28 Weeks

Everything is looking great with you and you are getting bigger every day!

 My blood pressure is low which is a very good thing at this stage in the pregnancy.

 I passed the glucose test. Another prick with a needle. This better prove how much I love you already. 

You have a strong heartbeat and its getting stronger every day.

You move around constantly, I wonder how you ever sleep. 

These days you mostly hang out on my right side, just below my rib cage. Its where I can feel the most movement. It is still pretty light flutters and small twitches. Kind of hard to explain but it is no where near the painful stories people will tell you. Sometimes it surprises me and makes me jump but that is only because you do it out of no where. You used to have a very set schedule and would start moving around at the same time every day, but my friend Jena came into town and we stayed up WAY to late too many nights in a row and that may have thrown you off a bit. You do not like to preform. Very few people have actually felt you move. Every time anyone puts a hand on my stomach you just freeze and refuse to move. You did the same thing every time I got an ultrasound. Curled up in a little ball and didn't want to do anything. My placenta is also on top so there is a few more inches of "squish" before I can feel you. So my stomach feels pretty soft unless you come to the surface, then I feel this super hard thing and I have no clue what it is, just know its part of you.

I don't have a crazy appetite you hear about. In fact, it usually hurts when I eat so I try to limit it to small portions and eat often. I have heartburn constantly. According to the wives tales, that means you will come out with lots of hair. I'm starting to think you are going to have dark hair. I was hopeful for a while that you would come out this little bald and blonde thing since Grandma Murray is a total blonde and your dad was too as a child. Then I think,  all of your other Grandparents have dark hair and your mother has a light brown color. I wonder if your hair will be curly or straight? Who will you look like? Will you have my lips? My eye color?

My stomach is getting bigger too. It is now uncomfortable to put on shoes, paint my toes, and shave my legs. I can still do it. I just don't like to. So I bet I am just the most beautiful sight you have ever seen. Barefoot, chubby, naked toes, and hairy legs. So far I have gained 15 pounds and am on track to gain a total of 25-30 depending how these last few weeks go. No stretch marks yet. *fingers crossed* 




I am in my third trimester now. I can't believe how quickly this pregnancy is going by. I have braxton hicks and waves of nausea but nothing too bad. You still don't have a named picked out yet and to be honest, I'm ok with it. I want to see your sweet little face before I can decide. We have a few that we like but nothing set in stone yet. We haven't told ANYONE the options because we really don't want to hear their opinions. Naming a child is hard! I want a name that is beautiful and not to common, but on the same token, I want a traditional name and not a strange name that no one knows how to pronounce or spell.

Oh yeah, and we're moving again. This time we're moving in with Grandma and Grandpa Lyman. It is sure to be an adventure....