17 Weeks - Baby Moves!!!

Hey guys...this week has been great and not so great for us ole' McColloughs. My migraine that I battled last Saturday to ummm Tuesday, that's right, turn into a nasty cold, my first of the season and not my last I'm sure. So Monday I attempted work but it just wasn't happening so I ended up taking a 1/2 day and coming home at 11:30 to get into bed and sleep! Tuesday I had jury duty and Wednesday was back to the grind of school. I was definitely not 100% this week and also had to start this training that my lovely district makes me take, G/T, that's on Thursdays from 4:30 - 7:30 PM...uh yeah! So come Friday I'm dead. Good thing is this training is only 6 weeks long, 5 more, I can do it!!

Luckily, I'm over the cold and feeling much better. I even cooked this week and now I'm doing laundry and cleaning...it's a miracle!! Even more exciting this week was the fact that I felt the baby kick!! I've been feeling these little flutters all week long but figured it was my stomach doing something odd with all the drainage I've had this week. But Friday and Saturday night when I'm laying on my back and being perfectly still I feel these little pokes from the inside. They are very light and I can only feel them every once in awhile but there's no mistaking its the baby! I can't wait until he/she gets a little stronger and I can feel them more often. Words cannot describe the feeling when you first feel your little one kick inside you. It's truly amazing and thrilling! Brandon can't wait to feel the baby and has already started to put his hand on my stomach (which apparently has popped this week!) in hopes of feeling something besides my gas :)

Nana has been busy this week getting started on the baby's bedding. She was by earlier to get some measurements and to show me what she's worked on this weekend! I'm so excited to see the final product, so far its gorgeous!
We've got some of the baby furniture in place and starting to get a few things here and there.


Here's what's going on with baby M at 17 weeks:
Your baby's weight has doubled in two weeks and now weighs about 3.5 ounces! The crown-to-rump length of your growing baby is 4.4 to 4.8 inches. If you spread your hand out opened wide, you can see about how big your baby is. You may have felt your baby move already. However, you might not feel it move every day at this point. As your pregnancy progresses, movements become stronger and more frequent. Feeling your baby move can help reassure you that your baby is doing well. Huge changes continue to take place within your developing baby. This week fat begins to form and will continue to do so until he is born. Fat is important to the body's heat production and metabolism. Right now, at 17 weeks, water makes up about ounces and fat 0.018 ounces of your baby's body. In a baby at term, fat makes up about 5.25 pounds of the total average weight of 7.7 pounds. The placenta is continuing to grow at an amazing rate. The placenta will continue to develop in tandem with the fetus and it will weigh more than a pound at birth! By this week, the placenta is large and well established with a network of blood vessels that exchange nutrients and waste. The eyes are facing more forward. The ears are now close to their final position. Your baby is more flexible with ability to move head, mouth, lips, arms, wrists, hands, legs, feet, and toes.

My mom and I went shopping this weekend and she got B this blanket, isn't it the cutest!

We also got this outfit for next year :)

And I found this boopy that matches my ABC fabric!

Here's last week and this weeks belly pics, definitely growing away!!
Also check out the poll we have going on, whether we are having a boy or girl. We find out in 22 days!! It's definitely neck and neck!

16 weeks

17 weeks
Also I wanted to share with y'all my favorite bible verse. I have several of course but this one I feel speaks to me in a different way than others. Anytime I see or read this verse I'm reminded of so much. It's as if God is saying, silly LeAnn, what in the world are you worrying about, don't you know that I will take care of you, if only you put your faith in me and let me handle it. If anyone knows me, they know that I'm a control freak and can be somewhat of a worrywart when things aren't like I planned. I've learned over the years that my plans are not always his plans and that I'm not the one in control, my God is the one in control and thank goodness because he knows exactly what I need! Whenever life throws me a curve ball I automatically begin to worry. I think it's programed in me and it's second nature. Luckily, my faith steps in and I always surrender to the Lord and let him take control, knowing that he knows the way and that I shall follow in his footsteps that he has bestowed for me. Well at church today James gave the message. I love listening to James. To me, it's like he is an open book and speaks from his heart, which is very rare and also amazing to see/listen to. So this week was Matthew 6:25-34
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Isn't it beautiful?! It's so hard not to worry sometimes but after you read this it's like how could you worry! Just wanted to share with y'all!
Til next time,
LeAnn