26 week check up

The weather almost kept me from my 26 week check-up this past Friday. But I braved it, since the sun came out for a while, and did my monthly "pee in a cup" appointment. This time I saw Peggy, who is a nurse practioner. She was nice. She checked Chipmunk's heartbeat, which was 143. I was also weighed and measured....When I first got on the scale I had my boots and coat on, so the nurse asked me if they were really heavy. I had no clue, so I was willing to take it all off because the scale said I gained about 20 pounds this month! Winter clothing removed, I've gained 11 pounds this month. I told ya my belly was stickin' out farther now! And the measurement was 26. I have to laugh at it now, because I'm not really sure what that is for, other than it's the distance from the top of my belly to my pelvic bone. I'll ask next time. We talked about a family doctor after the baby was born, whether or not we were gonna have him circumcised, and if I was going to be breastfeeding or not....a little more productive visit this time. Maybe I'll refrain from calling it a "pee in a cup" appointment from now on. Now that I'm in my third trimester, I have to go back every 2 weeks. Next appointment is a blood test for gestational diabetes.

Then it was off to a busy weekend. Aaron and I went to Babies-R-Us on Saturday to do the registry while Jaron went to a movie with his two cousins and Aaron's mom. We dropped Jaron off at 2:00 at Tinseltown, and went across the street to Babies-R-Us to start scanning, and at 5:00 Jaron's movie was done so he came over and helped us because we weren't finished yet! Who would have thought that doing a baby registry would take so long. But we picked out a lot of nice stuff, most of which we agreed on. Aaron even asked the lady working there if there was any way to move things up on the list to "really important" or put stars on it. He scanned this backpack child carrier thing that he's really hoping he gets so he can take his boy out with him when he walks the dogs and such....hey, I want stars on that too....that means I get some "Mommy time!" And Jaron picked out a few toys he thinks his brother would like. They were both better at this than I expected them to be!

Then we went to pick up the crib and dresser at Burlington Baby Depot. Got it home....not assembled yet. My Thanksgiving vacation project is to clean out the bedroom that was once the computer/hunting room and get everything organized. Aaron will be at hunting camp Thursday after dinner until Tuesday next week.....so we'll see how much I can do :) It will be nice when I can walk in there and not see a mess.