23 Weeks - Beginning of my 6th Month!

Wow time is flying by! I just started my 6 month today according to my "What to Expect When You Are Expecting" book. I have been feeling a lot more movement from Baby Burns lately. After my last post, I began feeling him moving at night when I would relax on the couch or sometimes while driving. Sometimes I won't feel him for a day or two, and then he comes back with a vengeance! He still has plenty of room to move around in there and if he is facing my back he is just hitting my placenta which I really wouldn't feel so I don't worry about it.

According to the book he should weigh about a pound now and should be about 8 inches long, about the size of a small doll. By the end of the month he should double his weight which I'm sure means I will be poking out much more!

I can definitely no longer deny that I am prego. My bump is out there in all its glory :) A couple of weekends ago, I flew to Atlanta for my cousin Laura's baby shower. She is also having a boy named Camden and is due very shortly (June 7). There were three prego's there, Laura, myself, and our cousin Wendy who is due with a girl about 3 weeks behind me. It was funny to see all of us in our different stages. While there, I started my registry at Babies R Us. My mom and I were walking around the store shopping for my cousin, when we found a clearance table. We found some really cute baby bedding that was marked down from $169 to $60. Corey and I hadn't even really decided our theme but since the colors were great and so was the price I snatched it up! We even found some curtains and a few accessories that matched the colors that were also clearanced out. The colors are chocolate brown, orange, sage green, yellow, red, etc. The bedding has 2 giraffes on it (Corey and I have a thing for giraffes) and then circles and stripes in all of the colors. I liked that it was more color/pattern oriented than "themed". Now there are a lot of colors so that no matter what anyone buys us it should match. I will post pictures once I take some.

The day I got back from Atlanta, Corey and I drove to Florence to pick up baby furniture at Target. Our local Target was out of stock of the dresser to go with our furniture and it couldn't be ordered online, so we drove there to pick it up. We got the dresser and changing table, and the next day I picked up the crib at our local store. We have decided to keep the paint color we already had (tan) and just add a white chair rail and touch up the baseboards, etc. We figured since the bedding and accessories have so much color than we would keep the walls neutral. Corey isn't complaining about less work either!

I go back to the doctor next Tuesday (June 1) for my 6 month checkup. After that I will go back at 28 weeks for my gestational diabetes test, checkup, and a follow up ultrasound to see if the Choroid Plexus Cysts have gone away (fingers crossed they have!).

This weekend, my mom and my sister Tina and I are going to Charlotte for a mom/daughter weekend. On accident, we happened to pick the same weekend as the Nascar race so it should be interesting! We are going to finish up my registries and do some baby shopping. I am registered at Target already but we are going to finish up my registry at Babies R Us since we don't have one here. Thankfully Toys R Us (which we do have) carries some baby stuff, but online ordering is awesome :)

We have our first baby showers at the end of June (my work couples shower and the Burns family shower) which we are excited for. My family showers will probably be towards the end of July. We have also registered for a childbirth class/tour of the hospital which we will take July 10th. In August we have also registered for a newborn/infact care class. Hopefully this will be a bonding experience for Corey and I, and make us both feel a bit more confident about our upcoming transition into PARENTS!

Also in July, we are having a 3D/4D ultrasound done to hopefully get some nice facial pictures and a video of our little guy! I am excited because we can take both of our parents/siblings to this ultrasound so they can all share the experience with us. Hopefully by then he will have a name. We are still playing around with a few, so hopefully soon he will no longer be Baby No Name!

Sorry for such a long post, its been a busy few weeks. Thanks for all of the continued prayers and support!

Love, Corey, Ashley, Baby Burns, and Izzie