Baby #2 :: Thirty Weeks

I know it's a cop out, but life seriously needs to slow down. I would love to make this thing a real blog, but I can't even keep up with weekly pregnancy updates! I decided just to skip week 29 because I never even took a picture and each week melts into the next these days.

Size of baby: A head of cabbage according to BabyCenter and a cucumber says The Bump. Baby is about 16 inches long and weighs around 3 lbs.

Best moment of the week: We finally got our new car! It took almost a month to come in but it was absolutely worth the wait. We got a 2014 Subaru Forester and we're pretty much in love with it. The whole buying a car process took about 5-6 months because I am married to the world's biggest researcher/planner. Seriously. You should see some of the spreadsheets Bryan put together in deciding which cars to look at, budget numbers and finally buying the car. It's ridiculous and awesome at the same time. And yet this is the guy who is so against finding out the gender of our babies!

Cravings/Aversions: I've actually been doing really well and haven't had any crazy or bad-for-me cravings.

What I love: Slowly working on and finishing our house projects. I really, really want to do a separate post about all of our work so I'm not going mention specifics in hopes that it works as motivation for me to do so (ha!).

What I'm looking forward to: Actually, I'm typing this as we're driving to Minnesota for our Godson's first birthday and party! So excited to see Liam and his parents.

Worries: We still don't have a good list of girl names. And I've been seeing our boy name pop up more and more. I love it because I thought it was fairly uncommon. Now I'm starting to second guess it. Our goal is to keep along the lines of why we love the name Noelle. It's unique without being weird and it's not very common or popular. It's a lot harder to do that this time around for some reason!

What is different this time around: Just about everything!

Symptoms: Leg cramps at night, sore/achy joints and Braxton Hicks contractions at least a few times a day.

Sleep: Not bad. Hydration is the key to avoiding those overnight leg cramps.

Boy or Girl: My inklings are all over the place lately.

The belly: I've mentioned before, and you can definitely tell in pictures, that I'm carrying super low and the pressure on my lower pelvis is already getting annoying. Only ten more weeks of that left!! (That was a whole lot of sarcasm by the way.)

Movement: Really good. I haven't felt the need to do any kick counts - don't think I ever did any with Noelle either - but if I realize that I haven't felt baby in a while I just give a slight push on my belly to wake the baby up. Sorry baby! Just consider it early revenge :)

Milestones: Baby's eyesight is developing and the skin is starting to smooth out. Baby can also now grasp things, like a finger. Aww, baby grabbing your finger for the first time...is anything sweeter?!

Weight gain/loss: Currently at plus 12. Next appointment/weight update is 4/25.

Dang - now that's a belly!!