22 Weeks

My Favorite Holiday

Although I decided not to dress up this year, which was a very hard decision for me since Halloween is my favorite holiday, it just snuck up on us and I do not know how you can half ass it...  Must go big or don't dress up at all in my book so we made sure though to carve pumpkins...  The boys had to pick the hardest ones they could find and us girls went for the cute factor. 

Many of you voted on the best one and the Cheshire Cat won :)


Beetle Juice was Steve's, then Sweeney Todd but mine was the joke of the night, called "cute" and "elementary" the skull chick punk rocker! 

Munchkin's First Gift

Back when Munchkin was still a secret to many, I was given this as the baby’s first gift… So cute, right! 

Steve is officially half way through his didactics portion of Paramedic School.  This is great news as this has been so much work for him and when the baby is born he will end the academic part of his training; leaving only the clinicals and internship left to complete.  Due date is March 4, 2011

The baby can officially hear us, so Steve makes sure to talk to the baby every night and is recently obsessed with Jazz.  So he is very insistent that our Munchkin will love Jazz too, so we now play Jazz for the baby and plan to have it in the nursery. Classic! 

First Kick

It was midnight on the night we had our 5 month ultrasound (10.14.11) that I felt our baby for the first time!  It was the craziest feeling.  Terri and I were sitting on the couch talking diaper bags and strollers when all of sudden I felt three flutters, almost the pounding of a heart beat in the middle of my stomach.  Again so in shock and just in love, sat there in silence to try and feel it again.  Amazing!  Then I felt the baby again while I was away at a conference for work right in the middle of a workshop.  I have now felt the baby more and more but still usually once every few days.  Although Steve tries to feel the baby every single night! He even tires to listen to the baby’s heartbeat every night with his fancy stethoscope but we were told the baby isn’t big enough yet. 

Obsessed

So prior to being pregnant I loved decorating and loved this time of year especially because of everything pumpkin related but it got kicked up quite a few notches this year with this Munchkin! 

Steve shook his head as I begged him the first day of October to take a break from studying and go to the mall to visit Bath & Body Works.  Every year they release their pumpkin collection and for the last two years it was just the candles so he laughed at me as I filled every inch of my hands with every single bottle labeled pumpkin.  Checking out he giggled in the background as I bought lotions, sprays, and even lip-gloss to last me until next year!  Then I was shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond and they have the new world market addition – DANGER…  I left there with pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread mix, pumpkin salsa, pumpkin and sweet potato chips, pumpkin waffle mix and pumpkin cider.  Steve again just laughed at me!  It is an obsession! 

I also couldn't wait to decorate the house, I was glowing as I decorated the entire house for Halloween (my favorite holiday).  First picture is the coffee table centerpiece I created :)  Then I had to create a centerpiece for our dining room that would be creative, dreamt this one...It is a vase filled with real candy corns with black branches to tie it all together!!! 

Crazy Cravings

Besides the true obsession with anything pumpkin…I love pickles. Although I have loved these things all of my life they are just multiplied now. I eat at least two to three pickles a day and have been caught a number of times drinking out of the pickle jar! But the two moments that I thought to myself “wow I really am preganant” were when I ate Salt & Vinegar Chips at the exact time that I was drinking a Banana Slurpee. Oh yeah and it was amazing! Then I had a homemade pumpkin shake one day and when I finished it I went straight to the fridge and chased it with pickle juice. Gross yet SO GOOD!