Baby’s Size: Baby girl is the size of a Jicama… whatever that is! She is about 3 lbs (theoretically) and fattening up every day!

Baby’s Progress: All her senses are working, her body is gaining fat and her skin is becoming less translucent.  She can also suck her thumb, move her arms and legs (which trust me she is doing a lot of!)

Weight Gain: The weight gain is speeding up a bit, I gained about 1.5 lbs last week, and I feel like every morning that I get on the scale it goes up and up!

Sleep: I don’t know where I would be without my pregnancy pillow.  At the beginning of the pregnancy I couldn’t imagine needing it to sleep, but as it gets harder and harder to roll over in the middle of the night, I appreciate the pillow more and more!

Milestones: I can’t think of any big milestones this week, mostly just plugging along getting closer and closer to her arrival!

Favorite clothing item of the week: My maxi skirt from old navy has become such a staple in my wardrobe that I’m pretty sure a few people think its the only thing I can still wear!

Symptoms: My only major symptom is that I can’t breathe anymore!

Workout: I finished a 5K on saturday morning! For the last three years my husband and I have participated in a 5K at our church that benefits the food pantry, including running it the morning of our wedding! So now we celebrate by running it every year.  Although for obvious reasons, I didn’t run it, I walked it with a group of friends and their kiddos.  It was such a fun time and I liked starting the day out with some exercise.

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Although I’ve been mostly faithful about taking my weekly bump pictures, I wanted to get some professional photos taken of my husband and I during this phase of our lives! Most days I feel like this whole pregnancy thing is a really cool experience and I know that we won’t be just the two of us for much longer, so I wanted to capture that! (Plus how often do you get to take pictures without having to worry about sucking it in?!) Anyway, after doing some research it seems like 30-34 weeks is a pretty common time to get pictures taken (definitely pregnant, not so pregnant that you can’t move) and I was right at 30 weeks in these pictures.

We have a good friend in our small group from church who is a photographer, so she and her husband met us out at Arbor Hills, a local nature preserve to take the photos around sundown one day.  I cannot tell you how pleased I am with the way the pictures turned out!! Especially since I didn’t really take the time I should have to plan out our outfits! Alicia and I had talked previously and I had shown her some maternity photos that I had pinned on the ever-inspiring Pinterest, so we were on the same page of what I was looking for.  She is crazy talented, check out her website: Alicia Skinner Photography.  She will also be taking some photos of Baby Girl once she arrives, so I can’t wait to see how those turn out!

Anyway, on with the good stuff:

I wore two different outfits, the first is a regular outfit for me.  I’ve been loving the maxi skirt and jean jacket combo… comfortable and cute too!

This black dress has also been a staple for me during pregnancy, and I love the way the coral necklace adds a pop of color.  

But the real show stopper in these pictures are the flowers! How pretty are the wildflowers in Texas right now?!  You’d never know you were in the middle of a pretty big suburb in these photos!

I have a very sassy look on my face in this next picture, but I love the way it turned out!

We are so excited for this little girl to make her appearance, and I was so happy to get to capture this glimpse of time! Thanks Alicia for all the wonderful photos!!

All photos in this post are copyrighted 2015 by Alicia Skinner Photography.

Baby’s Size: Baby girl weighs the same as a coconut and should start growing several ounces each week. The doctor thinks she is on track to be in the 6-7 lb range which she said is normal for people like me… I think she means SHORT, but she seems pleased with the growth, so I’ll take it!

Baby’s Progress: She is still just getting bigger and developing more– she moves ALL THE TIME and apparently can turn her head from side to side.

Weight Gain: I gained a lb this week, so I am up to about 12 lbs over my pre-pregnancy weight.  Although I’ve been told the weight gain really ramps up in these last few weeks… so we will see if that happens!

Sleep: I’ve had a sore throat and major allergies this week which turned into a pretty nasty cough, so I’m pretty sure THAT’s what is keeping me up at night.  But that combined with the need to pee every time I wake up means I haven’t been getting a lot of good sleep this week.  Knock on wood I can knock out this cold and go back to sleeping a bit before baby girl gets here.

Milestones: I don’t really have any milestones this week, except that she is really moving around, so its been kinda fun for other people to see/feel her move around in there.  I did go to a high school musical production of Guys and Dolls and baby girl apparently LOVED that since she moved around for every musical number.  Between that and a concert I attended Sunday night, Baby Girl is getting a lot of musical education and she seems to really love it! Hopefully she’ll inherit more of her dad’s musical abilities and not mine so that she can actually participate in music rather than just like to hear it!

Favorite clothing item of the week: SHORTS! We had a GORGEOUS day last Saturday where it hit 90 degrees and was a hint of summer, and I wore a pair of shorts a friend handed down to me, linen shorts with an elastic maternity waistband… YES PLEASE.

Symptoms: Back pain is mostly gone so it seems like that really is related to me over-doing it 🙂 My treat this week is that she is big time pushing up on my diaphragm and lungs making it awfully hard to breathe.  That combined with the stuffiness and cough means breathing is a real trick.

Workout: does walking up and down the stairs count? Because as out of breath as it makes me… it really feels like it.

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