23 Weeks

I am 23 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in this morning at 146 lbs. That is not too bad considering how much food I consumed over the past week. Thanksgiving was great! I love all the Thanksgiving food! I ate three times that day and then on black friday Jason and I went out to eat at Cracker Barrel for breakfast and then I had leftovers from thanksgiving at MOm and Dad's on Friday night. Saturday we ate pizza for lunch and Steak 'n Shake for dinner. Sunday was really bad because we went to the circus and let's just say I think I had one of everything they had there to eat! I am hoping to make it to the gym at least 3-4 times this week and I have been eating healthy so that should help to balance things out. I have been craving strawberries lately, so I have been eating lots of those. I also had a random craving for cucumbers the other night. I never did fulfill that craving and it went away the next day. My other craving the last day or so has been chicken salad. I stopped by Great Harvest bread and got a pound of that yesterday. It was so good! I was also craving cinnamon and sugar stuff yesterday. I really wanted there cinnamon swirl bread but they don't make that until friday. I settled on cinnamon butter and cranberry orange bread. It was delicious for breakfast this morning. I have been feeling really good overall. I am at the good point of my pregnancy. I am no longer sick and I am not too huge to get around yet. I am still wearing most of my regular pants without the belle band and I am still wearing my regular shirts. I will probably be breaking out my maternity shirts next week sometime. I finally went through all the boys' toys this week and got rid of broken ones or ones they don't play with. We have so many toys I have no idea where we are going to put everything after Christmas. I am feeling very overwhelmed in this department! I have got to come up with a better system! I am about a Quarter of the way finished with all of our Christmas shopping. I am hoping to be at least half way finished by the end of this week. Alisann and I are going to have a craft day on Thursday to do some fun holiday crafts with the boys and for ourselves. We are going to day to get the stuff! I am looking forward to our Christmas party coming up! I was really hoping to have a Santa Claus there for the kids, but I am just not having any luck! It will still be lots of fun to get together with friends and family and the kids will all have fun playing with each other! My Christmas cards are in and I am hoping to get those mailed out this week! We are also going to go pick out a real Christmas tree this weekend with the boys! I can't wait! CHristian is really excited for this and I think it will be lots of fun! I don't think I am going to get to crazy with decorations on the tree. I will probably keep it simple with lights and I might have Christian and I make stuff to decorate with! I am loving every week up until Christmas. We have so many fun things planned. I just love this whole season!Baby Lucas has been moving around a lot more this week. He is still not near as active as Jax. He reminds me more of how Christian was activity wise. Part of me feels like I still have forever until he gets here and part of me feels like he is going to be here any minute and that I will never get everything done that I need to. Ready or not he will be here in March!

