17 Weeks

17 weeks and Baby is the size of a grapefruit (or about 5 inches from head to bottom).  This week the  baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord is growing stronger and thicker.  

Overall I'm feeling much better now, energy has returned for the most part and there's no more sickness.  Starting to notice my belly interfere with usual activities like my workouts and simpler things like just putting on my socks :-) I've finally moved off the hand balancing stilts and on to the floor.  My balance just isn't what it used to be, plus I can't really get up anymore!  Still able to get up on the trapeze but I'm carefuller now and more aware of my belly at all times.  

This weeks breakthrough... Finally went maternity shopping!!!  I was partly holding on to the idea of fitting into my old clothes as long as I could, and partly just haven't had the time to go.  But now that I have, WOW, so much more comfortable!  Wish I would have done this a month ago.  Maternity clothes are sort of like walking around everywhere in PJs!  Love elastic! 

Off to Cancun this Saturday for some much needed R&R!  Baby and I can't wait!  Not super excited about wearing a bathing suit :-/ but I'm sure I'll get over it once I have a virgin Pina Colada in hand and the ocean at my fingertips! 

I guess next week's fruit will be whatever I find in Cancun that's about 5 1/2"  :-)

Looking forward to.. Baby Gender Reveal Party, December 15th!  Open invitation to anyone that wants to come wage your bet and find out what we're having!

First Baby Purchase

So the first baby item we bought is.... a jogging stroller.  My Mom's reaction to this, "You don't jog."  :-(  A bit random maybe for our first purchase, but I was browsing through Craigslist and found this brand new unopened stroller for a great price.  I thought Jason was going to call me crazy when I called him and told him to stop by some random guy's house and pick up the baby stroller I just bought off craigslist, but just said "yes dear" and went along with it.  Once we put it together when he got home I think he was even more excited about it than I was.  It's pretty cool!  And Jason thinks it looks sporty and way cooler for a Dad than traditional strollers :-)  It'll be a while before we can use it, but it was still fun to get something for future baby!  I can't wait until we find out the sex so we can buy more fun things.

Update:  So several people have pointed out to me I've missed several weeks in my blog updates, not to mentions belly progress pics.  Sadly, I haven't taken them for us either.  So, here's my excuse.... We spent the last 2 weeks of October packing up our home and moving it into storage, moving some to our little rental, and having the movers haul some away.  Currently our stuff resides in 5 places, and I couldn't tell you what was where!  But that's not enough of an excuse, so also during that time I had a huge deadline at work and was working until midnight to get stuff done, and then left on November 4th for a week of work in North Carolina.  I got back Monday night this week, to unpacked boxes, loads of work, and a sick kitty.   Oh, and I almost forgot!!! We are in escrow on our new home! One more thing that happened the day I left for NC.  We gave up on our dream neighborhood/ house and settled on a great place nearby in a great neighborhood on a cul-de-sac.  We're scheduled to close December 9th! 

So, I am now 16 weeks (4 months!) and baby has been growing along and I have been going crazy, but all is well.  My usual posts, and next "bump" update will be this weekend.... week 17 baby is an onion. (Unless I can think of a cuter fruit/veggi that is the same size) ;-)