Bump Date - 19 Weeks

What Fruit are you? A mango

Next appointment:  Ultrasound next Friday (not on Thursday like I kept thinking)

Exercise: This week I did prenatal yoga, a crazy hard weight class, TABATA, and last weekend we went camping and I went for some good bike rides.  My belly isn’t totally throwing off my balance yet but it was probably the last bike riding I will be doing for the year 

Maternity clothes:  All maternity pants, the odd maternity shirt just because I have a few

Sleep: I find I’ve been waking up more frequently, which is annoying. 

Symptoms: Round ligament pains (or growing pains in my lower abdomen) and acid reflux. 

Movement:  I’ve been willing baby to move.  Nothing this week though that I noticed.

What I miss:  Being able to wear whatever I want.  Getting dressed takes a lot more effort these days, and it’s not going to get any easier!

What I'm loving:  That really, besides a few annoying symptoms, everything has been so easy.

What I'm looking forward to:  Our ultrasound this week! So exciting!

Bring on the Babymoon

For those who don't know, a babymoon is a last getaway for expecting couples before baby arrives.  Although things are about to change for the better, these changes are going to be significant.  Travelling with just the two of us, and certain types of vacations may become things of the past, or something that we might not do for a few years.  So we finally booked our babymoon, and I'm so excited!

At the end of the month, we are going to Chicago for 4 days!  I considered Cuba for a long time as October prices are cheap, but I finally realized that Cuban food fears and baring my belly in a bikini wasn't what I was into.  A city trip is perfect because it's something that we won't want to do with young kids for awhile.  I also wanted to go before I was too far along as I want to be comfortable.  So we will be going when I'm around 22 weeks rather than waiting until closer to my due date.

 

It turns out there is tons to do in Chicago and I have a lot of ideas for how we can occupy our time already.  But I'm open to suggestions!  So if you have been to Chicago, tell me what you loved, what you hated, and what you ate, because food is just as important to me as anything else!  (I've been looking at pictures of Chicago deep dish pizza on the internet and the craving for it has started already, it looks so good!)

Lou Malnati's Pizza - How good does that look?

Fall Drives and Birthday Dinners

Ryan's birthday is coming up this week, and so to celebrate, he wanted to take a drive up to Creemore, Collingwood and go to one of our favourite places to eat.

First stop was Creemore.  The drive to Creemore in the fall is beautiful.  Creemore has a brewery, which Ryan got to enjoy some samples at and I of course had to turn down.

Next stop was Collingwood.  We travelled to the Village at Blue Mountain and grabbed a Starbucks and just wandered around.  No money spent besides our coffee.

Next up was my favourite part of the day.  Ryan wanted to buy some apples, as we were in apple country.  So we asked someone where to go and she suggested the nearby Farmer's Pantry.  

At The Farmer's Pantry they have a huge orchard where you can pick your own apples.  It was a rainy day, so we just bough some straight from the store instead.  The store also had baked goods, frozen food, jams and hot apple cider!  So we grabbed our apples and a hot apple cider each.  

On our way in, I had gotten pretty excited when I saw a donkey!  I don't know what it is about donkey's but I just love them.  So of course we had to go visit this little guy.  He clearly wasn't impressed about the rain, but as soon as we walked over he came over to us and stuck his head through the fence.

A little girl walked up to him later and he started hee-hawing at her.  Now I don't know about you, but I knew that was the sound donkey's made but had never actually heard the sound.  It was pretty funny. 

They had other animals too, like sheep, goats, ducks and bunnies.  It seemed like a great place to take kids.  The only cost is the cost to pick your apples, and you're getting the apples out of the deal!  We will definitely be back there in the future with little baby Osbott!  

Finally we went to Ted's Range Road Diner for dinner.  This place is off the beaten path and is located in a Quonset hut.  You would never go in if you hadn't heard about it.  And you need reservations because it's always busy.  You order from their chalkboard menu which includes things like Bison, Elk, Venison, Kangaroo and Ostrich.  I had the Ostrich as I had never tried that before and Ryan had the Bison.  As usual our meals were delicious!

Bump Date: 18 Weeks

This week has been madness, which is why I'm 19 weeks tomorrow and am just posting 18 weeks.  

What Fruit are you? A Sweet Potato

Next appointment:  Ultrasound on October 10!

Gender:  Currently, I’m feeling boy.  It’s back and forth!

Total weight gain/loss:  10 pounds, yikes.

Exercise: Still trying to exercise when I can and not use my pregnancy laziness as an excuse! 

Stretch marks:  Nothing yet

Maternity clothes:  Only maternity pants.  It’s not worth it to try to fit into anything else.  I can still wear a lot of my regular shirts though.

Symptoms:  Acid reflux still going strong.  It’s pretty much daily, and after dinner, but can happen any time depending on the food that I eat.

Movement:  Nothing yet.  Come on baby, move!

What I miss:  Being skinny.  This is totally worth it, but sometimes it’s tough to gain this much weight because it’s hard to know what’s baby and what’s just me.  And has it all been necessary or am I just indulging more than I should be.  (Probably the indulging part...)

What I'm looking forward to:  Our ultrasound.  I can’t wait! 

Best moment this week:  Hearing the heartbeat again at my midwife appointment.  It’s always a great reassurance!

I had all these fantastic plans for how we would have nothing to do this fall and could organize our house and clean out the babies room and get it ready for the nursery.  Ya none of that has happened yet.  Oh well, we have 5 months to go, hopefully we find the time eventually...