24 Weeks

24 weeks!! These weeks are flying by!!

My baby center app says that my uterus is the size of a soccer ball and the baby is the size of a cantaloupe! I can't believe the baby has 16 more weeks of growing before he comes out! Isn't a cantaloupe big enough??

Taken today 3-8-13 at 24 weeks 1 day.

His brain is growing quickly now, and taste buds are continuing to develop.

Hitting 24 weeks was a big deal for me because I know that hospitals try to save your baby if it's born at 24 weeks and before that they don't try. Barbie had the twins at 25.5 weeks and they are now 4 years old. I guess knowing that my baby's chances of survival increase drastically every day and at this point our baby would probably survive if something were to happen and I were to go into labor early.

In other news.... We had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything with me looks great! I love doctor appointment days when I get to spend a bunch of time with my wonderful husband!  

The doctor had a hard time finding the baby's heartbeat because our little man is SO active!! I'm not surprised that Cole was so active yesterday because I feel him move all the time! The doctor said not to worry right now if I feel him one day and not the next... I NEVER have that problem! I feel him all the time! Baby boy might calm down for an hour or two here and there throughout the day but the majority of the day the baby is kicking me! I actually woke up 25 minutes before my alarm this morning because he was kicking so hard!

We even got to see the baby's kicks on the outside of my stomach on Saturday! Josh was sitting in the chair in the living room and Cole was kicking up a storm so I sat on Josh's lap and let him feel the kicks. Josh took his hand off and you could see my stomach jump from the baby kicking me!

At the doctors appointment the gave me this nasty orange drink so that at my next appointment they can do my blood sugar test! Yipee! It'll be a long day at the doctor that day... 3D sonogram for a half hour and then blood sugar blood draw and then a big fat shot in my butt because I'm RH-! UGH! I'm gonna need some ice cream after that for sure!

After our doctors appointment yesterday we went to lunch at Jumpin Catfish with my dad. Gosh that place brings back memories of being a kid! Then we met Barbie and Ellie at Target to register for baby things. As soon as Ellie saw me she started yelling "D! D! D! D! D! D! D! D!" and kept yelling until she ran all the way over to me and jumped in my arms. She is so sweet!