And the cycle begins again

Alright enough slacking - back to the blog. Time to shape up an catch up in a lot of ways, both blogging and yoga, because apparently I blinked and went from finding out I was pregnant to 20 weeks...

Yes, I am using the same maternity clothes as last time and did plan on wearing that shirt tonight as a throw back. At least the lighting's better this time around.

Big news for the week is that we found on Thursday Baby Awesome is a girl! I'm so excited Charlotte is going to have a sister. And the fact that we get to use little awesome pieces like this again is fun

Prep for Baby A so far has included officially getting C's old clothes out of the guest room this weekend in preparation for turning it into C's "big girl" room, and lots of online furniture shopping for a big girl bed (with shockingly little actual progress towards getting things set up). I'm hoping to get C moved over long before Baby A arrives so it feels more like she's getting something new and cool, and less like Baby A's stealing her space. We'll see how it goes...

39 Week Bump

What a difference 18 weeks make! I realized at Yoga tonight that I was wearing the same outfit I was wearing when I took my first "baby bump" picture for the blog. Inspired me to do a before and after. Below is the same shirt at 21 and 39 weeks - it doesn't fit quite the same way :o)

36 week bump

as seen by a professional :o)

Photo updates

It's been a little crazy around here with work stuff, but 33 weeks in we have managed to make some progress preparing for September.

See, we have a fully assembled crib:

And a not so fully assembled changing table:

(okay maybe that's less impressive). We also bought our first couple of cloth diapers:

Yes, I know the diaper above is hardly the gender neutral colors that I told everyone I was sticking too, but look how cute it is! It's hard to imagine that our baby will ever be big enough to fit into it, but then again looking down, maybe not :o)

31 week bump (and the beginning of birthday week)

Our plan right now is to head up north for a long weekend next weekend to celebrate my birthday. While Sturgeon bay has a lot of wonderful things, fine dinning is not one of them :o) So Alex took me out last night for my birthday dinner.  It was a wonderful start to the birthday week, beginning with the prettiest flowers I've seen in a long time:

and was a great excuse to get dressed up:

Let the record show that to date Debra's bridesmaid dress (above) is the only bridesmaids dress I own that I've worn repeatedly. Nice work Debra :o)

30 week bump

...is starting to get impressive if I do say so myself :o)

I still get people who are amazed that I'm as far along as I am, but at least no one is surprised at the fact that I'm pregnant anymore.

Physically I'm feeling really good, mentally I'm all over the board. Poor Alex had to deal with everything from sobbing for no reason to manic cleaning to happy go lucky this weekend. He's been a really good sport :o)  Let's hope that things even out this week.

Baby's been moving like crazy recently - we're starting to be able to see her from the outside. No elbows or feet yet, but definite movement. She's getting bigger!

P.S. Megan (pictured below) had a beautiful baby boy yesterday. Both Mom and baby are doing great!

28 week bump

I found my self with some extra time this morning while I let the glucose solution I had to chug run amok in my system, so I took a picture:

While not the most flattering snapshot, I think it proves without a doubt that I now look pregnant :o)  Think happy non-diabetic thoughts for me this morning - I'm off to my 28 week appointment.

27 week bump and outdoor nesting

According to all the books apparently I will eventually be overcome with the need to make our home a safe haven for baby girl Provan. Apparently my internal compass is off by a bit, because I have NO desire to clean the bathrooms, but OMG if I don't pull that weed from the flower bed RIGHT NOW I'm going to be  terrible parent. This started to manifest itself last weekend when Alex was away with an overhaul of the front flower beds.  A little new color combined with liberal use of the clippers resulted in something pretty nice if I do say so myself:

Of course when people come over we never sit in the front, we sit in the back yard (which was still a mess). So yesterday (at 27 wks 3 days) I decided to tackle the other half:

With some help from Alex we got quite a bit done and things are looking remarkably more tamed. However it is pouring rain here today so a picture will have to wait. We think it looks better but max was, as usual, unimpressed.

Overall the body's held up pretty well with all the weeding. The nerve pain that I was having has resolved itself (Thank Goodness!), and other back issues are pretty well at bay. Between the PT that I'm doing at home, lots of walking, yoga and reintroducing swimming into my routine, my body's doing alright. Let's keep our fingers crossed it will last!

P.S. Totally unrelated, but my sister is hilarious. She posts as Mama R on the following blog: http://t.co/D3GJAmY. Check it out

24 week bump and Door Co.

Yup - I'm a little behind on here. Buy my yoga instructor keeps telling us to enjoy what we get done and let go of the stuff that we don't, so I'm not going to worry about. Instead, I'll catch up :o)

Two weekends ago we drove up to Door Co to spend some time on the lake and visit with Alex's grandparents over memorial day. It was supposed to be a rainy nasty weekend, but the draw of getting to visit and spending the time relaxing rather then cleaning/nesting was enough to set us off on the 3 1/2 hour car ride up there. The good news that with lots of stops and stretching, the back held up fine and the trip was easy. We ended up having great weather, a wonderful time, and even got a little spiffed up for an early anniversary dinner at our favorite bar up there that happens to have a GREAT fish fry.

Okay so maybe Alex wasn't as excited about the getting spiffed up part...

Regardless, we still had a nice dinner and a great trip!

22 week bump and back update

In the DC post I whinned a little bit about my back - I have good news on that front. I met with a great physical therapist on Thursday and she was able to pinpoint the issue (a couple of joints not moving the way they should), and come up with a plan to fix it! I was a little scared it was going to be one of those "well, it will go away after the baby comes" things, but it sounds like that is definitely not the case. Hurray.

In other news, I think I am definitely "showing" at this point, and am starting to have fun with it:

21 week bump

So you may have noticed a lack of pictures of me on the blog so far...

I'm not going to lie, having spent the last 10 years of my life trying to keep weight off, it's been a hard adjustment to embrace putting it on. The good news it that I think I'm almost there :o) Today I felt really good at prenatal yoga, and even let Alex take a picture when I got home:

This is especially impressive considering last week they were making a new brochure for the yoga studio so they had a professional photographer in class, and I was so traumatized I had to call Rachel to calm me down about 10 seconds after class let out.

So in short I think I'm getting over the getting bigger thing, or maybe I'm just still on high from finding out that Baby Provan is going to be Baby Girl Provan.(Yay)