I seriously can not believe how fast time is flying by!  I am 27 weeks today!!  I will be in my third trimester next week!! That is just insane to think about!  I feel like I just found out I was pregnant with our little Ryder Patrick and now we are only 13 weeks away from meeting him!!

I haven’t been getting sick lately which is awesome!  Besides the heart burn every once in awhile which is cured by the wonderful cherry flavored, chewy rolaids!   My only complaint lately is my hips… oh boy, DO THEY EVER HURRRT!   It’s usually towards the end of the day when I am waddling already and walking like I am 80 years old because they hurt too bad to stand up straight!  Ohhh and BRAXTON HICKS! Blah! They SUCKK! I get them so much during the day, even when I am just sitting on my butt doing NOTHING!  Ryder also likes to dig into my ribcage… it makes sitting down pretty darn uncomfortable!!  I can’t believe how active he is… I have a feeling I am going to have my hands full with this little guy!

This week marks him at 2lbs now!   It’s so exciting to know that just in 3 months, we will be a family of 4!  Bella is so excited.  Not a day goes by where she asks what her baby brother is doing… it’s so cute!  Anytime I put my hand on my belly she asks “is my baby bruder moving?”.   The other day, we were standing in line at Safeway and there was a little girl behind us with her mom, she was probably 5 or 6.  Bella and the little girl kept staring at eachother and right before it was our turn to cash out, Bella looks at the little girl and puts both her hands on my belly, almost like she was showing off my belly! I thought it was sooo cute!   She’s going to be an excellent big sister & such a big help to me! I can’t wait!!!

We have decided that his nursery will be done in trains!  My dad has worked at the rail road since he was 17 years old so I kinda wanted to do it for my dad, since this is his first grandson It’s a pretty big deal to him!  I can’t wait to start decorating.  I have soo many ideas!  I am going to do my maternity pictures at a train track & put some of the prints on his wall… and I also have some pretty rad pictures I have done of some trains & tracks so I will put those in black & white and also put those on his wall!  I think we might put his name on the wall in a graffiti kind of lettering too!  I don’t want the traditional “train nursery”.  I don’t want it to be super colorful… I just want reds, black & a tan/khaki color, I think.  I guess I better get started! I’m such a SLACKERRRR! haha!

I just recently pulled out my cd’s of pictures from when I was pregnant with Bella.  It’s fun to compare week by week how big I was with her vs. now.  I look pretty close to the same size, I think.

This is me with Bella at 27 weeks in the pink pajama pants.  And then last two pics are of me at 26 weeks now (B&W pic) and at 27 Weeks now: