25 Week Belly

This is in no way a glamorous shot, but just wanted to post how big my belly is getting!! We'll have to take some better shots very soon. =)

Week 25

This is what a 25 week fetus looks like - amazing isn't it?? I can't wait to see Ryenne!!

$&@! ... I broke my toe

There should be a warning in the pregnancy books about what can happen when you can't see your feet anymore! Yesterday I was walking into the living room and banged my foot on the doggy gate and broke my toe. Today is a beautiful shade of black and blue, whith some purple mixed in there. You can call me "gimpy" if you'd like.

Treasures

My dad brought over a few 'lost' treasures to the house today. When I was little I had a rocking boat that he made for me - lots of great memories. Anyhow, it's a bit beaten and battered, but it just needs a cleaning and some fresh paint and it'll be perfect again!

He also found a box of books - some were mine, some Nick's, and some Koa's. Peter and I had fun reading a stack of them today. So funny to have flashbacks of my parents reading them to me!!

Ryenne is moving a lot now, and I can now feel her from the outside. It's like there's an alien in there!! But it's so cool too. =)

A Mover and Shaker!

Yesterday morning at 5:30am we woke up because the dogs wanted to go outside for a few minutes. Ryenne woke up too and was VERY active... biggest kicks I've felt so far. I put my hand on my tummy and I could feel her moving around!! It was such a trip. I grabbed Peter's hand and put it on my belly... "Did you feel that?" I said. He said he didn't, but at that very moment she let out a whopper of a kick and he yelled "But I felt that!". It was such a trip.

She's definitely a mover and a shaker. Today her movements feel so much bigger than just a few days ago. I think pretty soon we'll all be able to see my tummy moving around.

Mom and Dad bought us a bassinett to go in our room. It's a bassinett/cradle and it's so awesome. It even has wheels on the bottom to take around the house if we need to.

Napili Condo on the Market

WOW... what a week. My mom has been such a trooper and helped us prep the condo for going on the MLS. I helped too - as much as I could - and was thoroughly exhausted each day.

Pregnancy Brain... BIG TIME!

The other day we washed my camera bag because it was getting a bit funky. I took out everything inside and checked all of the pockets. Then, off into the washing machine it went. After a thorough washing and drying, Peter took it out of the dryer and starting putting stuff inside. He found my cell phone inside!!!

I hadn't even realized that he had just taken the phone out of my bag THAT JUST CAME OUT OF THE DRYER and exclaimed "There's my phone! Thanks for finding it!". He gave me a confused face and then the enormity of what had happened dawned on me - my phone wasn't 'found' but instead is broken cause I washed it!!!

So fast forward a couple days and here I am doing laundry. TONS of laundry. I'm very proud of myself because I've been cleaning the house in addition to folding and putting away each load. Anyhow, the dryer beeps that it's done and I go to transfer the stuff in the washer into the dryer, and what do I find??? THE REMOTE CONTROL. Damnit... I did it again. I washed the darn remote and now that's broken too. Maybe I should be banned from laundry duty??? LOL

I'm supposed to be the responsible one...

Changes...

Well it's official - we're now completely moved out of the Napili Condo and it's going on the market next week. I'm a little nervous because the market is softening a bit and I'm hoping to get what I want (NEED) so we can build our house the way we want to. I'm sending lots of positive vibes out into the universe for a good sale.

Had a check-up today and everything is going good. Ryenne is 'standing up' in there. Her head is up near my belly button and she's kicking me very low. Sometimes it's really hard and it kinda hurts! She kept swimming away from the Doppler machine. We could hear her heartbeat for a few minutes and then she'd move. Finally we got a good 10 seconds. Her heartrate is great. The tummy is popping out a bit more now. We'll have to do pictures again this week if we have time.

According to the What to Expect When You're Expecting Book, I'm now done with the 5th month and am starting the 6th month! In March, I'll start the 3rd trimester... amazing. It's zooming by. I can't wait to see her though... and smell her and hold her and talk to her. So exciting...

We can finally sit!

We're leaving all of our big furniture in Napili so that we can stage out the condo for when it goes on the market. It's looking really great so far - just needs to be cleaned and decorated.

The only downside is that we had no chairs in Haiku! So today we went and bought a loveseat, some shelves, and a table to eat on. We had our first dinner on a table tonight - it was awesome - lobster and saffron rice (thanks Nick for catching lobster!) and apple crisp for dessert (thanks mom!). YUMMY.

As I'm typing this, Peter and Chico are snuggled on the new loveseat. It's finally starting to feel a little more like home in Haiku. =)