26 week update

May continues to fly by.  Last week I spent in Nebraska helping Phil and Nancy get her mom's house ready to sell.  Lots of sorting, packing, and garage sale preps.  Tim joined me later in the week and then we drove home in a moving truck.  We brought home some old family furniture for the baby's room and some things Tim wanted.  It was a long drive, but I did okay.  We just had to stop more often for me to use the facilities.  It was nice meeting and visiting with Nancy's family and we had a nice visit with Tim's aunt Pat and grandma Meg on our way home.

The day after we got home I went in for my 26 week appointment.  As usual everything is progressing along nicely.  Little Miss Sunshine's heartbeat was around 150 bpm.  She is laying sideways.  I thought she preferred the right, but it turns out she is just kicking my right side, which is why I feel movement there more often than anywhere else.  They did the glucose test at this appointment and I passed.  Now that we are at the end of the second trimester and heading into the third, I will go in every two weeks instead of every four.  

25 weeks and 2 days

I figured it was probably about time for new belly shot.  So here I am at 25 weeks and 2 days.  The pregnancy is moving along fine and I have no new news as far as Little Miss Sunshine goes.  She seems to be the most active during the evenings and night and Tim has been able to feel her moving a few times.  She likes to stop moving as soon as he puts his hand on my belly.  So far she isn't keeping me awake at night with her moving.  I don't know if she isn't moving strongly enough, yet, to keep me awake or if I can just sleep through anything.  I do get up a few times a night to go to the bathroom, but I can usually fall back to sleep fairly easily.  Either way, I'm going to enjoy the sleep now while I can.  

May started out busy and is continuing to fly by.  We are getting ready to go out to Nebraska to help get Tim's grandma's house ready to sell.  We'll be acquiring Tim's dresser from his boyhood days for Little Miss Sunshine to use.  Which means we'll be driving back home rather than flying.  We'll be stopping in Omaha to say hello to one of our Navy buddies, Amy, and then staying overnight at Tim's aunt Pat's house and visiting with her and his Grandma Burbach.  

Here are two videos from the 22 week ultrasound.  In the first one where you see the red and blue, that is showing the blood flow through her heart.  One color is blood flowing towards the probe, the other is blood flowing away.  During the actual ultrasound the tech did that for the umbilical cord, too.  Then later on in that video, the ultrasound tech changes the probe and you see her set up for the 3D pics.  Like I said before, we think they look a little freaky.  Turn up the volume on the second video and you'll hear her heart beat near the end.  As you see in the videos, she was moving around quite a bit.  

Computer Glitches Solved and Starting May out with a Visit from Grandma & Grandpa to be

Turns out our router has been on its last leg for a few months now.  It completely failed this weekend and Tim switched it out with our wireless one.  Uploading pictures and video has been much easier today.  We can now share the video of the first ultrasound that was performed at 8 weeks.

Tim will get the second ultrasound converted and I'll post it later this week.  

Tim's parents were here for a visit last week.  Unfortunately, Tim had to work most of the time they were here, but his mom and I had a nice time visiting a rose garden and looking at baby stuff.  Phil arrived a couple of days after Nancy and we went to the Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens.  We also did quite a bit of spring cleaning in the backyard.  Tim, Nancy, and Phil cut down small trees, trimmed trees, and pulled tiny trees and bushes.  I made piles to be twined together and taken to the curb.  Nancy and I also raked and bagged leaves and pine needles.  We ended up with over 20 bags of leaves and branches, plus several bunches of wood and branches.  The leaves and pine needles are a never ending battle here.  

The weekend before his parents' visit, Tim finished the bed/bookcase combo.  We moved the futon into the baby room and brought the bed/bookcase into the computer room.  We have a sheet over the mattress and box springs until we figure out what we're going to do about a curtain.  It really is a great space saver and Tim did a really good job on it.  

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Tim had off Saturday so we took his parents to Congaree National Park and hiked the boardwalk trail.  When we got home, he and his dad put together the crib and changing table/dresser.  His mom and I then got them prepped for a few pictures.  And yes, there is a whippet on the bedding.  

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I'm feeling the baby moving quite a bit now.  Every  now and then she will move strong enough that I can feel it from the outside.  There are some days that she enjoys hanging out on my bladder, which I don't particularly care for.  And others where she is up near my ribs.  Other than some round ligament pain when I hike in hilly areas, I'm feeling good.