29 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 29 Weeks

No picture this week as we were running the roads for three days straight and then I was under the weather this weekend.

Size of Baby: About 15.2 inches long - the size of a squash - and weighs around 2.5 pounds.

Maternity Clothes: I'm mixing the maternity and regular. Although, my wardrobe is really confused because one day I could be wearing capris and a short sleeve shirt and the next I need pants and a sweater. That's Texas for you.

Gender: It's a GIRL!

Movement: She is still mostly active at night. Sometimes, I have to actually sit down for a spell and make sure she is still moving.

Sleep: With us being so busy, I have not had as much sleep as I desired. However, this cold or sinus stuff has really made me slow down a bit.

What I miss: Breathing through my nose and not being in pain to do little tasks like walking or putting on pants. Rolling over in bed is the worst. I do have some exercises I am trying to do to help with the pain though.

Cravings: We finally had frozen yogurt so I can say that is out of my system. Otherwise, I have not really had any cravings.

Best Moment of the Week: Finding out that all of the test results from the hospital monitoring came back good and my glucose test was fine. I was not too worried about it since my blood sugar tends to drop instead of go up which is what they are screening for. We also bought a car! We had known we would need to buy one soon, but since mine was declared totaled, that kind of sped up the process. We did not get a minivan, but let's just say, D calls it my soccer mom car. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I do love the extra space.

28 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 28 Weeks


As D was taking my picture, Sweetie decided to get in on the action.



Size of Baby: About 14.8 inches - the size of a Chinese cabbage - and weighs around 2.3 pounds.

Maternity Clothes: I'm still sporting a mixture of maternity and regular clothes.

Gender: It's a GIRL! Had another ultrasound yesterday and the technician siad it was probably still a girl. I will tell you that hearing the word "probably" wasn't very reassuring but I guess since this was the third ultrasound and no one has said, "no it's not a girl," we are still thinking pink. To give the ultrasound technician a little credit, baby girl was completely folded in half with her legs up over her head. And can I just say, that I think she is going to have the cutest, chubbiest cheeks.

Movement: She is so active right now. In fact, during the ultrasound, she went from being breech with her feet down to having her head down. I'm sure in the coming weeks she won't have that much room to move around.

Sleep: I just need more of it. We have had so much going on lately, that I probably have not made it as much of a priority as I should. I did manage to sneak in a nap today.

What I miss: Getting up and down off the floor as easily.

Cravings: I have not been craving much except maybe frozen yogurt, which I still have not had.

Best Moment of the Week: Finding out that baby girl is ok. See, yesterday we had a pretty bad wreck, but God was completely watching over us. None of us three (four) had a single scratch on us despite us having a blowout, spinning around twice and hitting the center divider of the freeway, all while going 60+ mph. My doctor did want us to go to the hospital to make sure baby girl was ok as a precaution. She checked out fine and was moving so much that the heart monitor would not stay in place. She does still have the minimal fluid on her left kidney but we are praying that will resolve itself.

I am seriously hoping to blog more about what else has been going on in the Moore household. God has been doing some incredible things.

27 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 27 Weeks

Size of Baby: About 14.5 inches - the length of cauliflower - and weighs around 2 pounds.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Scale, what scale?

Maternity Clothes: I'm still sporting a mixture of maternity and regular clothes.

Gender: It's a GIRL! D is having to get used to all of the pink around here.

Movement: She has been seriously active. Her movements are from left to right and up and down. I also think she has had the hiccups a few times that I can tell.

Sleep: Sleep is getting a little more painful lately. I don't tend to move much in my sleep which means I often wake up really sore on one side. I think our three-year old has decided to get us ready for a newborn because he has waken up around 3 am the past few nights to use the restroom.

What I miss: Being able to move around easily and pick up Gavin.

Cravings: I am having one time cravings like queso, but there is nothing I am wanting all of the time.

Best Moment of the Week: I heard baby girl's heart beat again and it sounded great- 140 bpm. The only concern the doctor had from looking at the prior week's ultrasound was baby girl has a minimal amount of fluid on her left kidney. We are praying that it is nothing and will be all gone by the next scheduled ultrasound in about five weeks. I can't believe that I am already in the third trimester and will be seeing the doctor every two weeks now. The final countdown has begun!

We are trying to get our act in gear and get the nursery ready. My "to do" list is growing daily, but I am having a hard time just keeping the clutter down in the house much less checking items off the list. At least one of us seems ready. Almost every day Gavin says how much he misses his baby sister, which by the she has a name now. However, I have to save some surprises for when she is born.

25 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 25 Weeks

So this post will be a little picture heavy but I'm hoping to make up for the lack of posting lately.

Size of Baby: About 14 inches - the length of a hothouse cucumber - and weighs 1 pound, 7 ounces. The weight is pretty accurate since that is what the sonogram tech said she was weighing. This puts her in the 40th percentile.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I actually forgot to weigh myself this week. I'm sure I'm climbing on up especially since I had to cut way down on my exercise due to some intense pains that I did not have when pregnant with Gavin. In fact, it was those pains that led me to call the doctor (after two weeks) who then ordered me to get the sonogram done. I got over the three hour wait once I was able to see baby girl.

