Christmas and 28 Weeks

We had a VERY busy Christmas day. In the morning we went to Kent's parents and had an awesome time. Hailey had so much fun that she jumped herself to sleep =) After that we went to Nanu's house for a few hours. She hasn't seen my pregnant belly yet and ran up to me right away to give her great-granddaughter a kiss. After Nanu's we went to Aunt Lisa and Uncle Bim's house where Emma and Hailey had even more fun. Kent and I even got some baby toys out of white elephant, thanks to his cousin willing to fork them over since she's a tad too old to play with them =) Today we celebrated Christmas with my parents. We had a good time, ate a lot of pizza and Kent and Mike spent some time playing Guitar Hero. We also got to see Karl, Jessica and the twins today. Shaylee and Camille had fun opening their gift from us.
And finally, I hit 28 weeks today. It's crazy to think that I only have 12 weeks left. It seems like a long time but at the same time, doesn't seem that far off at all. And we have a lot to do in these next 12 weeks....finish painting the inside of the house, have carpet installed, order AnnaBeth's furniture, put it together and finish up her room. And somewhere in there, have a baby shower but I haven't heard any word on that yet so who knows when it will be.....

Test results and parakeets

I got an automated call from the doctor today saying I had a message for me and when I listened to it, I was told that my glucose test came back normal!! I was really surprised but am very happy that I don't have to take the 3 hour fasting test again.

We also decided to give up our parakeets. I called an avian sanctuary in Mesa today and the lady said they can take all 3 of them plus the cages, toys and food. We don't have very much time for them and once AnnaBeth is here, we really won't have any time for them. They'll be much happier living at the sanctuary as they'll get to live in a ginormous aviary that can hold about 400 parakeets. Our blue one however won't get to live in the aviary with the other two. He has eye sight problems and it will do him more harm than good if he's in the aviary with the other 40 or so parakeets that live there. He'll be kept in their office or with another person at first and hopefully they'll be able to find a home for him. If not, I suppose he'll just stay where they put him. We will be sad to get rid of them but at the same time, very happy that they won't be stuck in a cage the rest of their lives and will be very well cared for.

Glucose and insulin resistance

I went to my regular checkup today and also had to do the 1 hour glucose test again. I finally remembered to ask my doctor about the insulin resistance I have as a result of my PCOS (egg laying malfunction) and how it affects my glucose test results. She said that because I already have an insulin resistance (even though I'm not diabetic) that I'm higher risk for developing gestational diabetes. She suspects that the glucose test I did today will come back high just like the first time and that I'll have to do the 3 hour test again. I'll just have to wait and see for sure when my results come back. On a side note, my belly is measuring just like it should and even though my skin is really tight (according to my doctor) I still haven't noticed any stretch marks.

Growing like a weed

I normally take a belly pic every 4 weeks but I decided to take one yesterday, a day shy of 26 weeks, and my belly looks like it's grown a bunch more since my 24 week pics. But maybe it's just me. I guess all those oreos I've been eating has been causing AnnaBeth to plump up a bit and make my belly stick out more =)

24 Weeks

Today I'm 24 weeks and we got a few pictures today to show off the growing bump. The pictures of us were taken by Kent's dad during our annual Thanksgiving family photos. Unfortunately it looks like Kent has a cactus growing out of his head but other than that, they turned out pretty well. AnnaBeth is moving a lot more these days and sometimes kicks hard enough to make my belly jump! I'm enjoying feeling her move around and Kent especially loves to feel her kick =)

20 Down, 20 To Go

On Saturday I hit 20 weeks, the official half way mark of my pregnancy. During this past week, I've been feeling AnnaBeth move everday now. She is especially active after I eat hot sauce so she either likes it or is telling me to quit feeding it to her =) She's also quite active during iPod music time when I play Baby Praise for her. Sometimes her kicks are strong enough that I can feel them from the outside if I put my hand on my belly. This weekend mom and I are going shopping for preggo work pants because I've finally gotten to the point where I can't button all of the buttons on them anymore. I'm quite excited to get pants that have the big "grow with you" stretchy elastic band.

And on another note, now that its dark when I get off the bus after work, my bus driver waits until he sees me getting into the truck before he drives away from the park and ride. Kent is very appreciative that he looks out for me and wants me to tell him so =)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween (a day late)! AnnaBeth spent her first Halloween as a pumpkin as you can see =) And it also kind of looked as if I actually swallowed a small pumpkin (or a pumpkin seed that has been rapidly growing as one person told me). Her first Halloween went very well and she even got to have a Halloween themed cookie!