Fun Summer Weekend

Friday night we went down to the city to my favorite Thai restaurant. We had a delicious meal, our usual, chicken and shrimp pad thai and red coconut curry shrimp and pineapple. Yum!

Dress from Target last year (not maternity) still fits but needed to wear a shirt underneath for my oversized... you know :)  

After dinner we went to a park to walk around. It was very peaceful and nice, just walking and talking.  My favorite thing to do with the husband.

After walking through the zoo area of the park we noticed that the play in the park was still going on, so we went over and took a seat to watch.

 No pictures allowed during the play, but husband snapped one!

 It was a beautiful evening and mosquito's loved me that night haha!

We got home pretty late and had a busy Saturday so yesterday I was pretty tired but didn't stop me from enjoying my Saturday.

We had lunch on a patio and shopped a bit before heading to a family bbq.

Thai shrimp wrap with coleslaw, spicy and delicious!

Look at this cute track suit I bought for baby K at Winners. Love it!  Husband said it was a must buy, don't need to twist my arm when it comes to shopping for baby hahhah!

At the family bbq my nieces loved being in the pool. Look at baby M, adorable! The best part is when her mom was saying "ready" to dunk her head in the water and her eyes and faced scrunched up getting ready to go under. sooo cute!!!



I can't believe she is turning 1 yo in 9 days!




Today is a very humid day, so we decided to stay in most the day.


Hope you are all having a nice relaxing Sunday :)

Zoe loves sleeping on my belly

 



Zoe's pillow haha!



27 week baby bump update

 
 



This week!
How Far Along: 27 weeks!
Size of baby: 2lbs! Size of a cauliflower!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: 26lbs (eek 3lbs gain a week!)
Movement: I feel him everyday now. :) happy mama!
Cravings: sweets, sigh...

Yesterday I made this carrot cake and boy is it delicious! Yum! I guess we know where that extra weight has come from.

** 1 more week till my 30th bday! eeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Hope you all have a great weekend.

26 week pregnancy Glucose test

Ha! I don't look so thrilled huh. Yesterday was my glucose test. I had to fast for this test so imagine a hungry tired preggo having to spend her morning at a lab was not fun at all. I wasn't sure what to expect with this test so my husband came with me just in case!

The lab techs were to first take my blood before I drank the glucose (orange pop thing) But they didn't, they just gave me the pop to drink within 5 minutes, only after I drank it did they realize they should have taken my blood before as well. So now I will need to go back for that one. After I drank the orange pop, I had to sit there for 1 hour, then they took blood.  They are checking to see how my body processes sugar. Glad part of the test is over with. Wasn't too bad.

Last week I ordered some things on Etsy and look what came in the mail yesterday! Hopefully baby K will like wearing hats because he has so many already ha!

http://www.etsy.com/people/cottoncupcakeshoppe

Yesterday evening Zoe was at the backyard door pacing around and meowing. I went to look and saw a family of raccoons in our backyard! yikes! They were going in and out of the garden, hope they don't live there... but they are kinda cute tho haha!

Check it out I'm a guest blogger today :)

Hey everyone!

I know many of our blogger friends are off to San Diego for Blogher2011! Very exciting!

 I love San Diego! I wish I was there too!

Blogger friend Patty over at A Day In My NYC  asked me to be one of her Guest Bloggers today while she leaves to San Diego! Patty is a fun, honest blogger. She blogs her everyday life and always posts pictures of NYC too, I love that! Can't wait to hear about her experience!

Check out her blog!

http://adayinmynyc.com

And her Twitter
@nycpatty

P.S I hit over 500 followers! So exciting! Thank you all who follow my blog! I'll be doing a Thank you giveaway this month, so look out for it!

26 week OB appointment...

This morning I had an appointment with the OB. She took the measurement of my belly and felt around and said the baby is growing perfectly. Great to hear! We also heard his heartbeat, it was 144 bpm :) The secretary told me my Iron was a tad bit low, but still ok,  my OB wasn't concerned. My OB is very nice and helpful, but I always feel like I need more time with her, more time to ask a gazillion questions ha!

I asked if I should monitor movement, she just told me as long as I feel him a couple times a day I'm ok. If I don't feel anything for a whole day then I should be concerned.

I still took one of her charts she had in the office.  The sheet says, After 28 weeks, at least once a day you should feel at least 6 or more movements within 2 hours. So I'll still do this later on, doesn't hurt!

