More baby stuff [32w1d]

On Saturday morning, we had our breastfeeding class. I did learn some new things, especially about pumps and other equipment, and Brian learned a lot. I did not enjoy having to use a baby doll to pretend to breastfeed. Seriously people....a plastic doll..... ugh.
After the class, we decided to not try and drive back to the West side a half hour before the start of the Purdue-Penn State game - that traffic would have been icky - so we stayed in Lafayette. I had wanted to go to the mall, but then remembered that we were near Once Upon a Child. So we stopped there to check out the used goods, and...success! We found a perfectly new looking pack n play for $40 and a lamaze play mat for $12! Yay! Two more big items off my list! Now we need mostly little things like side-snap t-shirts, receiving blankets, more burp cloths, and medications plus some way to store his clothes. Still working on that last one. I'm considering a range of items from shelves with baskets to a hanging organizers, to a dresser.

I've been working on a little blanket recently which will include snowp's first initial when it is complete. I had gotten to the point of needing to include the initial, so I told Brian we needed to decide on his name. We talked very briefly and then he went off to watch a football game with Ron. When he came back, I had completed the initial, and he said, "Oh, so I guess his name is ______?" (That's right, I'm not telling you!!) So, our snowpea has a name (not officially of course, that's not until a birth certificate is made). I've been leaning toward the name for a long time but just couldn't kick out the poor other names that I liked. But I think this has really been his name for a long time now. We just have to discuss the middle name situation, but I am leaning toward one over the other already, so I pretty much have his full name in my mind.

I'm starting to think that we need to get this baby room put together soon as we are now at 32 WEEKS! Yikes! Weeks are seriously passing without my noticing and I can't believe we're getting so close already. Just over a month, and he could technically be done cooking. I think about that and then let him know that he is free to stay for quite a while longer if he'd like, as long as he doesn't lodge any body parts in my ribs for extended periods of time. There are a few times when I swear he must be standing up straight (and sideways in my belly) because all of a sudden, my belly will have sharp parts showing on either side. He's getting to be a strong little bugger and when he moves around, it's a strange mix between "ow!" and "weird!"
Well, that's all for now. The next doctor appointment is on Friday, Brian has fall break Sat-Tues, and all is still going well (besides me needing a nap often).

Triathlon baby [20w1d]

I swear this kid is trying to keep up with its daddy in training sometimes. Exercising the leg muscles for biking, doing some practice for swimming in general (probably butterfly), and definitely working on his/her running form. I'm hoping that he/she won't be too active for us to see much on the ultrasound this Thursday. I want to know what type of genitalia we have growing in there! :) Speaking of which, I am pretty much counting down the seconds until Thursday at 4:20 p.m. EST. Not so much looking forward to downing 32 oz of water beforehand, but you know.
Unfortunately, as I wrote about in our grown up blog, while I looked darn good for Hayley's wedding this weekend, we didn't end up taking any pictures of me that included my belly. The only one I have shows the very beginning of my belly against the white of Hayley's wedding dress!

In other news, we got another present today! It's snowpea's first stuffed animal! Right as I got home from work, a delivery person from a local florist shop rang the doorbell and handed me this cute little ball of fluff. It also has five balloons in varying colors of green and purple, but I couldn't manage to get them into the same picture frame. Oops. Oh yeah, and the giver! Duh! It's from the employees at CBE. (That's Chequamegon Bay Engineering for those of you not cool enough to know. ;) Brian worked for them for the past 2 or 3 summers now and is doing some additional work this summer while he doesn't have classes to worry about). Here's a picture!

I forget a lot [19w1d]

There's baby brain for you. I totally forgot to write about something kind of big that happened! On the 4th of July, no less, I finally felt snowpea moving around! It was pretty cool. It surprised me a bit because I was just laying down on the blanket while we were watching the concert and there were two little jabs low on my left side. It was different from the kind of "flutters" that I had been feeling but couldn't positively identify and I couldn't think of anything else it might have been. Now, I keep feeling them every now and then. Pretty neat to think that he/she is in there flipping around and punching me. :) That is all.