26 weeks: easter and the Boston marathon

 Happy Easter! Izzy can hardly contain her excitement.

It was a nice long weekend in Boston over Easter weekend thanks to the Boston Marathon being the same weekend. Massachusetts' has turned the Boston Marathon day into an actual holiday so most people have 'Patriots Day' off of work.

Thankfully, this weekend (and hopefully everyday here on out) the weather has been suitable for dresses and this didn't come a moment too soon. The past 10+ days, I've been rotating through about 3 different pairs of pants that I can still comfortably wear. 

Our Easter was spent with our friends Justin and Crystal and they fed us like kings AND sent us home with enough leftovers to feed us the entire week. My attire was picked based upon my anticipation of all the delicious food I was sure Crystal would make -- so thank you spandex-y dress.

week 26 

I leave for San Diego this Friday and get to experience a 6 hour plane ride, pregnant. I can't imagine this will be fun -- considering how frequent my trips to the bathroom has been lately.

24 weeks

Tomorrow, April 3rd, marks 24 weeks on the dot and according to 'the Bump' pregnancy app here are the things I should be doing/thinking about:
1) Watch a movie on pregnancy and babies
2) Share your nursery photos
3) Make sure life insurance is in order
4) write or update your will

Considering numbers 3 and 4 are about death, I chose to really read into 1 and 2.
1) I attempted over the weekend and got nauseous at all the sites and sounds ---
2) Nursery is on it's way, but not complete and it will be oh-so much more satisfying to post some before and after pictures.

Since I last wrote, I've become almost completely dependent on my bellaband or my elastic waist-band maternity pants. I tried for a couple days to just wear normal pants unzipped and unbuttoned, but I spent the vast majority of my day walking around shuffling my pants back up around my belly to avoid sporting any of my behind.

Artsy belly shot

I've also started getting used to feeling her bobbling around inside my belly although it took a solid week for me to stop being grossed out when I felt little kicks or judo-chops. I've been describing the feeling as swallowing a live fish and feeling it flop around in your guts. It doesn't hurt (yet), it's just *weird*.

Notice my artistic belly shot below, courtesy of Sean and his morning creativity.

Normal belly shot - 24 week bump

Just last night we committed to a home daycare just up the street from our place: Xiomara's Family Daycare. Sean and I both agree she seems like a sweet, grandmotherly person who will take great care of our little lady-seahorse (obviously, we're undecided on names still).
The weather has improved a teeeeeensy bit so I've started riding my bike to work a few days a week.  It's nice to get some fresh air and move outside of the lab, although I have noticed that my legs are getting a little swollen -- or maybe my socks have shrunk ?? -- either way -- things are growing and expanding and often times quite itchy. My coworkers must think I have fleas at the rate which I scratch my bump.