Hello 3rd Trimester!! 27 week Update

Where has the time gone?? I feel like I just blinked and now there are only 3 more months until baby VS will grace us with her presence!  The first trimester was agonizingly slow... and now I am losing track of the weeks!

I'm feeling pretty good for the most part minus some lower/back foot aches when I try to push myself too hard.  Who am I kidding... sometimes I just walk around the grocery store and I feel like I need a nap.  I am noticing the extra weight and missing my pre-pregnancy body.  It's a lot harder to turn over in bed and get up and down these days!  The hardest part for me regarding this whole pregnancy is that my brain thinks that I am the same person that I was pre-pregnancy, but my body doesn't cooperate.  For example:

My brain says, "Bend over and pick up the towel that just fell on the floor."

My body says, "Ooooo, bending over doesn't feel like what it used to!!"

My brain says, "Busy day ahead!  Do 3 loads of laundry, clean all the bathrooms, vacuum and mop the floors, dust, hike 10 miles, plan meals for the week, go grocery shopping, knock out that 6 page paper, read a few chapters in my textbook, take the dogs for a walk, return some work e-mails."

My body says, "Wake up, eat breakfast, do 1 load of laundry, sit and rest, eat lunch, sit and rest, think about all the things you want to get done, take a nap, make and eat dinner, go to bed early."

Yes.. I'm exaggerating.  But seriously, it's hard to listen to my body and not my brain sometimes!!

On the flip side...  

The little missy is moving around A TON!  Scott was finally able to feel her for the first time, and sometimes when I'm sitting still I see my stomach pop up and down with her little punches.  I love being reminded of her presence so much throughout the day.  It truly makes it all worth it.  

Apparently this is what she is looking like these days.  She can now see, hear, respond to environmental noises, and although I have yet to experience the feeling, she can even get the hiccups!  She also likes to kick my bladder... and now I get to know what it feels like to go to the bathroom every single hour of the day.  I always thought that was an exaggeration.  Now I know... it's not.

The nursery is coming along beautifully!  Since my last pregnancy update post, we have added a crib, the cutest lamp EVER (shown above), and a dresser (shown above)!  I have purchased shelves, put drawer liners in the dresser, folded her little clothes and put them in the drawers, and spent quite a bit of time fantasizing about her arrival. Oh, and my amazing handy dandy hubby installed a ceiling fan so she won't die of heat stroke since we live in Arizona.  YAY!

I cannot WAIT for her to get here.  Even though the pregnancy is flying by, I just want to hold her in my arms... like... right this second.  In the mean time, Scott and I are really enjoying our time together.  He is going to be such a good dad!  I can't wait to see him hold her for the first time.  I know our lives are about to change so much in the next few months and I am so excited to begin this next chapter!