Stretch marks and cankles

Oh yes, ladies and gents. The stretchies and cankles have arrived, in full force. The belly is getting heavy-ish. I'm hungry and full at the same time. I'm finally starting to feel like an actual pregnant chick!

(Mr. Olive is the sweetest husband ever. He's making lie down with my legs propped up, and is scolding me for calling these sweet puppies cankles. He says they're just temporarily swollen.)

I took my glucose test yesterday exactly @ 28 weeks. They said that no news is good news by day after tomorrow. :fingers crossed: that I pass!

Mr. Olive and I picked out some paint samples, and got some swatches up on the wall for the nursery. Super exciting! I can't wait to get it painted. Will post pictures once some progress has been made! :)

3rd Trimester.

(Meant to post this yesterday but we got home late and I was starving so I ate instead of blogging. So sue me!)

But yeah, so yesterday I hit 27 weeks and the beginning of the 3rd trimester. I can't believe how quickly time is flying. Thankfully, everything is going really well.

Last weekend, I had a hard time sleeping. I went to bed at 10:45, but sleep would just NOT come. And then around 1:30 or so, Oliver decided to take up kickboxing as a hobby. He kept me up like that for about another hour, the little stinker!

Mr. Olive and I have been sorting baby clothes and picking up some sweet onsies here and there. And soon, work on the nursery will commence. We're picking up some paint chips tonight. :)

Patterns!

I've been noticing over the past several days that Oliver is kinda set in his ways. He's been kicking around in the late morning, late afternoon, late evening, and then around 12:30 AM. With that last slot being the most active. So yep, definitely our kid. ;)

And so begins the search

At our last appointment, our midwife recommended we start researching pediatricians. I asked if they had recommendations, and they said they don't. Big fat dead end. Sigh.

I logged on to my company's health website, and spent a good 20 minutes trying to find where they moved the link to the provider directory. Only to find that there are over 300 listings within a 10 mile radius. Greaaaaat.

What we're looking for in a pediatrician is someone who is a little more "granola" and "crunchy" than one who is all about drugs. We want a pedi who won't force vaccines on Oliver. (There's family history behind this.)

Calling all those practices to inquire is going to be a giant pain in the ass, and incredibly time consuming. I am not looking forward to it! So wish me luck!

Oliver is making himself known. :)

I felt one Thursday night, but Mr. Olive was in the other room and by the time I moved, Oliver stopped. But last night, Mr. Olive got to feel one. The look on his face was absolutely perfect and I totally teared up. (So did he!) It was ossum.

I've been relaxing on the couch watching TV, just feeling bumps and thumps.

I also went on a shopping spree last night for cloth diapers. I picked up:

- 1 BG 4.0
- 1 Thirsties Duo
- 1 GrowVia
- 4 hemp inserts

Retail price? $84.60

What I paid? $44.11

So we're up to 5 CD's now, and slowly building.

(Plus our diaperbag came in the mail today, which I got for $35 instead of $75. Schweet.)

And the results are in!

We had our anatomy scan on the 27th, and had the ultrasound tech put the gender results in an envelope. Mr. Olive took the envelope to our local bakery and had them bake a cake with either pink or blue frosting depending on what the envelope contained.

We had our immediate families and a few close friends over for a barbecue today, and cut into the cake:

OliveBaby is a boy!

We'd have been happy either way, but I was really starting to think it was a girl, because so many people were convinced and I figured, "They'll probably be right!"

Will post more later; exhausted from a great weekend. :)

Anatomy scan!

We went this past Tuesday for our anatomy scan. OliveBaby appears to have 2 legs, 2 arms, kidneys, a 4-chamber heart and all the rest of that necessary stuff. Of course, the little stinker wouldn't roll over and show it's face, so we know it's got OlivePapa's personality. ;) This also meant no creepy 20-week face shot. :)

Everyone is DYING to know if OliveBaby is a girl or a boy. Well, we've got that information in a sealed envelope, and we're taking it to a bakery this week and handing it over. We're going to have them do either pink or blue cake inside, with green on the outside, and we'll cut it and serve it to our family, so that everyone finds out together. :) That will happen a week from today! (Yikes, time flies!!!)

Also, I'm at work today, a Sunday, which totally suck. But OliveBaby is kickin' away and making me smile from ear to ear. :)