Pregnancy Week 29

According to the website, baby has made it to the size of a butternut squash. She is about 2.5 lbs now. I know so many mothers just rave about how much they like feeling their babies move and kick. It's definitely not my favorite thing....she is going to be as active as Josiah at this rate!

Pregnancy Week 28

Baby is the size of an eggplant this week. My how she is growing!

Pregnancy Week 27

Up to the size of a cauliflower this week! Getting tighter in my belly.

Pregnancy Week 26

Week 26--size of a scallion 

(I think the website was going more for length rather than width on this one!!)

Pregnancy Week 25

Baby is the size of a rutabaga this week. 

Pregnancy Week 24

My favorite "sibling" picture so far. Baby is the size of an ear of corn now!

Pregnancy Week 23

Our baby is up to the size of a mango now! 

Pregnancy Week 22

Week 22, baby is the size of a spaghetti squash. It was out of season, so we printed a picture instead. 

Pregnancy Week 21

Baby is up to the size of a carrot now. I have no idea how they decided on this one because there are SO many different sizes of carrots!! Sheesh! I just went with a nice bunch, but they were probably too small. Oh well. 

Perfect sword size...

Pregnancy Week 20

Week 20--halfway! Baby is up to the size of a banana. We plan on naming our girl Hosanna. Josiah likes to say "Ho-banana", so we got a kick out of the fruit this week. 

Gender Reveal

Oops! I had started this post a few weeks ago and it never got published!! Enjoy it anyway!

We had our "official" ultrasound on Saturday, May 2. Baby was a good size and everything looked great! I am right on track with my estimated due date of October 6th (even though I am hoping for late Sept!).

I was so surprised when the tech pronounced baby to be a girl! It took a few minutes for it to settle in that I actually was having the girl I was hoping for! 

It was a fun moment of cutting into the cake and revealing the pink color to our families later that day.

Pregnancy Week 19

Our little baby is the size of a tomato this week! I am finally starting to get a little bump and have switched to my maternity clothes now.

Pregnancy Week 18

This week baby is the size of a bell pepper. Josiah cooperated quite nicely for this week.

Pregnancy Week 17

Baby has made it to the size of a turnip. Yay.

Pregnancy Week 16

And would you look at this, I am caught up on my pregnancy posting weeks! 

Week 16 the baby is the size of an avocado. 

Please try to ignore the fact that Josiah looks like he is trying to pose for some awkward high school photo or something. It was the best I could do after he nearly smashed the poor avocado to death...

Celebrating with a little guacamole. 

Pregnancy Week 15

I can't believe I am already to 15 weeks! It seems as though this pregnancy is flying by much more quickly than the last one. I am surprised that we are almost to the time of finding out the gender! That part seemed to take f.o.r.e.v.e.r when I was pregnant with Josiah!

Baby is the size of an apple this week. It didn't specify as to what kind of apple, so we just went with the last one that I had on the counter. Good enough, right?

And a pleasant picture of Josiah to go with it? How lucky can one mother be.

Pregnancy Week 14

We are now up to the size of a lemon! Trying to remain clever with keeping big brother from throwing our object lessons!

Pregnancy Week 13

Baby is supposed to be the size of a "pea pod" this week. I don't see how you can go from lime to pea pod, but whatever. I'm not making the rules to this! 

Maybe he wanted to give his sibling a ride already?

I don't even know what is going on in this picture....but notice the volunteer tomato that sprouted behind him?

Pregnancy Week 12

I am beginning to not feel so much morning sickness and have more energy to devote to things besides sitting and resting on the couch. :) 

Week 12 baby is supposed to be the size of a lime. Unfortunately, limes are about the same size as a baseball. Josiah likes to throw balls. I had several lobbed at me while I was saying "hold it out for Mommy to see!"....oh boys....

This one is probably the best one of the group. 

But these really amuse me so I am including them. :) 

Pregnancy Week 11

Bleh, I am rather behind on these pictures, but I am getting them done! This week baby is comparable to a fig. I didn't want to go through the kumquat hassle again for this week, so we just went with a fig newton. Close enough, right?

Pregnancy Week 10

This week baby is supposed to be the size of a kumquat. Uhhh, I barely know what those are! I headed over to Raleys, where they put in a special order of kumquats just for me after hearing about this weekly photo I am taking for this pregnancy. I love Raleys. Now I just need to figure out what to do with the small box of kunquats I have sitting on my counter!

I have been craving chocolate milk these last 2 weeks. Strange, but I'll take it! That isn't too out there!

Pregnancy Week 9

Grapes are something a little more familiar to Josiah, so he was happier helping me take the comparison picture this week. 

Pregnancy Week 8

Baby keeps getting bigger! It is up to a kidney bean now. Brother didn't want anything to do with those beans so Mommy had to pose with it. 

It's around this time that my cravings always start coming on strong. As with the last pregnancy, In-n-Out burgers and Jamba Juice are two things I could eat every day! Mmmm. 

Pregnancy Week 7

Baby is up to a blueberry in size now! I was trying to get big brother to help me show off the blueberry, but he wasn't getting the concept. 

Pregnancy Week 6

Baby is the size of lentil this week. That's some big growth in a week's time!

Pregnancy Week 5

I found out I was pregnant this week. 

I also decided it would be fun to take pictures of the size of baby as it corresponds to a fruit or veggie every week. Week 5 was a sesame seed. 

How small....and yet how much havoc it was already able to wreak on poor Mom's body. 

Catching Up

Well, good intentions go out the window with morning sickness. I have just not felt like trying to wrangle my child long enough to get a blog post written in this last month! I don't know how "professional" bloggers can do one every day! That is serious dedication....

However, Josiah is happily sleeping on the floor next to his "bone" (phone) so I will snatch a few minutes and get a post written!

Let's see....Josiah got sick for the second time in a month's time at the beginning of March. He is a strange kid and likes to take is medicine...even while I am in the other room!

And then he cries when he is finished and I put the lid back on. Oh my.

Josh decided we needed to go to Ikea and spend some of our tax return on a new dining room table since the one we were using from my grandparent's house since the beginning of our marriage was very creaky and the chairs were breaking one by one. I spent one of my very morning sickness ridden days putting our new table and chairs together. What a beautiful finished product! Good idea Josh!

Of course, while at Ikea, we were not able to pass up the clearance section which had this discounted couch (we were kind of looking for a new one) and a colorful poang chair (to the right in the picture). Trying to disassemble everything and jam them into my parent's borrowed van was humorous to say the least... :) 

If you look closely at the picture above you can see that our VCR/DVD player is just sitting precariously there next to the fire place. That is because I was in the transition between selling our old clunky TV stand (that I bought at a yard sale for $5 and sold for $10. Can't beat that!!) and installing this new shelf that Dad helped me build out of some scrap wood. I love my MacGyver Dad. 

Speaking of assembling, I must also mention the other Ikea purchase we made. This is a new dresser for baby #2. 

Of course, are you surprised, Josiah was my big helper on this project too!

He needs to get an award this month for being such a big helper! I mean look what this kid does:

Helping Daddy cut wood

Watering plants for Mommy

Sitting next to Mommy while she tackles dishes (one of the things that really makes me gag during the MS stage...)

And the ever-popular, lining up pots while Mommy makes dinner. 

What a ham. 

Speaking of the ham himself, he is stirring so I better get this published before it's too late!