Week 28

Thought this picture was kinda funny.  :)  Since my belly is resembling a watermelon and I had just purchased this one at the Farmer's Market yesterday, I thought I'd take a pic.

So, week 28 starts my Third Trimester!  Woo hoo!  But sheesh, where has the time gone?!  Seems like only yesterday Grandma V was screaming and jumping up and down in the family room at her house after we told her our news.  At the same time, I still have another 12 weeks left and that seems like a really long time on some days, then other days I can't believe that's all we have left until we get to meet the little booger.

Baby P's room is coming along quite nicely.  We got the paint up on the walls, but still need to paint the trim and ceiling.  Hopefully we'll get that all done yet tonight.  Next on the list is to get the carpet cleaned in there so Jeff can start putting together the furniture.  I cannot wait to see it all come together!  I'm hoping it'll all be done by next weekend.  Our baby shower is in two weeks from today, so we'll need to have everything ready to go for all the new stuff we'll be getting.  Everything is really starting to get very exciting now!  And definitely starting to feel more "real".

I've still been feeling very good and don't have too many complaints.  The back pain can be pretty intense at times, but I think a lot of that has to do with sitting at my desk at work for so long.  We've been on mandatory overtime for a while now and will probably continue to be thru at least the end of August.  I just have to keep reminding myself to get up every now and then and just walk around.  If I do that, and drink lots of water, and try to get good sleep at night, I seem to be able to keep the back pain down a bit.

I did experience my first leg cramp last week.  That was not fun.  I woke up about 3:45 in the morning with the most excruciating pain in my calf.  It kinda freaked me out.  I've heard about getting leg cramps during pregnancy, but since I can't think of a time that I've ever had a leg cramp in my life, I really didn't think it would happen to me.  So when I woke up with one, I didn't know what to do.  I tapped Jeff on the shoulder and asked him how I could relieve the pain.  He was so awesome about it.  He shot up out of bed immediately and tried to massage it out for me.  Unfortunately this made it worse though, so he stretched the muscle out for me instead.  Much better.  Good grief though...that was very painful.  And even hurt for a few days afterward.  Hopefully I won't have too many more of those.

Jeff and I have been tossing around a couple more name ideas lately and I think we may have come up with our winners, but I suppose only time will tell.  We're still set on the boy name we picked out a long time ago, and as of right now are pretty keen on a girls name as well.  We were practicing saying the names on the way home from Ankeny last weekend after the Missouri family reunion.  Only, for some reason when we practice the names, we end up scolding our child!  So for instance, if the name was Jackie, we'd say something like: "Jackie, get over here!" or "Put that down, Jackie!"  So, apparently we must be subconsciously preparing for a pretty rambunctious child.  :)

Better get back to work now.  I got a new camera a week ago so, hopefully I'll be better about taking pictures and posting on the blog.  My goal of once per week hasn't really been working out for me very well.  But here's some fun pic's I've taken with it this past week...