32 weeks!

Baby Ethan is 32 weeks today. We had our midwife appointment. Mommy has gained 12 pounds total, and her belly is measuring one week ahead at 33 weeks today. Ethan's heart rate is still hanging strong in the 140's!

Today is also Aunt Haley's 11th birthday. We went in with Mammaw and Papaw and got her a cell phone :) Happy Birthday!

31 weeks - We saw Ethan kick!

Baby Ethan is 31 weeks and 1 day today. Mommy and Daddy were sitting on the couch watching tv when they saw something move on Mommy's belly! We both saw it out of the corner of our eye, stopped, watched Mommy's belly, and saw it bounce again! How fun, we saw Ethan kick for the very first time together!!

30 weeks!

Ethan is 30 weeks today! We had our 30 week midwife appointment. Everything is going well! We discussed the 3 hour glucose test results and all the values were normal. What a relief! Mommy's belly is still measuring right at 30 weeks and Ethan's heart rate is still in the 130's-140's.

Co-ed shower!

Tonight we had a co-ed friends baby shower at our house! Everyone was being really secretive and Mommy and Daddy went out to Michael's to buy letters to hang above Ethan's crib while the girls got things setup at our house. When we came back, we walked in and they had Ethan's stroller all set up in the family room with cute toys and links hanging from the top. What a surprise! Mommy started crying, she felt so blessed by everyone's generosity! We had a great night with good food, good friends, fun, and laughter.

Awesome monkey cake made by Aunt Jenni!

Glucose test :(

We had to go today to have a 3 hour glucose test at Bethesda North. My one hour glucose test from last Friday had come back high in the 170's and they needed to run more testing to check for gestational diabetes. I was so nervous when I got the phone call yesterday that my test was high! So Daddy took me to Bethesda after drinking the sugary orange drink and they did blood draws, had me drink more orange drink, more blood draws, and so on. I was so tired and weak afterwards!! Daddy took me to Mimi's for my favorite breakfast - Stuffed Berry French Toast :) The results from the glucose test ended up coming back normal, so I don't have gestational diabetes! Thank you, God :)

3rd Tri! And Ethan kicked Daddy!

Welcome to the 3rd Trimester! Our baby boy is 28 weeks and 4 days now.
We had our 28 week appointment with the midwives on Friday. Mommy's belly is measuring right on track and Ethan's heart rate is 130's-140's.

Big news today - Daddy felt Ethan kick! We were laying in bed and Ethan kicked Daddy's hand multiple times :)

We had a big weekend with our first baby shower on Saturday. The Branton family, Maisie, and Irene threw us a shower at Karenetta's house. We had lots of fun and were very blessed with things we needed for Ethan!

We also started our Bradley Method childbirth classes with our instructor Maren. We are very excited about taking the course to help us become more informed on the natural, unmedicated childbirth that we want to have!

Starting the nursery!

Ethan has been growing inside Mommy now for 26 weeks! We went to our midwife appointment today and Mommy had her first weight gain - 7 pounds! I guess we had too much fun on vacation :) Ethan's heart rate is in the 130's-140's and you can really tell that Mommy is pregnant now :)

Mommy at 26 weeks:

We also started on Ethan's nursery! The bedding came in - Papagayo by Lambs and Ivy. Mammaw was so nice to buy it for Ethan and she's planning to give it to us at the baby shower at Karenetta's house in a few weeks. We had the paint color matched to the bedding! We are painting Ethan's nursery a Valspar color called Seawall.

Handsome Daddy painting Ethan's room:

Mommy looks tired!