25 Weeks

 

 This has been a stressful week. I was busy with work, we started and completed a huge project, and my niece was in the hospital for 4 days. Everything is fine and little Brooke is back at home, but it gave everyone, myself included, major anxiety for the entire week. 

To keep busy, Matt and I embarked on an ENORMOUS home renovation project that was brought about by my extreme nesting. Nesting, like pregnancy brain, is entirely real. For no reason at all, the state of our kitchen and dining room area bothered me and it had to be changed. So we painted, then Matt installed a new backsplash and sink, I decorated and we both took on the biggest headache - refinishing our dining room table. It was a lot of work, but it kept our hands and minds busy and off of Brooke being in the hospital. 

Between the home projects and the worry there wasn't much sleep this week and both Matt and I felt like zombies the whole time. My brain actually had a hard time functioning. Thankfully, with the good news of Brooke's discharge from the hospital and a couple of solid nights of sleep, I feel back to myself again.

 

How Far Along: 25 weeks,5 days

How Long To Go: 14 weeks, 2 days

Weight Gain: 2.8lbs
Total Weight Gain: 7.2lbs
Weight: 127lbs

Belly Button: flattening out

Stretch Marks: none

Sleep: exhausted!

Best Moment This Week: Finishing a HUGE home renovation project. We painted, tiled and re-finished furniture in our kitchen, dining room and sun room.

Nausea: none

Craving: nothing this week

Miss Anything: Nope

Movement: Lots of kicks and movements

Gender: girl

Symptoms: emotional, tired, back pain, pregnancy brain!

Wedding Ring: still on

Looking Forward To: Going to Aspen next week for a wedding!!

Maternity Clothes: Still loving my maternity clothes but feel good that I can still fit in to a lot of my pre-pregnancy clothes too (with a belly band)

Fruit: Eggplant (1.7lb, 9 inches)

Weird Dreams This Week: I was married to Jennifer Lawrence....referred to her as my wife and everything


XOXO
Lisa

Porch Renovation

The porch renovation is pretty much complete, at least the building part. I can't believe how wonderfully it turned out! I am constantly shocked and amazed by Matt's skills. We still need to get cushions and stuff, but that will come once we get home from Italy! BTW we're leaving for Italy in two days!!! Well, technically we're leaving for Maryland to be in my Bestie's wedding and then heading overseas.

So here's what it looks like:

Home Improvements

My husband is constantly doing things, he never sits still. He has OCD and a never ending supply of energy. Sometimes it really works out to our advantage and lately he has been obsessed with home improvements. I believe this is his version of "nesting" or at least the way he deals with his baby fever because he keeps saying that he has to get all this stuff done before we get pregnant. I think he knows that my patience for projects will be at a zero when a baby is in question.

The newest project is our screen porch.  We have talked at length about converting the screen porch into a year-round room and eventually turn it into a playroom when we have kids. Matt however couldn't wait, and has begun building out our custom benches. I am always amazed by his craftiness and they are really starting to come together. I can't wait until they're finished!! We're going to tag-team painting in an hour or so and we've started looking for cushions. Here's what it looks like so far:

 

I'll keep ya posted!

XOXO

Lisa