Wednesday, March 26, 2014

22 Weeks

What a busy random week!  Well, busy and random for work mostly.  On Friday, I found out that they restructured a bunch of stuff at work and one of the outcomes is that I have a new boss.  This is a good move, just a bit of a surprise!  I liked my old boss, but he was very very hands off... too hands off for me.  The new boss has a management style that I know will work much better for me.  And, in house news, we got a new dishwasher!!  I can't wait to hook it up!  Our current dishwasher is just horrible.  It is the same one that came with the house, that was built in 1994.  So its 20 years old!  It's loud and doesn't really clean anymore.  We haven't hooked up the new one yet but I am so excited for it.  We also finally found a kitchen table and I'm going to get it next week.  I can't wait to be able to sit while I prep for dinners.

Anyways, on to baby stuff!  On Friday I took the day off to do some spring cleaning so that we can start to set up the nursery.  I also boxed up all the clothes that don't fit me right now.  There are SOO many.  I am going to have to purge some of it but I'm not ready to let go yet, maybe soon.  Once I'm finished cleaning up our current bedroom, we can paint the middle floor so that we can set up our new room and the nursery.  We looked at paint colors and I think we found the top couple.  For our room we are definitely doing a light grey.  I was thinking of doing an accent wall, but ben doesn't want to so we probably won't.  Then for the nursery we are doing a light brown.  I wanted to do a medium shade brown/dark tan, but I've been talked off that and agree now lighter is better.  The room is just so small anything too dark would be overwhelming.  The accent color is going to be lavender.  But, I don't actually think we will paint anything lavender.  Probably just decorate with lavender.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but we do already have a crib.  It is a very dark brown.  We need to get a dresser to match it, and probably those cube storage shelves from Ikea.  We are just going to put a changing pad onto the dresser rather than get a changing table.  

I have gotten started on our registry.  I went back and forth on whether to even have one but decided to do it in the end.  I am not registering at a specific store, because if someone wants to get off the registry I don't want them to be stuck with getting it at a specific place.  So, I found a registry that allows me to add things from anywhere, then people can just mark if they've gotten it.  One of the other benefits to this is that people can shop around if they want.  Ultimately, I don't think we'll end up having that much on the registry, because we are going to try to get most of the big ticket items.  Like I said, we already got the crib.  We are going to get the rest of the furniture ourselves.  And, today I bought a car seat!  I found a used one for a GREAT deal.  The one I wanted is almost $300 after you add a second base and I found it used, with an extra base, for only $60.  

Baby: at 22 weeks baby is about 11 inches, head to feet.  To put it into perspective thats about the length of a barbie doll.  Now I keep imagining a barbie doll growing in my belly.  She's also hit the pound mark.  Only 6 or so more to go (hopefully not tooo many more!!).  She is also moving around a lot now.  I can feel her all the time, especially after I've eaten sugary foods or had juice.  I've never been a juice drinker at all, but normally have a glass each night.  We can't feel her from the outside yet, but I'm sure thats coming soon.

Symptoms: Nothing really new to report.  Yesterday I got my first charley horse.  It wasn't that bad, but it was in my ankle, which I think is the weirdest place ever!  I used to get them frequently in my calves and sometimes feet.  I figured this is where they would hit, and probably while I'm sleeping.  But, nope, randomly my ankle.  Even though it stuck around for a while, I was able to point my toe and keep it at bay and I also happened to have bananas so I had one of those.  It hasn't come back yet, which is good, since when I have previously gotten then in my calves they would always come back.  I think one of the other reasons it happened was that I was peeing an extra lot yesterday, like noticeably a lot more.  It could be that I may have flushed a lot of the potassium out of my body by drinking too much water.  I'd rather drink too much than not enough though :)

Weight and Waistline: My waistline is just above 40 inches, so not much growth still.  But, it does look a little bigger to me.  I gained another pound this week and am at 173, but that only puts me up 3 pounds from the end of my first trimester (where I lost 15).  I'm doing my best to eat healthy.  I keep a lot of fruit around and try to eat that instead of sweets.  Of course, I have lots of sweets too!  But, the fruit helps curb some of it.  And, I do love fruit so it doesn't seem like a compromise.  Sorry for the horrible picture below.  I never seem to take these on days where I have on one of my many many cute maternity outfits!



That's all for now!  Have a fabulous rest of the week!

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