22 Weeks

I am 22 weeks pregnant today! I am going to use my weight from yesterday at the doctors which was 146 lbs. I am definitely going to be working harder on that after Thanksgiving. I can still wear most of my regular jeans. I do have to wear a belle band with some of them and I am down to just a few shirts that are long enough to cover the bump. I am probably going to have to break out the maternity shirts in a couple of weeks. I am not looking forward to that. At least I am not having to get out those horrible maternity pants yet and hopefully I won't have to. Lucas is moving quite a bit more and I can feel him pretty good with my hand on my stomach. He doesn't seem to be quite as active as Jax. But maybe he just has more room since everything is still so stretched out. I have to say I am getting really excited to meet baby Lucas in about 4 months! I am still not sure what we are going to do with the room situation as far as who will share. I leaning more towards Jax and Lucas sharing right now, since Lucas will be in our room in the bassinet for a while. The closet is much bigger in Jax's room also. Plus Christian gets up early and he will be starting preschool next year so it might be better to let him have his own room. I need to find a double stroller also. I am not looking forward to this at all. It is hard enough lugging around a single stroller. I hate how big double strollers are. I think we have decided to keep my 4 Runner one more year or at least try to. I am not ready to get a van and a big SUV just isn't practical with where we live. Once we have three in the 4 Runner we might be changing our minds, but for now that is the plan! I have started making lists of everything that I am need to get before Lucas arrives. I am waiting until after Christmas to worry about buying anything though. I have been going through clothes and trying to get things organized. I would like to clean out and get rid of as many things as possible in this house before he gets here. The amount of toys we have is out of control and it will only be worst after Christmas. I still need to get a recording of Lucas' heartbeat and have Jax and Christian make a Build A Bear for him. I will probably do this after Christmas also so that Jax will be a little bit older. I am so excited for Thanksgiving. I am really looking forward to all the yummy food and seeing all our family. We have a super busy and fun weekend planned and I am looking forward to everything. We are going to take Christian to the circus for the first time and Jason and I have an early morning shopping date on Friday! I am so glad we both took the whole weekend off to be together! We did all of our Christmas decorating last weekend and it has been so nice getting to enjoy it the last few days! We are also going to go up to Santa Clause Land on Saturday after our Christmas pictures. Our Christmas party is in a few weeks and I am still working on getting a Santa to come for the kids. I have been thinking about the delivery with Lucas a little bit more. I am really torn on what I am going to do about who is going to be in the room. I would love for all my sisters and my sister-in-law to be there in the room and also have my mom and my Grandma there in the room. I am afraid that having 8 people in the room might be too much. Plus I would like for one of my sisters to bring Christian and Jax to the hospital to meet the baby. I am wanting to do things like last time. It worked out so nice not having a ton of people waiting outside the room. I think we will have only the people that are going to be in the room for the delivery there and then call everyone else after Christian and Jax get to meet Lucas and we get to have some family time. I do know that I have to have Alisann there by my side no matter what. She takes priority over mom. She is the one person who can read my mind and no what to do if I get in a crazy situation. I loved getting to have Jamie in the room with me last time also so I really hope that works out okay for her to be there again. Becky wasn't able to be there with Jax and I know how busy she is, but I really hope that it works out for her to be there also. My Mom will of course be there. I don't think I am going to have her take pictures this time though. She focused on the IV pole the last time so everything else was blurry. It was no big deal because I had Alisann's amazing pictures that she took and that was better than anything anyone else could have done! There is so much to think about and plan still. I am trying to not think too much about everything until after Jax's birthday and then I will get into major baby mode. I go back to the doctor in 4 weeks and then after that I think I start going every 2 weeks. That is when it really starts to fly by!

22 Week Doctor's Appointment

Yesterday I had my 22 week doctor's Appointment. I weighed in at 146 lbs. this is 2 pounds more than what I was with Jax and around 10 pounds more than I was with Christian. I hate that I am gaining so much weight. I really only wanted to gain about 20 pounds this time and I am afraid that that is going to be impossible. My doctors thinks my weight looks good and thinks I am being way to hard on myself, but I can't help it! I hate being so big and flabby. I have being eating a lot healthy and been going to the gym a little more so that is good. I asked Dr. Leinenbach about my pilates classes and she said that was great and that I could do any of the positions as long as they weren't painful or uncomfortable. That was a relief because I really love the pilates classes. Lucas' heartbeat was good but I totally for got to ask her what it was. I love hearing his sweet little heartbeat. We talked about when she would schedule my induction and she said anytime after the 20th of March but before the 24th. Jason and I are looking at the 21st or 22nd, but we haven't decided which one yet. I measured 23 this time which is what I measured with Jax at this same time. Everything looks good and seems to be right on target. I go back again in 4 weeks so hopefully my weight will be a little better for me. One other thing I asked her was if it made a difference on how fast the baby came on your third one or if it made a difference that I was having this one so close with my last one and she said that having them this close didn't make a difference on how fast you delivered. She did say that third babies are usually a surprise on delivery. She said a lot of times you think the baby will come fast and then it can take forever. I am okay with it not coming fast, but I don't think I want to be having a baby in the middle of the night either. It would be nice if Lucas would come between 3:00 and 5:00 in the evening. I know when Becky had Maggie it took forever and it was like at least midnight when she had her. Becky was induced with Maggie also. So we will have to see!

