And Everywhere She Went, Beauty Followed: 25 Weeks and Round One Pregnancy Photos!

This past Saturday I reached the 25 week mark.

Notable benchmarks for this week include: Declan is around 13 1/2 inches long and weighs about one-and-a-half pounds! He's getting some "baby fat" on him, looking more like a newborn and if we could look at him we would be able to see his hair color and texture!

This past week Declan has still been kicking like crazy...I even noticed, at one point, that when he kicked my belly moved! I couldn't tell if it was a hand, foot, elbow, or knee but I SAW my stomach move. There is definitely a miniature person in there!!! Incredible. I also felt a lot of stretching and some uncomfortableness as well...like I am running out of space and need to grow to accommodate Declan.

Crazy dreams this week included my vegetarian sister doing surgery on a small crocodile with an x-acto knife; and visiting a former co-worker's home unannounced and finding his house with two kids under 5 and all immaculately white and clean...someone tell me the meaning behind THAT dream! Ha!

This week's pregnancy update photo will be a little different. Since Saturday was such a nice day I talked my hubby into trotting around Green Bay with a camera to take pictures of me. I liked the way they turned out (Ryan's so creative!) so, instead of the normal picture of me in my newly-christened guest bedroom, you get pics of me outside, from different angles! Yay!

Nursery Progress: I got half of the "Declan" wall hanging up, when I had to quite because I was too frustrated! Too easily frustrated would probably be better phrasing. :) I will be putting the knobs on the dresser and the drawers back on and placing it where I want it to be.

I {finally} put stuff on my registry. What a task! There are thousands of the same product, only slightly different and so I was completely overwhelmed at first. Then, I asked some trusted friends for advice and they gave me a great starting point and I was able to not feel so overwhelmed for a first-timer.