21 Weeks

21 Weeks

Rob being funny, he took the picture, and was like, "Wait, where is Christin, she is not in the picture" Haha, very funny!

Julie wanted in on the picture taking, so we took one of her as well before she went to bed.

I know I keep mentioning this, but I want to remember how I felt during this pregnancy. My sciatic nerve pain in my buttocks has gotten worse this week. Like crazy sharp pains worse, I have to walk really slow and sometimes it just pinches me like no other. More often than not, the pain is there! So not fun! They say it doesn't usually start until your third trimester, so I hope it doesn't get any worse. We went to visit some family last night for my Grandpas birthday and when we got back home, I could hardly walk straight or stand from the pinching nerve. I got online and found some exercises I can do, so I am going to have to give those a try. 

This whole week the baby has been pretty mellow, and then for the last two days had been moving quite a lot. She has her active days and quiet days, that is for sure. I have started eating almonds this week, they are so good to munch on through out the day. This pregnancy is definitely harder on me this time around!

Climbing

Julie has learned how to get onto the counter in our kitchen. 

 She loves to get into my purse and play with my lotion sticks, and whatever else she can grab before I get her down. She will push a stool up to the counter and then use her smaller chair also. Although, she doesn't need her smaller chair to get up onto the stool anymore. She will also stand on the stool to reach the higher cupboards, which I do not like, I am so afraid she will fall. We have moved our stools and now use our chairs from our table since they are more sturdy, and have backs on them. I am more comfortable having her sit on those than the little stools.

And apparently she likes to read to her stuffed animals as well, I just love this picture of her!

There is always something new with this little girl and we could just eat her up. She sure is loving her books right now!

A New Tooth!

Julie is getting a new tooth coming in, it is the one in between her front teeth and her molar on her left side. Again, no complaining at all, she actually has been VERY happy lately, so while brushing her teeth last night we were peeking in to check and found this new one.

Lost Sleep

This last week the baby has not been moving quite as much! Last night she kept me up for about an hour, not from moving, but from me worrying that she wasn't moving. This morning she has been moving quite a bit. It is so nice to feel her move around and keeps me from worrying, since I already worry to much. So grateful for little baby movements!

Biting Fingernails!

Julie has been biting her fingernails or just sucking on the tips of her fingers. Is this weird? It is kind of crazy to me. I notice it a lot while we are reading books.

20 Weeks, Halfway!

Halfway, baby!

 The baby is moving a lot more now a days, usually pretty active during the middle part of the day. So fun to feel her move around! Still got the bum pains on my right side, went shopping the other day and I would have thought from all the walking that it would help it a little, nope, not the case. In fact, it probably got worse, I feel like an old lady. I have got to make sure I stand straight on both legs, like not leaning my weight on one leg, because when I go to walk or straighten up, that is when I really feel it. It is not awful but definitely not comfortable. 

On other news, I love it when I catch Julie just loving reading her books, I had to snatch this picture while she wasn't paying attention. I was cleaning dishes and heard Julie jabbering away in the front room, so I peeked in and saw her sitting there in a pile of books talking away to herself, flipping the pages to one of her books. She just looked so cute sitting there. If she would have heard me turn my camera on, I would not have been able to capture her reading there, it is not a very good picture, but I love it. I really love it that she likes to read and look at the pages by herself as well as have us read her books.

 Julie having fun in her bath tonight, her favorite toy is a plastic cup that she uses to catch water in from the faucet. We keep the water running just a little so that she can do this. Rob has been having fun after shampooing her hair. Her hair is getting so long.

 It has been a good week, other than the storm that came in and brought with it some cold weather. Definitely feeling like Fall now.

Window watching!

Julie loves to look out he window, or I will open the door and let her stand in the doorway and look outside. She will watch the bus that goes by around lunchtime, watch our neighbors leave, she just loves to look out the window.

I love her little curly que that her hair does in the back.

Got her to give me some cute smiles as well.

Love her cheeser face!

And her smoocher, kissy face, only if she would actually give kisses:(

She also loves her playdoh, not the actual playdoh, but the containers to the playdoh, she always wants the lid off. She won't touch the playdoh inside, so I took it out so that it would not dry out and stuck it in a plastic bag. She loves the container though!

She is one crazy little girl!

Miscellanious

She made this pretend vacuum all by herself and has been vacuuming the whole house, what a great helper I have. She is even styling in my sunglasses.

