28 Weeks!

Size of Baby: Head of Califlower - On average 16 inches in length and 2.5 pounds.

Weight Gain: Had a Dr's appointment today! Weighed in at 155 which is just where I was thinking. 25 pounds at week 28 I'm feeling pretty good about.

Maternity Clothes: Tops for sure, most pants and shorts. Still squezzing into a few pairs of my pre pregnancy pants and just tried on a pair of prepreggers jeans last night that i'll be able to pull off wearing this fall! Excited about that since I didn't want to spend the money on a pair of jeans for just a couple of months!

Gender: It's a boy!! Hunter Lee Lunsford V. I realized this week something annoying that we are probably going to have to get used to. EVERYONE (with the exception of our close friends and family) call him Hunter Jr. "How's Hunter Jr."? GAH, I want to correct them and say "Hunter V actually" but it's just not worth it all the time and from past experience when I do people look at me like I have five heads.

Movement: OH boy! Oh baby boy! Oh big baby boy in my belly you move like crazy and it makes mommies stomach drop. Your kicks are fewer and the rolls/waves are more often. The right side of my belly button has been super super hard for the past week or so and when I press on it your whole body moves in a wave throughout my belly. I think it's your bum or your head but not sure which one. You are one stubborn little boy though because after I move you, you go right back to where you were comfy. As uncomfortable and weird these feelings are for me though I love every one of them because it shows me you are healthy and happy in there! We love you sooo much already! (not sure why this section came out directed towards baby Hunter but it felt natural so I'll go with it ) :)

Sleep: Sleeping good! Up a couple times a night to pee but that aint' no thang!

What I miss: hmmm, why does this question always make me have to think? I know I miss something.....Ah, shopping!! With all the new fall lines coming out I'm just DYING to go shopping for cute normal clothes. Hoping I'm back to my prepreggers size pretty quickly so I purchase a few cute new winter things!

Best Moment this week: Hearing Hunter's BIG heartbeat today. It was louder and more powerful than in past appointments which tells me he's growing nice and strong!! Dr. said it was somewhere between 149 and 152. His huge movements are wonderful as well, weird and uncomfortable but just sooo cool!! I'm going to say Daddy Hunter agrees and I'm betting his best moment this week was feeling HLV in my belly last night. He couldn't believe how active he was...whole body movements and kicks.

Looking forward to: Traveling to Rochester NY this weekend to see friends and family who haven't gotten to see me pregnant (or very pregnant) yet. We are heading up friday morning for a girlfriends wedding. Congrats Nicole and Chris we can't WAIT to see you say your vows and we're soooo very happy for you guys :)

Cravings: Never got my mexican this week. I still want it but don't know if I would say i'm necessarily craving it. Now that I know we are heading to NY this weekend I'm craving Abbotts icecream, and a wegmans sub! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Symptoms: Frequent urinations, nasal congestions, stomach/side achiness, sore lower back. No swelling yet, or stretch marks I feel like I really don't have many sypmtoms. My easy pregnancy is making me nervous for the birth. Lord what do you have in store for me?? :)

Other notables: We purchased our car seat and stroller last weekend!! As lame as it sounds I was/am SUPER excited :)

The story goes....in honor of tax free weekend USA baby was offering 10% off and tax free on everything in the store. Including strollers! This is very rare for name brand strollers like UPPA baby to go on sale so we knew we wanted to take advantage. I was pretty certain they wouldnt' have one in stock and sure enough they told us they'd have to order it and it would take 4-6 weeks to come in. They also didn't carry the carseat that I wanted. Earlier that week I had read somewhere that buybuy baby matched all competitors coupons. Now I knew buy buy baby had our stoller and carseat, so coupon in hand we headed over there to see if they would match it. Sure enough they did!!! All you mama's out there, no matter where or what your coupon is for Buy buy baby will match it! They gave us 10% off and tax free on our Graco Carseat and UPPA baby stroller!!

Here's the stroller we went with. UPPA Baby Vista in color Cole Slate . Love this stroller and have heard nothing but RAVE reviews. It was given an A rating in the Baby Bargains book, and I love that you can buy a rumble seat attachement for it when we have two kids.





