Baby Bump

Well here you have it, the baby bump at 25 weeks. I went in this morning and all was well, even got the whooping cough vaccination. Depending on what shirt I wear my belly looks bigger. This shirt doesn't quite do the belly justice, but it is what I am currently wearing, so there you have it.

Some things I remember:

• 5 weeks started feeling super nauseous. Ate Ritz crackers as soon as I woke up and before I got out of bed. This continued until week 14. Can’t look at Ritz crackers the same way anymore.
• 6 weeks peed on a stick…I’m pregnant! Went to doctor’s office to make sure…Yep we’re sure!
• 7 weeks we tell my parents
• 8 weeks first appointment-saw little Squirt on the ultrasound. He was just two small blobs, one was the head one was the body.
• 8 or 9 weeks we tell Peter’s family (it would’ve happened earlier but it was someone’s birthday and we wanted to do it in person.)
• 12 weeks- between 8 and 12 weeks I lost 4 pounds…love the nausea. Also got another ultrasound since we couldn’t hear the heartbeat…but we saw it on the screen.
• 13 weeks we announce our news publicly.
• 14 weeks nausea seems to end. Though the puking intensified. Clothes were getting a bit tighter, but I had very little to show for it.
• 15 weeks I go maternity shopping with my mom, because my pants/shorts no longer fit.
• 16 weeks I finally start to show. Between 12 and 16 weeks I gain back the weight I lost plus a little more.
• 18 weeks or so I start to feel something. Is it gas bubbles or is it Squirt?
• 19 weeks we find out Squirt is a BOY! And boy is he active. Starting to definitely feel the kicks and moving of a little boy.
• 20 weeks still throwing up at night…doctor is not worried as I am still gaining weight. Due date is moved up to November 7^th.
• 22 weeks have horrible backache one night, that weekend I have a boppy body pillow…my new best friend. Also started a registry at Babies R Us.

• End of 23 weeks-Summer finally kicks in…don’t even think about turning that fan down, if you’re cold, then put a blanket on, I’m HOT!!!!
• 23-24 weeks almost make it 2 weeks without puking…almost! Wake up in the middle of the night every night to pee.

Other news: A new niece was born yesterday, her name is Heidi Joy (they swiped my girl's name).

Fruit Pizza

For our wedding my mom made me a copy of her cookbook. So every now and then I go through it and pick out my favorites or something new that sounds good to make. Well in the winter I came across fruit pizza and was really bummed out because fruit pizza needs to be made when there is fresh fruit available, so it was put on hold. Tonight we made it. We had some fun with our shapes. Normally you take cookie dough and roll it out to look like a pizza, we decided to make smaller pizzas with fun shapes. They looked nicer before they were cooked.

This was our best turn out...It's a teddy bear
This one is supposed to be a teddy bear, it looks more like a penguin to me.
This one is actually upside down and is supposed to be a rabbit head...but Peter thinks it looks like an elephant behind :)
Our second attempt at a rabbit head ended up looking like a tooth. It was funny.
So basically you take a sugar cookie and put the cream cheese mixture on it...
Then decorate with your favorite fresh fruits and then put an apricot glaze on top.
Then you enjoy!
So yummy!

Fruit Pizza
1 (16-20 oz) package Pillsbury refrigerator sugar cookie dough
8 oz cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
assorted fruits sliced
1/2 cup peach, apricot, or orange marmalade thinned with 1/4 cup water

Spread cookie dough in a 13 in. pizza pan and bake at 375 for 12 minutes. (Or make smaller ones and follow cooking directions on package.) Cool. Mix cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Spread over cooked cookie. Arrange fruit slices on top. Drizzle with thinned jam.

Sea World

We saw this shortly before we left the park. It was $16.95 so we decided to take a picture instead of buy it. Too funny!

So when we got to Sea World we went to one of our favorite shows. This is the Pet's Rule Show. They have performing cats, dogs, ducks, pigs and birds. It is entertaining to say the least.
Baby beluga in the deep blue sea swims so wild and swims so free. (Okay not free and not in the sea, but I couldn't come up with anything to rhyme with tank.)

Feeding the baby ducks. The other ducks stayed away and let the babies get all the food for the most part. Then one brave duck tried to get some food and the momma duck went after it. We threw food to the other ducks too. Shortly thereafter one Sea World employee came with a ton of food and threw it out to all of the ducks. They enjoyed it.

Here's an aquatic succulent garden

This little turtle wanted so badly to get out of the water but he couldn't quite make it out. The water was really low for some reason today.

And here are some pretty cool sea stars. The white one was moving quickly.

Well there you have it, our day at Sea World. We saw our usual encounters, but tried to take pictures of things we don't normally take pictures of. We were there for about 1 1/2 hours and then we met up with Greg, Ellen and Ethan. We were at the park for about 4-5 hours and then I got tired. On the walk back to the car I was dragging my feet. As soon as I sat down in the car I quickly reclined the seat and promptly fell asleep. We stopped to pick up dinner on the way home, ate when we got home and then I was back down again for a longer nap. I'm now refreshed and ready to go!

Squirt's Closet

Yesterday Peter and I went to Home Depot and bought Squirt a closet. We also ran to Frazees with a wet stir stick in hand hoping they could match the color of paint needed to paint the closet. We come home only to find the old can of paint had a sticker with the paint name on it...duh! Oh well we got the right color anyway. The closet is great. We built our closets a few years back and we love the extra storage space, now it's Squirts turn. I wanted drawers to put his clothes in so we wouldn't have to buy a dresser, so drawers we got. Then we put in several shelves to store his toys and a bar for the hanging up clothes that will always be out of his reach, but oh well. When he's able to dress himself, we can always put in a bar lower. We can also add shelves any time we want. I love it. So there's four drawers, top drawer is socks/booties/mittens.

Second drawer is onesies and some pants that a friend gave me.
Third drawer is empty for the time being, but will hold more clothes. And the fourth drawer for now is holding swaddling blankets, and other baby blankets.
My co-worker has two little girls and she gave me all of her gender neutral baby outfits and the swaddling blankets. Another co-worker gave me the pooh booties. I picked up four onesies at the Carters outlet a long time ago to give away as shower gifts...well I didn't give them away, so now they're Squirt's. I got a onesie from a friend, and the three adorable pooh outfits I bought. The one in the middle I bought intending to give away to my sister-in-law, but then she found out she's having a girl...so Squirt gets it, and the two on the outside I picked up Friday. They were just too cute to pass up.
So what it visually looks like is there's a shelf along the top, under that there's a pole across the whole top for hanging up clothes, then on the left side there's a shelf across the entire part followed by the four drawers. On the right side you see besides the two shelves across the whole thing, there are two more shelves for holding toys and such.

Squirt's room is still under construction...that will be left for another post...if I can ever get it clean :)