I also asked her about the lower pressure I feel and she said it's totally normal. The length of my cervix is 4cm which is good and not to worry. (I'm learning sooo much during this pregnancy, it's funny how there are soo many things I never thought about or even knew about our body)

Today is another HOT HUMID day. I went quickly to the farmers market this afternoon to stock up on fruits and veggies. I got some blueberries too. Can't wait to munch on these!

It was a HOT long weekend!

Boy was the weekend here in TO a hot one!

Yesterday we had a family BBQ. Although we were all melting, we all had a great time.  Great food and Great company.

My adorable nieces.

My grandparents, me and BIL

On Saturday my husband and I spent most our day downtown. He took this picture of me when we were at a Starbucks patio relaxing after dinner ....
 
Look closely at my chest... See my road map of veins haha! Yes that is part of pregnancy. Friday night my sister was freaked out saying all my veins on my arms were soo visible... But it's all ok and all part of pregnancy :)

This week I go for my sugar test and tomorrow I have an appointment with my OB, I have a list of questions for her.
Wish me luck!

**Thanks everyone for your answers to my mom question, they were all very helpful :)

Hope you all have a goodnight!

26 weeks pregnant today!

 This week!
How Far Along: 26 weeks! Ummm 98 days to go!
Size of baby: 1.9lbs size of an eggplant!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: 23lbs

Movement: A lot more! and seems he is most active at midnight! ha!
Cravings: Still I'm obsessed with my nutella and milk daily snacks,
but food aversions seemed to have come back too. So this will be interesting.
Ice cream is still on my good list tho, ha!

Brownie, Caramel Ice cream!

Symptoms: Headaches! Lower pressure, my walk ain't that cool. Look out for waddling mama!
Best Moment so far: Husband feeling the 5am strong kicks!


Some new items:

My mom bought all these clothes and blankies for baby K!

I have a lot of laundry coming my way ha! The basket is full and ready for washing.

**Mom Question: I'll be using Ivory snow to wash the clothes... Do you put fabric softener?, and also do you put their clothes in the dryer? With or without a bounce sheet....?

Have a great weekend! and Happy Civic Long weekend!

The baby is kicking so much!

So the last couple weeks I was still feeling only light taps from baby K, nothing too strong... But that all changed yesterday morning at 5am! The baby was kicking hard enough to #1 wake me up at 5am and #2 have the husband feel it too! That was a first! I think Zoe liked it too. ha! Yesterday she came at sat right on my belly and the baby was kicking around. Poor Zoe is in for a surprise when baby K arrives haha!

Tomorrow I'll be 26 weeks and I'm approaching my third trimester. I noticed that my appetite is much more demanding but I also find that the food aversions symptom is back. Some things just taste so weird to me. Nevertheless I still find the foods that I love and gobble them up.

My favorite day time snack ha!

Last nights dinner, spicy chicken, rice and potatoes!

One of the delicious lunches I made this week. I had 2 plates of this! Whole grain pasta :)

Tomorrow I'll blog about my 26 week update and I'll step on the scary scale... hmm or maybe not we'll see ha!

Wordless Wednesday Wish List

http://www.milksmartmama.com nursing cover

http://www.milksmartmama.com nursing latch to any blanket

mariah carey perfume

mariah carey tweeted these. love them! neeed them for fall

Coach Baby Bag... Sigh

coach crossbody purse

Creams for the pregnant belly...

When I first got pregnant I started buying every cream that said it would prevent stretch marks and/or for the pregnant belly. I tried a lot of creams and liked them all, yet found some were pricey and wasted so fast too... I got lazy and gave up ahahh. I know many of us preggo's ask other moms what they used, that's what I did. So I decided to share what I use now.

I just use creams that I used before.
Vaseline Cocoa Butter Cream for my body, it's like 4 bucks and lasts, and Body Shop Cocoa Butter, 20 bucks and lasts too.  I only use the bodyshop one on my belly and bum I don't like the feeling of it on my arms and legs. (Not during the hot sticky summer blah!)

Big belly! Sorry to startle you!

I read that no matter what creams we use, if you will get stretchmarks in pregnancy, you'll get them with creams or without. Greeeaaaattt. So far I don't have any on my belly, I don't even have the dark line... yet.... I do have a stretched belly button and a stretched hole above it where my belly ring was haha! All my stretch marks are on the side of my hips and bum (for me, being hippy to begin with it's noooo surprise that my hips and bum would be the areas to grow faster than the belly hhaha!)

Did you get stretchmarks when pregnant? What creams do you use and love? (pregnant or not :)