28 Weeks

I am 28 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 147 lbs. which is good for this week! We are super busy packing and getting ready for vacation this week. I have decided to have someone come and deep clean our house while we are gone. I have never had anyone clean my house before. I usually do it all myself and I usually deep clean everything before we leave for vacation so when we come home everything is perfect and we are ready for a fresh start. With the yard sale last week and Christian having wrestling camp this week I just have no time to do it. I don't even know how I am going to get all of us packed in time! I am so ready to get to Florida and just hang out and relax for a week. My heartburn is getting worst, but I am able to still manage it with tums and Zantac. I get up at least once and sometimes twice to pee at night. This is making for a very restless sleep. I am really starting to feel big and my clothes are all getting tighter. I have been wearing mostly casual sun dresses because that is the most comfortable! I have been craving steak and rice a lot lately. I am probably going to have to wait until after vacation to satisfy that craving. I will be getting my seafood fill while on vacation for sure! I haven't started swelling yet either which is great! I am hoping to make it through my brothers wedding before I start swelling too bad.

27 Week Doctor's Appointment and Glucose Test

This morning I had my 27 week doctors appointment. I weighed in at 147 lbs. and Elijah's heart was beating in the 140's. I measured 28 this time. I was a little concerned because we tried to get a recording of his heart beat for the build-a-bear and we couldn't get a good heart beat that was loud. I was also concerned because it was lower than it is normally. Dr. Leinenbach wasn't concerned at all about it. We talked about how she will be out of town a little bit around the time of my due date and she wasn't sure who was going to be on call yet but she was going to have me see whoever it was when she goes on vacation this summer so I can get used to them. I will be so upset if I don't get Dr. Leinenbach to deliver possibly my last baby. Hopefully Elijah will come when she is here and we won't have to worry about that! Everything came back fine on my glucose test which is a relief! I also talked to Dr. L about Elijah not moving a ton and she said as long as he was moving 5-6 times it was good and he moves at least that much but just not as much as I remember the other boys moving!

27 Weeks

I am 27 weeks today! I weighed in at 147 lbs. today. I seem to be gaining a steady pound a week. I guess this will have to do and it's not horrible. I am busy working like crazy this week getting stuff ready for the yard sale this weekend. It is wearing me out. I definitely don't have the energy I normally have right now. I have still been working out about 4 times a week and I am really starting to actually love working out. I feel so good when I do it. I have been doing more classes at tristate and those keep me more motivated. I am getting up at least once a night to pee. My heart burn is getting worse. I really can not eat pizza at all anymore. I am going to have to ask for a prescription at my appointment on thursday. I am still craving tomatoes and I have also been in  the mood for steak and rice. I am also craving soft serve ice cream and just ice cream in general. I am usually not much of an ice cream person but I have really been wanting ice cream a lot lately. I haven't started swelling yet which is good. I and wearing mostly maternity clothes except for some of my regular clothes that are bigger. I feel huge right now even though I know I am smaller than I was with Jax or Lucas. Elijah is pretty active in the evenings when I am laying on the couch, but I don't notice him moving a lot during the day. This could be because I am so busy though also. Our vacation is coming up and I am so excited for it. We need a week away together as a family! We are not going to have the nursery done like I was hoping for before we leave, but hopefully when we get back Jason will start right on it and knock it out in a couple of weeks!

26 Weeks

I am 26 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 146 lbs. I have still been swimming a couple times a week, walking about once a week, and doing some strength training at least once a week. I have been trying to do more variety to give me and all over better body workout. I did yoga this past saturday and it was amazing. I have to say my balance is a bit off though. Some of the poses that used to be so easy for me were really challenging. I am craving fresh market chicken salad again and I have been addicted to cake lately and homemade ice cream. This is not good! My heartburn is in full force. I can not even attempt a bite of pizza without getting horrible heartburn. I have been taking tums at night to help it, but I think I am going to have to get on that prescription like I did with Lucas. We have still not started on the nursery yet. Jason has started on Lucas' room. I have come to terms that the nursery won't be finished by the time we leave for vacation. I am now hoping that It will be finished by the end of June. I am still getting up at least once at night to pee. I am officially in maternity clothes now unless it is a dress or skirt. I am still wearing my regular work out type clothes and I can wear my big girl jeans. I have been on a bit of a online shopping addiction buying clothes that I can wear when I am not pregnant anymore. I need to quit buying so much because who knows how long it will take to lose all this weight. I am also starting to get addicted to all these different workout classes. I feel like crap when I don't get to go to the gym. Our pool is warming up and I can't wait to be able to swim in it! Christian has been in it but I think it is still too cold. This is my last week of my second trimester! That just doesn't seem possible!

