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Can you believe I'm six months pregnant? Still feeling great! If I slouch too much or spend too much time on my feet, some part of my back will be in pain, but it's generally nothing big (except for after a wedding!) Mike and I have been taking a Bradley childbirth class and I'm loving it. Chances of me getting him to read "Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way" are probably slim, so I'm really glad we can be attending this class together. My parents still don't like photos of me holding my belly. Bet they'd hate coming over to my house when I hang out with my shirt up so I can just watch my belly move. Speaking of which, watching Charlemagne move under my belly is the WEIRDEST THING. It's like something out of Aliens. I would guess. I've never seen that movie because aliens are super scary. Charlemagne is still kicking up a storm. Stargirl got to feel him kick over the weekend...much to her chagrin. (In case anyone reads that below a...

Holy moly! Twenty-five weeks already? This means we are 5/8ths of the way there. Mike and I have got somewhere between 12 and 17 weeks left until we get to meet Charlemagne. Isn't that crazy? Speaking of Charlemagne, I know those of you who come just for the photos and don't read any of the text. Because you ask me if Charlemagne is really what I'm going to name my baby . ;) I had a great prenatal appointment last week. I really liked my doctor and he even wrote "Charlemagne" down as the baby's name. He called him my "little leader" and said he could make no promises about the rest of the doctors pronouncing his name correctly. Haha! I feel the baby move all the time and it's still super cool. I also like watching for movement. Sometimes, if I feel a particularly prominent movement, I'll stop what I'm doing and just stare at my belly waiting to see it move again. One of my favorite things is when Mike and I are in bed and I m...

Happy 24 weeks! The big new this week is that we have reached viability . This is the point where the baby has a 50% chance of surviving outside my body. And it only gets better from here on out. Charlemagne is active as ever. And we are both loving it too. Sometimes, he can really be going to town in there. Maybe he'll be a spaz like his mommy. Charlemagne is the size of a cantaloupe. That seems so huge to me! He is 10.5-to-11.8-inch and weighs about 12.7 to 20.8 ounces. According to TheBump.com, my symptoms are supposed to be: swollen ankles and feet: nope leg cramps: nope back aches: only when I sit with bad posture for too long linea nigra: yep. from the top to the bottom. stretch marks: nope. We registered! We went to buybuy BABY to register together and then I also registered at Target. I've now got a lot of samples, several pacifiers, a bottle, and even a can of formula. Oh and coupons. Lots of coupons. We started our Bradley childbirth classes last M...

Less photos of the food today and more photos of the beach. We really only went on the beach for a little bit. We went for a walk on the beach on Thursday because, well, we went to the beach, we have to at least get our toes in the water. On Friday, I went to take photos at sunrise and made sure we hopped out to the beach to take a photo of the two of us before we departed. And I mean, like, right before we departed. We were showered and packed and everything. We went down to the beach, took a few photos before my camera died, and then gathered our stuff and checked out. All in all, one of our best vacations ever. 

We did not eat healthy on vacation. Nope. Not one little bit. Buttermilk pancakes with tiny jars of syrup, black angus burgers (and fries!), oven baked oysters with smoked bacon, spinach and béarnaise, hush puppies that tasted like cake, and fried calamari. Ended the day with a Starbuck's hot chocolate. When I wasn't eating, I was reading the "Eat" section of "Eat Pray Love." So, you know, lots of eating and thinking about eating.

I hope you're ready to be inundated with even more photos. I took a TON of photos on our little Babymoon (maybe I was self-consciously making up for my lack of picture-taking at Twinfest 2013 ). Let me start by saying, Mike and I timed this vacation perfectly. We left the day after Labor Day and stayed for three nights. We had a long weekend, a nice vacation, and a full weekend once we got back home. Ideal. We had a super lazy Tuesday morning and left for vacay around lunch. First stop was to drop Bella off at the vet. She had never been boarded before, but everything was great. We also had to make a pit-stop for a frozen treat. We usually get McDonald's ice cream cones, but, like I said in my bumpdate , I'm avoiding soft-serve. Hardee's hand-scooped milkshakes were AMAZING! We turned off the main road toward the Westin, and suddenly everything was oak trees, spanish moss, and romantic. I had planned on asking for an upgrade. We were...