Bumpdate: Week 26

How Far Along: Twenty-six weeks!

Total Weight Gain: Doctor's office scales said 19 lbs. Oh happy day!

Maternity Clothes: YES!! I finally did it! I broke down and went on a shopping spree! My summer shorts from last year were clearly never going to work so I started with shorts and ended up grabbing a couple of shirts while I was at it! Look out world, I can breathe so much easier than I could a week ago!

Gender: Boy, all boy!

Movement: Moving more now than ever - one night this week it was the most intense I've felt him yet and I loved every second of it! Typically he holds perfectly still the moment Brandon touches my belly, but this night he was on a roll (quite possibly literally). We laughed for a good five minutes feeling him squirm.

Sleep: Like a baby...

What I Miss: Still holding strong to my "we're having a healthy little boy, nothing is as good as that" theory.

What I'm Looking Forward To: Going home for the weekend and having time to actually catch up with my sweet family! And our trip to Italy is right around the corner! Eek!

Cravings: Ice cream or frozen yogurt, doesn't matter to me... My sweet tooth is going crazy lately!

Aversions: I thought I was going to finally have something to say on this question again after this week, but it turns out that glucose test everyone curses is really not that bad at all!! It just tastes like flat orange pop... I can totally handle that! **It had been recommended to me that I drink it through a straw so I took one and I truly believe it made the experience much more pleasant. Just shot that stuff straight to the back of my throat!

Other Crazy Symptoms: Same ol', same ol'.

Daddy Update: Daddy's doing good... See below.

Best Moment of the Week: I got sweet surprises this week from my precious husband. Despite the fact that it was Mother's Day, I truly didn't have any expectations - I don't consider myself a mother yet... I feel like an actual baby is required to live in your house before you qualify for Mother's Day presents, but apparently I'm the only one! My sweet husband surprised me with a bottle of my favorite Michael Kors perfume. It was so thoughtful of him... And then he came home from working at the hospital with the most beautiful bouquet of wonderful smelling star-gazer lilies! Momma loves some fresh flowers!! To top it off he took me to a yummy dinner of my choice (hibachi despite the fact that he had stir-fry for lunch and we were having sushi the next day!) followed by a big ol' bowl of frozen yogurt! That's one good man right there... Here's to hoping Cooper is half as sweet as his daddy!

I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.

So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.

1 Samuel 1:27-28