And our cute Graco Snugride carseat in Nolan :) Blue Blue and more Blue I'm not TRYING to buy this boy everything blue it just always happens to be the color I like best in things. Good thing Blue can be used for a girl too!

And while we are on the shopping topic I'm also super excited to wear THIS adorable dress this weekend! I purchased it to wear to not only to the wedding but to my shower in a couple weeks as well. I'm bummed I just discovered the More of Me maternity line. I absolutely adore all of their dresses and will DEF be purchasing more of these puppies next pregnancy to wear the whole time!

I can wear this, unbelted with bold jewelry as in the above picture. OR belted as a dress. OR this fall you can find me sporting it belted with skinny jeans. One comfy dress, three ways. SCORE :)

28 week Picture:

27 Weeks!

This week marks the beginning of my 3rd Trimester! yay!

Size of baby: I think I got ahead of myself last week. 27 weeks marks size of cucumber and this week we are making our way towards the size a head of cauliflower. Hunter is probably somewhere between 15.5 to 16 inches long (head to feet) and between 2 and 2.5 pounds.

Weight gain: Who knows! I haven't stepped on my scale at home. I have a Dr's appt next week August 9th, I'll let you all know then.

Maternity clothes: Yip! Mostly all tops, skirts, shorts, and pants. Still squeezing into a few pairs of my regular pants supported by a belly band.

Gender: It's a boy. Hunter Lee Lunsford V.

Movement: Every week he must be growing and taking up more space in my belly because the movements are getting stronger and more distinct. I feel two types of movements. The jabs/kicks and then the waves of movement across my belly. Both have completely different feelings I'm not good a describing. He's pretty regular though morning, and night for sure while I'm laying down and then during the day if I'm sitting at my desk. During the day on the weekends I don't feel him too much since I'm busy moving around.

Sleep: Sleeping good! Up a couple times to pee but it's such the norm now that I don't even feel like it bothers me.

What I miss: Don't miss anything this week. Not even my prepregnancy body. Liking being pregnant this week and trying to enjoy the bump!

Best Moment this week: Oooo might be his movements. They've just been so strong lately it's making him feel more and more real to me. Hunter put together the dresser for the nursery last night which was fun, it's great seeing the nursery come together.

Looking forward to: I can't stop thinking about fall so that's number one!!! The cool crisp fall air, pumpkin spice latte, VT football tailgates and knowing we are just a few short weeks away from meeting our little one. I can't WAIT for fall!! Also really looking forward to a few beach trips we have coming up need to enjoy the last bit of summer while its here, and my shower weekend where we will get to some some quality time with family we don't get to see as often as we'd like!

Cravings: Def want my Azteca mexican fix this week. Also a tuna melt on a bagel. Oh...maybe I'll get that today for lunch! Don't judge...one little tuna sand which won't hurt me :)

Symptoms: Here goes...these are the ones from the book that I have experienced.
- Occasional dizziness or faintness - experienced this once last week.
- Nasal congestion - still congested in the morning.
- Bleeding gums - my gums bleed when I brush and floss and they never used to.
- Skin, hair, nail changes - my skin has been doing well I do have the linea nigra line down my belly. My nails have been growing like weeds!
- Abdominal achiness in the front and along the sides more so.
- Increased appetite. Yep haven't slowed down in that department yet.
- Back pain - pretty minimal though...gets sore at the end of the day from sitting in my chair at work.
- On a happier note my bowels seem to be back to normal ( I know you all where worried about that!
- Leg cramps. Oh the leg cramps are the worst. I get achiness/pain in from my knee down but I also woke up screaming yesterday morning with the WORST charlie horse. I threw my leg on Hunter and told him to rub. He rub it out for me and couldn't believe how bad it was! My calf was sore the whole rest of the day.
- Protruding Naval - CHECK!
- Shortness of breath - I walked up the stairs the other day while on the phone with my brother. He asked if I was in labor...hahaha, nope just walked up the stairs and a little out of breath from it. :)
- No stretch marks yet.

Pictures:









Dresser...we didn't up getting the Hemnes dresser from Ikea. While we were there we saw this one, it was cheaper, and I liked it just as much. I think its called Berkley.




