Latest sonogram pics

These are so cool. Notice that the second picture shows HAIR! "Lots of hair," according to the technician! Oh, and the hand is not deformed (see last picture). It's just the way the 3D sonogram works.

Baby Shower!

Today was supposed to be my mom's birthday party, but it turned out to be a surprise baby shower! A bunch of my friends were there and everyone in my family - it was so fun to see everyone all at once. We got so much stuff for the baby!!! Luckily, Zach's parents offered to take a bunch of the baby stuff back to their house and store it, since we're moving up to PA in 4 weeks.

32 weeks

Hey everyone! It's been a month since we last posted here! We've been busy negotiating the sale of our house and the buying of a house in Pennsylvania. We're all set to move on June 28! At that point, we'll be 3.5 weeks from our due date. Right now, we're at 32 weeks, and I've gotten a lot bigger. We're all done with grad school, and now we're just finishing up the school year. I'm now seeing a perinatologist due to my gestational diabetes, but the good news is that they are keeping closer track of the baby's growth by doing monthly sonograms. The perinatologist has a 3D sonogram machine, so we've got some really neat pictures of our little one. The baby is growing just fine, and my blood sugar levels are fine now that I'm sticking to this low-sugar (low-fun) diet. That's all our news - here are the pics.

Red Sox sweep Orioles!

Thank God the week is over. I have a LOT to do this weekend to finish up with grad school, but I wanted to post the pictures we took from the Red Sox game at Camden Yards. We went both nights, but these pictures are from Wednesday. The ruffian next to Zach took the pictures of us, so you may notice that Zach looks really big compared to the rest of us. In case you don't know, the other 2 in the picture are Jarrod (my brother) and Kristen (my soon-to-be-sister-in-law).

3 months to go!

Today I enter my third trimester. Thank goodness! I'm really looking forward to July (June, for that matter!). My energy level is really going up and down, and it's hard to plan things out when I don't know how I'm going to feel. The baby is doing well - just kicking and dancing the night away as usual.

We're really glad that spring is finally here. This weekend has been beautiful, and it's nice to wear summery clothes again.

26 weeks

Okay, I'll be honest - this week I feel like poo. I've been unbelievably tired and have lots of pain in my lower back because of the baby's pressure on my sciatic nerve. It's times like this that I wish July would hurry up and get here.

Thankfully, today marks 2 months until the last day of school. It will be a huge relief to finish up and just rest for the last month. And my last grad school class will be over on May 2! That's less than 3 weeks away.

No new pics, although the belly is steadily growing. I can now rest a small plate on my belly while I eat a sandwich. And I believe the baby had its first case of the hiccups today!

25 weeks (almost)

Hey everyone! Everything is going well. We registered for baby stuff yesterday at Babies R Us. It was rather overwhelming to see how much stuff you need to take care of a baby.

Here's a new belly pic from this morning. I'll be 25 weeks on Sunday.