30 weeks!

30 weeks! I am 30 weeks pregnant with Eva now :)


This week our favorite girl is over 15 inches (not too much change from last week) and over 3 lbs now (3lbs 4oz according to my ultrasound earlier this week). Her eyesight is developing rapidly and will continue to do so. Eva, like a good girl, is head down now, and will hopefully stay that way!


At the ultrasound, we did get gender confirmation, but I won't post that picture - we'll just say Eva is definitely a girl :P I'm also not posting the 3d picture because she had the umbilical cord around her face, and it looks like she's enveloped in something with just part of her face sticking out. She did show off how limber she is by touching her nose to her knees!


Bump picture and Eva picture :)

bump

Eva showing off her bendiness

December Arts and Crafts at Home Depot

As many of you know, Ethan LOVES arts and crafts! Home Depot has a kiddie workshop (brilliant marketing strategy - get the kids in for a little project, get mommies and daddies in to spend money) on the first Saturday of the month, where the little ones can go hammer, glue and paint a little project to take home. They also get a little pin for their apron so they can track what projects they've done.


Please enjoy the December highlights and the best snowman napkin holder ever! I love how Ethan was creative with the colors and the sticker placement :)

getting settled in

carefully gluing the snowman's hat

painting the snowman

more snowman painting - look at all the colors!

finished product, side 1

finished product, side 2

29 weeks!

I know I've been a little slow with the weekly posts, but I'll try to keep up with them a little better. It's been crazy busy around here with my birthday and Christmas!


Anyways, Eva is in the super growth mode now (weight wise at least) - from now until I meet her sometime in the next 8-10 weeks, she'll be putting on close to 1/2 pound a week! At 29 weeks, she weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 pounds and is 15 inches from head to toe. Her muscles and lungs are continuing to develop rapidly (this will be a strong girl, I'm sure many of you have heard my stories about Eva's kicking) and needs more nutrients from me than ever. Good thing I crave things like fruit along with french fries ;)


I had a growth ultrasound yesterday, but I will include those pictures with the 30 week post, which I PROMISE will not be as late as this one was.


Weekly bump watch:

28 weeks!

My third trimester is here! At 28 weeks (and 3 days now as of this post), I have less than 11 weeks to go before I meet Eva!


Our girl's been busy growing - she weighs in the neighborhood 2 1/4 pounds and is nearly 15 inches! While she won't be growing THAT much taller (I'm guessing another 3-5 inches), she'll certainly be packing on the weight (but not too much hopefully!). She's blinking away now and has grown eyelashes. I hope they're as long and plentiful as Ethan's!


As for me, the cravings have kicked in again - highlights: ham sandwiches, tapioca pudding and banana splits. Someone, who shall remain nameless, has yet to procure these items for me...hehe.


Anyways, weekly bump picture!

27 weeks!

I know this is a little late, but here's the 27 week post!


It's hard to believe that I'm over 6 months pregnant and that in less than 3 months, I'll be meeting little Eva!


This week she weighs in the neighborhood of 2lbs and is almost 14.5 inches if you measure her from head to toe. She's sleeping and waking at regular intervals - but I think she's been doing this for WEEKS now. I'm sure some of you have heard me complain about her "sleep strikes" - just the other week, I swear she didn't sleep much for 2 days. It was kick kick kick, 5-10 minutes of rest, then back to the kicking. Eva is a very active little girl!


Obligatory bump picture...

26 weeks

I know I'm a little late with this post, but I've been really busy at work this past week!


Anyways, I am now over 26 weeks pregnant with Eva! She's practicing breathing so that she's ready when she joins us sometime in less than 14 weeks. She's a tall girl at about 14 inches and is starting to chunk up at a whopping 2 pounds!


This week's post has extra pictures in addition to the weekly bump watch - I have the picture from when I was 26 weeks pregnant with Ethan (did not take weekly pictures back then) and an ultrasound done at 25 weeks and 6 days. I think I'm carrying a teeny bit higher with Eva than when I was with Ethan.

26 weeks with Eva

26 weeks with Ethan

Eva at 25w6d, she was making faces at the ultrasound tech apparently!