant now!! Yay for Baby Isabella and Me! We made it this far and are in our last trimester = 12 weeks or less and she will be here..well she's here now, but then she'll be out of me and in our arms!
The sweltering and super humid summer months have begun as of this past week. Which is good for little kids playing in the yard and running through sprinklers and slip'n'slides, but for a 7 month pregnant lady--not so good! Air conditioning is definitely a God-send!
She is so active and I love when I massage her and talk/sing to her while massaging and she kicks when I stop for a second to sip some water or flip a page in the book I'm reading--so cute!
I read that she is about 2 1/2 lbs and approximately 16 inches long! Can you believe that? My little pearl in the first ultrasound is huge and still growing! Keep it up my little Star! Doctors say that at this point she can dream and even dream about me-her Mommy! How cute?
It's the final countdown....

Bump Bump Bump..In the Night

She's my little night owl! The heat has proven to be my biggest enemy of sleep, but I think my little Belle is trying to win that contest. I totally prefer her over the sweltering heat waves I feel. As I near the beginning of my 3rd trimester, ( in 4 days I will be 28 weeks-wowza!!!) my excitement and anxiousness increases with leaps and bounds-like she does in the little crib I made for her in my womb.
Doug and I talk daily about how we cannot wait to meet her and kiss her little fingers and toes. It makes me so happy to see his face light up with such joy and amazement when he talks to my belly and rubs it and feels her react to him. She always kicks for him and I know she's already aware we are her mommy and daddy and we love her more than ourselves. It's like she is letting us know "Hey Mum/Dad! I hear/feel you and I love you too!! Now feed me again!"
The crib should be arriving in a couple days and we cannot wait to put it together. Mostly me due to the "nesting" phase arriving. I organize and clean the room all the time in preparation. But once the Baby Shower comes and goes-I will be plenty busy with her little teeny weeny itsy baby clothes and toys/gifts.
Mmmm...I am going to go get a freeze pop!!!

Rollin On the River of Amniotic Fluid

As silly as it sounds, that's how it feels right now with Isabella in my belly!
She is moving and moving all the time! Mostly at night..of course. But this evening-granted it is 11pm- she is going all out! It feels like an all out dance marathon, but its good because it means she's healthy and strong! Yes, it causes extra bouts of heartburn and an extra 5 visits to the bathroom an hour, but it's sooooo worth it! It warms my heart with every "little" punch, kick, head butt, or full on body slam that she does in there. It makes me smile and feel filled with so much love.
Doug and I were blessed enough to have our Grandma Pederson buy our baby shower gift today-3 weeks before the big party!!!- a crib for Isabella! It's beautiful and perfect! And yes, I sat there looking at the computer screen for a good 35 minutes debating between cherry or coffee stained..Seriously? How lame do I feel now??? But at last I decided on coffee stained and its a 4-in-1 "sleigh" crib and we love it. Doug said he loved all the pictures I showed him, so all the pressure was on me...hee hee huu..hee hee huu... Totally kidding-but for real it was stressful but I am happy with our choice and I hope it looks just as great with the bedding we picked out in reality as it does in my head! I have a feeling Isabella won't care as much at first as much as I will. I want something just a smidgen as beautiful as I know she is for her to sleep in. Well I should try to take some more Tums and nibble some crackers or something before I knit. I want to knit until I fall asleep tonight!
Yay my Mum is coming out to see me in 2 days and I cannot wait for her to feel her little grandbaby kicking away!!!

27 Weeks

So this is my first blog on entry on here and yes, it is a little late in the "journey"--but hey, better late than never right?
Doug and I are celebrating our 2 month anniversary next week and next week I will enter in my 3rd trimester!!! Can you believe it? Baby Isabella Jewel will be arriving in approximately 13 weeks as of today. We are so so excited! Yes, I'm not overly enthused about the pain I may experience during her journey to the "outside" world, but the afterwards...oh yeah!!!! We can finally meet our little acrobat in my belly. I can hold her for the first time and look into her beautiful little eyes and kiss her and fall in love with her all over again.
I love her so much already! Lately, when I see anything on TV or read anything about babies, pregnancy, birth, etc. I tear up-even with commercials. And yesterday on our way to Kroger, we heard "All American Girl" by Carrie Underwood--yes, I cried! Sometimes just feeling her kicking and punching and now having her little hiccups makes me get misty eyed thinking about her and how she is our baby girl for all of time. Nobody can say that about our Isabella.
We just found out that my sister-in-law, Meredith, is having a baby girl too! Penelope Mae-cute! It's weird for me to think of my big brother being a daddy, but I know he'll be great at it. And Meredith is due to deliver Penny about 8 weeks after Isabella-obviously we are on the babies time schedule- but that means the girls will be super close in age!
Alright, I want some more of that Cranberry-Apple Bread with cream cheese right now....yum yum!!!