16 Weeks

How far along? 16 weeks

How big is baby? Baby E is the size of an avocado 

Total weight gain/loss: I am up about 4 pounds, yikes!

Maternity clothes? I bought one maternity shirt last weekend and wore it for the first time yesterday

Sleep: I still get up at least once to pee and have become quite warm at night now but other than that I sleep well

Best moment this week: My belly finally looks like there is a baby growing in there and not like I ate to large pizzas 

Movement: I know from all my research that baby is moving around like crazy in there but as much as I would like to feel it, it is still too early

Food cravings:  No craving this week

Food Aversions: None this week

Gender: Still a surprise

Labor Signs:  Too early

Pregnancy Symptoms:  My big belly, congestion that will apparently last the enitre pregnancy

Belly Button in or out? In

What I miss:  Not having to trim my nails every week. They are seriously growing so fast

What I am looking forward to:  Feeling baby move, hearing baby's heart week on Friday

Upcoming appointments/events:  My 16 week appointment is on Friday

Milestones: I finally got some of my energy back!

This week was relatively boring, we didn't do anything fun or exciting. The new front desk girl at work quit so I am back to working all day everyday at the front desk, sigh. I mentioned last week that I had started a registry. Right now everything on the registry is gender neutral and even if I decide to find out baby's gender I think I will keep everything on the registry neutral and then Kevin and I can pick out the gender themed items.Kevin will be finding out the gender of the baby, I have not yet decided if I will also find out or wait until birth, at first I was completely against finding out but now that I have looked around and found how hard it is to find gender neutral clothing I am leaning towards maybe finding out with Kevin. Another decision that will need to be made is whether or not we will share the gender with family and friends. At this point in time I am thinking we will not tell and keep baby's gender a secret until birth.

 We are registered at babies-r-us and kind of registered at Target. The target registry has almost nothing on it and it will stay that way. I am not going to update it, I think it is incredibly silly to register for the exact same things at two stores(Keep in mind that babies-r-us will price match any store physical or online) You will also probably notice there are no diapers on the registry, this is not a mistake, Kevin and I are going to cloth diaper Baby E. 

If you would like to help us build up our diaper stash we will be using blueberry diapers but I can not figure out how to make a registry with them. 

http://www.blueberrydiapers.com/Cloth-Diapers
We will need a minimum of 40 newborn diapers and 40 one size diapers. If you are going to purchase diapers I ask that you please stick to solid colors and let Kevin and I shop for the prints. We will be using the capri covers and also using the all in ones or simplex diapers. Right now the inventory to pick from is minimal as they are gearing up and restocking for the new year so feel free to browse what they have and if you are interested in purchasing I would recommend waiting until they restock.