27 weeks

kitty kate is the size of a rutabaga.  what the crap is a rutabaga?  she weighs at least 2 lbs and is ~14.5 inches long.  she can open and close her eyes and has developed a sleeping pattern.  according to babycenter, i should be having leg cramps and problems with balance, but so far so good!  i had calf cramps in the 1st trimester, but none since then.  my hips are still going numb when i sleep, but i've had problems with that my whole life and i still sleep like a rock with a few breaks to change position and pee once or twice at night.  she'll be getting hiccups more regularly from here on out and colby got to feel them last night.  it's so weird having this alien in my belly!  the last time we checked she was breech, but if i had to guess she's transverse right now, because i feel all the bumps and nudges on the far sides of my belly, the hardest ones being on my left.  she has plenty of time and space to move head down so i'm not worrying about it.

depending on which chart you use, i am starting the third trimester today, but some go by 28 weeks.  i'm far from nesting, but we did go ahead and buy a couple things from walmart.com.  i'd love to stock up on diapers and wipes but i'm afraid she'll be sensitive and we'll have a million things we can't use, so i'm trying not to go overboard.  we're going to use a cloth diaper service that lets you try out different kinds to see what works best, so we don't invest $200 into fancy diapers that leak.  we have wipes and receiving blankets on the way, and a friend from high school has sent me a bunch of her daughter's clothes.  once we get that stuff, i have no idea where we'll put it, but we'll just have to cross that bridge when we get there.

and now, we're off to the beach to maximize our dwindling opportunities to do whatever we want on our days off!