Baby Love: Week 23

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 23 weeks
Size of Baby: More than 11 inches long and weighs just over 1 pound. Baby weighs about as much as a large mango.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 6 1/2 pounds (Again, I am positive I've gained more, but won't know until my OB appointment next Friday exactly how much.)

Maternity Clothes: The shirt I'm wearing in today's pic is maternity; it's the same as the one I wore at 20 weeks, just a different color.

Gender: Boy!

Movement: Still feeling our lil mover and shaker consistently throughout the day, and seeing him more and more when I can take a few minutes to lay down and watch!

Food Cravings: All things sweet. The other night after putting Kaiser down to bed, I immediately grabbed my keys and drove to the grocery store to buy a tub of ice cream and a dozen cookies from their bakery. The ice cream is still here, but I won't tell you how long it took for those cookies to disappear...

What I Miss: Haven't been missing anything lately.

Sleep: I've woken up during the night a couple of times this week with horrible leg cramps. I remember getting these when I was pregnant with Kaiser; I can't remember when they started, but I have a feeling they're here to stay!

Symptoms: A growing midsection (had my first total stranger ask me if I was expecting this morning!) and occasional shortness of breath when I'm exerting myself.

Best Moment This Week: Taking Kaiser to his first "swim lesson" on Monday night. Next summer braving the pool is going to be a little more difficult with two kiddos, so I'm going to learn all I can while I just have to keep track of one!

What I Am Looking Forward To: Our busy upcoming week--ortho resident graduation, Kaiser's 18-month checkup, my 24-week appointment, and an ortho BBQ!

No pics of the boy and I together this week, but I did catch him trying to take his own picture while I was setting up the tripod to take mine. He set his camera on a little table and was looking at it with a big smile, saying "Tam-ra, cheese!"