14 Weeks Pregnant!

14 Weeks Pregnant!

Friday, January 31, 2014

Officially SECOND TRIMESTER!!! WHOO HOO!!! Baby Growth:  Leo can now squint, frown, grimace, tee tee, and suck his or her thumb! At this point Leo is roughly 3 1/2 inches long (size of a lemon) and weighs 1 1/2 ounces!  My Symptoms:  Second Trimester is FOR SURE here :) My energy has gotten much better. We actually had two snow days this week from school (with no snow) and I was feeling good enough to plan FUN things for the kids rather than just watch movies and chill like we did so often over Christmas when I was freshly pregnant.  The biggest tell-tale sign for me that I'm in the 2nd trimester is that I will have times where I forget I'm pregnant and just feel NORMAL. I def feel more like I can conquer the world (and handle three children!) when I'm feeling like my normal self instead of being so tired and achey and worn out :) Sadly, this pregnancy is following suit of my others: I'm having the migraines. Boo. Drinking Spark every day REALLY mak...

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NYC Day 3

NYC Day 3

Thursday, January 30, 2014

When we first decided to go to New York I really only wanted to stay three nights. On Aflac trips I'm fine without the kids for the first couple of days, but towards the end of the trip I start getting that I-miss-my-babies itch! However, I'm very thankful we decided (well, Zach really decided!) to stay four nights for this trip. Day 2 was kinda a bust due to the weather and I'm glad we had another full day to enjoy the city!!! SNOW FREE :) I don't think I've ever been so thrilled to look out the window and not  see snow falling :)  We slept in, which was heavenly, and Zach ran down to "our" bagel shop to get us breakfast. Breakfast in bed is another small luxury you just don't fully appreciate until you have children :) More amazing sexy pictures of yours truly ;) Our first mission was to go back to Central Park. While it wasn't snowing, the snow was still on the ground and we wanted to get to see it!!! Both of us agreed that this was...

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