100th Blog Post: The 3rd Trimester

This is my 100th blog post! When I was in first grade we learned about 100 and we counted to the 100th day of school. On that day, everyone got balloons and we went for a parade around school. So, consider me paraded.

Today is also the beginning of week 28 of pregnancy (7 months) and the start of my third trimester! Here is my belly shot (please excuse the tired face, it was early in the morning...):

We have been busy busy with baby preparations, but it makes it all the more real and exciting!

We ordered a rocking chair – I loooove this chair already!

We ordered a crib, took it out of the box for inspection, and returned it to the box. We love the crib, but we're not ready to set up all her stuff yet.

The crib will have legs and some other stuff.

We spent the long, Thanksgiving weekend rearranging the bedrooms to make space for our new addition. The baby will sleep in our room at the beginning and we'll use the office to store her clothes and everything else.

There is now room in our bedroom (along the empty wall beside the rocking chair, which you can't see) for her crib and changing table.

And we consolidated things in the office to make room for more shelving, as needed, and cleaned up the closet.

I also finished knitting the baby blanket. Final measurements are 3 feet by 2.5 feet.

Concentric Squares (though, they're more rectangles...)

Close up of the pattern.

The baby seems to be doing well. She is now about 2.25 pounds and about 14.8 inches long. My phone app tells me she is the size of a Chinese cabbage. She moves around A LOT but I love to feel her little kicks and turns. She seems to like music and moves even more when I play songs or sing to her.

And finally, here's a picture of me (looking a little better) at 27 weeks.

Some people have been asking, so we put together a baby registry on Amazon. You can view it here if you are interested. However, we would prefer not to receive too many baby things until closer to or after her birth – it's a Jewish thing.

Grab some balloons and come join my parade!