31 weeks

today i am 31 weeks along.  and my baby brother turns 31 today!  crazyyyy!  i feel like the weeks are getting busier and busier.  hubs and i have been running around all weekend and during the week.  we literally have a commitment every night of the week and several on the weekend plus house hunting and all the usual weekly errands, etc.  i think we will both be a little relieved once the baby is born, for more than one reason, but largely so that we can slow down and release some of our activities for a bit, just spend some time as a family in the bubble of newborn baby-ness.  that will be nice.  so, lately we've been receiving some gifts, important stuff like a breast pump and the baby monitor and stuff.  yay!  thanks family!  we love you!  today we went to a midwife appointment, everything is going perfect and the midwife said the baby is head down right now.  i guess he could still squirm about and turn, but she said he will likely stay head down.  so the big lump that's sticking out is his bum and his back and the appendage that's pushing my side out is his foot.  so it's good to know that everything is going well.  this baby has been so active lately and especially when i try to sleep, of course.  nothing really exciting this week, sorry for being lame.  but my baby shower #1, the one with my family is this coming weekend, so maybe i'll have some fun pictures and stuff about that.  now on to the preggie stuff:

 How far along: 31 weeks  
Size of baby: the size of a bunch of asparagus or a pineapple, baby boy is about 15.2-16.7 inches long and weighs from 2.5-3.8 lbs, there's major brain, eye and nerve development and every organ is mature and ready to go except the lungs
Total weight gain: 22 lbs, as of midwife appt today
Maternity clothes: all maternity pants, lots of leggings and tunics now that it's not 40 degrees outside and still trying to squeeze into bigger non-maternity shirts
Gender: boy
Movement: he moves a lot!  he is always jamming his knee or foot or something out my side, and he gets hiccups at night when i'm trying to fall asleep, it's pretty funny
Sleep: meh, not that great nowadays between being uncomfortable, having to pee all the time and having heartburn from hell
What I miss: not waddling, not having heartburn
Cravings: orange juice still, hot chocolate---actually i had read that warm milk helps with heartburn so i tried and and it does work pretty well but i hate the taste of warm milk so i've been adding chocolate mmmmm
Symptoms: baaaaad heartburn, leg cramps, sore hips, waddling, i mean the list can go on and on but why dwell
 Best moment this week:  midwife appointment and finding out everything is still going great with the baby and the pregnancy, seeing family