third trimester

i'm officially in my 3rd trimester...3 more months to go!!! yikes. it's still kind of surreal to have a living thing in your stomach and having him moving around all the time. right now he has the hiccups, hehe i checked out a bunch of baby books from the library that we're starting to go through and we *finally* hit a baby store last weekend to look at stuff. we probably won't have a nursery room for the baby yet because we plan on using one of the occupied rooms, but our tenant said he was most likely going to move out in Aug. so the baby will stay in our room for the first few months and we'll have to set up his room later.

when we were down in LA during memorial day weekend we had dinner with one of j's friends who are also expecting 2 weeks earlier than us. they are waaaayyyy more prepared than us. the theme of their nursery is yoshi's island or little mario, something like that. anyways, they're having someone paint a mural in their nursery, they have all their nursery furniture, stroller, $200 worth of mario stuffed animals... they are even looking at daycares already!!! gosh, i feel like such a slacker. personally, i don't think i'm going to have an elaborate nursery. i'm not really into decorating and making everything cutesy. i don't think the baby will really care hehe as long as he is fed and has a place to sleep he should have nothing to complain about =P

week 25

nothing really interesting is happening, we're starting to think about buying stuff and registering, etc etc. we'll probably buy most of the stuff after the baby shower. i think our trip to puerto rico was at a perfect time during the pregnancy. i'm not too big yet and the pressure on my bladder isn't too bad. i'm definitely starting to feel it though, if i'm up standing walking around it feels like i have to pee every 20-30 minutes. good thing most of the time i'm sitting on my butt haha i'm still able to sleep through the night and i'm used to sleeping on my side now, yippee. i feel the baby move a lot and he's definitely getting stronger, now when he kicks i can see my stomach move. my belly button has become VERY shallow, pretty much almost flat. my doctor said it would become an outtie (ewwww) but i'm really hoping she's wrong and it just stays flat. my belly button was already shallow to begin with, so don't know if there will be much to "pop out". i'm feeling HUGE and still have 3.5 months to go...ugh. i really dread the last month when i'm really big, retaining water, swollen body, middle of summer......

ok, here's some fun, we're still trying to think of some names, what are your top 2-3 names from the list? feel free to add other suggestions if you want =)
- Brandon
- Ryan
- Derek
- Darren
- Riley