Maternity Clothes: I'm still sporting a mixture of maternity and regular clothes.

Gender: It's a GIRL! Her cheeks were so round compared to just seven weeks ago.

Movement: She has been a little wiggle worm lately, but definitely has periods of quite time too. I think she has had the hiccups a few times like her big brother used to get.

Sleep: I am having some seriously weird dreams lately.

What I miss: Not being achy everywhere.

Cravings: I have wanted foods that have protein like cheese and nuts.


Best Moment of the Week: Seeing baby girl was definitely the best! I couldn't get over her sweet little face. Gavin has also been extremely affectionate to her too. Just this week, he told her he missed her.

I probably won't be able to blog my 27th week update, but here's the picture of me in the same shirt about as far along pregnant with each of our children. I'm definitely carrying them differently.

24 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 24 Weeks

I don't have a picture yet. However, here's what I looked like at six months when pregnant with Gavin. I think I'm going to try to get D to take a picture of me tonight in this same shirt. I'm pretty sure I saw it in my maternity clothes box. If I had to guess, I would say that I look smaller while carrying Gavin.

Size of Baby: About 12.5 inches - the length of an ear of corn - and weighs around 1.25 pounds.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 14 pounds; as my doctor puts it, I went through a growth spurt. She says everyone does at some point, but I don't know if this made me feel any better.

Maternity Clothes: I'm still sporting a mixture of maternity and regular clothes.

Gender: It's a GIRL!

Movement: She is an active little girl at night and was definitely on the move this morning in church.

Sleep: I have been so exhausted that I sleep fairly well. I can even sometimes resist the urge to get up in the middle of the night. If I don't have to switch to sleeping on another side, I'm good. Switching involves moving tons of pillows and some amount of pain that I did not experience when pregnant with Gavin.

What I miss: Exercising without feeling the before-mentioned pain.

Cravings: Sweet things which could be the reason for my growth spurt. I'm trying to curb the sweet craving this week.

Best Moment of the Week: Listening to Gavin talk to his baby sister. Tonight, he thought it was neat to lay down next to her.

What Happened Wednesdays

This blog post should be alternately posted, What Happened to 'What Happened Wednesdays?" Our Internet and editing program has been out for most of the past two days, so I'm a little late in posting.

For this week, I thought I would post how we shared the news with our parents that we were having a little girl. It's hard for us to just the reveal the news over the phone. Ideally, I would have loved to have a gender reveal party, but the circumstances did not work out. I had it all dreamed in my head, everyone would come over wearing a pink or blue shirt depicting their answer to what we were having. We would serve all sorts of pink/blue treats and cut open a cake with either a blue or pink filling to reveal the gender. Maybe next time, if there should be a baby number three.

Since we obviously were not going to have this party, we brainstormed and came up providing our parents pink and blue gift bags. They could pick which color bag to open with each bag containing an item that would obviously be the answer or not.

Since we found out we were having a girl, it worked out quite nicely. After our ultrasound, we stopped by the local baby store and picked up a shirt for Gavin and a cute little dress for a girl. I put Gavin's shirt in the pink bag and baby girl's dress in the blue bag. My plan worked out perfectly as both sets of parents both chose the pink bag each time, but little did they know the blue bag held the answer.


Thankfully they realized that what they opened up was a gift for Gavin in the pink bag. However, they still did not know if the blue bag contained something pink or blue. I think they were all excited to pull out a dress from the blue bag. Although they would have been excited either way.



My mother-in-law had just had foot surgery, but that didn't stop her from jumping up and down.


I was planning on posting scanned pictures of our sweet pea, but our computer literally started smoking. Talk about tech issues this week!

What Happened Wednesdays

So much has happened this summer that never made it on this ol' blog. And for probably my sake only, I wanted to document a few of those things. So I decided that for the month of September, I would do a little flashback each Wednesday with some picks and a few of the memories that I still have despite being struck with a case of baby brain.

The first stop down memory lane is to the circus. Gavin had never been and I knew it could go one of two ways. 1) He would love it. 2) He would freak out. Little did I know that it would be a combination of the two.

I love the above picture of Gavin. He looks so grown up. So, all of these pictures were taken before the circus actually started. Gavin was a champ. He seemed fine with the clowns hanging around, the elephants and the juggling that were all part of the pre-show. The true test was about to begin.

Cue the lights, music and bam! Little man was buried in our shoulders. The circus was sponsored by Chick-Fil-A, and I think what got him worried was the mention of the cow, the costumed cow. Gavin doesn't want to be near that cow with a ten foot pole.

We could get him to turn around every few minutes to see acts like the amazing strong men.

Thankfully, by the second half of the show, he was all smiles again.