24 Weeks = 6 MONTHS!!!

Again, there have been many requests to see the baby bump that is rapidly growing by the second. Here are two pictures that doesn't do the baby justice, but I find it a little awkward to take pictures by myself. The baby seems to be growing as far forward as possible, which is throwing my equilibrium off little by little. Baby Litvack is moving around like crazy all day long. There are pretty much certain moments of the day that I can guarantee some rapid movement, and it is to the point that people have been able to feel as well. Most of my immediate family and some of Michael's family has had the pleasure to get a kick or two. There has also been a few that I could physically see my stomach move and not just feel. It is the coolest thing. So far Baby sleeps when Mommy is sleeping so no waking up there. But lately, typically around 3 in the morning I wake up with the feeling that my left hip has dislocated itself from the rest of my body causing some excruciating pain. At which I stand up, walk around, go to the bathroom (because my bladder is the size of a pea it seems like) and lay back in bed. Well, the other night I did my normal routine and when I laid down the baby was moving like crazy. In a desperate measure to get Michael to feel the baby dancing, I woke him up to feel. There was one kick that I think scared the crap out of him... and that will be the last time I wake him up in the middle of the night to feel the baby moving haha!! Well, here are the awkward pictures. I tried to get a good one of the belly, but unless I show a pic of me in my bra and undies this is the best I can do. So enjoy!

And the infamous bathroom shot!

Influenza A... A.K.A Swine Flu

So get this... two weekends ago it was parents weekend at my 10 year old sister's overnight camp. She had been there for two weeks for the first time at overnight camp, and my sister Emily and I thought it would be nice to join my parents in seeing her. We pack up the car with the four of us and baby Jayden and drove the 2 hours to Oconomowoc, WI. As we pull up to the camp and file in line to pick her up two counselors start walking down the lines handing out this piece of paper. She reaches our car, askes who we came to pick up for the day, and hands us the paper. My sister and I read it, and as we reach the middle of the page clear as day were the words SWINE FLU. Two girls from the Kallah group were sent home last week with the swine flu, and a few others with the regular flu. Horror struck both of our faces with the first time new mom and baby on one side... and the overly protective soon-to-be first time mommy on the other. What to do? So we pick her up to find out the two girls sent home were in her bunk, and she had to start on Tamiflu. Trying to stay away from everyone and enclosed areas at the camp site, we decided to wait in the car until she was checked out.

Needless to say, we went home that day to get a phone call at 7:30 the next night that someone had to come pick Maddie up from camp because she has the flu. After picking her up from camp, my dad took her to the doctor the next morning to discover it is indeed Influenza A... A.K.A Swine Flu. Now mind you all Michael and I have recently moved in temporarily with my parents after our house sold, so the swine has infested my space. The doctor immediately puts her on medication and recommends that everyone go on Tamiflu. Then there is me who goes into panic mode. A. I don't want to get any kind of flu because that would suck, and B. I don't want to take any medication while pregnant... I don't even take Tylenol. So what do I do, I go and get a hospital mask and wear it around the house with a bottle of Lysol for two days straight until we left for Michigan for the weekend.

Luckily Maddie is alright, and spent 5 days quarantined in her room. I made sure every inch of the house was Lysoled, and probably drove the fam insane. Maddie's fever subsided and she was able to go back to camp that following Saturday! So that was my interesting week, and another motherly instinct moment. But good, things are all okay and everyone came out of it as good as new! After the whole thing we found out who the source of the Swine Flu really was!

One Down... Another To Go!

It's Official! The house sold, and our first home together... and Kona's first home is in the past. On to the future and to find our new home for the baby. So happy that one stress is behind us, but so much to do before Baby Litvack arrives. We are currently living at my parents and in my little sister's room. Mind you the room has a white picket fence painted around all the walls with flowers. The bed is a double with a pink comforter and flowers. There is a tiny arm chair in one corner, the dresser made for little people on the opposite wall, and a tiny little tea table which is currently holding our computer. I feel like I am in Alice in Wonderland or...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!

Even the toilet seat was made for small tushies and the shower head was set at the middle of my back. It is definitely an experience and we appreciate the accommodations made for us to have a home in the in-between, but it is pretty funny watching Michael sit at the little table on the computer with his knees in his throat. All of our belongings are in a storage unit, and only our essentials have made the journey with us. Kona is loving it because now he has two friends he gets to play with whenever he wants. I just think he forgets that he is 50 pounds and they are 20 pounds COMBINED. Anyway that is where we are for now, more fun stories to come!