28 Weeks!

28 Weeks!

Last week of egg plant!

Your baby is about 14 ¼ inches long and weighs in at 2 ½ pounds. (This means Ava is probably 15-15.5 inches and 2 3/4 pounds ha)

Your baby’s brain is really beginning to develop into a more complex organ. Up until this point, your baby’s brain has been relatively smooth, but beginning this week his/her brain will develop grooves and indentions along its surface. The amount of brain tissue also begins to increase during the 28th week.

The development of hair also continues. Eyebrows and eyelashes are visible, while the hair on your baby’s head grows even longer. Your baby is also starting to look a little rounder as the fat storage under the skin continues to develop. This is an important part of development that will continue through the remainder of your pregnancy.
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Total Weight Lost/ Gained: 150. 22 pounds. *Breath in....Breath out....*  :)

Maternity Clothes: Mom took me out this week and we finally got some maternity jeans! Let me just say this...THEY ARE SO COMFORTABLE. I don't know if I'm going to want to change OUT of them once Ava is here. Really, they are awesome.

Gender: A baby girl :)

Movement: Still an active little angel. First thing in the morning until late at night haha. I know I'm going to miss feeling those little bumps all the time. Lately she's started kicking lower which means more frequent bathroom trips for me.

What I miss: Sleep, being able to sit up from a lying down position easily (it really is hilarious and I know its just going to get worse), being able to stand up for long periods of time and have it not affect me

Sleep: Some good nights, some bad nights. Nothing seems to help 'more' or 'less' just depends on the night.

Symptoms: (all the same) Fatigue, headaches, fast growing nails, baby brain, feeling hot, my hormones making me 'outspoken', big fingers, legs that are killing me, back that is killing me, not sleeping well, and could I complain any more? (let me just make it clear however that I would endure all this and more and am loving it because I know this is DEFINITELY all worth it :)----these are pretty much still all the same but I think I'm just getting used to it? because it doesn't seem 'as bad' now.

Cravings: I just really love grape juice. This 'craving' has stuck around a while now.

Best Moment this week: We got our nursery room cleaned out and now we are about to start working in it! Chad has almost finished sanding down the dresser/ changing table and our glider is already in the room!

What I'm looking forward to: This weekend we are painting the nursery and hopefully our crib is coming this week so we can start on that! I am just so excited!!
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So like I said we were able to take a completely JUNK room and turn it into a lovely clean soon-to-be nursery in basically a day. Our crib is suppose to be delivered this week and so we can get that - when we do I get to measure and begin making the baby bumpers! Still will be interesting to see how that goes haha. We don't really have big plans for Halloween, but we will see what happens!

-Funny story: There is a little boy in our small group who is now almost 2. We have baby sat him 2 times now and always hang out with him Sunday night at group and during church, etc etc. A couple Sundays ago I was in the nursery with him and the other kids. He LOVES baseballs, soccer balls, basketballs, etc so we were playing with a small plush basketball throwing it around and such, and then I put it under his shirt and he would laugh and try to get it out- this game went on for a while and then he looked up at me, looked at my belly, and then said "ball!" and proceeded to try to get the 'ball' from underneath my shirt. It was SO FUNNY! I tried explaining to him that there was no ball, but he did not understand and we had to move on to other things to play with haha.

BUMP PICS:   

                             ***WARNING: The next picture is a BARE BELLY bump pic! :) ***



Beach Getaway

My family had found an awesome deal on a house at Alligator Point FL (the place we always go in freezing cold February) and invited us to go along! It was a 6 bedroom house  - and awesome. My cousin who is also pregnant and her husband also came, along with her parents (my aunt and uncle) and the Baxters! We had so much fun and the weather was PERFECT. We were thinking it might be a little cold but it was just perfect. The house was incredible, the food was incredible, the weekend was incredible :) Here is the house:

Dad and Chad also went fishing a TON and caught a lot of cool stuff:

Yep - thats a shark. We were in the water with these things!

Here's just other random pictures from the weekend:

These are a lot of the sand dollars Chad and I found - Yes, just the 2 of us.

This is a place we WENT to to eat..and didn't...

This is the place we actually ended up at...

And of course the infamous picture

Walkin in Memphis

Yes, I am behind on blogging (surprised right?). A couple weekends ago we got to head up to Memphis to spend the weekend with the Burris bunch!
We arrived Thursday, but late Thursday due to work and traffic so not much happened that day.
Friday we woke up and had breakfast on the deck. It - was - wonderful. It was cool outside, but not freezing, just perfect to sit with your coffee and look out over the backyard. We all sat and chatted. There were lots of hummingbirds buzzing all over the place! I had just gotten my new camera (WOO HOO!) so I was loving playing around with it. Here's some of the shots we got:

This is Chad - we were seeing how fast the shutter speed on the camera was but it just made an awesome awkward picture :)
Chad had an interview that afternoon and Brian and Chelsie arrived that afternoon as well. Brian is a corn-fed boy from Iowa - they've been dating around 4 months now. He was an awesome guy! Crazy like the rest of us so we got along haha. That night we had an awesome dinner- AND sparkling grape juice which has been just about my favorite thing lately.



And did I mention... CAKE?!

Dinner was wonderful as usual and then we moved on to presents. There were a couple for my birthday and then to our surprise they had a TON of gifts for Ava! It was so much fun - I just can't get over how cute things are!

This was Chelsie's gift - HILARIOUS!



This is what became of our Bumbo after the guys got ahold of it. It became a Roman helmet.



Saturday was all fun and games - literally. Croquet was played outside along with Frisbee and some other things. Then somehow people started challenging one another and races began taking place. The first was among the Burris siblings

Then they convinced Dad to race along with them. Here is how that went....

Yep. Doug fell in a hole and busted. Notice Chad's face in the last picture as he realizes what happened and that he was winning. Tisk Tisk. It was quite funny though to be honest :)
After the fun and games we went to the Zoo! I was SO excited. I felt like a little kid. I just Love the zoo. AND apparently the Memphis Zoo is one of the best in the country. It was so much fun! Ava is now a 'member' of the zoo too along with her Burris grandparents so I'm sure she will love it too :)

Sunday was church and then we drove home! The whole family is coming down next month for the shower so that'll be a lot of fun!!