VIDEO: AND you all are in for a treat today!!!

Little Hunter performed for you all this morning! You can see general swiveling atound in the beginning with a few good jabs at the end. Enjoy!! :)

Isabella Inspired...

I often look through catalogs just to see how the models outfits are pieced together. Then I hit my own closet for similar items in order to copy a look. For example....

This Isabella Oliver Maternity Spring Catalog had this image on front...

Open publication - Free publishing - More 2011

I die over how chic this model looks while pregnant!!!

In an attempt to be a copy cat, I scoured my closet for a similar cotton dress, scarf and belt. I needed a gold watch and some chunky gold braclets that I didn't have. But oh well, can't be perfect.
You better believe I threw on my aviators before walking out the door though. boo-yaaaa!!!





I never in a million years would have thought to belt this dress below my belly and wear it with a scarf without the catalogs inspiration!! You should try it :) I love using J-crew catalogs as inspiration as well especially when it comes to mixing and matching colors and patterns.

26 weeks!!

Size of baby: A cucumber! 15 inches long and 2.2 pounds

Weight Gain: Not positive. My guess would be around 154 or so. Hopefully not more than that! Which would put me at gaining 24 pounds so far.

Maternity clothes: Def all maternity tops unless it was a big flowy shirt I owned prepregnancy. I'm wearing a pair of my normal pants to work today with a belly band but I'm thinking I might only be able to get away with this for a couple more weeks. I think its so funny how when I was first pregnant I wanted to be in maternity clothes so badly and now I'm so excited when I wear my prepregnancy clothes.

Gender: It's a boy! Hunter Lee Lunsford V.

Movement: I can tell he is growing in there and has less room to move around. His kicks are stronger and I'm feeling/seeing more waves of movement across my whole belly or one side. I'll also feel these little hard knots at times and when I push on them they move so I'm certain those are his little feet, elbow or something. During the week when I'm working he'll kick lots while I'm sitting at my desk, and then a lot at night when I get in bed. On the weekends since I get to sleep in a bit more I'll feel him in the morning while I'm still lying in bed.

Sleep: Good! Very grateful for this!! And I don't feel like I am as tired as I was last weekend either.

What I miss: My clothes not feeling tight. I pretty much strip as soon as I get home because I feel like everything I wear is restricting and uncomfortable. Even my maternity clothes. I like nothing more than to just be nekid! ha :)

Best moment this week: Seeing the nursery come together. I just adore it and can't wait to see Hunter sleeping or playing in his room on day. I also received my baby shower invitation on the mail!! Very exciting!! Thank you soooo much to my great friends Lindsey and Kristin for throwing me a shower!! xoxo

Looking forward to: Holding my baby boy!! GAH I can't wait!!!! We have two more relaxing weekends ahead of us and then for about 2 months straight we are busy busy busy with weddings, vacations, showers and football games. The business will be lots of fun and THEN...he'll be here!!! :)

Cravings: Hands down I think I officially have a craving. Azteca Mexican. Not any Mexican place it has to be Azteca! I LOVE there beans and rice and I always get the chimicanga. Hunter took me there last night and I could eat it again right now! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Symptoms: Ugh, I got one of those awful leg cramps last night. NO fun. My back is sore at times, and my stomach tight and achy especially after I eat. I'm really feeling great though. I have ZERO complaints.

Pictures: Taken on Tuesday before work when I was exactly 26 weeks.

Nursery Progress...

Here's some pictures of the progress we got done on the nursery this past weekend. At 26 weeks I feel really good about what we've gotten done and have left to do!



boring tan room before...


Hunter starting the painting process...


Trimming away....


Painting complete and moving onto putting together the crib...


There's just something about a man with a drill....wink wink ;)


Love him...LOTS when he's doing house projects :)


Tada...view from doorway




View from where the crib is...we plan to put a hanging bookshelf above where the rattan toy truck is.




Happy preggers girl...oh and don't mind the crooked lamp shade, we'll fix that ;)

Both Hunter and I LOVE how the wall color turned out. The chair, that will go kiddie cornered between the windows, is on order and we plan to hit up Ikea for the dresser/changing table this weekend.

