It's hot!

Do you ever remember it being this hot? I've lived in Texas my whole life. I was born in the summer, I love the summer and being outside but I have never in my life remembered it being THIS hot! I'm pretty much miserable!

This is me at 28 weeks (can you tell I was hot and exhausted)!

Everything is going well with Denver. He is a big boy already. He is measuring about 2 weeks ahead of schedule and at our 7 month check up they estimated that he already weighed 3.5 pounds. I've only gained 6 pounds so far, so it's not my fault! I've really been trying to watch it for both of our sakes. The Dr. thought that maybe it was due to gestational diabetes but my glucose tolerance test results came back and everything was normal, so that's not the case - he's just a big 'ol boy!

My blood pressure is always really good, but the one thing that the Dr. is not happy with is my swelling. I took fluid pills before getting pregnant because I've always had issues with retaining water (even if I drink a lot of water), but since I can't take the pills AND it's so hot - I have no ankles and my feet are huge. Attractive, huh? It's getting to where at the end of the day my toes don't even touch the floor and my feet just throb!

I come home every evening and sit in a recliner with my feet up which helps some, but not near enough. I'm ready for the summer to be over, for sure! D started putting Denver's changing table together tonight and this coming weekend we are (hoping) going to get the rest of his furniture put together. September will be here before we know it!

I'm here!

I'm still around here - I just haven't been spending much time online (other than when I visit Facebook on my phone), so I have really slacked on blogging and keeping up with what's going on with baby Denver each week.

Things are well around the Fountain house. We're ready for summer! Not that, that means much to us since we both work but it does mean that we're that much closer to Denver's arrival, and we like to grill out and get in the pool - so we're looking forward to those types of things.

D and I have been spending a lot more time together, since my career change. It's really nice - we haven't been able to see each other this much in a long, long time and we are enjoying every minute of it (hence the lack of blogging).

Denver is doing well. We had our 6 month check up last week. His heartbeat was 153 and he is continuing to grow right on schedule.

Today, I'm 25 weeks pregnant and totally feeling it. I'm swelling pretty badly (which I had done before I got pregnant), but the heat is certainly not doing me any favors! I'm drinking lots and lots of water and trying to keep my feet up when I can. I have my glucose test in the next couple of weeks, which I'm not looking forward to, but am looking forward to getting it over with! The Dr had scheduled us for an ultrasound earlier this month, but didn't get images of everything that he wanted (because Denver wouldn't be still) so we get to see our sweet baby boy again in just a couple of weeks. Our next appointment (and ultrasound) is on the 20th of June and D and I are already counting down the days until we can see him again!

Hope all is well with all of you and you each had a wonderful holiday weekend!

Dog Days of Summer

Today, Darren was outside mowing and weedeating the yard and Coco was standing at the back door, crying to be let outside to "help" him. I couldn't stand it any longer so when I went out to give Darren some water, I let her outside, and she was more than happy to go out with me.

It was about time for Darren to take a break, so we sat at the patio table and Coco layed down and enjoyed the grass, before Darren cut it.

She just looked so cute, I had to take a picture.

By the way, when Darren was done with his break, Coco was done helping and came back in the a/c with her momma!