25 weeks

Today marks 25 weeks! I can hardly believe we found out 6 weeks ago that baby is a girl. Time is going too fast and I'm only 2 weeks from my 3rd trimester! So excited to meet this little miss but also enjoying the last 3 months of having an only child. He is so much fun right now and his imagination is just crazy! He loves everything rocket space ships and going to the moon. Feeling so blessed today and hoping the new year I can focus so much more on what I have then don't have in my life. I miss my mom and grandpa dearly but just know they are watching everything going on from the best seats in the world.
Hope you have a safe and blessed New Year!!






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1st kicks on the belly

Wednesday night there must have been a party in my tummy (a few too many yo gabba gabba episodes much?) because I felt her move for the first time on my tummy. I've been feeling her move and kick since about 17 weeks but this was the first time I could feel it on my tummy. I was so excited I made Nils hurry over to feel it. He felt it too. He said it was a weird feeling. Boys!! Just wanted to make sure I noted this so I can remember it later on. Such a fun milestone. She's been super active lately and I've started doing kick counts and she is pretty consistant. She parties around 11am, 7pm, and 10pm. Hope she keeps this schedule up!

Registry

I decided to make a registry at Target. I realize this is baby number two but there are some things I would like to have this time around and some things we need since we gave pretty everything away. There are also things I learned the first time around that I would change now. Plus the bonus is that when the due date gets close I can get 10% off plus my 5% off with the red debit card. So its worth it to me. I figure it will be a way to keep track of everything that we'd like to still get before baby comes. Ive gone to it a few times in the last week and keep deleting stuff off. I'd love to be one of those people that does everything over in pink but we did keep his playmat, swing, bouncer, and jumper so they will remain gender neutral. However since we need a new carseat I'm going the pink route. I don't normally like most of the prints in graco but the new Jacqueline collect is adorable. Pink and Paisley are some of my favorites! I think if I needed it I'd buy everything in this adorable collecting. It's so fun to see pink. It's becoming more real. 4 months to go!

4 months left

I can hardly believe I have 4 months left of this pregnancy. I still don't think that this reality has sunk in. After 6 1/2 years I am actually here. I am feeling a baby kick inside of me (which is helping a ton with the bonding process that I have been struggling so much with). I am putting together a 2nd nursery when I had almost lost hope of even using a nursery 3 years ago. I am having a little girl which gives me a knot in my throat every time I think about it. I'll have a boy and a girl. It's everything I've always dreamed of. I am so looking forward to leaving these family building days behind and living in today and not focusing on more in the future. Im ready for the chapter to close and a new one to begin. I feel so completely blessed and full right now and I am so glad for this. I have spent way too many years feeling incomplete and inadequate. I just hope that there will be ways in the future that I can bring hope to others by my story!