Pretty sure I walk in the room about every night and just look around :)

Hunter 5's Nursery

Here's a little picture board I made of some items you might find in Hunter 5's Nursery. As of right now it's an empty tan colored room. We have designated saturday to get the room painted and maybe even the crib put together. Afterwards, on Sunday, you can find me at the spa getting a much needed prenantal massage.



The background color on the picture is the paint color we are going with. Vaspar Laura Ashley paint from Lowes called Navy 1.
(which I find ironic being that it's not navy at all but we are having a lot of navy in his room) must be meant to be :)

The bedding that looks fuzzy is Jackson Whales from potterybarn kids, paired with mini polkadot navy crib sheet, and Harper stripe navy crib skirt. Added bonus...it's all organic!!

The little Trevor sign above the crib is something I ordered off etsy. The one I ordered is customized with a V in the center representing roman numeral five and says Hunter at the bottom. Get it? Hunter V :)

The shelf, mirror, and burlap storage boxes are from Restoration Hardware baby and child.

The saftey pins I thought would look cute hanging above the changing table. They are from ballard designs.

The dresser we are going to use as a changing table at first and it is Ikea's Hemnes,

Rug, crib, curtains, turtle, and frames all PBkids

I hope everyone has a great weekend!! TGIF!!

25 Weeks!

Size of Baby: An Eggplant! We are officially in Month 6...all I can think about is how we have about 3 months to go. That just seems so soon! I can't wait :)

Weight Gain: As of last week I was at 21 pounds...I'll go with 22 this week.

Maternity clothes: Yes, most of the time. Lot's of maternity shorts and t-shirts on the weekends. To work I wear pants both maternity and non(with a belly band) and all maternity tops.

Gender: It's a boy! Hunter Lee Lunsford V

Movement: Lots. I love feeling my little boy move. I can feel it from the inside and see it on the outside. Today actually, I saw movement start at my belly button and ripple to my side. With every move I feel joy from reassurance that he is alive and well in there.

Sleep: Pretty good. Sleeping well, no swelling or stretch marks yet, never really felt super nauseous. This kid has been super nice to me so far. Let's keep that way little Hunter :)

What I miss: It's official I miss a glass of wine. Hunter and I used to enjoy a glass while we good our dinners now he has one alone :(, and watching all the drinking on the Bachelorette every week makes me want one. ha! Missing raw fish sushi lately too. I just googled to see if I could eat sushi while breast feeding because man I'm craving a good raw roll!

Best Moment this week: I had a lot of fun this past Saturday out on the lake with my little sister from big brothers big sisters. It was nice to concentrate on her for a day and not think to much about the pregnancy or myself. Saturday evening Hunter and I stopped into Lowes and picked out paint for the nursery, then headed to babies r us to pick up a shower gift, followed by a nice dinner. I'm pretty sure Hunter thought it was the lamest Saturday night ever but I thought it was nice :)

Looking forward to: Lately when sitting with Hunter in our living room at night I envision the future. I picture myself, Jake and my two Hunters snuggled up on the couch watching football with our fireplace warming the room. I can't wait :) In the more immediate future I'm looking forward to getting the nursery painted this weekend and possibly the crib put together!

Cravings: Sushi! And I really want one of those Digiorno frozen pizzas that come with the cookies. Yum! We saw a commerical for one last night and I told Hunter that's I wanted for dinner Friday night. He explained that we already have frozen pizza in the fridge so he could make that and just stop to get some break and bake cookies since it is essentially the same thing. I explained to him that it is NOT the same thing and I want them out of the same box! ha!

Symptoms: sooooooo tired. Not sure why, maybe because baby is growing big and taking up all my energy from me. who knows. I napped both Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon last weekend and I'm not normally a napper. Have felt a bit lightheaded at times in the past week too. Other than that,same old....stiff back, sensitive stomach on the inside, feeling of tightness on the outside.

Pictures:






Desiree and I on the lake last saturday

And some nursery progress pictures: sorry not the best I snapped these with my iphone (which is old school btw - doesn't even have a flash. ha!)


The molding Hunter hung


The closet he added a bottom self to. Isn't it the adorable with those little clothes hanging :)