kicks, jabs, and rolls

Callie moves all the time. I love it. I will admit though that it is quite a strange feeling. I think its a.maz.ing and all but sometimes it actually hurts a little or makes me feel a tiny bit nauseous. I don’t mean nauseous like it makes me disgusted, I mean like the physical sense of nausea. But that is fleeting. I feel her mostly on my right side. All day long. Oh and all night long. :) She moves a lot. I think she does sleep some, but I think that is mostly when I am busy. Someone told me that she sleeps when I am moving around because it rocks her to sleep. Then when I get still, she wakes up. Interesting. I hadn’t ever really thought of that, but it seems to be the case.

For a while after I felt Callie move for the very first time, I could only feel it on the inside. I couldn’t feel the movements from the outside if I had my hand on my belly. Shortly there after, I could feel those movements, but it wasn’t strong enough for Courtney to feel. I think I could feel it because I felt it inside and knew when it happened. My mom was actually the first person to feel her move from the outside. We were in Tulsa and Courtney was with my dad and we were at my grandma’s house. I told my mom to hurry over and she did and felt her move! It was so fun for someone else to experience her movements! That evening Courtney was able to feel her move as well. That was over Memorial Day weekend.

We’ve just started being able to see her movements from the outside in the last few weeks. It’s really exciting! And now if you watch my tummy for long at all, you’re bound to see her rolling around, making my belly move. These movements can be seen most on my right side and on my lower belly. I was helping my friend Sabrina texture her kitchen and bathroom walls and when we sat down for a break, Callie started moving like crazy. Sabrina saw my belly move from across the room! Love.it.

I am really going to miss having this big, round belly and feeling her move after she is born. I do realize that means I will get to hold her in my arms and see her and all that wonderful stuff, but I will definitely miss this part. I’m sure that once I’m 35, 36…38, 39 weeks along I will be singing a different tune, but for right now…I love this. I feel great and I am just watching my belly grow.

That being said, there are some things that are already getting harder for me. I am 27 weeks along, so almost 7 months, and it is harder and harder to get out of bed and up off the couch nowadays.

I am still sleeping quite well (and thanking God for that) but know that will probably end in due time as well. I’ve had 2 nights of restless sleep. One night was filled with insomnia, the other with discomfort. I sleep on my left side just about all night long at this point. It sort of hurts to sleep on my right side…maybe because she seems to be on that side most of the time. I sleep with a pillow between my legs and a pregnancy wedge pillow under my belly. That wedge pillow has been my saving grace. I travel with it and am never without it at night. It is fabulous!

I’m not the only one who enjoys the wedge pillow… ;)

Here are some recent pregnancy pics of me at 25 weeks taken during another weekend in Tulsa for my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary party. 60 years! Truly amazing and a wonderful example to all of us in the family.

This time last year...

Last year at this exact time I was hanging out with some of my very favorite people on this planet – my high school girlfriends. We were doing a lot of relaxing in Cozumel, Mexico together. Oh yeah, and we did bring our husbands along for the ride too.

In fact, last year at this time, I would start my day snorkeling with Trisha and Mitch during the early morning hours…

…while Courtney snoozed the morning away in our beautiful hotel.

Who am I kidding? I love to snooze time away way more than my hubby does. But once I discovered snorkeling in the early morning, I was hooked! I had to do it every morning and was so glad Trisha and Mitch enjoyed it as much as I did. So, we would have a fabulous buffet breakfast first, then check out our snorkeling gear and join the fish and other ocean creatures in the water. Perfection.

After that we would all spend our days laying out by the infinity pool that overlooked the ocean.

Or drinking delicious cocktails from the swim-up bar while hanging out in the pool.

Or playing beach volleyball by the water.

Or spotting lizards.

Or taking a catamaran to a private island where we would relax some more.

We got all dressed up at night and ate fancy dinners and enjoyed some illegal pool time (HA! Such rebels!) and did some dancing and lots of laughing together.

It was the perfect, most relaxing vacation.

The best times with the best people.

I cannot wait to continue this tradition with them. What’d you say, girls…next summer??

Getting ready for baby!

Our summer project is the nursery. Or I should say "my" summer project is the nursery. ;) Courtney is super duper busy this summer with basketball camps, football stuff, open gym...you name it. He seems even busier than he is during the school year. Which is fine. It gives me time to relax and work on getting the nursery ready.

Callie's room was completely full of stuff until Friday afternoon, when my friends Sabrina and April decided it was time to get it cleared. Thank goodness they forced me to start on it, because I can be a bit of a procrastinator. Let's be honest, I'm a HUGE procrastinator. So, even though I really wanted to start working on her nursery, I did not want to work on the packing up of stuff in that room that I really have no place for any of it to go. Gag. So they got me motivated by coming over and helping me with it. Oh, I love my girlfriends!!

Then my other fabulous girlfriend Keysha came in late Friday night to help me paint. I decided I wanted to do the room in stripes of all different widths. The room is already painted a pale pink (lucky we are having a GIRL and didn't have to repaint everything, especially since the ceiling is painted pink too) and so I wanted to do darker pink and brown stripes. I thought this would be so easy. Yeah, I actually thought it would be way easier than repainting the whole room and it would still freshen up and update the look of the room.

Boy, was I wrong.

It was quite a process! Of course it is, right?? Well, I am not sure what I was thinking!! I guess I was thinking that the painting of those stripes would be quick and easy, and that part was very quick and easy. It's the measuring of the stripes...the figuring of the widths of the stripes...the getting down on the floor and shining the laser level up the wall while Keysha tediously marked off the stripes...the dreaded and awful taping off of the stripes that was anything but easy!

So it was TWO+ HOURS after we started the process and we had just finished the taping process of ONE wall that I decided an accent wall would be a great idea for Callie's nursery! ;) Ha!

And I do think it was the best decision!

 

The finished product!!

Isn't it so cute??? I.love.it. I love how it turned out! I love that her crib will go along that wall, with her name in adorable letters that I ordered off etsy above her crib.

Remember her bedding fabric?

My mom is working on it as I type. I can't wait to see the finished product. By the way, she is a genius behind the sewing machine! ;) I know it's going to look wonderful!

It sure is fun getting ready for baby Callie!

Callie in 4-D

We had an ultrasound appointment today. When we got there, it was strange because there was no one in the office waiting room and no one working at all except one nurse (answering phones) and the ultrasound tech. My doctor was on vacation, so getting an ultrasound was the only thing you could do there today.

Which was lucky for us!

We started the ultrasound and I was so excited to see her again! And anxious to make sure that she was still a she. ;) She was! The tech was able to get all the measurements she needed, but we weren't able to see a good picture of Callie at all. In fact, it was awful looking. Her parts seemed all disjointed and we couldn't tell one thing from anything else. The poor girl tried and tried different position and movements and still nothing. She felt so bad and worked for 30 minutes to try to get a good shot.

This was as good as she could get and we were lucky she caught that.

I was disappointed because our last ultrasound pictures were so good.

Then she switched wands on my belly and the magic happened!
4D at it's best!! :)

Look at her sweet face!

Elbows and knees

We caught a yawn. Precious!

The tech said that it usually costs extra for 4D pics...but if we would keep it quiet, she wouldn't charge us. :) Secrets safe with me!

Well, maybe not.... ;)