Revealing The Name

We have decided to not wait until Christmas to reveal the name. We have been tossing one name in particular around in our heads the past couple of weeks and we finally decided that this was going to be the name. I still love Hudson, but I just can't name our son something that Jason doesn't even kind of like. I will say Jason tried really hard to get on board with the name Hudson, but he just couldn't. We both really like the name we have come up with, so it is just a relief that we both agree on it and like it. It still goes along with our tradition of naming him after one of the TV shows that we watch. Christian is from Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck, Jaxson (Jax) is from Sons of Anarchy Jax Teller and This baby is from one of my personal favorites and Jason does not watch this show, but I love it and that is One Tree Hill Lucas Scott. The Name we have decided on is Lucas Albert Pickerill. Albert is from my Great Grandpa and Grandpa Folz. I really wanted this baby to be named after my Mom's side of the family. Even though Lucas ends with a 's' and not an 'n' I think it still sounds good with Christian and Jax. The Name Lucas means 'light'. I am just glad that we can finally start calling this baby by his name! We had my parents over for dinner this evening and Martha and Tyler were here also, so we decided to just go ahead and tell them now. They all really liked the name so that is good! I didn't want to announce the name on Thanksgiving because not all my family will be in town and there will be so many people around and I hate big announcement things. I wanted to do it on Christmas morning by giving my parents an envelope with the name in it that they could open, but oh well, maybe for the next one!

21 Weeks

I am 21 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 137 lbs. this morning! There has to be something wrong with my scale. I was super excited though. I have been working out more and really watching what I eat the last few days. I am going to try and eat really healthy on the days that I don't have anything going on so I can enjoy myself more at all the Holiday events we have planned. I have noticed that when I walk my hands have been swelling really bad, so I need to watch my sodium. I am trying to watch my fat and calorie intake but it is so hard when I have random cravings for things. Baby boy P has moving like crazy lately! I do really love this part of pregnancy. I have been getting up once at night to pee, but I have been able to pretty much go back to sleep right away. Of course I have heartburn no matter what I eat. This started from day one with this pregnancy. I take medicine every night before I go to bed along with my prenatal vitamin to make sure it doesn't bother me at night. I have to say I love this second trimester! I wish it would last longer. I am still wearing all my regular shirts and I can still wear a couple of my regular pants and get them buttoned. I do have a couple pairs that I had to break out the belle band this week for. I feel like I have really pouched out in the last week. All my L'Occitane stuff came in this week and I am obsessed. I am looking forward to hopefully getting spray tanned next week before Thanksgiving. I desperately need some color on this skin. I am also in desperate need of a mani and pedi. I am think that this week will be a good time to do that! I used to be so much better at keeping up with myself and now I have such a hard time finding the time for everything. I am super excited to get our Christmas decorations out and set up. We are doing that this weekend! Ever since we had Christian we started doing it the weekend before Thanksgiving so we would have more time to enjoy them. I am trying to wait until after Thanksgiving to do any more shopping but I am having such a hard time with all of that. I love to shop way to much! I am looking forward to seeing the new Twilight movie this week also. I have been making lots of progress getting all my blogs caught up this week. I am hoping to be finished with that in the next couple of days. I also was able to finish beading Jax's stocking for my parents house. Martha and I started on our sweater quilt, but we have a really long way to go on it. It is going to be hard to find the time to do this with two little ones running around all the time. I think we will finish it eventually though. I booked our trip to the Gaylord Opryland Resort for this Christmas season. I think Jason is more excited than I am. He wanted a garden view room no matter what the cost and we signed up for the whole Dreamworks experience with the boys. Alisann and Justin are going at the same time as us, so that will be fun! I think the boys will love it! I hope Christian isn't too disappointed that we aren't going on the Polar Express this year though. He keeps talking about it and I was late getting tickets and everything was sold out. There is a train in Nashville that we might try and catch. They call it the North Pole Express. He might not notice the difference. I can't believe Thanksgiving is already next week! I am so excited! I love Thanksgiving, especially when I am pregnant. We have three stops to make, but I love getting to spend time with all of our family! I think my goals this week are to get my house cleaned up and organized, finish catching up all the blogs, and really relax and enjoy getting our Christmas decorations out! I go back to the doctor on Monday so I am hoping my weight is still looking good by then!