 Julie loves to set up her little eating station with a stool in front of her and a stool in back of her and her chair in the middle, and then she will place her cups and spoon and knife on the stool and pretend to eat. I love this first picture where she has one hand holding her plate and the other getting ready to put the spoon in her mouth. Looks so proper, she does this all the time and it is so funny, she loves her utensils and plate. I even gave her one of my bowls to play with, but later found that to be a mistake since she put it on her head and then it fell to the floor cracking the bowl all the way down the side. Boo, it was a bowl I liked also!

 Was able to get a pony tail in Julies hair on the top of her head, her hair is getting so long, but she won't ever let me do it.

Before the Priesthood session of conference, Rob got Ramen noodles(didn't have a lot of time), and while he was eating them Julie loves to be held while we are eating. She will say "I do" over and over until we pick her up. Don't know why she says "I do", that is just what she says. Anyways, she plunked herself in between Rob's legs and was giggling watching Rob slurp the noodles into his mouth, and occasionally he would let a little bit of the noodles fall into Julies mouth. She was loving this, and giggling so hard. It was so cute to watch.

I always hate making Rob ramen, because then I want to make some for myself, but I know how unhealthy they are, so I withstood making any for myself. They are so simple and so good sometimes.

Here she is destroying the front room, she is into taking everything out of baskets around the house, putting random objects in baskets and carrying them around the house. She has been loving to color right now to, I got her a pad of paper and some large crayons(since they are bigger, she can't stick them into her ears like she would with the smaller crayons), and she has been using them all the time. If I am around she will grab a crayon and hand it to me saying, "Mommy do it", meaning she wants me to color. She knows all her colors, but gets confused sometimes, I will hold up a crayon and ask her what color it is, she can get the blue, and green ones, but has a hard time with the yellow, orange, red, and purple, although if I am holding it up and she keeps guessing the wrong color, I will sign the right color and she will always be able to tell me what color I am signing and will even sign it back to me. She will usually only sign the red one back while saying it. I love it when she signs the word she is saying. Oh, she is also into watching her Signing Time DVD's again, when one is over, she will say "nother one" and head over to where we keep them. I usually only let her watch two during the day. But she is a lot more interactive while watching them now, where she will giggle when they laugh, and will say the words, where as before she was so focused and mesmerized while watching.

-She is into reading books again, "read story, Mommy", and she will go and pick some books for me to read. Lately it has been the same books over and over and over. The ones we read constantly right now are "Boom Boom" as she likes to call the Chicka Chicka 123 book, we have the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book, but right now she refers to the 1 2 3 book, as Boom Boom. We also read, "Get Ready Eddie", "The Case of the Disappearing Acorns", "Go, Train, Go", "Bear Snores On", "The Foot Book", "Goodnight Moon", she can say the title to this one pretty well. These are just some of her favorites right now, and we have to read all of them before bed time and nap time. Depending on how late it is, I will stop after a couple, and she usually puts up a little fuss, and then is fine. But, if I sit down in a chair, she immediately says "read story" and goes to get me some books to read, there are times when it gets old and I really don't want to sit there and read, but I love that she wants me to read her books again. She went through a spurt where she hardly would let me read her a book before bedtime. The last couple of days it has been an all day read a thon pretty much. And if I am not reading to her, you can probably find her on either couch, reading a book to herself. I love this!

19 Weeks

Here I am at 19 Weeks

I have been starting to get pains in my rear end, my right side especially. I got this with Julie as well, if I am standing more on one leg and go to straighten up, whoa, that will make it hurt. And just walking in general, my walks around the block are a little slower. Figure it is from my sciatic nerve, definitely not a fun experience to get a sharp pain in your bum cheek. Other than that I have been doing pretty good this week, enjoyed listening to General Conference at home, and was able to listen to most of it, Rob thinks I didn't pay attention to some parts because my eyes were closed, but I really don't fall asleep during the day, I was just relaxing my eyes while listening. Plus I was sitting up as well, there were only a few talks or parts of talks that I missed!
It is weird, this last week I have not been needing to get up to use the bathroom at night, kind of strange. I am not complaining, maybe I am not drinking a ton before bed, who knows!

La Beau's French Fries with fry sauce

These are seriously what I have been wanting the most this pregnancy. Especially when they are super hot, mmmm!

(sorry Heather for posting this picture, your just going to have to come up and get some)

We went to La Beau's the other day between conference and I ordered just a small hamburger and Rob got one of there bigger hamburgers and then we ordered large fries. We got home and had a ton of fries, apparently his hamburger came with fries as well, so all the fries on the plate are leftover after we were finished, and Rob only ate a few, plus Julie ate some as well. Not to worry, if you put them on a cookie sheet and broil them on low in the oven, they come out just perfect again. So, I ate fries for two more meals, the last time I burnt them a little, you sure have to watch them, I just ate the parts that were not burnt. Oh my gosh, so good!