24 Weeks

How far along?: 24 weeks!

How big is baby?: 12.5 inches, 1.25 lbs.

Food cravings?: Apple Pies from McDonalds!

What I'm looking forward to: The 3-D ultrasound! (Which I really need to schedule, lol.)
Milestone: Baby is basically at the point now where the rest of this pregnancy she is going to just continue fattening up and developing her systems.

Sleep?: Sort of. I'm struggling with having to pee in the middle of the night (like every 2 hours) and when I have to wake up a 3:45 am to get up for work it's kind of frustrating, but I'm making it work.

Best moment this week?: Getting our new puppy Gizmo and watching Sam play with him and love on him, it's too cute!

Feelings this week?: This week has been pretty good. We got our new puppy and it was one of the best decisions I've made in a while, Sam absolutely loves him, and I didn't realize this, but I'm hoping it will help me for when Ella comes along since I'm having to teach Sam about how to be gentle with the puppy. He's not understanding yet that Gizmo isn't a stuffed animal, so that poor puppy has sustained his fair amount of little kicks and smacks so far. I'm also seeing a little bit of jealousy from Sam too, sometimes when I'm holding Gizmo, Sam will come up and love on me and try to push the puppy out of my lap.  I'm hoping we can curb that before Ella comes along. I didn't realize he would be jealous... I wish I could take him around a newborn to see how he acts... Whatever happens I know it's going to be a rough few weeks of adjustment once she's here!

Sam is also maturing so fast! We put him into his new bed and at first I was having to spend 45 minutes to rock him to sleep. Now we read a few books and he doesn't want me to rock him anymore. We read our books, but as soon as the lights go out where I usually rock and sing to him, he says: "bed" at first I was thinking that I would put him in bed and he'd get out of the bed and start playing as soon as I shut the door.. nope, he went right to sleep. The last 3 nights he's done this. It just surprises me how well he's adjusted to being in the big boy bed!