20 Weeks

I am 20 weeks pregnant today! I am over half way there now. I weighed in this morning at 144 lbs. I was not too happy with that. I really don't want to gain as much as I did the last time. I feel like it took so long to get the weight off. At least I am working out this time so that will help losing the weight. I have another pilates class this morning that I am looking forward to. I am still wearing all my regular clothes. They are getting more and more snug around the waist, but I can still button them. I am loving that I am not in maternity clothes yet! The baby has been moving like crazy this week and I can feel him really good from the outside with my hand. Jason hasn't felt him yet, but we were so busy this weekend getting ready for Christian's party that we never had a chance to let him try. I have been sleeping really good at night which is great. I haven't been having to get to go pee so that has helped a lot. We still don't have a name picked out for the baby. Hudson is starting to look less likely. We did come up with another name that we both like, but we are not sure yet if we are going to use it. If we do decided to go with a different name that we haven't told anybody yet then we are thinking of announcing the baby's name on either Thanksgiving or Christmas. I thought that would be fun for everyone! I told myself I was not going to go crazy buying clothes this time but I am not having very much luck with that! I have already bought 6 newborn outfits and his bedding came in that I ordered from Pottery Barn. We are doing a train theme with light blues and browns. I have kind of been on a bit of a shopping spree this past week. Whenever I am pregnant I can never resist buying bath stuff. With Christian i had an obsession with Bath & Body Works, With Jax it was lush and now this time it is L'Occitane. I ordered a ton of stuff yesterday from there and I can not wait to get it in. Christian has a very long list of big items that he wants for Christmas. I normally don't like to start any Christmas shopping until the couple of weeks before Christmas. He changes his mind so much on what he wants and what he is into. My parents do it best they wait until the week of Christmas, but I never have time to do all of it then with how busy I am at work. I bought a couple of his big items this week and I am going to wait on the little stuff until closer to Christmas. I did get my ornaments ordered from Dakri's on Saturday and I will get them back this Saturday. I can't wait! I got one for baby P also. My goal this week is to get all my blogs caught up. I am not too far behind on the boys' blogs but I am getting way behind on my Family blog. I haven't been craving anything in particular this week. Next week Martha and I are going to attempt to make ourselves sweater quilts. I am super excited about this! She pinned it on Pinterest and I loved it! We are working on getting all of our sweaters together this week and getting them washed and shrunk. We will start cutting and sewing them together next week. I am anxious to see how this turns out! I have always wanted to make a quilt and i am motivated to do it now. I also have to get Jax's Stocking finished. My mom has been working on it for a couple of weeks now and she has a lot finished she said! It is hard to believe that the holidays are just around the corner! I am so excited and so ready for them! As always there is so much to do!

19 Weeks

I am 19 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 142 today. I started my morning off with my first ever pilates class at tristate. I have to say I LOVED it. Alisann and I took a private class together and we are taking another one next week. This might be something that I need to keep up with! I do need to ask my doctor about a couple of the poses or exercise positions just to be sure that it is safe for Baby Boy P. I am trying to stay some what in shape. I have been walking from the beginning but now that I am feeling so much better and I have more energy. I want to get started back on the group power class and the yoga class. My belly has definitely pouched out in the last week. Everyone has been noticing and commenting lately. I still have not broke out the maternity clothes yet and I am loving that! I have the bedding ordered for the baby and it should be here on Thursday. I still haven't decided what we are going to do on the room situation and I don't even want to start on the room until after Jaxson's first birthday! I am going to go with a train theme for this baby boy. We still are not completely decided on a name, but Jason is warming up to Hudson and Christian and I go around calling the baby 'Baby Hudson' so I think he might just have to learn to love it. I would say we are about 90% sure it will be Hudson Albert Pickerill. Albert is after my Great Grandpa Folz and my Grandpa Folz. I love to use family names as a middle name and I really wanted to name this one after my Mom's side of the family. I haven't started ordering things with his name on it yet, so It isn't official. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we will decide for sure. The baby has been moving around a lot lately. I do always love this part of being pregnant. Now that halloween id over with I am getting super excited for the Holidays. I can't wait to get all the decorations out! I went through all of my totes of baby clothes and got those organized and sorted out. I also got a lot of our storage room all cleaned out which is a great feeling. I have been sleeping pretty good at night which has been night. I usually have to get up once to pee but lately I have been able to get back to sleep. I am working this week on getting everything ready for Christian's birthday party. He wants everything to be yellow and he wants spaghetti to eat. I think we are going to have Fazoli's cater it to make it easy on us. I took Christian to pick out the baby something since we finally found out what we were having. He picked out a super soft blue blankie for him. CHristian loves soft things and he was really excited to get the baby something. Baby Boy P is already getting spoiled with little gifts. Even though this is our third boy I don't think he will be any less spoiled than our other two. I just can't help myself from shopping!