I think this one is from around 24 weeks.
And this one from about 28 weeks.
And this is from yesterday, 30.5 weeks.
Eric and I were looking back over pictures from when I was pregnant with Phoebe, and I thought I look about the same this time, although I feel like I'm bigger. But now, I don't know ... I think I am actually bigger! I seem to compare to pics of when I was around 33 weeks with her. Good grief ... my stomach got ENORMOUS at the end of that pregnancy. I am amazed every time I look at the last belly pic. I sure hope I don't go so far past my due date this time around.
I still feel really well. I'm more uncomfortable, and sometimes have a hard time sleeping. My low back is starting to bother me a little more, though not enough (yet) to warrant a trip to Dr. Longo. I think my hips are starting to loosen because they bother me the most, after I've been sitting or laying down.
Eric has nicknamed the baby Bacon. At first it seemed so weird but now I'm used to it. Ha! Of course, I already feel the need to apologize if baby turns out to be a girl; somehow it seems okay to nickname a boy Bacon.
Bacon is very, very wiggly! I've felt movement pretty consistently from around 13 weeks, just flutters at first, but still consistent. Then they were kicks, etc., and now I think it's crowded enough in there that all Bacon can manage are some stretches and hiccups!
As for names, we are still set on Anderson Clark for a boy, and pretty set on Adele Joan for a girl. Since we've named the other two after grandmothers, I feel really compelled to continue that if we have another girl, and it makes more sense to use Joan before Virginia, since Mommom Joan is an active part of our lives and Grandma Sita isn't really. However, I don't care so much for how it sounds with Adele, but I can't come up with anything else. Adele is the first name we both have consistently liked the best -- every now and then we say, "What about ____?" and consider that for a while, but then end up crossing it off the list for one reason or another. There are other names I like better, but Eric doesn't, and we have to agree! So for now, Adele Joan it is, though I asked him to be open-minded if I deliver a girl and say, "She isn't an Adele."
And, just for the record, I think Bacon is a boy. I don't want to tell anyone what I think, because they will take it as me hoping for a boy, and I'm really not. I really truly don't care, so I try to be really careful not to say anything either way. Of course I've told Eric, and maybe Mandy, but that's it.
We've decided that it would be really fun to have the girls find out the baby's gender first, so once I deliver we'll make an announcement with stats, but no gender or name to anyone, not even local family. Then once the girls meet their new sibling, we'll let them tell! I think it will make it even more special for the girls.
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