25 Weeks

I am 25 weeks pregnant this week! I weighed in at 145 lbs. this week. I am hoping to not gain any more until my next appointment. I have been doing the water cardio and water in motion classes at tristate and I am loving them! It is such a good work out, but yet I don't have the hard impact. I am still craving sweets especially cheesecake and ice-cream. I am still getting up at least once or twice at night to pee and I don't sleep great at night. The boys have all been getting up before 6:00 a.m. so this makes for a long tiring day. This past week was busy with my birthday and mother's day festivities. I had a nice girls lunch on thursday. The morning of my birthday I got to go to breakfast with my parents. It was so nice to have some one on one time with both of them. This never happens in our family. There are so many of us and we are all so busy. After breakfast I got to watch Christian play baseball which I love. Then Jason and I and the boys headed to new harmony for the day. We rented a golf cart and had a blast driving around town. We took the boys to get ice cream twice, played with them on the playgrounds and had a nice dinner at the red geranium. It was a perfect day! The boys were exhausted and fell asleep on the way home. We put them all to bed as soon as we got home. Then Jason and I watched the movie Labor Day. Jason and the boys got me new tennis shoes which I needed so badly and I love! Sunday was mother's day so we went to church with my Grandma and grandpa and mom and dad. After Mass we went to Cleavers for breakfast. This is my new favorite place for breakfast. After breakfast we came home and changed our clothes and packed up our stuff and headed over to mom and dad's to swim and have dinner with everyone. It was a nice relaxing day! My sweet boys got me the birthstone charm for Elijah for my Pandora bracelet. Jason said this was all christian's idea and its what he wanted to get me. I thought this was so sweet of him!

24 Weeks

I am 24 weeks pregnant! I weighed in at 144 lbs. this week. I have decided to incorporate water cardio and aerobics into my workout routine. I am hoping that that will help mix things up and keep my weight down. The walking only is not doing the trick. I really can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I am working out so much more than I ever have in my life and I am eating better than I have with any of my other pregnancies. Hopefully adding this water exercise will help. I have to say I do love the water classes and just swimming laps or running in the pool. It is a great all over body workout! I am wearing mostly maternity clothes. I can wear my 'fat girl' pants but believe it or not the maternity stuff is just more comfortable. I think because it is looser and the it has been hotter lately. I am still craving tomatoes and chicken salad. Specifically The Fresh Market roasted chicken salad. I have also been craving fresh berries and homemade ice-cream! I had a craving last week for Marx's shaved turkey, so I ran out to the west side and picked up a pound of that to have for lunch this week. The heartburn is getting worst, but I am still just taking tums. I am so excited to have our pool opened up and ready for swimming now. It is too cold for me, but hopefully it will warm up quickly. I have been on a face cream obsession lately. I never use sunscreen, but I am going to start using it regularly on my face if nothing else. I am liking Lancome right now. We still have not started on the nursery and I am getting anxious! I want everything done before vacation and that is not leaving us much time. I am still getting up once at night to pee. I am usually in bed or falling asleep on the couch around 9:30 anymore. I have such a hard time staying awake. I am awake by usually around 6:30 because my boys are up by around 6:00 most mornings. We have had awesome weather the past few days and it makes me so ready for summer! I am a little worried about how bad I will swell with the heat, but right now I don't care. I am just ready for lots of pool days!

23 Week Doctor's Appointment

Today was my 23 week doctor's appointment. I weighed in at 142 lbs. I of course was so not happy about this. That is a 7 pound weight gain this past month. I am right on track to weigh what I have with all of my boys. I forgot to ask what the heart rate was, but I am assuming it was in the 150's again. I measured 23 which is right on track. I did ask my Doctor if she had any vacations planned for August and she said she wouldn't be gone around my due date, but that she would have to be gone a couple days to move her daughter into college. That weekend happened to be the weekend I was hoping to have the baby. I was hoping to have her strip my membranes on that friday and go into labor that day or the next so I would be in the hospital over the weekend and we wouldn't have to worry about picking up and taking to school. It looks like I won't be getting my membranes stripped until that Monday now and will probably have the baby during the week. I know it will all work out and it is silly for me to try and plan anything. I just can't help but try to have some sort of plan. I have my glucose test at my next appointment. I feel like it is crazy that I am already that far along!