18 Week Bumpdate

18 weeks (4) copy
I feel like I have popped just a little the last few days. Belly feels higher and heavier! And please excuse the outfit. I was too lazy to change for the photo.

How far along: 18 weeks!
Baby: Is the size of a sweet potato
Total Weight Gained: Up another 1/2 lb this week. So that brings it up to 2 1/2 lbs! appetite is increasing, which is good because Hubby was thinking I was starving our child. 
Sleep: is great. I love sleep. I love naps. 
Maternity Clothes: a pair of jeans from Old Navy that are still too big and I just bought a pair of jeans from H&M that are perfect! I love them. Full belly band and all, they still look like fashionable jeans. A definite recommend if you are preggo. (Who knew H&M had a maternity section?!)
Best Moment of the Week: getting TCBY for my first time- vanilla frozen yogurt with blackberries & strawberries, simply amazing. I can't wait to go back! 
Food Cravings: pretty much any fruit, love em. And I've really been wanting Boardwalk french fries.
Aversions: steak & shrimp. 
Symptoms: preggo mind...I'm pretty sure it's arrived! Clumsier too..dropping things left and right. && I'm still occasionally getting sick..boo. Oh and minor lower back discomfort has already started, eek. I'm in for it!
Movement: is picking up! I've been able to feel baby from the outside a bunch more now. This morning laying in bed I would poke at my belly and he/she would kick back at me. Amazing every time.  
Gender:  9 days until the big ultrasound!
What I miss: feeling normal on a daily basis, though I don't know if I will ever really feel 'normal' again!
What I'm looking forward to: Finding out whether our sweetness is a handsome baby boy or beautiful baby girl!
Weekly Wisdom: I've got nothin right now.
Milestones: He/she is now developing fingerprints and yawning!

If you haven't already make sure you take a guess at Baby Pug's gender on the top left of my blog! only 9 days left to vote :)

Baby is growing...

Baby, fetus at 18 weeks - BabyCenter

A few of my favourite things over on Moonlight and Whimsy

Happy Monday everyone

Have you been to visit Moonlight and Whimsy - Erica has asked me to list all of my favourite things so today you will find me over there where I have put together a collage of all my favourite items that go into making a great dessert or candy table.

Stop by and visit their online store where you will find lots of great buys for your next event.


{Images:  Sweet Style}
Leanne

Easter Baking Pretties

Easter Baking Pretties by Torie Jayne
Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you another Easter Inspirational board, this time with the sweetest flowery cupcakes and what's not to love about the piped grass cupcakes with eggs? For more Easter inspiration, both in and out of the kitchen, check out my Easter Pinterest board!


I must dash. I have got so much baking to do!

Have a sweet day!

Good Cop… er, Gooder Cop



So, we have a problem in Maxabellaland. We don’t have a Bad Cop. Instead we have conversations that go a little bit like this…

“Nice work, honey. You were meant to be the Bad Cop in there.”

“Wasn’t I Bad? That was my Bad.”

“Talking about putting on your cranky pants and doing a little jig is not Bad.”

And…

“What happened to Bad Cop back there?”

“I was Good Cop. I thought you were doing Bad Cop.”

“You thought kisses and cuddles and ‘ask your father’ was Bad Cop?”

So. Yes, we have a problem in Maxabellaland.

We’re definitely not the kind of parents who want to be our kids’ friends. Hell no. So we’re ready to step up and be the Bad Cop. It’s just that we’re both so easy going that we just don’t have that overwhelming FINALITY that a good Bad Cop parent has. I remember my dad in ‘hell hath no fury like a father whose children will not get out of bed on time’ mode. Man, that was BAD Cop. When there is absolutely no guarantee that your father isn’t capable of spontaneously combusting and setting you on fire, you do as your told.

Which leaves LOML and I… well, where exactly? We’ve managed to grow these Tsunamis for nearly seven years without a Bad Cop, but we can feel the need growing and growing along with their clever little minds. Without the finality of Bad Cop, we just don’t stand a chance.

So, please, have you got any suggestions to help us unleash our inner Harvey Keitel?

[Image via weheartit]