23 Weeks

Another week down already! We are still searching for houses and just haven’t had much luck.  In the mean time we have been keeping busy trying to rearrange and organize our current home for a couple reasons…One to prepare for the obvious, Scarlett’s arrival since we may not be in a new home before she gets here, and two, to prepare for the local baby shower on July 15^th!

How Far Along: 23 weeks on 5/30/12
Size of Baby: She’s the size of a Papaya weighing approximately 1 ½ pounds and about 8 inches long. 
Baby Updates:  Taste buds have formed but she won’t be able to taste anything for another few months.  Also most of the fetal internal organs are not in place and beginning to function.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Mysteriously I am up a total of 18 pounds…I will confirm this at the doctor because I don’t know if it’s my scale or me!
Maternity Clothes: All maternity bottoms or elastic. Shirts are a combination of regular and maternity.
Gender: It’s a girl!! Scarlett Camille Shepherd 
Movement: She moves all the time but mostly after cold drinks or cold food.
Sleep: I'm sleeping okay still…
What I miss: Sleeping on my stomach and mixed drinks!
Cravings: Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt, and Peanut Butter…on toast, in candy, or in ice cream…or peanut butter candy in ice cream! 
Symptoms: Back aches and leg cramps
Best Moment this week: Getting various rooms in our house organized and de-cluttered, picking out a couple crib options…and actually knowing where we are going to put them! I also took a bow making class and now I know how to make all those crazy bows to put on her head!