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| Week 26 (almost 27) |
July 14, 2012
It's been a crazy few weeks for all of the Ryders here - Lucas has been growing like a weed, Steve started his new job and we bought a house! I'll begin first with little Luke.
Our baby is a wiggle worm! He is moving and jumping around in there all the time. Not only has Steve gotten to feel and see his movements but a few people at work have too. When he really gets to wiggling you can see the twitches in my belly, even through my clothes - it's been keeping me entertained at work. I also discovered that since he can see now, he will respond to light. If I put a flashlight against my belly in a dark room it really gets him going - it's one of my new favorite pastimes. He is also growing, just in the past 3 weeks I feel like my belly has almost doubled in size.
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| Both of my sons |
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| Dash trying to feel Luke |
As for pregnancy symptoms those are starting to creep up again. I've been very fortunate to have had an easy pregnancy so far but this hip pain is starting to get to me. If I run for more than a mile I pretty much can't walk the rest of the day. My plantar fasciitis has also come back in full force. My feet aren't swollen but they sure do hurt. No more cute shoes. I've also have started having trouble bending over (which means biking is also about to come to a halt as well). I feel lazy but most of the time it's easier if I just ask someone else to pick things up for me. And probably the most frustrating recent symptom is breathing is getting harder I find myself constantly making loud sighs and other labored breathing sounds. It doesn't help that it's hotter than heck and about 100% humidity.
It hasn't been easy having to cut back my exercise more and more. It's definitely a strange feeling to have someone else in control of what I'm capable of doing and not be able to push myself. I must say this has been one of the hardest parts of pregnancy for me (especially during tri season). I think this, the stress from all the changes and another influx in hormones have made be a bit more emotional lately. I find myself getting teary eyed very easily and also being a lot more sensitive to harmless comments. It's crazy, I find myself wanting to cry over the smallest of things lately such as the drink machine at work not working. Fortunately, I can mostly catch myself getting overly emotional before the tears flow and can laugh at myself. It has to be the hormones. Despite all of this, every time I feel him wiggling around in there (probably doing jumping jacks and push ups) I realize how completely worth it the pregnancy is. I'm so excited to meet our little guy.
Now for some Steve news. He FINALLY started his job on Monday of this week at Premire Orthopaedics at Wesley. In case I haven't said it enough - I'm so proud of him for all the hard work he's done and love to brag about how smart and what a hard worker he is. Most of the time I don't have to brag because I'm constantly having others in the medical field who have worked with him tell me this. Lucas will definitely have a good role model as a dad.
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| Steve fueling up for his 1st day of work |
And for one of the biggest decisions Steve and I have had to make together (2nd only to deciding we wanted a baby Ryder but that one was pretty easy and the process much more fun) we decided to buy a house. After only about two weeks of looking we found the perfect house for our new family. Things are moving pretty fast, we fell in love with the house about 3 weeks ago, agreed on the contract, had the home inspection, filled out all the loan stuff and now we're just waiting on the appraisal and the other 5 trees worth of paper work we have to complete. We are set to close on August 17th if everything goes as planned ( I think all of the major obstacles are out of the way though). I'm beyond excited to get into our new home.
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| The new Ryder house - if everything goes as planned |
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