A little more than twenty four!

24 weeks!

Baby is the size of a Cantaloupe?  I always have a hard time with their fruit/veggie descriptions of baby's size.  Cantaloupes are very spherical.  I doubt this little guy is built quite like that.  But I get the point, same weightish, same lengthish, my belly pokes out about that far (or farther)...But really. 

My belly has POPPED OUT!  I love to hear people say "oh you're so tiny" because it just makes my day that they would try that hard to be so nice to me.  hahaha  because I KNOW that I am not.  Weight gain?  yeeeeeeahhhh.  like 15 lbs already.  And it is mostly hips :)

No stretch marks yet, but I think that this kiddo will be my first experience with em (on the belly at least.  Like I said, I put most of my "motherly love" on the hips and buns so they are no stranger to a little give and stretch)

I'm still having a hard time getting my exercising groove back (refer to previous weight gain comment).  It feels like plenty to go up and down those dang stairs as much as I do.  

I am always hungry!!!!  Still loving MEAT AND CHEESE.  And rolls, but that's been my weakness all my life.  Let's not even discuss chocolate.  

That love comes from a long line of genetic inheritance.

WATER!!!  GIVE ME WATER!!!

I am one thirsty lady!  I can't imagine how it will be in August when I am sweating to death.  It is already getting hard to sleep at night because my legs get so restless, which I am sure I can attribute to not enough water.  I still nap whenever I can.  Hailey is in a glorious 2 to 3 hour nap phase and Matthew loves the 1 1/2 hour down time while I sleep and he watches a movie.

My irritation?  Directed solely at my "mask of pregnancy" DANG IT.  Dark spots on my forehead, nose, and cheeks do not make me happy.  I wear sunscreen every day and it isn't helping.  I wonder if it is normal but the rest of me tans ridiculously easy too.  Like frighteningly so.  Yesterday it was cloudy the majority of the HOUR we were outside and I came in with a farmer's tan.  I would be happy if I were still 16 and dying for the "perfect tan" rather than 26 and fully aware of how bad skin cancer can be!

I shouldn't complain at all though, pregnancy has been good to me.  Curt already can't even remember me ever being sick in the beginning!  I mean I remember it yeah, but I am sure it was more mild than 80% of pregnant women.  

I love to feel him kick.  I like to compare how each of my children moved inside of me.  Matthew would push on me and just sit there pushing for probably as long as his teeny arms/legs would allow it and I would have this painful knob sticking out.  Hailey was a slow roller.  She just rolled and rolled and gracefully swished along.  It actually tickled sometimes.  Yeah it got more painful when she was bigger, but not as painful as with Matthew.  I am not looking forward to the last month movements with this baby.  He likes to SLAM fast and then he pauses, and then BAM fast and another pause.  Quick, powerful movements. 

I daydream sometimes about what he will look like, obviously.  I waver between thinking he will be another little Matthew and thinking he will be all his own, because to me Matthew and Hailey really look nothing alike, except their chins and foreheads (I think they look like mine).

We think we have a name picked out.  Well, first name for SURE (we have known that for a long time, like since we started planning for Hailey) but maybe middle name now.  Curt's sold on it but I'm not as sure.

William Crew Coates

I really NEED him to have a middle name that starts with C just because by coincidence Matthew's and Hailey's both do (I didn't even realize the significance of it until recently, we didn't plan it to be like that).  Curtis and Colette.  And since this is our last baby, yes yes...topic for another day, he'd better go along with it too.  Curt's done trying to pick a name.  He just wants to leave it there with Crew.  but others on my list:

Carter

Carson

Cory

I think Carter may be my favorite, but Curt likes Crew better.  hahahaha that's a tongue twister.

Enough Rambling, we're doing great, baby's healthy!